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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1918-08-02
WHEN ABSENT VOTER, RETURN
ING, CAN VOTE IN PERSON

No absent voter returning to his
place of residence, will be prohibited
from voting in person within his pre-
cinct, nOtwithstand that he may
have made application for an absent
voters ballot or ballots and the same
may have been mailed by the said
Clerk: Provided, That such voter
has not awaited himself Of the privi-
lege Of an absent voter, as provided
by this act, and voted the ballot or
ballots mailed him by the said clerk,
and provided he return such ballot,
or ballots, if received, to the Board
by whom same shall be marked "can-
celled" and placed in the regular
ballot boxes with other ballots.
Any voter voting at any election
both in person and by means of an
absent voters ballot, or who shall
attempt so to vote, shall on convict
ion be deemed guilty of felony.
NOTE-The old Law required alb
sence from the County. Now absence
from Township is sufficient.
F. V. Hodges, Clerk of the SAID
Township of Paw Paw
County of Van Buren,, Michigan
p. o. Address Paw Paw
Dated, July 25th, A. d. 1913
Ny office is located at F. V. Hodges
store.
REGISTRATION NOTICE
NOTE IMPORTANT CHANGE IN
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1918-08-02

should make personal application to
me on or before the 18th, day of
August, A. ID. 1913.
Notice is further hereby given that
] will be at F. v. Hodges store where
you will review the registration and
register qualified electors who may
apply therefor.
AUGUST 3, AND AUGUST 10, 1918
From 8 o'clock A. M. until o'clock
p. M. on each said day for the pur-
pose of reviewing the registration
and registering such of the qualified
electors in said township as shall
appear and apply therefor.---------
The name of no person but an
actual resident of the precinct at the
time of registration, and entitled
under the constitution, if remaining
such resident, to vote at the next
election shall be entered in the regis
tration book.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1918-08-02
HOW TO VOTE BY MAIL

With Special Reference to the
primary Election, August 9th. 1918
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1918-08-02

A true copy
Margaret M. Southworth
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1918-08-02

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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-01

out conscience. honor or capacity for
covenanted peace. must pc crushed
our present and immediate task Is
20 win the war, and nothing shall
turn US aside until Il is accom-
pished"
Presidents Reply.
The presidents letter, GATED March
IS, follows:
In reply to your letter CT March q.
may / mol say that you are perfectly
safe in using the words which you
quote from my messages as expressing
my unaitered thought ami unbrOken
purpOseZ II Is always cur duty 20
lind out what the expression Of a
desire for peace from our opponents
really MEANS but unless IL means a
complete and convincing program Of
justice upon which a lasting peace
yet no evidence that q means any
hing OF that kind. il means nothing
The presidents letter wil be read
from all Methodist pulpits in the
country on april and tie national
war council Announces thar all Melho-
dist ministers have been urged TO
use Il as a basis Of a new and hearty
backing o. the president IN the war
and for the choking out OF AL pa
cifists"
The council also announced plans
for collecting a fund 10 oe used in
strengthening the churches near the
army camps. both with buildings and
helpers. so that the soldiers who de-
sire can come into the nearby towns
and get q honey church service"
The church does not plan to open
separate buildings in the camp.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-01
GERMANS INCITE NEGROES
TO EYADE The DRAFT

Jackson. Miss. april Charges
that German money is being used TO
encourage Mississippi negroes to
erade the selective draft are made in
a report filed al the adiutant gem
erals office today By T. X. Ethridee
state inspector Of local exemption
boards.
The report declares Il has been al
most impossible TO get negro regis
that c. II. Mason. pastor Of q negro
church at Lexington. Miss, known
as the Church OF God in Christ" has
been preaching pro-German sermons
and advising Negroes 10 resist the
draft
The Inspectors report SAYS the Pos
tor hitherto an obscure negro
preacher. recently erected g Sos. 0OO
residence in Memphis.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-01
q MORE CASUALTIES IN
AMERICAN FORCES ANNOUNCED

