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The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-11-02
IHE PALATKA NEWS pA1.rK, u,

, tey perlShed Dead girls with breasts cut of-and
m III" reason: every German soldier is examined for svph
' oF he surgeon of the regiment and onv heathv onas
OTe Ihe card giving access to the camp women IF the
SPIlC German contaminates the camp woman his dis
~ Haoed on to his brother soldier and that means
H. W." W." "g Shot rms Syphlitic soldier therefore finds
m o chance with the captured French girls but having
oo"Iled girl he fears that she in turn will contami-
@ lG next German soldier and therefore, he multilates
ueI DoN TO warn away Germans. The girls life weighs
onhg against German soldiers lust or the nossibitv
J the 0rute* handing his contamination to the next SOL
, mere Is German efficiency for you-and organized by
Ie @ Ue'" hmSeli lake these pages found in the dares
m German soldiers August %; note book of Private Max
y T0iS Our soldiers excited we are like wild beasts
Today destroyed eight houses with their inmates Raw
eleo two men with their wives and girl of 49, The lit
ne one almost umerVed me- so innocent was her exDres-
SION Dairy Of Eiel Andcrs: "n Vendre all the inhab-
,lS; ] "nout exception were brought out and shot This
shooting was hearbreaking they all knelt down and
Watch."
"At Iiaech saw the dead body of Young cir: nailed
10 ine OUTSIDE door OF cottage by her hands She was
''ou "A OF l6 years old Page 81 Affdavits H-67.
IN returning from Malnes eight drunken soldiers were
marching through the street. little child of two years
came out and soldier skewered the child on his bayonet
ana carried it away, while his comrades sang. D. 1O-45
withdrawing from Hofstade, in addition to other
&foGIueS the Germans cut off both hands of boy of 16
Al le inquest ahdaVitS taken from 25 witnesses who
saw the boy before he died or Just afterwards
Passing through FIaecht, in addition to the young
women whom they violated and killed affdavits were taken
"Nd the photographs of child three vpars old nailed to
foor by its hands and feet. Affdavits D. 1908
That all these atrocities carefully planned in ad-
vance TOR teworng the people is proven by the fact that
on the morning of August 25 the officers who had received
great kindness from Madame Romans, a notarys wife,
warned her to make her immediately as the loot
ng and killing Of all the citizens men, women and chill
dren, was about to begin
These records could be multiplied by Thousands Upon
the retreat from city alone nQuests held upon
the bodies of over 500 Victims including aged
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-11-02
= = y n y
WHEN FIGHTING BOB"
JOINED THE CHURCH.
(Tampa Times.)
f. **+***+ + + + j. !. !
(Tanpa Times.)

Hypocrisy and self-righteousness,
which are most strongly entrenched
in small minds, are the most brutal
of all sins-are responsible for all the
religious persecution recorded in his
tory. Just allow man or woman
who is afflicted with an intellect that
would not tax the Uranium of a gnat
to imagine that he or she is deeply re-
ligious, and it is good night for the
man or woman Of different type who
allows the criticisms of such as these
to get to them
When "Fighting Bob" Fitzsimmons,
once champion heavyweight pugilist of
the world, who died at Chicago last
Monday, joined little Baptist church
in Los Angeles a laugh went up
throughout the nation-a sneer from
millions of the holier- -than-thou brig
ade who did not believe pugilist
could be a Christian. The fact that
old Fitz he'd fought every game on the
level didn't count with these people,
nor did it count much with members
of the sporting fraternity; and the
nriZe-fighters' renunciation of the old
life for the new was undoubtedly the
hardest hattie of his career.
at took courage to face the con-
tomrtuous laugh, the sneer, the doubt
rTst uron his sincerity when the big
"thleta submitted to BAPTISM" said
Rov. Parl P0dcr, in paying . funeral
tribute to Fitzsimmons. "His bap-
t'rm wos symbol of the casting off
oC the old man for the new. All the
world desrises = ouitter; all the world
0dNriroS 4 hero"
Pador. who was noted athlete be-
va ho horHme minister. knew what
Hi+7eimmons had gone THROUGH, which
'F inSt what many ard-strurgli~g
Christians Of various professions, par
tjcularIv the theatrical. have gone
THROUGH. Old John Sullivan. who nav-
%" FOUGHT oNe"shadv" fight in his life.
'v"' """"'"d even harder when he an
rc"nrod th"t he would walk in the
"r'""i~ht ond narrow wav." one re-
N'-" ~onoivod being from Gen. Nelson
\ Miles. Who rs = soldier rorkod as a
tcNth r"te" comparcd 10 Sullivan's
rank y nu"ilist, but who refused 70
anpaar on nlatforr1 with the great
est and sou9rest of oil nuoilistic cham
pions in advocacy Of prohibition.
One Of the best signs Of the times
is found in the fact that chean hv-
rocrisy is DIVING. and as it dies the
"hrotherhoOd Of man" looms on the
horizon as the reality that it is.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-11-02
The Muck Lands of FlOrahOme.


