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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-04-17
A MEAN ADVANTAGE.
900
BY Ellis Parker Butler.

An evening or two ago | was walking through
the great Pennsylvania railway station at New
York when it was crowded with men, women and
children It is magnificent building It covers
two entire city blocks. | looked up at the great
roof that sheltered the vast structure and it
came into my mind that, seen from high in the
air, the spread of the roof must be enormous It
would be a remarkable target for bombs dropped
from high above it.
1t suddenly occurred to me that the United
States is taking mean advantage of Germany
We have plunged into war against Germany and
are sending fighting men and fighting ships, but
we are taking a mean advantage of the three
thousand miles of ocean that stretch between u.s.
We are so far away that Germany cannot use
against us her splendid system of numbering
women and children
Are we, | ask, quite fair to Germany? She is
SO far from our shores that she cannot send Zep-
pelins sneaking through the night to drop death
on our babies sleeping in their cribs. Are we not
taking an unfair advantage of her? When Ger
many goes to war she expects to fight with neigh
boris close at hand so she can lombard the homes
of non-combatants and MAIN and murder help
less old men and gentle women and sleeping
children. Is it fair to go to war with her when
she will only have the chance to fight our fighting
men? Why is it possible that Germany in
lighting u.s. may have to fight fair and as civilized
nations fight Except for poison gas, murder Of
sailors on the high seas and other dirty barbar-
lsms) That is not giving Germany the chance
she feels she ought to have. 1t is not giving her
an opportunity to murder our wives and fathers
and daughters.
! Shalle we send, say, eight thousand old men,
ten thousand women and seven thousand babies
to Europe and place them in some convenient
place so that Germany can bomb them to DEATH
and thus give Germany chance to war against
us as she is warning against other nations? Or
shall we say that, come what will and happen
what may, this nation will not make peace with
the dastardly Hun until he is thrashed and crush
ed and taught once for all that the murder of just
one helpless baby of Paris or London has been
sufficient to sentence the HOhenzollern beasts to
everlasting determination?
Good FRIEND how do you stand? Will you be
one of those who are willing to send their babies
to London to die by the hand of the Hun? Or
will you stand with all Christian humanity, stead
fast and firm, until the great criminal is given
his just deserts?
What name shall we give the baby killer of
Berlin? What name shall we give ourselves if
we allow him to triumph after such acts as these
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-04-17
NOT BAD PHILOSOPHY.

Here is the philosophy Of the aviator, which
is rather sensible philosophy at this time when
the great world issue is at its crisis:
Of two things, one thing is certain Either
you are in the air or you are on the ground.
If you are on the ground, there is no need to
worry. If you are in the air, one of two things is
certain Either you are flying straight or you
are turning over.
If you're flying straight, there is no need to
worry. If you are turning over, one of two things
is certain Either you fall or you don't.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-04-17
EDITORIAL,
WHAT YOU MIST DO.

1t is now up to every citizen of our community
to show his Americanism by investing in a Lib
erty Bond.
This does not mean the wealthy-far from it.
1t is far better that ten men should each buy a
one hundred dollar bond than for one man to buy
a thousand dollar bond.
The bonds run as low as fifty dollars. This
means that the ownership of these tests of pat
riotism is within the power of ALL.
If you have not the ready money for fifty or
one hundred dollar bond the bank will lend it to
you. The difference between what Uncle Sam
will pay you as interest and what you pay the
bank, is trivial 1t is too small to be called sac
rifce.
Finally remember what OUR boys are doing.
One night in the trenches bathed by poison gas
and racked with shot and shell is far greater
sacrifice than for YOU to give everything you
own in the world
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-04-17
DONE IT AGAIN.

Well, we see the Germans
Have won the well-known war again.
This is the fifth time they
Have won this war
The trouble seems to be that the war
Positively refuses to stay won.
It's most cantankerous war that way.
Wars are always tickle.
Recently the Germans have won the war
Only about once a year.
With a little more efficiency
The Germans ought to be able
To win the war about twice a year,
And keep the home folks kidded.
Roy Moulton in GAINESVILLE Ga
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-04-17

If you don't fall there is no need to worry II
you do fall, one Of two things is certain. Either
you are injured or you are not injured.
II you are not injured there is no need to wor-
ry. If you are injured, one of two things is GER
tain. Either you are injured slightly or you are
injured seriously
II you are injured slightly, there is no need to
worry. If you are injured seriously, one of two
things is certain Either you recover or you die.
If you recover, there is no need to worry If
you die, you can't worry
So why worry.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-04-17
Worth FightingFo

