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Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-21
Made-In-Connecticut War Interviews
aWhat Have the Allies Right to Ex-
 pect from the United States?"

"What Have the Allies Right to Ex
 peot from the United States?"
 An Interview With Arthur l.. Ship man of Hartford. Chairman of the l Hartford County Auxiliary Commit tee of the Connecticut State Coun- cil of Defense.
 | Arthur L. Shipman, chairman of the 1 Hartford County Auxiliary Committee 1 of the Connecticut State Council of | Defense in one of the series of Made 1 in Connecticut War Interviews" se- l cured by the Connecticut State Coun-
 through the newspapers, answers the 1 question, What have the Allies a right to expect from the United l States?" with the following state ment:
 ."To put the question in another form, and one which is frequently asked nowadays, What are we in this l war for, anyhowr
 answer:
 First, the ocean and its seas, the 1 highways of travel and commerce, free | to all neutrals, were forbidden us by i the German empire.
 Second. that prohibition was en- forced against our repeated protests 1 by one of the meanest as well as one | of the most cruel of al war devices ] fight for our rights.
 Tt is of little consequence that this l Is only one of the reasons, and per | haps not the most important reason, 1 deny, however, that Germany's pro- l hibition of our use of the seas is the
 most immediate and direct cause of 1 our being In the struggle. Suppose, then, that such were the only reasons. Our duty, 1t might be
 said, was thereby limited to clearing l for safe travel the oceans highways by the use of our naval forces. and
 there is where we should stop But have our allies only the right 10 expect of us poiice- protection for our own carrying trade Let us see what that involves. Our goods are ihose that fly our country's flag. We cannot protect our goods en route
 without protecting the vessel that con- tains them, whether British, Dutch, Norwegian or French The moment one of our guns is fired to protect a British merchantman carrying our goods, we are in effect fighting on British soil to defend 1t from inva- sion.
 But no one can put any limit on his lawful efforts in 8 fight. If one goes in at all one must go in all over This is true, not only from the point of view of the spectator. but from the points of view of our opponents, our allies and ourselves.
 Suppose that we could quiet our
 own sense of shame by standing on
 the outskirts and protecting only the
 avenues of commerce, although that
 would be an impossible position for America with it's history and tradi-
 lions to occupy. Surely the onIook-
 CTS and our children would put them
 selves in the position of our allies and
 say, Whatever America has of re-
 sources, money, men, supplies, mater
 ials, food, should be used without stint
 for our support Men, women and
 children are suffering untold losses
 in body, mind and spirit from the war
 and especially from the kind of war
 fare which is being waged by the cen
 tral powers. It therefore behooves ev-
 cry one of us-and by us I mean every man, woman and child that
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-21

enteen hundred home gardens were planted in Gardner this spring. one fo every nine inhabitants. The owners have nos planted and worked them for fun" writes the editor of the daily paper. They will look after the crop"
 Gardner has a municipal canning factors to take Care Of its surplus products, and the Ladies' Aid society is running canning schools four times a week. In addition, Gardner Is estab- fishing a municipal market and state agricultural aeencles, as well as the federal department of agriculture, are supplying the papers of Gardner with information on canning and preEerv- ing.
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of existence on the continent and overseas" "Overseas" means, iuCi- dentally, the United States. What is the difference between an assumption like this and the position occupied by the late unamented Zimmermaun, who wanted to give Texas to Mexico? None. It is an assertion of the extreme of Juukerism. Annexations and indemn- ities have by this time been pretty well given up by the German people. But not it seems, by Michaelis or his master. They need more convincing, at one end CT the other of the Lne.- Boston Transcript.
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Nothing GoIna to Waste.

Washington, Aug. 15.-Not quart of perishable fruits or vegetables is go- ing to waste in the little town of Gardner. Mass, according to a report of agriculture by the editor of a small daily paper now cooperating with the government in its emergency cam paign.
 According to the last census the population of Gardner Is 15,o0O. SeV-
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What Overseas Means.

