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The Washington herald., 1917-07-21

the greatest self-control, restraint
and good humor."
He then proceeded to describe his
notion of a sound policy for war and
peace.
II consider" he said, that the
only practical method for attaining
a proper conclusion of the war is
that the entente allies fight with all
their possible strength and that the
populations OF the allied countries
support their armies by all conceiv-
able means. If these conditions are
fulfilled 1 am convinced the end of
the war will be reached during 1918.
Personally. we Americans are
ready to accept all the interpreta-
tions of Russia's formula of peace
without annexation or contributions;
but the American people feel pro-
foundly that the German empire, in
most outrageous and most in
famous form, has violated the rights
of Belgium and Serbia, and demanded
that these rights be re-established.
Undoubtedly there are other lnjustices
about which America knows little, but
which also must be repaired. We con-
slider 1t Just to insist on a full restora-
ton of violated rights of possessions
and, also. reparation for damages"
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21

Of the United States continue 10 slip
cerned, the Time inevitably approaches
when these securities win lose mors
and more OF their value. II is as i'm
portant that those who work for wsges
or small salaries. who are for the
ings banks, should have good reason
Z, feei that investment made Of their
deposits will yield such income as will
enable the banks To pay fair inter-
est as the stockholders Of the rail-
reads have for desiring sufncieut net
earnings to justify the payment Of
reasonable dividends.
The Interstate Commerce Connis-
sion was informed that the margin
OF safety for investments Of this
kind, now impaired. can be restored
In but one Of two ways. Either by
reducing the percentage OF operating
expenses and taxes or else by In
creasing the amount received for per-
forming the same amount Of service.
An increase in service with no in
crease In the price will not restore
the margin Of safety. The New York
authorities who endeavored 70 en-
tighten the Interstate Commerce Com
mission spoke most earnestly. say
ing that the increasing tendency 70
decrease the margin OF safety of rail-
road securities will, unless checked.
become serious by endangering the
safety OF this class OF securities for
savings bank investment.
II those who spoke for the savings
banks of the United States made any
impression upon the Interstate Com
merce Commission. IL was the impress
sion OF momentary interest and not
of immediate necessity. II may be
that unless the railroads OF the
United States are able so TO increase
their credit by securing such larger
margin Of profits from their opera
tions as to tempt capital to furnish
the billions needed. then the savings
banks will be compelled 70 discard
these securities from their invest
ments. II they do discard them the
situation will become more acute
than IL now Is.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21
IN MEMORLAM.

Beautiful Bette" the belle Of the
bureau,
Is blooming again like a bud on a
bought
She's as fresh as daisy, with cheeks
like the roses.
And buzzing around like a busy-bee
now!
As the girls in the bureau are working
with pleasure,
Conditions are better and life Is a
dream,
They are thanking Miss Rankin in
terms without measure,
While banging away on the money
machinel
But there're other departments
where people are shaving,
And suffer in silence at starvation
pay:
lust think of father supporting his
loved ones
On dollar and seventy-ive cents a
day.
With the high cost Of living. no won
der they're singing
To poverty's depths as they groan
In despair,
While the bloated bondholders and
graItcrS are wfnking
At the millions of money they're
anxious to share,
No wonder the women who follow the
banner
Are eager to suffer abuse for the
cause,
They want few more like the Maid
from Montana
To sit up In Congress and help make
the laws.
No matter how some Of her critics are
sneering.
Miss Rankin worked wonders. and
joy 10 supreme,
For al s.Sns Of trouble are fast dis
Appearing
Where they make the mazunna and
run the machine!
CHARLES N TURNBULL
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21
Word Usage Errors.

Probably the word "disembark" is
not in such wide and common usage
that to bar it from speech and print
Is impossible and the undertaking of
that task would be a complete waste
Of time. Indeed, most of the diction-
ary makers have given up the task in
despair and admitted the absurd
term to full and unreproved stand
ing among its shrinking and con-
temptuous neighbors.
Still. as everybody must see who
gives the word even a little thought,
"disembark" is verbal absurdity
and crime. fit only to associate with
its close relative, "disassociate." and,
though different from. no better than
preventative" that other favorite of
the careless and the-well, let 1t go at
careless.
Why everybody isn't content to say
or write "debark," or "disbark, 4"
when that is what everybody means,
forever will remain beyond the COM
prehension of reasoning beings,
though obviously there is no mystery
about it for the numerous other folk.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21
Our New Army.

