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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-01-16
HERE'S A HOG STORY.
That Will Hold Most Swine Growers
Says Greater Iowa.

Outside of breeders of pedigree
stock swine growers do not keep
breeding sows very long. Two or
three filters AID the matrons are
fattened and hustled along to the
coolers of the packers. In England,
we have been told, it is customary
to keep the tried and proven brood
sows as long as they remain produc.
tive, and some of them live to ripe
old age and pass away full of years
and usefulness.
Some years ago Tao Hussey, of Dcs
Moines, heard stories of long-lved
sows across the Atlantic and lmme-
diately bestirred himself TO .roye
that this country could beat England
or any other seaport on any KIND of
proposition that could be named
even to the age of brood sows.
Through a friend he had heard Of an
extraordinary porcine matron down
in sunny Tennessee that had gained a
considerable reputation as practical
exponent of Rooseveltia1 theories
and ideas along the line of race sal.
eide. He wrote to the owner of this
wonderful SOW and here is copy OF
the letter he received in reply:
Lynchburg, Tenn, 1908.
Tacitus Hussey, Des Moines.
Dear Sir: Your letter of inquiry
about our old, historic SOW, duly re-
ceived. Her story is this: In 1865
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-01-16
BACKACHE is DISCOURAGING.
But Not So Bad III You Know How to
Reach the Cause.

Nothing more discouraging than a
constant backache. Lame when you
awaken, pains pierce you when you
bend or lift. It's hard to work or to
rest. Backache often indicates bad
kidneys. DEBORAH people recommend
Doan's Kidney Pills. Read this case:
Mrs. ID. B. futile, 500 w. Main St.,
DEBORAH, says: II can hardly des-
cribe the misery l endured from
backache. l had a cOntant dull ache in
the small of my back and when /
it seemed as though my back
were broken in two. ! felt worn out
and often got up in the morning feel
ing more tired than when | went to
bed. / had pains in the back OF my
head and dizzy spells when every
thing seemed in a whirl. l used four
boxes of Doan's Kidney Pills and they
gave me entire relief"
Price COO at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. futile had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-01-16
Burning Church lnterferes With
First "Lightless'' Night.

Grundy Center's first dark night
was not a success as the Baptist
church fire gave light to the whole
country for miles around So light
was it that as far away as the H. H.
Bowen place, Dirk Bowen was able
to put gasoline into his car by the
light reflected from the fire. Farmers
living nearer were able to hitch up
teams by the light of the fire and had
no trouble at all about seeing the
road to town, SO light was it. The
fire was plainly visible at Wells
burg and in neighboring towns. Much
of the wide spreading of the light
was due to the fact that the fame
was so high in the air, also there
was heavy fog bank which acted as
a reflector and diffused the light far
AID wide. People living over half a
mile from the fire here in town said
IL was possible to read a newspaper
from the light of the fire.-Grundy
Center Republican.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-01-16
NO ALIENS LIABLE TO ARMY
SERVICE.
NeutraIs Who Have Taken Out First
Papers May be Released Upon
Request.

Washington, d. c., Jan. 14,-Citi-
zens or subjects of European neutral
countries, regardless of whether they
have taken out first papers for Amer
lean citizenship, will be freed from Ii
ability to military service in the
United States as far as first paper
declaraats are concerned. Regarding
Holland the principal is that Of reci-
procity, Americans in Holland not be-
ing subject to service in the Dutch
army.
The war departments attitude is
that the burden of finding the aliens
who have been drafted is on the
ministers. The draft law, according to
the army Interpretation, gives no al
tentative and being of subsequent
passage to the Swiss treaty the law
compels the registration of aliens.
Permitted to Service.
Only when by the actual calling
of man to service the matter Is
taken from the civil jurisdiction and
placed il the army's hands does it
become a subject for executive &C
ton. The authorities have decided
that the subjects of neutral countries
who by their silence or by their e.
pressed wish indicate their willing
ness to fight for the United States
may serve in the army.
The Swiss minister, therefore has
issued a request to citizens OF his
country who are subject to draft to
communicate with the legation at
once.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-01-16
Bean in Mans Ear Al Years.

