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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-02

Arthur Peck, who has a clerkship in
the Schey shoe store, sends the fol
lowing poem, clipped from trade
publication, for this departments:
SONNY B." l.
Say, Just put me down for anOtheri
Though I've subscribed before! -
And I'll be clean-out grateful,
If they jack up my tax some more!
AS for paying higher prices
For things to eat and wear,
Or giving to units and hut funds
Ssh! nothing can make me care!
Cause Ma today got letter
From Sonny (the lads in camp!
And in it came a picture
Good looking? Oh, the young scamp!
Why, there he stands in his khaki,
And his regerler army hat,
Whit his gun held smart on his shout
der,
And him smiling, the cub, at that!
You see, he slipped out and listed
With some chums from his college
frat
Spoiled foxtrotters, mommers' dar-
lings,
Auto speeders, useless, fiat!
Ma, she named the heir "Llewellyn,'
And she raised him a Fauntelroy,
But, praise God, he's cut loose from
the boob set,
And shows up an American boy!
Danger? Well, just let him face it
If his granddads did, he can!
Uncle Sam may claim all I own, Sir,
For he's made our boy man!
Ella A. Tanning.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-02
The Problem in North Dakota

I have read with pleasure the SOL
diers' letters and various topics pub
lished in the OllapOdrida page. Late
Nv | read two letters written by Sank
county men, so loyal to the kaiser.
For their benefit and and others think
ing like them, | am enclosing this ar
ticle. taken from a magazine published
in the east. AS you probably know,
North Dakota has had slurs cast at it,
too: not through the attitude Of our
congressman, but because the major
ity Of the farmers nOn-partisan
league members demanded fairness IN
price fixing, etc We were called pro-
Germans, l. w. VS., ETC., although
we were and are loyal to the United
States. Right now we are putting in
crop which, yielding good, will give
our boys the needed support. Already
we are wondering how it will be har-
vested, for men are so scarce. me
farm women are no strikers, so |
guess they'll solve the problem.
Some Of those kaiser-thinking Ger
mans should have the war brought
closer to their doors to put a little
sense in their heads. Three weeks
ago tomorrow one of my brothers-in-
law left for Camp Dodge. This week
he came home in a casket, the first
Benson county boy to be brought back.
Such instances make us realize the
war and its sacrifices.
MRS. NJ. L. LUND.
York, North Dakota.
The article to which the writer OF
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-02
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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-02

apology for not having done so soon
er, and hope to find some person from
up that way to whom the weekly Wis
it's of The News would be looked for
ward to with as much pleasure as they
are by me.
Anyone preferring Germany to our
own United States should not be
forced to remain here, but should be
forced to go there to live, and not
longer pollute the atmosphere in the
| land of the free and the home Of the
brave. The Chicago Journal has the
proper course of treatment for all
these kaiser boosters, such as shown
by the letters sent you, and no doubt it
will soon be enacted into law, and rig
orously enforced:
First: Deprive these people of their
citizenship No one is entitled to re-
tain citizenship in a country he does
not prefer to all others.
Second: Confiscate all property Of
these people. All property of enemies
is justly subject to confscation, and
anyone sympathizing with his cOun-
try's enemy, is by that act an enemy
, Of his country.
Third: Intern all these traitors until
after the close of the war. It is I'M
safe to have enemies at large.
| Fourth: Deport all these undesira-
bles, to the land they think more suit
able for their style Of beauty, with just
what they brought when they came
| When our boys come marching home
from cover there" Uncle Sam will
have some nice farms taken from
these bolsheviki to reward those who
had to peril their lives to prevent the
spread of ''kultur" over the world, and
he will also have quite little wealth
these people unwillingly, contributed,
towards paying the extra expense their
treason may have caused.
| May some other God than the one
| made in Germany" help all these who
are disloyal to our country in this hour
of her peril.
! When this war is decided, as it will
be, in favor of democracy, all these
Will ne OuICdSIS, WIIuOUt IItC IG6pOCC
even of those poor cattle now being
driven to their death, at the command
of those they dare not disobey. and
| they will have the lasting contempt
of all loyal Americans.
Now is the time for all citizens of
German descent who are Americans
first, last, and all the time, to speak
out bravely for the land of their adop-
ton. It has done much for you and it
is UP to you to show your gratitude or
! forever blush with shame when your
German origin is mentioned.
! It is your silence that lends courage
to the few, to so openly proclaim their
preference for their country's enemies.
Let everyone show where he sands in
this war, and these kaiser worshipers
will be surprised to see how few real
ly think as they do, and at least be
less bold in their speech.
Subscribe literally for the third lib
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-02

