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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 9, 1918)
THE 8EMI-WC1KLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. ciiicAtio mm is Y.W.C. A. CAMPAIGN Mrs. Grace Ford Gholson. The wnr work council of tho Young Women's Christian Association litis cent Mrs. Grace Ford Gholson of Chi cago to the Omaha headquarters to serve as stnte director for Nebraska in the joint Y. M. C. A. nnd Y. W. C. A war fund campaign, which will take place In October. Mrs. Clins. Offut of oi.:..iia will net as state chair man. I'lnns nre being made for an extensive speaking tour of the state by Mrs. Gholson. It Is als plnnned to send a large number of other prom inent women over the state and ex plain the alms of tho organization. The minimum quota nlloted to NebrnSi ka In the co-operative drive has been placed at .$1,120,000. Of tho combined budget $07,000,000 Is for Y. M. C. A. and ?1 5,000,000 for Y. W. C. A. wnr activities. The movement has received tho unqualllled endorsement of gov ernment authorities. Patriotic citizens should report hoarders of sugar, says the federal food administration for Nebraska In a bulletin to all Its county food ad mlnlstrntors. Reports have reached the state food administrator from dif ferent sections of the state that vari ous methods have been resorted to In order to get more than tho two pound allotment. Those found guilty of willfully violating the sugnr regula tions will bo prosecuted under the stnto sedition law, tho bulletin says. In order to counteract n report that farmers were exempt from tho substl tue rule, when they exchange wheat for Hour at a mill, the food adminis tration for Nebraska announced that they must continue to present a cer tificate to the effect that they raised the wheat themselves nndi a pledge that they wHl use an equal amount of substitutes as the flour, pound for pound. Although he has been restrained by n court order temporarily from placing on tho November election ballot the referendum proposition to prevent women from voting under tho partial suffrage law enncted In 3017, Secre tary Pool Is required by law to go ahead with the printing nnd mailing of the pamphlet on that subject to about 380,000 voters in the state. The Ford Motor Company's as sembling plant at Omaha has been closed Indefinitely because of the gov ernment's order curtailing steel nud other materials used in auto construc tion. This makes the fifteenth of tho Ford plants closed in tho United Stntes during tho past few months. Secretary of State 'Pool during the month of .Tune issued 0,150 auto plates and 250 motorcycle plates. So far this year 105,000 automobile plates have been issued from the secretary's office and 2,700 motorcycle plates as against 148,101 nutomoblle plates and 3,500 motorcycle plates In 1917. Itov. Mr. Largent, a Methodist min ister of Hershey, who was arrested and fined $50 nnd costs for assaulting 8. J. Koch, wns Informed that the beys of the church would bo taken from him and that ho would hnve to give up the pastorate. During the first half of this year 02,780 hogs were shipped to tho South Omnha market in automobiles, com pared with JUI.OSl during the same period n year ago. C. It. Hall, or the office of ceival In vestigations, Washington, said at a conference on wheat and labor at Chi cago, attended by several men from this state, that tho Increase of wheat acreage In Nebraska from (500,000 acres last year to H.135,000 acres this year was one of the most remarkable accomplishments of Its kind in the Unit;d States. The annual convention of tho state federation of labor will open at Ne braska City. September 0. A large delegation Is expected. Twenty-five delegates, representing 100 towns, met at Beatrice and formed the Golden Hod highway, which will run iR'tween Oxford and Nebraska City, a distance of 255 miles. During the period from May 15 to .Tidy 25, 252 automobiles, conserva tively valued at .