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Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11

A letter received in this city by a
woman from her adopted" soldier son
at Fort Riley, has several things we
think will interest our readers, The
letter follows:
There are three types of men here.
The quiet, mind your own business
men,. The happy, go lucky, ! don't
care fellow, and the men who always
know everything better than the other
fellow, and who never thinks Of SELL
ing his horn to buy himself a drum.
He, in my mind, is the poorest kind
Of a soldier, If called. He's bluff-he
is just like a dog that has had a whip.
ping from his master.
"The first mentioned two, are the
kind Of men that Uncle Sam needs and
who will win honors and higher ranks
for themselves.
"The Y. NJ. C. A. is doing good
work here, entertaining the boys and
doing everything in their power to
make it as pleasant as possible for
them all. Three cheers for the Y. N
c. A. | think they are great, and help
many a lonesome, home-sick boy to
get over his blues.
Nothing can be accomplished with.
out hard work and study. The man
who stays out late at night does MOI
get his proper rest. The result is, h
is not fit for a hard days work the
next day. 1t only puts him back an.
other step and promotion is harder
than ever to attain. Ambition, ener.
gy, and grit are the main points"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11
BENTON

Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Crews and lit
tie daughter will return to their home
at Rippey, Iowa, this week, after a
two weeks visit with relatives in this
vicinity. - Mrs. Neva Rockwell came
up from Fulton Saturday where she
is attending school and visited over
Sunday with ner parents. - Judge
White and wife, of Montgomery City
visited at S. P. Garver's Sunday. -
Fred KelIerhals and family came UP
from Mt. Carmel Sunday to attend the
special services being held in Benton
City. Rev. Trigg A. NJ. Thomas
closed the revival meetings at tn.
Presbyterian Church Sunday night
Rev. Thomas is a very successful
evangelist, a man of God, and fearless
in speaking the truth. There were
twenty-one added to the Presbyterian
Church, and several will go to Other
churches while 81 promised to r G.
~consecrate their services to the Mas.
ter. - We have had two hard frosts
and the farmers are certainly busy
cutting corn and cane. Corn binders
are in the greatest demand evel
known.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11
DIES OF INJURIES
r. A. Hanger, of Santa Fe, Fatally
Hurt in Runaway Wednesday

R. A. (Doll) Hanger, a well known
resident Of Santa Fe, died at $3.50
Thursday morning as the result of in
ternal injuries received in a runa-
way at 8 o'clock Wednesday morning.
The accident occurred on the farm Of
j. A. Bolts when a team Mr.. Han
ger was driving to a corn binder ran
away and threw him from the ma
chine, injuring him seriously.
Mr.. Hanger was SIS years old.
He leaves a wife to mourn his. death .
He had lived in Santa Fe all his life.
and was in the livery and feed bust.
ness. Mr.. Hanger was held in the
highest esteem by all who knew him
and his death will be learned with
regret by a wide circle of friends
The funeral will be Saturday after.
noon at 2 o'clock from Santa Fe, and
will be conducted by the Odd Eel.
lows.
The Ledger joins in extending SYM
pathy to the bereaved.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11
NOT A RICH MANS WAR

IN answer to the anti Wilson claim
that you sometimes hear to the effec.
that this is a erich mans war" the
New York World says:
"0f every ten rich men, nine will
be made poorer by the war. All will
be much more heavily taxed for years
to come.
Erich mems sons will fight the war
in even larger proportion than poor
mems ons They have volunteered
in thousands, and if drafted cannot
claim exemption because of depend
ents.
"The stock argument of pro-Ger-
man agitators that this is a rich mans
war asks US to believe that rich men
have wilfully brought on a war that
may rob them of their sons, along
with thousands of other gallant
Americans, and that will in any event
take heavy toll of their wealth.
ANY one who believes so foolish a
lie as that is strangely stupid or per-
versely disloyal."
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11

