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Evening journal., 1917-06-11
Snipers Who Fire at America
From Daily Financial America).

A story is told OF the boast made
in Berlin by a high. German official Of
the millions Of Germans in America
who were loyal to the Kaiser despite
their American citizenship and who
would rip America apart II America
entered the war.
What have you TO say to that?'
inquired the German Official
Nothing" replied the American
ambassador. to whom the query was
put. except that there are more
lamp-posts in America from which TO
hang traitors than there are traitors
TO hang TO lamp-posts."
Various organizations, various news.
papers and various men are doing
everything in their power TO embar.
rass the American government in the
prosecution of the war, promote sedi
tion and bring about victory for the
Kaiser.
The United States is at war with
Germany. It has warships In the
British channel. It is sending troops
to the battle front in France. 1t is
training snd preparing to train many
thousands of men to fight for the
cause of democracy. To have men in
America working in the interest OF
the enemy is like having enemy sni
pers in the rear of an army shooting
troops In the back
in Germany today If an American
born man conducting newspaper
there in the English language. gloried
in the victories OF the British and the
French, plotted to destroy the German
government, sneered nt the Hohenzol
lerns and did everything possible tc
promote discord in the German army
and among the German people, how
long would that man and that paper
last?
Various newspapers in this country
are doing work of the most traitOrOus
sort. In Milwaukee there is one news
paper so much under German inhu
ence that one of the stockholders
came out publicly and made an an
nouncement to that effect and at the
same time repudiated It.
In New York the most brazen o.
the lot is the Staats-Zeitung. Their,
has been no service. no matter how
low or disgraceful, that publication
would not do in the Kaiser's cause
Some of its men worked with Capt
Boy-Ed to destroy the good name o
woman because the husband OF tha
woman at her instigation had glveI
testimony bearing on the crimina
operations of the German embass-
and especially Capt. BOy-Ed
Today the Staatszeltung in speak
ing of German troops on the battl
front refers 70 them as "our incom
parable soldiers" It glories in sink
ings Of merchant vessels bv the Ger
man submarines. Everything tha
means success TO German arm
Evening journal., 1917-06-11

President Wilson has already taken
a definite stand against the breaking
down OF any legislation intended to
safeguard workers by preserving stan
dards OF safety and sanitation and
limiting hours of labor. In his letter
to Governor Brumbaugh. OF Pennsyl-
yania answering a request for advice
as to action on measures now pend
Ing in the Legislature of that state
which would break down labor laws.
the President explicitly restates his
former position 81 feel thnt there is
no necessity for such action" said he.
and that II would lead to a slacken-
ing OF the energy Of the nation rather
than to an increase of Fl. besides he
ing very unfair to the laboring people
themselves"
In tho face Of such a declaration BY
the President there ought TO be an
ehd or the attempts 10 scuttle decent
ana wise enactments for the safe
guarding OF the workers Governor
Whitman. faralghted enough 10 dis.
cern That lenRthening hours OF work
and suspending safety precautions
would not necessarily produce a
quickening OF industry. commercially
vetoed the unsayory Brown bill. which
would have permitted the wiping out
or all labor safeguards during the
war II the Pennsylvania lawmakers
adopt any such measures, Governor
Brumbaugh may be depended on to
follow that example And IL the mem
bers Of Congress who are talking Of
suspending the Federal child labor
law at the request of Southern mill
interests should manage to obtain the
passage Of n bill for that purpose
there can be no doubt about what
the President would do to IT.
Nevertheless. all such attempts to
break down laws which have been
built up over a period of years for
Evening journal., 1917-06-11
A CRISIS PASSED.

