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Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-06-07
CONCERNING PRESS CENSORSHIP.

War is itself a lawless institution. 1t recognizes no such
thing as personal liberty. Individual rights are subordlnated
Ito public welfare. 1t even compels the individual to sacrifice
his life, if need be, fer the sake of preserving the institution
known as the State,
We agree, therefore, with the editorial conclusions OF the
Christian Science Monitor of Boston, Mass, i'll that the press
censorship is not designed for the many who need 1t not but
for the few whose failure to comprehend to the ful extent
their duties of citizenship might work lrreparable damage
10 their country.
There is no inclination, so far as we have been able to dis
cover, to curtail the liberty of the press, but rather to curb
and control what may be termed the license OF the press.
A false step on the part of but one newspaper out OF the
thousands in the United States might result IN great loss OF
life and property. Our enemy is one tjat never sleeps while
this war is in progress. It's spies are everywhere seeking for
information that may be used in their gain and our disadvan-
tage.
ssOnly a aw-breaker,' = declares our Boston contemporary,
cas- every wellinformed editor must know, would be affected
by the so-called gag provision. It's Incorporation into a law
would be for moral rather than puntatve purposes. The
Palladium of human liberties was in no sense endangered
by it.''
But the fact that the congress has tempered the proposed
censorship does not, as the paper in question says, permit the
editors to escape responsibility. ''The United States = it
concludes, lis engaged in one Of the most terrible wars the
world has ever known. The careless or reckless editor must
not forget this, even with the so-caled gag provision modi-
.fed.'
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-06-07
INSURANCE FOR SOLDIERS.

The United States is preparing to protect its varied in
ierests in this war-that is to say, it is preparing for the pro
lection of its ships from submarine attacks; it is preparing
to protect its possessions from raids by the enemy; it is pre-
pairing to protect its harbors, and it is preparing to inflict
untold damage upon the enemy.
But is it sufficiently preparing to protect the dependent
families of its soldiers?
Human life, in case of war, seems to be about the cheap
est thing a nation possesses!
1t has been suggested that the government carry insurance
on each soldiers life.
We don't know that this is feasible-but, in any event,
some sort of insurance for the dependent members of his fam
lily should be provided.
Some of the big insurance companies-a few of them,
probably largely for advertising purposes-are offering sol
diers insurance on their lives without extra expense, under
certain conditions.
Uncle Sam is a big enough institution to carry insurance
its own insurance-npon the lives of its soldiers.
Some system should be devised whereby a family whose
head has fallen in the military service of his country would
not have to wait the slow process of future legislation for a
<tpension.''
1t required practically a generation for this government
TO provide a system of universal pension after the close Of
She Civil War.
Why not make some such provision now7
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-06-07

IT sort o. ~befuddles us to learn that the expectation Of
gold to Japan is alarming some of our big fnanclers, especially
lin view Of the fact that some months ago something akin to
CONSERVATION was reported from the same quarters over the
importation of gold from Europe. We assure these gentle
men that if they entertain any fears about letting the goldin,
Saturday News guarantees to take care of all that comes
lover for the next two or three years to come. Send 1t along,
gentlemen-send it along!
The Aberdeen News editor invites a contemporary to-
call and spend a day with him-and then determine for him.
self whether the editor Of a daily paper in a town the size Of
Aberdeen has anything to do but sit and think. And if the
aforesaid daily editor at Aberdeen doesn't think that the
editor of a weekly in any old town has anything to do but eat
and think he's invited to spend circus week with us in Water
town.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-06-07

