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La Junta tribune., 1917-03-08
CITY COUNCIL
City viii Install Two More Wells At
Pumping Plant-lnsure Great
err supply for Next Summer


session last Monday evening There
was not much business to transact.
but the members disposed OF what
little there was very eXpeditiously and
everybody was on their way home
by 3 o'clock
| C. c. Hearnsberger and Mr.. Snow
appeared before the council in behalf
of the Santa Fe and requested the va
cation of l40 feet OF dead alley
in the Perley NJ Lewis addition to
La Junta, just north of the side
tracks in the local yards. This re-
quest was granted. The Santa Fe
purchased part OF block 2 In this
addition one day this week from
Charles Madrille, and wanted Just a
little more room to put in track to
the new ice plant. The Santa Fe is
buying all the property in that local
ity that is for sale for the purpose
of acquiring additional room for
sidetracks.
The petition of n. w. George
asking permission to install sign
and also an underground tank for
n gasoline filling station in front OF
his place of business opposite the
city hall was granted.
j. w. Warner and Kranz Brothers
submitted bids for the construction
of new tank for the city street
sprinkler, that OF the first named
being sl25 aud the latter ss5. The
contract was awarded to Kranz
Brothers.
Police Magistrate Mahoney and
City Marshall Wieneke submitted
their reports for the month OF Feb
ruary showing ten cases In court.
The cash fines aggregated n total OF
| s60.25, OF which amount $3.50 was
paid our for police fees and the bal
ance was turned over to the city
treasurer. There was one thirty day
Jail sentence and one ten day jail
sentence. Mike Basa, who was fined
$50 for conduct unbccoming n gentle
man. worked three days on the streets
and then decided to take French
leave. He hied himself to parts un-
known and Is there till yet. The au-
thorities are possessed OF the fond
hope that he will become so much
Infatuated with his new surround
ings that he will never com, back
any more,
! The water committee was instruct
ed to proceed with the work of in
stailing two additional wells at the
city pumping station. At the present
time there is one large well twenty
feet In diameter and two smaller
wells four feet In diameter on either
side OF the large we'll II has been
ascertained from actual experience
that IL Is possible to secure Just as
great a supply of water from the
small wells as from the larger well.
Some OF tn. city officials visited
the factory OF the Holly Sugar Cor
poration at Swink one day this week.
and found that they had been esper-
imenting with wells OF various sizes.
They have one well on the factory
grounds forty feet In diameter. and
also string OF small wells only
eighteen inches In diameter. The sup
ply OF water from the smaller wells
In proportion to their size. IN much
! greater than from the large well, aud
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-03
A NOMINATING SPEECH YET TO BE
MADE IN BEHALF OF KAISER
WILHELM,
Orchard H. Edmonds, Editor Manu-
fatturers Record)

Orchard H. Edmonds, Editor Manu-
fatturers Record)
Seated on his throne of fame, with
the fumes of burning sulphur as in
cense, the Ruler of He'll surveyed the
mighty throng of kindred spirits. They
had been called in from their work
throughout all the universe to report
on all the evil that they had been able
to accomplish or that in their devilish
ingenuity they had been able to plan
From the myriads of peopled worlds
where Satan's minions had been
striving to put into action all of the
evil influences upon which, through
the unnumbered centuries, they had
fed their imagination. came the leaders
os Satan's kingdom.
One by one they sought to win thc
favor Of the Ruler of Hell by telling
of diabolical deeds, each trying Il
surpass the other as they told of sin'
that had never before been heard o
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-03

