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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-22

er more will this curse rest upon
mankind. With it passes the great
est evil that has resisted the powers
of good since Christ himself pro-
claimed those powers and started
the battle between right and
wrong.
The brotherhood of mankind and
that day of millennium when all
men will be brothers is so much
nearer at hand as a result Of the
events of the recent hours, that OPP
timists are looking toward the mil
Ienium think they can see glad day
breaking-and who shall say they
are entirely mis- AIKEN?
And then and for this may we
not weep tears of joy-The Star
Spangled Banner is coming home
with its cleaning stars so bright
that they dazzle our eyes. and its
white stripes so pure that they
seem to speak aloud of the holy
cause 10 which the banner waved
while the fight was on and its
red stripes speaking more eloquent
~ than tongues could tell of the
blood of Americas son spilled in
the cause of humanity and man.
kind. The Flag is coming home.
borne high and proudly by the men
who sustained American traditions
and added to them and made such
American history as all the world
will read in wonder and with thank
fulness while time shall last.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-22
Girls Who Are in Demand

There is something that is getting
to be awfully scarce in this world,
says writer in the Sydeny Catho-
lie Press. Shall tell you what it
is? 1t is girls This is what is
missing out the sensational
breathing, living world just now.
We have lots of young ladies and
lots of society misses, but the
sweet. old fashioned girls of ever
so long ago are vanished with
the poke bonnet and cinnamon
cookies.
Let me enumerate few of the
kind of girls that are wanted. In
the first place, we want home girls
girls who are mothers right
hands. girls who can cuddle the lit
tie ones next best to mamma and
smooth out the taneles in the do
nestle skein when things get twist
ed. girls whom father takes com
fort in for someshing better than
beauty, and the big brothers are
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-22
Real Thanksgiving

There is a difference between be-
ing thankful and having a good
time One can enjoy an elaborate
dinner and the meeting of friends
without any Uplift of the heart to
the Giver of all good. Make
Thanksgiving more than a jolly
day. a day of festiVity and good
cheer and friendly companionship.
Put aside a portion of it for real
Thanksgiving to him to whom your
thanks are due
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-22
That Proclamation

Paul" said Gov. Lon v. Stephens
TO his private secretary, Col. Paul B.
Moore of Mississippi county, one
morning about twenty years ago, Il
have got to issue Thanksgiving
proclamation to-day, and haven't
time to write it. See if you can get
up a proclamation for me Col.
Moore consulted Col. AL Morrow,
the Governors stenOgrapher, and
they decided to borrow an old pro-
clamation from the files in the office
of Secretary of State Let's 90 back
as far as we can" said Paul, so no.
body will ever recognize it," and AL
replied, We'll get the oldest one on
record" And they did The pro
clamation was duly issued, the Gov.
ernor complimented his secretary
upon its excellent praseology. In IA
few days Chicago newspaper dis
covered that proclamations issued
by the Governor of Missouri and
wisconsin, issued on the same day.
we're in identical language. The
newspapers began making an awful
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-22

proud of for something that out
ranks the ability to dance or shine
in society.
Next, we want girls of sense
girls who have a standard of their
own regardless of convionalties and
are independent enough to live up
on it; girls who will wear what is
pretty and becoming and snap their
fingers at the dictates of fashion
when fashion is horrid and silly;
girls who will not smoke and drink,
or accept hospitality from chance
male acquaintances.
And we want good girls-girls
who are sweet, right, straight out
from the heart to the lips; innocent
and pure and simple girls with less
knowledge of sin and duplicity and
evil doing at twenty than the pert
little schoh girl at ten has all too
often; girls who say their prayers
and love God and keep His Com.
m andments.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-22
....May We All be Truly 7Hanktuk...

tional greatness and which is to be
the political salvation of the world
America cannot look back upon
IT'S history without seeing God, and
by taking thought cannot fail to &C.
knowledge its gratitude for all his
benefits. With that stage of our
development passed We are now
permitted to enter upon that new
era when America participates in
abolishing tyranny and injustice,
ever hateful to God, and to carry to
the oppressed nations of the world
those principles of liberty through
which our own chief blessings
have come
This is the supreme service that
one nation can render to another
to safeguard the liberties of its
people. In this momentous time
the burden of our Thanksgiving this
year it seems should be that we are
to be chief among the ministers in
working out the Divine purpose to
have all men-Greek and Barbarian
free.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-22
The Mouthes of Babes