The average Russian, whose neck for a thousand years
has been weighted down with the yoke of autocracy, seems to
entertain no adequate conception Of the meaning of liberty.
Hence, since the overthrow Of the Hautocrat Of all the
Russia there has been manifest a disposition throughout
much Of Russia to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
The average small farmer, the laboring man, the foot
man, the tailor and the candlestick-maker, seem to be imbued
with the idea that democracy, as applied to the representative
form Of government, is but a synonym for the political and
economic millennium.
Land is to be taken at once from the few and divided
among the many!
Factories, as the average Russian views the situation,
[are to be q property Of the men employed therein!
The money in the banks and in the stockings is to be
apportioned among those who have none!
Russia was no more prepared for a sudden transition from
|autocracy to democracy than were the American slaves pre-
pared for full citizenship fifty odd years ago.
Russia will work out its own salvation, In the course of
time, but it will have shown marvellous aptitude if it again
becomes a material factor in assisting the allies to win the
war.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-06-07
SHOULD GET TOGETHER.

While the traffic manager of the Aberdeen Commercial
Club was in Washington, D. G, uniting his efforts with those
of other traffic men from various commercial organizations
of the country in an attempt to prevent an increase Of fifteen
Per cent. in freight rates, the home club at Aberdeen "gc+
busy by the adoption of this resolution:
"Resolved, That the Aberdeen Commercial Club
does not oppose an increase in freight rates, but urges
that discrimination affecting this locality in such
rates be eliminated as early as they may be deter
mined"
One of two things appears to be the case: either the
Aberdeen club should have kept its traffic manager at home or
else it should not have permitted outside influences to dictate
at home a course that for some years to come is likely to
question the good faith Of the organization in any matter
relating to railroad interests.
Its traffic department and its resoluting department
should get together beforehand.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-06-07
"sTAND BY THE GOVERNMENTS

This slogan, Stand by the President = when the war was
declared, has never appealed to us as patriotic in tendency or
broad minded in tone.
It smacks Of craftsmanship. Tt sounds too much like 1.-THE
King is dead-long live the Kng!''
In an autocracy, where people are taught from infancy to
bump their noses nine times in the dust as the crowned head
goes by, it might not the inappropriate, but in a great republic,
such as we take pride in proclaiming ourselves to be, we have
but little respect for any such slogan as "Stand by the Presi-
Gent, = or "Stand by the Governor, y or Stand by the Mayor
Our president, our governor, our mayor, are but factors
in our government. If one of them goes wrong, and we know
shat he has gone wrong, we are but l~ekspittles if we, too,
follow in the wrong.
Let US "Stand by our government rather than by our
president. II our president is right, we are standing by him
when we stand by our government, and if he is wrong we have
no excuse for standing by him. It's his business to stand by
rs, and it's our business to stand by our government.
Some people cannot distinguish between My Country,
right OF wrong, and The President, right or wrong \ says
Jonathan Bourne, il, former senator from Washington, who
is at the head of the Republican Publicity Association e
hut there is a vast and essential difference. In a democ-
raey the people are the nation and the president their servant,
not their master. The folly Of the slogan, Stand by the
President IS manifest when one reflects upon the numerous
instances in which the president has not stood by himself very
long at q time. Free discussion among the people has repeat
ediy shown the president his error, and, after much delay,
re has changed his attitude upon important problems
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-06-07
FAMILIES OF OUR SOLDIERS.

Canada pays q stipulated sum per month to the wives
of its soldiers, the amount depending to some extent upon the
number of children in the family.
Should this war continue for two or three years, Tile
United States will find it necessary to utilize thousands uncn
thousands Of its married men inathe military field.
tt cannot afford to take these men from their dependent
families without providingSfor the needs of the dependent
ones during the absence Of the husband and father.
The Canadian system is commended to the thoughtful con
sideration Of our American congress.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-06-07
ENGLISH LORDS HIGH TRIBUTE.