Washington. D. c.. April The
war department last night made pub
lie the following casualty list total
ing % names
killed in action= Pvt Martin O'Con-
Died OF wounds. Laurence E. Red
mond-
wounded severely Pvt Alfred
Speigle.
Died Of disease. Corps James Leo
pold Loehr. meningitis: California
True. abcess OF brain: Pvts. Clement
Bason. pneumonia: Charles Brown,
pneumonia. Dewey n Douglas. mem
nights. Herman Hahn. oedema Of
brain. William Edgar Murphy. menin-
gifts; Percy c. Seay, meningitis: Rob
ert Thrill, pneumonia
Wounded slightly Lieut. walter
l. HardenbrOolz. Lieut. Talbot T..
Speers Lieut. Guy Daniel Tibbstts;
Sergt- Alfred J. Bergeron. Sergt-
Dewey J. Hooper: Corps. Joe Ruben,
John Wilson. bugler Joseph KunE;
Pvts. Frank J. Bedrnicek. George n.
Bel. Pelegrino Cavazza, Walter De-
celle. jerry Ferde, George +. Gehr,
Wilbur l. Lawrence and Ransy l.
Rutledge-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-01
GERMANS EAGERLY SEEK NEWS
U. S. FORCES IN FRANCE
CConfinued From PAGE One)

them2 Have they any light signals
other than French oues2"
Under enemy patrols the docu-
ment asked details on strength.
methods Of advance, behavior on
meeting and initiative" These ques-
tions come under information on gen
eral behavior;
Careful or NoIsys
Are the Americans careful and eau
tious2 are they careful or noisy2
What IS their behavior during smoke
screens What Is their behavior at
meal rimes2 When are these2 Can
concentration be observed2 Is there
much reconnoitering2 How is the be-
havior day and niEht2 Is there much
machine gun fire? Is there more or
less transport Of material thsz for
merlyZ7
Inquire About Ordinance.
The Germans also want TO know
whether during reliefs there are more
troops in the rear than is customary
with the French and what are the
times and sounds Of reliefs- It is said
that used infantry and machine gun
bullets. uneZploded shells. and shell
splinters are Of special value The
Germans want 20 know whether the
copper rotating bands have sharp in
cisions, indicating new OF worn out
suns. the cadber Of which can be de-
-arzliled by the curvature OF the
sp-inters. according to the document
Information regarding the color and
outside appearance OF proiectiles fired
1T the Americans also IS desired The
German soldiers are ordered TO keep
fuses, splinters Of shells and shell
bases having factory initials and num-
bera
what Objective Preferredf
Under the heading Enemy she'll
ing they are asked the American Pc
compared with the French.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-01
WIN The WAR.
WILSON, IDEA
Still Stands Firmly Against
Negotiated Peace With
Tricky Enemy.

New York April President VII
son has not changed his attitude con.
corning a negotiated peace with the
central powers, as expressed in his
Flag day address. his reply 70 pope
Benedict and his message 10 congress
On the declaration Of war with Aus
trias according TO letter he has
written 20 bishop Theodore s. Hen
derson, Of the Methodist Episcopal
church, made public here today by the
national war council Of the church.
Bishop Henderson wrote 70 the
president in behalf OF 20000.00O
American Methodists. asking partlc-
ularly whether his present unwaver-
ing purpose was expressed in the fol-
lowing words from his message;
The German power. a thing with
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-01

bursts OF fire or single shots at tixed
intervals and what is the normal FIR
ing rate when observation is goou.
Many OF the above items, while ap-
parently trivial, II Is pointed out by
intelligence officers, indicate why the
censorship has been obliged 70 delete
certain matter from press dispatches.
Since the captured document was is
sued, the Germans naturally have
found answers to many Of the ques-
tlons but about the others the Ameri-
can expeditionary force believes it
still has the enemy guessing.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-01
ROBERTS IN CASUALTY
LIST MAY BE FL, PhsOAN

