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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-13
PROSECUTION OF
WALDRON RESTS
Testimony Against Minister
in L. S. Court i'm Burl-
ingtOn All In
RECESS TAKEN TO
THIS AFTERNOON

Witnesses from Windsor Repeat State
ment5 of Seditious Character Alleged
TO Have Been Made in Their Hearing
by Respondent.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-23

When Germany whines and declares her position to be
~intolerable; when she asks for relief ships that are carrying
be disposed to ask Germany the abstract question which, in her
opinion, is most deserving of first relief, the robber or the
robbed, the ravaged or the ravisher.
But for Germany the people of France would not need re-
lief. But for Germany France would have plenty and to
spare, Serbia would be satisfied and Russia would be sending
foodstuffs to Central Europe. But for German piracy there
would be ships and to spare and all the food that Germany or
any of the hungering countries might require.
4 x 4
But we are not surprised. 1t was to be expected that the
race that inflicted the extremes of cruelty and torture on 9th
|ers would be the first to finch under their own Affections.
Germany started out to starve England by her submarines and
prolonged the war by convincing her own people it could be
done. She has sunk enough ships and enough food by piracy
alone to relieve the present hunger of Europe and keep it sat
listed.
In her last war she starved Paris until there wasn't a cat
or a dog or a horse that could be eaten, and the meat of rats
was a luxury. And but for Germany there wouldn't be a hun
CRY man, woman or child in Europe today.
And SO we would say to Germany that Belgium and France
and Serbia and Rumania and Italy, and then the Russia she
destroyed, should have prior claim upon our bounty and
attention. And then, after a careful invoice, if we could
further relieve distress we would help even those who tried to
render others helpless.
Is the voice of regret we hear from Germany the voice
also of repentance?
Have you detected in it any note of regret for her crime?
Is it not rather an outpouring of disappointment that Germany
was not able to impose upon England and even further than
she did on France the conditions she now complains of at
home?
Already there is more hunger in Russia than there would
be in Germany if we failed to supply a pound of food to her.
The food that was in Russia was taken by Germany to feed an
army that was trying to force starvation on others. Under
what Interpretation of either justice or mercy can we relieve
Germany until we shall have supplied to Russia an amount
equal to that which Germany took from her? Was ever a
voice raised in Germany against starving the Russians to feed
the Germans, even after Russia surrendered?
Il X x
We might just as well face the fact that thousands and
perhaps millions are going to die of starvation before order
can be re-established and production resumed. If it must oc-
cur shall it fall to the lot of the robber or the robbed? No
American wants to learn of starvation anywhere, even in Ger
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-23

many. We are raioning ourselves to prevent it. But if we
cannot set tables enough for all who shall eat first?
Germany has not proved herself brave in the hour OF
trial. She did not meet and bear reverses as the French and
the British and the Belgians bore them. The moment the
shells and the bombs began to rain on them as they had caus-
ed them to rain on others they begged for mercy. And now
they are not half so eager to bear the pangs of hunger as they
were to conquer others by the processes of starvation.
x 4 x
Anyhow, let's tell Germany to dig up some of the stolen
property she transported out of France and Belgium and re-
turn it before she asks us to neglect those who helped us to
stop the robbery. And let the measure of relief be governed
by the measure of restitution. That may be an efficient meth
cd of discovering the present location of the stolen goods. The
German people know where they are and hungry people will
talk for food.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-23
FEROCITY OF BOLSHEVISM

Bad as was the state of Russia in the DAYS of the cars if
is infinitely worse in the hands of the socialists. Catherine
Ereshkovskaya, grandmother of the Russian revolution" was
imprisoned and exiled to Siberia for trying to start a revolu-
ton. When the car was dethroned she came back the hero
inc of the hour. When the Bolsheviki, OF Russian socialists.
began to destroy the work of the revolution she protested
For this she was imprisoned, tried and put to death by a mill
tary court over which Trotzky, minister of war, had control.
Whatever may be said of the treatment by the old regime
OF this heroic figure in Russian history, the fact remains that
she was in good health and vigor after she passed the allotted
span of life. Her case measures the difference between the
oppression of the cars government and the bloodthirsty fe-
rncity of the Bolsheviki.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-23