things. and who have made even Judas
mourn that they outmatched him
since he betrayed his Lord only once,
while the Kaiser and his crowd have
increasingly betrayed all humanity.
Il have found one who, by these
pre-eminent abilities in outclassing
Satan, has right to assume rulership
| of Satan's kingdom"
The Satanic smile had faded from
the face of the Evil One. AT first bit
ter hatred possessed him as he listened
to one who had dared to suggest new
ruler, and he sent forth his minions to
fire with intenser heat the lower depths
OF the lower hells into which to drive
this traitor; but just then the doors Of
He'll swung wide and Satan saw the
spirit of Kaiser Wilhelm enter. Instant
ly he realized that his rule was at an
end He saw that his Wanted super
iority in sin and deviltry was as moth.
ing when matched against that of the
Kaiser. AS he skunk away, he saw es-
corted to his seat of burning brim-
stone the one who on earth had out
matched him, and whom he felt was
justly entitled to the rulership of his
kingdom
And then as the new ruler took his
seat upon the throne of blazing brim-
stone there appeared in the flames
that played around his head a picture
of great ship in whose side there was
gaping hole Standing in the center
of this there appeared Kaiser Wilhelm
calling, to his demons to bring to him
the helpless babies and innocent wo-
men. With fendish glee he caught
them and gloatingly fed them to the
ravenous sharks below. The onlook.
ers shuddered at the sight, realizing
taat even He'll had sunk to hitherto I'M
known depths of depravity.
Suddenly, however, the fiends of the
lever world, who for a moment had
been dazed by the appearance of the
new ruler upon the throne, aroused
themselves to this degradation of Hell
and determined to rid even that region
Ct one who had so surpassed in deviltry
all that He'll had ever known. In mad
rebellion they rose. With one great
CONFUSION He'll vomited him forth, 70.
even it's inhabitants of murderers and
thieves, the lewd, the lascivious and
al the unrepented throng could moi
sink to such depths as to permit hin
to remain.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-03

The arrest of the railroad telegraph
operator who is alleged to have caused
the fatal wreck on the Seaboard Air
Line in North Carolina day or two
ago, is only one more example of what
disastrous results may follow from the
insobriery of individuals upon whose
shoulders devolve the responsibility
for human lives and property If it is
proven that he was intoxicated failing
to deliver the train orders which woul
have prevented the collision, tn
charge Of manslaughter is too lenient
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-03

Many prominent suffragists through
cut the country have repudiated TIE
action of the "pickets" who precipitat.
ed small riots by displaying banners
bearing insulting and reasonable in
scriptions at the entrance to the Whit
House grounds. 1t is not believable
that the great majority of thinking
women of this nation, even though
they advocate equal suffrage, would
endorse any such tactics as those
pursued by the fanatics who figured in
the Washington escapade.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-03

Those "cullud pussons" up in East
s.. Louis, ILL.,, may have entertained
the ideal that they could start a rough
house and get away with it, but sub
sequent events have rather conclusive
" demonstrated the fact that the fin
ishing Of a plan such as theirs is
somewhat more difficult than the start
ing.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-03

The Russian army is giving visua
example of its ability to recuperate az
ter q period Of decentralization follow
ing the revolution and dethronement
ct the Car 1T now appears as that
the white hope" CT the Allies is com
ing back" in orthodox> fashion.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-03

We note that despite the recent un
pleasantness between the editor of tht
Valdosta Times and the sheriff OF
Lowndes county, the Times continues
to appear every day and apparently
things have resumed their wonte1
aspect.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-03

And now comes William Randolph
Hearst to claim lions share of the
credit for the prohibition enactment
passed by Congress. William Randolph
maintains his batting average as one
of our best little Chalmers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-03

They are having little diversion
up in Floyd county also over the var
ious departments of county govern
ment. Al bill is to be introduced in
creasing the membership of the board
Of county commissioners from FIVE To
seven.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-03

Not much OF demonstration as yet
over another effort to move the state
capital to Macon. but before the ses-
sion of the legislature is over We will
undoubtedly see a rather nifty assort-
ment Of fireworks along this line
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-03
Americas, Ga, July 8, 1917

All those in favor Of initiating the
example of the illustrious 0saac Wal
ten on the glorious Fourth, please
make manifest by the usual sign.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-03
PLAIN STUPIDITY.

