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NEWS REVIEW OF
THE PAST WEEK
Sinking of Transport Tuscania
Inspires Nation to Carry War
On to Victory.
IADS FACED DEATH BRAVELY
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America Ready With New Methods to
Combat the Submarines Russian
t Bolshevlkl Fighting All Their
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By EDWARD W. PIOKARD.
The United States sustained Its first
severe blow in (he war on Wednesday,
when the transport Tuscania; carrying
'American troops to Europe, was tor
pedoed oft the north Irish const and
sank in two hours. AJ tno time of
writing tho number, of missing, pre
sumably dead, filoi. Of these 57 were
American ofllcers and enlisted men,
the others being members of the Brit
ish crew. That the losses wero so
Kmall was duo to the excellent work
of the convoying vessels nnd the time
the Tusranln remained afloat.
The fact that such disasters as this
were expected in the process of trans
porting hundreds of thousands of men
to Europe docs not lessen the shock
to the nation or mitigate tho anguish
of the relatives of the victims. But
those relatives have the great consola
tion of knowing that their hoys met
their fate bravely and calmly, as Amer
ican soldiers should, and that they gave
their lives for their country nnd for
civilization as truly as If they had died
on the field of battle. Most of these
troopcts were but partly trained mem
bers of forestry and other contingents
going over to work behind the lines,
but when tho first excitement of the
explosion had passed theso lads, like
veteran soldiers, lined up on tho deck
and sang national airs, while they wait
ed their turns In lifeboats.
Tho sinking of the Tuscania has
nerved to weld tho determination of
the entire nation to see the war
through to a victorious finish. It also
has brought forth the information that
tho American navy, which so far has
been fighting the X7-boats with make
shift devices, is-now about ready to
put Into operation new devices and
methods that, it is confidently believed,
will prove most effective in dealing
with the murderous submarines. Tho
movement of troops to the other side
will not be checked In the slightest by
the loss of this "one transport. Says
Secretary of the Navy Daniels: "Just
as fast as our ships cun carry men to
Europe they will gcv-and Just as fast
as they are equipped they will be Bent,
and ships will carry them, nnd no maa
living will ever again see tho day when
our goods will bo carried across the
Atlantic except in ships flying the flag
of the United States."
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For a hunch that Is determined to
have pence, tho bol6hevlkl of Russia
are getting plenty of fighting theso
days. And according to reports, they
are not getting the best of it. Under
taking to coerce Finland into a revolu
tion like their own In Russia, they and
the Finnish Red guards have been de
feated In long' and bloody battles at
Uleaborg and Tammerfcrs by tho gov
ernment forces commanded by General
Mannerhclm, known as the White
guard, Uleaborg wns tho chief mili
tary depot of the Russians In northern
Finland, and both there and nt Torn
mcrfors tho White guard captured con
,,, sldcrablo Btores of munitions and arms.
Bo far Sweden "has refused to permit
supplies to be sent across the border
to General Mannerhelm, despite the
demands of the Swedish press ami peo
ple. To tho south tho bolshevlkl are fight
ing both the Ukrainians nnd tho Rou
manians In Bcsarabln and apparently
getting well whipped. In one fight tho
Ronmnntans enptured nnd disarmed
two cntlro divisions of Russians. In
western Siberia General Knlcdlnes wns
aid to be working His way toward
Omsk, while farther east another force
of OoEBscks wrifc moving north from
the Chinese1 border to take tho railway.
The Tartars occupied Yalta, in the
government of Tnurlda, and were ad
vancing to Sebnstopol, the great naval
base on the Black sea.
Adding to their own troubles, the
bolshevlkl decreed tho separation of
church and state and seized all church
property for the people, which aroused
the patriarch of Russia to excommuni
cate some of them nnd to call for ii
holy war.
An unconfirmed report Bald Polish
troops hnd captured Mohllev, head
quarters of the bolshevlkl army, and
Jind captured Commander In Chief
Krylcnko and his staff.
A deadlock over the question of the
Ukraine put an end, for the present
ht least, to the peace negotiations nt"
Brcst-Lltovsk. The Germans, It wa"i
said, (hen demanded their terms be ac
cepted nt once, threatening otherwise
to march on Tetrograd. The Rui'stan
soldiers' council nt .Moscow called on
tho government to form n volunteer
socialist army nnd continue resistance.
Meanwhile economic and food condi
tions In Pctrogrnd and other pnrts J)f
Russia are growing- steadily worse.
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It Is quite evldefit' that Trotzky has
been counting on n renl revolution of
the workers of Germany, nnd it Is
equally evident that no such revolution
Is forthcoming In the near future. The
widespread strikes which were hulled
with Joy by the foolishly optimistic
were quickly crushed by the military
power of the government, many of the
leaders forred into the army und the
rank nnd file of the workers driven
back to their Inbor. In this Internal
struggle the Germnn nutocracy seem
ingly did not yield n single point to tho
democracy, though some effect of the
strikes may appear In the future. The
radical leaders In the empire are not
backing water, any moro than arc their
autocratic opponents, nnd the situation
there Is still critical..