The American casualty list. an
nounced from Washington late Satur-
day, contained the name OF John ".
Roberts. who died Of accident"
While no home address was given and
while there may be more than one
John ". Roberts in the American
forces, IL was believed IN FL Paso the
casualty was John ". Roberts, who
was a correspondent in Fl Paso and
Mexico during Villas palmy days. He
was correspondent for the Interna-
tioual News Service for a me and
also was connected with morning pa
per here. When Villas fortunes waned,
Roberts went TO New York, and after
the United States entered the war he
enlisted in a New York regiment in
the Rainbow division
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-01

calamity and as wen as their com
rades 10 the right and 70 the left
They chung on for many hours until
the regular army came up. This Is a
sample OF the fighting spirit which
allied soldiers are showing IN this
time OF stress
British Tramp 10 the Battle.
This incident Is more spectacular
but hardly finer in spirit than that
OF seven British soldiers These lads
had been home in England on leave
and on landing al a channel port in
France could find no transportation 10
lhe front Did they sit down and
waltz They did not They tramped
almost every foot OF the way TO the
battle lines to take their places be-
side their hard pressed comrades
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-01
GERMANS BLAME FRENCH
FOR BEING IN CHURCH

London, Eng, April 1.-Speaking Of
the loss OF life in a Paris church from
a shell fired by a long range German
gun, a semi-official Berlin dispatch.
forwarded from Amsterdam by the
Central News. says IL is 70 be de-
plored, but that every church within
an attacked fortress necessarily Is
subject to Incidental hits. The re-
spousibilty for the security OF the
Inhabitants OF Paris, the dispatch
says. must rest with the French gov
e~urneur
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-01
PoPE II AROTsEn.

Rome, Italy, april Pope Bene-
dict expressed deep concern on re-
ceiving reports today Of the loss OF
life in the Paris church which was
struckhy a German shell, Il being
felt that the situation has assumed
new aspect inasmuch as shells from
guns instead OF bombs from airplanes
are being used TO lombard Paris
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-01
Army Sings
rs Long Lines March
To Battle In Picardu

with the American Army IN
France, April by The Asso-
ciated Press)-Singing and cheer
ing. American troops are on their
way TO the battle zone. Nile after
mile Of motor trucks loaded with
troops and mile after mile OF
marching men are on the way
Washington estimates are that al
least 100.000 American troops are
TO be thrown into the battle.)
The troops had been Up on the
BIT and rearing TO 90. It was great
news for tbs wen the French
Eeneralissimo Foch granted Cen j.
J. Pershing's request that Amer
lean troops be allowed 20 get into
the figh+
Great activity OF many sorts IS
now under way in the training
zone Of the American army as the
force prepares to get into the con
dict.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-01
GET Y. VI. g. A. EoUIP9TFNT.

Farls, Franco, april I.-EQuipment
valued at more than $4,000 and sent
BY the American y. ". c. A. TO the
British front for the use Of Ameri-
can railway engineers and other
American units, virtually all has fall
len into the hands of the Germans.
Four times the I'M G. A. men moved
their positions and abandoned during
the retreat one large wooden build
ing, two large tents and a quantity
Of supplies.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-01
GERIAN lIINoK PRINCE Kn-ITn.

Amsterdam Holland April L.
Prince Emich. Enlist. elder son Of
prince Emlch OF Leinirel. has been
killed leading storniuE company Of
q Erenadier regiment. according to
Lolzal AnzeiEer Of Berlin He was %
years old and unmarrie7
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-01

Under tho headllg Enemy SHELF
ing" they are asked the American Pc
culiarfties compared with the French.
what detectives are preferred and
whether the duEouts are shelled- The
document asks also that it be deter
mined whether the Americans employ
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14
Congestion Cure