idence Journal got the most intimate
secrets of German and Austrian am
bassadors and their attaches at a time
when their plots and intrigues were
developing hourly reads like the prov
erbial romance, and constitutes most
creditable chapter in the history of
American journalism.
The facts were recently told in part
by the editor at meeting of the Can
adam Press Association.
When that skulking half-breed, Capt.
Boy-Ed, of the German embassy, was
negotiating with old Huerta to go back
to Mexico and stir up an attack upon
the United States, little did he think
that the very rooms he occupied had
been selected for him by reporter for
the Providence journal. and that every
word uttered between Boy-Ed and
Huerta, taken down over dictaphone
by an employee of the Journal, was at
the Department of State of the United
States within "a hours.
Little did the debonaire Won Bern
storff guess that one of his confidential
secretaries was an American newspa-
per man, serving the most dangerous
enemy the German government had in
this country.
Little did the plotters who were free
ly sending their code messages back
and forth between Berlin and Sayville,
arranging the destruction of munition
plants, realize that two powerful wire +.
less plants, in charge of this great
American newspaper, were listening
in" and taking down every word which
was afterwards filed away in the
archives of the State department
When it all gets to Germany the so
called intelligence office" which prides
itself as being the most complete spy
plant on earth, will dimly grasp the
fact that the one thing it was short on
was real intelligence.
| Most of the revelations made by the
editor of the Providence Journal are
| thrillingly interesting, but none OF
them throws so much light upon the
unlimited capacity of the German for
laundering, as in the. case of Capt.
Horne. 1t reveals the pitiful mental
! ty of the typical German officers whose
sense of his own importance blinds
him to everything else. Werner Horne
was caught in an attempt to blow up
an international bridge between this
country and Canada.
Like the most amateur Hawkshaw
that ever fumbled job, he deliberately
disguised himself with a three-days
growth of beard and a three dollar
suit of clothes. He packed his personal
effects in an old carpet bag.
To plain folks just endowed with
ordinary intelligence it would seem
that a tramp, riding in a solid yesti-
bule train of palace cars, was pretty
apt to excite suspicion, but it seems
rot to have dawned on Capt. Werner
Horne, of the imperial German army.
When he was caught-and for that
matter he had never been out OF the
sight OF the sleuths on his trail-he
was asked why he did so stupid ii
thing as he had done. His reply was
that be was German officer, and had
always been accustomed to ride first
class!
Comment would be waste of words.
There you have the German mind with
a special sidelight on the self import
auce of the German military officer
Macon News.
A NOMINATING SPEECH YET TO BE
r,I..n A q 4
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-03

And tomorrow is one of the three
annual holidays ovesrveG by the Times
Recorder force. So mcte it be.
New Britain herald., 1917-07-11

placed there by 11,0oo,OOO depositors. This of course, refers to the total Liberty Loan of $7,oOO, 100000, as do tho following:
 The Liberty lOan,-iSSued and in prospect,--is more than twice the total amount of gold in the United States. It is seven times our previous national debt It is tifty-siX times the total deposits in the nations postal savings banks.
 Again, the Liberty Loan is fifteen times more than all the gold won from the earth annually. It is twice the estimated com hined fortunes of the thirty richest multi -milliOnaires in America. It is twice the total amount of merchandise exported and imported by the United States in the busiest year before the war.
 That same Liberty Loan is more than all the gold held In this country and in all the great banks of Europe combined. It is seven times the net earnings of all the railroads in the United States. And it must not be forgotten that the railroads of the roads in the world.
 The United States Steel Corpora tion, a billion dollar concern, Is sup posed to have the greatest payroll In tho country. Yet the Liberty Loan is three times greater than the entire amount of wages paid by this concern since it's organization more than sixteen years ago. It is also about twice the amount Americas entire population is estimated to save in year.
 When these facts are graspco, when their meaning sinks deep in the mind of the average American he will realize that America is in this war to the finish: that America means business. Despite the contempt which the Kaiser and his friends are sup posed to have for Americas entry in the war he knows, if he can read just what this participation means. The Liberty Loan of 1917 is the greatest war loan that was ever float ed by any nation on the face of the globe. If 1t were equally divided among the people of the Kaisers empire each and every man, woman and child there would have almost a hundred dollars with which to buy Christmas presents, something they will not have if the Kaiser keeps them at war much longer.
New Britain herald., 1917-07-11
THE PLACE OF DREAMS.

