THE 3EMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
NEED PATRIOTISM
TO END THE WAR
"Wake Up, America." Should Bo
Slogan of People of
United States.
TEXAS AVIATOR IN WARNING
Depreclateu Patronizing Air of Some
Americana New to War Boasts
Offered Friends In France,
Who Understand.
Austin, Tex. Bcrgt. II. Clyde Ilals
ley Ih (lie first Texan to return from
Ifranco us a hero of the flying service
of (ho Lafayette ISscadrille, of which
t0 In ft iiieniher. Young JJalnIoy'w
home Ja In San Antonio, and ho Ih n
former student of tho University of
Texas. Ho came to Auxtln n few duys
ago upon Invitation from Ills old-tlmo
frlcuds In tho university to relate his
experiences. Ho Is home on con
valcscent leavo, having Just recovered
from wounds received when attacked
ly a flock of German airmen. Ho fell
with his nmchlna from n height of
32,000 feet to an nltltudo of 2,000 feet,
when ho managed .o right Ills airplane
ond land safely hehlud tho French
lines. Ho spent three years In the
lying service.
Patriotism Must Be Aroused.
"Wnko Hp, America!" should bo tho
slognn of tho pcoplo of tho United
titntet Scrgennt Unlsloy said whllo
liero. "It Is so terribly necessary
and right now that tho wholo country
ho filled with patriotism. It must
feci thnt on It, and It alone, rests tho
outcomo of this war. Until that time
I do not believe America's best efforts
can bo put forth. For whllo no one,
I think, would want to tako one lota
of clicorfulncHH or 'jnnplnesH away
from our soldiers, ntlll wo who are at
tho front tho allies and tho French
feel that Americans nro too coclcituro
too full of braggadocio. Confidence
Is all right, but n man who does not
jneasuro tho enemy's resistance nud
tako Into account that bo Is lighting
to tho death, may stand to lose vast
odds just because of his shortsighted
ncss,"
Balsloy npoko of bombing Germany
With American airplanes.
"Of course, It will tako time. From
tho French vlowpolnt It will bo 1010
before Americans can really go In In
great forces, bocuuso sho must got her
planes built and transported, and It
takes time, tlmo, time. Wo really
think that In 1018 America will only
he able to take charge of somo sec
tlons of tho front, and that It will bo
two years before she can really mako
herself felt In tho real struggle"
Of German atrocltlcB, Balsloy would
not speak.
"I feel as though I never want to
flhake hands with ono of them again,"
ho doclared. "In tho wholo world
there Is only ono I regard highly, and
he Is, In Ban Antonio; and because I
felt ho was bo different I have hunted
him up, But only thoso who have
actually known tho moannoBs und
cruelty ot their mothods 'over there
can understand what a terrible thing
their disregard of every principle of
right means."
Balsloy has many souvenirs of the
war several bayonets, a cap taken
from a Gorman prisoner, somo shells,
n German artillery belt, etc. In u
worn bit of cloth ho carries tho shell
which, bursting, shattered his thigh.
"Tho nurso gavo It to mo after tho
operation," ho explained,
- In enlnrglng upon tho American nt
tltudo as viewed from tho foreign
Htandpolnt Balsloy went Into details.
KICKS BOMB OUT OF WAY
'!New York" Carpenter's Curiosity Gets
Better of Him and He Returns
to Investigate,
Now York. Salvatoro Nucclo, a
carpenter, stumbled ovor something
when ho went home tho other night,
kicked It out of tho way and entered
his room.
When his curiosity got tho bettor
of him ho went out In tho hall and
struck n match. The "something" was
nn 8-lnch bomb.
It had failed to 'explode because tho
fuflo hud been wound too tightly.