FOrty-one years ago when Joe
Forkan of Pendleton, Oregon, was
a small boy, he and his brother
amused each other by poking little
navy beans down each others ears.
During recent years Joe has been
growing deaf in one ear, and finally
could not hear at all. He consulted a
physician, who made an examination
Of the defective ear aid removed a
bean embedded in wax. The wax had
collected around the bean during the
years until the auditory canal had
become completely closed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-01-16

my father bought this SOW from a
Kentucky stock drover. He kept her
until his death in 1890, and 1 became
her owner until she died il the fall
of 1900. She was a big-boned Berk-
shire, black, with a few white spots.
To say that she was hardy and fine
breeder only expresses the truth in a
mild form. Her progeny were two
filters a year and three filters each
alternate year, ten pigs at each lit
ter. She was productive at this rate
until she died, this gave us eight
hundred and fifty pigs, which is no
exaggeration. Averaging the hogs at
800 pounds each would be 255, 900
pounds of pork, which at 81 a hun
dred would be $4,000. (Reader can
figure this at present prices if he
wish). She died in the year 1900 at
the age of thirty-six years. She was
buried with honor on the home
farm and her resting place is hCIored
VITA a marker which reads.
Born 1854 Died 1900.
In memory of Black Betty, aged
thirty six years, which brought into
this pork-lovi1g world, Turing her
strenuous life, $50 children, aggre-
eating 255,OOO pounds Of pork, val
ued in markets of the world at S10,-
200, this Memorial Stone is erected
Can you beat it!
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-01-16
Student Held for Serious Ofense

Byron Benson, young man. VINO
has been attending the Seminary and
whose home is in Kansas, is in the
Jail awaiting probable action by the
grand jury. He is charged with a
heineous crime against local 6-year-
old girl, and it is said he has commit
ted offenses before. The young mans
conduct has been great surprise to
those who knew him. He was indus
trious and ambitious, working around
town to earn his way through school,
and seemed a very model young man
until his recent act disclosed his
weakness. Press.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-01-16

Try Our Want Column.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-01-16
Farmers Wife Hangs Self.

Waterloo. Jan. 14.-Fear that she
would have to testify against her hus-
band after having him arrested for
mistreating a horse is believed to
have led to the suicide of Mrs. Merle
Young, aged 20, a farmers wife,
whose lifeless body was found hang
ing in barn at her home here last
night.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20
GERMANY'S LAST Blow THE COMING ATTA(

when the United States is at last ready.
Now, the next question is, patiently:
Where on the French front will the Ger
mans attack? Either in Champagne or
in Lorraine, the majority of observers be-
licve; possibly in both places Rheims and
Nancy are the two objectives most gen.
orally suggested, not as ultimate but as
immediate objectives. That the Germans
will attack west of the Disc, where the
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20

Now, the French position about verdun
is such that were the Germans able to
break through tho French line both west
and east of the Meuse stronghold great
and disastrous retreat would follow. A
double success both in the dusty" Cham
pagne and, say, about St. Mihiel would
compel the French to retire from the
Meuse and breach the whole wall of nat
ural defences from Verdun southwark.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20

British will probably take over French po-
sitions, if they have not done so already, is
improbable. That they will attack the
Chemin-des-Dam front, where the
French have all the high ground, is un-
likely, when it is recalled how desperate
was the German resistance there for more
than three years.
In the same fashion we may rule out the
front from the western end of the Ar
gonne to the southern defences of Verdun.
Germany has tested these defences in two
great attacks, in the Argonne in 1914 and
1915 and about Verdun in 1916, and the
French have been able to retain or regain
all the vital POSITIONS In the same fash
ion we may rule out the Vosges front,
which offers too great natural obstacles to
any offensive on the present scale. Even
the Belfort gap is unlikely to be assailed,
because its strength and the proximity of
Switzerland would combine to hamper the
Germans.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20
The Point Of Assault

