THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER 4. 1917.
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AUTOMOBILES
ftUTO EXCHANGE CO.,
BARGAINS. '
ltsmambar. w ara tha only m1 car
noasa tbat hu no cara on constmmer.L
no parts, and pay apot eaah for a led earff
Our largs btistnesa enable a to dal
on a very small margin, thua glvtar you
.... w. at Detter prlca than aayona else.
Three Ford tourlnga. aach IH
rard roadster, thoroughly overhauled ZOO
ord touring. lu 50
Ford couDalat. 1917 with lof. tr.
aqulpment m
wvanand touring, electric lights and
'"t" , J00
sulek. Modal 2J, good running order ISO
Bulck T, n,wiy pted 450
Oakland touring, good running order 150
studebaker touring, like new........ tSO
rhalmere touring, Maater Six 450
Hudson Sir, 64, coupe.... 450
Hudson IS, Speedster 16
Maxwell tearing, nearly new J7I
Argo roadster, iwira wheels, new tirea 1
Saon roadster .. 100
Pullman tourlnf, k new 175
Regal touring, elecJk; light and
m.urr z
Saxon Six, touring 450
If you are dissatisfied with your old
car, iraoe it In and get one you can uae.
Make small paymenta each month. We
atore it for you until you want It.
Open Sundayi and evenings.
AUTO EXCHANGE CO.,
Douglaa 0035.
HOT Farnam St.-
IN OUR NEW LOCATION AT
1910 FAK.NAM ST.
. vc oner ine louowini? Darsains
n usea cars.
1911 MltcbeU lis. look and la like
new , 50t
Mitchell limousine, thoroughly
overhauled and new tirea 160
one new Saxon rpadeter, alectrlo
starter and lights S50
1114 Carterear, electrio atarter and
, lljhts ., 200
1914 Briscoe, atarter and lights 160
winter top for Budaon six 64: like
new i IS
Fords Fords Fords Fords
We are thg Used Ford Men
HIT aedan, A. B. C. electrio atarter.
looks and la as good aa new TSO
HIT coupelet. pull atarter ....'500
1(10 coupelet, electrio atarter 471
r HIT touring, good ahape IIS
11 touring, alectrlo atarter, new
tirea SIS
1010 roadster, a good one 385
1911 roadster, worth the money at.. 12S
1914 body; a very good one 12
Come In and Look Them
Over
Tour money back If not eatiafied.
Open Sundays until noon.
TRAWVER AUTO CO.,
1910 Farnam.
Douglas 0070.
QUALITY USED CARS
Studebaker 1917 Chassii ...... ..$450
Studebaker 1917 Landau Road
ster ...... 87S
Studebaker Wilson, Inc.,
Harney 817. Farpan at 25th Ave.
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USED CARS
Hudson super six touring car. $1,200
Paige touring car 800
Interstate touring car 300
ludson 6-40 touring car 750
udson 6-40 limousine 1,250
Hudson auoer sue cabriolet.. 1.650
Drummond touring car 550
Cadillac sedan 750
Hudson luper six speedster.. 1,650
Mitchell touring car ........ 500
Ensrer "12" touring- car ...... 700
Overland touring car . 550
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IN USED FORD CARS
SEE. US
11 9 IT VJptZ WJWTKa CAR, good
ehapt, two extra tirea.
McCaffrey motor co.i
DOUGLAS 1(00. 10TH AND HOWARD.
QUALITY USED CARS
C.'nat.r .1017 iinn rrurk. . .$SS0
Studebaker 35 touring.. 250
Studebaker' Wilson, Inc.,
K Jarnev 817. Farnam at 25th Ave.
AT AUTO TRUCK CHANCE
DEALERS In Nebraska, west
era Iowa, South Dakota, ate., or
good men with a little money
wbo would like to be In the
most attractive and profitable
branch of the automobile busi
ness, can learn ot a great oppor- -tuntty
by getting In touch with
the factory representative of '
"the bestjton truck attachment
on eertb '
ARTHUR W. SHAW, :
Hatel Sanford, Omaha, ..Neb. V
' , USED CAR BARGAINS.
One 1914 Ford Touring car, is fine
condition IJTS
One 1114 Ford Truok, panel box, ISIS
Engine
One 1914 Ford Touring Car ISO
' One Mason. Touring Car, 4-eyltnder,
a good one I ISO
One Maxwell Roadster, In good run-
i nlng order 100
One Maxwell Touring Car, 1917, good
aa new S00
One Chalmers one-ton truck 200
One Overland 191S, run ,100 mllas.
