- ,L - r - 1 J AE WILMINaTON, DISPATCH, FRIDAY, JUNE-1 A ,1918. r TUMI U NCTnHflK E iiL II IknlUIU I Uti USUI HI Published $ I DAILY AND SUNDAY UY DiaPATCK PUBLISHING CO. "PARK EFT R.' ANDERSON President aisd General Manacer FRANK P. MORSE SIDNEY BIEFJER Secjrtary-Treami?r 1 EI-EPHONES: Geaersl Manager's Of lee 44 i Advertising Department. Cirsalation Department. . Managing Bditor iiy Jflditor .178 .176 . 44 .205 FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE. Of TJTK AS9CC1ATKD The Associate! Pre i3 e.xcJutTel7 cutl fjd to tie dk for republication of oil nnv l3ta.tche3 credited to It or not otherwiw creollfa-i in this paper cad also the local iwrwn pufollsbcd herein- All rigiita or re pt&iicAtion o special dispatcher herein ar BY MAIL: Daily and Sunday. $0.00 Daily and Sundayr Si;; Moutha : . . $3.00 Diiy and Sunday, 2 Month $1t5. Eundsy Only, Qi,a Year.... $2.00 DELIVERED 3Y CARR!R: Diiiy aid Sun. jwweelc 15s Or Whn Paid in Aavance at Ofice Daily and Sunday Oo Yoar $7.00 DaU and Sunday, Six Months ?3.50 D&Ujr and Sunday. 3 Mentha $1.75 Sunday Only. Gnu 'Yoar $2.00 Enterod at the Postoffice in Wilming ton, -N. C, ay-Secoiid Class Matter. Foreign Representatives: JFroat, Green and Kohn. Inc., 225 Fifth Averue, iscw lore, Advertising Building, Chicago. g. t , . FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1918. GERMAN DISCIPLINE The mental processes of the Teuton pass the understanding of a normal mind. Kaiser Wilhelm, for example, demonstrated that he is totally devoid pf a sense of humor when, as recently appeared in the cabled news, he com mented bitterly on the fact that the "fatherland" was receiving very little help from her sons in the Unilid States. This comment came from the head of a government that has for generations systematically trained its subjects to bow down and worship every form of authority. It does not seem to have occurred to the head of the Huns that the ease with which he has imposed the "di vine right" idea on the dull German mind was a convincing proof that tho victim of his jplayed-out confidence game are congenitally susceptible to every manifestation of organized au thority. The "discipline that has made people in Germany applaud the viola tion of women, the sinking of hospital , ships, the crucifixion of captives and Innumerable other reversions to bar barism, has caused Teutons in the United States to smottier tneir senti mental regard for the fatherland, once proclaimed from the housetops, and settle down to the more important oc cupation of obeying the laws of the land of their adoption. If tho sorrowing kaiser could, by force of arms, establish his "divine right" in the United States, lie might count on acclamations from some of his former subjets who are living in a Eane sector cf the world. Until that .elightly remote accomplishment is achieved, however, he ight just as j.ell cease grieving over German American "disloyalty" and begin con i centratlng on the troubles that are hrewing for nim on tne 0ther side of .Jhe Atlantic. , AN EFFECTIVE THREAT The recent amendment of the draft i regulations, which requires men with in the conscription age to turn their energies to essential industres or fight, , 13 proving a decidedly effective, if in direct, conscrption of labor for facto ries an shipyards. Another important development Is the inevitable con scription of American resources foT the. fight against Germany will result trom che shortage of coal hat must ' 1)B face.- Tfi-rt TiHntis- be faced next winter. The fuel administration admits that this shortage will amount to more than 50,000,000 tons. Consequently, it Is now proposed to distribute fuel on an uncompromising priority baeis. Facto ries that are working for the govern ment, or contributing 40 per cent of their activities to war essentials, will havo first call on coal. Plants that cannot measure up to this percentage will havo their normal fuel require ments cut down 40 per cent. It ia obvious that this order, If put Into effect, will force a tremendous number of Industries Into line and make them exceedingly anxious to ob tain government contracts. It is far better to keep going on work that pays a profit of 10 per cent than to shut dowii Indefinitely while the fuel and railway administrations .are en r deavoring to overcome the coal short age. Thereforer"the measures that Washington will describe a conserva tion of coal will prove. In reality, an Irresistible conscription of factories Jor the fight against Germany. , P&TRH i i FOCH AND AN OFFENSIVE If