31 Extra Features 8 New Body Styles Built by John W. Bate Mitchell $1460 $1150 For 7-passenger Six-48 h. p. 127-inch Wheelbase. For Mitchell Junior-40 h. p. 120-inch Wheelbase Six. Both Prices f. o. b. Racine. A Thousand Extra Values Due to John W. Bate You will find in the Mitchell a tnousand extra values, as compared with most rival cars. These extras are paid for by factory savings, due to John W. Bate.. This great efficiency plant, which he erected and equipped, has cut our factory cost in two. Our new body plant, just completed, brings another enormous saving. No other fine car in the world is built under like efficiency methods. So none can give you at the Mitchell price so many things you want. Unique Features Every vital part in the Mitchell is designed and tested for 100 per cent over-strength. In the past three years, part by part, we have doubled our margins of safety. The result is a car of superlative endurance. Over 440 parts are made of toughened steel. 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Order "The New Cookery today-direct, or thru your regular bookseller, fro GOOD HEALTH PUBLISHING CO. 202 W. Main St., Battle Creek, Mich GERMANY AND AMERICA FEBRUARY 21, 1917 Offices, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York The arrival of Mr. Gerard, the former American Ambassador to Germany, in Switzerland, and the departure from New York of Count von Bernstorff, the former German Ambassador to America, have removed the fear that any clash should come between the two countries on this particular issue. Germany, through Mr. Zimmermann, of its Foreign Office, admitted that it had entirely misunderstood the situation in this country and had been misled by reports that our Government had seized the German ships self-interned in our ports and was delaying the departure of the German Ambassador. On the contrary, every possible facility and guard were offered to Count von Bernstorff by our Government. In the interchange of communications between the two Governments as regards the Ambassadors has come an assumption on Germany's part which ought not to go unquestioned. It appears that Germany interprets a statement from our Government that it had no intention, even in case of war, of seizing bank deposits or other property belonging to German subjects to include a pledge not in any case or under any circumstances to take possession of the German ships in our ports. We are confident that there was no intention to give such a pledge, and it can hardly be doubted, as a matter of fact, that one of the first acts of our Government would be to take possession of those ships. If the contrary is the announced policy of our Government, the fact should be plainly stated and considered in the light of international law and American rights. But Germany, so far from ceasing to attempt to influence American conduct by the improper detention of American citizens, has refused to release Americans who are in Germany, one may say accidentally, because they were on board the ships captured by the German raider in South American waters and were taken to Germany on the Yarrowdale. The Swiss Minister in Washington, Dr. Ritter, is quoted as saying that Germany would hold these men as prisoners until she had definite assurances that Germans in America would not be ir prisoned. Our Government has entered its protest. The violation of the laws of nations involved in this detention during a time of peace is too obvious to require argument. But there is no lack of offenses on the part of Germany which would justify drastic action by the United States if it wished to precipitate war. Over and over again the lives of Americans have been put in imminent jeopardy by the ruthless submarine campaign, although the United States has formally announced that it would not submit to this. It is a mere accident if American lives have not been sacrificed. In point of fact, authorities on international law say that the two O'Donnell children, who perished on the California, were entitled to American protection. They were born in this country, and, although their father was not naturalized, they should be treated as citizens unless and until they chose by legal action to assume the citizenship of their father's native country. Professor Stowell, of Columbia University, adds: "The American Government cannot afford to have it said that we protect adults, but that we will not protect our children." That other Americans were placed in extreme jeopardy in the destruction of the California, which in its ruthlessness was surpassed only by that of the Lusitania, is beyond doubt. It must also be remembered that the Sussex note, quoted by President Wilson before Congress, demanded an abandonment of wrongful submarine warfare against all merchant ships, and not merely against American or even neutral merchant ships. For a short time last week it was thought that possibly Germany was moving toward a position in which it might yield to the American contentions, but the memorandum presented by Dr. Ritter, the Swiss Minister, now acting for Germany, only offered negotiation "provided that the commercial blockade against England will not be broken thereby." The President promptly and rightly declined to enter into discussion unless the German Government withdrew its proclamation of January 31 canceling assurances previously given to our Govern ment. THE NEW SUBMARINE PIRACY That Germany has no intention of modifying the ruthlessness and lawlessness of its campaign is shown by the official statement from Berlin on February 13 that the "time of grace given to neutral ships had expired and that from now on neutral ships which enter the prohibited areas need not expect warning before attack. This means (if the Germans carry out their programme) that they will throw aside as regards neutrals all the recognized legal provisions as to warning, search, and providing for the safety of crew or passengers. The procla mation of January 31 did not state this in so many words, but no other conclusion could be drawn from its general purport and its withdrawal of the promises given the United States. Now the German Government brutally and boldly proclaims its murderous intention. The reports from day to day of the loss of shipping, foreign and neutral, since February 1, when the new unrestricted submarine warfare began, are scanned with much interest as affording indication of the progress and extent of that warfare. From February 1 to February 14 it is known that ninety-two ships, with a tonnage of about 200,000, were sunk in all, of which thirty-four were neutrals-a proportion so large as to demonstrate the fact that Germany is, in point of truth, actively warring against neutral nations. The two largest vessels sunk were the California, of the Anchor Line, and the Afric, of the White Star Line, both with loss of life. The British and French authorities declare that they are satisfied with the campaign carried on by their navies against the submarine warfare. They are not willing at present to give the actual losses of the Germans in submarines, but Admiral Beresford, in the British House of Lords, declared that the submarine menace was not a fatal one, and even that he was confident that in six weeks or so the nation would have the submarines really in hand. He added that Great Britain had lost since the war began about four million tons of shipping, but of these the place of three million tons have been " more or less adequately filled." Earl Curzon and others confirmed Admiral Beresford's hopeful view of the situation. The American Line steamships, of which three are now in the port of New York, seem interned by the refusal of the Government to take any responsibility as to their sailing or arming. The president of the company has said that his ships must either have convoy or be armed, and suitable guns can be obtained only from the Government. From the outset the discussion of the case of the St. Louis of this line has shown that it would be a test of the intention of the Administration to protect American ships, American rights, and American lives. To lock ships up in port by Governmental inaction hardly seems protection in any broad or courageous sense. Meanwhile, at least two American-owned ships, freighters named the Rochester and the Orleans, have put to sea unarmed and without convoy, and with an absolute refusal to comply with Germany's orders as to the course taken, the flags carried, or the painting of the ships. The captains are courageous and patriotic Americans who refuse to take orders from foreign sources. The |