Show c5 - - Y- 4' - v- Y' ' ''' wv:-- - I MAGAZINE SECTION THE Lv-- :?)? t:at CITY :y -- : ' iHERALD-SEPUBLICA- N SALT ' ' ( - r v V :YYv- f t ? - r- - UTAH SUNDAY JANUARY 14 1917 MAGAZINE SECTION £ N?-v- - v - YYYY r s ' " 7 ' : ' k- - - v? £$ - 'Y r ' Y '??' YYY Y'- - ? j v i: -- m ? The factory girls live on' bread the operations it lias all been paid out in can be bought People Have Plenty of wages and salaries and it is all in onlyfood product that herid twelve in a circulation All Austrian values have at bearable prices Contrive to Money and gone up Last year Vienna’s esti- room paying 2 cents for the right io mated Licbme was 35 per cent higher sleep "oil a floor and spend their surLux Spend It Freely for than in 1915 and this year experts plus earnings in buying Vienna model estimate it will be 55 per cent higher hats embroidered blouses and high-heeluries "sloes j Common ' sights y- in Austrians never save and no new enterprises except amusement enter- Prague”: are groups of peasant girls Aro Real National Sentiment prises are being started Some neces- newly transformed into townswomen ' sary things cannot be had at any who i parade the y streets in J and Politicians Are' Fatal- price So Austria has nothing to do hats 'and bootsfc feathered with her money except to amuse her- muddy farm clothes istic Optimists Austria’s" prices for food and necesself and Austria in spite of all the horrors and terrors of war is amus- sary manufactured goods are' 'higher — 13 Austria ing herself in a way that has no than in anydther fighting country BUDAPEST Jan which never solves record since the age of the decline of but this y does ni©t disturb Austria’s any problem’ wrote the poet Grill-parz- Rome serenity Before the war Austria — has solved the most difficult Vienna’s Buigermeister "Weisskircli- - produced enough of all food products problem of them all It is the prob- ner declares that Vienna in 1015 had to support Herself whereas Germany lem of cniryinf on a war for exist- the most prosperous year of her his- did not but Austria’s prices are now ’s ence without taking the war seriously tory This — as far as moiiey and 50 per cent higher than Germany oneTwelve Ktmican and Asiatic amusements go— is true One reason why Austria manages Foreign ' a stato are deep in bloody struggle tourists who have been kept away to keep smiling is that she is still in race They differ religion aspira- - liy the war arc replaced by refugee mainly an agricultural country' and tions and measure of success or fail- millionaire magnates from ' Galicia her big land owners and peasant ure but all except Austria"fight se- and by brand new armaments mil- farmers make vast profits out of the riously All are iii a state of nervous lionaires from Bohemia All Vienna’s cities’ needs Hungary’s wheat magtension their emotions are wound uj) Wo big hotels are crowded at ' doubled nates are ali millionaires They live to intense so long as it belligerent lives they prices slimmer hotels at Simmering not care about the war the sacrifice of their domestic com- are salve earning 100 per cent profit and does not come their way they mercial spiritual and amusement the' amusement public in the North their conscience br subscribing to lives Austria is more at war than Tyrol and the Tatra district of Hun- war charities and apply the rest ex-ofShe has five enemy unv of them to amusements and gary is the biggest on record The their profits t statis with contiguous frontiers Tatra district is within the reach of travagance two Prance Russia’s armies if ulurecs ltusia has only Austria’s minor politicians and they march much AusHut none one and Tugland only farther west but nobody cares the writers care nothing about the result tria manages to be frivolous opovercrowded ‘hotels are running up big of the war They are fatalistic - has Slit is still Happy Austria V Ye Austria thev sayalways wooden dependence shanties jfpf neW timists li Austria! Three hundred years ago--t-is she been beaten yet bigger in tertourist floods and the only obstacle of got that title because instead to further crowding is that there are ritory today than at any time in her menus she war df grubbing land by history not enough trains ' v it More Trench Fighting got peacelully by dynastic Frivolity in Bohemia Xow she lias fie enemies on The old business of trench warfare Bohemia bolds the record for war here her I routiers and has not much chance Bohemia1 lias vast iron has been resumed for a while ’ out frivolity ’ “ of grubbing any land lmt Flie'is just works and ’manufactures and during the days of peace as the general as happy as ihe was 300 years ago are soldiers all this way of fighting when the masters and V workmen Austria is living a more indifferNine-tentof the gen- there are not great attacks flourishing ent luxurious frivolous life than It is a business conducted with ex-- 1 eral factories are producing excluother nations live in time of peace arms munitions uniforms and treme technical skill and directed bvj lie carries sively Her actual minds taking into medical stores Wages at tlie iron high specialized I'K seriouslv us u state with five manner of problems works have 'risen 85 per cent and tlie’ consideration all civilHut must her the neighbors enemy scope of the simple sol- so that be3ond overtime work men for hours ian population refuse to be in the of Ger- the average Worker’s earnings are 150 dier