Those who are complaining that his pan-German friends
deserted the kaiser should not overlook the fact that the kaiser
deserted pan-Germany, that is, all Germany, and hied him
self across the nearest frontier. Among men of courage there
is a rule, an unwritten law, that the captain must go down
with his ship, or at least must be the last man to desert it.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-23

We wonder what the kaiser and his ik of followers would
have done had they been on the Lu~sitania-would they have
calm, accepting their cruel fate singing? We fear
that they would have been rushing up and down the decks,
pulling their hair out and screaming at the top of their voices.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-23
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER %, 1913

IF control of h house and the senate should be taken
away from the party in power an opposing majority could
assume control of legislation and obige all action to be taken
amidst contest and obstruction"
Obstruction of what, the will of the people? If so, who
will obstruct?
And again the president said, speaking of the possible eff
feet abroad:
1T is well understood there as we'll as here that the re-
publican leaders desire nt Sc much to support the president as
to control him"
On that theory the people said he should be controlled.
At least if he could not control the Kitchins and the Clarks and
the Overmans and the Simmons in congress they would.
And the London Express said:
THE victories of the republican party show that the Ameri-
can people are o only ready to follow Wilson, but anxious to
get in front of him. America is Tor victory unqualified and
complete"
Mckinley had an international war. His own party was
in power in congress by a small margin in each house. In
stead of unanimous votes for war measures from the minority
he got practically unanimous votes against them. But he
didn't appeal to the people for a republican congress. He
pleaded for a united people. And when he wanted to confer
with congress it was his habit to invite members of both par
ties. And when he appointed members of the peace confer
ence to formulate a treaty for which the senate would be
jointly responsible he chose from the. senate committee on for
eign relations and both parties were equally represented.
And the treaty was ratified by a two-thirds vote of the
senate in spite of Mr.. Bryan, the leader of the minority party,
who opposed it in the press and by personal intercession. He
was not a member of either house.
X X
If ever a president had cause to appeal for a congress of
his own party Mckinley had. But he didn't. Yet when the
votes were counted so many republicans were elected that
there were not seats enough for them on the republican side
of the house, and a section for their accommodation was al
lotted from the democratic side, away around to the right of
the speaker.
And it was called "the Oklahoma strip"
You have read and heard of "the Oklahoma strip" in
Washington, of course. Well. that is how and when it came.
The people put it there.
Lloyd George wasn't there, and Woodrow Wilson wasn't.
But if he had been there might be an Oklahoma strip on the
other side of the main aisle after the fourth of next March.
And the republicans elected are not going to heckle the
president in any war measure unless he tries again to play
politics. Too many of them were there when the "Oklahoma
Strip" was located on the other side.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-23

Three men in German history are chiefly responsible for
this condition of the German mind. The first was Frederick
the Great, the second was Bismarck, the third was William II.
Fredericks doctrine was aptly set forth in the following
passage from one of his biographers: when kings want war
prove that it was just And so not only the learned pro-
lessons" but the public schools, the pulpit and the press have
been moDllzed almost constantly for more than a hundred
years in planting the doctrine of German supremacy, the idea
of the auper-man, in the German mind. And with it went the
doctrine of the right of the fittest only to survive.
The author whose writings have been read more than
those of any other man by the present generation in Germany
is Nietzsche, and his philosophy is well expressed in the fol-
lowing passage: ut is but fanaticism to expect very much
TX m humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war"
1t is said of Bismarck by Busch, one of his biographers.
that in his declining years he repented or recanted. and near
ing his death complained that he had derived little Joy or sat
happy, neither himself nor his family nor others. "But I have
made many unhappy" he added. "But for me three big wars
would not have been fought, 10000 men would not have been
slain, nor would their parents, brothers, sisters and wives have
mOurned their death. That, however, I have settled
with God"
But Frederick and Bismarck only laid the groundwork
tr. lorism in which the world rocked and civilization reeled as
William brandished his sword and drove his savage legions
on. And all the crimes and crueties, the pain and suffering.
the tears and sobs, the grief and anguish. the rapine and raw
lshment, the torture and barbarism charged against all the
Caesers and Alexander and Genghis Khan and Attila and all
the Moslem assassins that have ravaged the world, all these
are not equal in their enormity to the crimes of William of
Prussia and those who followed him.
And that such a following may be rendered hereafter and
forever impossible is the problem that America and her allies
now face. The fate of William is of small concern compared
with that, although involved in it and a part of it.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-23
~RE-EDUCATING GERMANY

