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Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-06

There are always two sides to every
question. If the government insists
on more bran in flour. bossy will have
to turn to still more artificial bran.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-06
A Rocky Mountain
Vacation
Right Next Door

Whether your vacation time is short
or long, spend it in glorious Rocky
Mountain Land. Take the Burlington
the logical Rocky Mountain Route.
Well plan a trip for you to fit your
time and purse.
Just a short, happy train ride
and you're there! Rocky Mountain
splendor all around you. See beauti-
full Denver, Rocky Mountain Nation7
al-Estes Park, the Pixies Peak region,
Garden of the Gods-unsurpassed for
a week or ten days outing.
The Burlington's great 3-in-1 Va
cation Tour all three National
Parks-Rocky Mountain, National-Es-
tes, Yellowstone, Glacier-on a single
low-fare excursion tickets 1875
greatest travel value! Burlington
trains run direct to all three parks.
A vacation is not luxury, it's
necessity. Make this the Rocky Noun
tain Vacation you long have hoped to
enjoy.
Round-trip excursion tickets now on
sale. Come in-lets talk it over.
T. L. MARSHALL
Ticket Agent, The Pleasant Way to
Travel.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-06

The Louisiana Press notices that
Maryland has a work draft law and
every able-bodied male between is
and As years is required to register
and go to work. Worse than war,
verify.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-06

Poverty holds a mortgage on the
feeder who can see nothing but the
price. Some feeds are as cheap at $50
as other at $25 per ton.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-06

Mrs. Rufus Pearson, who has
rounded out her S7th year, is Sc
riously i'll. She grows weaker and 1t
is doubtful If she may recover.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-06

Mrs E. G. Frisbie at Madras, Ore,
sends the dollar and says, Keep
The Message coming another year"
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-06

T. B. Underwood of Rush Hill has
been trying the waters of Excelsior
Springs for his health.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-06

Wheat bran is a dear feed. Barley
and rye by-products are more eco
nomical.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-06

BE ready to be in Mexico on Sep
tember 10 to help honor the soldier
boys.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-06
The following property:

John NJ. Herndon, Centralia.
Vernon j. Hill, Laddonia.
James o. Galloway, Vandalia.
Cassius NJ. Mcmillan, Farber.
Arthur Sankpill, Laddonia.
Willie F. Branstetter, Laddonia.
Clarence A. Klein, Vandalia.
Charles NJ. Bradley, Molino.
Woodson F. Thomas, Mexico.
Deck w. Lake, Laddonia.
Leslie D. Frazier, Sturgeon.
Barelet H. Martena, Rush Hill.
Mayo C. Moss, Vandalia.
Perry d. Cater, Vandalia.
Rossie E. Hamilton, Benton City.
John w. Brooking, Laddonia..
Everett L. Olebeare, Laddonia.
Silas NJ. Doyle, Vandalia.
Wallace Walker, Mexico.
Rufus G. Stone, Thompson. 2
Ernest ]. Payton, Mexico.
Charles A. Black, Mexico.
Palmer White, Mexico.
B. Turner Williams, Mexico.
Ira l.. Pease, Vandalia.
Robert Nichols, Mexico.
Claim No Exemption.
Frank N. Henderson, Mexico.
Gilbert Holt, Mexico.
Fitzhugh L. Gilbert, Middletown.
Ray o. Ritter, Mexico.
Marvin Carter, Mexico.
Larry w. Stotler, Laddonia.
Howard S. Smith, Laddonia. o.
VIM. H. Haas, Vandalia.
Walter R. Ballew, Benton City.
VIM. C. Stewart, Rush Hill
Fred Allen, Rush Hill.
Ernest L, Gallop, Mexico.
Frederick M. Renner, Vandalia.
Marcus B. Ridgeway, Molino.
Oliver E. Bonsall, Laddonia.
Leo r. Menu, Vandalia.
Ezra Cater, Vandalia.
George p. Marshall, Mexico.
Otis A. Lavinder, Benton City.
Joseph w. Morgan, Mexico.
], Herald Frost, Vandalia.
Certified to Army by District Board
Clarence H. Mechlin, Laddonia.
Leonard H. Mundy, Mexico.
Michael e. DeVaney, Benton City.
Charles T. Powell, Mexico.
Roy Johnson, Molino.
Fritz ]. Wenger, Mexico.
Thomas V. Stuart, Mexico.
DR.. Francis Veins, Mexico.
Discharged on Appeal.
VIM. C. Klusman, Mexico.
Leland B. Daniel, Vandalia.
Robert E.Soboleneki, Vandalia.
Arthur s. Brooks, Wellsville.
Otis Parker, Laddonia.
Edward J. Murphy, Mexico.
John w. spene, Sturgeon.
Stephen s. Smith, Hatton.
Clarence E.Brown, Farber.
Discharged.
Geo. ]. Youngblood, LaddOnia.
Willie f Branstetter, Laddonia.
Clarence C. Grey, Molino.
Vernon ]. Hull, Laddonia.
Charles M, Bradley, Molino.
Elmer A. Sankpill, Laddonia.
otto w. buchanan, Mexico
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-06

