Nebraska Newspapers

    THE 8EMI-WEEKLY TRIDUNE, NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA.
YOUTHS
1
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YOUNG NEBRASKANS EXPECTED
TO DOUBLE GARDEN CROPS.
EXTENSION SERVICE AIDING
Offers Chance to Help Undo Sam and
Remunerates Worker Many
Towns Tako Up Work.
Lincoln. Lust year Nebraska boys
And girls working under (ho direction
of thu agricultural extension service
contributed $,'0,000 worth of fresh
vegetables iih their part toward win
ning Uncle Sum's wnr. This year
thoy are asked to doublo that amount
and mako It $00,000. And they are
going to do It, too, for the agricul
tural extension service of the stnto
university Is whipping plans Into
shape which will make It possible for
every hoy and girl In the mate to
farm from one-half to one acre of
ground.
One hundred towns In the state
working In co-operation with the Jun
ior section of the extension service
lrnvo already signified their Intention
of hiring paid Hiiporvlnors to advise
and assist the young gardeners In ev
ery way. Among the larger towns or
the slate which have already taken up
tho work are Lincoln, Fremont, Hast
ings, Grand Island, Columbus, Hoi
drcge, Norfolk, Scottshluff, Alliance,
Ashland, York, Aurora, Auburn and
Fullerton. .Scores of towns In No
hraska already have made a survey,
listing every vacant lot Hint can lie
farmed. In practically every case the
school authorities will he only too
glad to nsslgn one of these plots to
nny young person who will agreo to
farm It.
The best thing about this plan Is
that every boy and girl besides help
ing tho country, will get nil
of tho
000 SIR
NEBRASKA WAR GARDEN
Patch of beets, sweet corn nnd onions
tific Intercropping by a Washington county youth. This garden wns lo
cated at Blair, and la a good lllustrntlon of what can be nccompllshed by
boys and girls of this state.
money he or she can make out of It. I
Unllko many patriotic activities, there
Is no expense connected with it, un
less, perhaps, tho cost of seed. The
extension service will send eompleto
Instructions on making thu garden
nnd handling It successfully during
the summer mouths. Practical busi
ness experience will bo given the
children. Every boy or girl stnrtlng a
garden under tho plnn will keep an
account book showing Just what Is re
ceived from vegetnblw which are
sold. All working time put In on the
garden will bo figured by tho children
at tt-n cents nn hour to bo deducted
from tho gross Income before tho
profits nro determined. Just to show
what can be done along this Hue, one
boy living near Scottsbluff, Neb.,
made nearly $400 hist season In clear
prollt. His wnr gnrden occupied less
than un acre. Ills Income wns
$i:i0.77, and his expenses were
SlO.ori. This garden was under tho
government irrigation ditch nnd per
haps affords an exceptional record,
but It Illustrates what can be done.
In many Nebraska towns this sum
mcr children's mnrkets will be held
whero tho boys nnd girls can sell
whnt they raise.
Tho agricultural extension servlco
is desirous of enlisting Ifi.OOO hoys
und girls In tho project this summer.
Thoso desiring to receive tho bulletins
and instructions should address
Junior Section, Agricultural Exton
slon Service, Lincoln, Neb.
Lift Embargo On Seed Corn.
Lincoln. Tho seeds stock commit
teo of the National government and
also of tho Ncbraskn State Council of
Favors Closing Some Enterprises.
Lincoln. Women and school boys
will never solve the question of addi
tional labor on tho farm, nccordlng to
Prof. II. O. Fllloy of tho department
of farm management' of tho Nebraska
university. "Wo must get farm labor
from somo sourco or production will
bo lmedcd," ho says. "In overy city
,nro thousands of men who were farm
'raised nnd thousands of others accus
tomed to heavy work. Thcso mon
ican bo mado nvnllnble for tho form
iby shutting down tmnocessnry enter
prises," decjnred tho professor.
