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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-24
Pictures Outrages Against
Celtic Race; Shooting of
Captives Concealed
Warning to America
u. S. Soldiers Likely to Meet
Harsh Fate; Ambassador
Recovering

CHICAGO, Aug. 23.-Murder and or
ganized starvation are features Of the
welcome that the Germans give Irish
prisoners captured in battle, to show
the great affection the Teutons have
for the Celtic race. James W. Gerard,
former Ambassador to Germany, to-day
sent a message TO Irishmen in Chicago,
who were under the impression that
the Irish are great favorites with the
Germans.
IF the Irish people of Chicago could
see, as ! saw, the way the Irish prison.
ers we're treated; IL they could talk
with the prisoners, and if they could
see the way they were dying in prison
camps from starvation and tuberculosis,
they would lose all sympathy for the
Germans" said Mr.. Gerard.
Sees Like Fate for Americans
American prisoners will probably
be treated about the same way. The
Germans care no more about the Irish
than they do about the English. The
Irish prisoners were collected In one
camp at Limburg-about $500 Of them.
The Germans sent Sir Roger Easement
to the camp to enlist men for his Irish
rebellion. He got about thirty to go
with him. When he went back to .he
camp for more volunteers the Irishraeu
chased him away, and there was near
riot for a time.
81 was given secret information by
Germans that the guards were shoot
ing and killing Irish prisoners. One
prisoner was killed even while | was
trying to investigate the reported muir
der of another lrishman. The killing
OF one man was concealed from me,
and there is no telling how many other
lrishmen were shot down by their Ger
man guards. When | tried to get in
formation | was informed that an in
yestigation was under way, and never
was able to get any satisfactory expla-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-24


American government is following a
policy which approaches a slow form
of national suicide" These are the
words in which Archibald E. Stevenson,
chairman of the committee on aliens
Of the Mayors Committee on National
Defence, sums up a situation to which
The Tribune has devoted much space
during the last few weeks.
In an interview yesterday, Mr..
Stevenson continued:
Tf we are TO go ahead with maxi
mum speed in the prosecution OF our
war programme, il is imperative that
the Administration adopt q rigorous
policy Of control with respect to these
publications.
There may be some difference Of
opinion as to how this control shall be
effected, but among informed Ameri-
cans there can be no longer any dis
agreement that action should be
prompt and drastic. Special laws will
be needed from Congress, but there
should be no delay in their enactment
ard in organization to enforce them.
"The Tribune Is rendering an i'm
portant service in exposing the opera
tons Of these enemies within They
constitute the gravest single menace
the nation faces to-day. While would
not for a moment minimize the danger
in the pro-German propaganda carried
| on under various guises in our own
language, ! am convinced that their
ultimate effect will be much less than
! that threatened by the anti-American
newspapers published in foreign
languages.
Circulation Runs
Into Millions
1.-THE German press is a vicious part,
but only a part, of these mediums OF
dissension. The Kaiser Is represented
| in America in a score Of languages,
and in many Of them right here in
New York. There are more than 1900
foreign language newspapers in
America. New York alone has about
200. Their combined circulation runs
into millions-much more, despite ex-
aggerated claims, than that of the
literature issued in our language by
the so-called pacifst organizations.
mo. only is their circulation greater,
but it's quality Is far more important:
there are millions of people in Ameri-
ca who can't read English and who
must depend solely for their infor-
nation as to current events on publ
cations in their own language. Resi-
dent here for a comparatively short
time, lacking adequate contact with
representative American life, they are
quite easily misled by false statements,
distorted news and specious reason
ing of traitorous editors. They be-
lieve what they read, for they are
without means to check the state
ments.
"The editors themselves are quick to
nroft from the obscurity afforded by
the fact that few Of our officials and
c;,izens can read foreign language,
and thew are holder than the man who
writes in English. Finally, these edi-
tors. even if their attitude be known
are less susceptible to the restraining
effect Of American public opinion.
Tf an American tries to reason with
their readers it is only another evil
d.nce of American snobbery and per-
sscution' Of the foreigner. 1t Is their
constant effort to keep the alien out OF
toueh with the real America and TO
,,av mon his sentiment for his native
land.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-24
War Not Picnic,
Mothers Are Told
Officials Warn Parents and
Sweethearts Against Loading
Boys With Useless Articles