Our contemporary "The Evening
Mail' imagines that it was the freight
congestion merely that we proposed to
reduce by heavy increase in freight
rates. Not this alone, but the conges-
ton of population as we'll The cheap
ness of transportation is mainly respon-
sible for the fact that industry tends
to agglomerate in few places, quite in
dependently of the sources of raw ma
terials. Cotton from the fields of the
South, hides from Texas and wool
from Montana are hauled to the North
Atlantic seaboard and the manufact-
ured products are carried back. Per-
haps half of it is quite needless haul.
Yet the cost of haulage is so little that
nobody has ever cared.
"The Mail' cites Henry Ford as
creation of cheap freights In point of
fact, the aggregate freight charges on
all that goes into an automobile and
the perfected machine itself are extreme
ly small. These rates might be quad
rupled without disturbing Mr. Ford's
peculiar monopoly. But the concentra-
tion of motor car manufacture in points
like Detroit is perfect example of what
excessively cheap freights mean. De-
troit, for example, had neither the raw
materials nor cheap power nor even
the basic machipery for making cars.
1t was an almost pure "happen chance"
that the industry grew there so rapidly.
1t might just as we'll have been Buffalo
or Duluth or St. Louis, or, if you please,
Oshkosh or Kankakee.
With the present rates relatively about
half what they were five years ago, ow-
ing to the rise in prices, this tendency
to concentration must be accentuated
For the rest, it is absurd to suggest
that an increase in freight rates propor-
tlonally to the rise in the general price
level and the cost of living would "cre-
ate alarm for that would simply mean
restoring relations to just what thew
were three years ago. And, even So.
there is something in this world worth
while besides cheapness, and one is some
means to stop the present scheme of
packing millions upon millions of humai,
beings into the confined spaces of our
big cities.
We can see no reason why at least
billion, and perhaps two billions.
should not be levied as war tax in the
form OF increased freight and passenger
rates. If it was even four billions it
would only bring up these rates to the
same level as the rise in general prices.
This would be an ideal form of taxation.
spread evenly upon all things, and it's
economic consequences would incident
ally be very desirable.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14

Each addition to the literature Of the
crazy aircraft controversy makes it lit
tie worse. "The Evening Post" says Vice
President Marshall and Secretary Baker
in January suppressed "the evidence of
Mr.. Borgluns alleged intent to become
a prohteer, and that they did it with n
worthy motive, namely, to spare the
President the embarrassment of learning
that his private investigator was under
suspicion. But it has been repeatedly
asserted and never, so far as we know,
denied that Borglum's private report to
the President, accusing the aircrafters Of
graft ard pro-Germanism, was released
by the War Department on word from
Mr.. Tumulty, the White House secretary.
So it appears that while the Vice Presi-
dent and the Secretary Of War were sup
pressing information which in their opn-
ion dscredited Borglum Mr.. Tumulty
still believed in him and authorized pub
licity of his outrageous charges against
the Aircraft Board. Meanwhile, the re-
port of the Snowden Marshall committee
that investigated both Borglum and the
Aircraft Board is in somebody's pigeon
hole. But what Of airplanes as such?
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14
Sister Madeline
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: She has no press agent, this Saliva
ton Army lassie, and when the dough-
boys move up to the front line trench
cover there" begrimed with dust and mud,
they gaze in wonder at the poke bonneted
Martha awaiting them with her basket of
doughnuts and bucket of coffee SISTER
Madeline" they call her, and they will tell
you that this Martha of the battlefield has
a heart that pulses 100 per cent true to the
call of service, let bullet and she'll speed
where they will, and more than one Sister
Madeline has staggered through with GRIM
soncd basket.
You OF over here listen to one of Per-
shings khaki stawarts:
IL have just turned my rockets inside
out and the tambourine could hold much
more but it all | had and | am still
IN the debt of the Salvation Army. For
what, you ask? For about all that
brought back of body and soul! For hot
coffee and cookies when l was shiverinp
like an aspen; for buttons and patches on
my tattered uniform for steering me clear
of the camp followers, the parasites that
decimate the morale of the army. But
more than all" and the veteran of some
lively scraps with the Hun turned his
softening glance toward France and the
American sector, more than all for the
CHEEKY word, for the soace to those gone
west for the blessed face of woman
from the home land in the midst of wither-
ing blight and desolation"
Had this hero of Secheprey the poetic
gift of that other gallant, Rupert Brooke.
ne might have put it this way:
Otis the human touch in this world that
counts,
The touch of your hand and mine,
Which means far more to the fainting
heart
Than shelter and bread and wine.
For shelter is gone when the night is DER
And bread lasts only day,
But the touch of the hand and the sound
of the voice
Sing on in the soul Away"
And so, Sister Madeline carries on! I'm
press -agented-hcr work almost unknown to
these over here, but enshrined in the
heart of each brave defender of the rieht
"over there" And when lie returns To his
mansion or cottage, this crusader who
fought to "keep the home fires burning !"
pecan of praise will be sung for Sister
Madcline-the Martha of the battlefield.
PAUL JARVIS
New York, May 12, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14
The Shame of Creel