I long to float in a silver boat On the breast of a silver sea; In the silver light of a moonlt night l would drift from a lonely quay To a spot l know where the rushes grow,
 And memory calls to me. 1 would travel back on that shining track
 To the beautiful secret place Where my dead dreams lie when put them by,
 Having loved them a little space 1 would trace the gleam Of the fair est dream,
 Just to gaze on it's dear dead face Inc breezes sigh as they futter by. And they echo a name that thrills: 10, a name forgot that l whisper not but 1t rides on the wind, and fills All the midnight air where I breathed 1t, there
 Tn the silence of the hills.
 Beatrice Barry in --. The New York Times.
New Britain herald., 1917-07-11

] the Imperial Empire are confused
 and somewhat conflicting. Neverthe- less they give an inkling of what is , actually taking place. And that is
 a spirit of unrest in the German peo- { pie. Unless the Kaiser is strong enough, with the help of his agents,
 to overcome this awakening and lull the German people back again into the dreams of the past it may soon 1 be all over but the shouting.
 For the entire duration of the war i the German people, so far, have been held together by the mighty system built up by the House of Hohen- zollern through long season of years They have been taught, and up to this time believed, that the Kaiser can do no wrong: that he IS an enssary from Almighty God. Coupled with this they have believed that it would be only a question of time when Germany would triumph over it's enemies, when the entire world. if necessary. would be made to bow before the imperial throne of Wilhelm. They were told by the mill tary masters of Germany that Von Tirpitz would bring England and France to their knees by means of ruthless submarine warfare.
 Up to this time the people of Ger many have believed all the stories told them. They have swallowed them hook, line and sinker. But now there enters the element of doubt. The member of the clerical party who stood in the secret session of the Reichstag and let the cat out of the bag accomplished something the Gov ernment had not rcckoned on. This man. Mathais Erzberger. exploded 8 bomb. Although the full text of his speech has never been made public
 surmiscs were sufficient to do the work. The German people at home are stirred to the depths. The crisis may pass for the present It is sure to be brought back again. for all the promises of the German officials will never see a victorious Germany such as they painted to the populace. Ger many has gradually aligned the world against itself. Germany cannot hope to win, and the people will sooner or later realize this fact. When they do, all the machinations of the Kaiser, all the promises of the military mas ters. all the cunning and intrigue of the blundering diplomats will amount to naught. Truly is Democracy getting a foot-hold in Europe,-eVen in Imperial Germany
New Britain herald., 1917-07-11
COMMUNICATED.
"WHO'S HEALTHY NOWoo
99 Per Cent. Of Our Adult Population
 Below Par of Health Ideals.
O the Editor of the Herald:

To the Editor of the Herald:
 My attention has been called to your issue of June 18th and to your editorial entitled "All is for the Best" | was correctly quoted as stating that our health ideals are at present low ana that 99 per cent of our adult population is below par.
 l was not correctly quoted, however, as taking gloomy view of what can or will be done to correct this condi- tion.
 The 'ninety-nine per cent " is based on the medical examinations of the Life Extension Institute on bank clerks and stenographers. among one thousand such clerks in several bank Ing institutions in New York and an other thousand foremcn and mechan- !cs in an automobile factory in De- troit. The figures also harmonize With data from many other sources. was stating the cold facts as 1 have been able to find them after many years study, and facts which I would not myself have believed a few years ago. l was not stating mere per- sonal opinion or guess. If you will write to the New York headquarters of the Institute you can get the exact
 
