Evening capital news., November 11, 1917, Page 3, Image 3

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POTASH FIELDS
PRIZE AT STAKE
IN WOP WAR
Germany Will Have World
Monopoly on Product as!y
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is
Long as She Keeps Pos
session of Alsace-Lorraine
Reason for the Determina
prompted the crown prince to sacrifice
700,000 human lives at Verdun In an
effort to establish a strangle hold on
the great French iron and steel basin
of Brley.
The moment Alsace and Lorraine
pass Into French hands, Germany's
monopoly on the potash deposits of the
world will be broken for all time to
tome—a monopoly which sh4 has wield
ed to date In the most arbitrary man
ner and which she has utilized to no
■mall extent In furthering her ambi
tions fbr world domination.
AN IMPORTANT QUESTION.
The. supreme Importance of Ger
many's monopoly on potash, was first
called to the attention of the United
States some two years before the war,
when a violent diplomatic dispute arose
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tion Of tn6 Kaiser to Hold j
Former French Provinces |
Not Political, but Purely
Commercial. !
By HENRY WOOD j
With the French Armies, Oct. 28. (By
Mail.)~As long as Germany holds Al- j
sace and lorraine, she possesses a !
world's monopoly of potash, that India
pensible element for the agricultural
development of every civilized country
on earth. !
Whatever Germany may say, her real
reasons for clinging to Alsace and l.or- :
raine are neither political, ethical nor i
historical. Back of her Iron détermina- |
tlon to hold the two French province«!
lies precisely the same motives that j
l niptunmiic
many over the latter s control of the
potash importations into America.
Since the opening of the present war
and the cutting off of the United States
and all other countries from access to
the Gorman potash, the question has
become one of world Importance.
The fact that Alsace and Lorraine
contain potash deposits equal In every
respect to those of Germany Is a sec
ret which the latter has carefully
guarded. The fact that she controlled
the output of these latter and fixed an -
arbitrary price which she dictated to
the entire world, and to the detriment
of the world's agriculture, is a German
state secret even more carefully guard
ed. The full details are here made
known for the first time.
OF RECENT DISCOVERY.
The Alsatian potash deposits were
only discovered In 1904. They occupy
about 200 square kilometers between
Mulhouse, Relnlngen. Cernay, Soultz,
Raedersheim, Beguisheim and Saus
heim at a depth of from 1500 to 3000
feet below the surface of the earth.
As the deposits from the very first
gave Indication of rivaling the famous
German potash beds of Saxony, Han
over and the basin along the right bank
of the Rhine, the development of the
Alsatian beds was only allowed to pro
teed slowly and cautiously.
From the time of their discovery In
1904 up to 1908 only ubout 120 sound
ings were made. Up till 1913 a total
of 160 soundings had been made. These
however, established definitely that the
Alsatian deposits equal If not exceed
both In size and purity those of Ger
many. At the current price of potash
In 1909, these deposits represent a total
value of over 12,000,000,000 dollars.
Germany saw to it that the develop
ment of these new beds was restrained
ln such a manner as not to affect the
price of the potash drawn from her own
GET RID OF YOUR FAT
Thousands have gotten rid of theirs WITHOUT DIETING OR EXERCIS
ING, ofton at the rata of a pound a day, WITHOUT PAY
MENT until reduction hat takan placo.
I am a licensed practising physician and per
sonally select the treatment for each individual
case, thus enabling me to choose remedies that will
produce not only a lots of waight harmlessly,
but which will also relieve you of all tha troubla
some symptoms of ovorstoutneis ouch ae short
ness of breath, palpitation, indigestion, rheumatism,
gout, asthma, kidney trouble and various other af
flictions which often accompany everetoutneso.
My treatment will relievo that dapresaed, tirad,
sleepy fooling, giving you renewed energy and vigo",
a raault of tha loss of your superfluous fat.
You ara not required to change in tha slightest
from your regular mode of living. There is no diet
ing or exercising. It is simple, easy and pleasant
to taka.
READ WHAT A FEW OF MY PATIENTS SAY :
Joua.
. _... reduced about
My whist measure is ft' e
han before taking the
c.y.
50 hounds. My w<i
inches smaller than
treatment. 1 ran stxnd to work
better. Mrs. M. F. Underman.
[)r. R. Newman, Iowa.
Pear Doctor: —I wtigherl 17R pounds
before I took your treatment and l nosy
weigh 158 pounds. )'»m may print this
if you like. Mrs. Anna Schmidt.
