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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-18
THE sOLENINITY OF WAR

It is reassuring to note the spirit
in which public men are undertaking
to discharge the present duty OF the
Nation, 1t is equally encouraging 20
see the sober manner of the general
public. The pomp and glitter or
marching men, the blare of trumpet
and roll of drum. have all but disap-
peared in the cold, calculating organ
izatlon to accomplish the will of the
Nation. The long, dreary succession
OF dispatches from the entrenched
armies in Europe, as well as those
from the sea, lay bare the awful de-
termination and the sublime devotion
OF the men already engaged. Even
the bravado and enthusiasm of the
recruiting station is to give way to
the impersonal grind of Conscription.
The glory of war has been transform
ed into the obligation of duty.
This is the proper spirit for carry
ing out the present undertaking.
We have waived the advantages of
peace and accepted the sacrifices Of
war because of our adherence to the
principles Of political liberty through
which all peoples may work out their
individual well-being. We have as
sumed this solemn responsibility, not
as a step toward militarism, nor
world dominion, but as an edict of
our devotion to liberty. This spirit
must prevail o the end. Though we
have taken the sword in hand, we
must not let it enter our souls. This
is not to be simply another battle in
the wars of history; it is to be, so
far as it is humanity possible to ac-
complish it, the final war. For, be-
ing a war to free all peoples, the con-
clusion of peace should see no people
with an excuse for further war The
thought that this is war to end mill
itarism and privilege must be carried
through to the ends. C. in The
Public
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-18
A PRUSSIAN OPINION
OF Us AND TEDDY

What can America do?" asks the
Berlin Tageseitung. "She has neith-
er soldiers nor ships; she is turnip-
and-candle bogey; less she is a mere
screech!
Germans need take no alarm at
the dread dangers that threaten
them from America. Whatever the
Americans say and do, cor say that
they will do is based on humbug,
That is the only power in their land.
"Barnum is much more a represen-
tative American than Washington
Humbug is all the noise about leader
ship in industry and commerce, hum
bug the prating about equality and
freedom, humbug the imbecile chris
teniDg Of tinselly senseless display
of luxury, insignificant towns with
names such as Rome, Utica or Mem
phis, where they put up quasi-Greek
temple or miniature pyramid, and in
t'Iat rubbish behold the quinlessence
OF all that was great ard loftly in the
kultur of the ancients.
SlapS at Teddy
"Humbug are the learned lectures
of Roosevelt and the mock humility
Of Benjamin Franklin; kUmbug are
the heroic deeds of the American
militia, humbug the Republicans who
do not fight against the monarchy,
and humbug the Democrats who do
not oppose the aristccracy. Hum
bug, 600, is the Yankee talk of war;,
except when there is a prospect Of
making some extra hundreds of IL !
lions of dollars; and, finally, the very
name America is humbug.
True, to fight this humbug no
German gun has yet been cast, no
German warship built, but as we'll
might we send our fieldgreys to bat
tie against the winds of heaven as
against the formless, imaginary crea-
ture which we call American humbug,
and equally vain would it be to alarm
at the thought of "a coming
collision with so intangible and
evanescent a thing"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-18
CORN BREAD AHEAD

If food umpires have their say
corn-bread is on the way. Wheat
: crop is not promising a bumper yield
this year. America must help feed
Europe. War crisis may compel I'm
Gle Sam to fix our bill-of-fare. Most
of us eat too much. Thomas Jeffer-
son said that many of uh dig our
graves with our teeth. Food control
by the government now seems sure,
Grandfather and grandmother did
well on corn-bread. 1t made bone,
muscle, brain and fighting blood
wien necessary. In big hotels and
on dining cars, corn-bread is consid-
cred choice-morsel. Sometimes
mush and milk is in the catalog Of
dessert. Corn-cakes and maple-syr-
up would tickle the appetite of Kings
and Queens. The old time corn
pone" or Johnnie cake" was able H.
get into good society years ago and
will again. Roasting Ears" 'nakn
life worth living. "Corn-on-Cob"
can be had much cheaper at a livery
stable than on dining car. From
present OUTLOOK We are doomed 10
,eat more, and drink less corn in the
future than we did before the war
Let us all unite in giving the welcome
address to oorn'bread and its cousins
Put Sandles.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-18
UNRESPONSIVE FARMERS