One does not prophesy, but the condi-
tions of the contest are plain. The Ger
mans will be able to put superior numbers
and, for the moment, superior artillery al,
the point or points on the French front
which they select for battering. If the
French hold as they did at Verdun, the re-
suit will be a colossal German defeat how
ever great the French losses. If, as the
Germans assent, France cannot stand this
new sacrifice, we shall see break. and
Germany will win the war. But if we see
another Verdun, Germany will have shot
her bolt, and she will seek a NEGOTIATED
peace next fall on far different terms from
any she has yet suggested, with the pur-
pose to avoid an Allied attack in 1919
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20

senes

sincere sentiment was discoverable in Ger
many, have abandoned such a view in the
face of German maneuvres at Brest-
Litovsk. In Germany victory in Italy and
the ruin of Russia have similarly put the
situation in the hands of those who be-
lieve in fight to finish.
As in 1914
Thus, after three and half years of
war the great antagonists face each other
in something the same mood as in August,
1914. Nothing is decided, because the Ger
man has not been beaten absolutely or
worn down by the struggle sufficiently to
be willing to abandon his grandose plan
for world supremacy. With all due allow
ances for changes incident to the great
prolongaton Of the contest, the conditions
Of the campaign of 1918 are the condi-
tions of the campaign Of 1914; the Ger
man is coming West again, as he came be-
fore, to win the war, to dispose of France
and to establish himself in the place his
super-patriots have demanded for half a
century.
The Greatest Contest
We arc, then, so far as one can accu-
rately foretell the future, on the threshold
of one of the greatest contests, perhaps
the greatest, of human history. If the
German wins outright he will win the war,
he will impose his terms upon vanquished
France and Britain, and he will be able to
do this without regard to the United
States, because there is not the least hope
that we shall have the men or the material
to play any greatly useful role in this su-
preme campaign. We shall be quite as
helpless as the British in the first five
months of the Battle of Verdun, and un-
able to make any contribution to the Allied
cause comparable with that made by Brit
ain in those memorable months.
There arises, then, the question, When
will Germany strike? She struck at Ver-
dun in late February But she was COM
PEELED to strike in an unfavorable time for
campaigning, because both Britain and
Russia were preparing to strike in the late
spring and it was essential to dispose of
France before either of her other great
foes was ready. But all through the Ver-
dun operations, from February to April,
Germany was handicapped by weather.
Her offensive was slowed down at times by
the weather conditions on the Meuse hills.
This was not decisive factor in her de-
feat, but it had a limited Importance.
No Winter Campaign
And, with the exception of the Verdun
operation, we have had no great winter
campaign in the West The Battle of
Ypres ended in the middle of November;
all operations until the last days of April,
1915. were minor and local. The cam
paign of 1915 ended in October with the
close of the battles of Loos and Cham
pagne. The campaign of 1916 ended with
the British victory at Beaumont Hamel,
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20

frontier at Chalons and at .Bar-le- Due, and
the line east Of Bar-le-Duc as far as
Switzerland might be endangered.
The 1914 Precedent
Remember, the Germans attempted some
thing like this in August and September,
1914. The Crown Prince came south on
both sides of the Argonne through Vitry-
le-Francois and almost to Bar-le-Duc,
while the Bavarian Crown Prince en-
deavored to get Nancy and push westward
through the Charmes Gap between the
Notifications Of Toul and those of Epinal.
This was only detail in a far greater
operation, and it was not generally exam
lned, because the world was thinking of
Paris and not of Nancy or Barbecue;
but it was deadly purpose, which, had it
succeeded, might have been almost as cost
ly to France as the fall of Paris would
have been
All things considered, it seems to me
fairly probable that the Germans will en-
deavor to crush their French foe by some
colossal enveloping or turning movement,
based upon the idea of piercing the French
line at two points, widely separated, like
the Champagne plain and the Lorraine
front before St. Mhiel or Nancy, and then
isolating and enveloping the troops and
positions between the two points at which
the break-through took place. The British
and French tried the same thing in their
great offensive Of 1915, when they at
tackled both at Loos and in the "dustv"
Champagne, from Souain to the Argonne.
The Germans tried it a bit earlier and
captured Warsaw and Brest-Litovsk as q
result, and almost gobbled up the main
Russian army at Wilma.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20