A Few Anarchists always have in midst we
n also always have considerable number Of re-
Gently arrived immigrants who do not at all UNDER
stand governmental processes Take out the dis
turbance caused by these two elements and the regis
tration for seective service would appear about
the most peaceful operation ever engaged in ma
tionally.
Our professional Anarchists naturally take advantage
Of any occasion when anybody is dissatisfied with
anything In Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota are
large bodies Of aliens who imagined that the regisra
ton meant they be shipped back to foreign hor
hors from which they had fed In the Southwestern
States a lot Of Mexcans who sick of the very
word Even Indian fellow Americans in Ar-
got rotous over the idea of leaving their COM
Portable reservaons and OF these elements Of
population will be about the last be selected for
vcean important fact that they did realize. Here
in Delaware there scarcely ripple Of disorder.
Altogether It a day IN which important
business pushed forward calmly deliberately and
successfully good many national elections have wit
messed lawessness
II ever danger OF popular outbreak against Sc
ectve service existed It has passed and the auhori-
ties directly engaged in carrying war measures
go ahead with complete confidence.
Evening journal., 1917-06-11
KHRENSKY.

" VERY great political upheaval has way Of evov-
H ing its natural leader. Our revolutionary war
brought forth Washington and Jefferson and their
peers. The French revolution produced a Napoleon,
who made himself master Of France and, for time.
Europe
Unless cut down by tuberculosis from which he is
suffering or suppressed by jealous Socialists or as
sassnated by the dark Of reaction there is every
s ...-'sauon mat in Alexander Kerensky. Russia has
produced frst-cass leader
~ mas Deen tried before this and not found want
,ns lawyer Of saraton he joined with others in pro
.es-ns against the manner in which famous court
sral was conducted. His reward was 70 ho sen.ooas
y .e O1ar oureauerats to prison term which the
.s1lsa 70 carry out popular was the
young barister with the plain people whose ca.. ~
had espoused Se cause ne
In the present soul-strrlng times as ,rn,s,ou
War he is endeayoring to restore sometime In, VI
discipline and fighting spirit into a vast arm, 49,,
chaos now reigns He comes into the trenches ana
with flaming words Of an evangel seeks to make the
mouiik soldiers realize their sacred duty.
Our watchword is liberay. equality and fratern,,
and device is forward. We have now the freest
Evening journal., 1917-06-11

policy in the world We have reaped the harvest in
field watered by the blood OF the best but must not
selhshly use this harvest We are guardians Of the
treasure Of Russia"
II this eloquent leader is spared to complete his
task II the soldiers and the workers and the farmers
VIII heed him, Russia will do her IN the for
the liberty OF the world Otherwise. the slavs viii
utterly fail their western Allies and. while fighting
among themselves. viii give German and Austrian
bayonet the coveted opportunity Of restoring Carbon
TO power.
Evening journal., 1917-06-11
Help Blind Soldier Help Himself
THEN SEE ASCERTAIN FOR OURSELF YOUR MERCFUL
GENEROSITY IS ACCOMPLISHING.

Members Of the Executive Commit
tee of the American-British-F French
Belgian Permanent Blind Relief War
Fund who have been in France for
some time investigating the condi-
tions and needs of the blinded SOL
diers and sailors cable word that
more than 500 blind soldiers trained
to earn their own living in the vari-
Gus French Institutions established
for that purpose are now ready to be
sent out. II requires about 200 fr.
$4,000 to send each man home happy,
equipped with tools and raw material
to start him in a paying occupation.
The A. 3. f. b. IS very desirous
of undertaking this work but its
hands are tied for lack of available
money, which was largely depleted by
the funds donation last week Of
100000 to help support blinded SOL
diers who have also lost both arms or
hands a good work II is absolutely
essential to continue.
To lit a man from the slough Of
unutterable misery and despair into
which his blindness always plunges
Evening journal., 1917-06-11
nANIELs, Dull Delay.

I'D EOPLE who are amazed at the freedam with which
Congress is voting away millions, billions. for
purposes viii do well to reflect upon OF the
items OF cost which recent appropriation bills have
carried and which not correctly chargeable to the
war
For instance there that item OF S1i5OOOOOO which
provided little while ago to speed up the con-
struction OF warshps-long ago authorized This is
the price which the taxpayers must meet for Josephus
Daniels monumental inactoE during two years If he
had proceeded actively to lay down those ships when
they authorzed-in the spring of 1915-they
would be well the way to completion and at
fixed by the prices Of two years ago, which
much less than the prices OF today.
The pressure OF wars demands has cloaked many
a transaction which will day be brought to light
and to the attention Of the voters
Evening journal., 1917-06-11
sMrGGLING THEM I'M.