One Peo Touring Car, electrically
- equipped, splendid condition ITS
Four 96x4 H Red Top Ftak. Non-skid
S. 8. tires, good aa new, cheap.
DaitIovi Anfrt TJor4e fn
D, 14. HIS Davenport at.
U. S: Infantrymen Mprching to Front;
. These Boys Were First $w- Trenches
agSaraMjSa . .. M
1 1111 i ...aaMiij. r ), 11lnaasaaae
REED ASKS U.S. TO
TAKE OYER PHONES
Advises Seizure' and Operation
of Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph Company aa
Strike Solution.
GERMAN TROOPS KEPT
MOYIHG DURING WAR
Transferred From One Front to
Another to Meet Forces
Arrayed Against
' Them.
(Correspondence ot The Associated Presa.)
French Front, Oct. 10. A clear
idea of the ebb and flow of the tides
of German forces on the eastern and
western fronts during the various
phases of the war from the opening
of hostilities In 1914 till the begin
ning of September, 1917, is obtained
from carefully compiled information
which the correspondent of the Asso
ciated Press is enabled to transmit.
From this it'is gathered that when
the Germans started the war by in
vading Belgium -they launched 1,190
battalions' of infantry, formed into
96J4 divisions of four regiments each,
on the Franco-Belgian front, while on
the Russian front they employed only
322 battalions, formed into 26 di
visions of four regiments each.
September 1, this "year, they had on
the Franco-Belgian-British front
1,369 battalions, formed into 147 di
visions, some of which were of three
and others of four regiments . each,
while on the Russo-Roumanian front
965 battalions, formed into 92 divir
sions, were in line. It will thus be
seen that the German armies on the
fighting fronts have bee"n increased in
the three years of war from 1,512 bat
talions to 2,334 battalions. ,
Review of Periods.
A review of the different periods
of the war will show how these troops
have Ijeen employed at various times,
according to whether the principal ef
fort of the Germans has been directed
toward the western or the eastern
front ' . . .
In August, 1914 the attention of
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inc uerman ingu cuimuanu w u
sorbed by the attack on Belgium and
France, while the Russian front was
regarded as a secondary occupation.
When the battle of the Yser was
foueht in November. 1914. the Ger-
Imans intensified thoir efforts in .the
west and orougnt upi tneir ertectives
to r higher figure, and at the same
time increased the number of bat
talions on their eastern front so that
they then had 1,293 battalions on the
western front and 399 on the eajtern
front ' '
More Men to Eastern Front
Then came the Russian offensive in
Galicia and to check the Russian ad
vance . toward the German frontier,
Germany was compelled to , throw
pore troops on its eastern front, in
creasing the number of battalions
there in September; 1915, to 780. T(o do
this it was necessary to reduce the
number of German battalions on the
western front from 1,293 to 1,120".
Many divisions were transferred
from the eastern to the western front
when the Germans, gathered their
t i,- t ! r .
lorces zor ine Beginning oi iqc great
battle of Verdun, with the result that
in June, 1916, there were -jl ,376 Ger
man battalions on the western front
and those on the eastern front were
reduced from 780 to 574,
Drive Against Roumania. .
The German drive against Roumania
was made possible by adding more
than 300 battalions to their eastern
battle line, bringing the total on the
eastern front to 899. This was done
without reducing the number of bati
talions on the western front below
1,300.
When the French and British beiran
their great offensive operations in
ulyf 1917, the Germans were com-
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Night and day aervloe. Out of town work
given prompt attention. .
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' REPAIR CO.
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Starters and Generators Repaired.
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lies.
CLOSED CAR WANTED
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QUALITY USED CARS. .
Overland 85.. touring ........$275
Chalmers, 1915 6 ...$650
Studebaker, 1917 4 ..$700
i STUDEBAKER" WILSON. INC,
a Harney 817. Farnam at Z5th Ave.
llll CHEVROLET, , all overhauled
and new tirea izsa
ISIS eeven-pasaenger Hudson... S2S
HIT UaxwelL augntiy usea. .... zt
ISIS Overland, Al condition I6S
LAlao Cars Bougnt ana txenangea. .
tili Harney. iMugiaa bios. (
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XaL Ked. Mi- 1010 Farnaia 8t
i. Tirea and Supplii
GUARANTEED TIRES
, H PRICE.