Dr. R. Neuman, \fennsylvania.
hear Sir: From 180'/ have reduced
to 145, and am glad 4| say that my
health is greatly improved. When I
began your treatment ny health was
uretche'd. Now I feel Ike a new per
son—all that old tired feline ts gone.
You may print this if y out vish.
Mrs. Fiel M. Gill.
Dr. R. Ne
Texas.
very well. Have lost 45 pounds since
began taking y our treatment. My health
is good in every way. My measure:
Hip 57, now 49. H aist 45, now 38.
Chest 45, now 37. Addie Barton.
Dr. R. Newman, Oklahoma.
Dear Doctor :—/ received your letter
a few days ago and in rePly will say
that I haie been reduced from 169 to
121 pounds, and am so glad to be rid of
so much of the fat.
Evadna Travis.
Dr. R. Newman, Idaho.
Dear Sir: Have taken your treat
ment and it is wonderful how it reduces.
It does just as you say. I have reduced
a pound a day and feel tine.
Mrs. F. Bateman.
If you ore ovorttout
for my FREE TRIAL TR
ONLY AFTER REDUCTI]
io r
1A1
l)N
not postpone but ait down right now and tend
TMENT and my plan wheraby I am to bo PAID
HA8 TAKEN PLACE if you ao desire.
DR. R- NEWMAN, licensed Physician. Stale of New York.
286 Fifth Avlnue, New York. . Desk J-538. ,
ö'eerUVmi
****gafc?» OqdgtiL
hen th ? cal1 to the colors cam« «
few weeks ago his fair young bride
T HE Brat "war bride" of the mo
tion pictures isVligible, if ever
anbody was, to membership in
the "Good Sports" club. She
is Betty Schade, one of Universal
City's most popular actresses, who
was married some six months ago to
Ernest Shields, himself a well-known
film artist. Shields is. and was at the
time of his marriage, a sergeant in
the Seventeeth Coast Artillery and
advised him not to ask for exemption
as she was able to support herself.
And the best of it is, her motive was
purely patriotic, all jokes and jibes to
the contrary notwithstanding. An in
teresting feature of the romance, par
ticularly of this latest development,
lies in the fact that Miss Schade was
bo ™ in Berlin p«e»u.
doug takes a rest
. Fairbanks J»"
r®-cross«d the continent
*/ ?,
ma< ] e the 6 000 miU
h js UBUal „st between pirturesto^
si sting in the Liberty Loan drive
Various stops were made in which he
appealed to the publie in behalf of the
campaign and in New York he ai>
peared, among other places, at two
department stores. Being an athlete
it is but natural that Doug should go
xfter the broad jump record.
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«g^L^ßY
Ever realise that the baseball
pitcher is not the oply professional
species possessing a "salary wing"
vmich has to be nursed and protected ?
Tne good right arm of the moving
picture camera man is quite as im
portant in his occupation. This fact
was brought forcibly home to Fred
Leroy Granville not long ago while he
was engaged in "shooting" the popu
lar serial, "The Red Ace." Granville,
by the way, is a famous person. He
is declared, by those who profess to
have the inside dope, to be the origi
nal "Gabby Tozier," the camera man
of Charles Van Loan's "Mammoth
Studio" stories in the Saturday Eve
ning Post. One day while out on lo
cation with "The Red Ace" company
a ra f U !f? v ake a "d just for
deposits. A total of 106 concessions |
were made for the exploitation of the I
Alsatian beds. Twenty-eight of these |
are in the hands of a Mulhouse com- j
pany backed by Frenc'. and Alsatian '
capital. The other 78 concessions are '
now in the hands of a German concern, i
although a smalL portion of the capital j
stock of this Is *also owned by French j
and Alsatian capitalists.
The exploitation of the concessions
and the output of potash however was
at all times kept at a minimum. As a
consequence, while the output from
the old German beds In 1913 was 1,
300,000 tons that of the Alsatian beds
wns only 22,000 tons. Yet competent
engineers have established that the
Alsatian beds could easily equal In out- j
put the German ones. *
SYNDICATE ORGANIZED.
j
In order to leave no possibility for j
the development of the Alsatian beds ,
to affect the price of potash bv a sud
den and immense increase in the world
supply, Germany forced all of the peo- I
pie owning potash concessions to enter j
into a syndicate. A central commis- j
sion then received all of the demands j
and orders for potash, distributed !
them amongst the various producers ,
and fixed a common price thus pre
venting all competition and thus exer
cising a strangle hold on the agricul
tural development of the entire world.