Editor Palatka News:
I spent last week at Florahome.
Perhaps your faraway readers would
like to know how it looks? By look
ing over some fields that from dry
weather were failures Il had five
acres myself and seeing what is be-
ing raised ih these, together with
several thousand acres now in shape
to raise crops eaqual to the best, it
brings the outlook up to the eXpec
tetions Of the average farmer.
The dredge is nearing the outlet,
and as it is by far the most diff
cult digging on the whole line its pro-
gress is slow, but it is getting there.
The management that has carried
the great work so successfully thus
fer and kept within their means, is
equal to the emergency.
A party of Palatkans visited these
lands when the work was first pro
iected, and predicted that they would
be cheap at $3.50 per acre if drained.
The south prairie is drained and it
is only a matter of months when the
same can be said of the north pr2i-
rie.
As | walked through the corn fields
where the ears were as high as /
could reach. it called to mind the
prediction made by Major Wright be-
fore the County Commits ~sioners: eff
those lands were drained and planted
to corn, it would require string
of cars reaching from Florahome to
Palatka to hold the crop"
The cost Of fencing is prevent
ing farm operations and a great fl
rancial loss it is, at this time, when
! the world needs all it can get 50
badly. A great impetus could be
given to greater food production by
the enactment Of 2 "No Ferce" low.
! A ma ioritv Of the people 7 tolE with
seem to favor it. The stock i"to~-
ests would also he benefited bv it.
1t would go further toward cr2dic0-
ting tick ard hoe cholora. TIE ere t..
est enemies Of the stock interests
than any move that could ba ma1n.
The Improvement in stock will he
| limited until each owner cq~oc fer
I MS own. Losses WDTit 'ipfFP'>P '''.tl
the aggregate value increase.
Stock looks well ard there Is 9n
abundance of feed. W7tar in the CO.
nnl is about two feet deep and runs
more ranid. Some fields Of c~tto~
h.ve been very fine. while others
hove suffered from rust and boil we
vii.
Tho sale Of string heqns is bring
mo in big money to the growers. and
is likely to continue until frost. Be
inc drlled between the corn rows
ard nothing more done to them till
nicliing time. makes profitable crop.
Potatoes cannot he planted early 9s
on high lands believe they will
he profitable in supplying the later
demand.
The productiveness of our soils de-
pends more largely upon the humas
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-11-02

If American women fail to do their
part in this war, it will be their first
failure. President wilson says the
most vital part they can play is to
enroll as members of the Food Ad-
and "cheerfully accept
its direction and advice"
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-11-02
pfnarl Atrocities In
Belgium and France.
pv Rev. DR.. Newell Dwight Hills.

Dr. Newell Dwight Hiis one Of A"erc"s foremost minister's
4ior Of the batefeds of France and Belgium from which
hor expelled in order to learn for himself the exact crl
70 find out whether all of the reports Of German atroG
by this personal study Since his return he has been
If sermons and addresses the subject speaking ry
bs own church in regard to the world and thus setting
other American ministers that they may lead their mem
,r realization of what this against cyIfza
L christianity as well against Democracy We publish
1 s one Of his more recent addresses, followsD
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-08-16

right of self government to women
folks are hsing foothold in every coun-
try in the civilized world. In England,
Russia, Canada, Denmark, Norway,
Iceland. Finland. Australia. New Tea.
land, women have the right Of self gov
eminent.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-08-16
"Woman Suffrage Very Largely
a War Question:"

