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Show '- - THE GRANT8V1LLE .NEWS', GRANT8VILLE, 24,000,000 UTAH. MEN. Al WARSAYS EXPERT the total number of men engaged amounts to nearly 24,000,000. In fact, this war Is not, as In the past, a war merely of opposing armies, but a war ent Struggle. of nations, and there Is not today a. In the empire who Is man not doing something either to help or 4,000,000, soldiers Into the field.. DEATH TOLL IS APPALLING to hinder the winning of the war? A To move any considerable proporman of great distinction told me the tion of such a force even Into the nearother day that he estimated the weight er t fighting areas by water Is a ridicuof purely military effort at only 25 per lous Impossibility at this time." But British In1 France Fired 200,000 Tolls cent of the whole, the remaining 75 there, has been serious discussion, I of Ammunition in Five or Six per cent being, strictly speaking, of a am told, at some of the recent conferWeeks How Transportation nonmilitary nature, and made up 'of ences among allied leaders of the posDifficulties Are Overcome. food, sibility many elements agriculture, bringing Japanese solBlern Shipping, diplomacy, etc. I think he Is to Europe by way of the Transslberlan London. Gen. Sir William Robert- probably not fa' wrong, and when peo- railway. Today this would necessitate son In a speech recently gave a graph- ple ask me, as they sometimes do, how an Immense expansion of the carrying, ic impression of some of the extraor- the' war Is getting on, I feel Inclined capacity of that route. dinary aspects of the present war. It to reply,' Why ask me? Why not ask A of It nas now ' has become merely trite to observe yourself and the remainder of the 75 been very large part,and If It shall be that the war has now completely over- per centT" recognized by the end of this year that Allies Outnumber Enemy, shadowed every other occupation and the war Is likely to continue several General Robertson's figure of Interest In the world, but the extent to the further development of years men of as number the which It has done this is suggested In actually Transslberlan tonnage capacity 'might a moat forcible way by some figures engaged In the military operations Is be found feasible and even necessary.. which General Robertson employed. probably based on as good Information One thing is certain and that Is that In the armies of all the belligerents, as any man In the world possesses. oq nelthfer side Is there at present any all staff knows he said, there are now 24,000,000 men, The British general such prejudice as formerly existed, which excludes the great civilian about the armies of the entente counagainst Introducing Asiatics and Afrioutknows all that anybody tries, and armies behind the front; In the cans upon the European battlefields.. . war the total of all casual- side Berlin and Vienna knows about r The conception of this war as a war of the central powers. ties Was. less ten 600,000, .while in those of the whole world lias been strength-- . how numbers the He didnt suggest countthis war the killed alone can' be are now divided between the two sides, ened very greatly since the beginning:-oed by the million. tle present year. It Is looked upon certain that the entente but It Is During the past five or six weeks nations very the western powers now os everyby enedecidedly outweigh their we have, I suppose, said General Rob-- , war, a war In which everybody bodys mere In Germanic The numbers. mies ertson, expended some 200,000 tons of not has only an Interest bnt a duty to on the other hand, have the ammunition, which has had to be powers That conception has affectpqrform. and shorter of lines 'great advantage moved by road, rail and sea from the of remote and detached: the attitude ed factories In 'England to' the guns In easier .communications. With Russia peoples to a striking extent Foe exIs not all It at inactive. Comparatively France and probably not certain that the weight of numbers Is ample, among tribes In Africa which less than half a dozen times. now very decidedly In favor of the en- would not be presumed to know anyGreat Transportation Task. tente peoples. But the weight of ma- thing about what Is happening In EuTwo hundred thousand tons of am- chinery Is decldely to their advantage. rope It is said that there Is a very con0 munition means rather more than In this connection there has been siderable Interest and a desire to help carloads as measured by the minia- some Intimation In Petrograd recently the western