If The people of Germany are to rule Germany hereafter
then the leace-loving world must begin the education of Ger
many along new lines. 1t will take time to eradicate from
The German mind the notions of German supremacy that have
Deeh lnstllled there, regardless of what has happened in the
last ninety days. The ponderous and empowering egotism
ID exalts itself above every question of morals, as morality
is understood by the rest of the world-this egotism must be
ev'riastingly smashed or the war will have failed to carry
i"n'" to the German people the lesson that will mean lasting
peace.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-09
HAS SOME TEAM!|
Bean OlcOtt's Great Lakes
Quintet Has $4,000 ROOters.
Former X. U. Coach Makes
Good at Training Station.

Great Lakes, ILL.,, March 9.-Twenty-
eight thousand rooters-the largest
number of hackers that ever urged a
basketball team to victory-are the
proud enthusiasts who are placing
their faith in the crack five now at
tracing the attention of the middle
west to the Great Lakes naval training
station here.
feats that cast a decided gloom over
the Jackies, the basket tossers later
hit stiff stride which revealed the
fact that Coach Olcotts men are all
individual stars of ability, as we'll as
being members of quintet In which
team work is raised to the degree of
perfection
With the introduction into the
lineup of George Ha1as, a former cap
tain of the University of Illinois five,
the team has become a truly danger
GUS opponent for the strong teams that
still remain on the navy teams sched-
ule.
Johnson, who started with the IlIi-
nois Athletic club, is showing much
better form than early in the season,
and Peppard, husky Michigan
Aggies' center. continues to outclass
his opponents at every stage of the
game.
Much favorable comment is being
heaped upon Allen. guard, who is be-
coming an important factor on the
team because of his basket tossing
from defensive position. Felmey,
ex-Illinois player, and Coveney,
formerly with the Detroit RayIs, are
both handling their positions like
veterans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-09
BIC ROTARY WORK
HOwes's Report Shows What
Clubs Do for Soldiers.
st. Louis Man Elected Governor
of Eleventh District.