$150,000, have been stolen at Omaha. Of those 107 have been recovered. It. H. Howell of Omahn, republican candidate for the nomination for gov ernor, ha withdrawn from the race. He v,!l enter the U. S Navy In a Ii r: i , Wheat acreage suggested by the i!p partmont of agriculture at Washing ton for tho present fall plnntlng In Nebrnskn will bo a minimum of 3, 074,000 ncres, or 117 por cent of tho 1017 ncrengo. Tho maximum swgest ed Is 8,702,000 ncres. Tho nvorngo for tho past five years In Nebraska was 3,701,000, according to the department. The First Nebraska woman to pilot a load of hogs to tho South Omaha market is Miss Hazel Grunkeineyer of Burwcll. Sho created quite a sensa tion when sho nrrlved at tho South Omaha market ono morning last week with her load of hogs, which were marketed at $18.50 a hundred. Dodge county will ralso tho biggest sweet corn crop in Its history this year. The crop will bo hnndcd by the Fremont Canning factory, which will open soon. Tho entire output of the plant will bo taken over by tho gov ernment. Tho cash collection at the office of Secretary of Stuto Poo) for tho month of June totnled $03,270.34 as against $55,034.92 during tho samo month a year ago, tho largest cash receipts ever shown In tho office. Tho natlonnl wur labor board at Washington ordered an Increase of carmen's wages In Omaha and other cities over tho country. Tho raiso In Omaha will bo from 35-40 cents to 41 45 cents an hour. C. II. Hunks & Co., of Knnsns City will establish a cattle-feeding station at Fremont. Six hundred to 1,000 head of cattle will he fed there. Tho firm plans to establish four other feeding stations In the state. Of tho 5,580 grammar school grad uates called to the colors by tho War department, Nebraska must furnish 145. The men from this state will bo sent to tho Agricultural College of Utah. Fred Maurcr, Madison county farm er, was fined $300 by the county food administration, $200 of which went to tho Red Cross and $50 to the Y. M. C A., for hoarding 700 pounds of wheat flour. Shippers of live stock to the Ne braska state fair will have the benefit of the same rates as wore in effect a year ago, according to word reaching Secretury Dnnlclson of tho state fair board. Eleven carloads of exhibits Illus trating the work of the various gov ernment departments nt tho national capital, will bo shown nt tho Ne braska state fair at Lincoln this fall. There were two hundred nnd fifty convictions in tho Nebraska district of the federal court during tho yenr ending June 30, according to T. S. Al len, U. S. district attorney at Lincoln. No registered man may now enter tho navy, marine corps or emergency fleet. This order has been received by draft boards over the stnte from Pro vost Marshal General Crowder. Nebraska Is called upon to furnish 4,185 unskilled iuborers under tho system of government recruiting put In effect August 1 by tho United Stntes employment service. Prof. F. M. Fling and Mrs. Mlnnlo T. England were exonerated by the board of regents of tho University of Nebraska of the charge of stirring up strife in tho faculty. J. P. Frankc of Albion, his wife and two daughters, were killed near State Center, Iowa, when their automobile was run down by a Northwestern rail way train. A total of 3.05 Inches of rain fell in the Tecumseh vicinity during tho past week. Crops of all kinds have been wonderfully benefited as; the' result. - Nebraska's governor Is the lowest paid state chief executive in the union, according to the U. S. census bureau. Ills salary Is $2,500 a year. Secretary of Stnto Charles W. Pool now estimates that 12,000 ballots will bo sent out to soldier voters, Instead of approximately 8,000. Democrats of Nebraska, at their platform convention at Hastings, en dorsed national prohibition and wom an's suffrage. Governor Neville has mnde known that if ho Is defeated for governor this yenr he will enlist in tho army. Chnuncey Abbott, one of the most well known millers In Nebraska, died at his home nt Schuyler. Will Ball, 10 and Clark Wykort, 14, two Sarpy county lads, wore drowned In a pond near Meadow. Walter C. Stlllingor, aged 39, of Litchfield, was killed In an nutomoblle accident nt Sutherland. .Too Steelier of Dodge, noted Ne braska wrestler, has enlisted In the navy. Plans are already In progress to re build the electric light plant at Ster ling which was destrojed by firo Just reoently. For the present the sheets of Sterling are dark. The Cass County Council of De fense has forbid the preaching, mak ing public addresses or talking over tho telephone in tho couiuy ip tho German language. According to Washington reports mluced fares to the Nebraska state 'fair at Lincoln will be announced shortly by tho railroad administration. Seventy-. 