ONE LOOK !S SUFFICIENT
"I spenk of American braggadocio
ns I have seen It In Franco and In
I'arls and as I have scon It from the
Fronch angle, So muny of the boys
who have gone over have more or less
adopted tho attitude of 'Well, we're
sorry for you Frenchlcs, but you
don't know how to fight. Now that
wo'vo como over wo'll show you a
thing or two.' Of course we that
have been born and reared In Amer
ica understand that attitude. War
Is no now to this great peaceful coun
try thnt even ufter these years of tho
struggle It Ih Impossible for us to
realize how big a thing and how ter
rlble n thing wo are up ngalnsu We
are like a big overgrown boy trust
ing to his largo muscle and cheerful
noHM against a prlzo fighter whoso
methods he knows absolutely nothing
nbout, and therefore he cannot know
how strenuous nn adversary he bus
to underestimate his strength und to
patronize others who seek to caution
him against the fighter. The French
do not understand this at all and are
Inclined to resent it. This, to my
mind, is one of tho unfortunate facta
so far of our 'going over,' nnd I bc
llovo our officials when they como to
realize, will try to eradicate tho spirit
and put us on more of a 'comrade
ship' basis towards thoso who have
suffered so much nnd whom wo have
gone put to help."
GERMAN PRISON
BLIGHT IS HINTED
360 British Released From Run-,
leben by Exchange Have
"Barbred Wire Fever."
'PALL OVER ENTIRE COUNTRY'
Report Few Trains Running, Stations
Deserted, Smoke From but Few
Chimneys Fuel Shortage In
Germany Acute.
London. All England has been
stirred by tho return of 300 soldiers
and civilian prisoners of wur from
lluhleben, Germany, soirio of whom nro
flflhermcp who wore surprised liy the
Germans In tho North sea Immediately
after tho declaration of war, and had
therefore been prisoners ollnost from
tho llrst day of hostilities. -
It Is not because of tho stories they
tell, for their lips hnvo been sealed bo
far as their own sufferings aro con
cerned by order of tho government.
The remnrk of ono of tho civilians to
nn old friend who mot tho party "Wo
aro fairly all right, but we hnvo nil got
bnrbed-wlro fever" Is said to contain
tho wholo story. Englishmen know
whnt that means, nnd there Is nowhere
any desire to reverse tho government's
order.
Symptoms of Barbed-Wlro Fever,
"ilarbcd-wlro fever Is tho nervous
strain thnt Is telling with Increasing
force especially In tho caso of tho .old
er men, who cannot tnko bo much exor
ciseupon 4ho hundreds of men who
have spent ovqr threo years on thnt un
happy coprso," says the Manchester
Guardian.
"They were bitterly disappointed
that tho attempt of our government to
abolish Ituhleben altogether by an ex
change, however it might advantage
the Germans, enmo to nothing, nnd
many of tho repatriated men nre con
vinced that there may be an increase
of mental cases if Ituhleben continues
much longer. You could see the marks
of nervous excitement on many of tho
faces, and probably tho reaction from
being set free will be felt severely by
tho men of more sensitive minds."
From a few of tho civilian prisoners
something of tho condition of affairs In
Germauy was learned Illustrations
supporting tho general impression, ac
cording to the Dnlly Telegraph, "that
tho war has entirely changed tho "con
ditions of life In tho enemy country.
which hns ceased altogether to display
that air of cheerful prosperity which
characterized tho Germany of ' peace
dnys."
Germany, It wus said, presented the
appearance of a country "under a
Under Blight.
"I was very much struck when trav
eling through tho country," said one
of the men, "with tho dead look of ev
erything. Even In ono of tho great
towns through which we passed there
seemed to bo llttlo going on, and tho
railway stations were almost entirely
deserted. On tho lino between Spun
lau niul Hanover we did not sco a
single passenger train, and tho goods
traffic appeared to be quite negligible.
Tho fields were devoid bf cnttlc, and
on tho wholo Journey I saw less than
a score of sheep."
Other men with obsorvnnt eyes had
como to the conclusion that tho fuel
shortogo In Gormntiy must bo acute,
because though tho weather was bit
terly cold smoke could rarely be seen
issuing from chimneys. Another thing
thnt struck them was tho extent to
which women are doing work on tho
railways. They were seen acting as
firemen on locomotives and as plate
layers.
PHOTOGRAPHING ENEMY TRENCHES FROM AIR
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His Last Pair Went the Way of All Eyeglasses
WASHINGTON. Now that spring seems on tho wny, I am put In mind of
something that happened to n certain' popular young employee of a cer
tain Indispensable government department. These happenings occurred last
;prlng, so If you feel tho call of the
wild soon, remember these lines, and
'j own re.