tlie . policy adopted by General Foch is -wearing down the German army and the German morale, it is also havlngfits effect upon the nerves of the peoples of the allied nations. His Fabian policy of stoutly resisting tho enemy, inflicting all the damage to Mm that he ean, yien retire to new line has boon progressing for nearly three months, and while it has result- ed in tremenodus losses to tne uerman forces, it appears to have about reach ed the end of its rope.' In other words, to the interested spectator unversed in the intricacies of military tactics, it appears that the allies have abandon ed about all the ground they can give up without suffering almost irrepara ble damage. Only a few more miles in one of four directions would give the Hun a position that will be of nealculable advantage to him, and be a most serious reverse for the allied armies. From a story recently published giv ing what purported to be the position the generalissimo holds with regard to offensive and defensive warfare, it would seem that he is not, as is the general belief, committed to tha de fensive policy, but rather personally prefers the offensive fighting. If this be his idea, and it probably is, the day when he will take up the offen sive is very near. The article indi cates that Foch is not depending on a war of attrition; he has objects be yond the mere wearing down of von Hindenburg's troops; all that he does and all that he refrains from doing is with a single eye to seizing the offen sive at the opportune moment and striking a crushing blow with the aid of that "army of maneuver" which the supremo war council is supposed to have accumulated from the French, British, American and Italian forces. The Philadelphia Record, discussing the, probability of an early allied of fensive, says: "The advantages of the defensive are obvious, but they are limited. The disadvantages are equally obvious, for the commander on the offensive can select .his point of attack and can al ways concentrate there more men than he will encounter. The defensive must yield if the attacks are pressed strongly enough until it can get rein forcements toNthe point. "For nearly three months now the dispatches have reported German at tacks in overwhelming numbers and the retreat by the allies' for several miles, alternating with other dispatch es announcing that the German offen sive is slowing down, and theallies can hold their lines. After this the Germans attack at another point and get ahead again. For nearly three months the Germans have been get ting nearer to four objectives, any one of which would be of enormous im portance to them, s These are a chan nel port, Amiens and its system of railways, Paris, and a point southwest of Verdun which would flank it and very likely cause its abandonment. "We can hardly imagine that a French commander-in-chief would al low the enemy to get nearer to any of these points than he is now, and if the article in The Field was written lately, Foch is not trusting to Fabian tactics to win the war; he knows that only an offensive will .win it, and ho i3 getting ready to strike a delsive blow with an overwhelmingly heavy 'army of maneuwir' which he, has accumulat ed and which he has under his hand to launch at tho enemy at any mo ment. "Furthermore, If this article has just, been written, we Infer that the commander-in-chief is almost ready to strike, and deems it wise to prepare the people of the allied countries for a turn in the tide of war. 'It's a long lane that has no turning.' " WE ARE GOING OVER Secretary of War Baker in an ad-, dress to the Blue Devils of France, stated that there are "more than 700, 000" American soldiers now in France. Just h not known outside of the Washington . . .. . omciai circles, and the request has been made that guesses by others be rofrained from. However, the secre tary has previously stated that by July j 1 there would bo a million American troops in France; It also has been pub lished that last month something like 200,000 went across the Atlantic ahd that the number for June would ba larger; all of this taken in connection with tho secretary's statement that there are "more than" 700,000 now over there leaves little for guesswork, and the public can very readily reach Its own conclusions as to the number that will be there by the first of next month. Just as soon as the first million gets over, the second will start, and this ! tP.A V stream will .4.j - . v.Uuuuue at an an nual rate of more than a million until the Hun has been brought