Defense met lnst Thursday to consid
er the question of raising the em
bargo which had existed up until that
time In Nebraska on shipments of
seed corn from the several Nebraska
counties to each other and also out
side of the state.
After careful Investigation It de
cided to recommend to the Council of
Defense tho lifting of tho embargo.
Several County Defense Councils and
Agricultural Agents report conditions
which they bollevo warranted n con
tinuance of tho embnrgo on nccount of
local peculiarities. In such cases It
was suggested that vigorous action
bo taken so that tho use of old and
now stocks of corn suitable for seed In
llicir locality bo had.
It wns reported that selfish holders
wore waiting for tho embargo to be
lifted so that they could sldp their
corn out of tho state at prices above
that mado by the State Council of De
fense. In such cases the local com
mittees should see to It that this i
not done, to the detriment of their
community.
The extreme seriousness of the seed
corn situation and tho Imperative ne
cessity of every farmer securing an
abundance of good seed, cannot bo
too earnestly urged upon our people.
Tho seed corn campaign having
been wnged for several months in tho
state nnd the urgency of the question
vigorously brought to tho attention
of our people, tho Nebraska State
Council of Defense accepted the rec
ommendation of tho seed stocks com
mittee and raised the embargo.
Stockmen Seek Relief.
Lincoln. Nebraska cattle and
hog
men have sent an appoal to Food
Ad-
mlnlstrator Hoover asking that
tho
government do something to relievo
the stock situation In this stntc. Lim
itation of packers' profits and the ab
olition of meatless days, temporarily,
at least, are asked for In tho tele
gram. "The trouble Is Hint tho gov
ernment Is conserving the meat sup
ply of the country nnd yet has not
ships enough to send It abroad," Is tho
way olTlcers of the state live stock
breeders' association size up the sit-
developed with n system of scien
uatlon. "They can't get it abroad and
won't let us eat It at home. The re
sult Is that prices are sagging aud
feeders are losing money."
Good War Crops.
Crab Orchard. Uuckwheat
and
beans have proved two good
war
crops for F. A. Woodfill of Crab
Orchard. Ho used ono and a half
imsiiels of buckwheat last Juno In
sowing a pntcli and to dato has sold
$175 worth of flour from It. Mr.
Woodfill figures that it Is n good crop
for that part of the stnte, since It can
bo put In after the other crops nro
sown nnd brings n tidy income. Mr.
Wooilflll also raised navy beans last
yenr, securing seed from tho ngricul-
tural extension service, and found a
market for all that ho could produce
Urged to Make Known Wants.
Washington. Exaggerated reports
of shortages of farm labor, tho Do
pnrtment of Labor announced, are bin
derlng efforts of tho government to
plnco workers on tho farms. Less
talk about the shortage nnd more of
tho methods by which farmers can
mako known their needs, was sug
gested ns n remedy, Any farmer .who
wants hands may obtain nn implica
tion blank from Ids postmnster, rural
carrier ,xr county farm agent, which
will put him In touch with the de
pnrtment
Keeps Trousers In Shape.
A Now York tnllor la tho Inventor
of n dovlce that provents trousora
bagging at tho knoos by pulling them
up slightly as n wearer alts down,
Nature's Great Hoodoo Temple.
in. uio Jioouo unBln of wostorn
Wyoming nro curious formations
which resemble Punch and Judy
heads, grim savages, simpering old
maids, monkeys, rabbits, birds nnd
animals. Thoro aro fifty different
Hlmpoa of heads, says Popular Solonco
Monthly, and over forty different anl
mai and human faces hnvo boon
counted. The rock out of which tho
hoodoos havo boon carved by Damo
Naturo Is what Is known as votcanlo
breccia.
1 Screened behind tho ruins, this French ammunition train is conveying food for tho guns that nro driving
tho Germans from Franco. 2 German prisoners in a French concentration camp, captured In a raid; many of
them nro mere youths, poorly clad, showing the dire straights in which Germany finds herself. 8 Portable Amer
ican sawmill In n forest on the Alsace border; this ennip follows tho troops, providing the lumber thut Is needed.