This monopoly as a matter of fact
has affected in the most serious de
gree a large number of other world in
dustries besides that of agriculture. A
total of 87 to 88 per cent of the world's
potash goes into the making of fer
tllizers. The remainder Is used in tha
producing of caustic potash, nitrate and
chloride of potash, alumn, cyanide.
bromide and ioduret of potash. All in
dustries employing these chemicals suf
BETTY SCHABE
pleased to be raised to stardom, re
taliated in the only way in its power,
selecting Granville's "salary wing" as
the object of its attack. Granville
was rustled to a hospital where it was
at first feared that amputation might
be necessary. However, the arm was
saved, but its owner has decided that
the next time he "shoots" a rattle
snake he will use a different weapon.
SUPPORTED TWELVE PEOPLE
That's what Hughie Mack, the 360
pound L-Ko comedian, did the other
day. They stood on his arms, legs,
body, head—all over him—and they
were all adult persons, between tha
ages of eighteen and forty-five. It
seems almost impossible, but it's the
truth, for they were all Lilliputians.
They were playing an engagement at
one of the Los Angeles theatres and,
haying seen many comedies on the
the screen, but none of their fun-mak
ers in the flesh, they naid the studios
a visit and had the time of their tittls
lives.
fer likewise from the German world
monopoly.
It is only by the return of Alsace and
Lorraine to France and the distrlbu
tlon thus of the two great potash beds
of the world between two competing
nations that this world's monopoly
can be broken up. Its existence ex
plains Germany's willingness to re
store Belgium but not to restore Al
sace and Lorraine,
DAY OF INDIVIDUAL
PROWESS PASSING
FOR THE AVIATORS
Paris, Oct. 30.— (By Mail)—Aerial
warfare, like otheY forms of warfare, is
becoming more and more a collective
(enterprise, writes Jacques Mortane
aviation expert in the "Petit Parisien."
The day of Individual prowess is
'Passing' and "team-work" is becoming
™ ore an <* more essential. This applies
equally to the "Aviation de Chasse, *'
which, as Mortane says, is the aerial
P olice -
^ wns in this sort of fighting^-that
famous champions of the air, Guy
nemer ln France, Ball in the British
zone and Bolke in Germany won their
spurs. But British and German avia
tors have lately realized the Import
ance of co-ordinated action ln the air
and are forming their aviation squad
rillas to act and fight, together.
This collective actions, says Mor
tane, is less suited to the French tem
perment than individual prowess, but
ln ,hp facp nf rpsuI,s "Gained by Brit
*« h 8,1,3 (;prman ' teamwork" ln air
!' alt3R an<3 a ' sw In chasing or police
work- H-*eneli aviation is now develop
ln R in a similar sense,
3 ' ,ka land fighting, aerial warfare Is
{destined to become more anonymous in
order to achieve greater and mqre prac
tical results.
METAL MAY SOLVE
MYSTERY OF MATTER
Cambridge. Mas«.. Nov. 10.—The
dreams of the alchemist« of old may
be realized shortly through the In
vestigation of a new metal known as
radioactive lead, which emit« peculiar
ray».
This i* the prediction of Professor T.
W. Richards, director of the Wolcott
Gibbs laboratory of Harvard univer
sity, who is now conducting Involved
research work on the new metgl. The
new metal makes a good pipe as the
old lead, according to Professor Rich
ards.
"From It and through careful re
search," he said, " it may be possible
by chemistry to make strides towards
the solution of the mystery of matter.
Its various manifestations, and how It
came Into being."
The metal Is found chiefly in Aus
tralia. and possesses the peculiar ra
dioactivity of radium, which leal»
scientists to believe It la derived from
tha latter metal, and indirectly from
uranium. Research work Is now being
directed toward the discovery of the
relations between the several elements
ln the new metal anâ In Its relation to
ordinary lead.
JOYOUS SQUANDERING.
"Do you miss the old excitement that
Crimson Gulch offered before the town
went dry?"
"Not so much," replied Broncho Bob.
"Prlcea have gone up so that two
buckwheat cakes and a fried egg seem
like regular dissipation."—Washington
Star. "
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. T. H. McDERMOTT, Clerk.
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