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HflfHAN EFFKENCY OF GERHAH ARMY
THE OliTSEtER, SAYS COREY
No Other Country at War Has System to Compare With
That of Germans—Nothing ever Overlooked and Every
thing Placed Exactly Where Wanted Without Delay.
By Herbert Corey.
(Copyright, 1915, by Herb'ert Corey.)
Berlin, April 1.—Every Jne remarks
upon the inhuman efficiency of the
German army system. Everything,
from an army corps to a pair of shoes
is delivered where it is wanted when
it is wanted. Nothing is ever' forgot
ten. Nothing is ever overlooked. By
and by the secret—-or a part of the
secret—dawns on one. They reach ef
ficiency through simplicity.' They take
short cuts. They trust each other.
They do not bother about red tape.
"How do you account for this
bread?" an officer of a neutral nation
asked the Oerman who was responsi
ble for the dally issuance of I do not
know how many bread rations. They
ran Into the hundreds of thousands
The German was puzzled.
"I don't account for it," Said he. "I
just get the flour and bake it and
then give out the bread. I don't have
to account for It."
This particular neutral officer has
spent his life in the interlocking mesh
es of the finest accounting system
ever perfected in this world. It Is such
a magnificent system that nothing can
be done under It except keep ac
counts. it provides for a limitless ex
tension of clerical help—and no one
ever gets anywhere. He wanted to
find some trace of this red tape suf
focation in the German plan.
"But what Is your.'responsibility?"
he asked.
The German understood that. His
face lighted up. He explained
promptly.
"Oh," said he, "my responsibility is
for getting the proper Amount of
bread out to the men every da.y. If I
did not do this I w'ould be held re
sponsible."
That seems to be'literally true. As
nearly as I can discover that and oth
er angles of the: army supply System
are. worked on. a plan afi simple as
sending the kitchen maid out for
crackers. Some one finds out just how
much of a given article is needed.
Then some one else'is ordered to pro
duce. In.this bread ration, for exam
ple, each day the b^ker receipted for
the flour he received in a little book
that is carried in the pocket of an
under-offlcer. Other under-officers re
ceipt to him in his own little- book for
the bread they take from him. I can
not learn that there has been any
bread scandal'or beef scandal or flour
scandal or any other sort of a scan
dal.
Abtellungs Everywhere.
Everything works irf "abteilungs."
An abteilung is. a department. There
is an abtellung for, everything. If a
plague of rats were to break out in- the
first .four miles of the trenches south
of Arras, there would be created an
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for the first four miles south of Ar
ras. Then the German government
would send to Berlin or Frankfort or
Munich for a professor who knows
rats forward and back—who knows
all there is about rats—and that pro
fessor would become a major and
would put on a sword and spurs ana
take charge of the rat abtellung.
When he had figured out the cause
and cure, he would destroy, the rat
plague. He wouldn't know anything
about 42-centimetre guns or the bread
ration or anything but rats. He would
be densely ignorant on every other
subject except rats, perhaps. But on
rats he would be Herr Doctorisslmus.
•So It was in France. The Germans
now have most of the sugar beet land
in France in their possession. They
have sugar beet land of their own.
Further, it had become apparent that
not more sugar, but more bread, will
be the great need next year. As soon
as they had firmly clamped down their
trenches along that French line—no
doubt they have a trench abteilung—
some agricultural expert was sent to
France to create a farming land ab
tellung. The first thing he did was to
map out all the farming land. Sugar
beet land was colored yellow on the
maps, and onion land green, and
wheat land blue. Then he told the
French farmers just what each could
plant in his particular farm. The
French didn't like it, of course. But
they obeyed orders.
"It is tyranny," declared a pretty
school teacher to an observer in the
Germa.n-hfild part of France the other
day. "These brutes! I hate them!"
It appears that when the Germans
took this particular part of France
they looked with pained disfavor upon
the habit of truancy that had grown
up among the youth of those parts.
So they created an educational ab
teilung. Some one who knew all
about it.studled the question and then
issued his sailing orders. The obser
ver asked the pretty school teacher
if the German rules interfered with
her work.
"Oh, no," said she. "I have much
less trouble nowadays. Formerly I
might have four or half a dozen chil
dren in school on bad days. Now, I
have every child In school every day
—and every child at school on time.
It makes my work much more pleas
ant. But I hate them!"