nations. ture freight cars commonly loading of the possibility that Japan might be about twelve tons that are used In called upon In some fashion to take a England. General Robertson didnt more active part In the struggle. BOY MAKES BOMB OF suggest, but any railroad manager with The first suggestion of this sort whom one talks will promptly make which came from Russia was In a brief PENCIL; LOSES HAND good the omission, that the mere trans- dispatch saying the government bad t ' Lorain, O. Aspirations to be portation of this one Item of war sup- categorically denied persistent rumors a real munition worker Just like plies at a time when freight cars hSve that Japan might be employed to bring been sent to France by the thousand pressure against RussltT with the pursome of his grown-u- p companconstitutes a terrific drain. on the coun- pose of convincing Russia that It would John ions, cost fourteen-year-ol- d be highly undesirable for per to reKfitonnk hls right hand and trys capacity to move things. lacerated hlS knee. Johnny took To transport ammunition Is a par- pudiate her obligations to her allies. ' Such a of be would the lead from a pencil, filled the course suggestion busidelicate and ticularly dangerous hollow tube with powder and ' ness and It Is only because of splendid most unfortunate, and the denial from plugged It with a dynamite cap organization and high efficiency among Petrograd Is unquestionably absolutely In each end. He attached elec:' railroad employees that there have correct, according to the best" authoritrie wires to set off the charge been so very few accidents and prac- ties here. when the wires became and no WorldS'Greatest Reserve. real disasters as Incidents to tically crossed the explosion followed. But while the employment of Japs- -' this service. General Robertson paid a special tribute to the men who have nese force as an argument with Rus orgahized and carried on this branch of war work. Comparing the s&le and scope of PAY OF ARMY AND NAVY ON FOREIGN SERVICE the present war with former struggles. General Robertson was particularly interesting and Impressive. He observed Men of the army' and navy of all ships are to receive a $30 a month Inthat the greatest peculiarity of the present war Is In the colossal numbers' ranks will receive a 20 per cent in- crease. of men employed at the front As a crease In pay. while on foreign service. . Pay In the navy under the- new matter of fact he omitted to empha- The increase is figured .on the 1908 schedule will be as follows : v size his figures by observing that the schedules. . Monthly The revised schedule of the army great proportion of the civil populaRank. Shore. Sea. tion Immediately engaged In work for and Marine corps, Just Issued at Wash- Admirals '. IU25.00 $1,227 JO Rear admirals (1st 9 668.67 the support of the army is quite as Im- ington, Is as follows: 722.22 SOO.OO Rear admirals (2d 9) 550.00 pressive a peculiarity of this struggle. 500.00 Monthly. Chiefs of bureaue A Warfare of Machinery., 222.22 5916.17 Captain 202,17 Lieutenant general 666.57 201.67 Commandere 220.83 -- It Is a warfare of machinery and Major generalsoo.oo Lieutenant commanders .. 250.00 275.00 mechanisms, many of them new and Brigadier general 833.23 Lieutenants '.. 200.00 220.06 heretofore almost untried. These have Colonel 291.6T Lieutenant, Junior grade 166. 67" 181.67 lieutenant colonel 14L67V 142.13 250.00 Bneigni , required to be produced, to be tested Major 200.09 at acadeMidshipmen and to have great bodies of men Captain .' S0.00 166.67 my Flret lieutenant trained for Using them. :. 141.67 Chief boatswains, gun- -' Second lieutenant' ' war with the present Comparing 51.00 ners, Carpenters, sail- First sergeant, all arms 46.00 that of 1870 between Germany and' Battalion sergeant major makers, machinists gnd ' 44.00 141.67 156.67 Color ;.... pharmacists sergeant observed General Robertson France, 333.33 366.67" Sergeant, cavalry, artillery. Infantry 28.01) Medical directors that .In the 1870 war armies were Corporals, 26L6T 16.09 Medical Inspectors 220.82 all arms 250.00 counted by the hundred thousand, and Privates, flret class, engineers, ord- Surgeons 333.22 S3. 266.