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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-03-07

girl.
MIR. and Mrs. George Davis visited
Morey last week, a fine 10 pound
at John McCormick's one day last
week.
Enos Henrickson is passing
through siege OF the measles
these days.
Little River farm occupied the past
year by Rolly Craig.
The little daughter of Clarence
and Eta Martin was operated upon
recently and is improving nicely.
Sidney Morey has been acting fol
Will Clampitt at the Pleasanton de-
pot while Mr.. Clampitt moved.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-03-07

are usually shrubs but soemtimes
they are small trees.
There is often much difficulty in
drawing the line between trees and
shrubs; many genera and species
appear in both forms. The Univers-
ity botanist declares that not one in
a thousand has anything like an ade
quate ability in the Identification of
trees.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-03-07

+. j. Sankey buys and sells land
on commission, makes farm loans ON
approved security at the best rates.
and does a general real estate bust.
ness: Has had 20 years experience
in the business. Office upstairs at
northwest corner of Main and Com.
mercial streets. Leon. Iowa.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-03-07

The Leon Electric COMPANY has
the finest display room in this parf of
the state for showing electric light
fixtures. The fixtures are beauties
and are priced very low. 1t would
pay you to see them
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-03-07
SOFT

The Osgood Lens Lights the Road
not the sky. Have us install a
pair on your car-use them one
week. If they are not worth more
than the price.say so, and we'll take
them OH. Auto Specially Co., call F
4. Wagner, Reporter Office.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-03-07
MORE LADIES' SHOES

At cut prices for Saturday morning We sold about
all we had out last week and this lot will in cheaper
shoes than Queen Qualitybut will be Of them in
cluded. You may depend upon values. You will want
them if you n Can't describe them all but will be
Ladies' Shoes from $15 to 1926 added to the bunch Of
Queen Quality, also at reduced prices These Ladies'
Shoes are mostly sizes 3 to Az, yet in all sizes
will be on the counter Saturday morning
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-03-07
MEMS SHOES

You may not realize it but you will if you to,
that are selling Of the best values in Mems
Shoes shown in the County especially in dependable
at clean up prices-some Boys Shoes counter sale
Saturday. Most all patent buttons at cut prices-will
nav Won to know
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-03-07

If you have any or our ice cream
packers at your home please tele-
phone us and we will call and sat
them Walker Ice Cream FACTORY
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-15
Other Forms of Relief

It is difficult to give any adequate picture of the
whole Red Cross program in France.
There is the whole vast program Of relief for
the refugees and repatries, for those driven be-
fore the invader, uprooted from their homes, and
for those returned to France and Belgium broken
and bent after being subject to the sway of the
German for the last few years.
There is the medical and surgical supply SER
vice which the Red Cross is giving to over three
thousand French military hospitals, the supplies
for the most part produced by American women
There is the Red Cross children's program Of
caring for needy and destitute children, the
reduction of infant mortality. There is the Red
Cross factory for the manufacture of artificial
limbs. There is the big program Of re-education
for the mutilated soldier to teach him means
of self-support with its accompanying benefit to
France.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-15
Checking tuberculosis

