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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1917-03-22

ed and now the Hickman High
School is In the class with the
best high schools in the Staate.
After the addition of an extra
teacher in the high school and
some changes in the course of
study, the committee ON accred-
tied schools of the State College
Association. upon the recommen-
dation of Prof. III. Henry Rhoads,
State Supervisor of high schools,
reclassified the Hickman High
School and has placed it In class
ga"
This is an honor of which the
school and town should be proud.
This should assist the school SEN
timent in further developing the
high school interests OF our
town.
Our graduating class this year
is the largest in the history of
the school The present enroll
ment in the high school is 20 per
cent better than any previous
year.
We are now In our splendid
new high school building. Most
of the pupils are doing work of
a high grade.
The Hickman Courier has al
ways been an earnest supporter
of the Hickman Public Schools
and we are pleased to learn that
the high school here has been
placed in the "A" list of high
schools and now ranks among the
best in the State.
This speaks well for the
teachers who have by their untir-
ing efforts made it possible to
raise the standard of our High
School
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1917-03-22
MORE NEGROES LEAVE.
LABOR GETTING SCARCE.

About fifty negroes from Hick-
man and vicinity left Sunday
night tor the North, the exodus,
NO doubt, being the result OF
gum-shoe labor agencies On
the 9TH inst, forty were shipped
out, TO say nothing Of more than
two hunared, who lstt the latter
part of 1910. A few nave re-
turned from up North and We're
glad I'D get back LII those who
contemplate leaving would talk to
those who have returned, they
would hesitate before falling for
the dazzling PROMISES made by
Labor agents Tickets are fur
nished tor leaving, but none pro
vided when the negro wants TO
get back--and from what We we
are able to learn, few OF them
can get enough money ahead TO
buy ticket home.
The necessity of negro Labor
y obvious, and our people should
do what the white people of the
South generally are beng forced
to do; namely, put a good, strong
embargo on the labor agent
Vligance committees seem to get
very satisfactory results Unless
something u done to stop this
business, local labor conditions
are going to soon reach an a
cute status; in fact, it is being
felt now to an unpleasant de-
gree.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1917-03-22

The papers inform US that an
organization Wa recently formed
1t Owensboro, headed by a"big
liquor dealer" from Cincinnati,
60 be known as the Liberal
League, to fight prohibition in
Kentucky. 1t il said that ''reso-
buttons w.re adopted and plans
formed for the fight" and the
notice closed with this sentence :
s'Ths League is to be kept out
Of politics," which we suppose
means that they are to know
no party" but 60 for that
which keeps beeps butter ON the
Liquor dealers bread. The Is
sue vil b accepted no doubt BY
Nhe Democratic Forward League,
and . lively tins i in store.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1917-03-22

The city council of Kuttawa,
KY, have passed an ordinance
prohibiting the sale Of all drinks
containing any per cent Of alco-
hol- Another ordinance passed
prohibited the sale of all Cola 8,
whether Coca Cola, Chero Cola
or any other kind, IN the town OF
Kuttaws. This ~ real "bone
dry"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1917-03-22

Senator Will Frost, in the
Kentucky Legislature, special ses-
sion, struck straight when he said
in reply to the hquorites, Ken
tucky wants to pay" her taxes in
money, not in boys
Buy at Bondurant q.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1917-03-22

Dr. A. o. Longnecker killed q
mule belonging to Burse Doss III
Mississippi county this week that
had been bitten by the mad dog
. short time ago. Mr.. Doss had
. hog, . cow and q mule bitten
by this dog and they all went
mad and had to bo killed.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1917-03-22

Editor o. j. Jennings, of the
Murray Ledger, is a candidate foI
sheriff, of the county of Gallo
way.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1917-03-22