NEWS REVIEW OF
German Occupation of Odessa In
creases Teutonic Menace
in East.
NEW ROAD TO INDIA OPENED
President Wilson, In Message to Rus
sian Soviets, Issues Defl to Kaiser
American Troops In Many
Raids.
Announcement thut German troops
have occupied Odessn is ono of the
most significant of recent develop
ments. This nction by Germnny, in
spite of the conclusion of the so-called
peace with Russia, was expected ul
timately, but it came somewhat as a
surprise because of the fact that little
had been heard of the Germans and
Austrlans In that region.
Tho occupation of Odessa, the great
est Russian port on the Black sen, Is
of the greatest Importance for several
reasons. First, It gives tho Germans
control of the center of n great agri
cultural section, the products of which
are desired to feed the hungry peoples
of the central empires.
With Odessa snfely in their hands,
the Teutons will hnvc access to vast
stores of wheat which enn be trans
ported overland or by sen to points
whero It enn be readily shipped Into
Austria and Germany.
Rut the capture of Odessa will mean
something more nn utfvnnco over the
routo to Persln and Afghanistan, and
possibly India, which Is to bo followed
now that the British have severed the
famous Berlin and Bagdad route to the
East.
The passing of Odessa Into German
control will mako possible the com
pletion of the German military lino
across llussia from the Baltic at
Nnrvn (81 miles from Petrograd) to
the Black sen. It gives the Germnns
control not only of the resources of
the Ukraine, but of tho bulk of Rus
sia's grain stores and of the vast ex
port trade of Russia's southern prov
inces. control or tins territory opens a.
route for a Oermnn Innd drive Into
the far East, by way of Batuni, In
Trnns-Cntiensln (which was taken
from Uussla at Brest-Lltovsk and glv
en to Turkey), Baku, across the
Caspian sea to Krasnovodsk, In Turko
stau, and through Merv to the border
of Afghanistan, thus threatening the
Indian empire.
Another route Is through Teheran,
across central Persia to Ispahan and
thence to Shlraz, to the Indian fron
tier, spelling equal nienaco to Brit
aln's fur Eastern possessions.
The carrying out by the Teutonic
powerc of 'their plans for conquest In
the East brought from President Wil
son a move which wns declared to be
one of the boldest ninde by any gov
eminent since the wnr began. This
action wns In the form of n message
dispatched to the Russian congress of
Soviets In session at Moscow. In this
message President Wilson pledged the
power of the United States to secure
a free Russia. He declared that the
United States "will avail Itself of ev
ery opportunity to secure for Russia
once more complete sovereignty and In
dependence In her own affairs and full
restoration to her great role In the
life of Europe and tho modem world.
President Wilson's message was re
garded as a second declaration of war
n declaration of war on the German
government until It Is compelled to
relinquish Its hold on Russia. Tho
president proposed, In effect, thnt the
United States and Its allies shall light
until Russln regains unimpaired sov
ereignty nnd Independence. The mes
sage was also regarded as a direct re
piy to lite recent address on peaco
terms made by Count von Hertllng, tho
German chancellor.
rat-
Reports from Jussy tell how the Im
perlullstlc spirit of the central em
pints Is showing Itself In growing do-
ntands for concessions by Rouiimnla
THE PAST WEEK
Nut merely has the Dobrudja been Ink-
n from Roumanln, lint Berlin and I-
ennn, who have expressed themselves
piously as opposed to annexations, are
now Insisting upon n rectification of
frontier thnt will glvo to Austria all
the strategic mountain passes nnd
dominating heights, Including the Iron
Gates of tho Danube, nlong the west
ern frontier of Roumnnln.
This Is precisely whnt Austrln did
to Itnly when the boundary line was
delimited by treaty, and the fnct that
ustrla controlled every vantage point
along the Isonzo and in tho Alps when
the wnr began Immeasurably added to
the dlfllcultles of Cadorna's campaign
ing.
