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. restrict!«;I«.,.*. •.•.«on »rn , < accidents at street crossings, and peculiar, as the number of calls for help thing to register. Only_ a few moments and Germany took French Lorraine and Alsace ; plant at Hog Island. The first failed to deliver j 3Umption of current by householdsrs/' lead one to believe there are twice as: .. fe i.itheir : _ time iin n filling out/mi f ao card(ittr/l ieis rp-re insti- each fresh accident was given front page 0 1 display with appropriate headlines. many positions open as there are appli-1 quired. They seem to forget that the bi- also for good measure. It was not a very good airplanes in France as soon as the public were j rm^ ^pStop's Tn 'aii of its fine The~ The Transit company then announced cants to fill them, when the fact is at | reau could perhaps be of considerable led to expect and spent a good deal of money on pian was a little different from that. that the passengers themselves shall present, that the situation is^jost the re-; help to them later on, and that even u investment for it made another war in the fu­ followed in most cities. The skip* were r>f »hi« The difference in this re- they do procure a position on their own not effective downtown, because the con­ finally decide whether skip stops are to verse of this. The difference in this re ture certain and the inhabitants of the conquer­ before they got much production going on a go or to remain. They have appointed port is due to war time demand for Jo.- account, they would probably be offered gestion of traffic in the business section something better later on thru the ef­ ed provinces were never loyal to their new mas- quantity basis. The Hog Island ship building is such as to render it impossible not to a committee of thirteen to decide bor by the government and the 5,774 admit and discharge passengers at every whether the temper of the public is calls for help include more than 2,000 forts of the bureau. favorable or unfavorable. It will make calls from the government in the month The force of help employed to operate ters. One would think the French would have j plant cost more than twice as much as the es- crossing. Roughly, the skips were con- , ... .. , • , , h fined to the districts outside a mile and its decision some time this mopth •>f November alone. This was the month the local branch consists of^ three people fully learned the lesson of the folly of annexing timates and only turned out four finished ships a half radius from Independence Hall— Meantime both the company and it» the big call came from the Nitro plant whose salaries aggregate $5,000 a year. and governing hostile races from German exper before the end of the war came. Both of them that i« to about eewp-eighths of all ' opponents are carving on active cam- in West Virginia and the demand for 500 1'hiladeiphia Now blocks are long injpaigns. The company got a psychologist men for shipyard work. However. the|,DAH0 DECLARES ience, but it seems they did not, for among the have been thoroughly muckraked in congress ! the residential section, and the further j to sav thfet the increase m street cross- shipyard order was cancelled before the ; w AR ON RODENTS i one "Cts into it. the longer the blocks j mg accidents was due to an epidemic of men were forwarded. But the yOO is. farm bureaus of 15 counties in 10 secret diplomatic documents published at St. and in the press, and both of them have been • become ' f* psychosis of war-time recklessness. counted in the number of calls received. j jwing up of industrial Philadelphia. , turnout the east, in Scranton it has ; ». *t da an,ï füjnj? them with the j the use of only $1.70 worth of strychnine and will be fixed by the French government. production, but he did not place the blame for Most'of the war plants had made pre,.«- j already resulted in the abandonment °f | .,rfi0e. But Director Crawford says it : and saccharine. He saved his crops he­ * , rations for the advent of peace and they j thi k. ps. _ i does not nearly give the number of peo- ; sides. In Blaine county the farmers re- At the same time strategic demands must be this on the construction management. The army have slipped quietly into their new pro Incidentally, this roww over the que.s- j ' .. for'e!apiovment at the office, port a saving of $20 for every dollar es- taken into consideration so as to include within gram. Coal is still scarce, but it is not ] tion whether to skip r not to skip may Manv c^e in and'ask for work and ! pended. and the county commissioners aviation authorities changed their mind about being hurned so rapidly. There is no be counted upon to stimulate tne tea- ; . • ,, - cannot be placed at once, j have increased their appropriation fo French territory the whole of the industrial iron fuel problem of the proportions there dencv toward municipal ownership of ; , without rer'terine For this work of poisoning squirrels from the Bristol machines. In the Hog Island case car Hues, which has develop,,! during the j j^thew.'thout ^ $3.500 for 1919. basin of Lorraine and the whole of the industrial would have been had the war continued. fQr 191§ t0 the investigators report that there was no evi­ That was why, some weeks ago. Admin- I in the office looking for something to coal basin of the valley of the Saar. =— j.