Examinations will be held at
Hickman and Fulton, April IA,
to fill the position of rural car
rier at Fulton and vacancies that
may later occur.
6 good work mules for sale.
Zach or note.-W. A. DODDS.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1917-03-22
HICKMAN KENTUCKY THURSDAY, MARCH
HICKMON HIGH SCHOOL
NOW IN CLASS IA"

Reconsideration of the Hick-
man High School. Changed from
Il TO A AclaSs.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1917-03-22

G. w. Gray, of route 1, tells
us that farmers in his<section are
getting behind with their work
on account Of continued rains.
This complaint seems to be gen.
eral in Western Kentucky.
You will save money on -four,
sugar, coffee and groceries Of all
kinds if you buy 1t Griasom1
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1917-03-22

Rev. Thurston b. Price, who has
just closed . great revival here,
has been induced to hold . meet
ing 1t Fulton, beginning April
18th.
Evening star., 1917-04-03
U. S. Cannot Choose
Path of Submission.

Armed neutrality is Intellectual enough
at best; in such circumstances and in the
face Of such pretensions it is worse than
Intellectual; it is likely only to produce
what II was meant to prevent; it is
practically certain to draw US into the
war without either the rights or the ef-
fectveness of belligerents. There is one
choice we cannot make, are incapa BILE
of making: We will not choose the path
of submission and suffer the most sacred
rights of our nation and our people to be
ignored or violated. The wrongs against
which we now array ourselves are no
common wrongs: they cut to the very
roots of human life.
With profound sense of the solemn
and even tragical character of the step
am taking and Of the grave responsible
ties which it involves, but in unhesitating
obedience to what | deem my constitu-
tional duty, ] advise that the Congress
declare the recent course of the imperial
German government to be in fact moth
ing less than war against the government
and people Of the United Sttaes; that it
formally accept the status of belligerent
which has thus been thrust upon 1t: and
that it take immediate steps not only to
put the country in more thorough state
OF defense but also to exert all its power
and employ all it's resources to bring the
government of the German empire to
terms and end the war.
What this will involve 10 clAaE It
Evening star., 1917-04-03
Will Of Free People
to Rule the World.

Neutrality is no longer feasible or de-
sirable where the peace of the world is
involved and the freedom of its peoples.
and the menace to that peace and free
dom lies in the existence of autocratic
governments backed by organized force.
which is controlled wholly by their will,
not by the will of their people. We have
seen the last of neutrality in such cir
cumstances. We are at the beginning of
an age in which it will be ins ted that
the same standards OF conduct and of
responsibility for wrong done shall be OBJ
served among nations and their govern
ments that are observed among the in
dividual citizens of civilized states.
We have no quarrel with the German
people, We have no feeling towards
them but one of sympathy and friendship.
1t was not upon their impulse that their
government acted in entering this war.
1t was not with their previous knowledge
or approval. 1t was a war determined
upon as wars used to be determined upon
in the old. unhappy days when peoples
were nowhere consulted by their rulers
and wars were provoked and waged in
the interest of dynasties or of little
groups of ambitious men who were ac-
customed to use their fellow men as
pawns and tools Sef-governed nations
do not fill their neiGhbor states with
spies or set the course of intrigue to
bring about some critical posture of af-
fairs which will give them an oppor-
tunity to strike and make conquest
Such designs can be successfully worked
out only under cover and where no one
has the right to ask questions. Gun
ningly contrived plans of deception or
aggression, carried. it may be. from gen
Grafton to generation. can be worked out
and kept from the light only within the
privacy of courts or behind the careful
! ly guarded condolences of a narrow and
privileged class. They are happily i'm
possible where public opinion commands
and insists upon full Information con-
cerning all the nation's affairs
Evening star., 1917-04-03
Asks Fair Treatment
of Germans Here.