National Stockman and Farmer]
We understand that those who are
urging farmers to produce maximum
quantities of food this year are not
satisfied with the results of their
campaign. They think farmers are
not responding to their fervent ap-
peals, and they intimate rather broad
ly that said farmers are lacking in
patriotism because they don't plow
up and plant everything out of doors.
In justice to farmers, and for the in
formation of these well-meaning but
dissatisfied food campaigners, let us
tell them few things they don't
seem to know.
Before war was declared the farm
ers of this country had made plans to
raise big crops. They had bought all
the labor-saving machinery they
could get or pay for-1nd some on
tick. They had secured the country
for labor, knowing that they must
have it to plant, cultivate and save
crops They had loaded fertilizer
manufacturers with orders for more
goods than the factories could supply
or the railroads could transport.
They had simply swamped the seeds
men, who are yet two weeks or more
behind in filling orders. In fact,
farmers had already responded to the
most powerful appeal to increase pro-
duction when the amateur food and
crop booster began his campaign.
That appeal was and is high prices,
which will always bring response
from producers of food or anything
else. Having then done all they
could to get ready for maximum
crops, it is not surprising that farm
ers failed to rush out and tear up the
earth when the appeal of the food
campaigner was heard. They know
better than he does the true situation,
and they know better than he does
how to make the most of their land,
labor and all things that enter into
the problem of production. They |
know also something he does not
seem to know, namely, that acreage
alone is not guaranty of the best
results, the largest crops.
Those who are now finding fault
with farmers for failing to respond
to patriotic call would do better to
pray for timely rain and sunshine at
seed time and harvest. Farmers are
Just as patriotic as anybody, even if
hey are not always hollering about
t, and we resent all intimations to
he contrary
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-18
-FOUR REASONS AGAINST
BOARDING
kansas City Star1


Here are four reasons for not buy
ing food in unusual quantities to
hoard it:
First-You are helping put up the
price on yourself by creating an arti-
fetal scarcity. Wheat and flour
both have been put up out of reason
in the last few days by the needless
rush to buy barrels of -four.
Second-You are putting up the
price for people of scanty income, to
whom every addition to the cost of
provisions is a hardship.
Third-You are going to waste
considerable quantities of food be-
cause you have not the facilities for
keeping it in good condition. You
will find potatoes rotting and weevils
in the flour.
Fourth-By acquiring an unusual
store of canned goods and similar
you are likely to use the food more
wastefully. That is human nature
The man who keeps box of cigars in
his house is going to smoke more
than the man who buys his cigars
from day to day. The same thing
holds true In the case of quantities
of easily prepared food.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-18
THE MESSAGE OF THE STARS
AND STRIPES
[By Franklin Knight Lane, Secretary
of the InteriOrl

lby Tduhllu might LduSS CISCdl
of the Interiorl
Let me tell you who l am. The
work that we do is the making of the
real flag. l am not the 1ag-not al
all. l am whatever you make me-
nothing more. l am your belief in
yourself. your dream of what a peo-
pie may become. / live changing
life, life of moods and passions, of
heart breaks and tired muscles.
Sometimes l am strong with pride
when men do an honest work, fitting
the rails together truly. Sometimes
l droop-when purpose has gone
from me, and, cynically l play the
coward. Sometimes l am loud and
garnish, full of that ego tnat blasts
judgment. But always l am all that
you hope to be and have the courage
to try for.
am song and fear, struggle and
panic and ennobling hope. / am the
days work of the weakest man, and
the largest dream, of the most dar-
ing. l am the constitution and the
courts, statutes and statute makers,
soldiers and dreadnoughts, draymen
and street sweep, cook counselor and
clerk. l am the battle of yesterday
and the mistake of tomorrow. 1 am
the mystery of the men who do with
out knowing why. am the Gluten
of an idea and the reasoned purpose
Of the resolution. l am no more
than what you believe me to be and
am all that you believe l can be. I
am what you make me, nothing more.
swing before your eyes as brilliant
gleam of color, a symbol of yourself,
the picture suggestion of that thing
hat makes this nation. My stars
and stripes are your dreams of lab
ors. They are bright with cheer,
with courage, firm with
'aith, because you have made them so
'ut of your hearts, for you are the
makers of the flag and it is well that
,ou glory in the making.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-18
TURN GRAIN INTO FOOD