Made with two old Urea, SOxS, 1110
IOxSH, S7.lt; eixm, $8 15. .
"2-In-l" Vulcaniziug Co.,
15H Davenport St. , Agents Wanted.
Douglaa 1914.
BARGAINS' IN ALL SIZES OF TIRES.
TIRES AND TUBES AT HALF PRICB.
New 10x3 Firestone. 17. 0 30x34, SIS.
New J0xaV4 nonskld Lee or Firestone, 111,
Kalman'a Tire Shop, 1781 Cuming. D. S838,
TIRE prioe wrerkera. Thla Is no 2 In .1 4lre
COMBINATION TIRE FACTORY
HOiH Jackson. Agts. wanted Omaha, Neb.
BUT Lee. Puncture-proof Pneumatic Tirea
ana eliminate your tire trouble. Powell
Supply Co. . 1051 Farnam St
TIRES at half price.
O. & G. Tl-e Co., 2411 Leavenworth St
Tyier izl-w.
Auto Repairing and PaintjngT
EDWARDS. E. S.. JClt N. lth Bt Web.
ster 1102. For beat results with repair
work conrolt ua.
$100 reward for . gneto we can't repair,
Colla repaired. Baysdotfer, 210 N. 18th.
Motorcycles and Bicycles
nan
HARLET-D A V I D O N MOTORCYCLES.
Bargains In nsed Machlnea. Victor H.
Reoa. The Motorcycle Man. 17th and
Leavenworth
pelted to bring, fresh forces to the
western front, increasing their bat
talions there to 1,456, but reducing the
number on their eastern front only to
860. Subsequently the German bat
talions along the Russian battle line
were increase by the addition of
more than 100 battalions, bringing
the total there to 965 September 1 of
this year. These were divided into
92 divisions of three regiments each.
During this movement the battalions
on the western front were reduced to
1,369, divided into 147 divisions and
that is believed to have been the num
ber on the German western front
September 1. These figures do not
include any German troops on gar
rison duty in the interior of the
country nor those maintaining lines
of communication. -
Horse Hospitals at Front
- Urgent Need, British Find
The allies have for months been
buying every good horse they could
get and are still buying in the Amer
ican market. ' v
America has 22,000,000 horses, of
which less than one-fifth are suit
able for war purposes. "With the tre
mendous dra.in on our resources, will
the supply of horses be adequate at
the time when the horse may become
the ' determining factor in the war?
Will battles be lost, will victories be
minimized, will the war be lengthened
because of insufficient mounted troops
to turn defeat into a rout? ask of
ficials of the American Red Star.
Not one ot the nations eneaared in
this war has had an 4rmy veterinary
department big enough to take care
ot the Thousands and thousands and
thousands of horses and mules used
in the war. Fighting units can only
deal with well animals. As soon as
a horse becomes sick, diseased, shell
shocked or wounded, it must be re
moved to the rear and a sound, vigor,
ous .animal sent forward to take "its
place. Hundreds, sometimes .thou
sands of cripples are sent to the rear
in a single day for nursing and treat
ment. Here they will come, into the
hands of army veterinary and Red
Star departments for treatment.
Thousands of animals are in the
hospitals at pne time. Behind the
British 'lines, animal hospitals are
everywhere. The Royal Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
which is the British Red Star, has
hospitals for 10,000 horses and mules.
A field hospital is no mere stable
shack. It is a group of well-designed
buildings, complete with operating
equipment, ambulances, forage barns,
cooking kitchens, quarters for the staff
and every other detail necessaryffor
curing and restoring thousands of in
jured animals. It must have an ample
staff of veterinarians and helpers
not mere stable men but men with
experience in animal hospital work,
men who know their work, who can
bandage a wound or give a hand to
the veterinarian who is performing an
operation.
Hunt for Whale Oil
For Modern Battleships
-News dispatches telling of the re
cent capture of three sperm whales
by Grays Harbor hunters serve as a
reminder that the ancient industry in
whf ling has undergone a noteworthy
revival in the last few years. It is an
interesting fact that this revival has
been due largely to the development
of the battleship, one of the most
modern, creations of man.