Changes will be made in the plans.
for the assembling andentraining of
the drafted men to be sent to mobil-
ization camp September 5th. Only
per cent will be sent at that time,
instead of one-third, as at first de-
signed.
While new statement was in
preparation by the authorities at
Washington, regarding the exemption
of married men, the provost marshal
general issued new orders changing
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-06

donia, Rush Hill Itual
The Annual \ Lad
Telephone Co. w. 40 meIu IN Rush
Hill, Mo-, Monday afternoon Sep
tember 10, 1917, at 2 o'clock. Elec-
tion of new board of directors and
other important business.
Val Erdel, Jr., Pres.
Charles Martens, Sec.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-06
MONEY TO LOAN

On good real estate security. Rea.
sOnabl rates and easy terms.
LAKENAN g. BARNES
Mexico, Mo.
80 years in the business here.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-06

sANTAFE & PERRY r.. r..
Time Gard.
Leaves Mexico 1910 a. m.
Leaves Mexico 0:3O A. M.
Leaves Santa Fe 1880 p. m.
Leaves Santa Fe 4;4O p. m.
All trips carry passengers.
w. w. BOTTs, Secretary.
The Washington herald., 1917-03-18
The First Retreat.

The postponement of the rail strike
for forty-eight hours proves clearly
that the brotherhoods are not deaf to
reason.
1t proves that there is no inexor-
able fnality in their fiat, even when
they proclaim that all bridges have
been burned behind them and that no
retreat is possible.
This entering wedge will be like the
first small break in the dikes of ,Hol-
land; it will unloose a flood of new
light and new counsel in the brother
hood ranks, and show them it is pos
sible to gain their ends without using
the club they so. confidently brandish
over frightened but more or less de-
termined country.
When the rift came the fight for
mediation had been more than half
won. A new mood, a new frame of
mind will dominate the brotherhoods'
leaders on Monday It is clear, also,
that the issue they have raised must
be met. They are perfectly right in
protesting against the unreasonable
delay in reaching a ruling on the
Adamson act, which alone prevents
its enforcement; they have shown be-
fore they are in no mood to be trifed
with and if they make a complete
surrender to public need now, there
is every reason why they should be
supported in their anxiety to reach
decision in the battle which they
have been fighting for so many
months.
The Washington herald., 1917-03-18
The Paper Problem.