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23--Don't load
your sons down with trunks and kits
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-24
Looked Like Ideal Place

Minneapolis has elected Socialist
Mayor by large majority; New ulm'
a little city in the midst of big Ger
man settlement, had pulled off an anti
war demonstration and got away with
it-until yesterday. when its Mayor,
City Attorney and County Auditor were
removed from Office by the Governor for
taking part in it; the !, W: W. had
found Minnesota a fertile field. and
three of Minnesota's ten Representa-
tives in Congress had voted against the
President on the war issue.
But when Louis P. Lochner, Henry
Ford's successor on the peace ship, and
secretary of the council, arrived In
Minneapolis TO arrange for the meet
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-24
Arrival of Vessels
Forty-eight Ships From Abroad
Reach United States Ports

Forty-eight ships from foreign ports
arrived in hsrbors on the Atlantic
Coast and the Gulf of Mexico during
the twenty-four hours ended August
%, according to the announcement
made yesterday by the Collector Of the
Port. The aggregate tonnage was
$4,000, and is the smallest number OF
vessels TO arrive since the government
officials began issuing daily reports:
The list includes twelve American
vessels, twenty-one British and fifteen
Of various other nations. Following is
the list:
Amazonia Ann Leonard G. (Br. sch)
AdeuA tBr. sch.) Madonna tFr)
Appleeaf lBr.l MetapAn tAm.)
Aureoie lBrl Margaret May Riley tBr
Brstlsnd fNor) SCH
Baylsaf OBJ Maryland AM
Brchleaf tBrD Nelson tAm.l
British Empress (Brl NeEus lNor)
Chicago tFr) Mia VI. Conrad tBr.
Cretic Brl sch)
Clothilde Cuneo tNor.) Nevada DAM
City OF Lahore tDr) Otis Miller (Br. sch)
Carolinian AM Otta (Nor.l
Dsiv Farlin AM 0linds tCubanl
d. W. b. (BT sch) PTins der Nederlsnden
Esther Adelaide CBr Dutch
sch) Panama AM
Fl Captain Ann Port Antonio tNor.)
h hns'q i si'5' 'D'' s aIS R'R Jon.. Am
Glenspean (Br) Springfield Am sch.)
Governor Cobb tAm) Scotia queen tBr. sch.)
Giulio Cesare GtaL) Triton Am. sch(
Hswsker OBJ lamar Br. ship
Jose tNorl Waglsnd (Nor)
Le Coz (Br) Zsta tBr. sch.)
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-24
Pacifsts to Get
Chilly Reception
In Minneapolis
War Demonstrations Mock
Preparations for Peace
Meeting
Especial Correspoudencsl


MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 2S.-Minnea-
polls is going TO entertain next week
the greatest collection Of professional
pacifsts, Socialists. |. ". ". and draft
directors, conscientious, unconscien-
tious and plain henpecked ever as
sembled They are coming under the
name of Peoples Council of America.
Endure" probably would be better
word than entertain" For if Minnes-
polls does any entertaining, it will be
in the city Jail. True, the Mayor,
Thomas Van Lear, will address the
delegates, but then Minneapolis doesn't
paw much attention TO its Mayor any
more.
The Peoples Council thought Min
neapolis and Minnesota would be an
auspicious place in which TO hold its
convention
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-24

tempting to pray.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-24

Copyright 1917. Tn. Tribun. Association)
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-02

Probably the greatest hitch in the
draft, and the condition which will
cause the most trouble will be the de-
termination of the draft eligibility OF
the married man, says the Emporia
Gazette. Take the case of the young
married man, even the married man
who has no children, but who has &C.
uuired an equity in piece Of property.
Can he be expected to go to the
trenches, leaving upon his wife the
burden of meeting the payments on
the home, of saving the little that has
been saved? And can every young
woman be expected to readjust her
self to changed conditions, to get back
into business or industrial life and to
be able to make an Independent liv-
ing? To all intents and purposes her
support is completely taken away, and
when she applies for work, and asks
for more than the meager wage Of
fered she will hear that old, familiar
phrase, pretty good wages for
woman"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-02
us YOUR BOY GOING?"