Hundreds of whalers from Ameri
can ports sailed the seas, in the times
before the civil war, when whale oil
was used for lighting. The discovery
pf petroleum caused a slump, in the
industry. Historic New Bedford and
Nantucket became the boneyards of a
once mighty fleet, and the race of
hard American mariners developed
by whaling became almost extinct
The old romances passed into tradi
tion. v
But at ships, and particularly bat
tleships, grew in size and number it
was found that for use in certain of
the bearings in their ponderous en
gines there was nothing that would
quite take the place of "case oil,"
found in the head of the sperm whale,
which ia strangely clear and does not
disintegrate under great pressure and
heat So whalers began to take to
the seas again. They are not so
primitive as those of the older genera
tion, but their cargoes are more than
ever in demand. Portland Oregonian.
Keep Live Stock Away ,
From Railroad Tracks
Durmg the twelve months ending
June 30, 1917, the Southern Railway
system alone paid out more than
$200,000 in judgments to farmers for
animals killed on the railroad's right-of-way.
says the Popular Science
Monthly. President Harrison of
that system points out that ifthe
farmers would prevent their animals
from straying over the tracks they
would Jielp solve the war problems.
In the first place, the animals killed
are s total loss as far as the food sup.
ply is concerned. Then, the aum
paid by the railroad in recompense,
even at the present prices of equip,
ment, would buy more than 100 stand
ard boxcars capable of handling at a
single load more than 3,000 tons of
freight, thus tending to relieve the
freight congestion. Here, then, -is a
chance not only for the chuckling
farmer, but for the comic 'artist and
the jokester, to relinquish a source of
income for patriotism. - 1
Omaha Women Will
Double Number of '
Packets For Xmas
Red Cross officials have doubled
the quota of Christmas packets they
wish Omaha women to prepare for
Uncle Sam's men. The call is now
for 4,000 instead of 2,000 packets.
"This, means we will need $2)00
more th'an we originally planned,"
said Mrs. G. A. Meyer of the Red
Cross committee. "We already have
$2,000- on hand, but we estimate the
cost of each packet at $1."
Two installments of packets have
already been shipped. Nine hundred
left Omaha Friday and 500 the day
before. ,
There, is no doubt that Omaha
package's will be among those sent
to France, as their work is the 'first
to go out.
.Donations of chocolate and tobacco
are especially requested by the com
mittee. World's Coffee Mart
Shifts to United Stales
The people of the United States are
the largest consumers of coffee in the
world, the bulkvof our supply coming
from Latin America. Of the 747,000,
000 pounds of coffee exported from
that territory ' in 1042 our country
bought 385,000,000. During the same
period our purchases from Europe
amounted to 39,000,000, of whicH Bel
gium shipped 26,000,000, all of which
came from her African possessions.
while we obtained 81,600,000 pounds.
from Central America and the West
Indies and 17,000,000 more pounds
from Asiatic countries.
The European war brought about a
remarkable development in the coffee
trade with this country; foY in 1916
European shipments of coffee to our
shores dropped to less than 800,000
pounds, our direct purchases from
Latin America and the West Indies
reaching the enormous total of 1,156,
000,000 pounds. Re-exports of coffee,
which in 1912 amounted to lesa than
4,500,000 pounds, were nearly 70,000,
000 pounds in 1916.
Prior to the trouble in Europe Ham.
buifc and Havre were the two great
coffee markets of the world, both re
ceiving goods from the growers of
all the world, and storing them in
wonderful warehouses to ,be re-exported
according to trade require
ments. Today both these markets are
totally eliminated and it is within our
power to dominate the coffee trade of
the future. , ;
Conditions for this are ideal. In
the first place no duty is charged on
coffeelmported into the United States.
Secondly,- we are .well situated, geo
graphically, to become the distributing
center for this staple for the western
hemisphere and should be the middle
men ,for this line for the bean grown
in South and Central .America and
the West Indies. Furthermore our
larger ports have many merchants
handling this article exclusively.
Leslie's Weekly.
San Francisco Nov. 3, Govern
ment seizure and operation of the
Facific Telephone and Telegraph
company was recommended by Ver
ner Z. Reediii a telegram sent to Sec
retary of Labor Wflsoii last night
Reed, federal mediator in the tele
phone strike, acknowledged failure to
settle the controversy, N which has
partially disorganized service in the
Pacific northwest and threatened to
spread to California.