We shall, happily. still have an oppor-
tunIty to prove that friendship in our
dailye attitude and actions towards the
millions of men and women of German
birth and native sympathy who live
amongst us and share our life. and we
shall be proud to prove it towards all
who are in fact loyal to their neighbors
and to the government in the hour Of
test They are. most of thena as true
and loyal Americans as if they had never
known any other fealty or allegiance.
They will be prompt TO stand with us
in rebuking and restraining the few who
may be of different mind and purpose.
If there should be dSloyalty, it will be
dealt with with firm hand of stern re-
preston; but, If it lifts its head at all,
it will lift it only here and there and
without countenance except from a law
less and malignant few.
1t is a distressing and oppressive
duty. gentlemen of the Congress. which
l have performed in thus addressing
you There are. it may be. many
months of fiery trial and sacrifice
ahead of us. 1t is fearful thing to
lead this great peaceful people into
war, into the most terrible and disas-
trous of all wars, civilization itself
seeming to be in the balance. But the
right is more precious than peace, and
we snail fight for the things which we
have always carried nearest our hearts.
for democracy, for the right of those
who submit to authority to have voice
in their own governments. for the
rights and liberties Of small nations,
for universal dominion of right by
such a concert of free peoples as shall
bring peace and safety to all nations
and make the world itself at last free.
To such task we can dedicate our
lives and our fortunes. everything that
we are and everything that we have.
with the pride of those who know that
the day has come when America is
privileged to spend her blood and her
might for the principles that gave her
birth and happiness and the peace
which she has treasured God helping
her she can do no other
Evening star., 1917-04-03
Germany Makes War
| Against All Nations.

1t is war against all nations. Ameri-
can ships have been sunk, American
| lives taken, in ways which it has stir
red US very deeply to learn Of but the
ships and people of other neutral and
friendly nations have been sunk and
overwhelmed In the waters in the same
way. There has been discrimina-
ton. The challenge is to all mankind.
Each nation must decide for itself how
| 1t will meet it. The choice we make
| for ourselves must be made with a
moderation of counsel and a temperate
| ness of judgment befitting our char
acter and our motives a nation. We
must put excited feeling away. Our
motive will not be revenge or the vic
torious assertion of the physical might
| of the nation, but only the vIndication
| of right, of human right. of which we
are only single champion.
When ! addressed the Congress on the
26th of February last l thought that it
would suffice to assert our neutral
| rights with arms, our right to use
| the seas against unlawful Interference
| our right to keep our people safe
against unlawful violence. But arm ed
| neutrality. it now appears, is imprac-
| ticable. Because submarines are in eff
| feet outlaws when used as the German
| submarines have been used against
| merchant shipping, it is impossible to
| defend ships against their attacks as
| the law of nations has assumed that
merchantmen would defend themselves
| against privateerS or cruisers, visible
| craft giving chase upon the open sea
| 1t is common prudence in such circum
| stances, grim necessity indeed, to en-
deavor to destroy them before they
| have shown their own intention. They
| must be dealt with upon sight, if dealt
with at all. The Germars government
| denies the right of neutrals to use
| arms at all within the areas of the
sea which it has prescribed. even in the
| defense of rights which no moderr
| publicist has ever before questioned
| their right to defend. The intimatior
| is conveyed that the armed guard:
which we have placed on our mer.
chant ships will be treated as beyond
! the pale of law and subject to be deal
| with pirates would be.
Evening star., 1917-04-03
Impossible to Trust
Autocratic Government.

