Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-05
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SOLDIER CAMPS
Community Organizers Make it Pleas.
ant for Men in Soldier Camps
Over the Country Through
Personal Consideration.
LEAGUE WORRIES POLITICIANS
Farmers League Has Washington
Observation-Disclosures Lin.
es Tied Up.
Washington Bureau of
The Daily Freeman.JOurnal.

Washington Bureau of
The Daily Freeman.J0urnal.
BY j. E. Jones.
Community organizers have been
busy for some time among the soldiers
in their different camps, and large
fund is being raised throughout the
country for use in making conditions
surrounding the boys who wear Uncle
Sans uniform comfortable, homelike,
and moral An official commission is
acting in connection with the army
and navy departments, and in one of
the bulletins they have issued to the
press, it is explained that the object
in every community where soldiers
are stationed, is to convince the citi-
zens that this boy in uniform is still
human being, that he has been up
rooted suddenly from his native soil,
stripped Of every social prop and safe
guard-his family ties, his friends,
his church, his neighborhood, his
fraternal groups, his business con-
nections and the influence of women
of his kind and so suddenly trans
planted without their gates; that they
should become interested in him as
an individual, as person, helping
him to re-establish those social con-
nections with this community upon
which he was accustomed to depend
at home; that he should be neither
patronized nor exploited; that he was
a civilian yesterday, as they still are,
and that he will, let us hope, return
to his home a civilian tomorrow.
This is one of the best of the activi-
ties connected with war work, and its
beneficial effect is easily noticeable
in places like Washington where a
soldier or sailor in uniform is bound
to receive the highest consideration.
Every possible precaution is being
maintained to have his surroundings
clean and wholesome.
Wives Should Stay Home.
= There has been a meritorious dis
position on the part of soldiers wives
to follow their husbands to Europe,
but Uncle Sam is discouraging this
desire. 1t has been facetiously re-
marked that the women had better
stay home and attend to their knitting.
"MOre Like Baer."
The Farmers League of North OAK
ota has the Washington politicians
guessing. 1t is known that there are
10000 members of the league in North
Dakota, and it is claimed that there
are 10000 in other states. The man
date has gone out that there must be
more Congressman like Baer." The
republican and democratic committee
men have been up against many forms
of independent political MOVEMENTS,
but the North Dakota plan, wherein
the voter pays fee into the treasury
for the purpose of helping to protect
his suffrage is vitality different from
the methods by which the old parties
are accustomed to work-and they are
afraid that there really may be more
like Baer" sent to Washington. The
movement sails under the name of the
Non-Partisan League.
The Liberty Bonfire.
Washington's Liberty Bonfire was
unique. Wood from twenty-five stat
es, and from the homes of many for
mer presidents and famous men were
piled on high, and the thing was shot
off by an electric spark. Mrs. McAdoo
applied "the electric torch" and as she
did so the Marine band played patrio-
tic airs. A tremendous rain storm
was in progress at the time.
Transportation Swamped.
The greatest grain crop in history
and an army of 100000 men to feed,
to say nothing of the coal situation,
war supplies, and hundred other
things, has produced sort of tie-up
Oh transportation lines throughout
the country. The government has
recognized the emergency, and the
interstate commerce commission has
reopened the hearings for fifteen per
cent advance in freight rates to the
railroads.
May Rent German Embassy.
Under the trading with the enemy
act - control of the German embassy