Striking employes in various Wash
ington and Oregon cities of the Pa
cific Telephone and Telegraph com
pany were expected to vote today on
the question of returning to work .as
ordered by flieir district council, to
await settlement of the situation by
the government. In Portland, how
ever, the strikers at a meeting last
night decided that they wonl ' not re
turn unless the government took over
the company's plants.
Commandeering of the plants was
recommenced yesterday by V, Z.
Reed, federal mediator here, to Sec
retary of Labor Wilson, now at Bis.
bee, Ariz. It is understood that Sec
retary Wilson and other members of
the federal industrial commission will
soon reach San Francisco to in
vestigate: Films Influence Fashions
Just as the Stage Did
The stage in its palmiest days, even
its most gorgeous costuming, never
had a tithe of the influence' on fash
ions and manners that the film shows
are having. This may be due to the
vastly larger patronage of the "mov
ies" or to the more realistic, every,
day environment staged . by the
camera. Street, scenes, outdoor films
shows the world as it is, people as
they pass, a snapshot of life. Young
persons of an impressionable, imita
tive mind discover a favorite movie
model and unconsciously or con
sciously develop a similar pose. Their
way of wearing their hair, their
clothes, their mannerisms are more
or less reproduced in countless homes.
Somebods curl, somebody'i shrug,
is duplicated on every street It is
so easy for the imaginative to fancy
themselves amid the same surround
ings, in street, pr house, or garden,
looking like Mary thi$or Lucy that.
ine oia-ume pnoiograpn wun me
set stare caused by looking at the
birdie," the matrimonial couple with
her hand on his shoulder, are going,
too, thanks to the "movies." The
growth of amateur photography had
developed the natural background and
the natural pose, but the motion pic
ture film completed the revolution.
Nowadays the demand is for pictures
with action, with life, iirtead of the
wooden faces and figures- of other
days. It is not enough to have the
subject but the environment must bt
in keeping. The same insistence on
natural background is being felt in
film making. A pictorial photograph
ers' association is now reported pre.
paring reels in which nature will be
dominant, where the camera is ex
pected to telj a story as plainly as the
brush or pencil of the artist Pitts
burgh Dispatch, ,
Logan Y. M. C. A. Workers
Organize Campaign
Logan, la,, Nov. '.(Special.)
According to latest reports attorneys
for the defense in the Havner case are
as follows: James Parsons, Des
Moines; Mike Heeley, Fort Dodge;
J. J. Hess, Council Bluffs; S,H. Coch
ran, W. I. Wolfe, W. P. Welch, C. A.
Bolter, John A. Murry, Loganj J. S.
Dewell and C. W. Kellogg, Missouri
Valley
Defense Witnesses in N
j Havner Case Announced
Logaft, la., Nov. 3. (Special.)
Promoters of the Young Men's Chris
tian association benefit tor soldier
boys in camp will hold a meeting here
Monday evening, November 5. Eight
thousand eight hundred dollars is
wanted and a canvass of the county
will be made' in the near future.
GENERAL WHO 13 FORCING
BACK THE ITALIANS.
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READY FOR THE HUN RAIDER Here is a bombproof
shelter built by Londoners, constructed of reinforced concrete
3 feet thick. The roof of steel girderi is further protected
with sandbags. '
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RN. OTTO BEXOW. ..'
Genera! Otto von Below, who is
directing the Teutons in the counter
drive against the Italians.
Austro-German forces claim more
than 100.000 prisoners and 700 euns.
The Italians have retreated .from
their hard-won positions.
home of Oetieral Fensluiig s troops
on the way from their training camp
to take their places in the front line
trenches for the first time. The
Americans have been assigned to a
quiet sector of the front until they
become accustomed to trench condi
tions. The bova shown in the" photo
graph are fully efluipped with every
modern convenitnee and necessity fo;
trench warfare, from steel shrapnel
helmet to trench boots.
Some of General Perishing s field
artillery leaving a French village for
the front. American artillery was re
cently in Action against the enemy
for the first time. Our bova are now
ready for the real work of war aftet
State Has Right
To Re-Lease School
Lands, Says Court
Lincoln, Nov. 3.(Special Tele
gram.) The state's contention that it
has the power to re-lease the mineral
rights on school lands was sustained
in a district court decision here today
when the Swan Lake Ranch com
pany's suit to enjoin F. A. Cumbow
from using Cherry county school
lands was denied. '
The Swan Lkt Ranch company
was given the agriculture and grazing
rights for certain school lands in
Cherry county. Later, F. A. Cumbow
was iven the mineral and potash
rights. The ranch company contended
agriculture lease covered the mineral
rights and that the state overstepped
its prerogative in issuing a second
lease. i
It has been the state's contention
that it has the right to issue the two
leases and this contention was sustained.