such as new dispositions well armies decimated war Ilcr fight cent over peaCe figures Wages man troops reinforcements of hostile c rim s! i : her wav finances are managed per batteries at certain sections of the in the general factories have risen to she is and trying fairly seriously: Workers largely front supplies of ammunition diffivruauize her food supply on German 70 per cent The women ennnot buy necessaries so culties of transport the wear and tear lines of guns and the influence of the they spend their money in orgies of Rolling in Money Bo- weather on operations Iluppy Austria is rolling in money extravagance’ In the northwest It is a business which' on the British —in paper money that is' and if hemian industrial district 300000 she only hud things to spend the girls have been taken from the plow side is devoted to one simple deadly money on she would be the best fed and turned iirto factory hands Be- object that is 'to kill Gyrman soldiers ami best elothe-- l country in'thc world fore the war they earned 18 cents a wherever shell or trench or machine ten gun bullet can reach them to small up During two years the Austrian state da 3 by plowing now has spent on war Ji5 000000000 All times as much In Bohemia this is a their defenses as soon as they have N built tbcm to prevent the building of this money has been raised by credit vast income them' to destroy reliefs coming in or going out to make their communicaUNCLE SAM EVOLVES THIS NEW GUN FOR tion trenches impassable by constant t USE IN DESTROYING HOSTILE AIRCRAFT fire to concentrate death traps across roads and to injure the foe in his dug-ou- ts in his ditches in his billets in his store dumps in his body and in bis soul The foe has precise the same purpose regarding the British and goes about it in the same systematic way It will be seen therefore that these ‘ days of ‘ peace ’ ’ are not without their disagreeable moments On the balance " the British r liave made themselves more disagreeable than the Germans during the past few days It is not that the Christmas spirit has softened them at all ' They have done their best to be most damnably disagreeable but that they are making use of this breathing space after the battles f of - the - Somme to recuperate their strength and reserve themselves for future defensive efforts They have been shifting their batteries -- s ILrr" : ? ’ — 7-- ' ed - V ed high-heel- ' 1 : er - : - - - - went Into the carriage business am gave it new life They gained whe: he built the Bulck motor car and mad it a success They profited tremenwhen he the General dously Motors company organized is asserted that It more than 200 persons in this made from $50000 to $25000000 city or their General Motors stock A great per cent of the residents of who ' have comfortable wealththegotcityit some of Durant’s enterprises through Durant's interesting career has been predicated on 21his organizing ability lie started at years old by reorganizing the waterworks plant at Flint He organized the clearing house association at Flint and served two years as secretary When 25 years old lie went Into the carriage business at Flint with J D Dort and the company out 50000 - ! mar-liuu- es put - war-maki- ng suc-ce- tleam XS8! It Upper Herr Bethmann-Hollwe- g gun mounted on torpedo boat destroyer Davis This new type of ft gun is now being used by American warships There are two of these guns on the newer boats in the torpedo class one in the front and he other in the rear A quickly- as they are turned out by the munition factories and tested they are being added to the Anti-aircra- ft anti-aircra- - ships' Wv- - letter-wntin- : peace ing Germany’s proposal j i of the Cathedral at right-inte- rior j lowing' the work Albert France of German shells center-- — An air craft making ready for its ascent 'V - ' ' iV ’‘if X bottom— Russian troops retreating ‘ iv-- :X - r £y v v'' month of October the average number of letters and cards forwarded by Switzerland for prisoners in the belligerent countries was 327- 091 while the daily: average for packages was 73032 f and for money orders 8390 Since the beginning of the war the Swiss postoffice has forwarded 181778440 letters and cards to prisoners of war as well as 37270795 packages and 5532017 money' orders to the value ' of $1597350 By- - fast freight and the mails Switzerland has forwarded 3199031 shipments of food supplies to French Brjtish and Russian prisoners held in Germany with ' t a total weight of 6133 tons 7'winthe terrible Notwithstanding ter weather the fighting continues unabated throughout the Italian front even with the terrible avalanches and hurricanes It lias been necessary to line most of the intrenchments with straw and boards to protect the soldiers from the cold and wet to build huts for the second line troops and insure hot rations even to the detachments on the highest peaks In places lacking water as much as over 100-00- 0 gallons are 'transported daily ' To give an- - approximate idea ' of what is done it will be sufficient to Alps say that one army corps in the 100-000 requires 300000 boards whereof 28b 000 were carried up by hand blankets the s&rne amount of woolen underclothes 80000 cloaks 60000 fur chest protectors and 10000 fur sleep- ing bags - va-jrio- us err? wealthy Flint (Mich) Owes Prosper ity to Durant and Ilis Methods -- t- : from Rumania I?v tPV fUt t 1 : Kbity - become almost a mania anions the