to his knees, no matter whether this will re quire one, two" or ,five millions of troops. Again the cry of "They shall not pass" prevails. "'"'Michigan "democrats" have endorsed Henry Ford for the United States sen ate, making it about unanimous ex cept for the socialists, and they would have endorsed him several years ago when he was sending the peace ark to Europe. Since, then, however, Henry has developed into a most loyal American and is doing a great work to help his country win the war, all of which has put him in bad with the socialists, so he will have to worry along with only the support of the democrats and republicans. The Washington Post' says that when, it comes to fixing the price of cotton the well known law of supply and demand is good enough for tho southern congressmen. That is what the south has been dealing with In the past, and while it has worked both ways, she bore up under the evil times and would like the privilege of enjoying prosperity. A number of first and second lieu tenants in other branches of army service have resigned in order to join the tank squads as privates, a branch of the service which would enable them to get a whack at a Hun much earlier. That kind of spirit will never be whipped. Because of the operations of TJ boats off the American coast interfer ing with the receiving of Cuban su gar, the food administration has again ourtailed the amount allowed to housekeepers. Darn that U-boat! Some of these days the German peo ple are going to wake up to the fact that Bill Hohenzollern has been giving them imitations of truth, just as tho American yachtsman discovered when his gold cup turned out to be pewter. Get ready for the war stamp drive. That will be one campaign in which all of'us can participate regardless of our circumstances. David Lawrence says the chief ob stacle to our aiding Russia is a lack of tonnage. Wo had had an idea that it was a lack of confidence. Among the accomplishments of the German army is its ability to make a good target for allied gunners. Wilmington and Wrightsville wel comes the men who provide water and light for the cities of North and South Carolina and Virginia. Mayor Moore calls upon the citizeas of Wilmington to do their duty in .the war stamp campaign, and the procla mation will geta hearty response. OUR DAILY BIRTHDAY PARTY. Major General Joseph E. Kuhn, com mandant at Camp Meade, born in Kan sas, 54 years ago today. Ex-Queen Sophie, of Greece, sister of the Germa nemperor, born at Pots dam, 48 years ago today. John McCormack, celebrated operat ic and concert tenor, born at Athalone, Ireland, 34 years ago today. , Grand Duchess Marie of Luxenburg, who has repeatedly defied the author ity of the kaiser, born 24 years ago today. Robert II. La Follette, United States senator from Wisconsin, born at Prim rose, Wis., 63 years ago today. Ray Morgan, infielder of the Wash ington American league baseball team. born m Baltimore, 27 years ago today. A Handy Man Around the House Tw"s!cy- i tiawp" l SjV- Tfis-r -rj I ( Oh George I j K500 CL J ,V IMmScH HELP, 7 j , l f, ... Is ' r v Food Conservation in the r f v 6 FREDERIC J. HA8KIN. Washington June 14. Three new Weapons of war; have recently come Into use in the American army weap ons as formidable as any yet turned out by munition plants. They are the sharp bread knife, the sharp meat knife and the ordinary teaspoon. The Germans wuld be particularly worried by the s..rp bread knife, if they knew about it. It is being used to cut very thin slices of bread. Be fore the war bread in the army was Mir. in Tinea thirt Ufes with any kind of a knife at all. The soldier ate as many slices as he wanted and usually left a half-aton slice by. his plate. Now he does tho same thing, but the waste is minimized because the sliees are so- much thinner. In one camp alone the sharp bread knife saved 60,000 pounds of bread during a period of 15 days. Every man was still permitted to eat his fill of bread; he was simply prevented from wasting 30 tons that would other wise have been cast-into the garbage pail. Forty-five tons of bread would be the approximate allotment for 3,000 men. And this Is the result of the saving in only one camp. It is esti mated that the total saving In all the camps was sufficient to ration several battalions of French and British In fantry. Tho sharp meat knife has been found equally efficacious. Hardly any meat Is wasted now and the full importance of this may be realized when it is stated that one eighty-third of each man's food left on his