Public opinion in this country is
strong against turning grain into al.
cohol during the war period, Now
while we are So anxious about some
thing to eat next winter, to turn
$3.50, 100000 of food materials into
alcoholic liquors is next to madness,
Taking out of the issue every moral
consideration, which it is almost i'm
possible to do, there yet remains an
economic question that is susceptible
of only one answer, and that is to
prohlOit the changing of the gruins
into alcohol. Now is the time when
the world needs food and doesn't need
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-18
HOW IT CAN Be PAID

Can we with an income tax and a
tax on surplus profits raise enough
money to pay for this war as we GO
along? Yes-we most certainly can.
Take the American incomes as re-
ported for 1915 and if we did no
more than begin with tax ON those
of $4,000, increasing the rate to 100
per cent on all surplus incomes over
$150,000, we should raise $1,200,-
100000.
Since 1915 the big incomes have
scared out of sight. There are about
100 good and sufficient reasons why
we should conscript these big sur
pluses. To consider only three of
them:
First, the European war raised the
profits of many American concerns to
colossal figures. 1t is manifestly un-
fair that these fat profits should be
permitted to continue, yielding COM
paratively nothing to meet the ex-
pense Of the war no wthat we are in
it. There is no other way to make
them bear their share.
The net profits of the Armour
Packing Co. rose between 1913 and
1916 from $6,OOO,O0O to $20,0OO,-
600; the net profits of the Bethlehem
Steel corporation rose from S5,000,-
600 to 100000; Du Pont Powder
Co. from $4.O00,OO0 to $S2,O00,OOO;
Swift Packing Co. from $9,000,00O
to $20,000,OOO; Central Leather Co.
from $4,000,000 to SIS, 5,0O0,000; Uni
ted Fruit Co. from $5,000,000 to
$11, 100000; United States Steel cor
poration from $S1,OOO,OOO to $271,-
100000. Each of these concerns is
now doing even better than in 1916.
One of the richest benticiaries of
these huge profits, whose income
from but one of his enterprises is
more than 100000 day, said recent
ly that he wished the government
would step in and stop the tide. He
does not know what to do with the
ocean of money that is rushing in up
on him.
Second, if we continue to issue
bonds to pay for the war we will not
check this periious process but only
boost it. The bulk of the bonds ul- |
timately will find their way into the
hands of the rich and well-to-do. The
interest will be paid to them out Of
the earnings of those that have no |
but must labor for their
daily breod. They will be called up
on to pay most of it in shape of in
direct taxation.
Continued bonds issues, therefore,
will add greatly to the cost of living,
already almost unendurable, and will
help along the flood of wealth now
into hands of a few men.
Third, this will remove from the
rich and well-to-do the only opportun-
ty they naturally have to bear their
part Of the burdens of war.
Mark this well-it is no sacrifice
% invest money in tax-free govern
rent bonds at 8 II per cent.
Universal service, universal sacri-
ice, universal obligation. Is there
lot enough patriotism and statesman
hip in the United States congress to
make this fight for justice, reason ;
md satety?-Toledo News-Bee.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-18
RUSSIA CALLING HER MEN HOME

Without much fuss or noise, Rus
slams now in this country are pack
ing up and returning to their native
land. The Russian government guar.
antees their car fare and expense
Some of our American officials are at
loss to know just what this move
means. Perhaps many of these Rus
slams were eXiles or fugitives under
the rule and reign of Gar Nicholas,
and since the Czar is now in Jail, the
new government of the people is call
ing them home, under pardon and
forgiveness.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-18
WAR TAX ON NEWSPAPERS