"CIose to me lives a man whose in
terests have been separated from
mine by more than a mere ivy-growE
stone fence-to be exact, by several
hundred thousand dollars. The other
day he leaned over the fence and in
quired:
"'Your boy going?'
"'Mine, too. Had a notion he did
not want to wait for CONSUMPTION. BY
the way, those elephants of yours are
not coming on very well. May l send
my man over with some fertilizer that
has helped ours?'
"The fence is still there-but not
the barrier. Our boys and our coun-
try leveled it.
"There's bound to be lot of such
leveling from this time on. Some of
us who have been too busy to get &C.
quainted are going to know each
other. Some who have been too alb
sorbed by money-making and reputa-
tion-seeking to make friends will sud-
denly feel the need of comradesh!p.
Some of us who have worried because
our neighbors dressed better than we
did, had finer monograph, or ran a
faster car, are going TO have our eyes
opened to the falseness Of the stand
ards by which we have judged our
selves and each other We're going
to like each other great deal better
and to need each other a great deal
more ."-Woman's Home Companion.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-02
BEING BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE

The summer season brings its har-
vest of drowning accidents. What
should be done after an unconscious
person has been brought from the wa
ter-what to bring life back? There
are many things that may be done,
but perhaps the most simple 1S to
place the patient with the head lower
than the body, face. down and little
to one side Try to expel the water
and at the same time restore respira-
ton by Selling the ribs and making
movement eighteen or twenty times
a minute. Rolling over d barrel with
the face down is a good process.
While this is being done. pUlmoter
should be coming, accompanied by
some person who knows how to use
if. Unless the person has been in the
water a long time and life has be-
come extinct, the resuscitation' proc
ess should go on for at least an nour'
A few days ago a girl was restored
to life after being virtually dead Tor
half an hour. The length Of time, a.
person may remain in the water With
out losing all chances Of being re-
stored depends on the vitality of the
Individual and the temperature OF the
water. Haste and an accurate knoWi-
edge of what to do are important rac-
tors in accidents of this kind.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-02
BREAD CARDS 2,OOO YEARS OLD

The bread card, that familiar Euro
mean product of the present great
clash of nations, is nearly 1000 years
old. That is the discovery OF a Dutch
professor, DR.. H. Moltzer, who asserts
that it was in use in Rome under the
Emperor Augustus, in whose reign
Christ was born.
Moreover, not only did the Romans
have their bread cards and their gov
eminent grain, a term that has be-
come so familiar in Holland, but gov
eminent intervention in ancient Rome
evoked as much discomfort and fr1c-
ton between public and bread purvey-
ors as has been the case in these
modern days.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-02
Will, THIS COME TRUE IN 1852?

Jack Lait, the well known writer,
says it will. He tells in the Ameri-
can Magazine for August what he
thinks will happen in the thirty-fve
years. and he also tells how it feels
to be thirty-fve. He says:
"There will not be king, emperor,
car or kaiser in Europe.
ireland will be an independent re-
public; so will Poland.
Liquor will be taboo the world over
barred at it's source.
"Women will have full suffrage
everywhere.
SOCIALISM will not have displaced
republican government.
''There will be an aerial route
across the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans, with stations or controls at
intervals.
"There will be telephone connec-
lions with and without wireless
across both oceans.
Gall principal streets will have dou-
ble-decked streets, the lower strata
for traffic by vehicles exclusively.
Emigration from one country to
another will be rare.
Firearms of all kinds will be obso-
lete, forbidden everywhere.
"Huge artificial lights will make
the world as bright at night as by
day.
"Phys' clans, lawyers, dentists, will
be public officials and will not work
for individual fees.
"Love will guide matrimonial selec-
tions, but government will refuse to
license the unfit, the mismated, the
immature, the senile, the damaged.
"New York city will have 10000
900 inhabitants, and it's own legisla-
ture; Chicago will have 100000 and
it's own legislature
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-02
THE LIFE OF TOWN