plate represents a loss of one-half cent. In an army of 2,000,000 men this would mean an annual waste of $3,650,000 a sum that would buy food for more than 23,000 men. Since the war the American soldier has also learned how to get amazing results with his teaspoon. By stirring hi3 coffee vigorously for several sec onds he has found that one lump of sugar will do the work of two. Stir ring is now a part of the military training. Food conservation has been re duced to a science in the army. From the time the food is bought by the subsistence division of the quartermas ter's corps to the time it is consumed by the soldier the smallest scrap is watched with tender care. That scrap, it is realized, may yet prove the need ed surplus in defeating the Germans. The food is purchased on the contract system. That Is, every month the sub sistence division sends out a request for bids on various foods for the army for that particular month and the low est bidder for the highest quality food is given the contract. Some months food prices are higher than at others, which causes a fluctua tion in the cost of the soldier's ra tion. This cost also varies according to different sections of the country. In some places it is only 38 cents a day; in others as high as 44 cents. The soldier's ration is in the hands of the mess sergeant of his company. It is the mess sergeant who makes out the daily menus and submits them to the company commander and he also keeps account of the daily cost. If the food for one day costs less than the amount allotted for the company's rations the balance is placed on the books to be used at some other time. Sometimes the mess sergeant saves enough during the week to buy chick ens for Sunday dinner. If approved by the company com mander the written menu made out by the mess sergeant is then handed to the company cook, a man of scientific training and experience obtained in an army cooking school. There are now over 30,000 cooks in the American army and over 10,000 bakers, all of whom have received a course of train ing at army kitchens and bakeries. One of these training schoolst is here in Washington, established in connection with the Washington bar Army racks, which is a permanent army post. It reminds one i very much of the kitchen floor Of a hotel,' with the exception of the chemical laboratory, where the men are taught facts, about food values and calories and chemical theories. At this post 7,400 loaves of bread are baked every day, and the army loaf is a two-pound loaf. The dough is made In a large mixer, is then placed in huge troughs for the rising process and is baked in a huge iron oven which holds 56 pans at a time. The army is now using a 25 per cent substitute for wheat flour ,in bread, and is also using substitute for other food materials, oS which there is a shortage. It will be well to remember this the next time you feel inclined to comttlain about the bot tom crust of your die or the scarcity of meat in the stew. In making bread, for example the army not only saves 25 per cent of its wheat flour, but it saves on the cost of the bread itself by using sub stitutes for lard. One bakery, turn ing out 135,000 pounds of bread a week, now uses 50 gallons of cotton seed oil in place of the 450 pounds of lard formerly used. This means a large reduction in cost as - well as a considerable saving in animal fats. Army cooks these days are men of versatile talents. They must be able to cook anywhere at all in a kitchen, in the field and In a trench or dugout. It is part of their training. In the back yard of the training school at Washington there are several types of wagon kitchens Which are' being used in Europe. They contain ovens and large aluminum compartments such as are found in flreless cookers, but one can see that cooking on them Is an entirely different proposition from using the good old-fashioned range. Army cooks also know how to bake.' The bread that they make with a 25 per cent substitute is excellent. Their pies and pastries are also delicious, al though these are served only at rare intervals now, owing to the scarcity in wheat. Instead the men are learning to like desserts of fresh or stewed fruit, served with light ginger bread. The American soldier is the best fed soldier in the world. His daily ra tion contains over 4,700 cabaries. But he is learning to be economical of food. Furthermore, food is not the only thing that is conserved in the army. Every training camp has a reclama tion division consisting of one officer and 600 