(7 Pay directors at the battle of Gravelotte, where the nance, signal corps, hospital corps 291.67 220.22 second class hospital corps 21.09 Pay Inspectors heaviest losses were Incurred, the to- Privates, 250.00 20.00 275.00 Privates Paymasters tal casualties were only about 38,000 men on both sides, while for the whole Chief petty officers will receive from Nurses will receive an advance of war the total casualties of both sides $10 a- month. Doctors will receive 847.00 to 877.50 a'month; second class-pettwere less than half a million. officers, 841; first class seamen, ay equal to that of an army officer In the present war the killed alone of equai rank. Chief nurses in general 838.40; ordinary seamen, 83289, and can be counted by the million, while hospitals, base' hospitals and hospital apprentice seamen, 832. Ben. Sir William Robertson Gives Graphic Facts About Pres- -- n Combats Work of Agitators Among Foreigners YORK. Mrs. T. D. M. Cardezals a little woman with a great Through her recent appointment as secretary to Mrs. Msrfrm K. Clark, chief Investigator of the bureau of Industries and Immigration, she Is engaged In assisting the represent tlves of the New York state Industrial commission in carrying the assuring message of President Wilson, that no one who obeys the law will be Interfered with, to the great colonies of workmen subjects of the central European powers who ace settled In. New York. Mrs. Cardeza, who Is the wife of a prominent Philadelphian, Is probably the .wealthiest worklngwoman In New York, and it Is safe to. say without an actual census she Is the only employee of a state bureau In the government of the United States who presides over her own castle in Europe.' Poor, bewildered peoplh," said Mrs. Cardeza, It Is necessary that we should reach them before the .agitators do. These foreign men and women need someone to tell them In their own language exactly what the president said In his message. And it Is necessary that they should be approached by persons who understand not only the language but the point of view of the NEW European peasant Nor Is It only for their sakes that the state industrial commission is sending us from one great plant to another to address these men In friendly faslon. It Is equally Important to this country.' There are agitators here from their own countries who would Incite them to engage In undertakings that might cause untold harm In the United States" Famous Horses Last Days to Be Spent in Ease LOUIS, MO. Chief, the sorrel horse driven for many years by Eire Swlngley before the automobile became the modern fire vehicle. Is assured of a grassy pasture and nothing to do but eat as' long as he lives. For several years Chief has bedb pensioned by the city and 'was given his freedom In a pasture on Chesley Island. Recently Comptroller Nolte rented the Island farm to Earl. W. Jones. Then Nolte faced the problem of what to do with Chief. Nolte went to the island to bring back the city stock and equipment not purchased by Jones. The subject of ST. Chiefs pasturage was the last subject brought up. Leave the oid horse here and I will keep him free of cost to the city as long as I live on the Island, Jones told Nolte. His offer was accepted Immediately and the sentimental problem was solved. ' ' Chief Swlngley bought Chief In ISM at the National stock yards In East St. Louis and he became the .official buggy horse for the chief. He galloped to all fires with Chief Swlngley for 14 years and was sent to the pasture about eight 'years ago. Chief Swlngley frequently went to a theater. When a fire alarm sounded his driver would drive to the theater and stop. Chief, apparently knowing his master was Inside, would whinny and the chief invariably answered ' promptly. . Chief was turned loose ' at fires and loafed about all night, If necessary, but never did he leave until Chief Swlngley returned to the buggy. Woman Thinks Running Elevator Is Great Fun Dont crowd, gents. All may have a ride. She enjoys and doubtless will be on the job for many months If you will form In line and wait your turn, we will now introduce Mrs. May Tyrrell, Buffalo's first woman elevator operator. She' runs the electric elevator In the new Colonnade building In Pearl street, opposite St Paul's churc! Its great fun, said Mrs. Tyrrell, ' the ground-floo- r door. slamming There Is no reason at all why women should not run ele floors, please! for it Is a congenial occupation and one that It not tiring. First floor I .It took me only a few minutes to and yes, sir, . youll find the learn, a manager on the next floor and running an elevator is a pleasant sensation at least for a womah who Is a beginner at it I know that top floor, watch your step, please. There was nothing left to do but to step out B. B. Burbank, manager of the Colonnade building, said that he engaged Mrs. Tyrrell because lie had found trouble In getting