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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-09-12
OUTLINE STREET WORK
FOR COMING YEAR
Kenosha Ofaeials Give State Highway
Commission Estimate of Work

Proposed for 1919.

The street assessment committee Of
the city today furnished to the State
Highway Commission estimates of the
city Improvement work to be done in
Kenosha in 1919. The work proposed
includes the completion of the nave
ment on the Sheridan road and the re-
surfacing of all the macadam STREETS and
the paving of South Rowland avenue.
Work to be done in cities of Wiseon-
sin during the coming year win be reg
ulated by permits from the State
Highway Commission.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-09-12

And the least you can do is to
register and do it cheerfully. If you
have the feeling that you have done
all the nation asked Of you.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-09-12

And the Presidents proclamation
stopping the manufacture Of beer,
should at least result in the elimination
of the Prohibition party for the period
Of the war. The nation is going dry,
not on account of Prohibitionists, but
regardless of them.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-09-12

Defeated candidates VINO run on
Independent tickets do not usually
get any great consideration. American
people believe in fair play and good
craftsmanship and few Of them want
to vote for welcher.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-09-12

The French have taken ttHam," and
with the Americans bringing home the
bacon on the other French trench, it an
be said that the allies are stocking up
for the winter.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-09-12

1t is to be hoped that the police win
not weary in well doing, but keep right
on arresting men who race past school
houses with automobiles. 1t is import
ant to made school house districts
safe for the children, just as it is
to make the world safe for
democracy.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-09-12

If bird in the hand is worth two in
the bush it should be easy to figure
out the relative value of ton of coal
in the bin as compared with two tons
ttordered.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-09-12

All you have to do in politics is to
keep at it long enough Even, John ].
Blaine of Boscobel finally made it
stick.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-03-04
Because of Her the French
Held the Germans Back
Until England Arrived
and Will Hold the Line
Until America Arrives.
(By George Randolph Chester
and Lillian Chester,l

Copyright. 1918, by the Newspaper
Enterprise Association.)
Paris, March at was the sort of
night into which you wouldn't push a
hyena! We emerged from the res
taurant, warm. but shivered instantly
the door revolved us into a sleety
snow.
a high wind. sharp and raw; angle
deep slush! There were vehicles in
the street. taxis and cabs; they only
did one thing; went by at top speed,
casting wide curving, watery winrows
on each side of them: not one would
stop in response to the most frantic
OF signals, the most commanding or
wet raw wind whistled round and
round. The very thought of getting
from there to anywhere. on foot, was
enough to CONCEAL the marrow in ones
bones! re
out Of the dimness came a shuf-
fling something which seemed to have
no particular form or shape, but we
knew it to be a. person because it was
coughing violently. 1t stopped for a
mdment as<it came opposite. and sur
veyed US inauirinslS then shuffled to-
I'm taxi?" inquired the voice which
had coughed. s.
A woman! A sawed-off woman, not
over FIVE feet high. bundled in a mans
rough coat. a little basket of withered
on her arm.
There was cagerness in her voice,
plantive eagerness. and the eyes
which burnd up at US were big and
feverish. and full Of suffering.
If We had been merely basking in
the snow. and passionately fond Of
.shivering on this, our favorite basking
place. even then we would have been
impelled to order a taxi in response
to that powerful appeal: so our string
of "oui's' vas most enthusiastic.
The woman only stopped to set
down her basket and to give one twist
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-03-04
The Marvellous Woman of France,
Who Tolls And Suffers--And Smiles!

to the knot of hair on the back of
her head-it presented the illusion of
whirlins, there were SO many centri-
fugal ends radiating from it-and
away he went!
1t vas difficult to keep track of her;
she was like a dragn-fly- over a stream,
a humming bird in a garden, a Jump
skeeter" on a pond.
Five streets cornered there, n she
was on all five of them at once; she
moved so rapidly that she seemed to
be suspended about two feet above
the ground, her short legs sticking
out, fore and aft, on almost a perfect
ly straight line.
Finally she disappeared around the
corner, splashing down the middle of
the street, in mad pursuit of her thir-
tieth or foretieth possibility.
In about two minutes more she
came back. riding on the step of that
taxi, and her face was fairly luminous
with its smile of exultant triumph!
A poilu's wifeAhis woman. with five
little children to raise. and one of
them. the middle one, Dcsiree. always
needing medicine: and everything so
high. and the government allowance
for poilu families SO small; and SO
many poilus' wives to divide what
work they have the skill and the time
to do;. and violets so improbable in
the bad weather. OF which there is so
much in the winter; but listen!
If it please the good God to let
jacques return to his home-Oh, Of
course not to the sumptuous three
rooms, with gas! which he had so well
supported by his earnings as a car
penter-but home, he will find. in the
one bare room, everything Of real
value which he left behind; happy
children and a cheerful wife!
Marie and Therese are more for
tunate than Jacques wife, for the
burden Of providing for their fam
lilies is not so difficult. They secured
their husbands jobs!
The first time we met s1hem we
thought they were men. from their
caps and their coats and their thick
boots. and the fact hat they were
pushing heavy street-cleaner carts
through the slush.
They were laughing and joking
with each other, their broad faces red
with the tang of outdoor exercise;
and it was not until they stopped to
let us pass on the crossing, and an.
swered u friendly thanks with thei,
smiles-those wonderful smiles of the
women Of France-that we knew
them for women.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-03-04