'ght of the 93 counties of Nebraska have reported their valua tions to tho stuto board of assess ment. These 78 counties show u totnl increase In tho nssessed valuation of $32,373,800. In 1917 the valuation of these counties was $459,428,225, but this year the valuation Is shown to be $481,801,085. , Tho Injunction suit by suffragists to prevent the "antls"' referendum from being placed on tho ballot this fall will not come to trial before Sep tomber 1, according to Lincoln re ports. T7 TURKEY'S NEW SULTAN Mohammed Burhnn-Eddlnc, who until tho downfall of Abdul Harold was tho tatter's favorite son, hns now becoino sultan of Turkey, being pro claimed under the namo of Moham med VI. Now in ids thirty-third yenr, Bur-han-Eddlnc hns ever since his boy hood been groomed by Emperor Wil liam for fho eventual occupancy of the Ottoman throne. Ho hns been carefully brought up by the best, Ger man, French and even English tu tors, Is thoroughly up to (Into and very modern in his Ideas, nud as n boy had charming manners. He Is by profession a sailor, rather than a mili tary man, nnd holds n commission of captain of tho Ottoman navy, which until tho beginning of tho present wur wns far and away tho most popular branch of tho defensive service, Its officers having as a rulo held them selves aloof from tho political in trigues which have dono Incalculable damage to the prestige and to tho dis cipline of tho army, Tho main shadow on Burhnn-Eddlnc's record, apart from his pro-Gcr-mnnlsm nnd his evil association with tho unsnvory product of nn Impcrlnl scullery, Enver Pasha, Is his attitude toward his Into father. Although Sultan Abdul Humid had oven gono to tho length of bestowing upon his fnvorlto son on tho occasion of his twenty-first birthday tho tltlo of nnhlm, which may bo rendered in English as coadjutor, assoclato or viceroy a tltlo which figures but rarely In tho history of tho Ottoman empire yet Burhnn-Eddlno Hover raised a finger In defenso of his father, either on tho occasion of tho first military pronunclnmcnto in 1008 or nt tho time of his final deposition nnd Imprisonment in 1009. Burhnn-Eddlno beenmo the most lntlmato friend of Enver, nnd con tributed In no small degrco to bring about tho latter's marriage to tho imperial princess, Nndjlo Sultann. RECRUITING WOMEN DOCTORS clothes und their bodies reeking with It, that tho nurses and doctors must breathe In a good deal nnd tho clerks who handle their clothes do, too. Tho French will supply the hospital. It is to bo ready for tho suffrage unit whenever the latter arrives, and Mrs. Brown hopes to start for Europo with tho 50 by the end of August. Tho French war department will supply some of tho equipment, and will maintain tho patients, but food and salaries for tho 50 of tho personnel will como out of tho money the American suffra gists are raising for this wnr work. NOTORIOUS HUN INTRIGUER Admiral von Hlntze, German min ister nt Chrlstlanla and formerly minister to Mexico, who was selected to succeed Dr. von Kuehlmann ns foreign secretary, is perhaps the most notorious Intriguer in the German dip lomatic service. China has been the sccno of much of his uctivlty, nnd there he hobnobbed not only with the Gcrmunophllo mandarins, but ulso with the robber bands and spies. So scandalous, indeed, was his be havior that he was reculled for a while and nt tho outbreak of tho war ho was In Mexico. In tho gulso of an Englishman he managed to return to Germany by wny of tho United States, England and Holland, and in 1015 was sent buck to China as minister. Ho traveled onco more by tho way of America, und dcsplto the close watch for him which was kept by the Japanese he managed to get across tho Pacific as a supercargo In a Scan dinavian tramp steamer. Von Hlntze Is as wily and tricky us any living diplomat, and when in Mexico tried hard to drag tho United States Into war with that republic. WINS FAME Tho young fighter wns educated border, und was trained for aviation Fort Worth. raw After six months' trial of tho women's overseas hospitals, tho French government has asked tho National Woman Suffrage association, which sent tho unit over and Is financ ing it, to supply Immediately a person nel of 50 women, doctors, nurses, nurses' aids, clerks, chauffeurs, etc., to run a 300-bcd hospital to bo estab lished for tho