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AJRCTlC^is^L?RERS. Two Dairing ? Explorers Now in A~ri^ tic. Seattle? Oct. 31.?Two Arctic ex plo^fferaL Roaid Amundsen, noted Nor drifting In his'ice locked boat fr?m" the Atlantic, and Storkerson, lieutenant of WQ&xnur Stefansson. Canadian ex j?pre^:;-fl?atin^ westward 'from the P^?el?Cj oir an ice pack, are both be l^e#i approaching the New Siberian islands, which jht but of the Arct:j ^ceah-off the mouth of the Lena Hi-. SibeHa. Authorities created lowing- the ^Arcttc currents be lieve the two win reach the islands ?n^t year. - i -^Pfc-"o^r:?plorers are now in the "A^fe^d reii- tirought very likelv th^%etther Amundsen. or Storkerson knows the other-has the same goal ^i50L% ;Their> probably will land of A^nundseri*s course, it, -the discoverer of the ^;Bo5ecand- navigator of the dif ^^Orthwest passage, is on the ?p^Sg>sbf---'^--^urney;"to the -North ]r^e.^He'ex^ 5cts-_to make the last i&p1?by/Splams; Storkerson--is -bound b^^-^^e^&er:eral direction of ciy | i^oia&on;^ a^rter- spending several . years In"||]r4-?rutic. Both are seeking new ^"'^ucyjig- the currents and USet&f:rhe> liprthern ocean. ''iW^^V^Anim?tf . reaches the Si idsy "the current, it Is be gtnrrt and carry him north, "is eipecteci to. remain with . the !^|^iln-'ir' linds him on the im movable ice fait up towards the Pole. Ther^, .accordii;g to his plans, he will estahfish a base and attempt to fo rest of the distance to the top ot if globe. Storkerson, according to his plans will leave his ice pack when it reachei the* Siberian Islands. With his five men he will come ashore and make his way. back to Alaska. His friend? expect to hear of him landing some time- next summer near the Lena. H^^ver;. they say he may change hisj plans and come ashore before that , Stefansson, when he was in the north last winter,.. planned. to make the "iucip Storkerson is now on. After he. com pi eted . arrangements and pur chased ail the necessary supplies and dogs, illness forced him to come out side. When he let* he put Storkerson in charge. - The -Canadian thinks Storkerson's trip-is one- .of the most daring Arctic teaiswevet undertaken. "He is up thiire camped on the ice and practi caJ^Kying -ott the ice pack." Stef ansBon says: - ''Other explorers do tfeeic-vwork from their ships. Ships j aj?. .little -less- -than - floating hotels. Sto*ker?on has no - ship.If St orke r som^doesn't set- homesick we should hear irom hint next^year.*' y - Storkerson and his five men were "atBded-last -May - on the tee pack a^6^-^.^milee>northwest Pf Herscbel I ^ 4Reugi*- estimates -show - 4hat t|jeoi?e: at times drifts more than ten fia^es-a day; This- current, Stefansson thinks,'-carried -Storkerson westward ua&l in rOctober* -he probabryiv riwas j afc$at?j2?0:., ? mike -due - - north? - from T?rangel- Island, off Siberia-ahd ? east| i ?#tthe f Newrl-S?fterian Islands. T^he KaHnlc, Stefansson's first boat. which- w&s rp?i was carried .westward from offi^a^aska. -When it was crush e&3rPtherlce, it was off Wrangel Is S?orkerson expected to get inr the same eurrent and go on ^WraugerV t? the -Siberian Is Starvation in Kussla, .^London; Sept/ 25 (Correspondence the' Associated. Press)^A winter of starvation is a. safe -prediction for Jfcg?sfe.'>: Indications" are that it - will Qe.:one of the worst winters ' the Rus ?lsr:peopIe' ha'Ve experienced in all history.1 1 .-^ frs?mmer :ihe food situation in particularly hi Moscow,; Pe and otfctjr large cities vhas been Uly growing' 'more .'and - more ?"- in the,latter part of "August Jtefe tiie writer left Moscow, bread <ft>^'that mixture of straw,' oat husks " l^thef ihgre?leri'te bT unknown rwhteh Moscow inhabitants arc id TO accept as bread, had' al ^ Entirely disappeared, and cer tify %istnct*5 had not received the allowance for nearly a week. |e government had classified the population into categories,1 wherebj wi?rkingmen and government em p^oyees received a larger a!*owance while professiorals and well-to-dc PWple get the smallest, which in Mos cow/amounts to one-sixteenth of a ppj?hd: In Petrograd the bourgeon or, iniddle class fared poorly on an ajtlowance of thiee herrings a day. The ^shortage of bread is largelj due to the government's short-sight ed."policy in fl?ing a low price fo: grain which did not even cover the farmer's expenditure, let alone profit. The peasants refused to comply with tile decree to turn over all grain ir excess of a certain arbitrarily fixed tount to the. *ood committee, and an.the latter were reenfcreed by & dit?chment of armed "bread crusad er^-- the-peasants gathered from sev eral villages and offered resistance ?ently.