Look well to your eyeglasses,
spectacled readers. You should worry
If eyeglasses and spectacles are not
pxactly the snmo It's the same family.
The birds were singing last spring;
the sun was warm; all nature was in
dulging In hnrmony. The government
mployee rounded up a party of friends,
jne of whom owned a launch, und the
rrow1 went down the river for an out
ing. The employee of Uncle Sam took with him four pairs of eyeglasses, as
they were to stay down river several days, and eyeglasses nre easily broken.
During the dnys that ensued three palrH of glasses were broken, until he
had gotten down to his last pair.
One evening the party took a trip In on automobile. On the way back
later, through . some mismanagement, the car went over In the ditch and Its
contents spilled Into the road.
Nobody was hurt, but the government employee had that last pair of
glasses knocked off his nose.
They searched the road, but were unable to find the aids to -vision, The,
man hud the notion that they had fallen on the grass, nnd were unbroken.
lie clung to this hope after they had returned to the launch.
"Jim," he told the colored mnn-of-all-work, "tomorrow morning early you
go back up the roud to where we had that spill last night and see if you can't
find my glasses."
"The next morning, when the government employee awoke, he recalled
his glasses, and wondered If Jim had gone after them. ,
"I can see him now," he said. "Now he is coming down tho road, now he
Is looking In the grass ah 1 there they are."
Jim had got ahead of him, however, for no sooner hnd ho thought this
than that early bird Jim hove in sight at the head of the ladder running down
Into the cabin. .
"I found 'cm, I found 'em I" shouted Jim, holding the glasses aloft in
triumph.
Then Jim slipped ond broke the glasses into a thousand bits.
One Answer to the Question That Is Universal
HE WAS a youngish man with friendly eyes, and he had stopped snort in
his swinging stride to greet a plalnlsh woman old enough to be Ids ma.
Having shaken hands as if they meant all that a handshake stands for, the
woman, with the freedom of kindly
association, started the talkfest:
"What, have you been doing with
yourself nil this time? J hope you aro
going to tell me that you have found
the best wife ever."
"No, still sticking to my hobby
everybody ought to have a hobby. I
prefer dogs, myself, because they are
honest and loyal, but I also have gono
in for
"Dogs are all right, but you are
too tine a chap not to marry and settle
down. Your natural environment Is the home, and you should have one;
"Marriage Is generally a matter of settling up."
"You can't fool me with a cheap cynicism like that I know you too well
and while a hobby Is fine "
1 i a . . 1 1 .i i t n J. t , ir I L 1
i ougiit 10 give it up mm ue a nuuuyr vul mucin aiy income ipii s iu
the limousine clnss, and even In the spring my fancy doesn't run to human
fashion plates though I've got a tremendous liking for my women friends,
understand. As I was saying, I've gone in lately for shells. A shell gives you
u live Interest In the water it comes from. Got an abalone last night from a
friend who sat In n gloss-bottom bout on Carmel bay, while he watched a Jap
cut it from the rocks 20- feet under the blue. And when I get through in
France oh, yes, shells of another sort Been in the medical corps for a year
now I'm going to travel all over creation hunting for specimens. Kver study
Je colors of a shell. Just to give you an Idea -"
Which Is Just one answer, girls; de,ar, to the universal questionnaire:
Why bachelors?
Vt itflrVfttKftiituo tf mil' lvimflivt tlnnjttiflu iriMiit I v itikiiti t lm nhuitf vitts-.na
of our nlrmen who lfhotograph the enemy's lines. Tho airplane grnllcx shows
ino Bimpio yet cmcieni manner uy wmcn ineso snaps nro tnucn.
Rather Took the Wind Out of Matthews' Sails
BOH MATTHEWS, one of llllly Sunday's piano artists, told the following
Lf story oh himself: Ho says that he always wanted to "get something on"
Itodeheuver, his coworker, but that "Uody" was pretty hard to beat, and that
lie never got a ciiance to crow over me
latter until lately.
Hob was out In Kentucky, and
while there wifs made nn elder In his
home-town church. "At , last," he
thought, "I've got something on Ttody.