One Of the finest tributes to America that We have heard
|or read is that which the Marquis of Crewer paid Us Id the
edged leader.
sI question said lie, referring to America 81 entrance
INTO the war,sssif there has ever been u community which has
been swayed ~ serious impulses, and which has been 80 uni.
lfornly dependent "a moral sanctions, AZ the United States Of
America, ,@ S@
mendations, We shall have fulfilled sgreat mission don 81 earth.
Sk Paul house sends % cirsularE,a TIE first paragraph
lto send nnasrSt he new 1aW--and there ma only 4 tam more
lWseks as which EFu aeaas0 order qnorsEb b m6al AndH receive If
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-06-07

Don't be backward about coming forward and buying
laose Liberty Loan bonds. The Saturday News will takes'em
on subscription accounts at Ave per cent. premium. Hence,
you see, they've already gone to q premium. Now's the time
to buy before they 60 higher.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-25

The amazing activity Of Italian war
riors in the Alps seems to continue the
tradition Caesar set when in winter
campaigns he defed the snow-clad
mountains in order to hold or to extend,
the frontiers of the empire. The Caesar
who bridged the Rhine was brother
.in-arms to brave Cadorna, says Phila-
'delphia Public Ledger. The Ro-
man legionaries who live for US
in the pages Of the Commentaries
seem to have their reincarnation in the
men, who station their guns in the
eagles aerie and convey their wound
ed over wire ropes across yawning
abysses. Who said Italians were de-
generate scions of the ancient heroic
stock? The war has shown the world
no sturdier warriors than these. With
the forces of nature herself arrayed
against them, they have removed noun
Itains, and in their prowess it is as
though Caesar himself were on earth
again to defy and finally subjugate the
German war lord who has assumed
and disgraced the name the great 1tal-
ian wore who ruled the world.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-25
WIFE BEATING

"Mickle Nicnock, who was pa
rolled by Judge Rice on June IL,
after pleading guilty to the charge
beating his wife, was brought into
Common Pleas Court for violating
his narole. He was sentenced to be
whipped with ten ashes on Satur-
dow Jnlv 7. and serve six months
in the workhouse.
Nicnock's wife sWore he broke up
tbe dishes and stove just few days
after his parole.
Etening Journal
rIERE is a sample of the best use to
which the whipping post is put
wife beating. Ten lashes, "well laid on
LET us hope, was the dose meted out to
this brute. His name suggests his for.
e,gn origin. He has brot his wife
humping practices with him from ms
own land where they regard women as
little better than cattle, and treat them
accordingly.
This cowardly crime we are glad to
say, is very rare in this country among
American men famous for their chival-
rous treatment of their women. One
might almost say that in America wo-
man is the rather set on pedestal and
almost worshipt than, as in many foreign
lands. degraded to mere beast OF bur-
den.
Tn more than one country in Europe
the SIGHT of a woman harnessed yoke
fellow to an OK helping drag the ploW or
harrow is common enough, while in
heather Musselman lands woman is
either made an odalisque slave or toll
ing one hardly credited in either case
with the possession of that superfiulty
known as soul.
Tho the law even in our own land still
catalogues woman with inebriates. luna
tics, minors, etc., and long denied the
wife nearly all her civil as it still largely
does her political rights, yet was II
never "a cherished privilege OF Ameri-
can husbands ''to whip their wives with
a rod as thick as their little finger, " as
Blackstone says it was in his day among
the English yeomanry.
No, wife humping is quite taboo In
free America, and Mickle Nicnock after
his taste of the cat and his six months
seclusion at hard labor in the workhouse'
will probably be keenly aware OF that
fact.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-25
FALSE SCHOOL, OF HUMoR.

! The women who are running from
one place of registration to another,
rather than reveal their ages to the
!gossiping neighborhOod in which they
live, have been driven to it by the guf-
flaws Of those fun lovers who regard
gray hairs and all other signs of wis
dom and worldly experience as fit sub
ljects for ridicule. The great heehaw
school of humor loves shining mark,
and INDUCES in uproarious mirth over
Everything that should not be laughed
lat, says New York Herald. In the
midst Of the disciples Of this w1tless
cult it is funny to be married, and
still funnier to remain single. It Is
funny to be fat and equally funny to
be lean. A long-haired man is quite
as funny as one who is bald. The
mother-in-law, who in nine cases out
of ten is the real self-sacrificing moth
Ter of her brood of grandchildren, is
quite as ludicrous in the eyes Of those
tjocose ones as the "old maid" who
more than earns her keep by doing the
marketing and relieving her married
sister Of nursery cares. Our national
sense Of humor is in woeful need of
reformer who will teach us the differ
ience between sacred things and the
various forms Of vulgarity and pre-
tense that should be laughed out OF
existence.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-25
FASHIONS "FOOT.BINDING"