the above refers is quite long, and but
a portion Of it follows. The opening
deals with why we are sending troops
to France. the second the German
philosophy and the third the atrocities
committed by the Germans. Some OF
the last named are almost unspeaka-
BILE, citizens being shot and women
being mutilated for a defenseless
cause. A portion Of the article follows:
"Why. send our young men to fight
the battles of France and England in
Europe? Why not keep our army at
home to defend America when the
Germans come over here to attack us?'
These are questions that we frequent
Nv hear. The answers are simple and
convincing
First. We are not fighting the bat
ties Of France and England. For three
and half years they have been fight
ing cur battles as much as their own.
That world-conquest is the aim of
Germany, and that the kaiser's plan
from the first has been to attack
America as soon as he's done with
Europe, is proven beyond doubt by
his declarations quoted in recent bull
letins issued by our government.
Second. If we did not send our army
over to help the allies, we should nave
to fight Germany after this war is
over, and make the fight all by our
selves without the help or sympathy
of any other nation on earth.
Third. What suicidal idiocy it would
be to have our homes ravaged with
fire and sword by choosing America
instead of Europe as the battle-ground
of our war with Germany!
Some idea of what French and Bel
gian homes have suffered from the
fiendish cruelty of the German invad-
ers can be had from the following
statement of a reliable eyewitness:
A prominent New York minister,
who. has spent some months on the
battle-fronts of Europe. speaking from
his pulpit recently said: ''The traveller
of whatsoever country who has lin
gered for two or three months in Bel
GUM or France has gone away a per-
manently saddened man. German eff
cheney has chiefly manifested itself
in the last three years in the discov-
cry Of the science of torturing your
brothers and sisters and mine. The
mere catalogue of the things my eyes
have seen would take weeks. | have
seen a tract of devastated territory as
large as Long Island where the Ger
mans left behind not one single apple
tree, peach or pear, not one single
house, not one single schoolhouse, not
one tiny barn, poisoning wells and
driving off the flOcks. In small vii
lage of 5000 inhabitants the young
and the middle-aged had gone. The
Germans looked in vain for a man to
kill. They sent word to every house
that the old men must come out
There we're men 70 to 80 years old.
Here is Gas he showed) a photograph
of the dead men in heaps-thirty of
them. Two of them have their pipes
in their mouths-simple aged peasants
with garments telling how simple and
innocent their lives were.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-02
5768 La Sale street.
Chicago, Ill.

Editors Note: Mr.. Jones formerly
resided at Merrimack and many old
friends will be glad to read his lines.
He sends an article written by Her
man Fernau, from Chicago paper,
but since it is a copyrighted article,
it cannot appear here. 1t is too long,
moreover, for this paper. Mr.. Fernau
is opposed to the royal family and
says they should be dethroned. Mr..
Jones has we'll spoken that those who
continue to cling to the kaiser will see
sorrowful days bye and bye. In let.
ter Mr. Jones says he heard Clarence
barrow and Judge Kavanaugh speak
few nights ago, and has not got back
to earth yet.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-02
Buy a Bond

The kaiser now is going lame
" Buy Bond.
He pretty soon must quit the game
Buy a Bond.
If kaiser you would like to lick,
There is a way to make him sick,
And you can do this pretty quick
Buy a Bond.
If you believe in Uncle Sam
Buy Bond.
Don't be like sucking lamb
Buy a Bond.
If you cannot join the fight,
There's yet a way to show your might,
And help him battle for the right
Buy Bond.
If you have dollars in sock
Buy a Bond.
You can. easily increase your stock
Buy a Bond.
And when this cruel war is Ger,
You will get back a larger store,
To keep the wolf outside the door
Buy a Bond.
It's safe? Why safe as safe can be
Buy a Bond.
Twill help to set all people free
Il Buy Bond
1t is a thing we all should do;
I'm going to buy, then why not you,
To show you're for your country, true?
II. Buy Bond.
N. G. ABBOTT.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-02
Looking Brighter

This office has received letter from
George Schneider, which says they are
now living at Unavale, Nebr. There
have been three operations in the
family, and much sickness, but things
are looking brighter now, he says.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-02

erty loan bonds, not alone as the best
investment ever offered, but as a duty
you owe your family, who will have
pride in your having done so, and
make it your business to see that 9TH
ers subscribe, or in case they refuse
take their name and address for flu
ture reference No one can refuse to
take at least one of the smaller bonds,
and no better antidote for treason can
be found than liberty bond.
1t is up to the loyal Germans them
selves whether the name German shall
be a by-word and synonym for all that
is detestable in the near future or
shall be redeemed by the actions OF
those who are American before they
are German. f"&
JOHN D. JONES.
5768 La Sale street.
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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-02

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man, a son.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Haw-
ley, Superior, "a daughter, April II.
Mrs. Hawley was formerly Miss Clare
OdeH of this city.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-02

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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1918-06-13
Over the Top