The Red Cross is conducting work against
tuberculosis in France which is unparalleled in
the history of the world. France has suffered ter
ribly from tuberculosis, brought on by so many
of her people living in dugouts and other un-
wholesome conditions Tuberculosis has devel-
oped in the trenches, too, and the troops are sent
back carrying the germs of this dread disease
In cooperation with the Rockefeller Founda-
ton, the Red Cross is conducting campaign Of
education the care and prevention of this
disease. Facilities have been provided to care
for bad cases in sanatoriums, and plan set up
which will lead to the establishment of great
system of 300 dispensaries throughout France
with visiting nurses attached
-Four hospitals for tubercular French soldiers
maintained entirely by the Red Cross At
Malabray there is a 135-acre farm in tempo
rary custody of the American Red Cross, where
q model village with accommodations for 400
families is being constructed.
The Red Cross is assisting the French medical
authorities in rebuilding and recognizing other
hospitals, and is aiding 96 French hospitals de-
voted to tuberculosis with supplies and funds
Ambrose Rendii, Vice-President Of the Paris
Municipal Council says of this work:
The Americans have fought the good fight
against tuberculosis because they have pursued
astrategic campaign against an enemy they know
and rightly fear. They have taken the neces-
sary measures. You know them well for prac-
teal people; they will not reproach if we say
this of them in the temple of their charity.
Il have seen the program of the social
wit he Ayoa oLa IN,
country in the name of the Red Cross. They
have drawn up marvellous program that
takes the child from his birth and even before
his BIRTH since the mother also is cared for, and
continues the effort all along the line of years.
Such is the plan and nothing finer has ever been
( conceived
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-15

home. They went back to the lines through the
same channels.
The Red Cross has changed this. In conjunc-
ton with the French Government, it is now feed
ing not giving drinks and sandwiches - but
giving hot meals to a million French soldiers
every month There great recreation halls.
where they sit and dine and make merry. There
are big barracks with hunks along the walls there
are shower baths and disinfecting machinery,
that the mems Clothes while they are bathing,
are run through and the vermin killed.
At first these French soldiers were so glad
that they did not use the hunks but sat and talked
and sang and wondered at what America
doing for them. A prominent French general
officer recently wrote to Major Murphy:
1.-THE only thing that matters in this is to
beat the Boche. and to accomplish this the all
important factor is the morale of the men. This
you have done much to uphold, and the atmos-
phere you create is more valuable than even you
can realize.
your work is that of maintaining the morale
of the Americans and the French and the Allies,
and I wish to thank you in our name and that of
General Petan Your canteens have been we'll
run and kept up to high standard. Let the men
know that they are being cared for not as men
only, but as friends that makes them prefer your
canteens to the wine shops The morale has
never been better than now. | need not tell you
feel strongly on this subject. and l am talking
to you as man to man. / am speaking not only
for myself but for General Petain. He feels
MS I do toward you and your work. and he en-
dorses every word / have said
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-15
/ The Canteen System

An extraordinary canteen service is being car
ried on with the French, with the Belgians, with
the italians, and with the British, by the Red
Cross abroad. There rolling canteens which
are operating right up in the trenches, where the
soldiers get hot drinks as they go in and when
they come out. These canteens are frequently
operated under shell fire and gas, the Red Cross
workers often working in gas masks.
Before the days of Red Cross help, French
soldier would come back from the trenches on
his seven days leave covered with vermin =
officers and all - and go to junction point for
cars to take them home Those junction points
are equipped for rs people, yet at times there
were 1000 people waiting, sometimes twenty
four, sometimes forty-eight hours. They slept
on the ground and they got what food they could
They brought home vermin which spread dis
among the civil population behind the lines,
and discouragng atmosphere born of the con-
ditions through which they passed on their way
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-15

lea had done nothing but lend money to Italy and
take back an obligation with interest attached.
There was then official organization that could
speak, but the American Red Cross spoke, and
she spoke that the work resulted in the display
of the American flag from one end of Italy to
the other.
Four days after war was declared by the
United States against Austria, the American
Red Cross Ambulance Service swung into the
Pave Line and took its place beside the brave
italians.
The Red Cross record in Roumania is one
which will never be forgotten by that unhappy
people. 1t was only when forced from the coun-
try by the capacity of Germany to compel a
humilating peace on Roumania that the Amer
lean Red Cross left that people to its woes.
The turn of affairs in Russia seriously affected
the Red Cross program in that country. but the
permanent portion of the Red Cross Commits
sion to Russia is still on hand ready to express
Americas sympathy and friendness in terms OF
fact when that distracted land is ready to receive
them.
In Great Britain the American Red Cross is
carrying on large work, and one which is hav-
ing an excellent effect The Red Cross is oper-
ating a number of hospitals, supporting num-.
Der of good works in Great Britain. in co-opera-
ton with the British Red Cross and the British
Government.
During the Fall of 1917 the American Red
Cross made gift to the British Red Cross of
million dollars At the time of the great German
attack against the British in March. 1918, gift
of an additional million dollars was made to the
British Red Cross to purchase hospital supplies
as evidence of Americas sympathy in the great
trial which Great Britain enduring.
As SO it is in Greece in Serbia, in Palestine,
wherever the ravages of war have gone, the
American Red Cross has gone helping armies
and peoples.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-15
Work in other Countries