He's not an elder in any church."
When Hob met ltodeheaver next
time ho told him nbout his becoming
an elder.
IIo looked nt "Itody" to see how
Impressed he wan,, niul found ho wasn't
Impressed a bit, "You don't iVem
very much Impressed with the fact that I am an elder," said Matthews
"Oh, it's fine, of course," replied "ltody," "but It reminds me of a colored
man I used to know.
"This fellow was a chicken-stealing, good-for-nothing darkey. Hut one
day he uuuomiccd to the owner of the plantation that he hud been elected an
elder by his comrades.
'"You an elder!' cried the owner. 'Why, you chlcken-stenllng, good-for-
nothing Sam! How1 did they come to mako you au elder?'
"'Well, boss, it was ills way,' explained Sam. 'De rough el'ment in
de church des rlr, up In dey might an say, "We wants rep'sentation." ' "
Court Rules It Saves Pedestrian From
Liability for Contributory
Neollgence.
Olymplu, Wash. One look up and
down tint street Is sufficient to savo
iho pedestrian from liability for con
tributory negligence If hegets hit by
h Jitney or othor vehicle, which he
did not bee In crossing tho street, ue
. cording to n ruling of tho stato su
premo court in confirming n Judgment
for $250 against Oscar Peterson, n
Jitney drlvor, in favor of John Itedlck.
The driver appealed on tho ground
that lledlck had not used proper cau
tion In crossing tho street,
Lad In the Ranks.
Waco, T:. Oarl M. Palmer, twolvo
years old, of Sunflcld, Mich., Is bc
jleved to ho Uncle Sum's youngest
soldier, Carl cnTisted Inst summer,
claiming his age ua eighteen. Tho
boy'a sister disclosed his ago .when
who vl<cd camp, nnd upon hearing
pmlsa from Capt. Hogarth, raild "And
Just think, bo's only twelvo yearn
old !"
FAITH IN RED CROSS
Confidence of Wounded Tribute
to Organization.
Discharged. Veteran Tells of Heroic
Devotion to Duty While
Under Fire.
Chicago. "What could, any army do
without tho Ited Cross?" asks Sergt,
Ilonald Klugsley, lata of the Fifty
eighth Canadian Infantry, who Is a vet
eran of the. Fronch front permanently
discharged because of injuries ro
colved in battle.
Sergeant Klugsley answers his own
quvstton.
"I think that probably tho greatest
trlhuto that can be paid to the Ited
Orosa is tho confidence of, tho wounded
man. Ho feels that ne matter Row
badly wounded ho may bo, If onco ho
gets to tho Ited Cross man his life Is
eufo.
"I witnessed au Incident during tho
battle of the Sommo which I shall
never forget A Ited Cross officer and
four stretcher beurers came to the sup
port trenches for some wounded mnn.
Tho olllcor raised a Ited Cross fini- in
plain view ot the GermniiH and with
nis men negan to aross tho wounds nnd
tlnnlly to nut the sold era on stroiMior-
As they walked off the Germans delib
erately nreu on the imrtv nnd dm nm.
cer went down. He got up and started
again, nut wns lilt a second time and
did not get up.
"Almost at the same time we heard
a saivo or Herman threo-lnoh ciiiu
which wounded all the stretcher-bearers
and tho wounded soldlom
- - vvj VA
new wounds. Yet, In spite of this, nn-
oilier iteu jross party that same day
went out and brought tn wounded men.
Need ono say anything more? I think
not."
Tho work ot the Ited Cross on the
battlefield coes on nlcht ami iiv in
variably tho incu and tho ambulances
uro In range of enemy guns. Devotion
to duty characterizes th Ked Cross
workers and tho American boys are
stimuiuted by na asaurauce.
Toronto firms turned out 7,000
pouiuls ot oieomargurlno a day, und
cannot supply the demund. It sells at
l2 cents u pound.
Prominent Capital Women Enjoy "Camp Breakfast"
THKUK wus a decided slump In frills and furbelows apparent recently at
the Couufesslonal club when that fatuous organization had Its annual
breakfast for the club toieinbershlp, nays a correspondent of Women's Wear.