THE new Tariff Commission is authorized to take
over the existing Cost of Production Division Of
the Department OF Commerce
We wonder if this will prove another cloak for some
political funny business.
The Federal Trade Commission was similarly author
lied TO take the old Bureau Of Corporations The
law also provided that the employees Of tho Commission
should not enjoy salaries in OF $500 year
To get around this and to Of some favortes
the Commission. before taking over the Bureau, pro-
ceeded TO boost the salaries OF OF the
salaries
II the Democratic administration will only display
in war some OF the ingenuity which It has shown in
peace, we ought to develop scheme to lick the Ger
mans within week.
Evening journal., 1917-06-11
TRUE TO ORR FLAG.

n oNGRESSMAN NICHOLAS j. slNNOTT, OF oregon.
~ hopes that wide publicity will be given to the report
of recent gathering in his home city OF The Dales
on which occasion the citizens Of German BIRTH who
form substantial proportion OF the population pre-
sented the city. with American flag The emotion
displayed by the German who made the presentation,
and the patriotic enthusiasm manifested by his coun-
trymen would have thrown CONSERVATION the heart
Of the Kaiser had he behed the demonstration
Representative Sinnou believes that the patriotism
displayed by the native Germans OF his district is ypi-
cal OF the feeling among practically all Teutons in the
United States and he has caused printed in the
Congressional Record detailed account OF the cele-
bration at The Dales in order that it may brought
to the attention Of other German communities through
out this country.
Evening journal., 1917-06-11

arouses its enthusiasm Everything
that means success to America and
It's allies arouses its wrath
There is no other place on earth
where such work as the newspapers
Of which the Staats-Zeitung is an ex-
ample would be tolerated or such men
as the responsible heads of the Stats
would be permitted TO be at liberty.
They are open enemies to America.
They are willing II not eager to
sacrifice American lives, even the
whole American institution. for the
benefit OF the German cause and, in
cidentally, for their personal benefit
They have assurance Of q freedom OF
action here that spurs them on to 20
the limit in their work. There Is So
called freedom of the press This. to
them, means license to be traitors to
America. When anyone raises a voice
against them they shrek And you
call this a free country This 10 worse
than Russia Amt I Americang"
No more American than Judas Is
cariot was Christian.
For the same purpose that Judas
/ betrayed the Man of Sorrows these
/ people 0etray America. Most OF them
left Germany or their fathers left
Germany to escape military service
and the iron rule Of the Hohenzol-
lerns, but they do not appreciate
/ liberty.
With various OF the German news.
papers It Is a matter Of business. Just
rs much as II is a matter OF loyalty
to the Kaiser to promote the German
cause.
Tho forotg, lo,o,,a-.o ,.u.o-.,..-
works under a handicap IN America
! Its readers, as they become Ameri.
cans and gradually speak English and
/ get weaned away from the land across
the sea, drop out. A new crop OF
readers must be provided or the for
eign language newspaper withers. II
/ immigration is heavy the newspaper
can hope for recruits, but If immigra-
tion is not active it must foment ra-
cial antagonisms. stir up discussions,
arouse feeling on national lines so as
to hold the old crowd or, II it had
drifted off. draw It back.
The war was a God-sepd IN a bust.
ness way TO many of the foreign Ian
guage newspapers. 1t is a matter of
court record that the most prominent
OF German papers. which had been a
highly profitable property. had
dropped until in the year before the
war e showed q deficit.
With the war its tagging readers
came back to it in droves
No wonder the newspapers printed
in German are ardently for the Ger
man cause The patriotism Of their
owners begins and ends in their pur
ses. Geschaft is everything.
But the American Government
should have some business 10 tran
sact with these francs tireurs.
Evening journal., 1917-06-11
CONE ACROSS. OR THE KAISER WILL.