THE writer never tires OF singing the
! praises of Woman as the most
glorious product of our American civili-
zation. But alas it must be confessed
that Justice requires in some things a
qualification of this sweeping eulogy-
at least in the cases of few but too
common types Of the sex.
To specify one or two illustrations OF
woman's weak yielding to the most un-
reasonable of Fashions fadsNhigh heels,
and summer furs. In China, the land
we are wont to style "benighted, = not
only have the men by official edict dis
carded their wretched "pigtalls, z
whose wearing had some little excuse as
a part of their Confucian cult, but the
women have also stopt Gripping them
selves by their foolish foot-binding.
Amazing to say the idiotic Chinese
foot folly, which these "heathen' have
disused many of our more enlightened
American women at Fashions imperi-
GUS dictates have assumed
See Won fashionable miss wabbllng
awkwardly along with her twisting
heels, and wriggling ankles because
they are absurdly propt up on lmpossi'
BILE high spool heeled shoes That
the practice is fatal to every grace OF
carriage anyone can see, and that INJURY
results to the bones and muscles OF the
feet any doctor will tell the devotees OF
the silly fad.
AS we walked sweltering up the ho'
street we passed young thing in skirts
snugly muffied up to the ears IN a mass
of thick fluffy white fur, and the sign
of the idiotic performance has made u
so hot we will have to postpone our ola
tribe on Summer furs" to a cooler day
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-25

?, The United States Is short Of beef
and long on fish. The people Of this
country eat less sea food than those
of any other nation which has avail
able supplies so great as ours. The
problem is to save the beef for ship
ment across the ocean and to consume
here the fish which cannot be econom-
'ically shipped. The country must con-
serve wheat, too, and eat instead such
grains as cannot be sent to the
trenches.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-25

Now we are advised that we mustn't
use any more starch on our shirts,
utilizing it rather for blanc mango and
other so-called food products, and we
have written our washerwoman.asking
if this oughtn't to apply also to our
union suits, feeling that possibly an ap-
peal on broad patriotic grounds may
have some weight with her.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-25

Like q good many business men,
Uncle Sam is protecting his borrowings
the bonds issued and sold to his own
!people-by lending at the same rate
of interest to his allies. And, to COM
plete the endless chain, the money
loaned to the allies is being largely ex7
pended in this country, so our own
people will get the benefit from it.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-25

Not the least of our contribution to
the allies to excite respectful atten-
ton abroad was the consignment Of
the great American army mule. On
all sides was heard the French equiva-
lent of the wish that he would have
more power to his kick on the field.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-25

Now someone has invented ma
chine gun unit, the same being de-
vice whereby one man can control
whole battery Of machine guns. More
and more does war take on the form
Of a machine-made thing.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-25

We have not worried about the mini.
mum price theory so far, being conf
dent that old Max will always get oul
number and the Mini will remain dis
'tant while Max is around.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-25

Americans are asked to raise more
sheep, and the ambitious fiat dweller Is
looking about for a noiseless folding
sheep.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-25

If the male clothing model wishes
to make a hit he should appear In
lkhaki-with license to wear it.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-25

When the daughter has to spend an
evening at home alone-just with the
family-she decides to 60 to bed real
early and catch up on sleep.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-25

Dispatches from Washington indi.
cate that the crop reports are i'm.
proving pretty nearly as much as the
Icrops are.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-25

Wholesale prices are steadily going
down. You might mention the fact to
your grocer.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-25
A Rit Mixed-