CHALL this little girl grow up in the sort
of American home we know, healthy and
~ happy? Shall she have the advantage of
living and learning in free land, under free in
stitutlons !? Shall such children develop into the
Liberty loving citizens that free America may
be proud Of? s
For two hundred years Americans have :
fought vallantly, and died CALAMITY, to win for
themselves and hand down to their posterity the
blessings of liberty, justice, self government and
equal opportunity. This precious heritage bought
at SO great price, is now threatened
"A The question which today confronts America
8 as nation, and YOU an individual is
i whether or not free America
. is worth fighting for
!: Are American children in this and all future
generations to receive unimpalred the legacy of
freedom of which the custodlans, or
! shall their country be turned over bodily to the
II brutal, rapacous, power mad enemy which has
! forced us into this war?
This question cannot be answered by word of
mouth. but by deeds alone.
t Your Answer Be Your Investment !
LIBERTY BONDS!
THE PEOPLES STATE BANK
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PLUMBING

ca LIZ Us for estimates or repairs ON plumb
ing or heating; work qua "a ntced Dick 60,
facc l5jI y. R3AUOr Plumbing Co., Inc,
832-3i Mexican ST.
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LABoR II L II 5 WAN T Il D.
1000 LABoRERS
WANTED on L. 5. GOVERNMENT WORK
AT WASHINGTON PARK.
wEsTvILLE. n. Ji SIX MILES FROM
CAMDEN BY TRAIN OR TROLLEY
TO wEsTvILLE
FREE RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION
ALLOWED ONE WAY
WAGES 35C PER HOUR; TINE AND ONE.
HALF FOR ALL OVERTIME OVER
EIGHT HOURS
WORKING HOURS : O'CLOCK a. NJ
TO s O'CLOCK p. NJ
TAKE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
FERRYBoAT AT MARKET ST.
PHILADELPHIA. TO CAMDEN,
THEN VIA TRAIN TO wEsTvILLE. y. ;.
OR FERRY TO CAMDEN. THEN
TROLLEY TO wAsHINGToN PARK,
APPLY EMPLOYMENT DEPARTMENT
NaeAnTlUR BBoTHERs CO.,
WASHINGTON PARK. wEsrvnLr y y.
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COUNTRY BOARD WANTED

coon HOME wanted with refined family o.
iErr tutor. Or school teacher for conva.
q r gH s,ns &9lGgiTR Tad 10 AID sG'iSsofi i5sato5
Co. A *. VI gO5. Ledger office.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-06

LoNG-DIsTANCE TELEPHONE
IS PER WEEK PAID DUR
NC FIRST MONTH or IN.
sTRUCTioNi ADVANCEMENT
IS RAPID; COMFORTABLE
AND ATTRACTIVE RECREA-
TToN AND DINING ROOMS.
MEALS SERVED ut COST:
YOUNG WOMEN BETWEEN II
AND e5 YEARS or AGE
SHOULD APPLY Mt ROOM 700.
BoURsE BUILDING. 5TH AND
MARKET SITS. 8 A. NJ TO
GP. ".
AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND
TELEGRAPH COMPANY
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PRINTING

SAMPLES or ENVELOPES. CARDS LET
tcrhoads etc. with price list mailed on
REQUEST Mail orders promptly ana iuteli-
LOUis FINK & SONS. 80 North 9TH st.
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STAMPS AND COINS

STAMPS, ALBUMS AND SUPPLIES
For Stamp Collectors
PHILA. STAMP co, ~ S. nth ST.
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CARPET CLEANING

,-rD,IArh. CARPET CLEANING co.
aps- r'riI.+.r<r-r ~I 3Oii 1rDloW -
Preston "iuS N.s'. lN11J W"st so" d.
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General
AIR p L a NE 5

LEARN HOW TO BUILD THEM
Our course Is most complete given on full
sized airplAnes. II covers al that one needs
10 secure a highly skilled position as
Airplano Builder Aeronautlcal Contractor
Airpians Repairmau Aeronautical Instructor
AIrplana Inspector Aerouautical Assistant
Airpiano Assembler Exhibition Manager
Airplanc Mechanicisn
rhousands of positions are open Hll over the
g11,ntry and only trained men are in de.
u,and our course will qualify yOu Tor a
hiTh-sp w. ried position, Write today for Full
Information. Schoel open for inspection
Day and Evening GOurfes
CAMDlcN AIRCRAFT SCHOOL
Aviation PARK, 18th gnd, Federal ats.
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OPERATORS

LoNG-DIsTANcE TELEPHONE
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WANTED