men which saves everything that it can lay its hands on. It makes a daily inspection of the camp gar bage cans to keep a check on the camp waste; it collects tin cans and waste paper and it even saves the camp stable manure to be used as fertilizer on camp vegetable gardens. Every camp Is to have a vegetable garden this year also a measure of economy. Last year the French and British had gardens on vacant land near their camps and succeeded in raising $250 worth of food to the acre. It is esti mated that similar gardens, farmed by American soldiers, will supply enough vegetables to the acre to ration 50 men. Before the war the army destroyed Its empty tomato cans. Now these cans are carefully saved for 150 pounds of old tin cans will make one pound of pure tin and also one ounce of stannic acid, from which is made the deadly gas used by the Germans. Millions of tin cans are emptied at army camps every day. In tinned jam alone the daily consumption Is over 250,000 cans. In view of the ever growing this shortage this work of the reclamation division Is especially Im portant. This division also keeps a check on the waste In fabrics. It is constantly repairing damages to shoes, clothing, blankets, cots, tentage and canvas. They collect all empty gunny sacks 11. CHAPTER XLII. . Betty Has a Peculiar Experience. "Say, girls, I want you to take a good look at me," Betty said, when she came in from work one afternoon. "Look good." "We know how you look by this time without wasting our time," Car rie answered. "Well, do you see any pin-feathers?" "What ARE you talking about, Bet ty Conners?" I asked. "Pin-feathers! Didn't you hear me?" Then, "those men called me a yellow haired chicken, and then tried to flirt with me something fierce. "What men?" I queried laughing, but I groaned also. Betty's lovely pi quant face was always attracting at tention. I began to think the child never would be free from undesirable attentions. "Two dudes on the subway. I guess they was brokers from the talk. Be fore they commenced to talk about me they was talking about some stock that had made them a lot of money. They said it 'broke wide open, what ever that meant. Then one of them looked at me and grinned, then he said something to the other, and he grinned, too. Then the first one said: " 'I bet a ten spot I catch that chick en,' and the other said: "'I bet fifteen I do,' just like I was not anything but stuck full of pin feathers. I've lived in New York too long for pin-feathers. "Then they began to flirt and make goo-goo eyes. It was air I could do to keep from laughing right out at them, sitting there making such fools of themselves. I guess they kinda for got the folks in the car was looking at them laughing at them, too be cause they wanted to win their bet. "One of them got up and stood in front of me and asked me to go to dinner with him. I said, 'No,' and said it good and loud. Then when a woman got up next to me the other one came over and slid into her seat, and HE asked me to go to dinner, too. "By this time every one was 'on,' so I spoke up as loud as I could: "I won't go to dinner with either one of you dudes. But as you've both lost your bets, I'll take the money, please," and I holds out my hand to first one and then the other. Every one in the car just roared, and a man sitting near said: " 'That's right, young woman, you should have had them arrested. Make them hand over,' and they did. Here's the twenty-five." When we stopped laughing which wasn't for a long time, I asked: and the army receives $20,000 worth of gunny sacks a day. They are also stopping the soldier's waste Of cotton fabric, which formerly amounted to 10 pounds per man.- All of this is turn ing the soldier into a cautious and conservative man. He is losing his admiration for waste and is beginning to respect such insignificant things as the sharp bread knife and the tea spoon as valuable weapons of war. Names In the News. A buffer state in international law is one which intervenes geographical ly between larger states and lessens the danger of rupture from immediate contact. Examples of such states are Switzerland and Serbia. one Year ago today in war. June 14, 1917 British forces con tinued a vigorous offensive along many miles of the west front; German Zeppelin L-43 brought down by British naval forces in the North Sea. By Briggs mm m i m in i n an DAL ERDMM nxru4. . ""oi are jou Koine- tr a money?" - wim "Give It to the hospital ot Cnn.. ' max nice man What c r"18! that I was going to. a.n7 'That's a very eood 6Q e sii - LU DUt . : , nuuia.Il.