Sailors Display Heroism ,
Facing U-Boat Attacks
(Corraspondanc ot Th Associated Presa.)
London, Jfilv 15.Germanya pres
ent method of sea warfare is one of
dspair, declared Admiral Sir John
Jellicoe, first lord1 of the British ad
miralty, in a public address the other
day. f'The navy, assisted by the other
allies, is doing its best and right well
is the American navy helping us," he
continued. "Even the admiralty is do
ing its best, assisted by a good deal
of criticism."
r Admiral Jellicoe was speaking at a
meeting held to inaugurate & move
ment to establish a fund for sailors
to be called "King George's Fund for
Sailors," under the presidency of
Acfing Lieutenant Prince George,
Faying a warm tribute to the Brit
ish merchant marine, the admiral said
the sailor never knew a moment when
the ship might not be sunk under him
and he very seldom saw the enemy
which sank him. At the best he took
rb the boats often 100 to 200 miles
from shore and often underwent ter
rible experiences because the enemy
shelled the boats frequency after the
men got into them, The only effect
of that treatment on the British
sailor was to make him keen to get
back to sea again to have a chance
of getting his own back again.
Sir John gave some instances of the
spirit which he said animated the sail
ors of the mercantile marine. Among
them were the following:
The Anglo-Californian wai at.
tacked and shelled for two" and a half
hours by a submarine. After the at
tack had lasted one and t half hours
and thship had been hit frequently,
the captain decided that any attempt
to save his vessel was hopeless. As
it was being abandoned he inter
cepted a wireless message from a de
stroyer ordering him to hold on as
long as possible. The captain and
the ship'a company promptly vent
back to their vessel. The submarine
contnued to (hell the ship, the mas.
ter and eight hands were killed and
seven of the crew were wounded, but
the ship returned to port.
The steamer Palm Beach was at
tacked by a submarine and hit in sev-
erat places, and two members of the
crew were injured. A young appren
tice who was wounded remained at
the wheel throughout the attack and
refused to leave his post, and the ves
sel was brought in in safety.
She was. later armed with a gun and
sank one of the two submarines which
attacked her.
In the Adriatic recently three Aus.
trian cruisers came up to one of the
drifters named Gowan4ee, and sum
moned her to surrender. The captain,
with a six-pounder gun, engaged the
cruisers and brought his ship away
in safety. One of the deck hands had
his leg shattered, but continued to
work and fire his gun throughout the
action. ' .
Old-TimFavorite Pocket-
v Knife of the Jackies
'Occasionally we come across some!
article of manufacture which has Deen
improved upon year after year, only
to return again to its original state
as the most desirable. Thia ia true
of the pocket knife. You will find
it in small degrees of perfection and
ornamentation, but the style most ap.
proved at the present moment is that
of the old navy knife Invented no
one knows how long ago.
Persistent AdyerjtjUwg ! the Road
FIRST ANALYSIS OF r
. U. S.JMRTH RATE
Initial Report of Census Bureau
Presents Important Datam
Nation's Assets; Limited '
Area Covered.
American Medicine publishes a
short analysis of a report on births in
the United States as issued by the
Bureau of Census, showing a com
parison of births and infant mortality
with those of several other countries.
The publication of this initial report,
the writer says, places the. statistical '
method of recording the assets and ,
liabilities of the nation upon a rational
foundation. He sayS:
"For the first time in the history of
the United States authorative official
figures on birth have been issued by
the Bureau of Census. There is a
certain feeling of pride in this accom
plishment. Although the collection
of birth statistics was authorized in
lSOJ, the census bureau only recently
felt sufficiently convinced of the rea
sonable completeness and accuracy of
birth registration to define a registra-
tion arra for births. iThis now corn
prises, the six New England states.
New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan
Minnesota, and the District of Colum
bia. While only 10 per cent of thft,
total area of the United States ia cov
ered, it contains-an estimated popula
tion approximately Jl per cent that ot
the country.
