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Twenty Millions Available for Arm
ored Motor Cars Story of Tank
' Told by the Man Who Devised
Them Result of Inventions by
Two Americans Prove Success.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. The
huge wur deficiency bill now in con
gres scnrrics ft if 18,750,000 appropri
ation for urniorcd motor ears, with
five million dollars more authorized.
The bill does not state it, but I think
it will not take shrewd guessing to
figure that part of this is to pro
vide Uncle Sam's army in France
with some of the famous British
"tanks."
3y a happy chance tho man who
dreamed of tanks and fought for
tanks until they were on the firing
line is in this country now. lie is
UNCLE SAM
BUILD TANKS TO
FIGHT GERMANS
Colonel K. D. Swinton, assistant sec
retary of the war cabinet that runs
the British end of the war. He is
here with Lord Heading, chief justice
of England, on a special mission.
Colonel Swinton, who served in the
Boer war, is one of the most famous
English military men.
In the first part of the war he was
the celebrated "eye-witness" with
England's first expeditionary force
in France, and described its exploits
i'or the Britsili public. He is also an
author of note.
Adopted From the Ancients.
"Tho idea of tho tank is one
adopted from old limes," said he.
"Even in ancient days it was recog
nized that the attacking party had
Q the worst of it. In the first years of
the war the Germans not only out
numbered us with heavy artillery, but
also with machine guns. These lut
ter did the deadly work. Infantry
was mowed down.
"Now the machine gun is the in
vention of nn American, Sir Hiram
Maxim, and the invention of another
American, Benjamin Holt, enabled lis
to fight machine guns.
"Holt had invented a caterpillar
tractor which would go over all kinds
of rough ground. That was precisely
what lie wanted.
"The principal points of the tank
are simple. You have a powerful au
tomobile engine encased in bullet
proof armor and traveling forward
by means of this caterpillar tractor.
It carries quite n crew and a very re
spectable amount of artillery.
Tank Used byAccldcnt.
"The word tank was used almost
by accident. Wo naturally did ev
erything possible to keep their man
ufacture a secret. When the armor
ed steel plates were rolled, it was
suggested they looked very much like
tlie sides for a tank, so tank it was.
1 "Even then various rumors went
around. When the fleet of tanks
was finally ready they were covered
with tarpaulins and loaded on trains
at night.
"Just about a year ago I saw t!;o
huge machiucs get their baptism of
fire. All you havo read about their
reception is true. Our Tommies ac
tually stood and laughed ns they saw
the clumsy monsters steadily going
to the German lines and ignoring the
storm of rifle and machine gun fire
poured at them.
"As for F.iU, he was really rat
tled. Here was something that ig
nored his efforts and crashed down
upon him. Of course, since then the
Germans have become more used to
the tunks.
' Tnnki) n Success.
"The tanks have more than justi
fied their existence. They have come
to sta.y It is estimated they have
saved the lives of thousands of our
infantrymen. Naturally we arc con
stantly developing them. They arc
now in use both along the British
nnd French lines.
"So far tho Germans have not
turned any out.
"Their chief use is this: When
our artillery ceases firing and the
infantry is ordered to take the Ger
man trenches, they often receive a
deadly hail of bullets from machine
puns hidden in shell craters. Scntl
the tanks in nnd they soon put the.-:e
machine guns out of business."
BAY SLATE PRIMARIES
BOSTON', Sept. 25. Republican
voters went to the polls In the state
primaries today to decide whether
Governor Samuel V. McCall should
bo renominated for a third term. His
oponent was Grafton D. Cashing, ot
Boston. Frederick W. Mansfield
whs the only candidate for the demo
cratic nomination for governor,
HARMONYRULES
MEDICALSTAFFS
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Stories Spread by Germans of Dis
tentions , Between ; British and
American Hospital Staffs in
France Denied Utmost Cordiality j
and Co-operation Exists.
BRITISH HEADQUARTERS INi
FRANCE AND BELGIUM, Sept. .14
(by mnil). German agents recently
have been spreading broadcast on
tho continent tho report that serious
differences hnve arisen between the
British army medical service and the
American surgeons and physicians
working with the Pritish forces in
France. The story has been given
special publicity by its sponsors in
Belgium nnd France. For the pur
pose of proving or disproving this
statement, the correspondent of the
Associated Press accredited to Brit
ish general headquarters has mal6
a careful investigation of the facts,
visiting not only base hospitals which
have been taken by American medical
units, but casualty clearing stations
in which American sugrioul teanu
are working. Here is the truth:
Cordiality Exists.