Berlin Is determine 1 that Roumanln
shall be plnccd in n helpless position at
the feet of Austria, covered by Aus
trian guns nnd rendered forever in-,
capable of acting otherwise titan the
central powers approve.
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Intense nerlal activity on the part
of both the entente nllles nnd tho
Teutonic forces has developed. Sixty
Gorman airplanes took part in a raid
on Paris, viilch resulted In heavy cas
ualties, final figures showing nt lenst
100 persons to have been killed and
0 wounded. Among the dend was an
American womnn, Miss Wlttgn Caro
lina Martin, who wns n Y. M. C. A.
canteen worker. Miss Mnrtln was ono
of six persons killed In n hospital
which was struck by a bomb. Among
those killed were a large number of
women and children who were crushed
to denth U a panic nt the entrnnce
to n subwny station where hundreds
sought refuge from the enemy bombs.
However, while the Huns were boast
ing of this most "successful" raid, tho
nlrmen of the allies were not Idle.
British nvlntors Invnded Germnny,
mnking a daylight raid on Coblcntz,
one of the Iniportnnt railroad centers
In western Germnny, tho sent of big
military barracks and extensive mu
nitions works. A ton of high explo
sives was dropped on the city, stnrtlng
fires In mnny sections. This wns the
third daylight raid on tho enemy coun
try In a period of four days.
Behind the lines In Flanders nnd
France the British aviators are also
mnlntnlning the effective work they
hnvo been doing lately. The territory
from Lille south to Cambral has been
sown with bombs, railroad sidings nnd
nmntunltlon dumps In the region of
Mnubeuge, Valenciennes, Doual and
Cambria being attacked.
The enemy Is- getting all the worst
of the air fighting, and his nppnrent
Inability to check the British livers or
to take the Initiative himself In this
Iniportnnt sphere rnther discounts his
loud boasts of readiness for a grent
offensive. It Is to be doubled If he
can venture any large-scale offensive
while the overhead fields of battles art
so thoroughly controlled iy his op
ponents,
fa
Announcement thnt Secretary of
Wnr Baker had landed in France gave
rise to all sorts of speculation ns to
the real purpose of his trip. At Wash
Ington the official announcement wns
ninde thnt the secretary's visit to
Franco Is for purely military purposes
and has no diplomatic significance. At
the same time the view was expressed
In some quarters Unit Mr. Baker's trip
might have some connection with the
views of American commanders that
the allies should undertake a dote
mined offensive on the west front this
year Instead of remaining on the de
fensive and awaiting the expected of
fensive of the German forces. The tro
mentions growth of the American ex
pedltlonary forces recently, with the
promise that American troops will be
ready to take part In a genornl offen
slve this year, Is expected to glvo the
views of the American high command
great weight with the allied coinninnd
ers. Secretnry Bnkcr hns announced
thnt he expects to make n thorough In
spection of nil the American forces
abroad and to hold important confer
ences with American military com
manders. It Is known that he has been
eager for several months to talk over
with General Pershing tho ninny prob
lems that have arisen in connection
with tho war plans.
Secretary Baker arrived In Paris
Just lit time to witness the pretentious
nlr raid by German airplanes on the
French capital. In nn Intorvlew given
out In Paris after the raid, Mr. Baker
said: "It was my first experlenco of
the nctualltles of wnr und n revelation
of the methods litntiguratef by ui
my who wages the same war against
women and children as against sol
diers. Aerial raids on towns, which
are counterpart of the pitiless subma
rine war nnd the attnek ngalnst Ameri
can rights, nre the very explanation of
tho reason why America entered the
war. We are sending our soldiers to
Europe to fight until the world Is de
livered from these horrors."
