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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 20, 1919)
THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. FINE CHOPS SURE Outlook in Western Canada Never More Favorable. Perfect Weather Conditions Enabled Early 8eedino and Wheat Has Long Been Above Ground In the Land of Opportunity. The grcntest optimism prevails throughout every district In Western Cnnadn. From the enHtern bountlnry of Mnnltolm to the slopes of the Rocky Mountains the farmers have been busy for three weeks iu needing operations. Lnst fall, even for Western Canada, was an exceptional one. Threshing wns completed at nn early date and the amount of fall plowing made ready for crop from fifteen to twenty-five per cent more uerenge than In any year In the brief history of the country. There fore there was ready for seeding this aprlng an acreage away beyond any thing ever before experienced In that country. On April 20 Calgary (Alta.) report ed that In south country points there was u notable spirit of optimism amongst the farmers there. Molstura and weather conditions were good, while land In most places was In the best possible condition. More tractors were being put Into operation than In any previous year. In some parts of the nouth country, however, there was a marked shortage of labor, but In tho consideration of the country as a whole the labor outlook was bright. Seeding operntlons were well under way In every part of Western Canada by the fifteenth of April. The practice of tho fnrmers In that country Is to commence as soon as the frost Is out of the ground enough to allow the few Inch seed bed to be worked up well. Beneath this the ground may still be frozen, but from this frost the young and tender wheat roots get the mois ture at first so necessary to Its exist ence. Tho wnrm days of spring nnd tho long hours of sunlight that are URhered In with It thaw tho frost out day by day and pay to the growing plant tho moisture as It Is needed. Nature's wny of producing moisture to the young wheat plant Is one of the chief reasons why Western Canada has become world famous as a wheat-producing country. What may be said of wheat can as truly be said of oats and barley, and yes, In fact, corn, too. Rapid and strong growth Is stim ulated In this manner. Heavy spring rains usunlly occur after seeding la over and the grain well above ground. Already n report has been received, dated April 20, that a farmer near Ca brl, Saskatchewan, had 180 acres of wheat showing above tho ground. A good, strong and sturdy wheat plant Is necessary when It Is ex pected that there will be produced a torty-bushcl-to-the-acre crop of wheat of a quality that will weigh out Its slxty-flvo pounds to the measured bushel. These spring wheat conditions rep resent but one of the reasons why Western Canada has been able to produce, with so little effort, world'a record grain crops, wheat and oats that have carried off all champion ship awards at America's largest ex positions. Western Canada has this spring hipped ten thousand bushels of Mar quis wheat, the variety that holds most of the world's championships, to Australia, where it Is to be tried out Seventy-live thousand bushels of the tame variety has been sent to Franca to be used for seed. Tho wheat lands of Western Canada are probably the most undervalued of any on the continent. A comparatively small acreage of Western Canada's lands has been sold as high as $00 nn acre. The greater portion of the best farming land In Its unimproved state may be purchased at $25 un acre. The comparison be tween these prices and nn annual rev enue derived from gruln-growlng alone, with big yields nnd present prices, can hut more tlrinly impress one with the certainty of a rapid Increase within the next few years. Advertisement Out of Order, Tho village wnB nil agog. Flossie Flatfeot was marrying William alien, Tho church was crowded. Flossie, ooklng as pale us her somowhat high ly colored countenance would nllow, boro up until the plain hand ring was mfely on her finger, and then, over- :ome, burst into tears. Tho villagers wero touched, hut not anxious. All girls cry nt weddings. Then suddenly William Giles screwed j. his fnco nnd broko into howls, Tears poured down Ills face and drlppod off Us whiskers. "What's up? Hush, man!" those nearest him urged. But Giles eontlti' ued to howl, nnd at lnst burst out: "ijct mo no i l reel Vfuss 'an 'er about It I" London Tit-Bits. ALLEN'S FOOT-EA8E DOES IT. When your ihoca pinch or your corns and bunions ache set Allen's Foot-Eat, th antlscptlo powder to be shaken Into shoes and sprinkled In the foot-bath. It will take the stlnjr out of corns and bunions and plv Instant relief to Tired. Aching. nwoiien, ienaer reel. Hoia everywner. uon-t accept any suosiifuie, Aav. Cement From Oyster 8hes. Oyster shells are being used exten nlvely In the manufacture of portland cement nlotig tho coast of tho gulf of