At meeting of the Public Forum
Sunday night, George Creel, chairman
of the Committee on Public Information,
appointed by the President to tell the
people the truth said:
According to "7'he Neav Yorh World":
II don't like Summing, SO l won't ex-
plore into the heart of Congress-"
According to "7'he Neav York Sum-:
"Creel added that he was not
out stunning, and did not propose to eX-
plore the hearts of members of Congress-"
According to "Thc New Yorl; Ameri-
cam:
II don't like Summing, so I am not
going to explore the heart of Congress-"
according to The Neav York Tribune:
~ don't like Summing, so l won't ex-
plore the heart of Congress for you"
The Congress, be it said for the edu-
cation of some readers Of Mr.. Creel's
"Oficial Bulletin" is great American
institution. 1t is the legislative power
of the United States. Recently it passed
what is called the sedition bill, under
which, during the war, one may be i'm
prisoned for uttering "scurrilous" or
"abusive" language "about the form of
government of the United States," or
"any language intended to bring the
form of government of the United
States" into contempt, scorn, contumely
or disrepute."
Mr.. Creels words bring Congress into
contempt. Congress could abolish him.
It probably won't-not yet. But what
of those citizens in the twilight of MAX
ing who were to be reached with edu-
cational propaganda by the Committee
on Public Information? Will their re-
spect for the American government be
increased or diminished?
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14
Belgium S Belfries Silent

lFrom The Christian Science Moaitor)
Silence, even more intense than for the
past three and half years, has fallen on
Belgium, for no longer is the voice of the
bells in the old belfries heard in tho ,.rd
and even the organs are mute in tho
churches M. Emile Cammaerts, the Re,o;an
poet, writes in "The Spectator" Of this Tho
last cruel stroke inflicted on his co,,+u,
Cynical indeed is Germany's purpose Tho
bells and organ pipes are being sent -
Essen to be converted into engines of do
struction. "They must be thrown TODAY j..
Germany's melting pot, and their poiden
song, which foated over the peaceful
meadows of Flanders and in the cool and
shady streets of quiet towns, will become
the rough bark of the guns" In tho ears
Of deeply sympathetic world nothing
could be more eloquent than this quenching
of the voice of once free and indenepdent
Belgium.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14
Gath" in Reality

We give this morning picture of the
concrete cargo boat Faith on it's trial
trip. 1t is hailed by builders as notable
success. 1t seemed to be remarkably
free from vibration and it's speed was
above expectations.
In the installation Of the engines, in
fortyfour days, record was made. If
on the high seas it shows the same ex-
cellent results, it may mark the begin
ming of a departure in shipbuilding
Though we have long had concrete
barges, the Faith is complete nov
city in the way of a large sea-going
concrete boat. Its success may go far
toward solving the problem of rapid
hull construction.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14
One s atherland
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In to-day's issue Of your paper
Gutzon Borglum is quoted as saying:
81 do say, candidly and emphatically,
that it is unfair to ask German blood,
although born in America, to be as prompt
as war demands in the execution of orders
against their fatherland."
l do not presume to judge the merits Of
the controversy in which he is involved,
but I do say, candidly and emphatically,
damn such sentiments as the above!
l suppose l am of German parcntage,
though my father came from Hanover
before it became part of the German En-
pirc, but l know my innermost spirit abso-
lutely refutes such an imputation as Mr.
Borglums. And I know of numerous
friends similarly related whose loyalty is
as positive and unqualified as my own and
who share the bitterness toward Germany
that do.
Furthermore, when Mr.. Borglum uses
such words as "fatherland" he should be
sure of their meaning The Standard Die
tionary says fatherland is the land of ones
birth.
The United States of America is my
fatherland, and the fatherland of all men
born here, and any other conception by Mr.
Borglum or any other person shows dense