Three hundred women, wives,
daughters nud sisters of senators and
representatives in congress, past and
present, of cabinet ministers und oth
ers in high ofticinl station, were pres
ent at a trench brtxikfast. The "feast"
was served with the same utensils and
In precisely the same manner as
"chow" is dished up In army camps
and cantonments or iu the trenches.
The menu, too, was Identical with that
Undo Sura provides for the men in
khnkl. The official women of Washing
ton got a "taste" of war provender, each woman carrying her "food pan" got
her portion dished up to her as her turn came In the long line which wound
ubout the "chow wagons" to bo served before she mude her way to tho long
tables upon which were stretched a width of white oilcloth, and practically
nothing else. A glass of water marked each "cover."
It was exclusively a woman's party, nevertheless the speakers' table
presented a very martial picture with Miss Mabel C Iloanlinun, commanding
general of tho National lied Cross Lay Service, in full uniform, flanked by
air. Ainu Dawson, wife of a one-time minister to Spain, her full dress uni
form as a lieutenant In the Ile,d Cross Motor Ambulance service, and a third
officer In her remarkably becoming uniform ot a Ited Cross commander In
the refreshment division.
&Bk 4'
YOU'LL LAUGH!
DOESN'T HURT TO
LIFT CORNS OUT
Magicl Costs few cents!
Just drop a little Freezone on
that touchy corn, instantly it
stops aching, then you lift the
bothersome corn off with the
fingers. Truly! Nohumbugl
i
mJJ
Try Freezone I Your druggist
sells a tiny bottle for a few cents,
sufficient to rid your feet of every
hard corn, soft corn, or corn be
tween the toes, and calluses, with
out one particle of pain, soreness
or irritation. Freezone is the
mysterious ether discovery of a
noted Cincinnati genius. Great I,
Soldiers to Learn Cooking.
Mrs. William Jay, Mrs. Iselln, Mrs.
Alfred Anson nnd Mrs. O. B. Mitchell
of New York city announce that tlierb
Is n great need for cooks for tho navy
ana army anu mat a lunu ul www io
necessary. The New York cooking
school, of which these women aro offi
cers, alms to teach the men how to
cook witli variety, cleanliness and
thrift
Strength Gave Oaf
Ka. Schmitt Was Miserable From
Kidney Trouble Until Daaa's Came
t Her Assistance. Now WcJL
"Hy kidneys gave out during the
change of life," eaya Mrs. Margareth.
Schmitt, 63 Alabama Ave., Brook
lyn. N. x. "My back ached and pained
as if it were broken. When I moved in
bed, sharp, darting pains caught me
across my Dacic ana i
couldn't turn. Mornings
I was stiff and eore and
it felt aa if heavy
weights were tied to me,
I . was bo "worn-out. I
often came near fall
ing from dizziness and
flashes of fire would
come before my eyes,
blinding me. .
"I had lha moat se
vere headaches and my kidneys didn't
act regularly. The Becretiona passed
too often and caused much distress.
I traa hardly able to do my housework
and jast to walk upstairs took all say
strength.
"Aa soon aa I began taking Doen't
Kidney Pills, I improved and six
boxes put me in better health than I
had enjoyed for years."
MSdssltt
cave the foresoiag
lUie ana on April 0,
Mrs. Schmitt
statement in
1917, she said: "My cure has been
permanent. I keep Voan's on hand,
However, ana taxe a lew doses occa
sionally.'' Gt Dean's at Aajr Stare, 60e Bex
DOAN'Sfe
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How Ttftphoni
Equipment Prices
Havs focnasid
Hero are a few figures
showlnc the advance In
prices of telephone equip
ment during the last threo
years:
Glass Insulators from
519.07 to $28.09 p!r 100.
Iron telephone wlre-i-from
$3.70 to $8.25 per 100 pounds.
Copper telephone wire
from $25.00 to $08.00 per
mile.
Telephone poles from 88
to 57 per cent depending:
.upon kind nnd size.
These are a few of tho
Items selected from mors
than 000 articles used In the
telephone business.
The steadily Increasing
cost of telephone materials is
a problem which la daily be
coming more serious for the
telephone companies.
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