Mexico, Kill tho Fllss Now and Prevent disease, A DAISY FLY KILLEH will do lu Mllitnouisnus. J.MtsalUossoa. Alldealen, orflTOentoi)reMt)al(lfor$1.2S. H.80MEHS. loo Do Kalb Ave., urooklyo, w, r. Adr. if you want td mnko a mnn howllnc mud Just keep cool when ho abuse you. Germany's Army Lacks Snap Soldiivs Slack in Discipline and Show Familiarity Toward Officers. OLD ARMY HAS DISAPPEARED About 70,000 Men Commanded by Hln- , denburg About All That. Remalnt of Great Host Revolution Changes German Troops. Berlin.. Under tho now republic the departments of the army nnd navy are no more, In name at least. The republic's nnme for them is defense, and they are placed under charge of Gustnv Noske, much trusted by the government for his prompt action In emergencies, nnd much hated by the Spartacans for his relentless opposi tion when disorders "break out. Noske's appointment ns head of the navy, as well as the army, was regard ed none too seriously, by Noske him self, nt least. When asked by u news paper man what he expected to do about the naval affairs of Germnny In the future, Nosko laughed and replied : "Why worry nbout naval affairs, when we haven't any navy?" There are still sailors In big num bers In Germany, however,! nnd they have been n problem. During the revo lution the sailors played an important part, and most of them developed such a liking to land duty In Berlin and the other big cities that they have refused to leave for Kiel or any of the har bors. Now tho sailors arc used In the gunrd regiments all over Germany, along with soldiers. Big Army Disappears. The German army Is In process of reorganization. Immediately after the armistice the army almost disappeared as nn organized unit, and though there were millions of men In uniform scat tered all over the land, none was re sponsible to anyone, nnd oillcers were not safe In uniform. Iu localities the soldiers Joined "lied gunrd" groups, and some served and others mlsusod their privileges. Thus the army as It was known In the old days practlcully vanished, except for u few divisions under tllndenburg, camped behind tho Ilhlnc, and tho troops along tho Polish border. Now tho only army of tho field that Germany has Is In the east to guard against the Poles. It Is commanded by Illndenburg nnd Is supposed to be not more than 00,000 or 70,000 men, If it numbers that many. However, government troops are scattered over the country in every big city and in industrial centers to gunrd against disorders. The big problem Is keep- lug these troops faithful and satis fied, when .Spurtncitn propaganda and money Is at large. Under Noske and tho minister of war, Colonel Helnhard, WOMEN FACTORY WORKERS OF GERMANY Group of women who are employed Somo of them aro wearing wooden shoes, Aliens Quit Country Now York. Enriched by war work, j aliens nre leaving this country nt the rate of moro than 1,000 a day, It was learned hero from custom ottlclnls, who expressed fenr that, with tho possibil ity that congress may limit Immigra tion for tho next four years, the United States will face n serious labor short age, Instead of a condition of unem ployment. Since tho signing of the armistice, It was said, Italians, Greeks, Spun lards and Portuguese have been pour ing out of tho United Staes through this port, Since November 70,221 pass ports have been vised at the custom house, nnd since December, 33,000 aliens have sailed. Every ship clear ing for Mediterranean ports has sailed with n full steerage, so that tales have Jumped from $10 to 5S0. Custom officials .estimate that un enormous sum has been taken out of tho country since the exodus began. Kach alien, It Is said, carries with him from $1,000 to $7,000 to enable him to New the morale ruid discipline of the gov ernment troop? have Unproved tremen dously until a great part of the for mer efficiency is restored. Depends on Peace Terms. ' Germany's army is In a transitory state. What It will become depends upon the pence terms, the Germans recognize. But there has evidently been n change In Idea In the govern ment. Knrly In tho revolution Ebert declared himself ngulnst a conscripted nrmy, and Noske and Helnhard were appointed to organize volunteer forces, serving for short periods, to defend the new government. As n matter of fact tho troops used for Interior de fense are all volunteers, mostly yoiyig men, serving for three or six months at good pay. " Tho policy of the new republic will be against conscription In theory, de clares President Ebert, but there Is not 2,000 Murdered by the Bolsheviki u. S. Red Cross Agents Tell of Reds' Atrocities in Siberia. DIG OWN PITS; BURIED ALIVE Murders Were Without Provocation and the Victims Were Largely of Thrifty or Intelligent Classes or Servants of Church. Omsk. Indisputable evidence of Ihe massacre by the bolsheviki of more than 2,000 civilians In nnd near the town of Osn has been obtnlned by Messrs. Slmmonds and Emerson and Dr. Rudolph Teualer of tho