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Willie no oftlclnl announcement has
been made, the general Impression
prevails that new plnns of the Amerl
ciin wnr department cnll for the dis
patch of American troops to France
much more rapidly than wns proposed
In the earlier plans. The indications
are that nn effort will be made to
bring the American expeditionary
force up to n strength of approximate
ly 1,000,000 men by the middle of the
summer, Instend of 000,000 men ns
wns contemplated by the original plans
of the wnr department. The dispatch
of ninny Nntlonnl army units is expect
ed soon, in nccordnnce with the plnn
thnt hns been adopted of forming nn
nrmy corps out of two divisions of tho
regular army, two divisions of the Na
tional Guard and two divisions of the
National army. As many units of the
National Gunrd aro alrendy overseas,
with the larger number of regular army
divisions, It Is expected thnt the move
ment of severnl divisions of the Nn-
tlonal nrmy will follow soon.
Thnt the movement of troops will
be more rapid thnn was nt first be
lieved possible is indicated by the an
nouncement of the wnr depnrtment
thnt the second draft, which will bo
made as soon ns needed leglslntlon
enn be secured from congress, will cnll
out npproxtmntely 800,000 men. Only
the rnpld movement of many divisions
now In cantonments in this country
could make room for this largo num
ber of new draft men. In this connec
tion It Is .predicted abroad that Gen
eral Pershing's men will bo holding
100 miles of front by the closing days
of 1018, n longer front thnn wns held
by tho British nrmles two yenrs nfter
the wnr began.
sal
Americans nt home continue to be
electrified by reports of the exploits
of Pershing's troops In the sectors
which nro now held by the Amerlcnns.
Successful rnlds hnvc been ninde re
pentedly by the American troops while
tho American nrtlllery hns won many
duels with the big guns of the enemy.
Ono raid on the new United States
front In Lorraine wns declnred to be
the most successful encounter In which
American soldiers have engaged dur
ing the war. In this raid, infantry
units penetrated the enemy lines to n
deptli of between -100 and 000 yards at
some points. The raid followed a bom
bnrdment by American guns which
lasted four hours nnd which wrecked
the enemy's front trenches nnd bnrbed
wire entanclements. Three successive
raids nt different points on this sector
nil proved highly successful, the Amer
icans capturing n number of prisoners
and returning to their own trenches
with small casualties. In n raid on
the Tottl sector, the American soldiers
penetrated the Oermnn trenches to n
depth of ,?00 yards. After some hand
to-hand fighting In which n number of
the enemy were killed nnd wounded
the raiders returned to their lines with
much material and Information, al
though they captured no prisoners. It
was reported that every American who
left the front line on this raid re
turned.
The American troops In the Toul
sector have been subjected to a terrific
artillery fire, the German nppnrently
having concentrated strong forces of
nrtlllery on this sector. It was re
ported that In somo places tho bom
bnrdment reduced the first line
trenches to ruins but the Americans
at those points continued to hold their
positions in shell craters. The Amerl
can artillery also has been active on
all sectors held by Pershing's men,
bombarding towns nnd roads In the
rear of the German lines.
The first permanent ndvnnce of tho
American troops waa made on the
LuuevUlo sector, whore Pershing's men
occupied enemy trenches which they
had forced the Germnns to abandon
through recent raids and heavy artil
lery fire. The trenches were consoli
dated with our own, cnnbllng the Amer
icans and French to operate from high
er ground thnn before. Attempts miida
by the Germnns to retake tho position
were repulsed.
SAVE IRE WHEAT
RATION MUST DE REDUCED 9AY5
FOOD ADMINISTRATION.
BAKERSWARNEDTOOBEYRULES
Great Drive Already Started to Ralsi
Dlggest Crop In History All
Urged to Make Garden.
Wnshlngton, March 10. According
to a statement issued by the national
food administration people of thlj
country must use 50,000,000 busheb
of wheat less than the normal con
sumption In the next four and a half
months to feed Europe. During the
last seven and a half months w
have saved only 32,000,000 bushels,
says the statement. Consumers must
fnee further curtnllnicnt of wheat
supplies. Bakers were warned they
must use 20 per cent wheat substi
tutes, beginning March 20, or stop
linking. Use of potatoes as wheat
substitutes in baking is urged.
