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/i. 7 .• ii 7l"Vf SATURDAY* JULY 2fll IMS. IgfD Of YANKEES SokHers Over There Must Be Given Mental and Physical Diversion. WAR IS MOST DEPRESSING Standard Oil Official Who Hat Been Serving as Y. M. C. A. Secretary $aya 8oldiera Must Be Saved From Going Insane. New York.—"If the United States Is to be cpared the harrowing experi ence of haying thousands of American soUUers returned home because of mental derangements, this country oiuet provide for more physical and mental recreation for our. boys over seas." That's the message which Herbert L. Pratt, vice president of the Standard Oil company, brings to the American people after spending seven weeks In France as a Y. M. C. A. secretary, and who while there was plven opportun ity to see just what is infant by war. "During the first 18 months of the war there were as many English and Canadian soldiers returned to England because of mental derangements as there were because of wounds," said Mr. Pratt. "The United States must profit by the experiences of our allies and must plan now to enlarge our fa« cillties overseas for taking care of our men when not actually fighting. The American soldier is naturally higher strung than any of the allied soldiers. He's always on his'toes. He's ever ale^t. Always ready to go. He's a dynamo of energy. And when he isn't actually fighting he seeks an outlet for that energy and it is of vital impor tance that his energies be directed rightly,, War Is Depressing. "The war is most depressing. One who rubs against tlie realities of war Is overwhelmed by its seriousness. One marvels at what the yien have endured and what they are accomplishing. The war overshadows everything else. And that's all the more reason "why every thing that will result in cheering up our. men should be done now: A great deal is being tfqnp but a lot more must be done. "I wish I could describe, just how the. war affects one wlio comes in con tact with it. He feels aJl pent up. His emotions seem all bundled to gether. And naturally he seeks relief. He welcomes the smile, the laugh, the warm handshake, tlie word of good cheer. Good cheer! Ah, that's It. Jt's the 'cheer-up' mess^eis^neeued overseas. "Don't think our boys are down hearted or that they are discouraged. Just the opposite is true. Their morale Is excellent. Their spirits are high their courage Is just what it ought to be and they are absolutely confident. But they wyint that bit Of cheer which makes them forget some of the cruel tie^ of war. And we folks at home must see that they get' it. "General Pershing has commissioned the Y. M. C. A. to provide for the physical and mental recrention of the American soldiers and sailors overseas. The association has been given a great big job and in spite of most perplex ing difficulties has been doing {splendid ly. But the great need today is for men, great, big, two-fisted, red-blooded men who are capable of tackling a great big man's job and getting away with it big. Has a Hard Job. "Serving as a 'Y. M.' secretary in Prance Is a hard Job. The hours are long. The hardships are xpany. And Ihe responsibilities are tremendous. It isn't merely a case of selling cigarettes 1 or chocolate. That's merely incidental to the big work which is being done. The 'Red Triangle' man is the soldier's pal. And a good pal must always be there with vf. smile or a word of cheer or a wann handclasp or just whatever it is that is needed. This may sound easy but it's not. It's a hard job. "The American people must wake lip to this genuine need for big men to serve as 'Y. M.' secretaries overseas. They must realize that this service is of the greatest importance to the American soldier and sailor. It's what so frequently makes a soldier on the rerge of breakdown because of nerv ous strain, a soldier fit for service." WOMAN SAVES AUSTRIAN BY TALK FROM WINDOW Berkeley Springs, W. Va.— Mrs. Annie Ambrose, a leader in war activities! here, by a great patriotic speech dispersed a .drunken mob that appeared be fore het^ house demanding that one of her boarders, a natural ized American of Austrian birth, fly an American flag from his window. Standing at a second story windo^ the woman So ha rangued the men that they de parted. Ga« Mask* in China.. San Francisco.