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Bureau Places Many at Work GREAT PALLS nATT.Y TRIBUNE, SATURDAY. JANUARY 4, 1919. PAGE SIX. w. M. BOLE, Editor LEONARD G. DIEHJL. GREAT FALLS DAILY TRIBUNE O. S. WARDEN, Manse« Business Manager EDITORIAL PAGE FRENCH TERRITORIAL CLAIMS. the Emperor Otho I gave it to his brother, United War Work Fund Bruno, archbishop of Cologne, who divided it The French prime minister, Clemenceau, after into two parts, upper -Lorraine, between the HASKIN LETTER considerable barking by socialists in the French Payment of Subscriptions Is as Follows:— Rhine, Saone and Meuse rivers, and lower Lor­ assembly, was induced to make answer to a good By FREDERIC J. HASKIN raine, between the Rhine, Meuse and Scheldt. many questions as to his views about peace, and The lower part then received the name of the he defined these views with more clearness and Dutchy of Brabant and fell to the rule of the TO SKIP OR NOT TO SKIP December 2, 1918 — 50% frankness of detail than any other entente states­ Duke of Burgundy and afterwards to Austria, Phiadlelphia, Jan. 1.—At present this istrator Potter informed the city that so January 15,1919.. man ha! done up to date. This article has to do city Ls in the throes of a controversy far as he and the fuel administration finally becoming a part of Belgium. Upper Lor­ was concerned, skip stops might be only with his statement about the territorial which is apt to be duplicated in nearly March 1,1919 25% raine was ruled for centuries by a dynasty of its every large city of the country. The abolished at once. v claims of France. On that topic he said that question at issue is whether the ubiqui­ This was bailed joyfully by the news­ own, but generally under either French or Ger­ tous "skip stop" system of the trolley papers as one of the less renowned The First Installment Is Now Due France demanded no territory from defeated lines shall continue, now that demands blessings of peace. It meant, they said, man influence and protection. In 1733 it was on fuel have so diminished. fewer dronchings, fewer pay dockings Germany as a right except their own lost pro­ During the war, skip stops were insti­ and fewer old, ladies killed on the way conquered by France in the Polish war of suc­ to market. As a war measure the city vinces of Alsace-Lorraine. But he added most tuted in nearly every city of the country cession, and a few years later Stephan IV, the with more than fifty thousand popula­ would put up with skip stops gladly, Please make payment promptly to S. S. Ford, significantly that France reserved the right to tion. The idea was adopted also by a but now it was little short of sinful to husband of Maria Theresa, of Austria, exchanged number of suburban and interurban, elec­ continue them, seeing the damage they Treasurer, at the Great Falls National Bank. discuss what constituted the boundaries of the had done. Will it be tomorrow, they his claims for it for the grand duchy of Tus­ tric lines. Payment in full, if convenient, appreciated. province of Lorraine. So far as the boundaries Each time an electric ear is stopped asked, or next day that the Transit cany, and it was given to Stanislaus, ex-king of and started it consumes an enormous Company will order its motormen to stop of the province of Lorraine in 1871 when it was amount of electricity, to produce which at every comer? Poland, who was out of a job as king just then, much fuel must be burned. By stopping But in the mantime a reporter had seized by Germany is concerned, there is no but was father-in-law to Louis XV, king of and starting the cars only every other seen one of the company's officials and room for any dispute. It is returned to France block, quite a tidy saving is effected. got from him a statement saying that France, at that time. When Stanislaus died in When the big -tax on the power pro­ the company wasn't quite so sure the the returned soldiers have beea placcd by the terms of the armistice. But the bound­ ducing plants of our industrial centers skips ought to be abolished, nor was he 1 in positions by fhe local office according 1766 it fell to France, and by them was ceded to came, the fuel administration "discover­ quite sure that the people wanted them ! to Mr. Crawford but the applicitions are aries of Lorraine have changed many times in ed" the skip stop idea, and encouraged to be. BUREAU PLACES j being filed more rapidly than tbe calls Germany as war indemnity in 1871. In all these history. First it was German and then French, its adoption throughout the country. Then the storm