Devoid OF hysterta and featured
only by the clocklike precision with
which the plans worked out. the last
capsule was drawn last night and
the draft became q fact.
Everyone who was in the leastwise
associated with the machinery by
which the United States now has a
prospective army Of about ten mill
lion men. deserves the highest COM
mendation for yesterdays work. II
was as near perfection as such a
work could possibly be.
Confronted at the eleventh hour
with New Jerseys stupidity Gen.
Crowder might well have postponed
the draft, but. as did everyone else.
he realized the suspense which was
being caused by continuous post
ponements and the energy with
which he surmounted the obstacle
certainly proves him to be the right
man In the right place.
Now that we have seen in cold
type the names Of those who will
go at the first call. there Is a dis
tinct feeling of calm prevalent among
those who were named. Even those
who have feared the issue since the
day Of registration have not only
resigned themselves to the call bu,
in many cases, they exhibit a COM
plete change Of heart and are eager
to be of to the front.
One prominent young Washing.
tonian whose name was among the
first drawn, said last night: 81. have
always had q horror OF the draft
and previous to the drawing Of my
name I was determined to make
every claim for exemption. but now
that / know, and the uncertainty is
over, am going, without making
any claims"
His sentiments seem to denote the
general trend Of feeling among those
chosen.
There will probably be a few
minor disturbances raised when the
actual call comes to those who were
named but nothing serious is feared
by the government. The fact that
only about one man in fifteen was
chosen for the first call. makes the
number so proportionately small that
any resistance will be easily dealt
with.
Our Teutonic enemies across the
sea received a bitter pill with every
capsule drawn yesterday. They will
be impressed with the fact that they
are aligned against the greatest ma
tion, whose sons are now more than
ready to night, after having eaten
the fruits of freedom for more than
century.
Twill be but a few short weeks
now when the United States can
stand proudly forth among the allies
and point with pride to an army
which compares favorably with those
Of other nations even at this hour
when mighty armies are the rule
instead Of the exception.
As we print the names of those
called, we think only in terms of
heroes and in the heroic category we
place our new army.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21
MASTER OR sERyANTf

YIN 510 NNAs
Gold as Master strengthful that can
do this. or thatl Ny slightest whim
obey!'
And finds you ever to its fell intent
Obedient.
A cruel Tyrant is, the worst of Kings,
To Ill a shackled world with evil
things,
But Gold the servitor that ready
stands
subservient always to your COM
mands.
To work all smIlingly to do your will
To rid the world of Ill.
md to the lowIy grant some boon OF
bliss,
The best Of Servants Is!
Copyright, lsl7j
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21

II he reads over the causes for ex-
emption claimed by the registrants,
Clark Grifith Is liable to find many
new reasons why his ball team is
flirting with the cellar in the Amer
lean League.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21

Collector Dudley Field Malone
claims he has lost fifteen pounds
since Saturday when he started
fighting for the suffragettes. The
advice Is free to those who would
ike to beat the draft provisions
through uuderweisnt
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21

They say the Kaiser is good at
figures. II that is so his spies can
numbers from the U. s. that he will
hear from within a very few months.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21

With the Senate working overtime
last night and the Capitol illumi-
mated. who's going to be the popular
hero to add an electric light economy
amendment to the conservation bill?
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21

While Mr.. Hoover wakes strong
for food conservation 1t appears that
those in the District with a weather
eye on November 1 need no official
warning to start drink conservation.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21

Well, the moving-picture men are
not feeling sorry over the prospec-
tive departure parades Imagine a
film weekly without its line of
marchers.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21

Goldman Gets Writ of Error
Thought something was wrong with
Emma ever since she took up" with
this anarchist stun.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21

Reports say two Americans were
shot trying to kill the Kaiser. Lets
see-how many were picked yester-
day to take their places?
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21

There WAS to be an anarchist
meeting at Eighth street and Penn
sylvania avenue last night. The
SUITS" meeting was quite as "ex-
citing"
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21
New York, Day by Day
By o. O. MCINTYRE.

Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herald
New York, July 9.-He wears horn
rimmed glasses and Bohemian ties and
has one Of the dustiest attic studios
in Washington Square. He was in
vited to a banquet of authors-near
and great-in a French Red Ink Pal
ace the other night.
He sat quietly by himself. tugging
gently at a lock of stray hair that
fell over his high brow. Finally the
POSTMASTER looked over. I'VE will
now hear from Horace Piffington" he
said nodding his way.
Horace arose. cleared his throat and
put one hand behind him just like the
silver tongued orators do in the movie
plays.
II have no hesitation" he began 'in
making this declaration. The Kaiser's
love of sensation, adulation and self
glorification is the foundation of the
initiation and indignation that has
brought about this situation
Yes, yes, go on" cried a group near
him. Your story interests us
strangely"
Horace continued: "There is only
one termination-his utter obliteration,
and 1t will be a matter for congratu-
lation, IL his determination should
come through the participation Of the
population of his own nation
There came a shout: THE kids
clever"
But Horace needed them not. THAT
will bring about a cessation of this
war of humiliation, a restoration OF
the friendly relations between peaceful
nations, a condemnation of fabrication
which will mean the salvation Oh
modern civilization"
And then Horace sat down. DAM
nation said the utterly bewildered
toastmaster.
Seen around town: A purple straw
with a white band worn by-you've
guessed it-a vaudeville actor. Corn
bread on all cafe menus along with
pate de fol gras. A bow-legged Chin
ese girl in bloomers selling cigarettes
in a cabaret. A woman life saver,
hired by the government, screaming
at a mouse at beach resort. Ghetto
children singing patriotic hymns to the
music of a hurdy-gurdy. A man in a
red sweater and caulifiower ear at the
Poetry Counter of book shop. An
old push cart man washing his hand
kerchief in the gutter after a rain.
Wow! Benjamine De Casseros, the
poet, has landed a solar plexus on the
Lobster belt cafes. After dining in
one of the ornate places the other
night he went home and wrote this
poem-right out of his own head. It
Is called THE Cafe" and here it is:
A lighted crypt.
Where ghosts sit and maunder their
dreams.
Over funereal steaks and filthy things,
Dug from the depths of the seas.
Buzz and hum from masks that crack,
The crapulous laughter Of beer-soaked
throats.
While the waiter. Charon to Dyspep-
sia land,
Bungles your tally and swoops up the
garbage.
A man who writes melo-dramatic nov-
els is making 100000 year. Another
young writer is writing big things.
He wrote q thousand words and Of
Tered 1t to a magazine editor. It was
accepted. The price was six dollars.
The editor said: 'Tt is a ridiculous
price, but your work is so fine very
few will like 1t. And 1t is because
we print such fine things that we
haven't any naoney." Make your
ewnAmorall
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21

Although the I. W. W. hate SOL
diers and all supporters Of law and
order, they did not refuse the pro-
lection Of those same soldiers.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21

We know some women who will
be eligible for publicity and press
agents Jobs when the old U. S. gives
votes TO women.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21

1t would be hard for the Socialists
to claim exemption from draft in the
wind squadron that Vice-President
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21

Somewhere in France will soon be
the most popular post office station
in Europe for American letter
writer's.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21

Attempting to blow up the aque
duct, is bringing the war a little
too near for comfort.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21

Refrigerator cars, cooled by am
monia machines operated by internal
combustion engines utilizing petroleum
for fuel. are being built for a German
railroad.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21

We had to change our plans at
the last minute, Bill Kaiser, but
we're on our way.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21

One = million-sIx-hundred thousand
ton-a-month U-boat loss a slip Of
the pen?" SOME slip.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21

There is a tribe of Indians In Mex
leo whose language Is limited to about
800 words and who cannot count more
than ten.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21

Did you notice the draft yester-
day? At least 1,s5s of our prominent
young men did.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21

While We are talking about en-
bargoes why not one on red tape?
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21

Miss Rankin has another little
bureau investigation on her hands.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21
ALNE o. CHEER

written especially for Ths Washington Herald
By John Kendriek Bangs.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21