Chancellor Michaelis is still of the opinion that he. Won Hindenburg, the Kaiser and the German armies can make the world safe for autocracy. Answer messages of the Pan German, who are still boosting the sentiment all around the German world in favor of demanding anneXatiOns and in demnities- Herr Michaelis says: T am firmly confident that the splendid military situation will help us to a peace which will guarantee peTma- nently the German empires condition
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make up America-to contribute all in his power to fight our fght-that is, the fight of ourselves and our allies.
 Mark you, that in what I have said we are putting aside all higher duty, our duty to humanity, our duty to save. or help save, the world as a proper place for us and them to live and die in. This conclusion is placed upon the lowest possible ground. viz: the duty of every one who enters any contest; the mere animal obligation toward ones fellows in q fgnI."
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on one of the navy's largest vessels swa bbing out gun of a secondary
 battery after firing in target practice
 The public is assured by the depart ment that the navy is being kept up
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BUSY PAYs AMERICAN WARsAIPs ~~ AH 1C(

This photograph, taken very recently and given out for publication by the committee on public information in Washington and copyrighted by the committee, shows group of saiIormen
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-21
Should Be Thankful.

We kick and complain about tho heat, but are we thankful as we should be for every gentle breeze that blows our way ?-Toledo Blade.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-21

Crop prospects in Austria are report ed by the Neues Pester Journal to be unfaVorable.
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to the top knotch of efficiency and pre- paredness. ready to give good ac- count of itself whenever it may meet the Teutons.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
FROM THE FROZEN NORTH

The following letter from a GEN
rleman living Just on the sunny side
of the North Pole-Nome, Alaska, to
l. W Miller CT his city, may inter
est some of our readers. We quote as
below:
Nome, Alaska, Sept 21, 1917.
Mr.. c. W Miller,
Curator Fort Hays Normal School,
Hays, Kansas
My Dear Sir
Yours of the oath ult., TO hand.
note what you say relative to the
elder duck, but was indeed very
sorry that 1 could not procure the
ptarmigan for you at present
For the last two years, ptarmigan,
for some unexplainable reason, have
almost entirely deserted this country.
We have had millions of them I'D to
that time and no one seems to under
stand why all have left country: but
l believe that it is only temporary,
and as soon as they return, will get
you some.
We have different species of ducks,
probably, about half a dozen, snipe,
curlew and ptarnigan. These are
about the only fowl that we have.
But we have plenty of reindeer.
1ISE are lii uSIuS anu are all owned
by Eskimos and other private indi-
viduaIs.
1 am almost confident that l can
get you what you desire in the line
of reindeer
We have here plenty of grizzly
bear, white, brown, and polar bear,
red and white foxes, wolf, wolverine,
lynx, bob-cat, mink, marten, beaver,
and several other fur bearing ami
mails. In the water, we have walrus,
seal and white whale
In other parts of Alaska, there is
plenty of moose, caribou, white noun
tain sheep, angora goats, but none of
those around here.
When l have a little leisure, will
get one of those trappers or hunters
to give me a complete list of all the
wild game and animals around in
this country, and will forward the
same to you.
Your sincerely,
W.. Rowe,
Nome, Alaska
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
PLANS TO BOYCOTT GERMANY?

Buenos Aires, Sept. 3O.-President
Irigoyen is making a renewed effort
to bring about a congress of the
South American Republics to consi-
der international affairs in their eff
feet on this hemisphere. Deputy Cas-
tellanos has introduced in the cham
Der of deputies the administrators
bill approving the proposal of the
president to invite the sister repub-
lies to meet at Buenos Aires, and to
adopt a joint policy in regard to the
world conflict.
President Irogoyen's program is for
the American republics jointly to de-
mand Germany end the war or else
suffer a solid South American boy
colt and a declaration in favor of the
Entente Allies. Person in the conf
dence of the president declare he
wishes to lead the South American
republics against Germany rather
than to appear as if he had been
pushed into the conflict by the United
States.
The president is preparing a pro-
clamation declaring the County Won
Luxburg incident closed and disap-
proving the action of congress favor
ing a rupture.-K. G. Times.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
Frightfulness a Policy.