- putting the crusaders tc ht. even if the government price weaie much higher the peasants would rtpit willingly exchange their grain forv worthless money, of which they seem to have much and which has no practical value to them. They warn manufactured goods, which the gov ernment is unable to furnish, as most of the factories are idle, for lack o: fufel 'and raw material, and also be cause the Bolsheviki need the work men to fight on. the numerous fronts Big Plane Makes Flight. Paris, Nov. -A huge airplane (carrying thirty-"flve -passengers, flew over Paris yesterday. The machine started from Combes La Ville, forty miles from the capital, and returned without a hitch. Noted Educator Dead. Madison, Wis., Nov. 19.?Chas R. Van Hise, president of the University of Wisconsin, died at Milwaukee this morning, following an operation, which led to complications and men 'SECRETARY BAKER WITH* THE; ? SCORERS. \. He Carried a Heavy Pack. Visited Red Cross Quarters, aud Made Hlmseli at Hpnje With the Boys. i London. Sept. 25 (Correspondence of The Associated Press) .?Enlisted men of the American army grinned sympathically as they watched the ?American Secretary of War, N iwton D. Baker; trudging back and forth carying the heavy pack of the Amer-1 ican soldier, or: his back, when he j visited a camp of American soldiers in the Winchester district ./hile ir England. The men were adjusting their cumbersome kits when the sec retary arrived at the camp. "I would like to try one of them,'' said the secretary to the sergeant.. The Lord Mayor Of Winchester, .the camp commandant ana a group oi soldiers all gathered about as Mr 'ta ker, lifted the pack .and adjusted c tc his shoulders. Then he trudged back and forth two or three times carry ing the seventy ^p^tlnd load while a pair of- heavy ho?-haiied trench boots swinging from the bottom oft the kit. banged against hi? legs. "It's heavy, alright," he comment ed as he unburdened himself, "bu* not so heavy as the Frenchman's pack. I tried one of them on a few days ago and it gave/me an addition al respect for the' Frenchman as a soldier.'* The Secretary made himself at home and was friendly with the sol diers. Everywhere he carried his pipe and several times filled it from some soldiers' pouch as he engaged in a casual chat with the men. "The whole country is behind you with cv erything it possesses," was one of hit frequent messages to the fighting men In the Red Cross hospitals the Sec retary went through the wards and had a few cherry words for each 01 the patients. In vome of the camps he dropped in upon the soldiers at mess time and lunched with the big crowd of them m the mess tent beside a Jittle wood land .stream. He ? looked through scores of barracks and living quarters. He inspected kitchens and spent ten minutes watching soldiers playing a scrub game of baseball His inspec tion of the Red Cross activities wa? comprehensive. He saw the bathing houses in operation with long lines oi rain-coated soldiers waiting their turn at the showers. -He"--saw- the dentar huts, with the Red^ Crow den tists busy at their work. He visited several Red Cross recreation huts and listened to the Red Cross Jass hands at practice. At one camp he found his cousin. Sergeant Harry Chiswell of Cleveland, and eh?tted with him for ten minutes. Altogether the ? Secretary -gained an excellent impression of . what the American army authorities have done in preparing comfortable and sanitary camps for the soldiers in the Win chester district, south of London;- in preparation for the winter. The Same Roosevelt. ("Herne Guard" in New York World.) I have , read the telegram to , Sena tor Lodge by one Theodore Rooseveh which evidently seeks to incite' oppo sition in the TJnlted States Ser.<:;\ at Washington in time of w?..r, and ? should like to inquire if ihis is the same Theodore Roosevelt that provec. \ traitor to his party when he was nc < longer able -to use it for his own ag ] grandizement < ./Isn't this the same Roosevetts that < "took Panama" in defiance of inter national law and made ?hr treaty r< with Columbia a "scrap of-, paper?' j Isn't he the man who visited ih. s Kaiser and became so friendly, th;:' ^ the great war lord depended upon j him to hold America in line with t Prussian frightfulness? Isii't he the ,j -practical man" who accepted cam- j paign money ;and_. denied,;.it while ; President of the United.Spates and then .denounced the giver aS -an "un desirable citizen Vi '> ' We are fighting ''treachery in high 1 places," having banished it from our i own national life, and it is digustmg ] tttat the limelight' should be turned upon an individual who - has by all 1 rules of decency forfaited -eyory con sideration of the party he has betray- ! ed and the country he has humiliated. Ruse T?rU Failed. The oalled-up one volubly explain ed that there was no need in hit case for a medical examination. [Tan fit and I want tb fight. I want ' to go over on the first boat. I want to go right into the front trenches but I want to have' a hospital close, so that if I get hit no time will be wasteS in taking me where I can get mended right ?way, so that I can get back to fighting without losing ?. minute. Pass me in. doctor. Don't waste any time on me. I want to fight, and keep fighting!" The doctor, however, insisted, and. when he got through, reported a per fect physical specimen. "You don't find nothing wrong y^th me, doctor?" "Nothing." "But. doctor, don't you think I'm a bit crazy?"