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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-09-28
CANADA AND CONSUMPTION

When the GOVERNOR General affixed
his signature to the Canadian Military
Service Bill, the other day, and the
Senate finally recorded its assent, the
whole question was at once placed
upon an entirely different footing from
that which it had previously occupied
Compulsory military service, within
the provisions of this act, is now the
law of the land of Canada, and the
act itself provides penalties of no I'M
certain nature for those who incite the
people to resist it's application, or
who publish articles having for their
object the Indictment of those subject
to the act to refuse obedience to its
provisions, or to impede its applica-
ton in any way.
of war, equity becomes more than ev-
er an important aspect of law. Those
therefore, who control the affairs of
the country and administer justice
within its borders, are inclined, and
rightly inclined, to be impatient of the
legal bubble. And every day that
passes affords proof, not only in Can
ada but in many other countries, of
this fact, and of the further fact that
the great mass of the people are ever
more and more determined to support
the authorities in a drastic policy of
suppression against those who at
tempt, in any way, to impede the &C.
ton of the government in the prosecu-
ton of the war.
Now even those who oppose the pas
sage of the Military Service Bill most
determinedly, those, at any rate, who
have any pretentions to be called
statesmen, must recognize that there
is no possibility of repeating the act,
and that, no matter which party is
returned to power in Canada at the
forthcoming elections, that party will
be compelled by circumstances to
maintain the act. A great authority
on constitutional law has wisely re-
marked that what a statesman insists
ought to be done, and declares he
would do if returned to power, repre-
sents as rule, very different pol
icy from that which he does actually
Gdopt when in office, and working un-
der the necessity of translating his
words into actions. 1t may fairly be
ventured, therefore, that as those Ca
madam statesmen who have hitherto
opposed CONSUMPTION come, if only in
imagination, under the shadow of Of
fetal responsibility, they will recog-
nize that, whatever is to be said for
or against it, compulsory military SER
vice is established in Canada for the
duration Of the war. Those amongst
them, therefore, who really place Can
ada and not party first, will take the
next inevitable step. They will rec
cgnize the act for what, under the con-
stitution to which they have all SUBJ
scribed, it certainly is, the will of the
Canadian people, and they will sink
their differences and do their utmost to
achieve for the act that success of
which it is undoubtedly capable.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-09-28
IF WE ONLY UNDERSTOOD

If we knew the cares and trials,
Knew the efforts all in vain,
And the bitter disappointment,
Understood the loss and gain
Would the grim eternal roughness
Semi wonder-just the same?
Should we help where now we hinder?
Should we pity where we blame?
All! we judge each other harshly,
Knowing not life's hidden force
Knowing not the fount of action
Is less turbid at its source;
Seeing not amid the evil
All the golden grains of good;
And we'd love each other better
If we only understood.
Could we Judge all deeds by motives
That surround each others lives,
See the naked heart and spirit,
Know what spur the action gives,
Often we would find it better,
Purer than we judge we should.
We should love each other better
If we only understood.
Could we judge all deeds by motives,
See the good and bad within,
Often we should love the sinner
All the while we loathe the sin;
Could we know the powers working
To o'erthrow integrity,
We should judge each others errors
More with patient charity.
-RUDYARD KIPLlNG.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-09-28
$1,000, 900, 900 WAR BILL
is PASSED BY THE
HOUSE UNANIMOUSLY