The utmost cordiality has and dues
exist between the British niediunl
service and the Americans who are
working with them. The nssertion
that there has been any quarrel be
tween the two bodies is without foun
dation. As ono emiilent American
bus put it:
"The story is a gross canard. Rea
sons for circulating it are obvious.
The Germans are, trying to create
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among Itcliiui and , French, civilians
a contempt for America and Greet
Britain, nnd consequently a hostility
toward thee two nations."
The six medical units which wore
sent over from the Vnited Slates V
take charge of six British base hos
pitals have become p.at of the
smoothly running orgunuaiiuu that
tho British have devuloped.
Excellent Work IHine. '
Tho excellent work being done v
the American units has frequently
been the subject of the most compli
mentary remarks by all ranks 6f the
British medichl organization. The
service which the workers from the
United States have performed is
characteristic ns ono of the bright
spots in a war which is causing' so
much misery. 1
t Rilnghly speaking, tiid :ix hasp
hosnitnls cOllilllcti-il hr the A iiii.r:iT. n'-
have beds for about 1500 patients
eaen, ami tiiero ore mar.v times when
they nre filled 1o overflowing.
OF PAPER MAKERS
WASHINGTON. Sept. 23. The
federal trade commlsslan decided to
day It would turn over to newspa
per publishers for such use as they
desire to make of it, all records and
correspondence In the agreement of
last March made with newsprint
manufacturers by which paper prices
were to have been cut.. '
Some of the manufacturers de
clined to carry out tho agreement
when the government refused to halt
grand Jury proceedings against them
in iNw York, charging violation of
the anti-trust laws. Publishers who
signed tho agreement have made fre
quent inquiries of the commission as
to what are tholr rights In tho clr
cumstansces. The commission giving
no definite answer, will turn over the
records and let the publishers them
selves judge what they best can do.
SOUTHERN SLAVS
WRITHINGUNDER
AUSTRIA HEEL
Unrest and Dissatisfaction of Sup
pressed Nationalities and Little
I n i ... .
! Peoples Told in Speeches of Aus
trian Parliament Austrians ; as
Cruel as Germans.
By MILTON WiOXXKR
WASHINGTON, I). C, Sept. 25.
Increasing unrest of her subject peo
ples, passionate outcries concerning
her ruthless cruelties and bolder ut
terances In her parliament these me
things inclining Austria towards
peace.
Every once in n while probably
due to .pro-German activities the
suggestion floats thru the press of
this country that Austria is much
gentler than Qermnny, and therefore
more inclined to agree to u pence on
huodcrnle conditions.
Austria llrutnl. .
The truth, ts and our officials
here are tlioroly acquainted with it
that Aus,triji.is no more gentle than
l'russiajcvuv
'Over 200,000 of her subjects have
been imprisoned since the wur be
gan. , '
Over 24,000 have been executed,
the hapless wives and children of tho
condemned often being compelled to
witness their "death.
' instead of suppressing the aspira
tions of the .subject peoples, how
ever, Austria has' merely serVed to
aceentiiato them. In the little pro
vincial papers iu the Slav languages,
accounts of speeches of Slav leaders
are printed; They show that the
sHakers huvu ,tnkcn very-vserioulyj
President Wilson's. words'in favor rol'i
the little nationalities, and his saying
that there should be no government
save by the consent' of the governed.
Croatian Socks Freedom.
Not so very long ago, in. tho local
Croation parliament at Agrnni, the
peasant deputy Stiopnn Radieh defi
antly said:
"The Prussian generals define the
entente as a mixture of Irreconcil
able enemies of Germany's, hut 1 suy
to you (but the entente is civilization
itself." - . . ..
. Again, almost anticipating Presi
dent Wilson's words iu his note to
tile pope, Itndieh said:
"The1 best thing that' the Croats
crin do is to break nil ties with those
who wish to lead us under tho Prus,
sian helmet."
, Move Denied Power.
. The Austriau purliumcut (Hun
gary has its own) was called into
session last May for the first time
since tho war started. Altho dis
tricts have been so juggled that il
takes 05,479 Slav votes to get a
deputy, whereas it only takes 42,889
German votes, tho Germans hud a
hard timo procuring n majority.
The Czechs at once demanded re
construction of the stuto on u federal
basis and tho inclusion of tho Slov
aks of Hungary in the Czech state
group. The southern Slavs demand
ed the union of all Slovenes, Croats
and Serbs of Austria and Hungary in
one independent slate. The Poles de
muniled union of all the German,
Russian and Austrian lands inhabit
ed by their nation.