mot one stone on another, 1 tell
you"
That was the ordered program for
the destruction of Louvain by the in
vading Germans, repeated by a Ger
man officer in command of the work
to Hugh Gibson, first secretary of
the American legation at Brussels,
as the two stood together in a street
of the doomed town while drunken
soldiers proceeded from door to door
firing the houses. Mr.. Gibson's ac-
count of it is in the third installment
of his journal, written at the time,
now being published by the worlds
work
Here is the officers full statement
of the German purpose, then being
carried out before Mr.. Gibson's eyes
eve shall make this place a desert. We
hard to find where Louvain used to
stand. For generation people viii
come here to see what we have done
and it will teach them to respect Ger
many and to think twice before they
resist her. Not one stone on another,
I tell your
That was in August, 1914, the first
month of the war, and it shows that
the German frightfulness that has
marked its entire course was a delib-
crate policy adoptd from the begin
ming, and was confidently counted
upon to produce a desired effect-to
make the world tremble before Ger
nany's might, tremble and submit
Mr. Gibson, who arrived upon the
scene the second day of the destruc-
ton, who interviewed both Germans
and Belgians while the systematic
n do
many subsequent visits to ruins to
add to the information he then gained
rejects the German claim that the
crime was committed in reprisal for
the sniping of German soldiers, and
declares "that the whole affair was
part of cold blooded and ealuculat-
ed plan to terrorize the civilian popu-
lation."
1t was only when the destruction
had gone on five days and the Ber-
lin government had learned the feel
ing with which the outside world had
received the news of horror that the
work was ordered stopped and the
story of sniping invented.
The world will have little interest
in German explanation Of why Lou
vain was destroyed. No explanation
can erase the picture OF women and
homes, of men being hunted out of
cellars and attics like rats and shot
in the streets, of household furni-
ture being heaped up and fired and
houses blown up with dynamite, OF
looting, bestiality, drunkenness, saw
agery that are the elements Of which
Prussianism has constructed its set
tied military policy.
Louvain was but its first revela-
ton. If it had stopped there the
world might have been deceived by
pretext offered, but what happened
at Louvain has happened wherever
Prussianism has been able TO work
its will mot one stone upon
another" That is the answer to pro-
testations of innocence, Of provoca-
ton. OF military necessity and it can
be read IN ashes and ruins, through
out Belgium and Northern France,
n Serbia, IN the path of ZeppeIins
over England and IN the whitened
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
Has Vindicated Its Claim

The Protective-Tariff system has
Vindicated its claim to be the perma-
nent policy of this country It has
placed the farm and factory side
by side, furnished a renumerative
market for the products of the for
mer, and thereby promoted and sus-
tanned the interests of agriculture 1t
has provided for our people work
and wages, home and education, am
all the doctrines of Free-Traders
since the days of Richard Golden. 1t
has kept the balance of trade with u3
and demonstrated by experience that
under low Tariffs that balance has
been against us. 1t makes the home
market our own ana sustains our in
dustrial strength, cheapens the pro-
ducts to the consumer, diversifieS our
industries, thereby employing our
capital and labor and furnishing op-
pOrtunities for the brain and energy
of every man seeking employment.
Yes, as has been well said, it has
given our laboring people homes and
land and filled them with hope for
themselves and their children. In
Great Britain and Continental Eur
ope the sca1t wages of the working
man leaves to him intemperance and
pauperisrn rs his only refuge, where
as from the conclusions of the Mosely
commission, composed of officers of
the leading labor unions in England,
which visited the United States in
1902, we were proud to note the
statement that the American work
ingnan was better paid, better
clothed, better housed, and withal in
finitely more sober than his British
neighbor---Represertative Rynolds,
of Pennsylvania
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
WANTS DRAFT A FIXED POLICY