an incident in the greater Battle of the
Sommc in November. Petan delivered
two successful blows at Verdun in
October and December. but both were
local and with limited detectives. Last
year the campaign disappeared under
flood in Flanders and with the taking of
Passchendaele early in November In 1916
the Allies did not begin at the Somme until
July, and in 1917 they delayed their Aisne
and Arras strokes until. April, although
the German retreat contributed something
to postponing the attack.
Attack in March or April
Roughly speaking, we may say, then,
that the campaigns in the West have, with
the exception Of Verdun, opened not earlier
than April and ended in November. Is
there any reason why the German should
force the pace this year as he did at Yer
dun? Then he feared gathering British
attack, but has he any such apprehension
now? I cannot see it. 1t will be July at
the earliest before anything like an Amer
ican army, and small army measured
by European standards, can even under
take restricted role; and it will be April,
1919, before our numbers will restore the
advantage possessed by the Allies year
ago, when Russia was still in the reckon
ing and Italy unbeaten.
Unless the internal political situation of
Germany, induced by economic conditions,
is such that Germany cannot wait, be-
lieve' that the Western offensive will be
postponed until March, or even April. In
the mean time negotiations with Russia
may have led to peace and the release of
the mass of German troops on the East,
at all events to the release of most of the
artillery and munitions; and, despite the
popular notion, the transfer of troops
from East to West is a slow process.
Germany Will Not Hurry
To prepare a gigantic offensive such as
Germany has now in mind is a matter of
many months, and unless there is some
reason for haste Germany will not hurry
her preparations. Her course in the east
in 1915, when she suffered Przemysl to
fall into Russian hands rather than hasten
her Dunajec blow, is the best proof of
this. And since this is to be the supreme
bid for victory, Germany will want every
ounce of strength on hand. Delay will
not enable her enemies to increase their
numbers or materially to improve their sit
uation. For six months at least, probably
for year, the great contestants will stand
in the same relation to each other in num-
bers and in material. All the conditions
that we know of point to an attack in
April or May. Conditions concerning
which we know nothing may make for an
earlier blow, but these conditions will on
the whole be advantageous to the Allies
rather than Germany, because they will
compel her to attack when the weather is
unsuitable for campaigning and in ad-
vance Of sufficient time to make the best
possible preparation
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20

The next question is: Where will Ger
many attack? Will she attack the French
or the British? What part of the front
she selects to assail will she choose as her
objective? First of all, there is general
agreement that Germany will attack the
French front. The reasons are brutallv
plain. France has suffered more than
any other of the Allied nations and is
therefore nearest exhausted. Her losses
have begun to weaken her reserves. and
against terrific concentrated German as
sault she might break, since she cannot he
aided by Americans for six months or
year and the British will have their own
hands full and are beginning to feel the
strain of the war themselves.
France the Objective
Germany thought France was bled white
at the Verdun time. She believed France
would give up after defeat before vor-
dun Her calculations proved mistaken.
France did not give up, she was not then
bled white, and she has since that time
defeated German forces in other great en-
gagements. But all these have cost her
dearly, and her great ally, Russia, has de-
serted her, while her naw ally, America,
cannot be ready in time to help her at the
supreme crisis. So Germany will in all
human probability endeavor to accomplish
III 1918 what she failed to do in 1916 and
in 1914-that is, put France out before the
arrival of Allied aid can save the French.
Now, it is clear that if France is in the
mood of the Marne and of Verdun the
Germans will fail again, because France
is not yet, despite cruel losses, bled white
and her armies are better supplied with
guns and with ammunition than on either
previous occasion. Moreover, whatever
happens, the French are bound to have
vastly better aid from the British in the
coming struggle than ever before. At the
Marne the British were numerically al
most negligible and actually contributed
little to the French victory. For five
months the French held Verdun without
any British aid. Nothing like this will
happen again, because to-day the British
have both numbers and trained numbers.
They are ready, quite as ready as the Ger
mans can possibly be.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20
Retirement Before British