?Tit-Bits. Fixing Up the House. ' "Have you no potted geraniums." "No. We have some very nie< chrysanthemums." "I must have geraniums. They arc for my wife." "I'm sure she'd like these chrysan themums." "You don't understand. The ger aniums are to replace some I promis ed to care for while she was away." ?Pittsburg Sun. Retribution at Home. While his mother was away on a | visit Johnny didn't say his prtyers. j Upon his mother's return # there was! a reckoning. I "Why didn't you say your prayers. John?" "Well, you 6ee. it was this Way, ma: I forgot to say them the first night, an' nothin* happened. *N then I didn't say them the next night an' nothin' happened, 'n so I decided 1 wouldn't ever say 'em again if nothin' never happened." And then something happened.? Scranton Times. TRUCKS FOR 3t\r? SERVICE. Fourth Assistant Postmaster Tells or Sueoess in This Line. Washington, Oct. 25.?Cross-coun try operation of mail carrying motor trucks, tried out by the postofflce de partment on an * experimental but nevertheless big scale, during the las: year, has been a great success. James I. Blakslee. fourth assistant postmas ter general has found that one truck route between Philadelphia and Wash ington, cutting chiefly through terri-i rory without direct rail connection j and costing $800 a month to operate,; has in eight months developed a reve-J nue of $16,000 monthly. Anothei I route, into Washington, where 28 par-' eel* a day were moved during the) first month, now shows one ton of) traffic each way each 24 hours. Seventy lines now operate over thej country, all but one east of the Mis sissippi, and there are visions of a sys tem which will furnish $360,000,000 annually in revenue for road con struction or other purposes. "Why, General Pershing has 9,000 trucks damaged or ruined over on the other, side," said Mr. Blakeslee tell ing of the growth of the system. "1 don't care what condition they an in, we want .them all, and can fix up and put every one of them to work What's even more important, he's got some boys over there shy hand, or an arm, or a leg, and w pan. use them all too, in good work at good pay, that they can do.. Con gress gave us S300.000 to work with and if we had the earnings gf thr lines themselves, we could expand al most indefinitely. As it is, $? ^OQ.OOo will be requested by the di\. .on fo: next year, and 1 think it will be ap propriated. People realize what w are doing. ? "Operating at night is the mos profitable, and we have but two ma chines doing that, out of New York The typical route is about 180 mile* long. 90 miles out, and 90 miles back" "Almost always the constant op eration of the lines produces a returr load, the universal .character of th mail service allowing almost any thing to be taken. The mail truck go, come rain, storm, or anything and so the traffic develops. Rates ar also, pretty high, -the- lowest .nein* about f20_a ton.:,. That is what make the surplus: revenues.;- t- - "Of course, we'll have to have con crete roads,-but the husiness-can pro duce the money to build them. Ther are some economies in distribution o produce that a?*e simply amazing. I has added an entirely new factor t< transcontinental transportation, am we shall just begin finding it out whe: more extensive operation goes Into ef feet- during the next two years." Just why Mr. -Blakesless-. sees i that way can -ie -understood - fron fust one -commodity price list. Mill retails now in Washington at 17 cent* a quart. Milk is <*>ming in ort mai trucks direct to consumers for 10 cent i quart. Naturally the trucks- sJte be, Ing weighed down with five - galldi cans as ^consumers learn - of the pos Ability. The trucks tap milk-produc ing territory that/is-outside the .usual hauling; hues,rand off; the -rail ? arte, les. .s ?" 