Hutchinson, March 9-'Hi'' Martin
of st. Louis, was elected governor of
the eleventh district of Rotary clubs
at the third annual conference held
here Friday, defeating Tom Wagstaff
of Independence, Kan, by the narrow
margin of two votes. On motion of
Wagstaff the election of Martin was
made unanimous. Oklahoma City
was chosen as the place of holding
the next annual conference.
The feature of the convention was
the report of the committee on train
ing camp activities of which Cecil
Howes. of Topeka, is chairman.
Vigorous applause greeted this report
of the state of Kansas, Missouri and
Oklahoma and the report was adopted
unanimously.
Howes Makes Report.
Friday evening a dinner was given
at Convention hall for the visiting
Rotarians and their wives, bringing
the conference to happy close. Res
olutions adopted enthusiastically
praised Hutchinson for its hospitality
and the visitors were a unit in saying
that in its social features this was the
best conference ever held in the dis
trict.
Corrective measures provided by
recreation work, Rotary clubs, local
and state police have been responsible
for the reduction of venereal diseases
at Camp Funston by more than 100
per cent. Cecil Howes pointed out in
his report on the work done by his
committee. Howes read a letter from
Maj. John c. H. Lee, acting chief of
staff of the Eighty-ninth division of
the national army. Only seventeen
new cases of venereal disease were re-
ported in the whole command from
September to January 1, altho the
command numbered 5000 men, Lee
said.
$71,5OO Has Been Raised.
Every possible safeguard has been
thrown around the camps, in order
that the soldiers may not have the
temptations which inevitably are
there unless preventive measures are
taken according to Howes. Every
agencywas necessary to accomplish
the good results but at present there
is no cleaner camp anywhere than
Funston. Much of the money raised
by tie Rotary clubs in the eleventh
district has been spent there for
recreational purposes.
A budget of $3.50 has been pre-
pared by the committee on training
oamp activities for buildings at juno
ton City, Manhattan, Eeavenworth
and Lawton, Okla, according to fig
ures presented by Howes. Already
$13.7T9 has been expended, in the
erection and furnishing of buildings
at Manhattan and Leavenworth. Re-
ports from the various clubs in the
district show that every city except
st. Joseph, No, and McAleSter, Okla,
have had a share in raising the
money which now totals s54,724.s5.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-09
EXPECTING so TEAMS
State III. S. Basketball Tournament at
Lawrence March 1928.

Lawrence, Kan, March 9.-High
school basketball tossers from all
parts of Kansas will be in Lawrence
March % and % to take part in the
eleventh annual Kansas high school
basketball tournament, to be held in
Robinson gymnasium at the Univer-
sity of Kansas. State championships
will be decided in both boys and
girls classes.
The championship of the State
High School Athletic association also
will be decided during the tourna-
ment, the eight winning district
teams competing. separate cup
will be given to the winner. Silver
loving cups will be presented to the
winners and runners-up in both boys
and girls classes in the university
tournament
1t is expected that more than fifty
teams will compete. Last year sixty
two Kansas high schools were repre-
scented at the tourney.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-09
DONOVAN A SCOUT NOW
Former Manager of Yankees to Beat
Bushes for Detroit.

Detroit, Mich, March 9.-The
scouting system of the Detroit Ameri-
cans will be radically changed this
year. The work probably will be left
to ore man, wild Bill' Donovan,
who formerly pitched for the Tigers,
and who until last fall was manager
of the New York Americans.
When President Navin decided to
sign Donovan as coach of the Detroit
battery men there was some COM
inert as t. whether this move would
please Manager Jennings. Jennings
endorsed it and it became known that
Navin has acted, upon Jennings's sug-
gestion. Jennings has proved to be a
successful manager from the stand
point of developing a powerful attack
and maintaining team play, but he
has not been considered exceptionally
successful in developing pitchers
This work, it is understood, Jennings
wishes to turn over to Donovan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-09
MUST GET TO WORK
Director Porter Urges More Activity i'm
Boys Working Reserve.

An appeal for serious work on the
part of local directors of the boys
working reserve was made today by
w. L. Porter, federal director for Kan
sas of the organization Mr.. Porter
asserted that some of his local direc-
tors did not seem to see the impor-
lance of the work and urged that the
enrolment of boys be taken seriously.
I'VE need men and women of action
in this work. added Mr. Porter. TT
is important that boys of Kansas who
can give part of their time this sum-
mer to farm work should be enrolled
IN the working reserve. The local d.
rectors. both county and city, should
push the campaign and secure as large
enroliments as possible
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-09
JACK DEMPSEY IS REAL
FIGHTER, RECORD SHOWS