Women Of the United States want
to be enfranchised NOW" says the Ma
tional American Woman Suffrage asso-
citation. '"Other countries at war are
giving women the ballot as a meas
ure Of justice in wartime. II mon
arches can give women the ballot the
greatest democracy in the world can
not afford not to do So"
Five Canadian provinces and Great
Britain and Russia went into the
war opposing votes for women. Their
statesmen nov acknowledge that war
itself demands the enfranchisement Of
women. Having taken our women
into partnership with us in our ire
mendous task" said Premier Hearst
Of Ontario, Canada, Il feel that we
should give them a greater part in pub
lie affairs and the greater service that
ballots afford"
The premier of Great Britain, Lloyd
George. has frankly stated that 1.-The
woman question has become very large
ly a war measure"
"Frenchwomen," acknowledged M.
Etienne Flandin Of the French cham
Der Of deputies, have been the back
bone of the national defense. They
should have the right to vote"
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-08-16

~Sufragists Of the National American
Woman Suffrage association who have
raised themselves to be soldiers are
putting out one Of the most effective
of war buttons. It is a vivid Erin
green cross on a white background.
Above it are the words Soldiers of
the Soil and below it the initials IN.
A. w. S. A." for National American
Woman Suffrage Association.
The green cross button is advocated
by the national chairmen of suffrage
agriculture and suffrage thrift, Mrs.
Henry Wade Rogers of New York and
Mrs. Walter McNab Miller of Missouri,
who are in charge of the departments
of food production and food conserva.
ton Of the suffrage association. Their
committees report suffrage work along
these lines in more than thirty states.
The buttons may be worn by all of
the 2,OOO,OO women of the association
working to raise or conserve food for
winter use.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, president
OF the association, qualified as a SOL
der Of the soil" by putting up many
cans Of food Tor winter use.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-08-16
100000 Women Want the Fed,
eraI Suffrage Amend
ment Passed


The National American Woman Suf-
frage Association, which is composed
of 90 per cent. Of the organized suf-
fragists of the United States, is ask
Ing for the passage of the fed
eral woman suffrage amendment as
a war measure. The association con
prises 100000 women representing
all the states in the Union. 1t has
worked for the passage Of the federal
suffrage amendment since 1869 and has
gone before every Congress to plead the
political rights Of women from that
day to this. 1t makes the claim that
every grant of suffrage to the women
Of this country has been the result Of
it's hah century Of labor.
Its work has been constructive, law
abiding and ~nonpartfsan from it's BE-
ginning. 1t is officially on record as
opposed to all militant methods, such
as the pfcketing Of the White House.
Woman suffrage is coming" accord
ing to Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, the
associations president. 1T is unthink-
able that the greatest republic on the
earth can continue to refuse self gov
eminent TO half her people when autoc-
racies are doomed overseas. Then why
wait? Shall the country which orig
mated the idea that just governments
derive their consent from those gov
erned' be the last world power to make
good on its own declaration?
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-08-16
THE GREEN CROSS,

Oh, sisters dear, and
did you hear
The news that's 60
ing round
OF the bright green
g t h q q
being worn
BY tillers of the
ground?
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-08-16

When the news reached the National
American Woman Suffrage association
that a movement was on foot in Con-
gress to repeal the federal child labor
law this prompt response went forth
from Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, pres
ident Of the association:
There has been no greater crime
committed during the war and there
will not be any greater crime than
would be the repeal Of the national
child labor law. It required a genera
ton of time and effort to secure it,
and its repeal would mean the sacrifice
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-08-16

OF another generation-the children
whom the enemies of that law are ~
ing in wait to exploit"
Woman suffrage territory to one
where child welfare is regarded. In
72.7 per cent. Of the eleven full suffrage
states there are good child labor laws;
IN 100 per cent. there are laws for com-
pulsory %education; in 80 per cent there
are mothers pension laws; in 63.6 per
cent, minimum wage laws, and in
500 per cent. there are equal guardian
ship laws giving mothers the same
right as fathers over the welfare Of
their children
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-08-16
FARMERS AS BANKERS

) Farm Loans and City Loans
s per cent paid on Savings Ac-
counts. 6 per cent On Time Certift-
Gates. Does general banking by mail.
The Minot Farmers Central Bank
The Savings Loan & Trust Co.
Farmers Rest Room, Nhet, n. D.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-08-16
Suffragists Adopt Congressman.