The real fruits of the newsprint
paper shortage are becoming evident,
and in such manner that the public
is beginning to feel the effect. Dur
ing the past year much has been writ
ten that would tend to prepare the
public for the inevitable consequences
that must follow, but, owing to the
fact that most of the publishers had
paper contracts that carried them be-
yond the first of the present year, the
actual effect. was postponed.
Daily announcements from the lead
ing newspapers in the country tnat
their feature sections will be elimi-
mated is but foretaste of what seems
destined to happen. One large news
paper has attacked the shortage prob
lem with such radical measures that
it will soon be printing but eight
pages whereas formerly the average
size of the paper was twenty-four
pages. ,..-
In the new order of things the fea,
ture seems doomed and news stories
will be virtually "cut. to the bone"
Dramatic publications are heralding
the fact that before long the Sunday
theatrical page will pass. This, they
believe will have a tendency to dis
tribute dramatic advertising through
out the week Instead of having the
bulk appear on Sunday as is the case
now.
1t is to be hoped that the efforts of
the Federal Trade Commission to-
ward fixing standard price for. the
newsprint article will be attended
with success, as the fate of the small
er publishers hangs upon the commits
sion's action.
The Washington herald., 1917-03-18
HAS INV STRIKE SOLUTION.
Urge. lndsidu.I Dealing. Betweer
EmpIoss and stockhoIders.


Editor TheWashington Herald: A So
luton Of thoear strike difiiculty occurs
to me.
Mr.. King Cho from his name and his
high-handed aethod of dealing with the
problem with which he is confronted, I
judge as an des that his authority is
greater than tat OF the President OF the
United States, ,ldeclines to deal with the
authorized representatives of the men OF
the union. ami insists on his right as
president ohth corporation to deal with
each man Individually.
Very well. pfthat be a fair proposition
1t is obvious lhit the converse must hold
good. and thu the men have a right to
insist upon d4lng with the stockholders
individually al to decline 10 treat with
the king OF ~ company.
Therefore. lethe company assemble its
stockholders enkasse and let all the men
meet all the stockholders.
After the desp4c Mr.. King has effected
the personal tntrtuction OF each man. by
name. TO each sttkholder. let each man
make his dutarrangement with the
stockholder to VII b he has been intro
duced. They migN even dine together
and talk matters Mt over a glass of
''near-beer."
This plan VIII prNhbly produce suffi-
cient chaos to justNIrishman's promo
ton Of the despotictr. King to some
sphere where he maySarn at his leisure
that sauce Tor the se is also sauce
for the gander.'
PHILIF HUBBARD.
The Washington herald., 1917-03-18
PLEADS FOR RELIEF.
Writer Ask. Ala Cor owner. OF
Condemned Iand.

N<@
Editor The washingt,n HersId-wir
you not aid in an act ofjustice by pub
.sning In your paper the foilowing factc
snout the Efforts that are being made
Tor the relief of the snalI property
owners who. through no fault Of their
oWn, suffered serious iosses in connec-
ton with the requirement bf the United
suates OF the land for the Enlargement
OF the Capitol Grounds7
Inc Washington Herald hasppreyiously
gwen fair treatment to these DINERS and
mas called attention to the Injustice
which they have suffered andN believe
from your former attitude thatAyou win
approve the measure which Is Tow pro-
posed which Is only to pay interest on
the amounts withheld during q term OF
years from the small property owners
y this section while At the sane time
they were compelled to pay taxes, lssess-
nents and other expenses. including iE
many cases. payments Of intereG on
bsrrowed money. Hon. William z. \ChD-
ton, OF West Virginia. who has take ar
ative and kind-hearted interest In desc
property owners. has introduced an
amendment in the Senate. intended to be
offered to the Sundry Civil Appropriatipp
bill which provides only for the payment
OF interest to these small owners for the
time during which these payments were
deerred-
This amendment will be offered on tn.
hor Of the Senate, and will, we feel
conident, be supported by Senators who
nav given the matter consideration.
Although this payment will not meet the
losse which these property owners have
sustained they are willing to accept this
In tul settlement Of their claims and
they are advised that the payment Of
interet on deferred payments in con-
demnaion cases is a weIi-established
princiae Of law. and universally rec
oGnizef as only a matter of Justice TO
those Who are injured by such delay.
We believe that the just and fair spirit
shown BY Senator Chiffon will be ap-
preciata by the people Of the District
or Coluobia and that a fair statement
OF the acts in these cases will show
that the property owners are at least
entitled b the payment OF interest as a
partial endorsement for the losses
which the have sustained for the benefit
of the goHrnment. the besutifying OF the
Capitol an the convenience and comfort
Of the meabers of Congress.
LOUIS A. DELLwIG.
The Washington herald., 1917-03-18
Russia a Republic?