intern' aiifjSd' ttateime of thei had sent out M'&MyTMVfifteen or twenW’lettOT hnd fifty ptMrde' in - i ingle postoffice ®? about 700 per cent in popula- Durant s career here It Isle of Blennerhassett j N the channel of the Ohio river fif and Herr von Jagovr di£ eras prisoners may receive from abroad or ' may exchange among themselves within the borders of the republic In' explaining the y reasons ' for this It the Swiss - newspapers limitation result 'of :the point 'out bat as i Sw Vernmmt' ' in boaU free letter Wiling and handling i 400 4- - - a 1TaJ ° e g proclmtics of her gueste TheBerner Bund pfNovember 27 announces that the Swmsjpostol authorities have fixed the number of letters" or packages that may be sent abroad free at ten a nontb for each prisoner and that no ° thefactory day Dort carriage plant has become Ptece out seventy mo-liCar a turning besides the carriage Is estimated that Flint has Zimmer-ma- n I 0 °UtPUt motor now claims 70000 persona alpitardri positions'in deliberate fashion Swiss Are Tiring Switzerland lias at last become tired of playing the role of "the Good Samaritan upon an unlimited scale in the matter of handling mail free for mtcjned rpmoners af war and mmlrnns p bdligerent natmns held making ss ne httie from the deadly concentration ont th Kpdar: 5 being paid' I on the Somme but v meanwhile the I No restriction is placed ’upon the British guns have been' bombarding number of letters and cards that the their - IS SIeI - Keved two-wheel- ed took the Buick stationary made the Buick motor and gine plant car a success Then came biggest stroke the General Motorshiscompany embracing& the Bulck Cadillac Olds Oakland Motor Northway In 1910 Wall street bankerscompany caught the short and although it was company re$11000000 vear that earning fused to lend $15000000 which it needed in a hurry Durant finally put up his stock with trustees and but tls got the stock had dropped to money on $24 a which the par value was $100share was it then that Durant’s friends were buv-in- g Durant was oue the management but he held his ofstock and the company was administered under his which plan Some proved a tremendous of his friends sold their stock for thirty-fiv- e times what they for it paid 7h loan was for five years Last £aVii£ Ya and Durant re- of hl Btock When fhi --1?il8e8?!0n 1?® time came he appeared Interest and re- controlling as Place £l"®4 president of the Geenral hjg Motors company meantime he organized the J10101 Car company and the S?er flJi0tiI0rP0ratl0nl whIch took hs re carts the first year He got Into the motor business when over he en- shows that during the rV- v v '’1 : S:-- ' f Flint Mich Jan 1—This : town W C Durant made There was the case of the younx man who went broke in the mercantile business in 1910-- ' From his uncle he y borrowed $3009 and bought General Motors stock on margin at a time when Wall street had hammered It of par As down to about It began climbing he pyramided' twice and emerged ' with a million dollars : ( one-four- th profit Somewhat typical ' is the case of the young man who was working for a salary when the bears grot after General Motors in 1910 and 1911' He hud faith in Durant’s company and put his savings in stock at the lowest ebb Not long ago he bought a' site on which to build a home and paid $19000 for it ills General-- Motors stock did It : A mechanic at the Bulck factory had only a few dollars of his wages to Invest He had faith in Durant and cleared $4700 as a result V Such examples as this have prompted many wild stories about stenogand clerks wbo got rich In raphers a few cases this has been true but it was an investing class generally Most of those who profited had the Durant habit They Invested with him when he - - - - : f--- teen miles west of Marietta lies an island that takes Its name from the fact that Herman ' Blennerhassett who became Involved in the treasonable enterprise of Aaron Burr in the southwest owned the major part of it at one time and there had ' his home when he ‘was placed under arrest with Burr The island Is an extensive one and contained originally about three hundred acres It was once the property of President Washington Blennerhas-zot- t purchased 170 acres of the island while on a tour of investigation In America and being of & romantic turn of mind ' he determined to bring his wife to that then remote place and lhake it their home He erected a mansion and laid out part' of the island in parklike form His plans were wrecked by the discovery of the Burr conspiracy though it was never fully proved that realized the serious character of the enterprise in which he had joined Burr Military forces sent out to break up the movement burned the Blennerhassett home and the place was never restored Under the judicial ruling that Virginia when it ceded its claims to the Ohio territory northwest of the River water retained jurisdiction to the low mark on the Ohio shore all of the island 'lies In West Virginia now and is & part of Wood county The soil of the island having been deposited as alluvium is very fertile and the farm value of the land of the obisland Is high But Blennc-rhassetained the portion of it that he owned for only $4500 Blen-rerhass- ett -- t - Though born In Bn gland Blennerhassett was of IriBh descent He died in poverty in England in 1S21 at 57 years old Neither he nor Burr was ever punished for the conspiracy charged against them - : Sv -- |