care of gas cases. Mrs. Raymond Brown of New York, who went to Franco for the suffragists to inspect tho units they had sent and report what was needed, enmo back with-this official request and Is scour ing tho country now for tho very best experts her sex can furnish to enlist for this dangerous work. "It Is dangerous," sho said In" her ofllco at national suffrage headquar ters, "dangerous not only because It will probably bo near tho front, but because the gassed men como in so full of tho poisonous stuff, their is IN THE AIR iieut. Tyicr uook uronson, u young American aviator, only twenty- two years old, was mentioned In tho dispatches as being ono of tho Amerl can group who brought flown six of tho kaiser's best fighting airmen, a unit of the famous Rlchthofen's own squadron. mo encounter took place near Chateau Thierry and wns the largest air fight In which members of the American squadron have taken part. Six German planes were brought down while tho rest took to flight, absolute ly no loss resulting to our flyers. Lieutenant Bronsou comes from a fighting family, his uncle, tho late Col. E. N. Knox, having been a Civil war veteran and medal of honor man. Ills mother, Mrs. Melvln A. Brown, Is secretary of the national aeronautic committee of Now York, and her only other son, Frederick P. Bronson, Is With tho engineers' corps In France. in Switzerland, served on tho Mexican service nt Ithuca, Toronto, Canada and A Helping the Meat (Special Information Bcrvlco, United States Department of Agriculture.) USELESS DOG A NATIONAL ENEMY A Thoucand Dollars' Worth of Mutton Dogs That DOG EATS MAN'S FULL ALLOWANCE Canines That Serve No Useful Purpose Should Not Be Toler ated by Farmer. MUST HAVE MEAT REGULARLY Ono Cur In Slnglo Night Has Been Known to Destroy $1,000 Worth of Sheep Moro Mutton and Wool Wanted by Nation. What are you doing nbout winning tills war, anyway? Of courso you tako n conscientious interest in It, but aro you working at Jt Just as diligently ns though It were your own personnl war, and as though your own personal salvation depended upon It which It does? Homo folks have got to do a Httlo bit moro than strangers. You bought some of our Liberty bonds? Of courso you did. But a blessed old pagnn away over in tho heart of Asia, entirely out of touch with us nnd ow ing us no duty whatever, bought $100,000 worth of theso bonds by cable. You buy a War Savings stamp now nnd then. Certainly. But a bunch of poor, hopeless human beings In exilo who can never profit by tho liberty that is to bo won to-wlt, tho lepers at Molofcnl bought $3,000 worth of our savings stamps. Must Do Your Part. Now, you, to square yourself with yourself, havo got to do moro than a prince In Persia, or an outcast at Mo lokal. It doesn't mean a great deal to give away a Httlo money, and to lend money to tho government on tho best security In tho world means no sacrifice at all. It just means thrift and good sense. To do your part in your own war you havo got to glvo up some of tho tailing little things, some of your personal fads and fan cies that to you probably do mean a good deal. Take, for Instance, that dog, sllvcr collnrcd, sllvcr-lenshcd, pampered, pet ted nnd perslflnged with n pet name. Or mnybo he Isn't collared or leashed or named. Maybe he Is Just a plain dog that runs where ho pleases, oven though ho may not. please where ho runs. But ono wny or tho other ho Is your dog. Now, think It over. A dog eats ns much ns a man more, If ho gets a chance. Every dog absorbs a ration that would feed a soldier. Either you feed It to him, or ho goes out somo- whero nnd finds It for himself. Also, n dog demands and takes more of n meat diet than u man. A man may got along very comfortably and cheer fully, on cabbage and corn cake, pars- nips and prunes, tomatoes and tnbnsco, but a dog has got to havo his meat. It may bo beef nnd bncon from your tnble, or it may be live sheep from your neighbor's pasture. If you feed him his meat, ho probably consumes about what a man would require. If ho goes and takes It himself, ho do Btroys pretty nearly enough to feed a roglment of mem. Ono dog In a slnglo night hns been known to destroy $1,000 worth of sheep. More Sheep Needed. More sheep Is one of the greatest needs townrd Increasing tho nation's meut supply, nnd there Is ouly one sound reason why tho farmers