doctors, who have been on the front
since the start of the war, that Ger
mans actually have inoculated French
and Belgian refugees with dreadful
diseases and sent them across the
line. These people have come to
American doctors attention, and an
American believes an American. The
American has either seen or heard
from American doctors and American
ambulance drivers of the repeated
bombing by German aviators of al
lied hospitals, marked by immense
red crosses on white fields, in great
circles on the ground.
The American has seer crowds Of
German prisoners coming back from
the front. At first there was a soft
flicker of sympathy in his eyes, as
he watched the wide-headed bosches
marching to their internment camps.
However just from studying the pris-
oners, a feeling of repulsion has come
over the American, he cannot feel sor-
ry for men so dull as to submit to and
even take pride in a system of mill.
taristic feudalism. He is beginning to
think the bosche is helpless and must
have his head knocked good and hard
and many times before he car see the
light.
The American has come to feel that
the Germans are wholly and deeply in
the wrong. Our soldiers are going
after Germany with the full enthusi-
asm that comes from knowing you
are rushing to help in a fight in which
your side is 100 per cent in the right.
This is why | was acclaimed by
cheers, shining eyes and much hand
shaking just now, when l told a group
of our boys of the war slogan of a
Kentuckian New Yorker friend Of
mine, "Fewer and Better Germans
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11
has been "intimidated ="

has been "intimidatedt
Has there been one loyal American
citizen guiltless Of treason or treas
enable utteranees, or acts which had
the color of treason and disloyalty
who has suffered in his rights or has
been terrorized by officers of the
law?
On the other hand, honest, loyal AMI
law-abiding citizens have been terror
lied, annoyed, threatened and Of
Tended grossly by dishonest and dis
loyal citizens. The country has been
terrorized and abused by conspiratots
and traitors working in the interest
Of u enemies. Property has been
destroyed and malgin corrupt influ-
ences have been active against loyal
citizens and against the country.
Senator La Toilette speaks for the
guilty, not for the innocent. He is
trying to cover treason and other
wrongdoing under the cloak Of the
rights of free speech. He makes a
specious appeal for free speech in be.
half of wrong speech.
What is the "war party" which the
Senator says intimidates the peo-
pie?
War has been declared by the Con-
gress of the United States with the
approval of the President.
The wal party is now the Govern-
ment and people of the United
States, Every loyal citizen of the
United States is bound by his allegi-
ance to the country to belong to the
war party and to do all in his power
to support the Government and win
the war.
There can be nc peace party in the
Senate that Senator La Toilette uses
the word party - the political sense
- without undermining the Govern
ment and giving aid and comfort to
the enemies of the country. Any eff
fort to disrupt the people and OBJ
struct the Government is treason.
Peace will come as war has come,
through the Government of the Un-
tied States, when the war aims de.
fined by it have been gained.
When Senator La Toilette says that
our reasons for going to war, the
causes of war and our war aims have
not been clearly defined and that there
is confusion of mind among the peo-
pie, when he casts discredit upon our
motives in going to war, he deals in
lies and ISLANDERS.
The Senator's defense is worse than
his original offense. 1t reeks with
the essence of treason. Instead of
iustifying his ~utterances, he adds
emphasis to his attitude as an oppo-
nent of the war and to the measures
taken for its successful conduct. He
has given fresh and stronger reasons
for his expulsion from the Senate.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11
Letters From
Soldiers

Russell Creasey, son of Mason Crea-
sew. of this city, who is with the l29th
Field Artillery at Camp Doniphon, TT.
sill. Oklahoma, writes his father the
following interesting letter;
Dear Dad:
CAMP DoNIPHAN, Fort Sill, Ok
laboma. - We are completely organ
lied and settled now. The drill and
the hardening Of the men has started.
All day long aeroplanes and observa-
ton balloons fly over our heads and a
mile to our right the French 75s have
been booming for hours. They are no
longer a curiosity to me and l pay
them no more attention than a SPAR
row at home. Uncle Sam may be slow,
hut anyone who will come here and
look over the boys training VIII soon
90 way with at least one idea firm
lv fixed in their head - that Uncle
Sam is in earnest.
I'm feeling tired, but fine and fit.
I'm simply wearing out my teeth eat
ing. How the open air does work up
an appetite. l am eating more than
ever before in my life and working
and sleeping like a dog. Went out
yesterday morning, after standing
guard all night, to cut 100 head of
horses out of 5000 animals in a cor
rail-. Talk about dirst and scared
horses. 1t took about two hours to
get the hundred and l was black with
dirt.
This is the life. Up at 5:45, work
all day and bed at 10 p. m. am do
ing detail work now; scout duty, sig
mailing and range finding. Anyone
that thinks firing range finding. OBJ
s~ervation ETC., is easy ought to get
into it like we do - out without water
for half a day maybe and walk back
to camp. I'm beginning to get
brown and hard now and gaining a
little weight.
You ought to see me wash clothes.
I'm a hum-dinger at it. Also a good
shoe polisher and dish washer. AS
chambermaid to a horse, I'm not bad
either. This leaves Roy and me both
we'll. Your devoted son.
RUSSELL CREASEY.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11
LA FOLLETTE,S TREASON