ANFlQI ES-We nay highest cash prices for
furniture. carpets etc; entire hotels anf
apartment houses; PROMPT Httentioni city or
country, PHILADELPHIA FliRN1TuRE
20 ll,h y III ~ Phone Tiosa 127S
Antique iewelrY. old geld silver. false teeth.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-06

LApoREEs Ess,ANrEU
2oo LADoEERs WANTED IN Our
FEETlLIzEE ANU ALLIED
DEFAETMENTs
THIS Is AN INDUSTRY ESSEN.
rlAL 10 [. =. GOVERNMENT
NEEDS
CONVENIENT FOR DoWNTOWN
WORKERS WITHIN SQUARES
UF TROLLEY LINE
PLENTY or OVERTIME
MEN NOW EMPLOYED ARE
MAKING BIG WAGES
4 CHANCE TO SAVE FOR INVEST
AGENr IL LIBERTY BONDS
FOR 6 DAYS LABOR PER WEEK,
AND not LESS THAN 10 HOURS
PER DAY. WE WILL PAY
so CENTS PER HOUR
THE AND HALF TINE
FOR OVERTIME
BAIGu a SONS COMPANY
FOOT or MORRIS ST. WHARF
DELAWARE RIVER
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L.ABoRERs

sc rsr hour for heavy work 8ac per hour
for Hight work: 49-hour week; must be hrst-
class mon. Apply $3.50 m. to D. m,
Employment Department.
ATLANTIC REFINING co.
3i4i Passyunk ave,
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LABORTRS white, FOR iaboriug work In
center % city; permanent position Amer
can Express 70, 1t2T Chestnut o..
LABORERs. colored steady work rood
wages all year round. Apply VIM Foster,
.AnORERs. coiored. Tor steady inside work
Apply E. v. EIoughton Co.. $40 W. soul-
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FURNTsuFO APARTMENTS


NV N-NI.NNIUHL =
ATLANTIC CITN---Ocean front. rooms
bath. first story; elegantly appointed
newly decorated, 3. q. . months torn. Appy
now for spring and summer, Junitor Chel'
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OLD GOLD

OLD GOLD. silver Matches false teeth,
broken jcWCiry. talkug mach, records
highest prices naid. zoos FiIhcrt. omen ewes,
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APARTMENTS WA NTEp

NANTED--Apurlmont or small house. fur.
uishCd, within 80 minutes OF Cramps
ShipvurI phuuo Poplar T0iO "
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EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES
USED AUTOMOBILES

81" =. IgTI ST.--Coohs. mattresses, cham
h.rnGIds. u.irSos house girls wanted
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
The Distinguished Mr.. Marcosson

From an invitation committee of fifty
eight, including Mr.. George Creel, COL
onel George Harvey, Mr.. Otto H. Kahn,
ex-Ambassador James w. Gerard, ex-
Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, EXAM
bassador Henry Morgenthau, ex-Ambas-
sador Abram I. Elkus,. Mr.. Frank A.
Munsey, DIR. John H. Finley, Colonel
George I. Wilson, Judge Ebert H. Gary,
the Honorable Frederic R. Coudert, Colo
mel +. Coleman du Pont, Major General
George w. Goethals, Mr.. Henry Morgen-
thau, Mr.. Jacob H. Schif, Mr.. Thomas
Fortune Ryan, Mr.. Frank A. Vanderlip,
Mr.. John Drew and Mr.. Rex Beach, we
nave received large and beautifully en-
graved invitation to attend testimonial
dinner to be given to Mr.. Isaac f. Mar
cosson at the Waldorf Astoria, next
Wednesday night, "in appreciation of his
distinguished services in the war"
The Honorable James M. Becl, will
preside, and the list of speakers includes:
Chairman Edward N. Hurley. of the
NJ United States Shipping Board; nsa7
'ffMaJor General Leonard Wood, of the
United States army;
Mr.. Augustus Thomas,
Mr.. Patrick Francis Murphy and
Mr.. Marcosson.
Tables may be reserved for eight in
cluding ladies.
Response and remittance may be made
70 Mr.. Charles Strauss, treasurer, at 1A1
broadway, New York City, "at five dol
lars per cover"
1t should be notable occasion.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Marius, Mirabeau and Hearst