broke. Four powerful ' for help. During the war, because of changes it has had a good many rectifications There are, however, a number of per­ newspapers cried "perfidy", charging the government demand and also largely and then a part of the dominions of the king of sons who refiise to give the fuel admin­ that the "traction gang" had taken ad­ on account of the local shortage of help, istration credit for the skip stops, say­ vantage of| the city's patriotism to put MANY AT WORK of frontier, so that it is quite apparent that there there was a brief period when the ''nils Poland, of the house of Austria, of the arch­ is room for any amount of argument as to what ing that a few suave traction magnates something over on it. One newspaper for help actually were much greater bishop of Cologne and perhaps other magnates had the plan up their sleeves for a long sided with the company, while the rest Report for Six Month Period than the applications for jobs. But this constitutes the true frontier of Lorraine if it time, but were hesitant about testing it maintained an attitude of critical neu­ is no longer true, according to Mr. that we have forgotten. It has been alternate­ on their respective publics, until the war trality. The company indignantly denied Shows 2,942 People Have Crawford. is to be based on historical instead of racial gave them a patriotic excuse. the charges, and said it had demonstrat- Although Philadelphia is undoubtedly Procured Employment. He points out that there are several ly French and German for the last "few centuries. i ed its patriotism by not pushing the in­ things which must be considered in con­ lines. The door is thrown wide open for pretty the greatest manufacturing center of the creased fare issue, even when there was The upper part of the old historical duchy of nation, and hence the greatest consumer nection with the report. But the ! rin- near any amount of annexation if that line of ample justification. It pointed out that cipal one is the number of peopie apply­ of fuel, the skip stop system was not with no sign of a let-uf^in the overhead Thru the effort* of «h« tire.v Falls Lorraine has been German speaking and predom­ ing at the office for employment. As claim is adopted. resorted to until midsummer of last year. cost of operation the five-cent fare rate district branch of the n t-'-i states em­ It was established then at the command ployment service imrf • ha»-:.- D. stated above, the number of registrations inately of German blood for a century now. On couldn't hold out forever, unless some does not begin to equal the total ruin- HOG ISLAND INVESTIGATION of the state fuel administrator. Demands sort of retrenchment was made. Any­ Crawford in charge. -.!< people, both the principle of self determination it would on the dynamos of the Philadelphia Elec- way, it claimed, most of the people were men and women were reported placed m ber of people applying for work. Regis­ trations are made only by those people There were two promising investigations from j ge in favor of skip stops, and anxious to positions or given work ill the period doubtless wish to be German still. When Na- from July Î. 11)18. to JAY,Mary 1. 1919, who do not procure work immediately keep them. upon applying at the office. They then poleon III declared war on Germany in 1870 one j the standpoint of the opposition politician hope- j ami to most of the shipyards, steel The anti-skip newspapers did not deny the report covering the lest, six mouths plants, shell factories and rule works ; ,i more than register and wait until the office <•: n r> 11 that skj gt wou! save of the year 1918. This is the report made of his aims was to extend the boundaries of j fui 0f political powder to shoot at the adminis- clustered about the city, made such a ^ oooOOO yearlv. as the transit offi- place them, which is usually done, airh•> by Mr. Crawford. no definite time is assured the regis­ move imperative 'It is a choice, said ^ daim^ but expressed confidence The local office received 5.774 help 1 ranch northward along the Rhine by taking j tration. One was the airplane construction and the engineers who were grappling with ^ ^ passenger would get none of it. wanted calls during this period. From a trant.# over all of German Lorraine. He lost the fight j the other was the government ship building the problem, "between skip stops and the increase in deaths first glance this situation would seem It would not cost these people any­ * - _ i - .1 , « I 1« fUlUU^putting OCTsevere V I V.
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