Washington, Sept. 18.-The $1,000
100000 war deficiency bill, carrying
huge appropriations for the Army,
Fortifcations- and Shipping Board
passed the House today by unani-
nous vote.
The bill, the largest supply meas
ure in the country's history, now goes
to the Senate, where prompt action is
expected. 1t directly appropriates
$4,830,0 100000 and authorizes con-
tracts for $2,314,000,000 additional.
The big items include:
Shipping Board, $685., 100000 cash
as part of the boards construction
program, limited to an aggregate of
1,749, O00,000,00O; Notifications, ST.
495, 100000 appropriated, and con-
tracts authorized for $975,000, 900
more; naval emergency fund, $780,
100000; War Department emergency
fund, $100,000,000; construction of adj
ditional torpedo boat destroyers, $685.
100000 to start a $95,000,000 pro-
gram.
Other Items in List.
Transportation Of the army and its
supplies, S350,000,000; army subsist-
ence, 100000; quartermaster sup
plies, $100,000,0 900; clothing and camp
equipage, $350,00O,000; horses, $780,
100000; barracks and quarters, $49,-
100000; medical department, $780,
100000; engineer department, $780,
100000; ordnance stores, ammuni-
ton, 500 100000; small arms target
practice, S13,000000; ordnance stores
and supplies, $70,000,000; automatic
machine rifles, $780,, 100000 cash, and
$118,000,000 more authorized; armorcd
motor cars, $16,750,O0O and $5,OO0,-
900 more authorized.
Aviation, $35,000,000; naval ord
nance and ordnance stores, $12,446,-
480; ammunition for vessels, $4,000
900 and $15,000,000 more authorized;
batteries and outfits for vessels, $5,-
100000 and $28,000,OO0 additional au-
thorized; reserve ordnance supplies,
S47,500,000 cash, and $17,500,000
more authorized.
The Senate Appropriations Com
mittee has been at work on the House
measure for several days and will hold
brief hearings, beginning tomorrow,
when Secretary Baker will appear and
probably submit further additional
estimates. With new army and other
estimates, the Senate Committee may
be called upon to increase the bill
around $1,000,000,000.
Senate Republicans favoring a con-
gressional expenditures supervising
committee have been planning to pro-
pose such a provision as an amend
ment to the bill, but may postpone
their effort in view of the general de-
sire to hasten adjournment.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-09-28
Into the Depths, or An Editor
Hits the Toboggan
(From The Publishers Auxiliary.)

An editors wife may be short on
Experiences in Running a Newspa-
per-" the topic assigned to Mrs. Helen
Hurst Preston, but she is generally
observant and discovert many
sidelights and conditions that re-
suit from running a newspaper. So
Mrs. Preston pulled herself out of her
dilemma very cleverly by calling to
her aid the poetic muse, good old
Imagination" and keen observation,
and proceeding to entertain delight
fully the editors around the banquet
table at the Northern Indiana Editor
ial Association meeting at Wabash.
Mrs. Preston, in her modest prelude
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-09-28
A PRETTY GOOD PLACE

My boy, it's a pretty good world,
you'll find,
If you look straight ahead and don't
look behind.
Tho it SHOWS sometimes,
And it blows sometimes,
And you think it is flooded with woes
sometimes.
It's a glad old world,
And sad old world
When you make it so.
But just bear in mind wherever you go
That somewhere the grand old suns
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-09-28

aglow!
"Git up and git"
And lot of grit
Are the eo things that label a man as
There's shadow here and a dark
place there,
But you'll find the sunshine is every
where
If you look for it. Chirk up! Elate;
Meet the knocks with grin.
But never give in,
And, sooner or later, you're bound to
win!
The 9ookkeeper.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-09-28
People Speak Well of Chamberlain
Tablets.

Il have been selling Chamberlain's
Tablets for about two years and heard
such good reports from my customers
that concluded to give them trial
myself, and can say that do not be-
lieve there is another preparation of
the kind equal to Them" writes G. A.
Mcbride, Headford, Ont. If you are
troubled with indigestion or constipa-
ton give them trial. They will do
you good. Obtainable everywhere.
(adv.)
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-09-28
INDICTED BY THE
AMERICAN BAR