—Passengers on, Oil* nese railways are being furnished gas masks as a protection against Infec tious plagues in certain districts, ac cording to Capt H. Loeber, U. 8. R., who has itfeen^ here en route from China to Washington. CATARRH of the BLADDER relieved in 84 HOURS Each Cap- aula bears the (MIDY) name MSf \_S Bewetregeovniergte NORTH stutnU WHERE HUNS HIT NEXT' lurtliil Cwmmiaa German aviators have dropped a note into an American avia tion camp confirming the death-offcieutenantQuentin Roosevelt All indications point to the fact that the failure of their at tacks against the Franco-Amer ican lines- east and west of Rheims will cause the Germans to shift their next blow toward Amiens qnd make another lunge for the channel ports. This battle is still in progress along the Marne, but it is be lieved that Hindenburg has been convinced that he cannot b?eak through as he did in his fqur previous offensives, and has called a halt on the drive. The large map shows the gains made by the Germans on Monday and Tuesday, their greatest extent not exceeding fivie miles. The smaller map at the bottom is a close-up of the front between Rheims and Mas siges. GREAT BATTLE PENDING ALONG THE AISNE-MARNE HUN HOLD WEAKENS (Continued Prom Page One.) indications, however, wdre that the day would be one of excep tional heat. 200,000 AMERICANS ENGAGED Washington, D. C., July 20.—Six of General Pershing's divi sions, or about 200,000 American troops, are fighting with the French in the present Marne district. General March today advised members of the military committee At their weekly conference. The Franco-American offensive will continue as long as it is pos sible to force the Germans back, General March stated. General March told the senators also that the Germans had been preparing for an offensive against the British to the north of.the present battle front to be simultaneous with their offen sive againstnthe Francos-Americans ffli Allied military opinion is unanimous that' thq German offen-f sive movement has been completely stopped. BRING UP 100,000 RESERVES Paris, July 20.—The Germans have been forced to bring up one hundred thousand reserves to the armies after the fighting yesterday, says Marcel Hutin, in the Echo d'Paris. LUEDENDORFF PROMOTED Paris, July 20.—General Luedendorff, who up to July 17 hac borne the title of quartermaster general of the German army, has received in the German official statement the title of chief of gen eral staff. MAKE SLIGHT PROGRESS London, July 20.—French troops on the Soissons front have extended their advance from Monte de Paris, southwest, of the city of Belleau, a town southeast of Soissons. The number of prisoners taken in the Franco-American offen sive now has reached 18,800. On the Rheims front the French forces have advanced for a distance'of 1,000 yards between Souain and Auberivg. The French also made slight progress near Pourcy. AMERICANS GAIN MILE With the American Army, Between the Aisne and the Marne, July 20.—American troops participating in the Franco-Amer ican advance late today of about a mile and a quarter on the Cha teau Thierry front went forward against strong machine gun fire over ground covered with German dead. From a hill east of Dpmmiers, about'six kilometers southwest of Soissons, the correspondent on Friday saw the Ameripans going into action. The advance was well organized and the system worked well from one end of the line to the other. From a barrage fire of 75's and 155's American machine gun ners advanced through ripening grain fields and reached their objectives according to schedule,- despite the fire of the German machine guns. The Americans started from a point just west of the Paris Soissons road, advancing nearly a kilometer before the Germans began to reply with their big guns to the American barrage. A few tanks were here and there preceding the infantrymen. As the Americans progressed the enemy barrage fire increased. MILE ADVANCE Paris, July 20.