A search through modern history
reveals no stranger, more wonderful
story than that which is coming out
of Russia now.
The Romanof line. did not fall with
'its boots on" fighting, straining its
enemies to the uttermost. but col
lapsed in pitiful heap, almost with
out the show of resistance. when the
populace made its first tentative test
ing of its muscles and its inner
strength.
The bureaucrats. apparently, fed to
cover like rats in hole" whence
they arc being dragged out now,
shuddcring, to the light, either for the
Siberian exile to which they have
doomed so many of their compatriots,
or in cases of proved treason, for the
final experience in front of white
washed wall which so many of them
have richly deserved.
This Slavic revolution, involving q
nation of 100000 people, terri
torially the largest and potentially
the most powerful on the globe, is a
matter which on its surface aspects
has all the magic and speed of a
sleight-of-hand performance, but years
Of preparation have gone before, the
years of grinding despotism which
brought out all the evil spawn of
Nihilism and anarchy to traffic in. the
name of free institutions. The Slav
has paid heavy price for the miracle
he has wrought, and we'll deserves a
complete tender of the constitutional
freedom which now seems within his
grasp.
Are the Russians capable of estab-
fishing a republic, or will they be con-
tent with the continuance of the auto
cracy under milder forms and with
constitutional guarantees? The for
mer is the more likely. The revolu-
tion could not have been accom-
plished without the assistance of the
army.I Yet throughout history the
military power has been the surest
and most consistent bulwark of des-
potism. The action of the Russian
army is a splendid tribute to the Slav
soul, but it contains no assurance
that in the future organized mill
tarism may not be able to use the
army for the restoration of the auto
cracy now deposed. For that reason
Russia had best make a clean job of
it, for her people, under the brilliant
Duma leadership, seem ripe to go
from the extreme of absolutism to the
extreme of democracy, and ready to
break all the bonds of medievalism.
The Washington herald., 1917-03-18
IsE FoRD0T MY PIECE.

lse dot a piece to- speak;
hates to speak it. too,
Cause for about q week
Rehearsin's all I do.
Jes' when Ise playIn' fine
VIII Dolly on my knee,
Someone says Caroline,
Come speak your piece to me-"
says it for my pa
But he don't, even look!
I says It for mama,
I says 1t for the cook;
j says It for the maid,
says It for the cat,
Until Ise mos afraid
/ don't know where Ise at!
They dressed me up at last g.
In satin and in lace,
An rushed me here so fast
dot red In the face;
Like other girls and boys p
Pa says I'm soin' to spout;
It's Jest like so much noise,
I don't know what's about!
It's funny as can be
To say my piece to you;
It's dot no sense to me
But that's what I mus do.
Oh, dear-what has I done7
My troubles never cease.
Ise spoke to every one
But Ise fordot my piece.
By T., SWAMI HARDING.
The Washington herald., 1917-03-18
WOULD MAKE soI4 DRY. TOO!
Writer Would Make sre.. Drink
as Ii Vot&

Editor The washingto herald. Now
that the District OF Colvbia will be
added to the list OF sdtlIed dry
communities in the Unitedtates after
November 1. next, ii may Move inter-
esting. IL not laughaole pould the
manufacturers of alcoholiQ beverages
decide to establish a dry II Of those
Senators and Representas rs who
voted to drive the demon run rom the
Nations Capital.
Through the efforts of the voman's
Christian Temperance |sic) IN, and
other misnamed temperance nIz,-
tons laws and ordinances I'D been
passed in certain communities stab-
fishing jag lists which forbid voon-
keepers, hotels and wholesale kces
from selling liquor in any man 70
persons whose names were on ese
jag lists"
suggest to the dispensers OF
holic beverages in wet" States, Il
they procure a list of the names o
Senators and Representatives u
voted to dry up" Washington and
fuse to sell them any liquors what
ever. would force these men
drink as they vote and thereby live
to the principles they advocate in Il
halls of Congress.
THEo. P. cRoNEN
The Washington herald., 1917-03-18
DIFFERENTIAL NEUTRALITY.