Add lucky numbers, 25s.
The Redwood gazette., 1917-11-21

where, and don't send them Bibles, send them
tobacco" Doesn't il seem that out of All that
experience the Sergeant might speak to the
point and with little more conviction than some
of the prudes who have elected that now is the
time TO break the boys Of the tobacco habit We
are no advocates of this same habit I've are
merely advocates Of the boys having anything
that will help them endure that which is almost
unendurable The boys will have more pep to
fight the tobacco habit when they come home
and no longer have to fight the Germans. Don't
ask them to fight two things at once and don't
put any extra nervous strain on them right now.
England and France have found that it doesn't
pay. why should America not profit by their
experience!
The Redwood gazette., 1917-11-21
SEND THEM TOBACCO.

n ERGEANT Stewart of Winnepeg has re-
Gently been visiting in Northern Mime
sofa. Billy Noonan of the Baudette Region
says of the Sergeant HE went over the top.
And while he was doing it German bullet tore
part of his face away, German bayonet pierced
one of his arms and piece of German schrapnel
lodged in his side. For hours he lay in No Mans
Land and when they finally picked him up they
thought he couldn't live. He was q tough one,
though, and after twenty months in military
hospital he was well enough to be sent home :
And two of the things he told Mr. Noonan on his
recent visit were, that all the miserable stories
circulated against the Red Cross are HInfernal
lies" There is nothing in the world the Red
Cross won't do for the soldiers in the trenches.
behind the trenches, in the hospitals Or any
The Redwood gazette., 1917-11-21

ND now our attention is called to new
~ and especially despicable form of slack
ing! Through grocers and wholesale men
it is learned that in spite of all suggestions and
orders to the country, people are buying food
beyond what they need for present purposes and
storing it up for future We are sorry to
learn that this is being done to considerable
extent right here in our own town and by people
who claim to be patriots plus. For instance sew
eral housekeepers are buying dollars worth
of sugar at frequent intervals, not from one
grocer only, but from every grocer in town, and
storing it for the future when they may be
a shortage-and by this very action doing the
very best thing they can to promote that short
age. Other food products are being bought in
the same way. thus the amount Of the purchase
far exceeding in many cases, the limit which the
government has tried to set each individual.
We have an unspeakable contempt for any
person who will thus plot for their own personal
comfort and provision, utterly disregardng the
needs of others and particularly the needs Of the
American soldiers. There nlsyy come time in
the not too distant future when every civilian
will have to absolutely abstain from using wheat
flour, sugar, the heavier meats and numerous
other things in order that these things may be
supplied to the fighting men in sufficient guam
titles to enable them to keep in this war in
the outcome of which every one of us is just as
intently interested any man wearing the uni
form.
Should such a time come, are YOU, Mrs. Food
Hoarder, going to be proud to serve your family
with foods which you have just as deliberately
stolen from these lads as though you had en-
tered te stores in the dead of night and carried
them off Are you going to feel proud of your
share in backing these boys? Are you going to
feel that you suffered and sacrificed and abb
stained in some little proportion to what they
did? If you keep on boarding we would not
give much for your future peace of mind when
the final reckoning of "help given" is made.
Nothing will compensate then for this thing
you doing because you are selfish and
love the comforts of life better than you love the
things the country is fighting for and the men
who are fighting.
The Redwood gazette., 1917-11-21
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2lst, 1917
PAY DAY.

Oh, it's early in the mornin'
The mules begin to squeal;
You hear the cooks abangin' pans
To get the mornin's meal;
The bugler's sort of toodlin'
Outside the colonel's tent,
And YOU kind of feel down-hearted
Cause your last two bits is spent.
With leggin' string you're fussin'
When the band begins to play,
And you listen and stop cussin'-
What is that the bugles say?
Oh, its pay day, pay day, pay day,
And the drums begin to roll,
And they sure do carry music
To the busted "Johnny's" soul.
Some think about the girls they'll get,
And some about the beer,
Some say hey'll send their money home
And all begin to cheer.
The games will soon be goin'-
Snap your fingers at the dice
With the canteen spigots fiowin'
Till the barkeep's out of ice.
For it's pay day, pay day, pay day;
Can't you hear the bugles call
The privates and the non-coms,
The officers and all.
Have been waitin', waitin', waitin',
Till they're broke or badly bent,
For the coins stacked up on blankets
On a table in tent
Thirty dollars in the mornin'-
By the evenin' in the hole,
And Private Jones is absent, sir,
When sergeant calls the roll.
The officers are looking up
The Articles Of War;
There's sixteen in the guard house
And the provost has some more.
Copyrighted. VIM. Hervey Allen.
The Redwood gazette., 1917-11-21