Mrs. Helen Gardener of Washington
began 1t. She is 4 we'll known suffra-
gist and writes. Having an idea
that the best interests Of United
States congressman for 4 suffrage
education should be looked after, she
subscribed for copies of the Woman
Citizen. the Official organ of the Ma
tf0nal American Woman Suffrage AS
ISOLATION, to be sent to several of them
in order ito better their condition"
Suffrage organizations have caught
fire from Mrs. Gardeners example.
The New York State Woman Suffrage
Party has adopted" the entire con-
gressional representation Of the En-
pire State, forty-three representatives
and two senators.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-08-16
Uncle Sam and Democracy

Uncle Sam is off to the world war to
help make the world safe for democ-
racy." But, alas, that battered old
crown Of his is a hundred years behind
the. times. The world has come into an
understanding Of democracy so broad
that men folks who try to deny the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31
Forty Americans
Prisoners of War
In German Camp
Men Taken from British
Ship by Moewe-St. Theo-
dore Sunk After Raiding

Copenhagen, March 80. More than
forty Americans from the British ship
Esmeraldas. which was captured by the
German raider Moewe. are now held
prisoner in Germany in situation SIM
liar TO that Of the men of the Yarrow-
dale before their recent release, ac-
cording to Jack Benson. an American
sailor. who to-day reached this city.
However &c the YSrrowdsle men
we're heid in Germany under various
uretexts. such as the sanitary condl-
tion Of their internment camp. Ben
son says that the men from the Es-
meraldas are regarded as prisoners Of
war.
Benson declares that nearly all OF
the Americans were horsemen aboard
the Esmeraldss. which was transport
ing cavalry mounts FOR the British
army.
The only exception whom Benson was
able 10 mention was an American named
Smith. who was aboard the British
armed merchantmen Breeknoekshire.
The Americans captured, together with
ne British crews. at last accounts
were in a prison camp in Westphalia.
having been taken from the Moewe
three days after her arrival at Kiel.
Benson owes his release to the fact
that he was serving on the unsrmed
Norwegian bark Stsut, and not on an
armed beligerent merchantmen.
Benson shipped on the Staut at Nor
folk. Va. for VOYAGE 10 the South
Georgia Islands with coal and provi-
sions for the whaling feet. the Staut
was returning TO Queenstown With
vhale oil when she ran into the 81.
Theodore. a British steamer. which had
boen captured and armed and equipped
as an auxiliary cruiser.
The st. Theodore, after making an
irdepeudent cruise in which she capt
tred and destroyed the Staut. reJoined
The Noewe February II and was sunk
the following night, after having been
s.ripped OF all her copper, brass and
other metal fittings.
The Mocwe. which had been operat-
ing we'll % the south of the equator.
.bon headed northward and destroyed
seven more steamers. two OF which re-
sisted stoutly. The Moeve passed the
Sksggerak ard through the sound dis
ot.iecd as a Swedish freighter and ar
wed AZ Kiel March %.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31
War Party Is Satisfied
with Outline Read
at Meeting
z
Many Still Fear
A Middle Course
Congress in Mood To Be
Led, but Not Likely to
Take Initiative
By STEVENSON H. EVANS

Washington. March 30.-The war
party in the Cabinet is full of faith
tonight that when the President
goes before Congress next Tuesday
or Wednesday it will be to deliver
war message strong, aggressive and
to the point
The full text Of the message which
the President has prepared was not
read 70 the Cabinet at the regular
meeting this afternoon. A complete
outline. however, was delivered, and
"entire satisfaction" was expressed
by all the Cabinet officers.
1t is undoubtedly the desire OF the
Administration, Judging by the fire.
euent lifts Of the veil Of secrecy and
the positive statements made by men
in high quarters, that the impression
now go to the country and to Con-
gress. nearly all the members OF
which are now here, of an Admins
tration determined upon warlike
action.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31