American Red Cross1, who have Just returned from Perm, Osn and other re-occupied Russian territory. Approximately 500 persons were killed nt Osa and 1,500 In the surrounding districts. Osa, which had a population of 10, 000, was so denuded of males by the bolsheviki that General Cnsagrande, upon the occupation of the town, was obliged to telegraph to Ekaterinburg for men to administer civic affairs. Dogs Dig Up Bodies. In addition to securing verbnl and documentary evidence the American Red Cross officials witnessed the ex huming of scores of victims from trenches," where they wero burled sometimes several deep In graves re vealed by the digging of dogs. The murders were without provoca tion, and the victims were largely of the thrifty and Intelligent classes or In the factories of Bttburg, Germany leather being very scarce In Germany. live In bis native laud In greater ease thnn ho ever enjoyed before Slnco April 2, when nil outgoing passengers wero forced to pny their Income taxes before leaving, more thnn 158,000 has been collected. Byron It. Newton, collector of tho port, who has been nsked by members of tho United Stntes senate and house Immigration committee to reduce tho exodus to statistics, said today moro than 00 per cent of tho nllens aro Italians, and thnt "something ought to bo done to check the outflow." CUPID BUSY DURING WAR Six Thousand French Women Were Wooed and Won by Yanks In One Year. Paris, France, That Cupid was nearly as busy as Mars with the mem bers of the American expeditionary force and that romance bloomed in France In spite of war's alarms Is much hope of putting the theory into effect, for It Is pointed out that Ger many will not abolish conscription un less the neighboring nations do. Since the Germans do not expect their neigh bors to depend on volunteers, plans nro being worked out for n new con scription nrmy, serving shorter-periods nnd modeled moro nfter the Swiss than die old Prussian army. .Tho mllltln Idea Is populdr, hut Is consid ered Idealistic. The German nrmy of Interior de fense, which probably numbers around it hundred thousand men, or possibly it few thousand more, Is nn expensive proposition. Volunteers hnve to bo pnld well to keep them from being1 won out by the Spnrtacans, who offer more money. Food nnd equipment Is good. The new nrmy has n rather slack discipline, and. none of the old Prus sian snap Is seen when oillcers nrn pear. Familiarity nnd almost Inso lence are seen on every hand. Tho German trooper has changed a lot with the ronlutlon, and If appearances nro at all Indicative, the government forces In Germany today are not to be fen red outside Gerinnny. servanis of the church, which lutter It wa the announced Intention of the bolsheuki to exterminate. The evidence discloses nlmost un- thinkable ntrocltles. A blacksmith, by economies, had attained a shop, lie was required to pay 5,000 rubles; be- cause he could not, he was shot. A man was shot because he lived In a brick house. All attorneys nnd Jurists were killed, nnd doctors, whose serv ices were not required for the moment, were disposed of In a similar manner. A woman whose husband nnd two sons liud been seized applied to tho commissar for Information as to theU fate. She was told they had been taken to Perm. After repenting her visit several times she was Informed that If she bothered the commissar again she would be shot, us they had been. The body of a woman wns exhumed and Identified In the presence of thq Americans ns tho wlfo of u general through Jewels sewed In the lining of her clothing, of which relatives wero nwnre. Another woman was compelletf to fetch n lamp and gaze upon her murdered ons for the amusement ol the slayers. A wife required to pay 1,000 ruble for the release of her husband bor. rowed S00 nnd paid It over; litter shq returned with the remainder, nnd then. was Informed that her husband hat been shot. There wero scores of slmii Jar cases. All were killed without nnjj form of trial. The soviet called a meeting nnd pre- pared lists of those to die. The houses liniM.-riut.'u cri! visiieu uj squuus, nil) doors were smashed In, and the" vic tims drugged to the edge of the town and forced to dig their own graves Those who resisted were shot In th4 streets. survivor testified thnt he had seer. men thrown into a pit nnd buried. alive. This testimony has been con- finned by bodies exhumed, the clenched hands of which were clinging to tho mud nt tho bottom of the pit. The only spark of humnnlty dlscov- able was that In confiscating the be longings of the residents. In some In stances where there wns a family ol small children, the family was permit. ted to retain one cow out of several, Occasionally a peasant was allowed to keep his worst horse. The bolshevik attitude townrd tin church wus uncompromising. Priestt wero hunted unmercifully. The evl deuce showed that men were slnli whose only offense wns that thej worked as sextons or caretakers o: churches. Milk Can Causes Death I.awton, Oklu. W. S. Mnntooth twenty-two, a well-known young far mer near here, was Instantly killed when n milk can several boys were using as a boiler exploded. Some boys were, using the milk can as the boiler of an Improvised engine, mid Mr. Mantooth stopped to wnrn' them that they had too much steam up. Just then the boiler let go. The big can, weighing thirty pounds, nit lil in between tho eyes. ertrtrCrtctrirtrh&irtrtrtrttt Less Than 4,000 Yanks Lost Arms or Legs. Washington, D. C. Jfenrly 4. 