What the Red Cross is doing for France she is
doing, too for the part of Belgium not held by
the Germans. and to very large degree for Italy.
The story of how the American Red Cross rushed
to the relief of Italy has already been told. At
the time of the italian disaster last fall propa-
ganda was under way in Italy to the effect that
America was not really in the war, as we had
were not well disposed toward Italy; that Amer
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-15

The plafnest dictates of humanity. as well as
that the American Red Cross, financed by the
iberality and spirit Of the American people.
should do all in its power to alleviate the suffer
ings and support the morale of the soldiers and
people who had been suffering so long in a strug-
gle for that liberty which is the foundation stone
Of our American Republic.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-15
Constructive Work

No other organization since the world began
has ever done such great constructive work with
the efficiency, the dispatch, understanding, often
under adverse circumstances, that has been done
in France by American Red Cross in the last
six months" GENERAL PERSHING.
What does General Pershing mean by ~construc-
tive work.? He means the share the Red Cross
has had in reuniting scattered families, he means
homeless children domiciled, bewildered refugees
collected and protected, old men and women and
babies received from behind the German lines
and sent to homes and hospitals, the terrible
tubercular scourge and other illnesses grappled
with. He means medical and surgical supplies,
nurses, hospitals ambulances and dispensaries,
artificial limbs and convalescent homes for the
sick French soldiers He means food, baths,
rest, recreation, comfort and cheer for the poilu
on leave
He means that the American Red Cross has
helped to sustain the courage the hope and the
patience Of our fighting allies, of the soldiers
themselves and the soldiers families Through
the Red Cross the armies and peoples of France
and Belgium and the other Allied countries have
come to realize that they have friends, and under
this touch their spirits have famed into a new
resolution to fight on and bear all
This is the fourth of series of five announce
ments covering the work of the Red Cross.
Red Cross Chapters have statements showing
in detail how the War Fund is being expended.
Ask your Chapter for these statements.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-15

On recent trip to America Major Murphy, formerly
Red Cross Commissioner for Europe, said:
This is a war of nations not of armies. There is
not man. woman child in Great Britain in Belgium,
in France in Italy that is not factor in this
/ tell you that if you should GO, have gone about
those ruined districts in France and had little
children four and five years DID, driving in the herds
at night had little boys coming down the road
little bits of tots-wth their arms full of fagots that
they accommodating against the winter; had seen
old men and old women working in the fields until it
was SO dark that you looked you could just make
out those vague forms gathering the crops for France
you would realize what this is what this means
1T is not the armies of France that are the essential
thing France in this war; nor the armies Of England
nor of the other countries Those armies will do their
part and do it to fnish if they supported by the
people behind them
1.-The great crying need in Europe to-day is to build
up the spirit and keep up the spirit of the people
behind the lines and it is that great work which the
Red Cross has performed and which has been up to
the recent entrance of our Army large scale, the
greatest single factor of help France since our
entry into the war;"
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1918-04-20