It takes live men to make i've
Town. Dead men are only ut TO III
habit cemeteries. If they are really
decently dead, dead all over, we ten
derlv Law them away in the sleep OF
she tomb but if they are only dead
in all enterprise and spirit, outside Oh
the narrow limits of their own SELL
ishness, and yet persist in walking
around. moving their calloused hearts
and consciences where real business
is wont to pulse and throb with Vlgor
thew are like the drone bees, in the
way until they are stung to death ana
dragged outside of the hive OF legltl,
mate industry. Twelve really live
men are worth more to town gen
orally than a round full thousand OF
such useless material that lies around
like rubbish in rushing stream thai
is aching and foaming to turn mills
and factories. Yes, live men bless
and dead men curse a town.-Chlppe
wa Falls Independent.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-02

sides of the pipes. The supply comes
from forty wells, and tests have been
made to determine which OF the wells
fs fmpregnated with the most iron.
It was over the we'll with the greatest
amount of the metal in solution that
a. pile of old iron was repUsing. It
does not seem possible that the rust
would go through the sand for l34
feet. but the engineer is inclined to be-
11eve this is the case. A Chicago firm
went over the ground, and took no
note of the scrap iron On the surface.
The iron in the water runs from four
tenths to fifteen parts in a million, so
that the iron and bacteria combined
do not amount to much, except for the
filing of the pipes. The bacteria
cause the iron in solution to- collect on
the sides of the mains, sometimes so
nearly filling them sections have to be
cut out. IF possible the bacteria Will
be Killed and the amount of iron re-
duced. The last step can be taken by
using a reservoir, and other means
NAV be employed. Mr.. Kfrchoffer has
been studying on the problem for sew
era1 weeks and may consume several
more before reaching az definite cons
cltfs on.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-02

Some weeks ago in the Ollapodrida
column, Benjamin Simonds relates
how he caught red-headed woodpeck-
ers in trap set for gophers, and asks
if any reader ever had a similar ex-
perience. | have been wanting to
"rise and explain" ever since, but ow-
ing to Percy Crossman and Mrs. Dud-
ley having so much to say there has
been no room for me until now.
Several years ago, before the solti-
tude of the Baraboo valley was broken
by the shrill notes of the locomotive,
and while the bears were still brows-
ing in Mrs. Goodsells back dooryard,
R. H. Strong gained possession of p.
A. Bassetts Touring mills located in
a pretentious three-story building just
below the north end of Oak street
bridge. This mill was at once remod-
eIed at an outlay Of more than $751;
600. Before leaving Milwaukee Mr.
Strong purchased a number Of heavy
teams with which to move the output
of his mill to the nearest shipping sta
ton, Kilbourn. Now then, here comes
the funny part of the story: Among
these horses was big gray mare-as
fine looking an animal as you could
find in a days travel-but very much
balky and little light behind. When
ever the day was too warm or the sand
too deep or the load too heavy, she
would stop, kick the dashboard off the
wagon, the harness from her back, and
incidentally irrigate the wagon pole
and everything that offered an OBJ
structfng surface. Day followed day
and the old gray became more and
more of a problem. But the driver
was wise old guy and thought if she
was in foaI she would become quiet;
so, without saying anything to Mr..
Strong, the mare was bred to big
Jack kept in Kiibourn. Matters didn't
mend and after time the ownership
of the animal reverted to a noted To-
cal horseman named II. Case--by the
way, the same hard case is living at
this very moment out on Lynn avenue.
Harrison knew nothing about the
Kilbourn episode, so the first idle day
1 he brought his new-foT1d treasure up
| to Freeman Longley's barn, where
l"Vermony Bay" was kept According
Ito Mr.. Longley's idea his horse was
1.-THE only one in the wide world worth
talking about and his recent advent in
Ito the county was heralded by flaming
I'posters headed "Blood Will Tell" Sad
| to relate, in spite of all that could be
done, the old mare kept right On in
| the even tenor of her ways, and soon
became cheap trading stock, passing
into the hands of Walter Palmer. Now,
Walt. was wiser than his predecessors
and drove her on stone boat, and
whenever she took a motion to- stop
and scratch hieroglyphics with her
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-02