—an(j0 f these just afew over a dosen Other territories located on the left bank of dence of graft, but the work cost too much and ... ! actually registered their desire to be no­ GUST G. MINTER & CO. there was waste. Considering the sensational al­ tified in case anything turned up for 412-14 Second Avenue North. the Rhine and not included in the German em­ LAWMAKERS' WORK them, he said. , pire will be completely separated from Germany legations there is mighty little comfort for the TRAVELETTE During the six mouths 2.S-Î9 people Phone 6677. P. 0. Box 91. were referred to employers, the differ- practical Roofers, Sheet Metal Worker» and freed from all political and economic depend­ kickers on the Hog Island investigators' report. IN DAILY STORY By N1KSAH. enee in the number of those placed and j and Furnaces* ence on her. The estimated cost of that enormous ship referred being explained by the fact many neglect, to return cards after being re­ The Tribune Sends W. W. Moses MARKEN. Sheet Metaf Workers The territory on the left bank of the Rhine building plant was twenty-seven million dollars ferred and procuring employment. I, not included in French territory shall form an j to Cover Legislative Session f those This means that people applying for ; and sixty-four millions were spent on it. Nine Flic islandWand of Marken is one oor tnose • This means mai . autonomous and neutral government, and shall | at Helena. whieh are out off from the mainland by - work ^t^Great j J be occupied by French armies until such time as > of these extra millions were spent on extensions the Zuvder Zee—the body of water, times referred to tne onice at 4 LOUISE VALVERDA KELLEY • which constantly threatens the low conn-1 ,r some other point m thej,ro*im£v j HKAD 0F XH| ACADEMY SCHOOL• ! leaders of The Tribune will get their the enemy governments completely fulfill all the of original plans. But even then, the cost was first, story of the legislative session of tries with inudation. °f which they desire < p t Votoe. Piano Classes lor Adults, Even-* conditions and guarantees mentioned in the : about twice what was expected. However, two- U)lf> in their Sunday paper when they The neonle of Marken are like the ! ployment. I injs at • . lead the special article on the outlook inhabitants of a great many other smalt' Jobs Becoming Scarce. ,! sr. MABVS INSTITUTS, treaty of peace. thirds of the money spent was for materials pur-I öf the organization caucus and get islands that they lead isolated lives; but j Jobs are oecomiug j 4 Fon« 609« Residence SMO Central Armi This diplomatic document sVws that early in j 1917, more than two years after the war com­ menced, France cherished the design of doing 1 and the first. to Germany just what Germany did to her in other people paid for them. There was no graft Cr* Ä| „,k„ hi,,, 1870, in case of victory—that is, taking a slice in that part of the expenditures. Nearly twenty | remain at the capital «..t. the session ,, k ~that hr im.st hav() f]rop,ied back of German soil inhabited by Germans and an­ million dollars were spent for wages to labor, 'this paper an i- tSJS nexing it because it contained valuable mineral and here it is admitted there was waste and

resources which it coveted. reckless expenditure. The average number of i body. iu ,late • a very long pipe. Bright scarlet bodices Mr. Mi x*ork ,n eov.riug hlait ! voluminius skirts are tbe ap- The bolshevik governirftent of the world did at men employed during a year was 30,000, and to legislative, „ sH^ved'tlu'in ! Proved mode for women. Both sexes and least one good service to the world when they keep that number up there were 175,000 differ­ leaders of The lri u. . '.- all ages wear enormous wooden shoes, most satisfactorily ses« on and fhe children are dressed exactly like published all the secret treaties and understand­ ent men employed. It shows the men were quit­ 1017 and the extraordinary session ot 1 MHS and has a wide acquaintance with the old folks. LOTS A Marken islander almost never mar­ ings and bargains the entente allies had made ting the job pretty frequently and new men the men of affairs in the state. His ries an outsider. Occasionally island so- with Russia as a result of the war. The Ger­ hired to take their places. The site of the ship LrSnèdTôrhim !he coSnc^Tthé |«ety may be disturbed by the flirtation f some daring Marken maiden with man secret intrigues with Russia were not pub­ nailers of both paities and he will! stranger from the mainland, or alarmed; yard was a swamp, and at first men had to work approach his work this year better pre- , Industrial Sites, Business Lots pared than ever to give to the people; by the threat of a Marken youth to j lished, but all the allied documents that could in mud and water up to their thighs. With a bring a strange