—The French advanced on an average of one mile on a 20-mile front between noon, yesterday and nine last night. EXTREME HEAT GIVES GRAINS ANOTHER BLOW Wheat and Flax Greatest Suffer ers from Ardent Rays of King Sol Reports reaching Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor Hagan during the last few days have shown a mark ed improvement in crops throughout the state, thanks to local rains. This betterment has been largely discount ed, however, by the extremely hot weather of the! last two days. Friday afternoon at 2 the mercury stood at 94. In some parts of the state tem peratures of 98 have been reported. This extreme heat is not beneficial to any crop except corn, of which there is a comparatively small acreage this year. Winter rye generally is so far along that the heat will only hasten its ripening, but much of the wheat which had shown gains as a result oC the recent rains has suffered anotheD setback, and the same is true of oats. Flax, just bursting into bloom, is wilt ing badly, and if the heat continues another 48 hours without rain there will be a heavy loss. BUY W. S. S. Tribune Want Ads Bring Results. FOR SALE—Residence. Six rooms and bath. Lawn, trees, shrubbery etc. Owner leaving city. Address Box 255 Elsmarck, N. D. 7 19 6t BUY W. S. S FOR RENT OR FOR SALE—On easy terms. Six room house, 700 Han nifan street, cor Ave. C, with full basement. Electric lights and fur nace. Apply Commercial'club or ad dress Minora Gartel, Bismarck, N. iDak. 7 19 to 26 -BUY W. S. S.- WA'XTED—Lady student wants place to work for board and room. Busi ness College, Phone 183. 7 19 2wk BUY W. S. S. HAVING BEEN CALLED for service in the army, will sell my 8-cylinder 7-passenger Cole automobile, A1 con dition, at a great sacrifice. Dr. A. M. Fisher, Bismarck, N". D. 7 19 1 wk -BUY W. S. S. FOR RENT—Five room house corner Sweet street and Fifth street. Ap ply at 3ussner's. 7 19 5t -BUY W. A S.- FOR RENT—iFurnished apartments for gentlemen. Apply at Gussners. 7 19 5t -BUY W. S. S.- FOR RENT—Two modern houses. Al so furnished rooms for light house keeping or otherwise if desired. Phone 404K or call 301 4th street, or inquire of Geo. W. Little, Second Hand store. 7 20 tl *1 ':^"XP'R' WJ-W*. R«R •:. -«.'•.•• BISMARCK DAlLYTftlBUNE tOUNTY AGENTS SHY AT FIXING OF FARM WAGES Slope Agricultural Experts Ad mit the Proposition Is Skittish Que DISCUSSES HELP PROBLEM Sjope agricultural agents, assembled here in regional conference this week, were introduced to the farm labor wage fixing problem, said "Howdy do," and then begged to be excused. It was a proposition which they de clined to emorace with any enthus iasm, and it was tl^e general verdict tnat the question was one which should be left to each community to decide for itself. As a result thore will be no attempt to fix a uniform farm labor wage scale for the whole slope. Fifty per cent of the Slop.j counties reported that owing to the li?ht crop they could handle the harvest with their farm labor reserve, without out side assistance. The reniauihul fifty per cent reported they must have out side help in numbers ranging from 100 to 500. This outside help will he handled so far as possible through the government free employment bu reaus. A labor secretary will be nam ed in each town to cooperate with tne federal bureaus. While prospects for a light crop in the western half of North Dakota have somewhat simplified tho labor problem, the 1918 harvest will present unusual difficulties, in the opinion of the state's county agricultural agents To insure the saving of every bus^ei, of grain no able-bodied man or boy can be spared during harvest, except to the most essential industries, de clare the county agents. North Da kota will need, they believe, a volun teer army of at least 50,000 workers, and the cities and towns must furnish these workers. Because this volun teer help will be inexperienced and un trained to a large extent, the supply must be twice as large as would be required were drilled farm hands available.