Exactly what Manager john
son wifet, ali isoioie!y I'M
solicited, Ico:
Columbus, Ca, Nay rs, 1918
Frank 2. Bryan.
Vitagraph Company,
New Orleans. La,
Over the Top went big here
all week. Did twice as much
business as The Birth Of Nation
which ran here three days.
Over the Top, the greatest pic
ture that has ever been here and
the only picture that ever play
ed the town for one week.
New American Theatre.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1918-06-13

and London" and was purely a MAJ.
ter OF pecuniary profit" and that 1t
was TO stab her in the back while
England and France have her down."
how can the Senator in a final adjust
ment represent fairly and justly pep
pie who differ with aim sincerely and
radically and who are Fundamentally
and unreserveuly behind their govern
ment-approving unequiyocally our en-
try into the war?
If the Senator thought four months
and five days after our entry into the
war that it was merely to stab her in
the back while England and France
have her down." am wondering what
has caused the Senator to lose his
self-praised independence and now
make a patriotic noise Of whacking
the tom-tom and trying to place him
self at the head of the procession of
loyal Mississippians who are magniti-
Gently backing their government?
Whether | shall be honored by the
people of Mississippi in August ~
not, | have unselfishly rendered my
candidacy to the people of my State.
and have complete confidence in their
judgment and patriotism. | do not
doubt the result. | am proud of the
part have played in this great crisis.
| have believed, and l do now believe,
in the justice Of our cause and the
glorious principles for which we are
fighting. ! deny that it is war
brought on merely to protect com
merce between New York and Lon
dom"
deny that our entrance in the
war was purely matter of Pc
cuniary profit" and | deny the
contemplate, unjust and disloyaI
alluslon that our entrance into it
was merely to stab Germany in
the back while England and
France had her down.
| have given my unstinted support
and whoe-hearted cooperation to the
administration and government in Ill
war measures. | am proud Of my rec
ord. That record is the guarantee Of
my future course and assurance to the
people of Mississippi that if l should
be elected their Senator my one
thought will be loyalty to and co-opera-
ton with my State, my party and my
government.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1918-06-13

publicans to kill the ship purchase
bill-a measure designed to obtain
ships, and which are now so neces-
saty for the prosecution of the war.
They will not forget that his single
vote cost the farmers of the South
upward of two hundred millions of
dollars in cotton alone. They will not
forget the Senator's opposition to the
resolution endorsing President Viii
sons severance of diplomatic rela-
lions with Germany and on which ac-
ton the eyes of I'll Germany were
fixed. They will not forget the pact
he played in opposing and assisting to
kill the measure designed to arm our
merchant vessels so that the lives and
property of American citizens might
be protected. They will not forget
that that action upon the part of the
Senator and the very few men who
stood with him at that time was con-
demned throughout the country and
provoked the President of the United
States to say that "a little group OF
wilful men, representing no opinion
but their own, have rendered the
great government of the United
States helpless and contemplate"
| wonder If any Mississippian
can possibly feel any special pride
In having the President of the
United States, a Southerner and a
Democrat, whom the world today
respects and looks upon as the,
man above all others who will set
tie this war along the right prin-
cipIes of liberty, justice and hu-
manity, refer TO one of their Sem
ators as one of "a little group of
wilfuI men representing no opin-
ion but their own" as having rem
dered "the government helpless
and contemplate?
nC pCOplC VI MIOOloolppl VIII nv
forget that on the 21st of April, 1915,
Senator Vardaman in prepared in
terview said: "The President, obey
ing the dictates of humanity would
involve the United States in the
bloody conflict now being waged in
Europe in order that British and
French commerce might not be inter
fered with. The suggestion is mon
strous. If Congress shall permit this
country to be drawn into war with
Germany or any Of the other bellig
erent powers for the reasons assigned
by President Wilson in his message,
the members thereof will deserve the
eternal execration and final repudi-
alton of the American people"
They will not forget that in the Sen
ate of the United States on March 2,
1917 as shown in the Congressional
Record, page 4777, Second session,
Gath Congress, the Senator said, 'If
JulS GAllOll olipll pun a 1A6hSA
estimate upon human life than com
mercial conquest; if we shall put the
immortal soul above the dollar, and re
gard justice of more importance than
financial sccess, there will be no war.
1t is not for the vindication of the
principles of human justice that i'm
peril our peace, but rather the ava
ricious reaching out for pelf that
threatens to involve this nation in
this world war"
They will not forget that, notwith-
standby the statement of the Sena-
tor that there has not been enacted
war measure tbrt had for .ts real pur
pose the STRENGTHENING OF our arm.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1918-06-13

