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NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. BRAVE AMERICA !N POLISH AM c Brigadier General Sweeny. Mil lionaire, Battles for Cause of Freedom. Latest of British Dirigible 7 wrwwwio ill tm m at vi "XT" i TRAINED AT WEST POINT Served In Mexico, South America and Gave Valiant Service In the World War Unusual Type of Soldier of Fortune. New York. War dispatches making more than en Him I mention of Br Ik. Gen. Onirics Sweeny have lent to the Polish struggle more than nn Imper Kotml Interest to American army olll eers nt Governor's Island, who are well nrquulnted with Sweeny, nn American soldier of fortune with both principle and purse. Men of no fortune at all who figlrt for excitement and pay are common enough. Hut Sweeny. U. S. A.. Is a multimillionaire's son, his father hav ing amassed great wealth In the fa mous Coeur D'Alono mines of Wash ington nnd Idaho, and (lie soldier is more than a millionaire in his own right, lie tint In three years at West Point and then sought the life of an active soldier In Mexico. South and Central Amerlcn nnd Kurone. Offers Self to Poland. Sweeny, a former lieutenant colonel In the United States army, attached to the general stall', was In Paris dur ing the spring of l!lli. recovering from wounds suffereil in the Argonne nITen. slve with the A. K. , when lie learned that Poland was In need of ollleers for her new armies. He consulted with 'the then Premier Pnderowskl and offered to recruit volunteers when lie Thrift Treasury Department Is Spend ing Million Dollars to En courage Saving. WANTS PEOPLE TO INVEST Carrying on Campalnn for the Sale of Thrift Stamps, War Saving Stamps and Saving Certificates School Rooms Organized. Washington. Uncle Sam Is spend ing $1,000,000 this year, through, the savings division of the treasury de partment, In nn 'effort to encourage thrift. The expenditure of .$1,000,000 com pares with ap expenditure last year of epproxlmately .$4,000,00!). and the stulT of employees which comprises a force In Washington and an organization In every federal reserve district miiii pares with the great force Inherited from the war. Advocates Opening of Bank Accounts. The savings division carries on Mie campaign for the sale of Thrift stumps, Wnr Savings stumps and sav ing certificates, hut these sales are merely a side line to the general ef fort, for Just as much stress Is being put upon the opening of savings ac counts In the hunks as upon the sale of stamps. Through the subsidiary or ganizations Just as much cfTort Is be ing made to have the housewife keep a budget as there Is effort to propa gatidize the homes In the Interest of government securities. In the period from December 1. 1!I17, to January 1, 11111), the sale of government securities, exclusive ot Liberty ami Victory bonds, reached more thnn'Sl.OOO.WVJ.OOO. In 11)1!) the sales dropped to .'S,,)U.i.,:t0.(J87.84. In the first six months of this year the sales dropped to l.M.0Sri,84'J. Hut tho report of the six months of the year is no Indication of what the lliuil re port will be, nceoMlliig to O. C. Les ter of the savings division, who says the people do not save as much dur B Building Homes for the Chicago The Chicago Housing association tins undertaken n great social experiment in the erection of mnnv homes for families which had nowhere to live owing to the house shortage In that city The homes are of nrii ii iuo smiles, mid the tenant pays rental of about $35 a mouth which is applied on the purchase price. 1'ne hoii.se i uiu m cun t cent. Photograph of the It-80. latest Hrttish dlrlglhle. in her maiden (light nt Hnrrow. She Is of the same type us the It-ill which crossed the Atlantic, nut larger. returned to America. In three weeks lie had soloctcd i!00 former American army ollleers, all of whom had been service In France. Colonel Sweeny sailed for Poland In September of last vear with til" first of Ills ofllccr con tingent. He was not long In getting Into the light and In recognition of his plcndld services Poland commissioned li i it) a brigadier general. Tills Irlsh-Aiiierlciin-Pollsh , general for whom a soft life held no appeal. Iiegan his career on the hattlelleld on leaving West Point after he tried min ing for a while. Soldier of Fortune. He went to Mexico and got a wound In the Miidero affair. Upon recovery, Sweeny packed up for South America, Urged Uncle Sam ing the summer months as at other times. School Rooms Are Organized. When tin. government tlrst Initiated Its drive for thrift and asked the as sistance of the people, the savings di vision was organized and the request made for other organizations to co-operate with It. A drive was made to In terest the. school organizations, the or ganizations of women, , the clubs and Industrial concerns and others. Hut the effort was not entirely successful and the policy has been reversed. The government Is now saying to all these organizations tlmt It Is ready to co operate with them and success Is be ing had. Thousands of school Minis are now organized and In nian.v cities and stiites.coiirses In thrift are being made ii regular