* Beginning next Monday, 3,000 :North Dakota select service men, probably fifty per cent of whom are actual farnt ers, will be entrained for Camp Custer, Mich. During August it is antitcipat ed that as many more will be taken, and the August calls must be fillea aimost entirely with farmers who have had deferred classificatins because of their occupations. The class one men in a number of agricultural counties already are exhausted. Governor •Frazier and Commissioner of Agricut "ture Hagan have impressed upon Pro vost Marshal General Crowder the im portance of deferring these calls to insure the proper harvesting of the 191$ crop. Provost Marshal General Crowder's reply to them has been tho pme that he previously had made to other states: "The most important* thing is the war—it must come first." The Slope's w,heat yield probably will not exceed seven bushels to the acre. Winter rye also will be light In the western half of the state, and the oats yield is still in doubt. With in experienced Jielp, however, the county agents estimate that as many men will be needed to harvest the prospective 90,000,000-bushels of wheat estimated for tbis year as were required to care for the state's great 159,000,000 bush el crop in 1915. The wage question is as vexing as that of labor Itself. It is probable that few harvest Hhndii will be found at less than .forty, eonls an hour, and states to the south of North Dakota already are paying fifty cents and better. An attempt will bp made to find an equitable oasis for wage fixing, but the county agents are anprqaching this subjeci with more hesitancy. BUY W,- S. S. THREE COUNTS DISMISSED IN WISHER'S CASE (Continued From Pag« One.) boro, assistant district attorney, op ening for the government. Judge Carmody commented upon ex-, tract from the book which he declared disloyal and seditious. Ife stated that the tenor of the whole volunie was to build up distrust of the French and British and to inculcate confidence in Germany. Many of tb« statements made as to the accomplishments of the Germans in America were noi true, said counsel. He declared the Germans were not pioneers in Ameri ca tp the extent which was true of the British, the French the Swedes and one or two other nationalities. He admitted that Germans had fought in the revolution, but he recalled the fact that ihe hired killers of George of Hesse were there as well as Baron Von Steuben, and he declared the services of Baron von Steuben' in no particular eclipsed those- of LaFayette. Kosciusko, DeKalb and Pulaski. He commented upon the fact that Wishek had been a subscriber to the Vaderlandj that, ne alleged, Wishek TO HOLDERS OF BONDS ul your Liberty Bond Coupons for the purchase of War Sayings Stamps Your Interest Will itofrn In terest and Keep at Work for the Nation. WS.S. wiflimiuiM 1J«UCC VT TNI VNITCD STATU OOVEKNMENT had told one of the witnesses that Custer was a German and that be cause of this fact ly» whs* not promot ed JM he should .have been, 'but wa^ sertt by» here to be killed by the Siojix at Little Big orn.' He recalled the' testimony of government witness es \vno had stated that Wishek told therii ne wo^ld not support a govern meQt which entered a wy in opposi tion to the wishes of its people, and that Wishek had said that he would not buy Liberty bonds because, he had a better use for his money. Judge Carmody in the course of his argumeqt introduced a photograph of the Wishek bank at Ashley which he stated showed two crosses which were the typical German variety. Counsel for the defense Interjected the sugges tion that the "Germans had no mon opoly on the cross of Christ." Objec tion was made to rthe exhibit, but it was allowed to go in. -BUY w. r. GROVE TEAM IS HANDED DEFEAT IN SECOND GAME rck Avenges Defeat at the Hands of Ancient Rivals !on July 4th The Grove team met defeat at tho hands of the Bismarck team in the second game of the present series, Thursday evening at the ptnitontiary the score being 11—7 In the iirst game played on Jply 4 the Grove team triumphed to the tune of 7-4. Peltier and Noah formed the Grova battery with Keenan, Olson,'' Manley and Wald en, performing for the Bistnarckers. •Peoples and Noah did the heavy hit ting for the Grove team. Olson and Walden made a field da/ of the occa sion each garnering five hits two Waldens going the high and dry rouie over the wall. Score by innings: Game called in the'eighth on ac count of darkness.'. Bismarck.....V,: 3 2 0 0 1 2 0 3—11 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 3 7 Monday evening at 7 o'clock the two teams will meet in fie "ruller" game of the series at the Capitol ball park. Admission will be 25c, the proceeds to go -to the Red Cross. A fast gan"3 is assured as Bismarck now has the fastest strictly amateur team it has ever boasted of. Batteries for Monday: Grove—Pel tier and iNoah Bismarck—Olson and Walden. BUY W. S. 5.