We'll, Nettie, did you know that
we had all come for Thakseiving?"
asked Uncle John, as he checked
his little niece under the chin.
Il expected you" she said, sweet.
ly. Mother said that the whole
family, was coming, and it was a
dreadful bore. but that Thankseiv-
ing only comes once year"
The obituary columns of tbs Kan
sas City papers recently carried a
notice of the death of Pink Funk.
Blue Funk is still alive and is visit
ing the Kaiser.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-22


responding growth in responsibility.
The raw experiment OF a nation
framed from the skeleton colonies
of the eastern seaboard has proved
the greatest success in government
the world has ever known De.
mocracy sits at the tables Of the
land today. Brotherhood asks IT'S
helping from the amply filled boards
of the American home. These two
attributes Of the American people
fully express the secret Of Americas
success as a nation The growth Of
the nation has been in accord with
the extension of these ideas They
are both home ideas, and therefore
they are both ideas that express the
inner spirit of the day of thanks
giving.
The fatherhoOd of God and the
brotherhood Of man-theSe were
the leading conceptions of the Pill
grim Fathers. They are the leading
conceptions of the sons of those
fathers today. They are the cOncep'
tons that can never be made hack
neyed by hypocritical use or by de
signing abuse. They will stand
forth in the genius and action OF
the American people until each
yea shall add praise to praise 10
the measure of the fullness of rea
sons for the giving of thanks.
Peace, provision, protection -
these are the priced possessions OF
a nation whose one aim is TO exalt
the ends Of human liberty, to extend
human democracy and to eXaIt the
ideals of human equality. AS this
nation touches the world at large il
does so through its leading national
conceptions, and only when these
are vitally assalled can it take up
arms for its OWL defense. II has
the obligation resting upon it to
conserve tie true needs of liberty,
and this can be done only by insist
ing upon the sacrednesS of human
rights and human opportunities
Hence the day set aside for thanks
is day of an unadulterated Ameri-
caDism, into which no alien sen!i-
ment can possibly inter. Hence it
is that every head of the family in
acting in his capacity at the head
of the family board becomes the
priest of the things made precious
in the life of the country and of
which mention is made as thanks
giving themes of the day. No more
can the nation depart from its lofty
mission and progressive ideals than
can the earth sway from the solar
attraction. The day of home hap
pluess, tine day of praise, the day of
felicity Is a sacred and singular day
in the annals of American progress
and American world influence.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-22

I is to be hoped that this Thanks
n giving will not be a pagan hol-
iday, and that those who do render
thanks will do so not as a heather
philosopher, boasting that he is not
as other men, but in greater humil
ity because he has perhaps been
more greatly blessed than others.
Outside of the many material
bl essings that have come to the
American people during the past
year, which are good in so much
as they contribute to wholesome
human happiness, there is reason
for the people of this country upon
this Thanksgiving day to be unusu.
ally thoughtful concerning their
place in the world, and to remem
Der how this eminence has been OBJ
tanned.
Who can look back and not see
the hand of Providence shaping the
destiny of America? This liberty
which is the marvel and the hope
of the world today was SET up on
these shores by Godfearine men -
the pioneers who inaugurated this
very Thanksgiving holiday. 1t was
for the love of the service of God
that liberty was established in
America, aad il was this liberty
that has been the basis OF our IA
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-22