A steadfast concert for peace can
never he maintained except by a part
nership of democratic nations. No au-
tocratic government could be trusted
to keep faith within it or observe its
covenants. 1t must be league of hon
or. partnership of opinion. Intrigue
would eat its vitals away; the plottings
of inner circles who could plan what
they would and render account to no
one would be corruption seated at its
very heart. Only free peoples can hold
their purpose and their honor steady
to a common end and prefer the inter
estS of mankind to any narrow inter-
est of their own.
Does not every American feel that
assurance has been added to our hope
for the future peace of the world by
the wonderful and heartening things
that have been happening within the
last few weeks in Russia? Russia was
known by those who knew 1t best to
have been always In fact democratic
at heart in all the vital habits of her
thought, in all the intimate relation
ships of her people that spoke their
natural instinct, their habitual attitude
toward life. The autocracy that
crowned the summit of her political
structure, long as 1t had stood and
terrible as was the reality of its poWer
was not in fact Russian in origin, char
acter or purpose; and now 1t has been
shaken off and the great, generous
Russian people have been added in all
their native majesty and might to the
forces that are fighting for freedom in
the world. for justice. and for peace.
Here is a fit partner for a League of
Honor.
One of the things that has served
to convince us that the Prussian autoc-
racy was not and could never be our
friend is that from the very outset of
the present war it has filled our unsus-
pecting communities and even our Of
fees of government with spies and set
criminal intrigues everywhere afoot
against our national unity Of counsel,
Evening star., 1917-04-03
UUCH! LUMBAGO?
Try Musterole. See How Quickly
It Relieves

You just rub Musterole in brisk1y,
and usually the pain is gone-a delicious,
soothing comfort comes to take its place.
Musterole is clean, white ointment,
made with oil Of mustard. Use it instead
of mustard plaster. Win not blister.
Many doctors and nurses use Muster
ole and recommend it to their patients.
They will gladly tell you what relief it
gives from sore throat, bronchitis, Group,
stiff neck, asthma, neuralgia, congestion.
pleurisy, rheumatism, lumbago, pains and
aches of the back or joints, sprains, sore
muscles, bruises, chilblains, frosted feet,
colds of the chest Ct often prevents
pneumonia). Always dependable.
Evening star., 1917-04-03
To Deal With Allies
of Germany Later.

I have said nothing of the governments
allied with the imperial government Of
Germany because they have not made war
upon us or challenged us to defend our
right and our honor. The Austro- Hun
garian government has, indeed, avowed
it's unqualified Endorsement and accept
ance of the reckless and lawless sub
marine warfare adopted now without dis
suise by the imperial german govern
ment. and it has therefore not been pos
sible for this government to receive
Count Tarnowski. the ambassador recent
ly accredited to this government by the
Imperial and royal government OF Aus
tria- Hungary; but that government has
not actually engaged in warfare against
citizens of the United States on the seas
and l take the liberty, for the present at
least, of postponing a discussion of our
relations with the authorities at Vienna.
We enter this war only where we are
no other means of defending our rights
1t will be all the easier for US to CY..-
duct ourselves as bellgcrents IN a
high spirit of right and fairness be-
cause we act without animus, not in
eEmity towards people or with the
desire to bring any injury or dlsad-
vahtage upon them, but only in armed
opposition to an irresponsible govern
ment which has thrown aside all con-
sideration of humanity and of right
and is running amuck. We are, let me
say again, the sincere friends of the
German people, and shall desire moth
ing so much the early re-esta blish-
ment of intimate relations OF mutual
advantage between us-hoWeVer hard
it may be for them. for the time being,
to believe that this is spoken from our
hearts. We have borne with their
present government through all these
bitter months because of that friend
ship-exercising patience and for
bearance which would otherwise have
been impOSSible
Evening star., 1917-04-03
Austrian Trenches Destroyed.

ROME. April 3.-The following off,
cial report was given out here yester-
day: "Over the whole front there was
the usual artillery fighting. Persistent
had weather interfered with military
operations On Sunday night in the
Posina valley minor encounters resulted
successfully for u.s. Yesterday We made
q bold surprise attack in. the vicinity
Of axhi. DESTROYING Austrian trenches" !"
Evening star., 1917-04-03
President ShoWs Duty of u. S.
to Take Up Arms in Defense
0fHun1an Rights and Honor