The outbreak Of war found the United
States neutral with a huge stake in
the outcome of the conflict, but with only
one safe course at first to adopt. The
President advised the world of our neu-
trality. With the knowledge OF our
mixed population and with blood and
racial ties giving a dangerous impulse
to hyphenism. he invoked the whole
American people to be neutral in thought,
and spirit, to follow the example of the
government in its strict and scrupulous
neutrality of fact and law.
In this he failed. Americans took sides
as a matter of instinct, and brought out
a sinister line of cleavage in our politics.
1t was natural he should fail; It was
just as natural. just as inevita Bile, that in
due course the sheer force Of American
self-interest should give American neu-
trality an altogether different color from
what 1t was originally designed to have.
To the public, neutrality has meant an
impartial, detached, point of view; a de-
nial of interest in the outcome of the war
and the enforcement of American rights
and International law with rigid, inflex-
ible. almost automatic determination
against both parties to the conflict. To
the public there has been no middle
zone; no point between actual belliger-
ency and complete detachment from the
war. Such a neutrality could be based
only on the assumption that the United
States was as little involved in the issues
of the conflict as any messenger from
Mars might be.
All False and Unsound,
This assumption was false and un-
sound. and a neutrality based upon 1t
was bound in the end to become only a
legal and an official fiction.
There are abundant reasons for
stating that mt an early hour In the
war the President, and his advisers,
reached the conviction that the best
interests of the United States approxi-
mated the interests of the entente,
md that the victory of the Central
Powers would be q menace to this
nation and to democracy wherever It
existed.
Having reached this conclusion, Is II
possible to believe that the President
would stand in the way of our formal
and legal neutrality being converted into
a neutrality which, so far as policy and
practice were concerned, was "benevo-
lent" and favorable to the group Of ma
tions whose victory was In line with
American self-interest7
Against this there was the general
policy that "the war involved no Amer
lean interest 50 important as that of
declining to be sucked into its inevita-
Bile losses, its cruel sufferings. and its
malignant hstreds." There has been a
constant balancing and readjustment Of
these two ideas, and while the United
States found 1t both logical and polite
to depart from rigid neutrality from the
first Of the war, there was noting ap-
preaching a state Of belligerency until
national interest was at stake.
As a matter Of fact. In policy and prac-
tice every move Of the United States in
the European situation for the past two
The Washington herald., 1917-03-18
CoMMENDs DATE OF SESSION.
Praises President Wilson for FIxfnE
Time of Meeting,

Editor The Washington Herald: Presi-
dent Wilson, although having many er-
roneous notions, is occasionally exceed
Ingly felicitious.
He most appropriately calls the session
from which so much good to the country
should result, with a Democratic Sen
ate and a Republican House, to meet on
April 16. the date upon which the Con-
gress gave freedom to the slaves in the
city OF Washington.
All honor to the President for one good
deed. II is to be expected that he will
follow up this proclamation OF friend
The Washington herald., 1917-03-18
URGES PoLICEMEEs tEKE
wr'tsr THINKS. rhsy Get u my On.
worst OF IL. NJ

Editor The Washington Her. You
have always been 30 good IN Nm up
the just and honest way one shd| have
In this life. Now that the car NE 4,
on, 1t has given the policeman vrfsen
hours work TheySare away frorA Iorne.
whether they leave wife and fsNy In
sickness. and no extra pay.
why don't the policeman 70 n
strike? Why doesn't the Distr1ct osv
them for the extra hours put In by ~
as any other human being gets? D4Iou
think this Is a square deal7 Isn't al
llceman's at home a. much TO him ~
other man?"
Can The Herald answer these oA
tons? Please answer In the paper. m
you. JUsTIcH
The Washington herald., 1917-03-18

