| Show I II I t EDITORIALS OF T THE E DAY 1 I H HOW W GERMANY C CONSERVES t STRENGTH From Irom the Chicago Tribune When dispatches were printed telling that the search for tor ford copper peen b by penetrated the Get Ger Getman German Ger man government had even p penetrated the imperial p palaces laces and that members I of the court were required to Y yield up th their many lr br brass S and nd can ornaments t Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Ger Ger- many's enemies beg began to CO hope that she sue I was on her last legs When it ft was announced announced announced an an- that the Imperial government had taken over control of the food supply sup up ply they were sure that the allies allies' pol policy J icy y o of attrition was doing its work worl It v was as easy to think that these thelle signs were i those They of w were weakness on the contrary among I Ithe the most impressive Signs n of or German strength Prof Pro Edwin J. J Clapp of of New NewYork NewYork York university In his Economic Aspects As As- peets of ot the War Vat offers the key ter- ter to this sea seeming e ming paradox What the Germans Gel Ger mans are doing Is ls lowering their standard standard standard stand stand- I ard of ot living That is about the hardest harde hardest hard hard- est thing any nation n can do but the he Germans e l have a b been ns s successful es German Cerman farms in 1870 supported suPPort 1 the 1 population Since that time the population l lation has increased about thirty mil mil- lion Bismarck developed industries industries' by protective tariff to check emigration and then then b by another tariff encouraged ged agriculture So successful has the scheme proved that while population has Increased almost al almost almost al- al most 50 per cent since 1887 production In the most important food tood products In Increased Increased increased In- In creased more than 50 per cent PROSPERITY SPREADING News New of ot a car shortage Is an evIdence evidence evidence evi evI- dence of prosperity which no man can question evidence which is la corroborated corroborated corroborated rated by the fact tact that railroad gross earnings In September showed a gain of 2 per cent It explains the placing of heavy orders for tor material by railroads railroads railroads rail rail- roads for tor delivery In 1916 and justifies jus jus- titles the belief beliet that liberal buying of or cars ars is beginning or will soon begin Buying of ot material by railroads Is good news to the lumber Industry Track improvement will require ties also bridge material wherever steel bridges have not supplanted trestles Terminal Improvements will require lumber for tor construction New roads and branches will demand lar large e quantities of ot all these classes of mat mate ma- ma t te ial The great demand for steel sted from rom plants and from foreign for tor foreign eign railroads and the consequent higher prices may check the tendency to build steel freight cars cars and may tempt railroads to build of ot wood They may be the more Inclined that way because lumber is cheap and can be he delivered promptly Another encouraging a aging fact to 10 lumbermen is an In In in- crease of per percent per ter I cent In value of building permits in seventy-nine seventy principal principal prin prin- I cipal cities cHIts during September r. r All of or these features of ot prosperity i and the inferences which are drawn from them go to show chow that prosperity I long pr prevail vall in tIle the country at large without spreading Into Its He every I I corner Its beginnings are ore already perceptible In th the Pacific Northwest I and no long time can elapse before It r reaches a hes our Industry and puts the prop iet of ot evil to flight Portland THE ROLL ROLL ROLL-OP OF DEAD CHIEFTAINS Col J J J. A A. A George of Deadwood S S.D. S.D. S. S D D. who who- is la the attorney for the Sioux Indians of ot the Pine Ridge reservation has had something to say about the abundance of ot the crops of ot wheat grown on land lan l In his s section of or th the country which a u few years yeats ago was regarded as incapable of ot producing grain Colonel George has hall had some other things to say which In a wa way are more Interesting to hear heat although not so vitally important perhaps as the recital of farming arming activities We Ve are ara told that nearly all ll the old Sioux chieftains of the Pine Ridge and anU the adjacent agencies e have gone to the happy hunting ground Red Cloud American Horse Little Wound Young Man Afraid of His Horses Hores and Kicking gicking Bear all are chasing buffalo burtalo or hunting elk on the plains and the mountains of ot Eternity Red Clouds Cloud's fame as a warrior is secure AmerIcan American American Ameri AmerI- can Horse Is but little known to the whites while Young Man Afraid of His Horses has a name If not a fame which will last Kicking Bear f Is ie as assured assured assured as- as a place in memory's niche be because because be- be cause causa of ot a sized life stat statue e of him which has a place in the Smithsonian institution in the c capital of ot the white whiteman's whiteman's whiteman's mans man's country Chicago has something of ot an interest interest interest inter inter- est In Kicking Kickin Bear With Short Bull another Sioux chieftain KIcKing KickIng Kick- Kick Ing Ong Bear Be-ar went on the warpath in December De De- December cember 1890 1800 with ith a large following of braves He was an absolute Irreconcilable Irre irre- He fought manlike until she ithe end and then surrendered only because he had to General Miles who was in command of ot the troops which fought the Sioux twenty five years ago ordered that Kicking Bear and Short Bull should be brought to Fort Sheridan where for tor a while they were In confinement No treatment which he ever re received received rea re- c from the hands of ot the whites was was resented so keenly by Kicking Bear as at the fact fact that at Fort Sheri Sheri- J dan as a prisoner h he w wi 4 show of General 1 Mush Miles 1 author authorities tt s military and and eft a. a T eluded dulled quickly that Kickin served n no such unish ll Short Bull he was sent b rest reservation and there h 8 warrior to the heart and andt t traditions of ot his race Ph Phy Ihy mentally he was one of types of ot the red plainsmen n Evening Post J THERE FOR LACK OF OR TION TrON JJ Women in the bridewell 1 taught domestic science happy thought thought though th till is 3 s a poor POOl place to go So for tor a an Chicago News it MARY DEAR A A BA Again weve we've b been en asked asked an original ball ballad d fo for an ah am show joe p. p asks forsong for foi song song of the waltz varlet variety rt I it in the Bronx All rights you and the Bronx can s st st. can can 1 Heres Here's the ballad My dear little girl Im I'm no n m J Jno no na earl 4 And nd so Ive I've no title toha tolna to hal But you are to me IS as th the bee And I T am determined to toV I A small wedding ring a i bing i A Hat flat in the Bronx wed we'd Youre You're famous to me eomy so eo my knee kne CJ J with true love for you I 1 s I CHOnUS CHORUS J In my hearts heart's hall hail of fai fal falI I have chiseled your nan Mary dear never dear never fear tear And there it shall shan stay A As the tIlE years roll a awn wan away Do you ou hear MAry hear Mary denAnd de den And with every throb It t will be on the job fob i To bump r nm my affection ton And with them play h b hI hr I love Jove you my darling Like Ilke corn on the cob cobBy cobB cob B By the ear ear Mary ear Mary d dear t DO DOIN ti Hod spent a peat peat ing at home last night III Ill spent the afternoon stick on her ber preserve jar tongue stuck to the roof root of Mrs Ezra Hicks' Hicks hired 1 who is Is hard of ot hearing chance of ot a a. lifetime yester rester Hicks asked her if shed she'd ll ilk afternoon of off every week weel didn't hear her |