better what to do. although we know
the good will that inspires this advice.
DR.. Gustav Stresemann said: -
declaration of war by America Will be
possible only because American pubic
opinion has been misled. New tunes
demand new laws. and a beginning
should be made with a new system IN
Germany he asserted.
Count Won Westarp Aaid: Many De-
leve that with Russia's entrance into
the ranks Of democratically ruled
states Germany will have to follow.
All arguments. however, are against
comparison of our country with enemy
countries. Germany has shown su-
reriority over all enemies which proves
that the foundation OF our state sys-
tenn is secure.
Dr.. Eduard Davis. Socialist leader,
after expressing the hope that the
reace movement in Russia would sue
eeed. said:
"That prince is strong who cap rely
on the majority of mis- people. Inc
Chancellor spoke of a monarchy rooted
in the peoule' il really IS social
kingdom in the sense OF that o. Fred
erick II and has our support. A people
demands to be trusted by its king
To Examine Constitution
After this debate the Reiehstag. by
vote of 227 20 33, adopted resolution
OF the National Liberals appointing
committee OF twenty eight to examine
constitutional questions, especially as
TO the composition of the Reichstag
and its relation TO the government.
The Munich post" in an editorial,
says:
an the last fortnight the world has
become quite another place, through
Russia going over to democracy and
the United States entering the hsts
against US. Germany now stands
against an alliance Of world democracy,
and the people of the world are per
suaded and are daily becoming con-
vinced that the triumph of the freedom
Of the world is impossible as long as
Germany remains what it IS.
The Hague corresondent Of The Lon
don Chronicle" says the German re
form movement is championed by the
whole progressive press as an impor-
taut factor which is going 10 play q
great part during the remainder Of 70
war. and adds: The reactionarles VIII
doubtlessly put up fight. and there
are hints that General Won Ludendorf
may be used as their champion against
Won Bethmann- Hollwcg who is accused
Of vaciilation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31
Raider Sinks Many
Ships Off Trinidad
French Bark Reaches Rio de
!anciro with 200 Survivors

RIO dc Janciro. March 5o.-The
French bark Cambronne has arrived
here with 200 men of the crews OF
various steamers and sailing ships sunk
bv = German raider of The island o.
Trinidad. They rerortcd that many
sailor, from the sunkcn vessels we're
drowned.
The rescued sailors. who arc French
English and Italian, report that the
raider IS an armed sailing ship with
gasolenc motor They say the raider
showed the Norwegian flag and when it
sighted a ship signslled il TO approach.
As soon as the ship obeyed the signal
the raider hoisted the German flag and
opened FIRE
The firing was continued until the
crews surrendered. Then the raider
would take the sailors aboard and sink
the ship7.
The French bark Cambronne. of I .s63
gross tons. was last reported as sail
ing from AutofsRssta, Chilli. on De-
cember 26 for Brest. France. While
the Mocwe was marauding in the South
Atlantic she fitted out several of her
prizes as subsidiary raiders. IL is near
iy 5000 miles from Trinidad to Rio
de Janeiro.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31
An Army To Be
Imagined

No one knows how this army shall
he raised. whether by enlistment or
by conscriptiOn. A law enacting uni
versal military service can be had
from Congress for the asking. No
one knows whether the President will
ask it. Senator Chamberlain, chair
man of the Senate Committee on
Military Affairs. sought to interest
the President on Thursday in Cniver-
sal military training, without re-
Spouse. The session is a few days
off. A declaration Of war or its
equivalent is few days off, yet Sen
ator Chamberlain has not been told
what the Administration wants in
the way Of military legislation or
army appropriations. He has nov
been consulted. He sought and OBJ
tanned Thursdays interviews, appar-
emily without result.
So much for plans; now for act
ualities. The country has neither
men nor guns nor ammunition. lt
has walked right up to the day OF
war without an army-we have a
mere handful of men-and without
guns or powder and shell. Neither
trained men nor guns can be lmpro-
vised. A supply of ammunition can
he created much more quickly, thanks
70 the situation the war purchases
Of the Allies have created in this
country. II takes France a year 10
train its men. IL will take many
months. a year or more. TO arm any
considerable body Of troops raised in
this country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31
Not One Fully
Equipped Brigade

Even if we should send a small
body Of troops to France or Belgium
they would have to be supplied by
the Allies with all the modern arms
which this war has developed. They
would have no heavy field artillery,
no military airplanes, little or no
field signalling apparatus for night
work, no trench mortars, a negligible
quantity Of bombs or hand grenades.
We couldn't put even brigade In
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31
Omaha Tells President
The West Wants Action

Omaha. March 30.-The follow ing te.-
egram. signed by the Mayor Of Omaha,
the presidents of all the national banks
there, the presidents OF the Omaha
Grain Exchange, the Commercial Club.
the Rotary Club. the Omaha Club. and
the secretary of the Associated Retail
ers Of Omaha. was sent to President
Wilson to-day:
The people of this community and
Of the West generally. as we believe,
do not favor a policy OF nsction in the
urosent crisis They believe that our
government should recognize officially
The situation as il really exist. They
VIII support you in your every effort
10 see that the honor and dignity o.
this nation are upheld