20 very great number of US,
n especially the fathers and
mothers and wives of the United
States, Thursday will be one of the
most realistic Thanksgivings we
haye ever spent. At last, after
many years in which this national
holiday was nothing more than that
merely. in fact, an occasion for
feasting and gathering and pleasure
seeking-this distinctly American
day is to mean something very real
and intimate to US ALL
Just what message and benefit ii
brings to US will depend largely, if
not wholly, upon ourselves And
the character of our appreciation of
the blessing that have come to US
will measure the depth of our patrio-
tism and love of country.
We aye not of those who believe
the whole sacrifice belongs to the
man who went away to fight. AS
much-in some cases even more
bravery and courage and devotion
to duty and to country have been
necessary on the part of those who
remained behind.
So let Thursday be a day of glad
ness, not of sorrow Let your tears,
if tears there be as you sit beside
the empty chairs, be evidences that
your heart rejoices in the realiza
ton that your son or husband or
brother or friend was brave enough
and willing enough, yes, eager
enough, to risk all that selfish men
hold dear and desirable that his
country might win honor and Sc
curity through his blood
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-22

fuss about it But both governors
we're discreetly silent. and neither
accused the other of plagiarism
However. that did not solve the
mystery. Finally, an aged minister
of the Methodist church Rev. W M.
Prottsman. then in his eightieth
year. heard about the excitement.
He read the proclamation 1t had
a familiar sound. He looked at his
files And then he called Gcv.
Stephens. Governor" said he, Il
want to thank you for the compli-
ment which you and the Governor
of Wisconsin have paid me Iwrote
that proclamation for Gov. Bob
Stewart fifty years ago, while l was
his private secretary" The old
preacher told the truth about it.
Paul Moore and AL Morrow both
"fessed up" and it also developed
that the secretary of the Wisconsin
governor had "swiped" the procla-
nation from some old files. This.
by the way. was the first Thanks
giving proclamation ever issued in
he state IF Missouri.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-22

The Springfield Leader surmises
that Holland must feel about the
same as Canada Sdid after Harry
Thaw crossed the line.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-14
Acreage of Crops Is the
Largest Since 1SS2-Yield
Is Quadrupled
SUPPLIES IN SIGHT
FOR FORTY WEEKS
Showing Is Marvellous in View of the
Fact That There Are 100000 Less
Male Laborers on the Land Than
Before the War.

LONDON, July 81, Correspondence of
has broken all records for acreage under
cultivation since 1882 The production
of home grown breadstuffs viii be suffi-
cient to render her self-supporting for
forty weeks and will be not less than four
times the amount raised in the year end
ed March 81, 1917.
In spite of the exceptional difficulties
created by the shortage Of labor, in Eng
land and Wales alone there being 300
600 fewer male laborers on the land than
i'll the year before the war, all records OF
acreage under cultivation have been bro
ken with the exception of that of wheat
At the end of April there were 2,G65,-
600 acres in wheat, an increase over the
previous year of 80 per cent This is
the highest acreage recorded since 1882
| In barley the total acreage was | 1905 600,
an increase of II per cent. In oats 2,S20,-
900 acres an increase of 50 per cent, these
figures beating the highest record by 30
per cent. In rye, dredge, corn and pulse
the acreage was $4,000, an increase of
90 per cent over last year In potatoes,
654,0O0 acres an increase of 80 per cent
beats the previous record 10y y per cent
The total acreage of corn and potatoes
IN England and Wales Is S,302, 900, an in
! crease Of 2,042 600 acres over last year
Complete returns Of the acreage OF grass
land ploughed are not yet available, but
| a compulsory census taken in March, 1918,
| showed that more than 100000 acres of
! permanent grass in England and Wales
| had been broken up BY that date, and it
! is estimated that total addition OF not
less than 2,500.o00 acres TO the tillage
/ area Of England and Wales, as compared
/ with 1916, has now been made
! II, as may be Anticipated from the. re-
cent forecasts OF the boards Of agricul-
ture for Scotland, 30o,e00 acres, and ire
land 100000, tie corresponding addition
TO the tiiiage area ~ those two countries
/ viii approximate ,S00,00N acres. the total
| increase in the United Kingdom viii be
we'll over 4 ,0up3e00 acres et3 3if5
| The foregoing figures indicate that the
| total acreage in the United Kingdom Jun
lder wheat, barley and oats in 1918 win
/ be the highest ever recorded in the history
LOT British agriculture. The acreage under
/ potatoes viii be the greatest since 1872.
| While it is impossible to foretcll the
| quality Of the coming harvest, it is re-
ported that the present condition Of the
crops Is very promising and gives reason
4 able hopes OF at least an average Weld
! Apart from these figures, which relate
only to holdings of one acre and upward,
the production from the allotments and
gardens must be considered. The increase
| in the number of anotments since Iql6
Is not less than 100000 in England
and Wales, an increase of $40 per
cent. The additional weight Of foodstuffs
may be reckoned at not less than 800
| Geo tons above the normal.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-14
MORGANS WANTED
FOR JAPANESE ARMY
Representative of the Mikado's King
dom Here to Select Stock for
Breeding Purposes.