Washington, ,. G., May Gloon
gresham Pat Harrison today gave
out the following statement in refer
snce to Senator Vardaman's recent
Address to the People of Missis
sippi":
If the result of the Senatorial race
in Mississippi were not SO extremely
important to Mississippi and the ma
ton, the address would be amusing.
Che not familiar with the Senator's
past utteranCes and performances GA
reading the address would naturally
conclude that he had been one Of the
stalwart champions of the Admins
trations policies and defenders of the
Government in this great crisis. The
address is an adroit piece of camou-
flage-conceived and written for the
sole purpose not of enlightening the
people of Mississippi on his true rec
ord and recalling his past expressions
and votes on the controversy between
Germany and the United States, but
with the hope of diverting the real is
sues of the campaign.
/ wonder if any Of the friends of the
Senator believe the statement that
"There has not been enacted war
measure that had for its real purpose
the strengthening of our arms and
the support Of our boys in the
trenches that has not had my enthsi-
astic and cordial support" The Sen
ator knows, every one in Washington
knows, and surely every Mississip-
plan should know, that since the be-
ginning of our controversy with Ger
many the Senator's utterances and
performances have not been such that
any friend of his, no matter how en-
Enthusiastically he may have supported
him in the past, could approve or con-
done.
1t is natural, therefore, with the
patriotism of the people of Missis-
sipp aroused as 1t is, and as we
expected it would be-because
Mississippi has always gloriously
responded in every crisis-that
the Senator would have them now
forget his past conduct and utter
ances.
United thought and action upon the
part Of the men who directed the az
fairs of this nation were essential 10
maintain peace before the war as
united action and purpose are now to
win the war. Before the war declara-
ton the slightest dissension among
our people was magnified in Germany
every word and expression toward
Germany's policies were displayed IN
sympathetic German papers and used
by the Kaiser's friends to bolster up
their nefarious propaganda.
1t is natural, therefore, for a Sena-
'or, who by expression or vote had
harrassed or embarrassed in the
slightest degree the diplomatic rela-
tons with Germany very much to de-
sire at this time to have his friends
and constituents forget that conduct.
To abuse Germany now when we are
at war with her Will not atone for past
expressions which led Germany to be-
lieve that this nation was not whole
heartedly behind its spokesman when
he enunciated the collective spirit Of
America.
TIE people Of Mississippi will not
forget the part the Senator played N
1914 when he oonspired With the Re-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-12-26
NeedIework Notes.

II you have old white crochet shirt.
waist buttons, sew them to the ends
of your lingerie ribbons % keep them
from slipping thru the beadin'
The latest idea is to have Your bae
match your sweater. A stunning sc;
of this sort Is made Of white silk and
is banded with pink. White and blue,
white and lavender and all other
colors combined with white are offer
ed.
Apples have been such popular
form of DECORATION that they are ap
piled in conventional way on some
of the spring hats. The home sewer
could readily make this trimming, for
the apples are just disks of buckram
covered with silk and then buttonhol-
ed around the edge with black silk
Goss. The leaves are long, pointed
pieces of velvet, wired thru the cen
ter so that they can easily be bent
into any position. The apples arr
sewed fiat to the hat, but he leaves
are only slightly fastened. Three
apples in different colors. with .
couple of leaves. make an effective
trimming. ts it
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-12-26
Household HintC--

sausage until done, then chop fine.
Boil and mash six potatoes. beating
out all Jumps. Add one cup milk.
tablespoon melted butter, enough
salted -four to make dough. Place
on Toured board, roll into sheet,
place sausage in center, coll up
dough, put in baking pan, brush with
melted butter. Serv- soon as done.
Sweet Pepper Patties-SiX medi-
um-sized peppers, remove seeds. cut
in strips, cook in we'll salted water
ten minutes; drain, add generous cup
of cheese cut fine, two eggs and two
tablespoons -four. Mix we'll and fry
on we'll creased griddle, spoonful
in a place. Fry on both sides.
Easily made and IN excellent substi-
tute for meat.
Meat Balls With Spaghetti
(Italian dish)-One and one-half
pounds round steak, one cup bread
crumbs, three eggs, one-half cup
Roman cheese, one-half cup ground
salt pork, salt and pepper. Make
into balls and fry. Cook spaghetti
in usual way with one can tomatoes,
and pour over meat balls.
Apple Pudding-Peel apples, re-
move cores without breaking apples.
put in pudding dish and fill openings
in apples with sug,r, jam, honey or
ounce jelly. Partly bake until fair
ly soft. Make custard of four eggs.
four tablespoons sugar, four cups
milk, flavor with lemon or vanilla.
pour custard over apples, replace in
oven till cuStard is set. Cool and
serve.
Eggless Ginger Cookies-One tin
cup light brown sugar, one lineup
baking molasses, one lineup short
ening, ore lineup boiling water, five
teaspoons soda, two tablespoons gin
a as soft dough. Proceed the same meas as
for any kind of cookies, but be sure
to scald the soda with the boiling
water. This recipe makes quite
nlmbef of cookies and they are good
!ss long as they last. .sssiso ~