5 ?" "Where'll the roads come from V run 9,000 trucks? asks. "Well :here are 66,000 rural mail and sta routes being operated" in the Unitec States now. Sometimes I think ey >ryone of them would make a true' ine. Food is being^feandied 10 time: ra its way to' a 'consumer;*' We cia? ;ut that to five. ?; r* "Watching these figures, since De :ember, when we- str. :ed, has giver n6' a new- sort of Inspiration. W? hall be moving the mails and mail rill include a whole unexpected va iety of things in new modes befor he generation finishes. Airplane, or the thousand mile distances, train or the 500 mile, and trucks for tin !50. That's about -the schedule." Try This. The captain of the s. s. Piffle Ais :ened patiently to. a passenger's ac jount of his shodting abilities, ther le quietly remarked: "I don't think you could hit tais >ottle at twenty y?rds, placed oh the ?affrail, while the ship is heaving ike this." "It would be ortly child's play,' said the passenger. "Well, I'll bet you a guinea you lon't hit it three times out of six." "It's a wager. Come along. The bottle was placed in position fJrack! The passenger hit it, and i iisappeared in fragments into the sea. "Trot out another one," said the marksman. . ? "Not at all. The conditions were ;hat you hit that one three times out 5f six. Five shots more."?Chicago News. Discriminating. Two political candidates were dis cussing the coming local election. "What did the audience say when you told them you had never paid a dollar for a vote?" queried one. "A few cheered, but the majoriy seemed to lose interest." returned the other.?Harper's Magazine. No Peace Yet. (Tampa Daily Times.) We fear that the American people are inclined to be too optimistic over the prospects of peace. We contess that we can see no prospect of peace in the immediate future. The de mands of the allies, and the conces sions which Germany is willing to make are as far apart as the poies. Kickers. Read This. "De man dat's always kick in'." said Uncle Eben, '"ain' got any real trouble on his mind. When real trouble comes you is ginerally too stunned to kick."?Washington Star. Probably Meant Florida. "So the doctor told you to go to a warmer climate. What was the na ture of the trouble you consulted him about?" "I went there to collect a bill."? Boston Transcript. Germany professes to have had a change of heart. Be that as it may, we demand also a change of head.? Baltimore American. m Big Explosion Reported Near Co logne. Paris, Nov. 19.?Two hundred per sons were killed in an explosion at Wahn, southeast of Cologne, accord ing to reports received here today. Why the Attack Was Made at St. Mihiel. In the opening days of September the situation with respect to the St Mihiel salient had undergone a great change. A new American army had been constituted and was ready to make its first all-American offensive. Most of its higher officers were famil iar with the St. Mihiel salient, having been there. Rich now in American reserves, Poch could afford what J off re and Pjetain had been unable to ven ture in the way of an investment. The Opportunity to deal a heavy blow was obvious on the map, which showed the St. Mihiel salient far narrower at its base than the Marne or the Somme salients and about the width of the Flanders salient, out of which Ludendorff was pulling his trops rap idly. By attacking at St. Mihiel Foch would compel the enemy to look out for another weak point, thus conform ing again to allied strategy. It would, if successful, mean a considerable harvest of men and guns, put another 'strain upon German man-power and in addition, it would do several very useful things, of more local signifi cance. First, it would abolish the old Verdun salient and remove the last chance of any German attempt in the future- to exploit Verdun's weakness, as he had in the past?a weakness growing out of the state of semi-en velopment existing while the Ger mans held St. Mihiel It would, sec ondly, release both the Toul-Verdun and the Paris-Nancy railway lines for use, in the first case giving the French a valuable lateral line of com munication behind the Meuse Hills and in the second shortening the rail way distance from Paris to the east ern frontier by twenty miles. Finally, and this is important for the future, it would enable the French, if they chose, to thrust out ward from Verdun toward Briey. where are Situated all the great iron mineS so essential to German war manufactures, without any fear of their -flank, which would be exposed while the Germans held the southern end of the Meuse Hills above Vig neulles- and under observation while th&y held the high ground of Hat tonchatei, the culminating point of tha whole Meuse Heights, nearly 1, 40.) feet above sea level and sweeping the whole Woevre Plain. In the same ?ray it would guarantee the flank and communications ? of another allied irmy setting out from the Nancy front for an invasion of Alsace-Lor raine. For either operation it was as essential