II AVE you bought that Liberty Bond yet? II not
A do so at once, Take invoice or your money. II
you haven't enough hand TO Of the banks and
get bond the installment plan.
In any event buy several bonds
Uncle Sam needs the money He is furnishing money
TO our Allies they deal effective blows
with silver bullets" He IS also using these "sl
yer bullets at home get things in shape for
hard hits
II the world is to be made safe for democracy the
Kaiser must be hit right between the eyes and hit
soon. The the better for democracy.
Hit him with Liberty Bond. Hit him with many
possible Every bond is blow at autocracy. Every
bond bought makes democracy safer.
For If you don't come across the Kaiser will. We
have got to stop the madman Of Europe bond will
stop him.
Tho best place stop the Kaiser and his hordes is
in Europe If he isn't stopped there he will come
here
on June 15 when the subscriptions to the Liberty
Bonds are counted. Of two things is going TO take
place Either Pennsylvania avenue is going 10 be
happy and Whelnstrasse sad Wilhelmstrasse happy
and Pennsylvania avenue sad.
It's up to you Mr. Ordinary Citizen which Il viii be-
Come now and then the Kaiser can't
Evening journal., 1917-06-11
With The Paragraphers

The woman who insists that she is "a LADY, creates
suspicion in the minds of her hearers.-Cappers
Weekly Topeka, Kans.)
One reason why haven't succeeded in hitchne our
wagon 10 star is because We to bed before dark -
Galveston 0rex) News
We don't like reasonable man. We never can feel
sure that he isn't going 70 switch to the other side
Fort Worth CTex) Telegram.
"A washington woman married a to carry out
an an erection bet We should like 10 know whether she
won or lost-Colunbus (O) Citizen
Evening journal., 1917-06-11

to pinch the Germans out Of Lille by
lighting along each leg of the triangle.
He Is now making mighty effort in
the north and there will be great
things done there as long as flesh and
blood can stand the strain.
Evening journal., 1917-06-11
BED FIRE CALLs FIREMEN.

The district firemen responded to
an alarm of fire shortly before 8
o'clock yesterday morning, when a
bed in the second story room Of the
home Of Charles Kane. a Negro, Of
No. 7O5 West Second street was
found to be in flames. The blaze was
extinguished before any damage was
done. D..
Owing TO a mix-up in the fire alarm
indicators in the headquarters Of the
Brandyw!ne, Fr endship. Phoenix and
Union companies. the frse three COM
panies and Chief Golden went TO the
box at Eighteenth and Boulevard,
which registered IN these houses.
If vou have not enough work 10 tcer
Evening journal., 1917-06-11

If you have not enough work 10 keep
you working overtime, it is because you
don't advertise.-Adv.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-08-16
FOUND THE PRISONER GUILTY
But Jury's Verdict Had Nothing to Do
With Charge on Which Defendant
Was Tried.

A barrister with long experience
of queer juries in the mining regions
of Pennsylvania tells the following
amusing story as illustrating their &C.
centricities:
A man was charged with committing
a murderous assault upon another as
a result of some political differences.
The assault having been committed
at night, there appeared to be some
difficulty in Identifying the assailant,
and as a matter of fact, the counsel
for the defense made out an excellent
case for the prisoner, calling witnesses
to testify that he was nowhere near
the spot where the assault took place
on the night in question.
Everybody concerned fully expected
that the jury would bring in verdict
of acquittal, yet, to the general aston
ishment, the foreman announced that
the prisoner had been found guilty.
'But," he added, observing the gen
eral CONSERVATION created by his state
ment, mot guilty of this assault, yer
honor. This is the spalpeen who stole
Biddy McCarthy's pig last year, and we
found him guilty of that!'
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-08-16
| SOME MARKS OF BRIGHTNESS
Intelligent Boy and Girl Declared to
Be Conscientious, Moderately Ro-
bust, Athiotic and Popular

In summing up his conclusions on
the relationship of intelligence to the
size and shape of the head, Karl Pear
son is quoted in the Journal of Heredi-
ty ms making these statements about
the intelligence of children:
"To sum up, then: While no charac-
tiers in schoolchildren so far dealt with
show very high correlation with intel
ligence, we may yet say that the in
telligent boy is markedly conscientious
is moderately robust, athletic and pop
ular: he tends rather to quick than to
sullen temper. He is more self-con-
scious and quieter than she dull boy I;
he has a slightly bigger head, and pos
sibly lighter fermentation than those
of more mediocre intelligence. His
hair has a larger percentage of curli-
ness.
"The intelligent girl is also markedly
conscientious, moderately robust, ath-
letic, and popular. She, too, tends to
quick and rather sullen temper. She
is less self-consciOuS than the dull girl
and noisier than the girl of mediocre
intelligence. 1t is the slow girl who is
quiet and shy. The intelligent girl has
a slightly bigger head than the dull
girl. and her hair is more likely to be
wavy and much less likely to be curly.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-08-16
SIDEWALKS AND COLD GERMS
Relationship Between the Two Traced
to Conditions Which Result in
Getting Feet Wet.