We confess that we cannot find much to
interest in the list Of premiums awarded at
the county fairs that fill pages in some Of
our ordinarily most readable exchanges but
in saying this we do not wish to imply any
criticism of the editors who give space to
such matters. They very properly consider
the interest of readers in their own home
county of more importance than to make
their papers readable to exchange editors
elsewhere and without doubt there are many
people in their counties to whom the premi-
um list is the best thing in the paper, be-
cause it has their names in it-John Wise,
Mankato Review.
# Blue Earth County had real county fai
ike Redwood County, John, you'd soon find on
what interesting reading matter the premium
list is. We consider this list one of the bes
features we print all year and our readers kcke
like fury when we didn't give it to them las
year. II al depends upon the kind Of fair 70
have!
The Redwood gazette., 1917-11-21
How's This :

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Medicine.
Halls Catarrh Medicine has been taken
by catarrh sufferers for the past thirty.
five years, and has become known as the
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Catarrh Medicine acts thru the Blood en-
the Mucous surfaces. expelling the Poi.
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After you have taken Halls Catarrh
Medicine for a short time you will see q
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health. Start taking Halls Catarrh Medi-
cine at once and get rid OF catarrh. Send
for testimonials. free.
r. J. CHENEY q CO.. Toledo. Ohio.
Sold BY al Druggists. nc.
The Redwood gazette., 1917-11-21
Thorough Work
| How a Redwood Falls Citizen Found
Freedom From Kidney Troubles.


Freedom From Kidney Troubles.
If you suffer from backache-
From urinary disorders
Any durable disease Of the kidneys,
Use tested kidney remedy.
Doan's Kidney Pills have been test
ed by thousands.
Redwood Falls people testify.
Can you ask more convincing proof
Of merit?
D. Notion, retired farmer, Second
ST., Redwood Falls, says: 4 used
Doan's Kidney Pills for rheumatic
pains in my back. hips and limbs. |
was thoroughly rid of the trouble and
/ i have had no sign Of kidney, COM
plant since.'
Price 6Oc. at all dealers. Don't SIM
ply ask for a kidney remedy-ge
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Icured Mr.. Motion. Foster Milburn Co.
Props, Buffalo. N. Y.-(Advt.)
The Redwood gazette., 1917-11-21

Something is wrong with a town that will
let young boys and girls stand around the street
corners and make the night Mdeous and them
selves obnoxious at two o'clock A. M. Some
thing is wrong with the town, the houses in which
these young people belong, or the young people
themselves Or maybe all three. But if folks don't
care what time their young folks come home, or
how or with whom they come, what is TO be
done about it?
The Redwood gazette., 1917-11-21

It is stated that the Russian sol
Tdiers receive only one cent day for
their services. And yet we wonder
at their lack Of enthusiasm.
]. Spratt and wife should have no
trouble in dividing the meat rations
these days.
What's the matter with living on
garden sass" for while now?
The Redwood gazette., 1917-11-21

Hillquit's name now might well be spelled,
He'squitt.
We tried bit of camoufage When the three
cent postage law went into effect, we tried using
an envelope with no return card, and with the
customary two-cent stamp, thereby giving the
fellow at the other end the privilege of paying
the extra cent and thus pile up more stars for
his crown (He should be willing to pay excess
postage anyway, for the privilege of getting
communication from us). But the Postmaster
caught US, consarn i'm! and put all these nicely
planned letters back in box neatly stamped,
Postage due, One Cent That's what comes of
having for postmaster a person who has once
sstuck type from ones handwriting. We never
did have much confidence in that camoufage
business, anyway.
The Redwood gazette., 1917-11-21
Has anybody mentioned 70 you that it will
soon be time to think about Christmas?

The first American soldier to land on the 9TH
er side was an Irish lad; the first American gun
fired was fred by = red-headed (excuse Us, we
mean Titian-locked") chap. You can't beat
the boys. from the could sod" in this fighting
game.