"According to the figures of 1915
there was a birth rate of 24.9 pef "
thousand population. The death rate
for the same area during the same
year was 14 per thousand. It is patent
that the birth rate increased the pop
ulation Of the country during? the year
at the rate of 109 per thousand.
"An analysis of figures makes it ap
pear that more births occur annually
among white, foreign-born married
women proportionately to their num
ber than among white married women 1
of native stock. This further cor
roborates the various figures that have
been presented ihowing the greater
fecundity of foreign mothers over
native women.
"While men are being taken from
the general population it is a matter
of serious importance to realize that
while there are 1,055 male births to
each 1,000 female births, the infant
mortality of males was HQ as against
89 for female infants.
"A comparison of the birth rate of ,
the United States birth registration
area with official statistics for birth
in foreign countries is fraught with
considerable significance in view of
the effects of sustained military ef
forts. - - ,
. "In the United States (1915) there
were 178 births per 100 deaths. In
the Australian commonwealth (1914) ;
the figure was 267, in Austria (1912)
152, Belgium (1912) 152, the United.
Kingdom (1914) 167, German empire
1912), 182, France viu) JU8i xtaiy
169, The Netherlands UV14)
ew Zealand (1914) 279, Russia
1912
(1915
227, N
fl909) 152. Sweden (1912) 168.
"It is interesting to note that Rus
sia with a birth rate of 44 had an in
fant mortality record of 248 per thou
sand, while The Netherlands, where
birth control is an accepted insitu
tion, had a birth rate of 28.2, but an
infant mortality-rate of only 95. The ,
birth rate ot t ie united states oi 4.y
was accompanied by an infant mortal ,
ity rate of 100, while New Zealand
with a birth rate of 26, had the ex
ceedingly low infant mortality rate of
51. The birth rate of the' United
States ia not high and would be very
much lower were it not for the ben---efits
derived from the immigrant con.
stituents in our population..
"The death rate is low, though not
as low as that of Australia, Denmark,
The Netherlands, New Zealand, Nor
way or Ontario. The United State!
death rate it exceeded in Belgium,
EVanoa Tfalu Aii.trii.Trimcrarv Sw.
den-," Switzerland and the United
Kingdom, though possibly more re
cent figures for these countriei would
alter the facts, as at o resent recorded.
"The statistical methojd of record
ing the assets and liabilities of the na- :
tion is now placed on ji rational foun
dation. The compilation of birth sta
tistics is a marked step in advance .
and enables those interested to un
derstand the vital resources of the
Uountry mora intelligently. From this
beginning it is to be hoped that our
annual report will evidence marked
progress in the development of the
birth registration area.
"The creation of this area for official
birth itatistks for the first time re
flects credit upon' the states within its
border and discredit upon those
which still lack sufficiently complete1
registration returns to be accepted as
base for determinfr.g figures of the
Census Bureau."
Hubrecht Says Fear Not , .
Cause of Larger putch Navy
(CorrasBondsnca ot Tha Associated Preaa.)
Tokio, July 20. "It is not because
of fear of Japan or any other particu- N
lar nation that the Dutch govern.
ment recently voted to increase its
naval forces for the protection of .
Holland's nossessions in the Orient."
was the statement attributed to J. B.
Hubrecht, newly arrived secretary of
the Holland legation, in an interview,
published here. . ,
"I can assure you," continued Mr.
Hubrecht, "that the popular -sentiment
of my country toward Japan
is .genuinely friendly, and the desire
Is strong to see the economic and
commercial relationship between Ja
paif and the Dutch East Indie4e
come tighter. The open door ia the
policy of Holland in developing those
possessions and Japanese capital il
welcomed just as equally as French,
British, American or any other.
He concluded: "With the tremen
dous commercial .interests and the
enormous amount of capital invesTtd
'not only by Holland but by othef
countries as well.Nhose islands call
for sufficient protection. The present
war has taught a lesson that even a
small country needs to show that it
is prepared. Holland feels that it
is bound by the universal1 code of
ethics and political honor to do all it
can to safeguard the interests of those
possessions which ire of great wOrfh
to all the countries of the world,, and
to .help the Japanese to develop into
a atrong and capable people."
Great War Library
Will Be Established
London, July 15.The National War
Mueeum, which the government : ia
creating, is to have a great war
library. The literature of the war had
grown to such an extent that a library '
of 20,000 to -40,000 volume would '
scarcely W.mM&W&I!l