As n substitute for the war, cabinet
nndV munitions directorate bills which
ho so firmly opposes. President Wil
son on Wednesdny hud Introduced In
tho senate by Senator Overman n bill
designed to do nway with bureaucratic
inefilclcncy and to give the chief exec
utive vast powers. It wns drafted for
Mr. Wilson by the nttorney general
and authorizes the president during
the war to distribute, co-ordlnnte, con
solidate and otherwise reorganize nny
and nil existing administrative func
tions 'and agencies and create such
new agencies as be deems necessary
for the conduct of the war. He Is also
authorized to transfer appropriations
from one department, bureau or com
mission to any other agency ho may
designate.
Those who support- the measure say
it properly confers on hc president,
as commander In chief of the nation's
armed forces, whatever power he
deems necessary to perform his task
with efficiency. Other congressmen
declnred the bill actually creates a mil
itary dictatorship. There doesn't seem
to be much difference between these
two views.
Ships, ship? and more ships, Is still
tho cry of tho United States and the
entente allies, and nil aro agreed that
ultimate victory hangs largely on the
ability of Americn to turn out the re
quired amount of tonnnge to transport
its troops and the Immense quantities
of food nnd munitions necessary. The
present lack Is not shipyards nnd ma
terial, but Inbor. Alrcndy the govern
ment is operating grent yards on both
coasts, and others arc being rapidly
completed, but even those now In op
eration are working but one shift of
men whore threo should bo worked.
The appcnl for laborers In the yards
Is urgent nnd should meet .with ample
response, not only for patriotic rea
sons, hut for selfish reasons, too, for
tho pay assured Is large. Tho United
States now has in all services about
4,000,000 tons of shipping, approxi
mately one-fourth of which Is engaged
In bringing In materials that havo been
considered Industrial essentials. Tho
government 1b considering n plun to
mnko a CO per cent reduction" In Imports
by eliminating articles thnt arc not es
sential to tho winning of tho war. This
would help some, nnd of course tho
allies can supply n certain nmount of
tonnage, but there will still be left a
wide discrepancy between the availa
ble amount of Bhlpplngnnd the amount
wo must hnve In order that Secretary
Baker's promise of hajf n million men
In Europe by spring and n million nnd
Riveting the keel plntcs Ih our of the
registering of enemy nlleim In Clitvugo.
a half more this year may bo realized.
Mr. Baker was sharply challeng.-d In
regaid to that forecast, ami admitted
that It might not be exact. On tho
other hand, Rear Admiral Harris of
tho natal bureau of yards and docks,
was rather optimistic concerning the
shipbuilding progress stating that un
der favoinl.le conditions the govern
ment would complete this year Its orig
inal program of 0,000,000 tons of con
struction. Chulpunn Flood of the
house foreign affairs committee nlso
added a cheerful note when he said
the United States "will furnish more
men and more money for the war in a
far shorter time thau has been tho
fondest hope of our own people or the
ontlons with which we are assocloted."
Directly connected with the question
of ocean transportation Is the propo
stttou of the British government that
150 buttnlious of Americans be $rnjned
In English camps flo liiey can be hur
ried (o life front In. Flanders and to
the sector held by General Pershing.
This would serve to relieve the exist
ing congestion nt the French ports
where Americans now are debarked.
This and similar plans arc still under
discussion.
Although General Maurice, director
of military operations, says the allies
are still numerically superior pn the
west front nnd havo no feur of the re
sults of the 'expected Germnn drive
there, Great Britain and France ure
urging America to get as many men
ns possible into tho fighting lines.
The Germnn concentration movement
has been going on steadily and tho
German press says nil Is ready to
strike the "blow whenever Hlndenburg
says tho word, nml-that the greatest
battle of the war is nbout to begin.
Hlndenburg himself gave tho world a
laugh the other day when he told a
group of editors that ho would be In
Paris by next April 1.
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noring tho week tho Germans at
tacked tho French rather strongly In
tho Alsne nnd Verdun regions but
were utterly repulsed. All nlong the
west front tho nctlvlty of the aerial
forces reached u high pitch, nn'd the
artillery fighting was continuous. The
American expeditionary force, whose
sector has been revealed as lying east
of St. Mlhlel and north of Nancy, wns
subjected to every form of attack the
enemy could devise, nnd stood It nil
well, replying vigorously and effective
ly. There is no lingering doubt as to
how well nnd bravely Pershing's boys
will fight. The accurate fire of thatr
bntterles Is especially noteworthy.
There ms been little change in the
situation In Italy, the Invaders having
lost ground If anything. The Itallnn
aviators did excellent work In bombing
the enemy's rear lines nnd munition
stntlonsr while the Boche nlrmon de
voted their efforts mainly, nnd chnrac
terlstlcnlly, to attacks on Venice, Trev
Iso, Padun nnd Mestre, where the
greatest damage they coulddo was to
women nnd children, hospitals nnd
architectural trensures.