Germans Too Hough for Her.
Manners possibly have something to
do with this. In the same town the
same observer was billeted on a
charming French woman. She likes
an occasional taste of wine—and the
wine had been confiscated by the con
querors. She liked cigarettes,, and
there were no cigarettes. He found
Summer Will Soon Here
Is your wardrobe ready for the coming warm weather?
Bright spring days bring out all the beauty of your costume. The beauty
of design the beauty of color—the beauty of fabric—and they'll also bring out all
its defects.
Why not buy your attire at Taugbols and thus make sure that every line,
ry color combination, every minute detail is correct?
Coats Skirts
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Been in to See All the Splendid New Suits?
Some new ones have just arrived and they're most
springlike. Their daring colors and" their smart effects
testify to that. Models for both street and dress are
designed along- the very newest, graceful lines. Suits of
remarkable attractiveness and remarkable value.
Charming Frocks for Early Summer Wear
There's something bewitching about these frocks.
Perhaps it's the handsome, unusual materials or the dis
tinctive style touches, such as the new soft, blousy
waists. We think it's the spirit of feminism which the
designers have caught and held for the first time in
years. That's why these frocks are so becoming, so
thoroughly lovely.
FOR THE YOUNGER SET
Especially have we endeavored to please the young miss just finishing her
'teens. We found her judgment of what is correct is often as good, if not better,
than that o£ her mother or older sister. Here she'll find suits that were not con
structed for staid, middle age, but for dashing, Jaunty youth. V!
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both for her and she talked. She was
most indignant because the Germans
had decided that she could spare one
room for the purposes of the army.
"But consider, m'sleu," said she.
"One day there came a knock at the
door. A Prussian officer walked in.
'I have come to see your house,
madame,' said he.
"So he walked through. Then be
told me-that'1 could readily epare one
room. He tacked up a notice and
went away. A brute!"
The observer ascertained that the
French held their annual manoeuvres
In the vicinity of this same town. Then
they always requisitioned four of ma
dame's rooms. It was most inconveni
ent. .••...
"But it was so different, m'sieu,"
said she. "There would be a knock at
the do6r, and I would beg the French
officer to enter. He would exchange
compliments. Always he would sit
down and isip a glass of wine and
smoke .a cigarette. He would compll
ment me upon my excellent color qr
upon the undoubted, brightness of my
eyes. wpuld speak to him upon the
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HERE'S BRITISH BATTLESHIP POUNDING AWAY AT FORTS IN
DARDANELLES AND TURK MINE EXPLODING NEAR ALLIED FLEET
These remarkable photographs halve Just been received from the Dardanelles. At the left is shown the
firing of one of the big turret guns aboard a British dre&dnaught. At the right is seen the explosion of one
of the Turkish mines. The mine was discovered by a lookout on a Britis ship and exploded by a well directed
shell. The column of water shooting into the air due to the explosion in many cases reaches a height of
from 65 to 100 feet.
glory of France. After twenty min
utes, perhaps, he would look at the
rooms and decide upon the four he
wanted, and he would go away. He
would kiss my hand. These German
officers, they do It all in two minutes.'1
When these facts dawn on the Ger
mans there will be an abteilung on
manners. It's a sure thing.
This system—and this simplicity
run all the way through the German
plan. In the west* for example, where
trenches are built with an idea that
they may be needed four or five years
from now, the building is done on
the factory plan. Xio.opholes are need
ed—wooden loophwss, sometimes
steel protected—through which the
men may look out, aqa roofs are need
ed for the 'unteratands,' the bomb
proof retreats In which the trench
men eat and sleep. 5Phe obvious way
to provide loopholes and roofs, to the
German mind, is to have an abteil
ung, and then provide them off the
proper Borts and quantities.
"How do you account for your ma
terials?" the offlcer^of a certain neu
tral nation I have Vefpre quoted ask
ed this maker .of loopholes. He didn't
know 'what the neutral -was talking
•about: i®he. words ,, •"responsibility"
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'The materials are furnished to me
on my requisition," said he- "I know
about how much I will want each day.
Then my men make the loopholee and
th«f roofs. I send them to the front
in such quantities as are needed."