— SWISS ARREST 214 SPIES IN ONE TQWN (By Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n.) Geneva, JuW 20—Switzerland is de termined to gnd the Teutonic spy sys tem. In one town alono 214 Austrian and German ?spies were arrested iu the course of eleven weeks. BOY W. S. S. Tribune Want Ada Brin" Result* HOW TO FISH A secret I have kept for years of an Old Indian Chief and how he fed his Tribe on Fish. He was offered a for tune for this secret which jiever be came known until his death. The high cost of living lias Induced me to reveal it. Write for particulars, Mr. Heare, 706 Union Bank Bldg., Chi cago, 111. 7-*#-2Q-22 smssssasBsm HEREisnew BIG BRITISH BUY W. S. S. CLASS 1 WILL PROVIDE ARMY OF 500,000,00 MEN (Continued From Page One.) is uncertain, but it is expected that the number would equal those be tween 21 and 31. At least 3,000,000 class 1 men would be added, it is reas onably certain. Although the percent age of deferred classifications among men from 31 to 45 would be greater than the present average, because of family dependency and industrial grounds, the percentage of those from 18 to 21 would foe higher than the F. A. LAHR, President. Battle War light on tire prices, old. and new. War lias sent all prices higher. But Goodrich Tires have respond ed least to the rise. /l- Af gjancc j|t. Qopdrich tire.prices .fit rf^ifor"nine years reveals a pleasing |^''MV ^'|^urinse to tire users. ..Goodrich tires are not costly fpr war times, or any other time. This year's increase of Goodrich tire prices is far below general price increases. THE B. F. GOODRICH RUBBER COMPANY Fargo Braqch: 12-14 Roberts St., Fargo, N. D. YEARLY PRICES 34X4 SIZE 9\ \. yj SUNK BY SUB •New York, July 20.—The BrHi«h transport Carpatria, 13,603 t^ns gross, has been sunk by a German submar ine off the Irish coast whilo outwafti bound from a British port, it was, learned here today. No lives were IOBV so far as is known. Prior to the war she \yas engaged in trans-Atlantic ser vice. For several months tlie Carpathian had been used as an American troop transport. FIRST GUARANTY BANK CAPITAL $50,000 Upper Fourth St. THE THE CITY OF GOODRICH AKRON, OHIO. average, because theae 4n few cases hav® est»llisbed fulilr ties. This extension of the draft, then, would provide a total Qlasq 1 of morq than 6,000,000 men—probably n&arer 7,000,000. until plau 1 ia e^haMtedj,. ho cal|« wi'l bp npada up.o deferred claim for any fiahtino tpoopf. When 6lass ib any district i» Musted' no more callB will be made up on that district for combatant troths so long as these is a Class. 1 milk available anywhere in the country.' For certain NON-COMBATANT units, where men of special tririntqg'Qr skill are required, and sucK mehttfe not to be found among Class trants. then—and only then—Are tWe deferred classes called upon." We number of these specialista J^lh deferred classes has been very 'stqfll- There is to be a thorough reach ing of the deferred classes, ana Mini*, persons who were granted slassiflca tions in Classes 2 and 3 may And themselves reclassified in Class 1 and called to camp. But in the, maiu tjje original classification \yill hold. -, BUY W. S. S. Tribune Want Ads Bring Results. J. B. HALLORAN & CO. I N S A N E Service und Protection fa liranchcs Phone 90 llismarck Bank Building BISMARCK, N. D. DEPOSITS Guaranteed fit fi-iV Vjj 1 The deposits of Jhis Bank are now guaranteed under the'laws of the State of North Dakota. We believe the citizens will appreciate the addi tional security we can offer as a STATE BANK. We will pay SIX PER CENT on our certificates of deposits for TWELVE MONTHS FIVE PER CENT for SIX MONTHS. E. V. LAHR, Cashier. Opp. Grand Pacific Hotel RUN Yoq'can buy Goodrich tires 35 per cent less than you paid for tires nine 'years ago. And remember with Goodrich prices you get the sure, full value service of GOODRICH SERVICE VALUE TIRES, J. That is, the maximum of easy rid ing comfort, gasoline economy, and prolonged mileage -r in service on your car and on the road. It is gpod war cconomy to buy GOODRICH SERVICE VALUE TIRES. cr