Newspapers are likely to be hit by
the big war taxes sure to Oe handed
out soon by Congress. At least three
times the postage will be charged as
at present. Predictions are made
that such tax will drive many coun-
try papers out of the business or COM
pei higher prices to be charged for
all kinds of printing and also in
crease subscriptions. The Democrat
has stood at one dollar year against
all the high prices of paper, ink, etc.
but if this war tax hits us which now
seems sure, the price of the Demo-
crat will have to go up.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-18
ANSWER THIS QUESTION

The Seattle Times puts this whole
food and liquor proposition tersely in
the following:
Why should everybody elses in the
United States be compelled to save
and the brewers and distillers be al
lowed to waste such enormous guam
titles of food products, or, putting 1t
another way-which is the more Inn
portant this year-Cheap bread or
cheap beer?"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-18
POINTERS
From Official Statement Touching Up.
on Points of the New Con-
scription Law

The selective service bill, as agreed
upon by house and senate conferees,
will raise 100000 men immediate
ly. The president is authorized to
bring the regular army and national
guard up to full war strength-about
250,0O0 and 440, 900, respectively, by
employment of the volunteer system
until such time as the president feels
that means inadequate-then he may
apply the draft. The bill empowers
the president to draft Immediately
100000 males between the ages of
twenty-One and thirty, inclusive, for
military service. All males between
these ages must register under pen
atty. in addition to the irst 500, 900
troops, the president is empowered a.
any time to raise 100000 more men
by the process outlined above. Those
exempted from draft under the law
are soldiers and sailors now in SER
vice, divinity students, members of
well established religious sects whose
creed oppose war, and certain speci-
fed skilled WOrkmen. Others eX-
empt are those having persons de-
pendent upon them for support and,
those found to be physically or NOR
ally deficient Married men are ex-
empt only il they have persons de-
pendent Lbon them for support The
entire n&tiCnal gard, together with
its reserves, can be drafted into the
regular army under the bill. Under
the measure, intoXicants can nc Ire
sold a aol1ier in uniform, but he can
be given Guor if he stays off the nil
itary pi 9erves. The secretary CT
war is : lnorized o tax necessary
steps to vent est Hshm 9nt of dis
repLtSll le houses near military
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-18
FOOD
Experts and Economists Tell of
Grain Used in Liquor

1.-THE newly organized War Prohi-
bition Conservation Committee is dis
tributing the following facts in re-
gard to the amount of foodstuffs used
in the making of liquor in this coun-
try.l
According to the report of the
Commission of Internal Revenue for
the year ended June 80, 1916, (page
1881, there were osed during that
year for the production of distilled
spirits in the United States, the fol-
lowing materials:
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-18
HANGING FOR COMMERCIAL
CROOK

lCincinnati mmercial-Tribunel
The government should vigorously
assume control of the food situation
The semi-oflicial reports to the effect
that sufficient supply of foodstuff'
to meet the peoples wants is being
withheld by spectators should, il
proven true, cause the offenders to Dc
punished severely.
No more significant document has
been issued from Washington In years
than that signed by Assistant Secre-
tary Vrooman of the Department OF
Agriculture, in which he charges that
men whose greed for more money is
inspired by the possession of wealth
are engaged in specializing at the
cost of the wage earners ana all other
consumers, are now in the nations
Capitol to defeat the proposed food
control legislation.
Secretary Vrooman very aptly
terms such men as allies of the Kai-
ser-unpatroitic and disloyal-who
should be made to feel the loathing
and contempt of every patriotic
American"
Unfortunately, however, a state
ment of this kind, no matter how
scathing, will have no effect whatso-
ever upon the men who are engaged
in that sort of business. People OF
that mental mold are beyond the
reach of words. The only way in
which they can be controlled is by
the imposition of penalties of the Sc
verest character.
One feels justified in the statement
that men who, under the guise of
business, deliberately conspire to de-
prive their fellows of sustenance at
living price should be publicly brand
ed as disloyal citizens, and as such
elected from the country.
There is no use of adopting half
way measures toward people Of that
sort. They are burdens upon the
community. They represent the very
thing that the United States stands
against in it's constitution, and its
enunciation of the principles of free
and popular government.
The poor devil who, from necessity,
is guilty of theft, or who burglarizes
homes, or even those who are tempt
ed to take life, are innocent, pratt
ling babes compared to the men who,
with well organized mentality and
thorough equipment in business US
ages, and further aided by abundant
capital, deliberately enters into a
campaign of endeavor to stifle and re-
duce food supplies that are needed
for the maintenance the comfort and
even the life of his fellow citizens.
The gambling which is being con-
Quoted somewhere in the coal market
threatens to place that article of fuel
at price which hundreds of thou
sands of people cannot attempt to
meet.
1t is time for the government to
act, and act promptly. Any men,
bers of Congress who would under
take to hinder or defeat legislation
of the severest kind against food
spectators should be marked for de-
feat by their constituents.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-18
TRANSPLANTING PLANTS