Sooner or later Germany must ap
pear in court to show cause why she
should not be found guilty of a helm
Gus crime against humanity. The time
when she must plead and defend her
self may still seem far off to that ma
ton is appears much closer than il
did three years ago. So long as the
outlaw has a clear field, so long as
the desperate is shooting up" a
sleeping town, so long as criminal
is running amuck, he has little thought
of, and little regard for, courts, or
judges, or judgments. Only when he
is cornered, captured, manacled and
forced to listen and plead to the in
dictment, do such institutions loom
large to him. Through all the dust,
the confusion, the tumult, the panic,
the trained lawyer calmly awaits the
inevitable. He is certain that some
day, tomorrow, next week, next month,
mayhap next year, heavy hand will
be laid upon the defender, and that,
in the quiet of the court room, sta
tutory accounting of the culprit's re-
sponsibility will be made in the most
grave and orderly fashion possible.
Thus, the American Bar Associa-
ton, body composed of the leading
lawyers of the United States, antici-
pating the day when Germany must
face the court, has drawn up an in
dictment, the counts of which charge
her with violating the law Of civilized
nations, by sinking merchant ships
without summons, by proclaiming a
barred zone, by organizing conspira-
cies against the domestic peace and
trade of the United States, by muir
dering civilians, by committing as
saults on women, by wantonly de-
stroying property and otherwise de-
vastating abandoned territory, by
looting occupied regions, by the muir
der of Captain Fryatt, and threats Of
treating other mariners as francs
tireurs, by the deportation of women
and young girls, and by sinking of
hospital and supply ships sailing un-
der safe conduct from German author
tiles.
These are but few of the counts
in the final indictment to the framing
of which Belgium, Serbia, France,
Great Britain, Italy, Russia, Ruma-
MIA, and other nations will contribute
both allegation and evidence. The
formal accusations and the procedure
looking to an accounting, will, of
course, extend beyond the jurisdiction
of any individual country, and be made
international; but the American Bar
Association desires to go on record
professionally in condemnation of
Germany's acts. And this is why one
of the greatest professional legal or
CARNATIONS in existence, in advance of
the day of pleading, trial and judg-
ment, wishes the world to know that
it welcomes the entry of the United
States into the war, for the perform
ance of a sheriff's duty in conjunction
with the Entente Allies, and for the
purpose of checking "1awless excuses
and overthrowing those forms of au-
tocracy which menace the people, Sc
curity and civilization of the whole !
world"
The lawyer, individually and collec- !
lively, is unable to sec, as the Pope
sees, how conformation can take the
place of reparation, or, where this
S impossible, of deep contrition and
borough reformation. - Christian
science Monitor.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-09-28

And my brain is numbing, numbing.
In my ears a ceaseless drumming,
And the call forever gone.
Oh, for that my heart is anguished.
For the call forever gone"
Then his wife spake thus: "My dear
you
Know it breaks my heart to hear you
Utter words so dark and drear. You
Grieve me more than / can tell.
But | can advise you sanely,
Though | fear | speak but vainly,
For it seems to me you plainly
Need to take some calomel,
Calomel in broken doses,
Six half-grains of calomel.
"If, when you arise tomorrow,
You still feel this weighty sorrow,
Then your fountain pen III borrow
And go up and do your task
But I'll give you solemn warning,
That | can't be gone all morning,
For my parlor needs adjoining,
And it's quite too much to ask
Absolutely, without question,
1t is quite too much to ask.
at will not be necessary
For me long up there to tarry,
For you know Pm literary.
At the club they say l am.
And that canning stuff, urending,
Which the government keeps sending,
Will prevent me time expanding.
III go home and make some jam,
Make some rich, delicious goo-ey;
Luscious, green gooseberry JAM"
Long her husband viewed her, sadly,
Then he seized the poker madly,
And ne jabbed that coal till, gladly
Blazing high, it lit the room.
For sudden thought, beguiling
Turned his weary woe to smiling,
Sent his heart-sick fancies filing,
Filing out into the gloom;
Forth into the outer darkness,
Lost forever, in the gloom.
"There will be no sad tomorrow,
There will be no time for sorrow.
An alarm clock must borrow
And arise at dawn's first light.
For the campaigns JUS beginning,
And that courthouse bunch is winning.
They have got to get a skinning.
And it's going to be fight.
Oh, we'll lick 'em to a finish,
But twill be a glorious fight!"
Later-round her chamber creeping,
Fearing to disturb her sleeping
Husband, who at dawn's first peeping
Must cast off sweet slumber's spell,
Thought the yawning wife, "Tis true,
he
Must have felt most awful blue. He
Made me nervous, but l knew he
Wouldn't take that calomel.
| still think was what he needed
Just dose of calomel."
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-09-28

Of course, Russia can hardly claim
the position of a first-class democ-
racy until she begins to make loans"
to her allies.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-09-28

to the reading of the poem, frankly
confessed that she had never had any
experience running a newspaper.
She left that entirely to her husband.
But if she had been asked to speak of
Experiences in Running the One
Who Runs the Newspaper" she might
have spoken volumes. She thought
her effusion might be properly EMIT
led: Unto the Depths; or, an Editor
Hits the Toboggan." She apologized
for her POEMS similarity in rhythm
and meter to Edgar Aliens poem.
"The Raven, but asked her audience
to kindly bear in mind that she was
not the first offender in this respect.
Then she read her poem as follows:
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-09-28

"Olive drab" is the official designa-
ton for Uncle Sam-s army uniforms,
and that is about as difficult to work
into poetry as "khaki."
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-09-28

Americans are entirely at one with
Viscount Ishii in regard to George
Washington as an Hon. Ancestor.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1917-09-11
SHEEP RAISING
INDUSTRY URGED
(By United Press.