will involve the utmost practicable CO.
operation In counsel and action with
the governments now at war with Ger
many, and, as incident OF that, the
extension to those governments of the
most liberal financial credits. in order
that our resources may so far as pos
sible be added to theirs. 1t will involve
the organization and mobilization of all
the material resources of the country
to supply the materials of war and
serve the incidental needs of the ma
ton in the most abundant and yet the
most economical and efficient way pos
sible. 1t will involve the immediate
full equipment of the navy in all re-
spects. but particularly in supplying 1t
with the best means of dealing with
the enemy's submarines. 1t will in
volve the immediate addition to the
armed forces of the United States al
ready provided for by law in case of
war at least five hundred thousand men,
who should. in my opinion. be chosen
upon the principle Of universal liability
to service, and also the authorization Of
subsequent additional increments of
equal force so soon as they may be
needed and can be handled in training.
1t will involve also. of course, the
granting of adequate credits to the gov
ernment, sustained. I hope. SO far as
they can equitably be sustained by the
present generation by well conceived
taxation.
Evening star., 1917-04-03

President Wilson's address to
a joint session of Congress last
night follows:
Gentlemen Of tho Congress:
I have called the Congress into eS-
traordinary session because there are
serious. very serious. choices of the
policy to be made. and made immedi-
ately. which it was neither right nor
constitutionally permissible that l
should assume the responsibility OF
making.
On the third of February last I off,
cially laid before you the extraordinary
announcement of the imperial German
government that on and after the first
day of February 1t was Its purpose to
put aside all restraints of law or OF
humanity and use its submarines to
sink every vessel that sought to ap-
proach either the ports of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland or the western coasts
of Europe or any of the ports con-
trolled by the enemies of Germany
within the Mediterranean. That mad
seemed to be the object of the Ger
man submarine warfare earlier IN the
war. but since April of last year the
imperial government had somewhat
restrained the commanders OF its un-
dersea craft in conformity with its
promise then given to us tnat paSSen-
ger boats should not be sunk and that
due warning would be given to all
other vessels which its submarines
might seek to destroy, when no resist
ance was offered or escape attempted.
and care taken that their crews were
given at least a fair chance to save
their lives in their open boats.
Evening star., 1917-04-03
Problems Presented
By War Financing.

l say sustained SO far as may be equita =
bic by taxation because 1t seems to me
that it would be most unwise to base
the credits which will now be neces-
sary entirely on money borrowed. 1t
is our duty. I most respectfully urge,
to protect our people so far as We may
against the very serious hardships and
evils which would be likely to arise
out of the imitation which would be
produced by vast loans.
In carrying out the measures by
which these things are to be accom-
plished we should keep constantly in
mind the wisdom of interfering as lit
tie as possible in our own preparation
and in the equipment of our own Mill
tary forces with the duty-for it will
be a very practical duty-of supplying &
the nations already at war with Ger
many with the materials which they
can obtain only from us or by our as
sistance. They are in the field and we
should help them in every way to be
effective there.
1 shall take the liberty of suggest
ing, through the several executive de-
partmentS of the government, for the
consideration of your committees.
measures for the accomplishment of the
several objects I have mentioned. l
hope that it will be your pleasure to
deal with them as having been framed
after very careful thought by the
branch of the government upon which
the responsibility of conducting the
war and safeguarding the nation will
most directly fall.
While we do these things. these deep
ly momentous things. let US be very
clear. and make very clear to all the
world what our motives and our objects
are. My own thought has not been
driven from it's habitual and normal
course by the unhappy events of the
last two months, and ! do not believe
that the thought of the nation has been
altered or clouded by them. l have ex-
actly the same things in mind now that
I had in mind when l addressed the
Senate on the twenty-second of jan
uary last; the same that I had in mind
when l addressed the Congress on the
third of February and on the twenty
sixth of February. Our object now, as
then, is to vindicate the principles of
peace and justice in the life of the
world as against selfish and autocratic
power and to set UP amongst the really
free and self-governed peoples of the
world such a concert of purpose and of
action as will henceforth insure the OBJ
servance of those principles.