Here is the ring record of Jack
Dempsey. heavyweight, who wants
a chance at Jess Willard's' crown:
Jim Flynn. Salt Lake City.
Dempsey knocked out in the first
round.
Willie Meehan., San Francisco,
Dempsey won, four rounds.
AL Norton, San Francisco, Demp-
sey won, first round. knockout.
Charles Moller, San Francisco,
Dempsey won. first round. knock
out.
Bob McAllister. San Francisco,
Dempsey won, four rounds.
Gunboat Smith, San Francisco,
Dempsey won, four rounds.
Carl Morris, San Francisco,
Dempsey won, four rounds.
Homer Smith, Racine, Wis,
Dempsey won, first round, knock
out.
Carl Morris. Buffalo, Dempsey
won, six rounds.
Jim Flynn, Salt Lake City,
Dempsey won, first round, knock
out.
Bill Brennan, Milwaukee, Demp-
sey won, six rounds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-09
FORM NEW DISTRICT
Methodist Church Is Enjoying a Good
Growth i'm Kansas.

Pratt Kan, March 9.-The Metho-
dist conference. in session here, fin
ished the reports of the district su-
perintendents Friday. Forty new
churches were erected and several
hundred new members added to the
church. The Rev. Mr.. Rallingston,
who preached at Iuka. in this county,
long before Pratt was a city. was
given retired relations. He founded
the luke church thirty-nine years ago.
He never received over $3.50 per year
The Wichita and Hutchinson hos
pitfalls came up for consideration, and
most of the time was spent on the new
Wesley hospital at Wichita. One
hundred and twenty-five thousand
dollars has been raised for this hos
pital, and DIR. A. d. Eastwood was
ma med as financial superintendent.
The matter of readjusting the boun-
daries of the district will be taken up
today. One new district will be or
ganized. Four of he present district
superintendents. Reverends Dadisman.
Mccormick, Shines and Eastwood, will
retire to other fields.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-09
~ Up to the Minute
~ SPORTING NEWS
~ FROM EVERYWHERE.
BY-cLUa-
New Manager of Topeka Club
Has a Good Baseball Record
Dayton Fans Think More of Him Than They Do of Their
Dear, Near Relatives.

Topeka definitely the Western
this FANS and fannees beginning talk dope
the prospects What the league
going be like? How is going to feel to sit out at the old park
the mask and the thud of the pill?
the relgiousy did the
old Savages? What is Abbott going
call his team?
the questions that floating around
passing but the question that being
asked most is: the manager?
What baseball and what the chances that he
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-09
PROFESSIONAL GRID STARS
NOT WANTED IN TRENCHES

London, March 9.-American
college athletes will find something
to think about in this a promi
nent Glasgow medical man who
has just returned from profess
sional visit to the front in France
says that professional football play
ers are not wanted in the trenches,
and explains that this is so be-
cause their endurance is less than
one-third of that of the ordinary
soldier taken from the desk or the
farm or the shop. He attributes
this to the fact that they have been
so long tuned to the highest
pitch to take part in the game. In
addition, their nerves are so acute
that they cannot stand gunfire, as
can the ordinary man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-09
TIA JUANA IS CLOSED
Race Track Operator May Become a
Baseball Nagnate.

San Diego, Cal, March 9.-James
Coffroth. wealthy sportsman, forced
by drastic passport regulations to close
his Tia Juana race course. is reported
to have turned his attention to base
ball.
Coffroth and Jack Atkins. former
baseball club owner. are understood
to be dickering for the purchase of
the Vernon Tigers of the Pacific Coast
league, having in mind the transfer of
the club to San Diego. San Diego
needs sporting diversion, it is
pointed out and the immense army
and navy camps would boost at
tendance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-09
GUNBOAT LICKED AGAIN
Kansas City Lad Put II All Over Old
Timer at Joplin.

Joplin. No. March 9.-Gunboat
Smith was completely -eutclassed here
in a twelve round bout with Hugh
Walker, of Kansas City. Smith landed
only two blows in the first nine rounds
and these lacked sufficient steam to
halt Walkers bull-like rushes.
Walker fought low most of the time,
raining a tattoo on the gunner's mid
section that soon had it looking like
an anarchist flag. Smith had the bet
ter of only the last round and of that
ONLY by a shade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-09

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