BURLINGTON, Aug 14-That Yer
mont's famous Morgan horses are appre-
ciated, even to the ends of the earth, is
brought out by the visit here of NJ. Ish-
iboshi, a representative of the japanese
government, who IS seeking type. of horse
adapted to the Japanese army.
The representative is a soldier and is
delegated by the department of war of
his country to make study of American
horses, particularly the far-famed Morgan,
with view to selecting stock for breed
ing purposes to take back to Japan
There are about million and half
of horses in Japan" declared Mr.. Ishi-
boshi, in an interview But we need a
different type Of horse for general pur-
poses and for the army Ours are too
small They are used largely for driving
and in farm work.
The Kentucky horses, while good rae
ers, are too rangy and not adapted, it
appears To me, for the army The Nor
gan, on the other hand, / believe to be
of type more satisfactory and | am
going to Aiddlebury to confer with Super
intendenr Hammond Of the United States
government breeding farm in reference to
the selection of Morgans to send to Japan
We want horses about ID hands and three
inches tai"
Mr. Ishiboshi, when asked about the
war situation and the part Japan might
play in Russia, declined to make any
statements. He was interested in the
subject, however, and commented favor
ably upon the work Of the United States
forces
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-14
DR.. LUTHER H. GULIcK DEAD.
Noted Educator and Former Physi.
cal Director of Schools.

SOUTH CASCO, Me-, Aug. A.-Dt
Luther Halsey Gulick, -, educator and
author, of New York, died at his sum.
mer home here yesterday
DR. Guliek was chairman of the in
ternational committee on physical recre
alton Of the war work council Of the
Young Mems Christian association. and
had kept up his work until broken il
health He had leading part in found
ing the National Playground association
OF America and the Public Schools Ath
letic League of America, and formerly
was director of physical training in the
schools of New York city.
He was the author of numerous books
on physical training and delivered a Sc
ries of lectures Mt the st. Louis Expo
sition, which won him international recoe
milton and honors as an expert in sucE
matters
Recently he returned from France
where he made a moral survey of thc
American expeditionary forces for the
Y. M. c. A. In 1906 and again in 1905
DR.. Guhck was a member of the Olym
pc games commission in Athens, Greece
and London, respectively He was alse
an American delegate to the second in
ternational congress on school hygiene il
London III 1907, and lately president q
the Camp Fire Girls organization.
DIR. Gulick was born in Honolulu, II. /.
ard was educated at Oberlin college. Har
ward and New York universities.
The funeral will be held in Springfield
Mass, Thursday
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-14
Office and Household.
Furniture

Fivc-foot roll-top oak desk with Al
drawers in good conditions; l.. C. Smith
typewriter and oak desk, Office table
with storage underneath, x5H-foot
top seveu-shclf oak bookcase, movable
shelves; very large, nice paneled cherry
wardrobe, specially nice piece of fur
nitre or, if you prefer, an oak one;
nice Eastman camera, 4x5, plates or
films. Any of these articles will be
sold az less than half price. Also nice
quartcred oak chiftonier, All high
class goods Make appointment to see
them by calling SlS-W mornings before
IA clock.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-14
GREEN WORM rs MYSTERY.
Prof. Kirkham Says Little is Known
of Forest Pest.

WORTHINGTON. Mass. Aug. IL
Prof William b. Kirkham of Yale adj
dressed an audience at the Worthington
library yesterday on the maple-leaf worm
which IS devastating hardwood forest.
in that locality and north to Florida
mountain, as well as parts of Berkshire
Vermont and New Hampshire Prof
Kirkham acknowledged that little is
known as to the worm and means Of com
batting IT,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-14
TAX PRoFITEERING
Automobile Dealers Found Makine
CHARGES on Fraudulent Claims.