Howard H. Gross Says Kaiser Is
Worlds Craziest Tyrant
Waterloo, Ia, Oct. 5.-The princi-
pal address at the Dairy Cattle Con-
gress this afternoon was by Howard
H. Gross, president of the Universal
Military Training League, Chicago,
an organization composed of many
prominent men who are endeavoring
to secure the adoption of universal
military training as a fixed policy of
the country.
In explaining the necessity OF mill
tary training Mr.. Gross said in part {:
The methods followed by the kai-
ser and his allies are simply horrible.
He must answer in history for the
killing of thousands of innocent wom-
en- and children; he has broken every
international law and every rule of
warfare; he has bombarded hospitals
and undefended cities; he has sunk
Red Cross ships bound on errands OF
mercy; he has destroyed cathedrals
and priceless treasures of art, that can
never be replaced ne has made slaves
of his prisoners; he has endeavored to
get US into war with Japan, his ennis
saries have blown up our ships, burn
ed our factories, fired our forests
and denied US safety upon the high
seas. ne KNOWS nelIneE mercy nor
honor. He is the craziest, most
blood-thirsty tyrant upon whom the
sun ever shown.
1--WE stood the insults and injuries
of the Prussianized German govern
ment until forbearance ceased to be
virtue. No other course was open
to us except to defend our rights.
American manhood and womanhood
must be regenerated, and l believe,
awful as it is and as it is to be, that
this war will prove the salvation of
the country kansas City Times,
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
Time for Saving

The war is teaching American
youth one important lesson, and that
is the Importance of special training
IN some art, craft or profession. The
down-trOdden WorkingTnan, seeking
vainly for employment, has been sup
erseded by the mechanic, who has
dictate his own terms to those who
would hire him. It is doubtful if the
present rates of compensation for
work for every description have ever
been equaled in New York and still in
many usefal callings the demand for
the highest skill is far in excess of
the supply. This rule applies not only
to electricians, carpenters, machinists
blacksmiths and boilermakers, but to
the learned professions as well, while
unskilled manual labor is sharing in
the general prosperity. Meanwhile
although the prices of food, clothing
and other necessities have reached a
point that takes the fine edge of the
increased earnings, present condi-
lions offer opportunities for prudent
saving that no one can afford to ne
gleCt. The moment the war ends
wages and salaries will begin to fall,
and they probably will continue to
fall until they reach a normal plane.
The release of thousands of skilled
men from the army will give decid-
ed impetus to the downward move
ment. Every clear-headed person will
see that now is the time not only to
make hay but to stow it away in the
5arn.--New York Times.
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cheaper would do just as we'll. Back,
say a generation ago, homemade sor-
ghur1, spread over corn cakes, repre-
sented, to the average person, practic-
ally all that could reasonably be desir-
ed in that line. But, as times became
more prosperous, nothing would do
for these same people but louisiana
molasses. The next step was to gold
en- sirIp, and the transition from
this to honey, at the breakfast table,
was easy. That there is a revival of
sorghum-cane grinding and sorghum
juice boiling, on the farms of the Mis-
sissippi Valley, is really encourage g
neWS-EX
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13

Manhattan, Kansas, October s.
Save everything possible suitable for
feed, urges W. A. Boys, district agri-
cultural agent IN west central Kan
sas- Use of Russian thistles in west
central Kansas is advocated.
Russian thistles are being utilized
for hay quite extensively where other
crops are short" said Mr.. Boys. 1.-The
thistles, If cut at the proper stage,
make fairly good feed. For the best
quality of hay they should be cut
just before the stickers appear.
'The thistles should be fed with
some other feed such as sorghum hay
or corn fodder. When too ripe for hay
they can be utilized to good advan-
tage by placing them in the silo. They
should be run through the silage cut
ter and mixed with cane or corn"
Six emergency home demonstra-
ton agents have been placed in Kan
sas counties.
Miss Juanita Sutcliff is working in
Cowley County, Miss Ellen Nelson in
Seward, Miss Mollie Lindsey in Ness,
Miss Maud Coe in Mcpherson, Miss
Ellen Bachelor in Wyandotte, and
Miss Bertha Boyd in Stevens. Miss
Elsie Baird has been selected for
Anderson County, Miss Avis Talcott
for Atchison county, and Miss Edna
Banner for Marshall county.
Several other counties have asked
for home demonstration agents
through the division of extension of
the agricultural college, and these
will be appointed as. soon as the
county organizations can be complet-
ed and capable women can be found.
Jewell county farmers have shown
their faith in county agricultural
agents by insisting that seed wheat
must be bought outside the county, be
obtained from counties having agri-
cultural agents and that agents sup
ervise the loading of the wheat
The reason given for this require
ment is that they have faith in the
agents ability to select good seed
and have no hestitancy in relying up
on them for this service
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13