Plants should always be set deep.
er than they were in the seed bed
Tall spindling plants of tomatoes OF
cabbage may be laid in a trench and
the tops turned up so that they will
be or inches above the surface of
the ground This practice will give
better results than setting the plants
in deep holes in order to overcome
the tendency to lop over. The
trenched plants will form new roots
all along the stem, and a strong
growth will result.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-18
CeIina, Friday, May 18, 1917

out pain or sleep. DIR. DEXTER ha 9
made speciality of extracting teeth for
ten years, and has made for himself an
expert reputation as painless tooth ex-
tractor. "a
References can be given all who ara
doubtful that the most doubtful can he
removed without pain. He uses a medie
cine which drives all feeling from the
troubling aching teeth removed.
DIR. DEXTER guarantees that there
VIII be no soreness afterward' caused nv
the medicine, and that all nervous and
weak hearted people need have no fear.
on the last trip to Celina the Doctor pull
ed over one hundred teeth and no fail
ures. ues. No Poisons or Cocain are used. A
new system PAINLESS METHOD.
Main Office. 1851 Main Street, Lima. q
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-18

alcohol of any potency. Let the dis
tilleries and breweries be so altered
as to contribute to the public good in
making things that the people need
and will help them through the sacri-
fees of the terrible war. What pub
lie man hesitates to reserve the GER
eals for food only should never be
voted for again.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-18
BUSINESS MEN ASK FOR
PROHIBITION

The following resolution was tele-
graphed to United States Senators
and members of Congress by the Ex-
change Club, of Toledo:
'The Exchange Club, an organiza.
tion of $50 business men of Toledo,
petitions you to enact such legislation
as will effectively prohibit the use of
cereals in the manufacture of intoxi-
eating liquors during the present
war"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-18

Boat owners will have until June
1st to provide their craft with the
1917 tags have just been received by
first of June are required to be re-
moved from the state waters. The
1917 tags have jut been received by
Canal Superintendent j, w. Makley
A license tag for an ordinary row
boat is one dollar per year; for a
motor boat having a detachable mo-
tor the fee is one dollar for the boat
and two dollars for the motor with
additional charge for boats of larger
size; the amount of the fee being
graduated according to the strict
rules Of measurement.
Licenses for sailboats are also fix
ed according to the size of the hull.
st. Marys Argus.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-18
WHO PAYS THE LIQUOR
REVENUE

To-day the revenue paid by the
liquor industry to the United
States is sufficient to take care of
all the interest on the great ST.
000,000,000 bond issue. Midas
Criterion.
Who pays this liquor revenue?
Why does not Midas admit the truth
and say it is paid largely by the
men who cannot afford it, by families
who need the money for food and for
clothing, by legitimate business
which suffers because of the traffic,
and by the taxpayers generally who
must take care of the trafIic's pro-
duct?
The United States Supreme Court
uttered a great truth when it said:
"If loss of revenue should accrue to
the United States from a diminished
consumption of ardent spirits, she
will be the gamer thousand-fold in
the health, wealth and happiness of
the people. American Issue.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-18
PROPERTY FOR SALE IN MERCER

7-room house, good out house, a
small barn, good well and cistern;
one lot and half of ground; will sch
cheap if sold soon. An one wishing
to locate. Address P. o. Box 124,
Mercer. Ohio.