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Uncle Snm Is putting tho clamps 'on
the enemies within his borders In n
way that probnbly will check their ne
farious operations, In New York
Franz von RIntelcn and six of his fel
low conspirators were found guilty nnd
given tho maximum sentence. Tho en
forced registration of all enemy aliens
wns begun throughout tho country.
Tho government's determination to
keep out-nplcs nnd cpldemlc-cnnslng
germs sent by the Germans was ex
empllfled in tho minute exnmlnntlon
given the passengers and cargo of n
Dutch steamship that urrlved nt New
York. Of necessity most of the, secret
service work of tho government re
mains secret, but Its increasing effec
tiveness becomes apparent.
Milder weather nnd the earnest ef
forts of tho men who run the ratlways
.served to relieve the coal fnmine to n
considerable extent, though fuel condi
tions nre yery bad, especially in the
Atlantic const states. The federal fuel
ndmlnlstrntlon took over tho control
of fuel oil.
Food Administrator Hoover placed
moro stringent restrictions on the use
of wheat and meat throughout tho
country, and oreTorcd all public eating
houses to obsorvo n two-ounce ration
of whent bread. The people ore urged
to make larger use of potatoes In or
der to Rave wheat, the crop of the tu
ber being the biggest the country ever
had.
E TO THE
DEAL FARMER
A Western Canada Crop Estimat
ed at $12,000, Makes
$19,000.
Messrs. Harris1, formerly of Audu
bon, JGwn, wroto tho "Audubon Advo
cate," expressing their satisfaction of
things In Western Canada. They lo
cated at Mnkepettce, Alberta. They
sny there nro tlwso who mnko good,
nnd thoso who fall. Tho former nro
thoso that land agents refer to when
advertising their luml. "But," contln
ucs tho letter, "A great many of tho
farmers In this vicinity pay for their
land with their first crop. A man
nenr hero bought n section of lnnd In
tho year 1015 for $2JJ per ncro. Ho
broko ItOO ncrcs of tho land during tho
summer of 1015. In tho fnll of 1010
ho threhod 10,000 bushels of whent,
which paid for Ills land, nil expenses
nnd hnd n Imlnnco of $1,000. In tho
fall of 1017 he threshed nearly ns
much off the other hnlf of tlru section.
At the present time he would not tnko
$50 per acre for his land.
"We havo Ijad live crops In Albcrtn.
Tho two dry years (1011-1017) our
wheat made 20 nnd 80 bushels to tho
ncro respectively. In 3010 wo raised
60 bushels of wheat to tho ncro on
summer fallow. Tho best results nro
obtained by plowing or breaking In
tho summer, working It down in tho
fnll so that it will retain tho moisture.
Thus farming one-half your ground
each year.
"Persons owning lnnd hero nnd still
living In the States should, If they
don't feel themselves nble to corao up
here nnd finance themselves until they
could get their first crop, get some of
their land broken nndworked down
In tho fall beforo they come. The
next spring they could como and put
In the crop, fence nnd put up their
buildings. This way they hnvo to
wnJt only one summer for their first
crop.
"It is not advisable for a person to
come here in the spring, break out
land nnd put it In crop the first yenr,
because the moisture Is not In tho
ground und a failure is almost cer
tain unless It Is nn exceptionally wet
year. . r-
"One of tho boys from that locality,
Mr. Pcdcr M. Jensen enmo to Alberta
last spring. Ho bought a 80-00 Rum
cly Oil-Pull engine on the 8th dny of
June, 1017. After thnt date he broke
1,100 acres of prairie sod for which
he received nn average of $5.00 per
acre.
"Mn Hansen from your community,
wns"up""here last fall with several
prospective land buyers from that
neighborhood. At that time ho in
quired tho vnluo of tho crop on tho
section we wero fnrmlng. We told
him thnt It would probnbly -mnko fn
tho neighborhood of $12,000. This
Bnmo crop when sold brought nenrly
$10,000. The most of it being sold
when prices were low for tho yenr."
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Maria." "I haven't dear, but she's Just
given It."
Red Cross Ball Blue, nude in America,
therefore the best, delights the housewife.
All Rood grocers. Adv.
Conservation of space Is n good
idea but n mnn doesn't havo to locate
a brcwing-vnt In his stomach.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the
original little liver pills put up 40 years
ago. They regulate liver and bowels. A 4.
A mnn mny make a profltnble busi
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crapes and washes his bnrn.
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The lawyer's version: "Let ino net
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not who writes Its songs."
Alfalfa, $0; Red Clover, $8; Sweet
Clover, $17; Pedigreed Barley, $2. J.
Mulhall, Sioux City, la. Adv.
Try to cast all tho follies of llfo
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hat nnd'tlio pug dog.
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