yesterdays local hearstorgan con-
tanned such touching little tribute to
Mr. Hearst and "The Reason Why Mr..
Hearst Is Attacked by Kept Agents. :" wo
We're almost tempted to reproduce it.
1t was about Mirabeau and Marius and
other famous foes Of plutocracy.
This Mirabeau was the Kerenskv of
the French Revolution-the gentlemen
who made himself so unpopular to tho
Bolsheviki of that clamorous time. bv hic
ability to talk-at great length. And
Marlus was the Roman gentleman who
gained large fame by exterminating the
Clmbrl and then for overturning the
tyrannous Roman mobiles.
Mr.. Hearst, it appears, is to complete
the tr1umvlrate, because he is being nur-
sued by the "kept agents" of the p]utoc-
racy, who, as Mr.. Mirabeau said, ain all
countries, in all times, have implacablv
pursued every friend of the people and
with tenfold applicability if such a one
were himself born in the aristocracy."
You see the sly reference. Mr.
Hearst is one "born to the aristocracv"-
our American aristocracy. AS is we'll
known, Mr.. Hearst is the younger son of
the late Baron Hearst, of Calaveras
county, California, and titular renre-
sentative of the Barony of California. in
our House of Lords.
Inc Barony was, as all our readers arr
aware, IN somewhat decadent state
"nen the late Lord Hearst ascended to
the title, and the latter was compelled ia
relurolsh the tattered fortunes of the
family by beginning life as a bootblack
or oank clerk, or something, and from
thls humble beginning rose to the mill
IONS which the younger son is now snend-
lng' on his newspapers, in a most laud-
able effort to become the Marius or tho
Mlrabeau Of America.
The young Mr. Hearst had no humble.
beginning. He was to the purple born
AND Immediately upon his graduation
from Heidelberg, Wurtzburg and An
hcuscr-Buscb began MS rise to fame
The latter has been steadily manufact-
ured for him by the "kept agents" of the
mated plutocracy from whence he snrono
ana by hls own powerful array Of "kept
agents" and editorial writer's with the
taste for classical illusions and literary
ouotations~-to Mirabeau, Mariug. Car.
lyie and others; the same being also very
dear to Mr.. Hearst.
Gay dogs, those. little "kept agents"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Out They Go!

There is nothing SO catching as a good
J example. What the Hackensack Home
Guard did by a plain, unadorned, un-
authorized order other towns are up and
doing. Oyster Bay had certain obvious
right to head the list in New York, and
it is pleasant to know that she has done
SO. A half dozen more towns in New
Jersey, propose to follow.
Public opinion is potent to act wher-
over the sight of the German-larguage
press becomes intolerable. 1t is not a
question Of violence or boycott. When
opinion is as strong and righteous as is
the feeling against the German-language
press to-day there is no need of such
weapons. Let any community voice it's
will as did Hackensack and Oyster Bav
and the result will follow.
Enemy language papers on the news
stands offend the eye and affront the
feelings. Let every community and every
citizens say so out loud, and they will 90.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

reason is recognition. We are all actors,
and from the hod-carrier and the apple
woman up to the Fords, the Schwabs,
kaisers and Kings, we all stage our tragl-
comic little lives with vivid eye to the
gallery and the limelight. When all the
great generals and politicians and movers
OF men, all the Napoleons and Teddies
and Billy Sundays have so long recog-
niZed and utilized this principle, we Won
der that psychology should have been so
late in recognizing that here is one of the
great basic human hungers.
To live, to stand the sings and arrows
of outrageous fortune, to endure the
hard reality, to find JOY in his work, man
must have these basic satisfactions,
namely, the sense Of achievement, recog-
milton and applause. If he does not get
them in reality he will get them in his
dreams or out of bottle.
Is there not here deep lesson for our
reformers and those who would change
our strutting, clamorous, egotistic little
human kind into toy gods in an after
noon?
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