part' of the curriculum. In dustrial concerns have also organized their elub. Women are leaching the necessity of ilie budget in the .home. Fraternal organizations have Joined In and the entire groundwork for the sav ings campaign has been laid. URGES FRENCH LEARN GERMAN Former President Polncare Points to Value of Language to His People. Paris. France. "Learn Gorman." Is the advice former President Polncare ha given the French through the As sociation of Language Professors. He said : "To dominate German science, we must understand It. To maintain the independence or the superiority of our literature, we must not close our eyes to foreign literature, not even that of (Jcrninny." M. Polncare added that (lerman must be known by those who under take the administration of the occu pied regions, nhd also to restore French to Its proper place In Alsace Lorraine. Army ollleers recently were urged to learn German. The government has reinstated that language In the olll eers training srliools. where be took n hand In several o' the revolutions. He got Into the world war as a private In the Foreign Legion. In the tlrst Champagne battle In September. lSllfi. he was commis sioned a lieutenant on the field for gallantry. He was severely wounded and gassed In Hits battle, and on a hospital cot In Paris he was awarded the cross of Hie Legion of Honor. Two other Important decorations were bestowed on blin In rapid suc cession and lie had a great reputation for bravery. Soon after being made n captain of the French forces, be was sent to the United States upon advice of Ambassador Sharp as an Instructor In 1017. Sweeny was commissioned a major In the United States iirmy and helped to train the Eightieth division at Cninp Lee, Va. lie, went overseas with this division, got shot up In the Ar gonne and was promoted lieutenant colonel for gallantry before the enemy, nnd assigned to the staff of the A. K. F. NEW JUMP IN IMMIGRATION Increase of 20,000 in Week Laid Typhus and War in Europe. to Washington, I). C. Immigration olllclals here prufess to be mystified at the sudden Increase In Immigration which approximated "0,000 persons last week; and, It continued, would add 1,000.000 to the population of the country In a year. Louis F. Post, as sistant secretary of the department of labor, said today no Information has yet reached the department which will irxplnlii the situation. "Hut I have a theory about It," said Mr. Post. "I tun Inclined to think that nian.v of these people are coming here to get away from conditions at home and Hint the condition Is only tempor ary. Only last week a ship was held up at quarantine with typhus aboard, and the war Is not yet over In Europe. Hither one of these conditions would naturally make a lot of people anxious to get away." Eggs Proved Too Frail As Carriers of Whisky Eggs may he all right to ship whisky In. but the baggage smashers must handle such cases with care. At a station In West Virginia some of the eggs broke and a prohibition Inspector found three cases of "doctored" eggs. Kneli egg had been carefully "blown" from the shell. After whisky had been poured In, the aperture had been sealed with cement. "David and Goliath" Re-enacted, Indianapolis, Ind. .lust as a mad bull . was charging Unhurt Williams, Intent on goring him to death, a small hoy hurled a brick. It struck the bull scpinrely between the eyes and killed the animal. The boy, scared, ran away after the feat. Homeless New Army Corps Areas and Commanders WASHINGTON. The war depart ment has announced the state groups composing the army corpj areas and the lieadrpinrters of each: First corps to embrace Maine. New Hampshire. Vermont, Massachusetts. Ithode Island and Connecticut ; liead rpinrters at Huston. Second corps to embrace New York, New Jersey and Delaware; headquar ters nt Governor's Island. N. Y. Third corps to embrace Pennsyl vania. Maryland. Virginia and the Dis trict of Columbia ; headqunrters at Fort McIIenry, Md., but temporarily nt I In I tl ii ioio. Fourth corps to embrace North twid South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala bama. Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkan sas and Louisiana ; headquarters at Cities Have More People Than Country F OH the first time In the history of the United States the UKJU census returns will show more people live In (he cities and towns than In the rural territory. With oae-thlrd of the census tabu lated, Including practically all 'the larger cities, the census olllclals esti mate that 01 or fKi per cent of the population of continental United States will be shown by the Until fig ures as iirbnn residents. Ha sed i m the total estimate of 10.r. 000,000 made by Dr. J. A. 1 1111. chief statistician of the bureau, the number of people living In cities and towns, If the percentage is fil, would be nit.f.riO.OOO and .rl,4o0.000 in rural ter ritory. The Increase In the proportion of urban population to rural has been manifest since IS'jo. and has been steady and rapid since 1SS0. Tills in crease Is shown In the following cen sus tables: Total Urhmi Uilrnl. 1880 ... WM ... io 1310 ... ISM) ... 1S!M .... 