various languages. and posted in the
school centers and questions are en-
couraged and answered.
The University Of Wisconsin 7. w.
c. A. social service committee is con-
Quoting Big Sister movement among
Italian children. and works with a
neighborhood house in the Jewish
quarter. The Collegiate Alumnae as
ISOLATION Of Minneapolis, MIMI. has a
national aid committee which supplies
volunteers to teach English to foreign
soldiers and civilians.
Miss Edith Bennett, head of the Chi
cagO Collegiate Alumnae Bureau Of Oc-
equations, reports many calls in the
fall for secretaries and translaters
with knowledge Of French and Span
ish. Swarthmore classes In elementary
German have shrunk this year, while
Spanish has won q sudden popularity.
the classes having tripled In enroll
ment.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1918-04-20
Ugh! Ca|omeI Sickens;; Sa|ivates!
Please Try Dodson's Liver Tone
I am sincere! My medicine does not upset liver
and bowels so you lose days work.

full will clean your sluggish liver bet.
ter than a dose of nasty calonel and
that it won't make you sick.
Dodson's Liver Tone is real liver
medicine. You'll know it next morn
ing because you will wake up feeling
fine, your liver will be working, your
headache and dizziness gone, your
stomach will be sweet and your bowels
regular. You will feel like working.
you'll be cheerful; full of vigor and
ambition.
DodsOn's Liver Tone IS entirelv
vegetable, therefore harmless and can
not salivate. Give it to your children.
Millions of people are using Dodson's
Liver Tone instead of dangerous Gallo
mel now. Your druggist will tell you
that the sale of calomel is almost
stopped entirely here.-Adv.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1918-04-20
SHOWS GERMAN
AS HE REALLY is

dreadful foot. She has stopped at
nothing. British officers told me OF
seeing their wounded piled in heaps
and hand grenades thrown in the
midst and exploded to kill them while
they lay there.
British officers have told me Of
the men being taken as prisoners
through Germany and German women
coming and Offering them a glass Of
water and splitting in It as they
handed 1t to them. / came back
across the water with a prominent
British officer and statesman. He told
me Of a friend Of his who lay wound
ed and suffering horribly in front Of
the German trenches. He lay there
for day and a half or two days, and
the Germans came out at night. stood
around him and scoffed at him and
kicked him and made fun Of him, and
then went away and left him, and
when some Of his own people went
out at the risk Of their lives and
brought him in before he died he told
them Of these things.
Did you think that the men In
that British regiment would be will
ing to make a half peace with Ger
many7 Do you think that the Cana
dams who went In the trenches and
found their officers crucified-whether
those men will make half peace with
Germany tell you 1t Is only a
short time before our boys who are
over there now are going to be SUI
fering those same things, and you
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1918-04-20
REAL FIGHTING WHEN j. S. Starts

Chicago.-'The Germans must strike
now or never" wrote Maj. George W.
Macleod, second In command Of the
Forty-ninth Canadian battalion. and
one Of the veterans Of the hardest
fighting the Canadians have seen 10
France. In a letter to Capt. A. wal
lace Owen Of the British Canadian re-
cruiting mission in this city. Captain
Owen IL attached to the Forty-ninth
battalion.
"All we can do is to soy, Let the bat
tie commence the letter continues.
Every one is anticipating big Ger
man offensive either against ourselves
or the French. There never has been
such close cooperation as exists at the
present time between ourselves and the
French, and II the Boche starts any
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1918-04-20

You're bilious! Your liver is slug
gish! You feel lazy, dizzy and all
knocked out. Your head Is dull, your
tongue is coated; breath bad; stomach
sour and bowels constipated. But
don't take salivating calomel. 1t makes
you sick; you may lose days work.
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver.
which causes necrosis Of the bones.
CalOmel crashes into sour bile like
dynamite, breaking 1t up. That's when
you feel that awful nausea and cramp-
ing.
If you want to enjoy the incest, gen.
tlest liver and bowel cleansing you
ever experienced just take a spoonful
of harmless Dodson's Liver Tone to-
night. Your druggist or dealer sells
you a bottle Of DOdson's Liver Tone
for few cents under my personal
money-back guarantee that each spoon
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1918-04-20