"Muvver," said little city girl Wis
lting in the country, "just listen to
that poor cow mewing for her colt"
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-25

Greatness Of Small Things.
Perform the small things that are
unseen, and they will bring other and
greater things for you to perform.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-25
August Clearance Sale

A store cannot do so big business
as that of Fogel & Burstan's with
out accommodating quantity ofgoods
of various kinds, articles in every
department left unsold at the sea-
sons end.--broken sizes-== too few
goods of one kind to make it worth
while to box them up and carry
them over and etc. etc.
For, no matter how good the
article, it is bound to become
little "shop worm or stale if carried
over from one season to another.
Finally, not to have clearance sales
would be a violation of our great
rule=--"No goods over The Season"
Therefore, we make it an occas-
sion to sell our patrons such goods
far below usual prices-- practically
at or below cost. You will gain
what we lose, and that will please
YOU. so after all it will not really be
loss to us, for it will prove a good
advertisement.
Remember, always that the
things we offer in this "Ausust Cler=
ance Sale,' are perfect in every re-
spect. new and in the latest Styles
in one word, standard goods which
it pays always anyone to salt down.
when offered at such reductions.
These articles are so numerous,
covering as they do every depart
ment in our Store, that it will be i'm
possibleto specify them. So we cord
ially urge allwishing to share in this
AUGUST CLEARANCE SALE"
at Big Reductions to call and see
for mselves--=earlier the better.
FOGEL ! BURSTAN'S DEPT. STORE
MIDDLETOWN, DEL.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-25
So Thew Are

Burglars and bookkeepers are alike,
in one respectively are both used to-
making anr1aA /
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-04-05
A Proclamation.

State Of Louisiana. Pursuant to au-
Parish Of Booster. I thority contained
in an ordinances of the Mayor and
Board of Aldermen of the Village of
Bossier City, Bossier Parish, Louis
lana, of date the 9th day of March,
1917, l, M. B. woodward, Mayor, and
presiding officer of said body, here
by give notice that the election will
be held in the Village of Bossier City,
Parish of Bossier, State of Louisiana,
on the 18th day of April, 1917. as set
forth in said ordinance, which is pub
lished herewith.
On the 10Th day of April, 1917,
the second day following such cleo
ton, at IL o'clock m. the Mayor and
Board of Aldermen of the Village OF
Bossier City, Parish of Bcssier. State
of Louisiana, will meet at the Village
Hall in said village, and there. in pub.
lie session, open the ballot box, ex.
anime and count the votes, both as te
number and amount, and examine anG
canvas the returns and declare the
result of said election, and promul
gate the same.
Given on this the 9Th day 81
March, 1917, at Bossier City, in sale
parish. M. B. WOODWARD, Mayor.
A true copy:
u. w. HuTcHISGs, Clerk. lis
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-04-05

to show at the end of ten years ten
thousand million dollars worth of
useful work instead of ten thousand
millions burned up and lost.
There is no reason why ours should
be an army of idlers, waiting for war
to come. Instead of few men get
tine SIS month, SO cents a day,
doing nothing but waiting for war,
the United States could afford to
have a quarter Of million men get
ting regular high wages, leading
comfortable lives. proud of their po-
sition and in wartime defending a
coed job as we'll as a good country.
Such men could dig the canals that
the country needs. They could be-
oin bv uniting the oceans and the
great lakes via the Mississippi.
Ihsi- officers, trained engineers,
would be ussfully employed and all
well paid. And the money spent on
them would be money spent on i'm
proving the United States. not thrown
away, useless debt Piled up.
And what we say about a standing
armv, democratic, self supporting.
making the country richer instead of
poorer, applies also to navy.
The United States Government
could and should own and onerate a
thousand great ships. In time of
neace their guns could be left ashore
They could carrv the freight of the
country, nav their expenses and at a
profit. The msn would be the
worlds best paid sailors in peace, best
fighting men in war.
In time of war and of submarine
or warship danger they could take on
their guns. A fleet of thousand