Chicago, Sept. 11.-Immediate
and extensive expansion Of the
sheep raising industry was urged
at the opening session Of the
Great Lakes Wool Convention
here today. The convention Will
be in session two days.
The National More Sheep, More
Wool Association, with headquar-
tiers in Philadelphia is co-operat-
ing with the National Sheep and
Wool Bureau Of Chicago in for
mulating plans for more activity
in the sheep industry.
Plans are being arranged for
the leasing Of vast acreages suit
able to sheep raising.
Scarcity Of wool for clothing is
responsible for agitation in the
sheep industry.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1917-09-11

depravity and barbarism to which
the Germans may descend. They
have demonstrated that in these
respects the unspeakable Turks,
whose history of barbarism
through the centuries had mark
ed them as having led the world
in that respect, are now far out
classed by Germany. We may as
well recognize the situation and
face the facts, for we cannot ig-
more these conditions.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1917-09-11
AIRMEN DROP
POISON CANDY.

A telegram from Plymouth,
Mass, quotes letter from Brown
lee l.. Gaul, former Harvard
student, now an ambulance driver
in France, to his father, Rev. F.
j. Gaul, in which it is stated that
German airmen, flying by night
over a French town recently,
dropped poisoned candy and
caused the death Of many children
who ate it. The letter also saws !:
"The Germans are continually
Smelling hospitals
No one should be surprised at
these statements. It is proven
that Germans have heretofore
been guilty Of dropping poisoned
candy in towns for the purpose of
killing children as we'll as others,
but even this method Of trying to
destroy population is not so vile
and vicious as some Of the meth
DDS known to American physic-
ians that have been employed by
the Germans
No one need be surprised at any
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1917-09-11

The private is a runner attach
ed to Surrey regiment, who was
coming back from an early morn
ing attack with news Of how the
fighting was going. He was still
i'll the zone where shells were
dropping with bothersome fire.
quency and was hustling to get
out Of it. He saw approaching a
young man picking his way leis-
urely among the shell-holes and
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1917-09-11

What the blankety-blank-
blank are you doing out here 20
he demanded Of the stranger.
None Of your blankety-blank
business, was the cheerful re-
spouse, as emphatically profane as
his own greeting.
Coming nearer, the private saw
he had been 'cussing' an officer,
a second lieutenant.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1917-09-11
THE PRINCE IS
APRIME FAVORITE
(By United Press. J

London, Sept. lift Kings had
to be elected, there is one private
in the British army who would
put his cross in the circle opposite
the name Of Edward the Eighth,
the present Prince of Wales
Young Edward won his vote in
the second battle Of LOoS.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-20
Navy Recruits Wanted.

Recruits for different branches Of
the naval service are sought by the
navy department thru the recruiting
offices at Des Mo!nes. Davenport, Bur-
lington, Cedar Rapids, Fort Dodge,
Mason city. and Red Oak.
Among the classes of recruits wanted
are cooks and bakers, telegraphers and
amateur wireless operators. 1000 fire.
men, many Of whom will become engi-
neers: colored mess attendants. motor
boat men and gas engine experts. and
machinists and gas engine builders for
the aviation corps of the navy.
Recruits for the ranks Of cooks
must be between IS and s. years old,
and bakers from y to IS. High school
boys and young college men. from Is
to s.. are wanted as telegraphers and
wireless operators. Ffremen must be
between q and IS. and physically III
for this branch Of the service. Mess
attendants may be between IS and 3r
the motor boat and gas engine men,
cabinet makers and machinists, IS 10
IS.
The pay for frenen when learning
is $3.50 per month. with clothing.
medical attention, board and room free.
Telegraphers and wireless operators.
while in training, receive $3.50 per
month.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-20
Stlrrenders Pension,
To Serve Uncle San,

Surrendering a pension, and having
seen active service for his country In
two foreign lands, Jay S. Stedman, 4os
East Linn Street, has enlisted again
Tor foreign service in the gas and flame
division. In his prior service Sted-
man was twice wounded in battles and
scrimmages for which he was receiv-
ing pension of SIS a month. He was
beyond the draft age so he could not
be conscripted.
Stedman has served in the United
States marines and in the artillery.
" nile In the marines he participated
IN the Boxer uprising in 1900 and was
wounded. Again, III Cuba, while in
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-20

The windows of this store
have a message for you, so
stop and view our Christmas
suggestions as you pass.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-20
Gilman News Notes.