Duquoin III. Oct. g A contest start
ed recently by postofice clerks here
to bring out the postofflce patron with
the longest name was terminated sud-
denly today and honors go 10 a Biz
mingham, Ala, postoffice clerk, who
submitted the name of Gust J. Pa
paheodorokumoundurgistomichalako
polus, patron of the Birmingham
Office. The clerk who entered the
name did not attempt to give the pro-
per pronunciation.
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1t was inevitable that sorghum
should return to a more prominent
position in the Mississippi Valley as
consequence of the high cost of liv-
ing. The nultitudes in the interior
of the United States are prone to go
after the costlier household supplies
in days of plenty, even though the
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
Pressure From SUMS Liobt.

The Hight of the sun exerts a pres
sure of 10000 tons on the earth, ac-
cording TO a British scientist.
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bones that strew the deserts of Ar
menia. The world has read and
judged and has summoned the guilty
to answer.-K. c. Times.
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State Of Kansas Ellis County ss=
i Pred n D-eEinS. TREASURER az Kills
County Kansas. do eole1E7ly sEear xhst She
above statement Il tEue aid eoFrect, 70 the
best Of my kDcEledEe and bslief.
l. hereby certify fkat the foEzEcinE state
ment vas subscribed Ezd sWoEa e before
me, and IN NY Presense, b the abcFe naned
this 2Stb dsy az Ssg2embeF, 1917.
Fred u. DrsHIaE
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CommiSSiOnerS
Quarterly Statement

Of Fred N. Dreiling. County Treasurer of
Ellis County, Kansas. showing balance in
his hands for the quarter ending September
%. 1917.
FUND DR. CIR
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Battle Fleet Profession

''Englands grand fleet has done
more for the preservation of the
pressed glass industry of this coun-
try than all the legislation Congress
ever enacted" declared representa-
tives of eighty of the largest pressed
glassware plants in the country at a
recent meeting in Atlantic city The
president of the Flint and Lime Glass
Workers Union, and the president of
the National Association of Flint
and Lime Glass Manufacturers, Join
ed in declaring:
''England's battle fleet has saved
the American glass situation by MAX
ing impossible the importation of
German, Austrian and Belgian goods.
By so doing it has given the Amer
lean glass industry the greatest Op-
portunity it ever has had The sus-
pension of imports brought about by
England's feet has done exactly what
we have tried vainly to persuade
Congress to do"
That is a pretty good Protection
argument, and it comes from capt.
talist and laborer alike. What does
Samuel GOmpers president of the
American Federation of Labor, have
to say to that?
Department of Commerce Stats
tics show that during the ten months
uninterrupted operations of the
Democratic Tariff law, which cut the
duties on all glass manufactures,
compared with a similar ten months
under Protection the year before, i'm
portations increased forty per cent.
ImportatiOns Of window glass nearly
doubled; plate glass more than dou-
bled. The laborers evidently know
the reason, and they should be ready
to vote for American policy of Pro-
lection because the close of the war
VIII find them minus the Protection
of the British battle fieet.-Wilming
ton DELI Journal.
Not much longer than twenty years
ago Jerry Simpson stood up in a pub
lie meeting IN Osborne and said the
farmers should receive a dollar a bu-
shell for wheat. He also said lot of
other unreasonable lat that time)
things. He said if the town people
wouldn't pay that much for wheat the
farmers should let the grass grow In
the main streets Of the town. PEI
fer, Mollie Lease and others said the
same thing. There are still numerous
persons IN Osborne County, who
cheered those sentiments But now If
jerry were here and should stand up
and say farmers should be satisfied
with a dollar q bushel for wheat ne
would be mobbed before shutdown.
Just what Jerry would have to do to
attract the attention were he among
rs now is hard to figure ont. Our
Republican and our Democratic
friends have so Out-ppoped anything
Jerry ever did IN those halycon days
that the mind refuses to be governed
when it turned loose on retrospect
6on-Osborne Farmer.
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The Knife Weeder for listed corn,
sold by H. D. Clayton, Hill City, KS.
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EOR SALE
FOR SALE

For Sale or Exchange
Two barred Rock cockerels. Phone
2810. Mrs. Geo. Reidel.