- I MVoJ .T" all right. He was tp.i m wished he hadn't pii d woman,' it sounded as if i Wa. ferget or something like that of a perfectly good young iad no-" & u5 sten. "Betty, I am going to Tmv Vo false face, see if T rirm'c nl -. u clared. "Ynn aren't t v' rrie At. -- - LU ue trusted TTT?tV tint A T . . OH! mat uuc. I m awtm gla(j twCntv.flvD tVinnrrV. T the: -' i was Coin make a nrnnnolUnn "6 to toniEht"" UU and J Carrie Divulges Her Pan "What is It r-iao , . wuuuenm was no longer morose or sulkv was growing very lovable. ' aPTPPfl -or a mio-Vit n r.1. t- '"J -o " c itoui, ana, jane tl&pr nrma in TxHtV no ou j u-3- is earning ji; a week now. and ronlH affj i6 ' her share. Then she mignt u , ! help us with little Jack. But now - -w. mum. lnen j 4, she and I went off into peal after -vi "en; got up ail showed us just how she got the mens! "J think that a good idea," I snM wiicu x tuuiu Lai, jane is a fnn iiuuooi. sun, ui &ui. Ana since Bett took her in hand her clothes arP ,i right. I wonder if she would like tr come with us." The thought that i' she did we might soon have our little iiat . was in my mma. l ininK sne would give her olJ suoes 10 ue assea, Jtseuy broke In out she has beaux, Mary. She likes mem, witn a snm. "That's not a fault. We would mn Vi n n n v if tot aahI J . i ua t ua. u a ii. v.uuiu na ve me ones we want. "Would we? Speak for please." yourself, "Supose you ask Jane tomorrow Betty. Tell her she mustn't fee n .o l' l Mfifnni T'V. a A 1- anaiu, lu iciuDc. iun sue can come and try it and if she doesn't like i ouc v,clii icaic, xiiu wen ue just as good friends. "All right, Miss Matthews, I'll de liver your message. But if the place is run over with youg fellows don't blame me. I've warned you." Then at an unwonted commotion in the hall, she can out, in a moment calling: "Girls, come quick! See what's hap pened. Oh, he's hurt!" Tomorrow THE ACCIDENT. (Copyright, 1918, by Dale Drummoni) In the News Major General Charles G. Treat, who has been detailed to duty in Italv, Is West Pointer of the class of 1S8 and is an artillery officer. General Treat is a graduate of the Artillery School and of the Army War College.) In the fall of 1916 he was appointed a brigadier-general in the regular service, and a major-general in the national army last August. When"'.--United States entered the war, eral Treat was- recalled from Haw and placed in command of the Thirt seventh division at Camp Sherida Alabama, composed of Ohio troops. Later he was assigned to the command of the western department, with head quarters at San Francisco. Travelette By NIKSAH. Orient. Inhabitants of Orient, Washington, always have wondered where and how they got that name. Now they know that it was a prophecy. In its early days Orient, like other western mining towns, was a gay and care-free spot in the hills. It may be that ,the joyous license of those days suggested the fleshpots of the Far East to that unknown one who christened Orient; but it scarcely seems probable. And as Orient went along in life K became less and less oriental. It sub sided from a frontier town into an ordinary auiet little western farm community, with a station and a gen eral store, a one-story bank with a twnfArv front and an oasis of SplT- Itrmn rpfnslimenL One day the great state of Washing ton went dry. i Whereupon Orient awoke with a painful start to the real significance of its name. It remenv Horori that tho OriPTlt IS & dry, hOI place, where people almost perish wr want of a drink. And such a p ace had Orient become. It retained tn fierce western thirst, which must db slaked to be appreciated that Duru t, v,ic-t YrnA nt oivnii and mountain uiu. kjm. n v,, ,nA v0f ifo trttlo oasis. That was a sad day in Orient i time, the great healer, has done w work even there the pale and pepiess pop has won the place of the joltiM "frytr.rA" 7li11i wna SO lonK the ! vorite Oriental beverage. A Hero Every Day TV.. At rtTrcmloolnTIPf! officer A. mob vu". .. . .nrnS W tne united states manuc lose his life in France was LieUe. iy - 4.1. r rivort An aerir plane in wnicn ne was an-s , server icu num a. 6- - ,,T both he and his pilot were nwrtau. hurt. Before they died both oi were decorated with the Soeclal liuerre tor tneir uumasc. . mention Is made of their work Seicheprey, where they made ow ii J 1, oottv flrfl and aue4 v a. Liu u o uuuci net , j mi r1V.ert Wis w earner conaiuuua. ""-r ,rt narvara man. rus iuun, , fn lam E. Culbert, lives at 5 HamPt"B street, Cranford, N. J n v s-