That was all. Between times his
men* pulled up the roofs and loopholes
of trenches that were no longer oc
cupied, against the time when they
should be needed, it did not seem to
occur to any one htat these things
should be left in the trenches to rot—
thereby making a market—or that
they should be repainted and sold to
the government for hew. This Ger
man system is an excellent one—for
the Germans. No guarantee goes with
it for other folk.
I've heard of just one incipient
scandal. An army officer wrote to a
tailor calling his attention to his de
lay. in delivery, and the tailor sent
back a letter stuffed with excuses, and
a 1,000-mark note. The note Went to
the Red Cross and the tailor was find
1,500 marks more. I feel that he is a
wronged tailor. For the very naivete
and inconsequence of the reason he
gave for putting that 1,000-mark note
in that envelope he should have been
shooed out of court.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
The roll of honor is fresh from the
oven.
A woman would rather be incon
sistent than otherwise..
Oh, liberty, what a lot of divorces
hide under thy cloak!
The bee that gets the honey doesn't
loaf around the hive.
Even figures that won't lie are some
times incased In tailor-made gowns.
When'a so-called Vocalist murders
a song the sound is not deadened.
A second arrow from -Cupid's bow
quickly heals the wound made by the
first.
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GRAND PORKS. N. D.t MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 12, 1915. TWELVE PAGES—PRICE FIVE CENTS.
BIG LUMBER MIL
W1LSOONOP0I
Crookston Plant at Bemidji
to Give Employment
to 500 Men.
Bemidji, Minn., April 12—®*ive hun
dred men will 'be given work on April
20 when plant No. 1 of the Crookston
Lumber company opens for the entire
summer. The big lumber plant will
operate both day and night until late
next fall. The mill at plant No.
will begin operation as soon as the
ice is out of the lake, which means
that that mill will be started about
May 1.'
During the winter mahy improve
ments arid.repairsHiave been made on
both mills, including the painting of
the buildings on the outside and the
whitewashing on the inside. The total
amount spent being $36,000. Most of
the work on the inside consisted of
repairs to the machinery and general
over-hauling.
The opening of plant No. 2 will also
give employment to about 400 men
and. the total number of men to be
employed by both plants in both the
mllls and yards will reach about 1,000.
Not only will the milling depart
ment of the Crookston Lumber com
pany be active this year, but unusual
activities in the logging department
will 'also take place. During the en
tire coming summer a gigantic camp,
employing 150 men will operate at
Spur 28 on the Minneapolis, Red Lake
and Manitoba railway and the logs
will be skidded and loaded by two
steam skidders. In order that this
work could be carried on successfully
the Crookston Lumber company built
six miles of railroad, which extends
from Spur 28 on the Red Lake road
to Island lake where the heart of the
logging operations are, and the logs
which will be loaded at that place
will be shipped to Bemidji daily. The
total amount of logs to be shipped
over this road during the coming
summer will be about 15,000,000 feet
This big camp will be superintended
by Robert Mitchell of Bemidji and
EYank McMahon will be the clerk,
SALT'T ACX MORTS.
Beyond Varennes' wind-swept plateau
The sinking sun hangs, faint and low
Against the darkening sky.
And there, unstirred by bugle sounds,
At rest beneath swift-shoveled
mounds,
Unnumbered heroes lie.
Life's Drama, ended in a surge
That self-transcending, valiant urge
Which leads men on to die!
As shadows veil the wooden cross
That marks the graves and tells the
loss,
Slow moving shapes draw nigh:
Two, who still hear the din of war.
Stand right. Their "salut aux morts"
A phantom battle-cry.
—Ixuise Von Wetter.
The neutral countries are now
watching with great interest for the
turning of the war tide.
The weather has been liner in this
latitude of: late than it has been a few
hundred miles southward.
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AFTER RECRUITS
FORJjEW ARMY
Great Patriotic Demonstra
tion Opened in London
Yesterday.
London, April 12.—A great patrio
tic campaign to obtain recruits for
Field Marshal Earl Kitchener's new
army was opened in London yester
day. The plan is to be carried on for
fortnight
Meetings addressed by liberal, labor,
unionist, and Irish members of par
liament were held in Hyde Park, Tra
falgar Square and other centers of
the oapltal, while recruiting sergeants
distributed pamphlets, showing the
pay, separation allowances and other
advantages given to soldiers of the
king. As the result of the Trafalgar
Square meeting 200 recruits registered
at the chief recruiting office nearby.