, The Germans resisted nil these de
mands, which they eluimed wero in
spired by the entente.
Tho tone of the speeches made by
tho Slavs givo an important key to
Austria's desire for pence. If the
big war wero over sho could devote
more timo to suppressing her subject
peoples.
Slovene Aspirations,
Br.t Ravnihar, a Slovene deputy,
said: "Tho trend of tho premier's
speech betrays tb.e wish to perpetu
ate all the old misery in Austria. The
1017
Jdnuaiif arq to: go on dominating.!
These Germans have expelled fam
ilies, torn children from their moth
ers, husbands from their wives, sent
thousands into exile, nnd exposed
them to ruin."
Dr. llutko r.nginja, a Croat dop
uty from Istriu, said:
"The primo minister declared his
intention of upholding Austria. What
kind of Austria f lie wants a 'single
state.' It never cxisteiy. Austria is
only possible ns a second Gennun
state. This would meun slavery i'or
the Czechs, Poles and southern
Slavs.".' ...
' Dr. Diankiiii, p. Cront deputy .from
Daliuatia, made a passionate reply
to the utterances of a German Aus
trian who had said "tho southern
Slavs are so insolent and aggressive
because loo few of them were
hanged."
' IiitUo Nations Complain,
Dr. Krek, leader of the Slovene
Catholic, party, spoke of the deplor
able state of the southern Slav prov-
luces, whero the population had
nothing to eat, nnd added: "The
Slovenes, Croats and Svilis form one
nation and should be united in one
independent state. This will come to
pass in spito of everything."
Dr. Otoknr Ribnr, a Slovcno dep
uty from Trieste, fearlessly painted
a picture of what the Austrian Ger
mans nro perpetrating:
"The horrors of this .wnr havo hit
nobody harder than the southern
Sluvs. Go to tho Balkans, to Hos
nia, Herzegovina, Dnlmiitia and vnu
will seo for yourselves that the
nourishing villages have been liter
ally laid in ruins. The authorities
raged against everything that bore
tho Slav name."
CARD OP. THANKS.
We wish to express our thanks to
neighbors and friends for their kind-
ness and sympathy shown us during
our recent bereavement, also for tho
floral offerings.
MRS M 13 RICA CHITTENDEN,
MRS ETHEL 551 Ed AN, -MRS.
LILY ALFOHD,
ROLAND FLAHERTY,
JESS STARKEY. .
PXOE THREE i
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OLD KXftLfHH RKMKDY, FO p.tS
TA It It If, CATAKRH.lXi DEAF- f
SBSS AXI IIEA1 NOIHFJ). J
If you know of some one who la K
troubled wllth catarrhal deafness,
nut thin fnrnmln nnrl finnil tt in ihamr I-
- - .V - . .
uuu you inuy nave ueeu me means .
of saving some poor sufferer from
total deafness. In England scientists
for a long time past have recognized
that catarrh is a constitutional dls- $
ease and necessarily requires consti
tutional -treatmont. ,.,.
ofjrujn, uiiiiMera uuu .uwse uuucueaiu;
ra iinnin in irriram inn na trniA .im . r
tne nuuuio ear, wnicn frequently
means total deafness, or else the dis
ease may be driven down the) atr
nnaOQivaa Inward fhn fiitiira utlilih .la
equally as dangerous. The. follow--
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In the damp English climate Is a eon-
stltutional . treatment and should
prove especially efficacious to suf
ferers here who lvle under more fa
vorable climate conditions.
Securehfrom your Druggist, 1 ounce
of Parmlnt (Double Strength). Take
this home and add to It pint of
hot water and 4 ounces of granulated
suar; stir until dissolved. Take
one tablespoonful four times a day.
This wll often bring quick relief from
distressing head noises. Clogged nos
trils should, open, breathing become
easy and hearing improve as the In
flammation In the eustachian tubes la
reduced. Parmlnt used In this way "
acts directly upon the blood and mu
cous surfaces ot the system and has a
slight tonic action that facilitates ob
taining 'tho desired results. This
preparation' Is easy to wdke, costa
little and is pleasant to take. Every
person who has catarrh should give
this treatment a trial.
Hoath's Drug Store, llnskln's Drug
Store, Strang's Drug Store, Medford
Pharmacy, West Side Pharmacy can
supply you.
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