woman to his home. But j S who read The 1 ribune an accurate, coin- 1 usually the young rebel is forced Ijv i Trackage expose their selfish purposes were given to the scarcity of labor all over the country, wages had j prehen^ive and interesting view of their . public opinion to give over love in favor | j lawmakers at work at Helena. world. It was the only good thing the bolshevik to be raised pretty high to keep men on the job. of custfun. Fishing is the sole occupation of the > Residence Lots in all parts of the government ever did, for the entente govern­ Skilled men as riveters were terribly scarce, and island. The boats come in every Sat-! ments were forced to come out in the open and they could demand any old price and get it. This STATE DRY, MOON unlay night, when all the women and ! city—with Water, Sewer, Cement children gather on the beach to welcome j repudiate these bargains as no longer binding on i'act not only delayed construction v^ork, but it DRY, HARMONIZES the menfolk home. Then begins a earni-1 Walks, Boulevards val of feasting and visiting and merry­ them under the circumstances. There is, how-- raised the cost materially. And the country was making which lasts until Sunday night,, ever, still a desire on the part of some of them to calling for ships in a hurry at any cost. The life Observer Calls Attention to Fact when the boats put out again for an- ; • TERMS ======other week at sea. realize these old ambitions for loot of defeated of the nation and success of the war depended on That Lunar Phenomena Fits With Legal Fact. l foes and annexation of enemy's territory. France getting them quickly. No wonder the cost went ZIRCONIUM. Vi Cash, /3 in 1 year, ^ in 2 years The material which made possible the. 7 Per Cent Interest on Deferred Payments and Italy particularly seem inclined that way. up. The contractors were pounded on the back That Montana is in harmony wiUl «il 7."> mile gun with which the Germans: nature— the earth, the sky. the moon bombarded Paris is zirconium. Zirconium The reservation of the French premier in re­ constantly. They worked on the cost plus sys­ and stars, was the observation of one is the hardest metal now in use—a met-, pudiating any desire for annexation of German tem. Extra money spent did not come out of individual yesterday evening as he stood rd so-hard that it can scratch a ruby or i 011 Central avenue. Asked what was ihe glass. The hardness of the steel man u-1 possessions in view of the secret understanding their pocket, but out of Uncle Sam's pocket, and basis for the •statement, he made a factured with zirconium as an alloy is so i We accept Liberty Bonds at par gesture by way of pointing to the great as to withstand even the most pow- j with Russia in 1917 about the boundaries of increased their profits instead of diminishing southwest as he remarked: erf ill explosion. Lorraine being extended up the left bank of the them. And Uncle Sam was yelling for speed at • See that moon? It's n new moon, it is a beautiful moon, all will agree. But MORE PROFITABLE THAN WHEAT Rhine gives interest and significance to that res­ any price. No wonder the cost went up. No have another look. It is a dry uioou. While «ome farmers hastened to plant ervation, and also to the ancient history of Lor­ wonder now that the pressure is over we find Vos, Î sujjpost'd some one would eft il wheat instead of beets those who stayed me nn old fogy. But I'm not. There is with beets made more money.—Walla THE GREAT FALLS that money was wasted. No sensible man could the sign in the sky and believe it or Walla Union. raine. joke about it, just put a i>in in tue Lorraine was a name given to a territory be­ expect anything else under the circumstances. 1 said 'There is a dry moon'. You will SOUNDS NATURAL. TOWNSITE CO. note the moon is resting almost flat of Flubdub: How are the life preservers tween the Rhine, SaonerMeuse and Scheldt in an­ It is most creditable to all concerned that there its back. Now that is .the kind known on this boat? 9 Third Street South, Firet National cient times. It derived its name from Lothaire was no graft discovered. The circumstances all ns tbe "dry nioon". And this being a Guzzler: Fine. I've just had three— Bank Building 'dry moon' it harmonizes with Montana ns good as I ever drauk.—Topeka II, a Saxon and king of Germany and the Roman favored it. We wasted a good deal of money on in fine fashion for as all know—some Journal. quite well—Montana went dry on Mon­ empire between 1125 and 1137. Under the Carl- Hog Island, but we have now got the biggest day night." IN~A"BUSINESS OFFICE. ovingean dynasty this territory was a cause of shipping plant in the world, capable of building "Does that new man we've engaged As long as the front parlor is clean know anything?" perpetual strife between France and Germany. fifty ships at once, and it is about ready to rush a. Princess is willing to let the rest of "Absolutely nothing. But he's ejempt." —Judge. After the extinction of the Çarlovingean house them to completion in record time. ^ • I tie house run for Sweeney.