heels in the vaulted dome of heaven,
he would sit down by the roadside at
a safe distance and ''let 'er have 'er
kickout"
AS the months passed by natures
laws began to assert themselves, and
Mr.. Longley paid snug sum for an
option on the colt if it proved to be
straight and all right. One morning
Walt. went out to his barn and there
stood as fine mule colt as you ever
set eyes on. ~ That week, in the Bara-
boo Republic, under the caption
"Blood Will Tell" julius Caesar
Chandler narrated this romance in q
manner far beyond my weak ability.
Poor Shanghai" Chandler, the grey
mare and the fine mule colt all are
long since dead, and no doubt the read
err thinks / ought to be. Well, I'm sor-
ry, but was telling the story to Mr..
Simonds, and you had no business to
read it. HUGH KELLEY.
BarabOO Wis
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-02
WARM DAYS

cts hot weather to print much Oh
a paper, with mercury playing peeK-a-
boo from 100 to LOG and with some
weeks to pull and countless number
of chiggers to fight, but it won't hurt
our feelings, what you say about the
paper for a few weeks" says Robert
I. Henderson in his North Lyon Coun-
ty Star.
"But we could print some interest
ing news if we really printed list OF
the people who read a paper as long
as we dare send it and then dodge pay
ing for it, or if we printed a list OF all
the hum road overseers and told where
the roads were graded as II an idiot
had done the work, or an old long
nosed swine the leveling stunt; we
could start some connections even dur
ing these dry days.
eve could furnish a list of persons
who are running cars, who are unfit to
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-02

ing an American army to Europe did
not mean that the draft was any the
less necessary, but it was too much of
a jump for the American people, ac-
customed to volunteer forces, and the
idea that men should not be required
to give military service against their
wills.
If the draft is administered fairly,
without thought or suspicion of peanut
politics, it is the greatest national
weapon. If the draft is unfair, if it
creates dissatisfaction and discomfort
over the country, it is the nations
greatest liability.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-02
THE DRAFT

Congress fashioned a dangerous in
strument when it passed the conscrip-
ton law, says an exchange. Wisely
used. it is the most dangerous threat
to Teuton supremacy ever devised,
and unwisely used, it might become
the most dangerous weapon against
American democracy that could be in
vented. Transferring the actual draw
ings to Washington, where in the larg-
est sense they were impersonal and
impartial, was the greatest assurance
that the draft is to be fair. Blanket
instructions, leaving only little lee
way to local boards, is another good
feature. Taking the averages OF many
wars, the draft of ten men means that
the death warrants have been signed
for four, and the moral responsibility
for death rests on every draft official
who in any way is unfair or who is
discriminating.
When the draft bill was passed, it
did not seem probable that an
American army would be sent to Eu-
rope. If such probability had ex-
listed, it is more than possible that the
draft bill would not have passed. Send
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-08-02
SURPRISE ON
WEBSTER PRAIRIE

Clark lWeidnssn1s birthday comes
on July 26, and 20 celebrate the event
this year, and as their new home on
Webster Prairie needed a dedication,
Mrs. Weidman thought it a fitting
time to entertain, so completely sur
prised Clark by inviting relatives and
a few old friends for luncheon. Those
present we're the mother, Mrs. Mari
eta Weifsaan; three sisters and fam
lilies, Mr.. and Mrs. Grant Dryer, Mr.
and Ms Norton Cone, Mr.. and Mrs.
Louie Metcalf of Excelsior; Mr.. and
Mrs. @. M. Rooster, Mrs. D. G. Spicer,
Mrs. Louise Mead, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Stowe and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. G. Perry of Reedsburg; Mrs
L. E. Gleason, Mr.. and Mrs. w. E.
Gleason of Camp Douglas; DR.. and
Mrs. J. w. Kester and two grandchil-
dren of Mazomanie; Russell Sp1cer,
Chicago; Mrs. Parker from Alabama;
Mr.. and Mrs. J. T. Bates, Baraboo.
In spite of heat, guests and host had
delightful visit and enjoyed the de-
licious luncheon and departed leaving
remembrances for Clark and wishing
him many returns of the day.
A GUEST.