REFERRING to Senator La Fol-
lette's address before the Senate in
answer to charges Of being disloyal,
the St. Louis POST Dispatch says:
at is not alone the members Of
Congress that the war party in this
country has sought to intimidate,"
said Senator La Toilette in his speech
on the floor of the Senate reply
ing to his critics. To-day and for
weeks past honest and law-abiding
citizens Of this country are being ter
rorized and outraged in their rights by
those men sworn to uphold the laws
and TO protect the rights Of people"
Where are the honest and law-abid-
ing people who have been "terrorized
and outraged ! their riRhts?" VINO
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11

THE arrests of leading !. W. w.
men were the natural sequel of the
interment of alien enemies from indus
trial centers. Whether the object
Of these men was universal destruc-
ton and consequent anarchy for Wis
ionary purposes of their own or pri-
mariIy for German aid makes for the
moment little practical difference.
The Government must put a stop to
such lawlessness or cease to be gov
eminent. Probably when its care
fully matured campaign has gone
further there will be a good deal less
treason at large in the country.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11
DR.. H. ]. Waters to Edit the X. c. Star


Henry ]. Waters, for the last nine
years president of the State Agricul-
tural College, formerly Of Vandalia,
Mo-, is leaving that position to be-
come editor of the Weekly Kansas
City Star. The change will be mada
as soon as the college can make the
necessary arrangements.
The vastness Of the opportunity for
service offered, is what impelled Doc.
tor Waters to give up a life work il
which he had been conspiciously sue.
cessful. In addressing nearly $50,
900 families every week through THU
farm newspaper he felt he would b.
carrying on his work on a far NOR,
extensive scale than was possible be
fore.
The Ledger co~ngratulates the Sta
and its readers on the addition TO 1t
staff of one of the country's foremos
authorities on farming and farm life
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11

IF everybody that is pronounced in
their endorsement Of President Will
son and his war policies as against
those who are not in sympathy with
the war and the war measures, are
candidates for Congress Of the Unit
ed States" most everybody in Mis-
souri, of all parties certainly want to
go either TO the United States Senate
or TO Congress. As a matter Of fact,
the people Of Missouri, regardless of
party, are cordially and earnestly
supporting the President. A few pol
iticians are not included in the above,
but they evidently think they know
what they are doing and can take
are of themselves.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11
Homemakers Give Entertainment

LADDONIA, Mo-, October 8. Tie
Homemakers, a club composed of
about sixty women Of this town and
surrounding community, gave their
annual entertainment Saturday after
moo and Saturday night. 1t was
called a "she talk way" The large
tent was filled and the proceeds
amounted to $500. The money will
b. used in crawling the driveways in
the City Cemetery
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11
AMERICAN TROOPS ARE
AGAINST HUNS
(By George 7. Bye)

WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES
IN THE FIELD IN FRANCE (via
London) October 5. - Probably none
of our soldiers now in France reached
Europe with any hot bitterness in
their hearts against Germany, unless
there were some in the EXPEDITION who
had non-combatant relatives murder
ed by U-boats or air raiders.
l find now a rising temper agains5
the bosche. l have talked with scores
of our boys, and each n has vehe-
mently declared he was eager to slay
ten or more Germans, not for adven-
ture, but TO get even on the worlds
score. Our men now feel they have
more than a casual grudge against the
Kaiser and his vassals. 1t vas inter
esting to dissect this new feeling.
Ny first thought was that the Eng
lish and French had aroused the
Americans wrath. 1t is true that
the English drill sergeants always
refer to Germans as Swine" and they
say it as if they believe it. The
French don't hang so utilitarian a
name to Fritz. The French popula-
ton around American headquarters
holds its nose when referring to any,
thing T~eutonic.
But l don't believe these foreign
opinions have been absorbed by
Americans. 1t appears that u boys
have formed their own American SEN
timent of hot antagonism to the
bosche, and wholly from evidences all
about them of the need Of the exter-
mination of many Germans.
If our soldiers in France really de.
spise armed Germans, and if they
haven't their emotions secondhand
what has awakened this fighting hate
even in boys of German descent?
/ have investigated and / believe
have the answer
Our boys want to mash out militar!
Germany, from the same repugnanc'
that moved our American frontiesmel
in deserving the treacherous savag
Indians.
The Americans have seen German
aeroplanes dropping bombs upon un
fortified towns far from the battl
front. These bombs were not dropp
ed carefully to gain a military emf
but were scattered about so the resi-
dental districts were suddenl
wrecked, and women, children and oil
men blown to bits or terribly manglet
The American has seen many squar
miles of country so lovely, that he re
} joiced that America always had ha
beautiful France as a friend. Sue
!, denly the beauty stops and immediate
ly extends a horrible wave. Wher
once were aged, stately poplar
along a road, there are now nothin
} but stumps a foot from the groun'
The Germans sawed these off. Hur
dreds of them, w~antonly. WheI
once were gem-like villages, there
now nothing but a few low mound
These are places in the German II
treat that siege shells touci
ed. The Germans burned, sacked an
dynamited to the ground line. ls'
lated p~alatial chaeeaux have been gu.
| ted, because such destruction Wa
: amusement to these will hater'
4 Once thriving cities were total
wrecked, and for no military purpos
r Wherever Germans breathed, beaut
, persisted. The American, after Or
: quick glimpse, is fighting mad.
The American has been told b yh
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11

THE order of the President putting
any promotions in the hands of divi-
sion commanders, makes possible the
immediate reward of military merit
on the field Of battle. Is there a beta
ter way to inspire ambition in a SOL
der? That is the present-day equiv
alent of Napoleon's theory that the
soldiers knapsack should contain a
marshal's baton.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11

REFERRING to the loyalty of
Missourians the Armstrong, NO.,
Herald editorially says: "Yes, the
people of Missouri are with President
Wilson in his war policies and some
of our representatives in Congress
will have that fact foreibly impressed
upon their minds when the voters Of
Missouri are again called upon to
cast their ballots"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11

ARE Democrats who stand by the
President and are loyal to their coun-
try to be called TRAITORS to their
party" And by the way, it is a
Democratic President that is Com
mander-in-C Chief of the Army and
Navy of our country which is at a
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11
Nurse 10 Examine Schools

Miss Kunze, graduate nurse, will
examine the school children at all the
schools Wednesday. She has been
employed by the School Board and
the parents are urged to send their
children as this will be the best way
to prevent the spread Of any dis
ease,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11
Back Of the America an Front
BY GEORGE T. BYE,
Snec;al Correspondent of the Mexico Ledger

fact that England regards its ov
territory as a safety zone and Anne
lea as in considerable peril.
l remember that when ! landed
made up my mind ! would not shc
my swagger or expression that
took a bit Of courage to cross 4
Atlantic these days and TO take dor
ieile in a land being pock-marked
German aerial contact.
"Aren't you happy you a
here?" asked the managers Of n
hotel. "Fancy the dreadful TIM
they must be having in America vii
all those Germans!"
shrunk inside myself.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11
Frank Wales to Funston

Frank Wales, formerly Of this c
who married Miss Considine, of n
this city, is with the National Arm,
Camp Funston. Reports from
gin, Kansas, where he registered 81
that he was not in the quota cal
but took the place of another mar
man who had a family and felt
could not afford to leave them.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11
A Duty for All

The Liberty Loan now offers the
chance to make the people and the
b~ond-hoIders interchangeable terms !.
No matter no wsmall a mans mean
he can get some part Of a bond il he
wishes. - From an editorial by Theo-
Gore Roosevelt in the Star.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11
AIR FLEET WILL Be
READY ON TIME