Food udnilnlslrallon olllclals threat
en to revoko instnnly licenses of
bakers falling to save wheat as or
dered.
Meantime, tills country Is making
every effort to yield nn unprecedented
crop. Secretary of Agriculture
Houston wants congress to appro
prlnto $20,000,000 for seeds nnd to
help the farmers fight plagues.
Flvo million picked volunteers nr
asked to help fnrmers plant and har
vest crops.
Chnmbors of Commerce nro nskod
to nppcnl to employees to devoto one
or two days to farm work.
Vocations, Houston hopes, will be
turned to work on America's 0,000,000
farms.
Beginning April 1, every one Is
Urged to start a wnr gnrden nt home.
In tho tremendous Ameticnn con
servation canipnign, the nllles nro
hopeful that the end of the food
shortage will como this yenr. Tim
government of Brazil and Guatemala
nro going Into the farming business,
.receiving seed whent nnd mnchlnery
from the United Stntes. Englnnd
planted 2,000,000 acres more wheat
this year than last.
Vote Russia Out of War.
Petrogrnd, March 19. Russia's pan
soviet congress nt Moscow, consisting
of 1,000 representatives of workmen,
soldiers, peasants and Cossacks, on
March 10 overwhelmingly ratified the
German dictated peaco terms adopted
at Brest-Lltovsk;
Tho bolshevik faction dominated
tho congress, under tho leadership of
Premier Lenlne.
Tho social revolutionary commis
snrles nnd Justice Commissary Stein
berg retired from the cnblnet, in pro
test ngninst the pence ratification.
In Petrograd, Leon Trotsky, war
commissary, is treating n new Rus
sinn nrmy. Ho declured "Germany
knows n robber pence cannot lnst."
On tho heels of tho announcement
that the peace treaty had been ap
proved by nll-Russlttn congress conies
the report thnt Nikolnyev, tho great
navy yard city northeast of Odessa
and hendquarters of the high com
mand of tho Russian Black sea fleet,
has been wrested from the Russians
by tho Germnns. t
JMo Guarantee, Says Lenlne.
Moscow, March 10. Nikolai Lenlne.
tho bolshevik premier, and other bol
shevik leaders, in urging ratification
of the peace agreement with Ger
inntvv, made no clnlm that this would
Insure permanent pence.
Asked how long n respite might btt
expected, Lenlno snld thnt wns int
possible to answer, ns It depended on
so tunny International movements,
such as to what extent Germany may
succeed In Ukraine nnd Finland,
when Japan ninkes an advance, and
also on the general course of the war
on the other fronts on the Russian
domestic situation.
Des Moines Won't Get Depot.
Washington, March 10. General
Goethals in it letter to Senator Hitch
cock says the western city. mennliiR
Des Moines, that hns been active In
trying to get a quartermaster's dopol
tins been found unadaptable for this
location. The Omaha depot, the gen
eral snys. Instead of having Its no
tlvltles circumscribed, will, ns n unit
ter of fact, be called upon to supply
sll the posts and camps In the west
ern states with qunrtormnster
stores.
Slxty-Three Flyers Killed.
Dnllas, Texas, March 1ft. Sixty
three American. Canadian and British
dyers hnvo died In accidents nt the
Mx llylng fields In Texas.
Says Farmers Will Get Cars.
Washington, D. C, March lt. Con
sul Kpcns, head of the new traffic 1m
fvuu of Herbert Hoover's department,
snld just the other day, la roup u
to a complaint from Ontalia, thut r -qulroiiieuts
for shipping grants win
not cause hardship among farmers
"Where grain Is needed we will se
that permits are tseuud to ship it
there," said Mr. Spons, "but we will
not allow firms to stock up for the
future. Cars me too valuable for
that."