that Foch should abolish the St. Mihiel salient as it had been forj Haig to take the Mes;sines-"White- ] meett" Ridge, before he began his ill-; starred Flanders offensive : of last rear.?From "Forward All Along the Line," by Frank H. Simonds,. in the American Review of Reviews for Oc tober. Trench Repartee. Australian soldier (to American)? "You Tanks think you ve done a lot, but you forget we Australians have been at the game for four pears." "Well, what have you done, any way?" .. "Done? We've been at Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, the plains of Bethle hem, and?" "The plains of Bethlehem?" "Yes; I slept a week there myself." I _ ? "Well, I guess that was a busy week j for the shepherds watching their j Socks!"?Tit-Bits, Ought to be Genuine. Sam, the choreman, returned from the' city with a scarf pin that contain" ed a '.'diamond" of no usual size. It was the pride of his heart and the ehvy of his village com panfons. He treated all inquiries from them as tiKits--value and its authenticity with high scorn. -.His employer, after a week of basking in its radiance, asked Sam about its history. ??Sam," he said, "is it a real dia mond?'^ "Wall," said Sam, "if it ain't I've been skun out of a half-dollar."? Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Before and Behind. "One of my pupils" says a Buffalo teacher, "could not understand why I thought that the following para graph from his composition on 'A Hunting Adventure' lacked animation and effectiveness: 'Pursued by the relentless hunter, the panting gazelle sprang from cliff to cliff. At last she c??ld go no farther. Before her yawned the chasm, and behind her the hunter."?Montreal Daily Star. Might Be To Much for Him. Southern Parson (to convert) ? "Does yo' think yd' ki?i keep in de straight an' narrer path now, Sam?" Sam?"I reckon I kin. pahson, ef dey ain't no watahmillion patches erlong de road."?Boston Transcript. Another War-Casualty. "You don't seem to feel so enthus iastic as usual about speech-making. "Well," answere<l Senator Sor ghum, "times have changed and it isn't so easy for a man in a silk hat and a frock-coat to stand out before a lot of men in khaki uniforms or overalls and assert that he is saving the country all by himself."?Wash ington Star. Greatness. "Remember, son, Garfield drove mules on a tow-path and Lincoln J split rails." "I know, dad; but say, did any o' these presidents ever crank a cold motor in a blizzard for half an hour before he discovered that he didn't have any gasoline?"?Richmond Times-Dispatch, . Training Camp Activities. The morale of the army and navy i and of the nation behind them is the chief factor in winning the war. Gen. Foch, while a military instructor, is said always to have emphasized this principle. ? Because of a growing be lief in the soundness of the doctrine, the people of the United States have made extraordinary provision for sup plying the soldiers, from the day they take up arms, with everything possible j which will reproduce as nearly as may be the inlluences and surround ings of the home life which they have left, and also lor maintaining high standards of health, morality, ahd efficiency at home. It is difficult to realize what a com plete change occurs when a youth goes from his home to an army can | tonment. There he finds himself in an utterly new and strange environ I ment. The influence of home, of par j ents, and of womanhood is absent, j The opportunity for social contact with friends and neighbors which he formerly enjoyed is no longer offer ed. The wholesome amusements which were a.vailable are greatly miss ed and the religious infleunces of his native environment and of church life are lacking. All of these are im portant factors in keeping a man clean, high-minded, and well poised, ! and their absence creates an abnor mal condition. The ta.sk of reproducing these rela tionships in so far as that is possible ?*>' ? ' ?Jj i ;x ; ?.:??, M ? ' ?' i and supplying substitutes where that is .the 'besttthat ca^.bs^aone, has bef b officially entrusted" by^ihe Army an* Navy Commissions'on Training Camp Activities, which are civilian arms of the war department, and.- the navy department*- to- seven organizations*-* the Young Men's Christian Associi* tion, the Young Women's Christian Association, the. National Cath?lie War Council, .represented in the flfeifd by the Knights of Columbus; th* Jewish Welfare Board, the American Library Association, the War Camp Community Service, and the Salvation Army.?From "Service to Our Sot* diers and Sailors," by. John D.'H?cke^ feller, Jr., in the "American Review^ of Reviews for October. - ? -. .' Wnat's in a. Same? 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