That close relationship exists be-
tween sidewalks and grip epidemics
is asserted in Good Health by Martin
Nevins. Grip and colds, says Mr.. New
ms, are germ diseases. Germs are
floating about us in the air. We breathe
them in by the thousands. But they
are cowardly fellows-once they get
inside of healthy body they retreat"
He goes on:
at is only when one thing or anoth ar
disturbs our health equilibrium tsat
the bugs manage to gain foothold in
our system. 1t may be injudicious eat
ing, it may be lack of fresh air, but
most frequently it is some kind of ex-
posure-getting the feet wst-that lays
the fortress open to Thea
SIT is not at all hard 20 get your feet
wet. And that is where the sidewalk
comes in. The ordinary sidewalk is a
right-hand assistant when you want a
cold foot bath. 1t is built flat, without
any slope to drain it,
The condition is aggravated if there
occurs q natural depression in the side
walk. The water runs into it and
stands until it is dried or is frozen.
The natural result is harvest Of grip
epidemics, and any number of colds,
bronchitis and lung troubles. And
tuberculosis, too-this disease can
often be traced to sidewalks, since it
usually starts with some simple lung
affection.
1--WE must stop building flat side
walks and make them convex instead,
so they will drain easily, and elevate
them slightly above the level Of the
ground"
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-08-16
The egyptian Scale.

The seven great tones of the Egyp-
ion scale represented among the tenn
lie priests the planets of Sun, Moon,
Iercury, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars and
genus. The scale mystically repre-
sented also the seven days of the week,
lie different keys indicated the gods
and goddesses of the old time. The
veil of the old Egypt, says one writer,
has never been lifted. Nor can the
modern mind follow through all its
mazes that system of music, philoso-
ply, religion, astrology, astronomy and
pantheism of which one of the notable
expressions was the music drawn from
the harps and Tyres. From these mys-
teal sources have descended to us the
modern orchestra, the stringed choir,
the violins, cellos, basses, violas. The
most direct example-the harp-is no
more now than mere adjunct.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-08-16
Founded on a RELIGION.

Twelve hundred and eighty-five
years ago the founder of the Moham-
medan religion died in MedinaN Arabia,
and the career of Mohammed is now
recognized as one of the nine or ten
great careers in history. A son OF the
desert, born with a keen poetic and
sensuous nature, his early life was
passed in dreams, visions and medita-
lions. Gradually there dawned upon
him the conception of the unity of God.
In his fortieth year his work of pros
elyting began. Prosecuted by the older
religions, he barely escaped with his
life, and fled from Mecca to the city of
Medina. Rapidly the new faith gained
adherents the forces of Mecca were
defeated, and by the time of his death
the whole of Arabia had been subdued
and an army was setting forth to as
sail the Roman empire of the East.
Exactly 100 years after he died his
standards had been planted by his dis
ciples across the Pyrenees and on the
plains of India.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-08-16
Tilted Block Of Earth,s Crust.

Ell Salvador is the smallest of the
American republics. Its population OF
100000 is closely packed in its ITO
square miles. 1t really is tilted block
of the earth's crust. Now and then the
crust settles down a little, or rises
little more, and buildings crash. Or
the earth may split open at different
localities, gulp down houses and hu-
man beings and close again. When
ever this happens the slumbering vol
canoes are prodded and in their anger
vomit forth fire. Again it may be only
a slight shift of some part of the earth
which releases large volume of water
imprisoned in the yawning crater OF
dead volcano. The water splashes
down on the liquid lava far down in
side the earth and the volcano begins
spluttering.