an elevator boy that would suit him. They have elevator girls in New York and Chicago, so I thought I It Is such a success that managers would try It out In Buffalo, he said. have been over here to see how of one or two office buildings practical It Is. BUFFALO. . . Cat an Incorrigible Says Woman Nighthawk, sia is quite unthinkable there lias been a renewal of the suggestion that Japans magnificent army might yet require to be employed In some way In the European field. It represents the greatest reserve of completely prepared military . force that ever stood behind an active'mllltary campaign In the world. If there were only mesne of moving it Japan could readily and quickly, put 2,000,000, or if necessary double-tracke- d, Fran-co-Prussl- f , man-handle- d . 18,-00- -- - . - - - - . - . O'1 t - r HAS AN INCOME; WHY W0RK7 rent of the house. 815 a month, .and has the rest for himself. .The Justice CANTON FACES TWO took a month to think It over. Justice of. Peace Trying to Figure TIMES AT ONCE ' c Way to Patqh Things Up 8moke More and Eat Less. Between Couple. Canton, O. Gosh, Pm an Smoke more and ent London. Into hour this ' morning. less! Huntington, L. X William Roes has Gee, whiz, I got to work an This la the latest advice given to Income arid a section of his home an hour early. this statement. It was in reply to all to himself, and as he gives hie wife the British people in the food shortage Canton wont know whqt time statements by some men who favored comes Sir does he situation. from John It his income of ' the major part It is after Jnne 2L On that tjje ordinance that cats should be kept not see what reason she has to bother Bees, who says: It hns been agreed that the date In at night and not permitted to keep HendrickIncreased Is to be the Peace It that the of hoped him. Justice the populace awake.city will adopt Eastern time, bnt son is thinking It over whHe trying tobacco duty will not reduce the quanSome of the knrnrledge obtained Prosecutor Bweltzer has submore' smoke Ross Mrs. The less the and Mr. people patch tity.. to have a written opinion that mitted by the committee was: they are liable to eat It Is well known things up. Cats howl at night and keep peoto change the time on the courtbecaters are a the to that swore grossest complaint Mrs. Ross house clock, In the schools, ple awake. and fore the justice that her husband did banks or city and county offices, ' Destroy gardens. ' advice refers to women as The Jusher. This andsupport not work would be a violation of the state Play with rats instead of catching them.' tice issued the summons, and Ross ex- Well as men, for the smoking lmbit Kill birds. . laws. to women like not work. has since did spread widely among plained that he While the city council has esCarry germs and spread disease, Formerly women The ladles who defended the rights of the tabbies. however, did not He would rather read, po he stays up the .war started. Eastern .time for all tablished resIn or homes their smoked lu only see things In the same light as the men who urged a favorable report on until the small hours, sleeps until, other It mast do Its own people. about noon, and takes the afternoon taurants. Now they can be seen . in the ordinance. Central time. ' business by In streets and factories the puffing Miss Nellie C. Williams said germs have no more affection for the fur for recreation. He has part of the house set off as away at pipes, mild-- cigars or cigaYou would on the back of a cat than they have for the mustache of a man. not put a collar and a tag on a mans neck because he wore a mustache, a library, Into which neither she nor rettes. child ever goes. Arrests of women ' for smoking In their would you?". The weathers about the only thing an Income munition had factories became so he It seemed that the several , seme women who were present all wanted Ross explained that of Some married- couples have In comImhad he the to Out that month. said, a this, 50 magistrates of ' .to sa something In defense of the rights of the felines. mon. Chicago Examiner. he gavS bis wife 880. Me paid the pose severe penalties to break It up: ' ' . which the members of the joint committee the BALTIMORE. Amongof the thingscouncil learned Jail about, cats recently, when a city public hearing was given on an ordinance to tax cats, was that It Is as Impossible' to keep a cat in at night ns It is to keep In a man. Miss Mary Shearer of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals made - . . " rs s. - . - nlne-year-o- ld corn-su- m - - - ' V c f y |