11) ... 1910 A. ..t.155,7&l t4.T72.43X 33,3S3.St; ..fi'.',!MT.7H ffi.T'.'O.ISM lO.'-WJl 7:.034.:.7ri ai.T97.lS5 4r..liC.30O M.1I72.26G 42.6S3.SS3 PKIICHNTAUK. KI.O UtJ.l 40.5 41! 3 I9.34S.S83 70.5 S3.U 5U.5 M.7 "There has been a great tendency towards large increases In 'the cities and towns which we can't account for. unless It has come from tint country," said Samuel L. Hogers, ill- Reorganization of PLANS "for a reorganization of the bureau of Investigation, the Ameri can secret service, have been perfect ed. The country will be divided Into nine divisions, each under a superin tendent, who will hnve headipiiirlers In u principal city. K. .1. Ilreniiaii. who bus been In charge of tpc Chicago district, has been designated as superintendent In charge of the llfth division, in Include Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota. North Dakota east Missouri ami western Michigan, with hendtpuirtcrs in Chi cago. William J. Klynn. who became head of the bureau several years ago, stays In thnt post and L. .1. Haley, who has been the agent In charge of the, At lanta (3a.) olljce. goes to Washington to be assistant director and chief of the bureau. The reorganization plan was deter Marine Corps Is Popular Other Items RKCUUlTINti for the marine corps Is rapidly Increasing. Hefore the wnr .100 men a month was considered a fair average; now It Is double that number. The. marine corps Is now re cruited to about I'M per cent of its au thorized strength of 27,-HH), and' at the present rate of progress will reach the maximum number within a few months. lU'crultlng otllcers believe dint the educational advantages now uttered to marines are lending large numbers to enlist. UlUitJKST that the senate commit tee on reconstruction and production, hold a hearing in Chicago and conduct a thorough Investigation of the pres ent building, housing nnd high rents crisis, was received by United Suites Senator William N. Calder. chairman of the committee from the Chicago As soclatlon of Commerce. Henjainln Hosenthul. director of the Chicago Fort McPherson. Ga., hut temporarily nt Charleston. S. C. Fifth corps to embrace Ohio. West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky; head quarters at Fort Henjainln Harrison, Ind. Sixth corps to embrace Illinois, Mlchlgnn nnd Wisconsin; headquar ters at Fort Sheridan, 111., but tempo rarily at Chicago. Seventh corps to embrace Missouri, Knnsas. Iowa. Nebraska. Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota; headquarters at Fort Crook. Neb. Klghth corps to embrace Texas, Ok lahoniii, Colorado. New Mexico nnd Arizona ; headquarters at Fort Sam Houston. San Antonio. Tex. Ninth corps to embrace Washington, Oregon. Idaho. Montana. Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and California; head quarters at Presidio of Snn Francisco. Corps commanders were announced ns follows: First, MaJ. Gen. David C. Shanks; Second. MaJ. Gen. Hobert L. Hullnrd; Tldrd. MaJ. Gen. Adeinert Cronklilte; Fourth. MaJ. Gen. John F. Morrison; Fifth. MaJ. Gen. George F. Head; Sixth. Ma. Gen. Leonard Wood ; Seventh, MaJ. Gen. Omar Han dy; Klghth. MaJ. Gen. Joseph P. Dick nmn; Ninth. MnJ. Gen. Hunter Lig gett. CLTTX rector of the census at Washington. The proportionate number of mar riages In urban communities Is small er than In the country and the city families, as a rule, arc not as large as those in the country, the greater part of the urban gains ordinarily coming from alien immigration atid migration from rural territory. Hut Immigration was practically suspended from U)M until well after the armistice in November. WIS. nnd practically all the aliens who have left the United States to return to their native lands were city residents. The greater proportion of the war cas ualties, it is olllclally stated, was among city troops, mill the bull; of the dentlis in the Inllnenii epidemics was In urban communities. Yet the cities unit towns have shown great gains ami actual decreases have been shown in rural districts. There fore, the census olllclals can see but one explanation for the urban gain that they come from the rural sec tions. the Secret Service mined upon partly because of the.fnll ure of congress to give the bureau the same appropriation as In past years and partly because it was believed to provide u better system for rapid and elliclent work. Congress last year gave the bureau $$.00UM)0. but this yl'iir it cut tills amount to S'J.tXW.OOl I. i'nder the new plan the llrst division will be made up of New England mid the states of New York and New Jer sey, witli lieailiiiarters in New York. The third will lake in Soul If Caroliua. Georgia, h'loriihi, Alabama, Mississip pi, the western judicial district of North Carolina and the eastern district of Louisiana and Porto Itlco, with heailiiuariers at New Orleans. The fourth will take in Ohio. Indiana. Ken tucky Tennessee and eastern Michi gan, witli headquarters at Cincinnati. The sixth will Include Iowa. South Dakota. Nebraska, Colorado. Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, and western Missouri, with headquarters at Kansas City. The seventh will comprise Tex as. New Mexico. Arizona and western Louisiana, headquarters San Antonio, Ky. The eighth will take in Califor nia, Nevada, Utnli and Hawaii, head quarters Sun Francisco; and ninth, Washington. Oregon, Idaho, Montana nnd Alaska, headquarters Portland. Ore. Housing association, makes the state ment that the housing problem is of greater concern than the coal short age. ADOPTION of a liberal policy to ward licenses under the federal water power act lias been urged on the wa ter power commission by representa tives of several New York investment houses. The commission Is composed of the setretarles of war, Interior and agriculture r-i m ii riifi in in Bad Stomach Sends Her to Bed for 10 Months Eatonlo Gois Hor Up I "Over n year ago." snya Mrs. Dor Williams, "I took to bed nnd for 10' months did not think I would live. Eatonic helped nie so much 1 am now up ami nble to work. 1 recommend It highly for Btomach trouble." Entonle helps people to ,get well by taking up and curryinK out tho excess acidity and gases that put the stomncli out of order. If you have indigestion, Bourness, henrtburn, belching, food re penting or other stomach distress, taker an Entonle after each meal. Mr box costs only a trifle with your druggist'1 guarantee. Stock Raising In Western Canada ii ai profitable at grain growing Successes as wonderful nB those from, growing wheat, oats, barley, and flax have been made in raiting Honci, Cattle, Sheep and Hogt. Bright sunny climate, nutritious grasses,, good water, enormous fodder crops these spell success to the farmer and! stock raiser. And remember, you cam buy on easy term Farm Land at $95 to $30 an Acre land equal to that which through many years lias yielded from SO to 4.V buHhi'U of wltent to tbc ncrc Rraztm; land convenient to koo1 Brain farms at proportionately low prices. Throe lands, have every rural convenience; Rood, schools, churches, roads, telephones, etc., close to live towns and Rood mar kets. If you want to Ret back to the farm, or to farm on a larger scale than Is pos sible under your present conditions, InvrntlRnte Tvlint Weilrrn Cnuada hnn to offer you. For Illustrated literature with maps and particulars regarding reduced railway rates, location of land, etc., apply to Dept. of Immigration, Ottawa, Can., or W. V. BENNETT Boom 4, Dee Bldg., Omaha, Nek Canadian flovernment Agent. Hopelessly Out of Fashion. Despite his shnbby clothing andi empty pockets. It was evident that he had seen better days. A sympathetic soul began to chat with him, anxious to hear Ills story. Over a er cup of cocoa he told his tale. "Yes," he said, "I've been quite n personage In my time; In fact, tho cynosure of nil eyes." His auditor waited in silence for nn. explanation. "1 was the tattooed man In the cir cus," be went on. "And how did you lose your Job?" he was asked. "Public went crazy on moving pic tures," be said, "and mine wouldn't budge !" WHY DRUGGISTS RECOMMEND SWAMP-ROOT For mnny years dniRRiBts have watched, with much interest the remarkable record, maintained by Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root,, the great kidney, liver and bladder medi cine. It is a physician's prescription. Swamp-Root is a strengthening medi cine. It helps the kidneys, liver and blad der do the work nature intended they should do. Swamp-Root has stood the test of years.. It is sold by all druggists on its merit, and it should help you. No other kidney medicine has so many friends. Be sure to get Swamp-Root and start, treatment at once. However, if you wish first to test thi preat- preparation send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a. sample bottle. When writing be sure andi mention this paper. Adv. A Wild, Open-Air Llfu. Postmaster General Hurleson snld nf n San Francisco (luncheon, npropos of a political dispute: "Uur opponents put up u very warm but very unsatisfactory defense. They remind me of the chorus girl. "A young divine met In Broadway n. chorus girl from Ills home town. lit. the course of their conversation the divine said : "'You like the city best. Lalagc. but I love a wild, free, open-air life.' " 'And don't I too?' the chorus girl protested hotly. 'Kvery evening after the show 1 get , my supper on a roof garden.' " Cuticura for Pimply Faces. To remove pimples and blackhead smear them with Cuticura Ointment, Wash off In live minutes with Cuti cura Soap and hot water. Once clear keep your skin clear by using them for dally toilet purposes. Don't fall to In clude Cuticura Tulcum. Adv. Quite All Right. Gladys and George, recently en gaged, were having one of their spats. Gladys was endeuvorlng to make things clear to George, who was in clined to be obstinate. "No, George, dearie." said she. "I am afraid it's quite impossible. Th thing can never be. Wo should never get on well together. Yon know I always want my own way." "That will be nil right, Gladys," re plied George, "you run continue want ing It after we are married." Naturally. "How does the tinker scene go la your new western piny?" "We nlwnys get n hand on It." ' Nisiht Morning A eep Your EVcm Clean - Clear Hoolth Writ. r rvM c a Uok Muru, c2 c" mm MM tM hVff M CI "K. K