of tho United States do not raise moro sheep, That ono renson Is tho dog. It may not nlwnys bo the actual physical dog, but It Is the ghost of tho dog, tho fear of tho thing that bides always in tho heart of tho farmer. Ho knows that ond dog, absolutely worthless, Inca pable of producing a single dollar of wealth for tho country, can nnd very likely will, In the dark hours of one night, destroy the accumulations of yenrs and tho profits of untiring Indus try, .If that fear could hu removed from tho farmer's honrt, If ho could know that sheep could browso safely In his grass that goes to waste, the onmbnr of sheep In the United Stntes and Milk Supply Destroyed In One Night, and the Did It would Incrcaso mnny fold In a Httlo while. That Is ono big phase of the dog question this fact that tho presence of too many dogs prevents the general raising of nnlmnls whoso flesh nnd wool aro both seriously needed for our armies overseas. But It Is a phase of It that does not necessarily come Into consideration nt "11. Of courso your dog Is not a shcjp-kllllng dog. Nobody's dog ever was a shcep-kllllng dog until, suddenly, some man's sheep woro slaughtered nnd that dog was found to havo blood on bis chaps and wool In his teeth. Tho United Stntes department of agriculture Is not an enemy to tho dog It recognizes certain definite uses for that animal, but it realizes that the country could got on mighty well with much fewer dogs, than It hns, nnd that both tho actual and po tential meat supply of the country would bo greatly increased thereby. It has recently sent out several np-pt-als on that point. If you havo a dog thnt serves a genuinely useful purpose, keep him. Ho la a good citi zen. But to help In tho world's sal vation, get rid of the useless clog I unu nnrs I nirrne cam Ain Tho dog rightfully holds n strong place In tho minds and affections of men. Tho owner of a good dog finds In him a most faithful friend. But it sometimes happens that tho dog most highly esteemed is also ono that kills and worries tho most sheep ncd Is tho most cunning In obscuring tho evi dences of his guilt. A well-bred dog's habit of ly ing Innocently asleep in the front yard during daytime Is no proof thnt tho samo dog does not kill sheep at night. Bccauso of the economic loss occasioned by shcep-kllllng dogs, and because such dogs bring tho whole of their kind into bnd repute, tho true admirers and friends of this animal should help to further any steps likely to result In the limitation of tho activity of these discrediting members of n noble race. Ono of tho most practicable methods of accomplishing, this result seems to bo to plnce upon dogs such n tax ns will reduce the number of superfluous ones nnd result In fewer being kept by persons who cannot or will not glvo them the attention nec essary to prevent tho formation of habits and associations that lead to sheep killing. Milk as a Food. Economy In tho diet does not nlwayH depend upon limiting tho uso of cer tain foods, but It Is sometimes a ques tion of actually Increasing tho uso of foods which furnish nutritive material at relatively low cost. Milk belongs to the latter class, and the housqwlfe would do well to study Its food value and decide whether her family Is using ns much ns It should. Tho averago person In this country uses only a Httlo moro than half a pint of milk dally, and this quantity can very prof itably bo Increased when safe milk Is available. Many people think of milk only us a beverage, but If they understood that It Is In reality a nourishing food they would Increase their dally allowance. Wo eat foods for two main reasons : First, to renew body wastes and pro mote growth by forming new tissues and fluids; and, second, to supply en ergy for carrying on body functions. Milk contains the body-building mate rials (protein and mineral substances, such as llmo and phosphorus), and also supplies energy. Tho following table, compiled by specialists of the department of agri culture, shows tho quantities of vari ous foods needed to supply ns much protein or energy as ono quart of milk: Protein. Energy. 1 quart of milk la 1 quart of milk la equal to oqual to 7 ounces of elrloln 11,3 ounces of elr steak. loin steak. 6 ounces of round 14.0 ounces of steak. round steak, 4.3 efrtrs. 9 okks. 8.G ounces of fowl. 14. 6 ounces of fowl. 2 tInM,