NEW YORK, Aug. PROTECTING
by retailers bye advancing prices to
cover government taxes which they do
not have to pay has been discovered
by William II. Edwards, internal rev
enue collector here. He said yesterday
that certain automobile dealers and
jewelers. had jumped prices to more
than cover the three per cent sales
tax they have to pay on the manu-
facturers prices and then in addition
charged the customer with three per
cent sales tax which they fraudulently
claimed they also had to pay the govern
ment. He cited an instance of the man
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-14

ufacturer price of an automobile at
$4,000 on which the retailer paid $75
extra, to cover the tax, being jumped
to $4,000, and the buyer of it charged
500 extra or three per cent, to cover
the retailers alleged tax.
Prosecutions may be taken against
some concerns, Mr.. Edwards said
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-14
SPECIAL NOTICES.

SHAMPOOING and Manicuring. Miss
Mary a. Griffin, I39 Main St 299 If
STORAGE in Ullery Building annex.
Two floors, suitable for shop. See Mr..
Ullery 12s-tf
CIlIROPODY and Shampoo parlors.
Hair goods made up to order. Mrs. E. p.
Bailey IL Main st. Phone. 157-tf
DON'T LET anyone fool you. Sell
your junk to the right dcalcr-get full
price and the right scale Telephone
connection. M Gisscn, 1O4 Williams
street. stiff
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-14
LOST.

LOST-Sundav, August II, about
.3o p. nj. somewhere between Linden
Lodge and about one mile up the river
road, small black handbag containing
g pair Of glasses, handkerchief, and
small comb Reward if left ut the Re
former O0ice l39-I4I#
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-14

TO RENT-Tenement in Cox build
ing Inquire of Mrs. L. A. Cox, 1872
South Main st. S4-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-14

no RENT-Two-tenemc house on
Guilford St Six dollars per month.
Edgett a Co. S5-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-14
WAITED.

WANTED-Tw Mattresses at Linden
Lodge. Housokcepor, Tel. 2lS. ll0-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-14

TO RENT-First floor tenement, 226
Elliot street. II. r. Lawrence. 127-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-14

TO RENT-Large and small offices,
steam heat, in Ullery Building. See
Mr.. Ullery. I2stf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-14

TO RENT-Six rooms, first floor. Mod
ern. 32 So. Main st. VIM. Boyee. 1913 If
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-14

TO RENT-6 room tenement. 163
Nam st. Edgett & Co. 106-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-14

TO RENT-Cottage house Homestead
place. Edgett & Co. 95-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-14

TO RENT-First floor, 25 Washington
st. Inquire IA Prospect ST. l35-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-14

TO RENT-Nice Groom tenement on
Birge st. Holden & Martin 296-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-14

TO RENT-Tenement. Lillian C. New
ton, 10 Thomas st. 257-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-14

TO RENT-Storage room. Mrs. Kit
tredge Haskins 26-tf
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-10-09

Edna Theresa and Anna and the rest
Of his many lady friends are not an
girls2
ITS a swen dish" Its CORPORAL Pie
penbring now if YOU please CongratuIa-
Oh. boys, Private sullivan has a new
Job now, He is road manicurjst and not
now, jerry.
Have YOU seen Mutt and JEFF" raising
and lowering the tiag every night and
yGIS Mutt Ptepenbrink and JEFF
Hertzel have been appointed as a color
lno not colored) sdetan
Have YOU ever seen Jockey" comas-
tos. on horse? Looks like a regular
jockey. And he is a papa too. Hey.
Private Noonan wants to know why
we don't say something about him once
in while We would hut we don't
know what TO say about You,
our friend "AIurphyr' 20 excuse us. we
mean Private First class Morse. has
disorderly would sound better
We wonder why Sergeant Major Bar
mum feels so tired after coming from
Aiken, 5, c Is it the air or the COM
pany Ronald2
Sergeant Major Willie has had his banjo
sent from home and saws that an he can
play is tome Sweet Home" and he is
going TO wait until the war ends before
ne PLAYS that. GERRY saws Lets hone
So Why? Sergeant Major MacNair
sleeps in the same tent)