 arterial thickening, albumin, casts, sugar, defective teeth, eyes, ears, etc.
 AS to the future, I am an optimist for l believe that the growing reali- Zation of our short -comngs will of it. self afford the needed stimulus to our health ideals and there is abundant evidence that almost all of our short comlngs If taken in time, can be cor rected. In fact it was my own good fortune in overcoming Tubercul losis twenty years ago. which led me first to study the preventability of disease. In my report as a member of the Roosevelt Conservation Commission. l estimated on the basis of data sup piled by authorities on ninety differ ent causes of death, that by applying knowledge already existing we could prolong human life at least fifteen years. and (I am willing to addl prob ably much more. Already in the eight years since that report was written, we have actually accomplished one-fourth of the estimated possibility.
 The point which we should all now keep before us is. that in "plcdg ing our lives. our fortunes and our sa- cred honor' to protect the nation, we imply that we shall first of all con- serve ourselves for the sake of our country. Unless the medical eXam1n- ntions are very lax, I expect a major ity of those drafted out of the ten million enrolment to be rejected: but the vast ma ioritv of the rejections can be made fit by military training. Both those enrolled, and those too young or too old to be included in the enroll ment, ought, as d matter of patriot ism. to go into physical training, and to relinuuish all indulgences and hab- it's which impair the power to work War, even more than peace, requires the full strength of the nation.
 Very sincerely yours,
 IRVING FISHER Yale University,
 New Haven.
New Britain herald., 1917-07-11
July 5.
Safety First.
LOuiSNille COurier-J JOurna

Louisville Courier-JournaD
 The man in Richmond, Ind, who has asked Mayor Buschemeyer to se- lect a "nice Kentucky lady" who would be willing to marry a gentleman of Indiana should pause and ponder.
 The record of divorce shows that when a man picks out the woman he would like to marry, or thinks at the time he would like to marry, and cuts her out of the bunch, as western cat tlemen say, he is the king of gam blers Compared with him the man who lays his money on the table when the dice are rattlin$ in the box, re- posing confidence in his luck, is a con- SerVatiVe SpeculatOr.
 Picking a wife for another man might seem at first glance, to be less risky than picking one for ones self. But that is not true. It never will be true while jures are lenlent toward mankillerS: while a man who seeks a bloody revenge for an injury has 9S chances to escape responsibility for his crime as against two chances to be executed or imprisoned for life.
 Sad indeed was the unhappy hus- hand in the musical comedy whose song was:
 w ny ulu pluch t lChioil III ''iN oe'i
 den of love.
 Where they say only peaches grow?"
 But suicide, or uNorcide, grows out of such sadness.
 The journey between Richmond and Louisville is not long and is made easily The law never has succeeded in stamping out the practise of carry ing deadly weapons concealed. The mayors office is not fortified or sur rounded by military outposts. The mayor believes, no doubt, in "safety flrst''. Why risk sudden and violent death at the hands of an avenger when it is as easy for a RichmOnder to come to Kentucky and inspect the unmarried and eligible women as it would be for him to come weighted with weapons to discuss with the mayor an error of judgment.
 There is also, for consideration, the fact that it is easier to decide upon a nice Kentucky lady, as being des1r- able as d wife, ones own or some ones else, than it is to cut her out of the bunch and rope her
 \ wife seeking excursion is recOm- mended in the case of the Indianian who has a pardOnahle and natural desire to marry a Kentuckian. The discretion of the mayor is prais- worthy, although it is, fundamentally. nothing more than obedience to the instinct of sclf-prcserVation
New Britain herald., 1917-07-11
Down Goes Coal.
Chicago Evening Post)

If the high prices were in obedience to the economic law of supply and de- mand. if they were necessary to the successful operation of the industry, why can the mine owners now afford such astonishing decreases in price? The answer is self-evdent
 During the last year or more the owners have attempted to justify their stand. They have set up one circum- stance after another as the reason for advancing prices. We had pictures of closed mines. miners out of employ- ment, no coal, starving communities. business in bankruptcy and other "glooms."
 But, upon realizing that Washin eton "meant business" that a real investi-S N eation was coming, they lowered theas price. And they don't expect to r1f out of business, either.
 If the high prices were justiflabl they would have to remain investi- gation notwithstanding. But the thin frame of justification collapsed with the voluntary lowering of price.
 The horizon appears brighter today for the consumer.