service League rooms, and when thew go
away we add them to our list
The sailors have adopted a jolly custom
OF serenading at night. First they sing
to the girls in Whittier Hall, who shower
them with fudge and sandwiches Then
they come around to the ordinary folks.
we hear the rich voices couple of blocks
away, "Pack Up Your Troubles" comes
nearer and nearer. We jump up from sew
ing ana knitting and reading and rush to
the windows, and watch them. smiling. as
they sway their blue shoulders and sing
Justify. We call and laugh and throw
apples, and then the voices grow faint.
fainter, as they move on.
Il wonder when they'll SAIL" says father.
We all wonder and grow quiet.
Levy the Dreamer
1t is Levy, though, Levy, the tailor.
dreaming world politics as he patches pro-
fessors' coats, who has made the supreme
sacrifice for this war, and it is to him that
the whole neighborhood pays it's worship
of homage.
Levy had cutter who was the seventh
wonder in the tailoring world. He could
make two pairs of trousers grow where
one grew before, and his coats were mira
cles of economy of cloth, beauty of line
and perfection of finish. He was L@y's
greatest asset-as we'll as his entire staff
But the cutter mumbed something last
week. words that had never been uttered
before in the limits of the little shop.
Heb" asked Levy.
The cutter bent lower over gray worsted
he was working on, and mumbled again.
less articulately than before.
Say it, say it," demanded Levy. 81 vanta
hear them words out loud if / hear 'em
at all
The words were repeated.
Levy jumped to his feet, his little beard
ed face boiling red and his hands waving
wildly in the air.
$50 that's it," he shouted. "a pro-Ger
man in my shop, eh? Veil, them rats
don't have around. Zee that picture of
wilson and zee that Amerikanisch flag?
Veil, thems vat this shop is run by, and
lowlifes like you vas gets out and gets
out qvick, see?''
1t is harassed Levy that is now trying
to run his shop alone until he can get a
suitable substitute.
But" he shrugs. "Vat could l do?
don't want puppy dogs workin' for me.
Ach, but it is hart to gat along without
So Levy works until midnight alone,
under the shadow of the picture and the
flag.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
The Old Gods March
(From Contemporary Verse

(From Contemporary Verse;
The grim gods of the past have arisen,
The black swamps throb and the mountains
boom
And the dust from their iron -sandalled feet
Shrouds the sun in blood red gloom:
Out of the Northern mountain passes
Flame the banners and glare the swords,
The old gods march from their wild
morasses,
The old gods march with their ancient
hordes,
With scarlet banners and songs of death;
From marshes white with the bitter brine
The boar-herds gather, the wolf-clans whine
Till the land is foul with their streaming
breath:
And the old gods below, the old gods roar,
And the hills shake and the gray seas rave,
For the old gods march with a laundering
Whose echoes thrill in the neither wave,
Shaking the bones of myriad dead
AS in red days of yore.
Glare of torches in dead mems eyes
And black nights lit by towns aflare,
And things of horror and claws that tear,
And reeklng rivers that bloodily rise
To the old gods tempest blare
Banners black with the blood and smoke
High in the eddying battle van,
And great swords red with. the murders
stroke,
And torches afame the night comes on
For the old gods march in the shame of
man,
The old gods marcll-sweet days are done
The fires of home the fires of hate?
There is choice in the wide world
none
But we must stand where the old gods
tread,
In ranks Of steel, and steady and grim
Chanting the sweet, wild battle-hymn
That the old gods hate and dread
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
A Better Market for Teachers

In spite of all the demands for money,
the Board of Estimate and Apportion-
ment ought to find the funds to provide
salary increases for school teachers in
the lower grades according to the sched-
ule just adopted by the Board Of Educa-
ton. These grades have been the worst
paid. The new schedule so increases the
grades affected will receive 5000 more a
year for the first three years Of service,
and will reach their maximum pay in ten
years, instead of sixteen, while teachers
OF the seventh and eighth grades will re-
ceive corresponding initial increases and
reach their maximum in fourteen instead
OF IN sixteen years.
1t is harder and harder to hold desr-
able school teachers. The chief reason
for this is that in other work to which
women may turn the rate of remunera-
tion has been rising with the times.
There is, of course, the teachers pension
to look forward to, but only at the end
OF long life. Young women of ambi-
ton and initiative and originality with
minds practical enough to make them
worth having ii the school system go
elsewhere to better market for their
abilities.
This drift should be offset to some de-
gree by the pay increase which the Board
OF Education has sanctioned. Bigger pay
won't keep teacher from going stale or
make good one out of bad one already
on the rolls. But it would make this
form of public service more attractive to
the type of beginner which the city de-
sires, and needs, to obtain.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
An April Night

Some loose thatch on the farm barn hut-
tered as we went through the lane
And the sweet, wet stars looked down, like
the lights of Malvern town
After the warm -breathed valley has been
washed by twilight rain.
And little we rocked of dripping branches
and brown mud under our feet,
For we walked to the pulse Of Spring-an
aching, riotols thing
In "a dim Arcadian quiet filled with the
ripple Of green wheat
Till we came to the broad highway that
leads from village to sleepy town
And fingered a moment there like lovers
that unaware
Come to an ancient, magical road that leads
to a land unknown:
For the broad highway went winding awav
to where the low moon shone:
Like ribbon of bridal white it ran
through the fragrant night
1T ran through the fragrant night. it
seemed, to the moon, and on, and on.
And the apple blossoms were falling. fall
ing, and drifting into the lane
And we walked like lovers dcad--who had
not, living, we'd
We were too full of awe to kiss when we
came to the house again.
LEYLAND HUCKFIELD,