The Mann act doesn't seem to re-
act so terribly out in Illinois. A man
convicted under the law was SEN
fenced to sit FIVE minutes in the court
room and after serving thirty seconds
Of the sentence he was allowed to 90.
The Washington herald., 1917-03-18

Whether there has been an "overt"
act or not, the fact that United States
trade has dropped off $1oo,oooyooo be-
cause of the U-boat warfare is quite
some reason for afming ships.
The Washington herald., 1917-03-18

They are about to revive the un-
written law in Virginia to supply it
to case that has aroused widespread
interest throughout the State. If the
law is so absolute, why not write it?
The Washington herald., 1917-03-18

Not satisfied with the two -bit-a-day
diet test New Yorker has come forth
with a scent meal which he alleges
will make the cater fat. These diets
seldom become universal, however.
The Washington herald., 1917-03-18

Harvard students are not taking
kindly to the edict that bars them
from showing their bare legs in their
annual show. Cheer up, the bathing
season will soon be here.
The Washington herald., 1917-03-18

It's all in the point of view. While
America is raging at the wholesale
plotting done by Won Bernstorff, the
Kaiser is just as wrathy because he
did not do enough.
The Washington herald., 1917-03-18

The company congratulates Presi-
dent King and the union announces
that they are pleased with the strike.
What is the view of the public?
The Washington herald., 1917-03-18
The Herald's Open Fd(urn

ship for the cosored race announcinE
his determination to seek d enforcement
of the Fourteenth and FIfIrah Amend
ments. 30 wrongly abandon 40 to this
date by both political parti
WILLIAM Z. CNTDLER
The Washington herald., 1917-03-18

A regiment of preachers is being
raised to enlist should war be de-
clarcd. According to the Sherman
definition they should know the sub
ject.
The Washington herald., 1917-03-18
N0TE-WRITING DIPLOMACY.

There has been no easier Jest the past
TWO years than a jibe at President Will
sons underwriting diplomacy" Sneers
at 1t have echoed around the world. The
President has been pictured as spineless
pacifistic. irresolute, visionary, and
afraid to maintain American honor
Jingoes and hre-eaters have pecked at
him; pro-ally fanatics have denounced
MIN with heat surpassed only by the
hyphenates who stormed and ragged, be-
cause he refused to give them what they
wanted. and because they believed he
was malevolent towards Germany.
The President maintained his unrut-
fled course and today his far-sighteI
policy Is justified. -.
In the long run. mote writing" has
been merely means of Clarifying and
strengthening the American position
inch by inch. Of fighting our way out of
dinicult maze Of legal srtanglements
created by the advent of maritime condi-
tons. not dealt with in existing inter-
national law, Of making our position so
clear, that when Germany finally decided
upon the ultimate lurch, she could NOT
plead as her justification either obscuri-
ty, or error In 1t.
Collaterally, mote writing was n
process of educating the public in our
rights at sea. A glance at any Congress
sional debate since the war came is suf-
fcient to show how utterly they were
misunderstood, obscured, and misrepre-
sented by folks with "axes to grind.r
1t is true that President Wilson had
ample reason to hand out German pass
The Washington herald., 1917-03-18

LII you don't believe in the high
cost Of living take a slant at what it
costs to keep the Astor baby for a
year.
The Washington herald., 1917-03-18

From the wave of patriotism that is
spreading over the country, Herr Zim-
mermann has done his share toward
uniting the United States.
The Washington herald., 1917-03-18

Another horror resulting from mar
riage will be pointed out in the pres
cnt Russian riot.
The Washington herald., 1917-03-18

A club for English actors is seri-
ously considering the name of Pan
America" club.
The Washington herald., 1917-03-18

The old Rumanian drive has been
silent for some time.