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 8. -
Twenty thousand airplanes for Amer
ica's fighting forces in France, au-
thorized in the $64O, 900 900 aviation
bill passed by Congress last July,
actually are under construction.
The necessary motors also are be-
ing manufactured, Secretary Baker
announced yesterday, and the whole
aircraft program has been co-or-
dinated that when planes and motors
r. completed, trained aviators, as
well as machine guns and all other
equipment, will be waiting for them.
when this nations army moves W
to participate in the fighting" said
the Secretary, "the eyes of the army
will be ready"
The types of planes the en-
tire range of training machines
light, high-speed fighting machines
powerful battle and bombing planes
of the heaviest design, and embrace
as well giant battle craft capable Of
the work of the Italian Caproni, the
British Handley-P Page, and similar
types.
Big Supply of Men e..
within a reasonable time, consid-
ering the period for preparation
Bakers statement said, "this country
will send its first airplane to Eu-
rope. This airplane, from the tip Of
its propeller to the engine, machine
gun and camera, will have been made
in the United States.
There has been a remarkably graf.
flying response to the call for ayia.
tors. This country has an unlimited
supply Of young men possessing
courage, self-reliance, good judgment
and decision-the things required in
the air service. This service today
is fitting thousands of Americans
for flying"
Twenty-four flying schools have
authorized, the statement reveals, and
besides the thousands training here,
students from the United States are
training in all Allied countries, while
many Of them are undergoing inten-
sive schooling behind several of the
battle fronts. The men now in Europe
will be turned over to the American
troops in France.
American machines also are being
built abroad, and Baker said that az.
proximately one-fourth of the mum.
Der soon to be needed will be made
in the Allied countries. In that con.
n%ection stress was laid upon the nee.
essity for greatly developing and ex.
panding the aircraft industry in tn,
United States, all the summer ant
part Of the early fall having been de.
voted to this essential groundwork
There is practically no limit to tn
number of aerial fighters which tn
United States will furnish in the wa
for democracy" continued the Sec
rotary. mo time has been lost il
experiments. The machines whicI
already have proved successful ar
the mes which will be reproduced"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11

Joe Barney Stevenson is recovering
from a slight injury TO his head at the
west end brick plant Thursday.
c. G. Holland, Of indianapolis, is
visiting in Mexico.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11
Pie Supper at Hisey

There will be a pie supper at Hi.
sey school house, nine miles south
west Of Mexico, neal Judge Groves.
Friday night, October the 18th. You
are cordially invited.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11

THAT keep the army at home
slogan was made in Germany for
American consumption.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11

MEN who ask "Why are we at
war;" might as well ask why we re-
sist robbery and murder.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11

SOME Of the residents of this coun-
try mistook good nature and toler-
ance and courtesy for cowardice and
paralysis.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11

AS this country discovers it's man.
hood better, it likes itself more and
more.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11

PROTECT our soldiers from
trench feet" as they are immune ia
cold feet.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11

NEUTRAL nations are now expect
ed to eat at the counter and not take
mysterious packages away with
them
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11
The Weekly Ledger

Entered at the P. o. Mexico, No,
and admitted as End class matter.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11

r. /. Harrison, Of Bunceton, was in
this city Monday the guest Of his
daughter. Mrs. George win Robert
son;
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11

Mrs, W. II. Coons, Of Fulton, !.
guest of Mexico friends
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-11
C. H. MCCARTHY BECOMES
SECRETARY TO ADMIRAL

Charles H Mccarthy. private secre-
tary to the assistant secretary of the
Navy, has resigned to become secre-
tary to Rear Admiral Frederic r. Har-
ris. U. S. n. recently appointed general
manager of the emergency feet cor
poration. Mr.. Mccarthy IS from Rhode
Island and is graduate of the
Georgetown University Law School
He entered the federal service in
1905 as clerk in the naval bureau of
steam engineering. In 1908 he was pro-
NOTED to be private secretary to As
sistant Secretary II. L. Satterlee. and
served in a similar capacity under AS
sistant Secretaries Beekmau Winthrop
and Franklin D. Roosevelt
When Mr.. Winthrop relInquished the
office Of assistant secretary he wrote
Mr.. Mccarthy personal letter He
said he had had considerable expert
ence with private secretaries but that
he had never seen your (his) equal in
tact, common sense, ability to handle
visitors ana general usefulness" Mr..
Winthrop added this tribute to Mr.. Mo-
Carthy: mo work has been too hard
for you. no hours too long You have
had the rare faculty Of satisfying the
many visitors to this office. Your I'M
friends for TIE Navy. and has made my
work much easier than it otherwise
would have been. At the same time you
have handled satisfactorily and en-
GENTLY many difficult and intricate
problems"