000 officers and enlisted men. In tho American expeditionary forces lost arms or legs In the war with Gerinnny, nccordlng to statistics furnished by tho bu renu of war risk insurance, which Is now Interested In bring ing' about cbnnges In tho law fix ing compensation for maimed soldiers, sailors, nnd marines. shown by tho fnct that more than 0,000 French women huvo been wooed nnd won by Amcrlcnn soldiers within onu year. The majority of the French girls who hnve become Americans through mnrrylng Amerlcnn clllcer and men nre stenographers, salesgirls, teachers nnd a sprinkling of peasant girls and those of the middle class or bourgeoisie. 'Uio roiuoacea uro In most cases very slmllur. AREA OF DETAILED MAPPING Notwithstanding Interruptions by War, Larger Amount Was Covered In Year of 1918. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment or Agriculture.) Notwithstanding a certain amount of Interruption due to war conditions In the work of the soil survey carried on by the burenu of soils of the United States department of agriculture, n larger area of detailed mapping was done during the fiscal year 1018 than during the preceding yenr, the urea covered amounting to 38,130 square Plmetable Used In Soil Survey for Constructing Base Map. miles. Prior to 1018 a total of 445,825 square miles had been mapped, so that the total urea covered by the detailed work of the survey at the close of June 30, 1018. was 483,001 square pillea. That part of the United States lying within regions where the rainfall Is sufficient for crop production or where water Is available for Irrigation cov ers approximately I,7c0,000 snunre miles. The area mapped In detail dur ing 1918 was equivalent to 2.2 per cent of this area, the total mapped In de tail to dnte 27.C per cent, and the total, both detnlled and reconnoissance work, much of the latter area calling for no further work, amounted to 51.3 per cent of It. TREES FOR ROAD PROTECTION Active Steps Taken by New York Organizations for Development of Planting Scheme. (By PrtOF II. B. FAXON, State Col lege or f orestry, Syracuse, is. r.j Believing that the problem of road side planting should not be entirely set aside during the movement for a great er mileage of Improved Highways, active steps are now being taken by the New York Stute Motor federa tion and the State College of Forestry at Syracuse for tho development of a planting scheme for the section of tho highway running from Syracuse to Utlca, a distance of nbout GO miles. It has been demonstrated by those In charge of the work that aside from Uic purely ornamental vnlue of trees along the highway, many practical ben efits would result from, their proper" use. It is not generally realized that trees, by means of their shade during the summer months, prolong the life of ,the roadway for many years, and road experts In general are heartily In fa vor of this means for rond protection. IMPROVEMENT IN WISCONSIN Ten Million Dollars to Be Spent on Developing Hiehways In Badger State In 1919. Ton million dollars will bo spent on developing Improving nnd patrolling tlie highways of Wisconsin during 1M0. This nnnouneemnt wns made by A. R. nirst, stnte highway engineer, who explnlned that the Increase, nn nmount nlmost double that spent In former K - enrs. wns because $2,f00.000 wns left over from last year and nlso to furnish niKopportunlty for employment of re turned soldiers and sailors. "Approximately $7,000,000 will bo spent In developing new roads, nnd nbout $3,000,000 will bo used to pntrol tho state trunk hlghwnys. The money vrlll come from federal, stnto nnd coun ty .sources. The sennto committee on hlghwnys Is considering a bill to allow counties to Institute trunk lines nnd to raise the present limit of 5,000 miles of fed eral nld ronds In the stnte. GOOD ROADS AID TO SCHOOLS Higher Attendance of Children Shown by Government Survey After Improvement Made. A survey made by the government of tho effect of good rond building on school nttendnnco In eight counties shows that before the roads were 1m- proved the average school attendance wn8 jj pupils to each 100 enrolled, .as coinpnred v!tb"70 nfter the roads were ttupro u A You?ig Girl well groomed is an attractive sight Red Gross Ball Blue if used in the laun dry will give tliat fJ; clean, dainty " appearance that everyone admires. All good grocers sell it; 5 cents a package. 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