Lewis Nelson and wife, OF Grinnell,
spent Sunday here at the A. ]. Pence
home. "
Mrs. A. j. Sutherland went Friday to
Cedar Rapids to visit ten days with
her daughter. Miss Marjorie.
Mrs J. B. Ramsey and Miss Fannie
Frankforth went Thursday to Des
Moines for few days visit with
friends.
Mrs. ]. L. Harris and son George, OF
Edgington, ILL.,, arrived here Saturday
morning to visit the formers brothers
N. r. and Thomas McGrew and sister
Miss Kezie McGrew. Mr.. Harris left
for home Sunday but Mrs. Harris will
remain for months visit.
Miss Evelyn Patterson who, is q stu
dent at Grinnell College. spent Sunday
with her folks, the Mrs. F. F. Patterson
family. i@
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-20

9, block 25. s1,75o.
Gilbert H. Hill to G. R. Poper, lot :
and part Of 5. block !, Bussard's addi'
ton to Gilman, $1,000.
A. j. Haas to Harry York. part OF
lots and I. block 4, Edenville, $1,4OO.
j. M. Winslow to Mollie A. Coleman
land in west Marshall, 81.
J. NJ. Winslow to Noble A. Coleman,
land in west Marshall. 81.
Clara j. Middleton, ct al, to Fred G.
Middleton, 40 acres in Bangor town
ship, 81.
Charles E. Buffet, of Henry county
Illinois, to Herman H. Spohr, part Of
lot 6, Messengers subdivision, 81.
A.. K Smith to H. J. Allard, part OF
lot s. block 2, Arson and Clicks sub
division, ST.
G. NJ. Coleman to j. NJ. Winslow the
next SIX feet of the north one-naH of
lot 6. block II, Jeromes addition, 81.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-20

cit!s year ago this fall. and for a
time was invalided and attached to the
officers training camp at Shorncliffe,
as adjutant instructor. He made ap-
plication for service in France last Feb
ruary, but was not transferred until
August, when he was assigned to the
English battalion. No particulars Of
the death were received with the an
nounCement.
The Wilson family lives at Winnipeg,
Man. Mrs. Henry Wilson has a broth
er, Andrew. MCBain. who was seriously
wounded in the trenches over a year
a~o. He still is in France, assigned
to non Combatives service, his injuries,
from which he recovered after six
months in the hospital, having render
ri him INF; fer active service
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-20
Counties 70 Plan Campaign.
WILSON'S BROTHER DEAD
Brother o. Former ~" Seeretar,
Meets Death in Seiciur

word from Henry E. Wilson. former
secretary Of the local Y. n. c. A, now
student secretary Of the University 0.
Illinois :. ". c. A Crbana, tells Of
the death Of his brother Leslie, a Hen
tenant in the Canadian army Lieu
tenant Wilson was killed n Flanders
On Monday, Nov. y.
Leslie Wilson vas known 70 friends
Of the wilson's N this city, having v.s-
tied here az different times. The Young
man left Canada q year ago last June
as a lieutenant IN the SixtyArst bat
TALON. He was stricken with appead.-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-20
THE BOWLING LEAGUE .

BY making d clean sweep Of the ser
les with the Humps Monday evening
D!5bsrn's kewp!es rolled into secon
position in ihs bowling league cham
p:ocsa!p race. D!55ert- ot the Kew
pies rolled high game and high series,
with ~ and SO respectively. The
scores.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-20

the artillery, serving in the Spanish
war he received another wound Meth
er wound prevented him from being
accepted as physically fit. He has been
fireman working for the NJ. & st.
L.
Two others were recruited at the
local station Monday They were
Wayne r. Gearhart, r. F. D. 3. city,
coast artillery; and Carl B Swafford,
Nevada, aviation section. The latter
is married.