During the fortnight's campaign,
1,600 meetings will be held, while
troops will engtuge In street marching.
ESCAPED OFFICERS
AGAIN CAPTURED
London, April 12.—It la officially
reported that the two German offi
cers who escaped from the concentra
tion camp for prisoners at Denbigh,
Wales, on the night of April 4, have
been recaptured at Wrexham. The
officers are Lieutenants Von Sanders
Labon and H. Ambler. They answer
ed the roll call at 8 o'clock on the
night of their disappearance but next
morning were found to be missing.
DEBATE REGARDING
FRENCH INDUSTRIES
Paris, March SO.—(Correspondence
of the Associated Press.)—The debate
which has begun In the chamber of
deputies on the law prohibiting com
mercial relations of French oltlaens
with Germany and Austria-Hungary
has developed some interesting facte
regarding the competition French in
dustries have suffered on their own
soil from German enterprises.
In chemical products particularly
the smaller distinctively French
houses are declared to have been wa
tematically undersold by powerful
German corporations, one of them
with a capital of $60,000,000. These
German enterprises. It is stated, not
only monopolized the commerce In
dyes and other chemical products, hut
furnished employment to none hut
workers of their own nationality. As
soon as a French house endeavored
to compete, prices were reduced to
the point where It was Impossible for
it to live.
One speecher declared that not only
had they monopolized the trade in
these products but through the facili
ty afforded by the laws governing
trade marks they had found ways of
utilising the discoveries of French
scientists. Names and- details -fur
nished in this debate were so conclu
sive as to produce a considerable Im
pression upon the chamber. The min
ister of commerce informed the cham
ber that the technical commission of
the patent office has in preparation a
law intended to make such competi
tion impossible In the future.
RAILROADS ASK REDUCTIONS.
Washington, April 12.—Rate reduc
tions, instead of the usual Increases,
were sought today by transcontinental
railroads before the interstate com
.merce commission. They sought per
mission to reduce freight rates on
commodities from Chicago and the
middle west to the PadAc coast to the
level of water rates from the eastern
seaboard through the Panama canal.
The railroads want to meet water
competition, to avoid losing immense
traffic through the canaL The pro
posed reduction would affect the en
tire trade between Chicago and the
Pacific coast states and would re-es
tablish a competitive rate market
Your Linen Lasts
Longer
when we do your laundry work. Here
the washing Is done In the best of
water to which pure soap Is added.
Instead of rubbing, the receptacle In
which the pieces are placed is revolv
ed rapidly and the soft, soapy water
is sucked through the cloth, carrying,
not rubbing, the dirt out
Telephone 214. Either Line.
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Second Section-Pages 7 to 12
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Two Feet of Snow Makes
Operations Difficult—
French Hold Out.
Basel, Switzerland. April 12.—Re
cent storms have hindered military'
operations In the Vosges mountalpa
and in Alsaoe, two feet of Bnow having
fallen on the heights and In the val
leys. A thaw now Is setting in, mak
lng the operations Increasingly dlA-
cult by swelling all the streams.
In spite of violent German attacks,
the French have held Hart man ns
Wellerkopf firmly. This position dom
inates the plain toward Colraar and
It is thought the French are waiting
for the floods to subside to put this
position to profit and to attack the
Important communications between
Muelhausen, Colmar and Btnobui,
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SVEN A. HEDIN
BACK FROM FRONT1
Washington, April It.—
dispatch from the Vienna '•—if ofv
flee to the Aiustro-Hungarlan
said:
"Dr. Bven A. Hedln. the
exployer, has returned from the Croat:
•where he spent a week. He visited
the most advanced positions of onut
troops. The celebrated explorer
brought back with him the beet
pressions and expreesed true
,tion of the aare of wounded aad.sMt
soldiers. He reported the provlslon
Ing of the troops was good. Dr. Ttorthi
leaves again for the front"
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Students
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or inattention. Statistics collected by
reliable educational authorities have
shown that at least 76 per cent-of the
so-called "backward," "stupid," or
".insubordinate" children suffer from
Befectlve vision. In many cases pro-
Sel
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student out of the worst boy In
the school.
We make a specialty of caring for
school children's eyes.
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and pressed and we send back the
article In a wondrous state of
transformation.
GRAND FORKS DYE HODS
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In the selection of this lot, and they are not only attractive' but are
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