thing he may get the surprise Of his
life.
Every one is very much pleased
with the Americans over here. They
are splendid looking lot Of officers
and men, and their manners and atti-
tude leave nothing to be desired. Once
they start In think that the Germans
Will have some real fighting to handle.
"One is gradually beginning to real
lie the meaning Of the expression a
war OF attrition.' With the enormous
slaughter which has been in progress
Tor over three years the Germans and
ourselves are beginning to show the
strain. We see 1t in the type Of off,
GERS and men as regards physique.
Our training possibly counteracts to
certain extent this loss Of physique,
but would not care to see the aver
age unit Of today placed alongside its
former self. Similarly with the rest
OF the belligerents. It Is at this juno
ture that the Americans arrive, and
one is Immediately struck with their
appearance. The first million men
from the United States army should
nearly be able to finish the war pro-
vided they are not used in driblets.
Given q completely new army. say Of
two full corps, or possibly three, in the
spring and the end Of the war should
be not long postponed.
German Tactics Simple.
II do not think that we are at the
last ditch BY any means. We have
been in tight corners before, and will
no doubt sweep our way out of the
present one. "A German offensive put
on simultaneously against the French
and ourselves at the present time
would. however, make It fairly stiff
going.
II doubt, however, II the German is
really sufficiently strong to do this:
l. e., two determined sustained often
sives. That he viii use diversive tao
tics is probable. He must finish the
job this winter, or he never will, and
al we can do Is to meet the blow when
it comes, or, possibly anticipate that
blow by one Of our own. The German
grand strategy has never been any
thing but simple. His tactics are diff
ferent His strategy has been simply
to wear down the forces opposed to
him until stage Is reached when he
can attack"
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1918-04-20
WORK AMONG ALIENS
College Women Training for
Americanization Campaign.
Opportunity for splepdld Service BY
Those Having knowledge Of
Foreign Languages.

washington.-The knowledge Of for
eign languages which before the war
seemed almost superfluous equipment
and Of little practical use except as
finishing touch to an education Of cul-
ture, Is now being appreciated BY the
demand for volunteers TO work with
aliens, and spread the ideal Of Ameri-
canixation. One ut the four war
courses at vassar college. Poughkeep-
sie. N. T.. IL training for work with
aliens" taken By those WIN. have con-
voEuotiooal command q Z modern Ian
enasa. This course Win At young WON
- o. woEk 8 cen1og1hin translation.
- edncae1eo u a1jons and other social
wo6k ~ oeAoA With. alien supervision.
yopnG col U1en IN Ceve3and
- GiytRessleqDaos - educating ,Soc.
el1n6ga War 6ees y printed daily n
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1918-04-20

have got to understand 1t here. ana
YOU have got to build and build and
sacrifice, no matter what 1t costs, to
beat that beast.
A War Of Nations.
"This war is not a war Of armies.
It is q war Of nations. There isn't a
man, q woman or child In Great
Britain, in Belgium, in France or IN
Italy that is not a factor In this war.
I tell you that II you should 60. as l
have gone, about those ruined dis
tricts in France and see the little
children, little bits Of tots, four and
FIVE years old, driving In the herds
at night, seeing the little boys COM
ing down the road-little bits OF tots
with their arms full Of faggots that
they we're accommodating against the
winter: old men and old women work
ing in the fields until 1t was so dark
that, as you looked, you could just
make out those vague ghostly forms
gathering in the CROPS for France.
II have passed through those towns
and looked in the windows at night,
where you could see little here and
there, and they were always working,
working. working. to carry on this
war. It is not the armies Of France
that are the essential thing to France
in this war. nor the armies Of Eng
land, nor the other countries. Those
armies will do their part, and do 1t
to q finish. II they are supported by
the people behind. and the great cry
ing need in Europe today is to build
up the spirit and keep up the spirit
Of the people behind the lines, and 1t
is that great work in which the Red
Cross-thanks not to us on the other
side. but to you on this side-have
performed and become the largest
known single factor since our entry
into the war;"