'Verdun, the Somme, the Battle of Flan-
ders, all have seemed to indicate that the
attack on single front on parallel lines.
as the Germans say, is unlikely to succeed
in the West, although the same method did
succeed shiningly at the Dunajec.
Now, while the French are being at
tackled what will the British do? First of
all it is far from unlikely that the Ger
mans will begin limited retirement from
before the British front to coincide with
their attack upon the French. They might
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20
development Likely

On the other hand, the French position
between the Aisne and the Moronvlliers
hills is far from ideal, while their lines
along the plain of dusty" Champagne offer
target destitute of any great natural de-
fences. In the same way the French lines
in Lorraine, both west and east of the
Moselle River, are exposed to an attack
from the north or from the east, and the
Germans would have here the supreme ad-
vantage of operating from their own ter
ritory, with the great bases of Metz and
Strassburg close behind the front.
Unless all signs fail, the German attack
will not be a single drive, like the Verdun
operation, which failed Almost without
exception the great German successes have
been enveloping movements, of which Metz
and Sedan were classic examples in the
Franco-Prussian War. The advance upon
Paris in 1914 was an enveloping move
ment, conducted on both fanks, but neces-
sarily transformed into an operation by a
single flank when Castenau defeated the
eastern flank before Nancy. The great
campaign in Poland in 1915 was double
enveloping movement carried out by Mack
ensen, advancing from Galicia, and Hin
denburg, striking south from East Prus
sia. The recent Italian success and the
earlier Serbian conquest were of the
same sort.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-20

The Germans would be able to cut the rail
roads leading from Paris to the Eastern
frontier at Chalons and at .Bar-le-D Due, and
the line east of Bar-le-Duc as far as
Switzerland might be endangered.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-22
MISS lUSK NEAR COLLAPSE;
TO TELL STORY WEDNESDAY
Refuses to Give Even m InElinE Ms
to What Her Testimony
VIII lie,

WACKESHA. WIS. May 2l.-Crace
Lusk. self-confcsscd slayer OF Mrs.
Mary Newman Roberts, wife Of DIR.
David Roberts. will tomorrow take
the stand in her own behalf. Tonight
Miss Lusk is near collapse. but 1t is
believed by the time OF RECOMMENDING
of court she will be ready to tell her
story.
What that story will be. what at
titude tho defendant will take with
regard to the testimony OF the last
week by the man she loved and for
whom she killed. no one knows to-
night but Miss Lusk. Not even to
her aged father or to her attorneys
has she vouchsafed an outline of her
coming recital.
Tonight the defense counsel and the
defendants father were with her in
her cell. The father pleaded with his
daughter to cas-, aside any lingering
regard she may have cherished for
Roberts and seek safety. But to none
did she give any indication of what
she intends doing.
II am very tired" was all she would
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-22
Going After U-Boat
Is Best Operation
Such Is Opinion OF Secretary Of
The Navy Roosevelt in
IntcrU,cU.
IRx Associated rressl

WASHINGTON. May 2l--Oncnsive
operations against German submarines
are producing good results. said Act
ing Secretary OF tho Navy Roosevelt to-
day. and he added that while 1t would
bc too much TO say that the submarine
situation is under control or that the
C-boatS are not still TO be regarded
as a menace. the Outlooh is hopeful.
MIR. Roosevelt reiterated the opinion
held by the department that what has
already been accomplished should serve
merely to increase the viEor OF the
campaign and the effort TO turn GU,
rapidly additional destroycrs and other
craft for antisubma work.
Going after them and not waiting
for them Ia come after us is the an
swer." he said.
Naval opinion here is now that the
season of the year makes little differ
cncc in the effectiveness OF the sub
marine. Advantages and disadvantages
OF winter and summer Offset each other.
1t is pointed out that while rough
water in winter lmpedes the u-boats,
the long winter nights give them al
opportunity To come TO the surface for
rccharsins their batteries. resting the
crews and also 10 make long trips on
the surface AT night. increasing their
effective area.