Semi-weekly herald., 1915-05-27


Liniment. No need to rub it in
just apply the Liniment to the sur
face. 1t is wonderfully penetrating.
1t goes right to the seat of trouble
and draws the pain almost Immediate
ly. Get bottle of Sloan's Liniment
for 25c of any druggist and have it
in the house-against Colds, Sore and
Swollen Joints, Lumbago, Sciatica and
like ailments. Your money back If
not satisfied, but it doef give almost
instant relief
bring the best stories and the most
truthful statements. The papers in
Paris and London are permitted 20
print letters from soldiers. The COM
monest misrepresentation is in the
number of men lost in any given bat
tie. If the British, for instance, SUI
fer gerat losses, they are slow TO
make it public. This also applies to
the French. In other words, the dif-
ferent countries are anxious to claim
all their victories, but hesitate about
confessing the defeats.
Caring for the Dead.
The American people are entitled to
the best kind of service in this part
of the world and the correspondents
on duty realize this fact Take Mr..
Williams of the New York Times as
a sample. He is young and full of
energy and in my judgment, is a
model correspondent. After our jour
ney to the trenches Mr.. Williams filed
a Special to the Times of 5000
words. His paper was glad to get it.
They knew he would not give any
exaggerated statements. They knew
he would not tell any dreamlike stor-
les about seeing $4,000 men lying dead
on the field unburied. The fact is.
in the early part of the war there
was undoubtedly a slowness in taking
care of the dead. But within the past
six months there has been no such
slaughter as would horrify the people
by the unburied dead decaying in
tAitii NlVLiliilSs iitlt may nc SOlllt-
thing of this kind in the Carpathiau
mountains, where the Russians and
the Austrians have been fighting, but
| doubt it. Occasionally an isolated
body lies between the lines unburied
for some time because no man dares
venture out of the trenches to secure
it, but this is the exception.
Suppressing the Truth.
am glad that the sensational cor
respondents have had their day. They
came on naturally enought at the be-
ginning of the war. The newspapers
| in America received their work with
out fully realizing their sensational
character. But now this is a serious
war and the people want toe ~ the
facts. Each of the principal govern
ments maintain a publicity bureau.
And each government has emissaries
from the neutral governments in an
attempt to build up public sentiment.
1t is not the business of the corre-
spondent to represent any particular
faction. He is to get at the truth, so
far as it is possible for him to do so,
and then to make it known.
The greatest offense that the sew
eral governments commit is not in
telling falsehoods, but in suppressing
important truths. The greatest mis-
take correspondent commits is to
adopt the view of any one of the lit
erary bureaus without reservation.
Every correspondent here knows that
the official communications that are
issued from day to day do not tell
it all. For a time there was an eff
fort made to keep the people from
knowing the enormous number of kill
ed and wounded in any given battle,
but now it is thought best to make
all these things known. The London
Times has from the start insisted
that the number of men killed and
wounded on the part of the allies
should be made known in order that
the British public might be fully and
completely informed. Other newspa-
pers in London have done the same
thing. The consequence is that the
official war reports are more relia-
Bile. The reader has notified that
when a certain hill has been taken by
one side or the other, the defeated
side always rallied to the charge to
retake it. Then a dispute has follow
ed relative to the side which held the
hill. This matter is being straight
ened out also.
EverY man knnws n Lot Of thirrs