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l. %tii- r. TWO I I. I? J*. RUSS INDUSTRY IS STABILIZING GERMANS HOLD Workmen Regulating Factories, Says Berlin Dispatch CONTRASTING PICTURE Another Hun Writer Asserts Economic Chaos Still Prevails Amsterdam, August 17.—Two di vergent articles in the German press on the situation in Russia give a con trasting picture of economic condi tions there and seem to indicate that confusion prevails in Germany, as well as in the allied nations regard ing the actual state of affairs. The Berlin Tageblatt gives a rosy picture of Russian economic condi tions, declaring the workers every where are obeying orders of their superiors and regulating industry. There are now three types of fac tories in Russia, asys the Tageblatt those still privately owned, whose sur plus earnings are turned into the pub lic treasury those that have been turned over to the public, but are operated by local councils of working Imen those now public property, in which operations have lieen central ized for the whole nation. Shut SO Payer Mills. To this third group belong paper mills, sugar mills and tobacco fac tories, and it is proposed to place all factories under t^his head. Increase of production is now being striven for and in many cases realized. Former ly there were 43 pgper mills in Rus x, GENUINE I Children Cry for Fletcher'? The Kind You Have Always Botffcht, and which has teen in use for over thirty years, has borne the signature of and has been made under his per* sonal supervision -since its infancy. A bunch of Huns in the woods near Longpont, 11 miles southwest of Soissons, where they were captured by the Americans the first day of the offensive, July 18., sia, of which 13 produced 8(^per cent of all the paper made. Therefore, the other factories have been closed and a new organization has been created to operate the 13 productive ones. The same form of organization is being extended to thtf iron industry. The union at Makejevk was produc ing only 1,044 tons of coal a day during the Kerensky revolution. Now, although the number of miners has decreased from 20,00ft to 13,000, the union is raising 1,674 ions a day. The locomotive factory which made seven engines a month under the czar, made only four a month under the first rev olution it has increased to six under the soviet government. Th6se figures, says the Tageblatt, show that the Russians' have suc ceeded in remedying the deplorable industrial sitution. The Internationale Korr.espondenz, organ of the "jingo" .wing of the So cial'Democrats, i»rints an article writ ten* by a German who was in Mos cow in June, which pictures condi tions less rosily. Law 111 the land. He says there is no longer any central government or any law in^Rus sia, and that the days of the Bolshe viki are numbered. Transportation conditions are indescribable. If a man wishes to ship a car of goods, he must first get a permit from the cen tral government, then from the local government, and finally from the rail way administration. \If he does not bribe everyone, from the lowest to the highest, he gets no permit at all. If he does get it, there is no cer taiuty that the. goods will be deliv ered. A resumption of commerct to any extent, says this writer, is there fore impossible. Only ten per cent of the working men are now employed, and where the workers have taken over the man agement of factories, they have pro duced chaos, he says. Vast territories remain uncultivated because the'peas ants lack seed, horse? and tools to work the land. "All people, including the poorest Allow no one to dcceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children—'Experience against Experiment. WhatjsCASTORlA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. For more than thirty years it has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, JFlatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhoea allaying Feverishness arising therefrom, and by regulating the* Stomach and Bowels, aid3 the assimilation of Food giving healthy and natural sleep, k. The Children's Panacea—Tlie Mother's Friend. CASTORIA 111 Use For Over 36 Years '-h iff'1®"Kfhil You Have Always* Bought- hjpemmtauw coHMMr: ww votn cirri ALWAYS W' iwm of the population, have no other wish than to be free from the present reign of terror," says the correspondent. _)|1 &UY W.<p></p>PROFIT-TAX S. s. HOW HITS FARMERS He Dislikes Paying Levies on His Debts hy G1LSON GARDNER. M. E. A. Stuff Correspondent. Washington, Aug. 17.—The plan to substitute war profits for "excess" profits will be popular among farm ers. The excess profit plan has work ed some peculiar hardships on the tillers of the soil Officials of the Farm Loan board tell of a case where a farmer in the south raised 80 acres of potatoes, which he sold at^a good price. Before the war he had been farming unprofitably and had accu mulated a fine assortment of debts. The. money from his potatoes paid these debts &nd he was about to start even wheu the collector swooped down op him and made a comparison between his farm profits during peace years and his farm 'profits since the war began. On this comparison what he got for his potatoes was practical ly all excess profits and he had to mortgage his land again to pay his income tax. If the government had been after war profits alonq. they would not have driven this man back into debt on~the theory that anything he made was' "excess" profits. The farmer does not mind being taxed, but he would like to get off with only his share of taxation. He does not relish the latest suggestion which is-to tax Farm Loan Bonds is sued by the government Farm Loan board. These government bonds have been exempt, but the private banking interests who make their livings loan ing money at high interest to farmers are agitating a tax on these bonds as a source of revenue. The only effect of such a tax, as they know, would be to raise the interest rate for loans I Russia. BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE FIRST PICTURES OF THE GREAT YANK DRIVE ON MARNE 5* A C?EftFJSAL "PAU PAU IN AMERICA Huns Ask Women to Be Secret Police Gen. Paul Pau, th$ one-armeu French hero who led the French ad vance into German Ateace in 1914 is in America at the head of a mission of twfelve Frenchmen on their way to Australia, to tell that country what France is fighting for to farmers, so that the farmer, in ad dition to paying taxes on the full value of his land, whether mortgaged or free of mortgage, would also be taxed on his debts. It is bad eu6ugh to be' taxed on vWhat he has, but it is hard to be tax ed-on what he owes. RESTORING EASTERN FRONT Representatives of six Russian provinces Teaching from the Arctic almost to the Saspian Sea—Novgorod, Archangel, Vologda. Viatka, Kasan and Sam»ra—have proclaimed the "Sup reme Government of the« Northern ion. to the Bolsheviki. As the map shows, these prov Trrces German occupation of middle and Asiatic "S *1? *1% (By Newsp^er Enterprise Ass'n.) Amsterdam, Aug. 17.—A German pamphlet exhorts women to act as volunteer police agents urges them to further propaganda in theatres, etc., by "sotto voce remarks." They J. B. HALLORAN & CO. I N S A N E Service and Protection in .all branches Phone Oft Bismarck Dank Building BISMARCK, D. ''J yxrwaagar German prisoners lifting a slightly wounded comrad from a gun pit, while Americans stand g^iard in the rear. These, fellows were told by the kaiser, "The Americans can't fight. are asked to inform the military auth orities of complaints and rumors they BISMARCK USINE55 CAR There is nothing problematical or experimental about the per formance of Hodge Brothers Business Car. "The owner can safely calculate his cost of operation. It will pay you to visit us and*examine this car.A The haulage cost is?* unusually low. M. B. GILMAN CO. 212 Main St. BISMARCK.... 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