But Marie and Therese are thor
oughly feminine in their homes, which
are neat as a pin, just as they we're
before the war when these women a
nothing to do but keep them SO.
Each home has a mantel. which IS
the place of honor, for the gilded
shrine hangs above it. and each man.
tel is given over to the portraits of
brave soldiers. whom each brave
woman has relinquished to France;
the husband, the brothers, the cou-
sins.
What depths of grief there may
be in Marie and Therese one a only
guess from an occasional tragic in
Election, Al occasional misery in the
eyes; but Marie Processes to be very
happy, for God has given her the
strength to do her husbands rough
work, and 81 to be able to care for
her two strong, healthy boys!
+ Nearly every oma in France has
the thought in mind that all those
men who r. gone must be replaced!
/ Therese is somewhat wistful at this
point. for Therese has only girls; but
she brightens when it Is suggested to
her that France needs a continuation
of her courageous women as well as of
her gallant men.
! And that is the sorrow of the wom-
an in the bank. She had been mar
ried five years, she had a comfortable
home, she was very happy.
The war broke out.
/ Her husband was one of the first to
fall in defense of her and the other
women Of his country; and she has no
children! She is glad of one thing,
however.
She has proved to have a particu-
lar talent. for the position she occu-
! pies. a position which ordinarily only
an energetic young man could fill; and
that releases another soldier for
France! She smiles beautifully, this
woman in the bank.
We had some official business to
transact with another capable woman
in n of the government bureaus.
She was a particularly pleasant
woman. who put herself out ire
mendously to make everything con-
venient for us. No time .or trouble
was too much. and. no matter how
often It was necessary to bother her,
she met US with a cheerfulness which
was almost gaiety.
She was always laughing. and, you
would have imagined that she had not
one trouble in the world, that she had
not one serious thought.
We became quite we'll acquainted
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-03-04
BOLSHEVlKlsM NOT DEMOCRACY.

The utter failure Of the .Bolsheviki in Russia does
not represent the failure Of democracy, for the true
democratic spirit is as foreign to the grotesaue parody on
government which is being given in Russia as it is to the
absolute system under which Russia was governed so
long.
Democracy may be direct, or pure" as it is in a
measure in the Swiss antons, in the New England town
meeting, and in many small units in many countries. or
it may be representative, as it is in the national affairs
OF the United States. Of Britain, and of France. But in
whatever form it expresses itself, democracy seeks to
give effect to the considered judgment Of the whole COM
munity, and to defend the rights Of all the community
members, whether they be of the majority or of the
minority.
What we are witnessing in Russia is not the break
ing down of a system of democracy, but the working out
to it's logical and suicidal conclusion of a system in which
there has been substituted for the tyrrany of a central
body the tyrrany Of a multitude Of little local bodies
which may or may not represent local najorities, but
which are able by hook or crook to WELD a momentary
power, and who exercise that power on the basis of class
consciousness and class antagonisn, and which grant the
privilege of a voice in the affairs of the coinmunity onry
to the few who are chosen according to arbitrary stand
ards and without reference to the natural rights Of
human beings.
Bolshevikism is not democracy, for democracy pre-
supposes the equal political rights Of individuals and
the application of the principles of justice to the affairs
OF government. 1t is not anarchy. for even that utterly
unavoidable theory is based on the conception that there
shall be no government, the formula being that the acts
Of the individual shall not be controlled by any other
individual or set Of individuals. Bolshevikism is the
despotism Of the ignorant and ineffcient, as autocracy is
the despotism Of those who, in themselves or their ante
cedents, represent culture, or capacity, or body. OF the
two the latter is infinitely to be preferred, for, while It
utterly contradicts the spirit Of democracy, it does, on
occasion. permit conditions under which orderly life is
possible. While the only possible development of the Boil
sheviki plan is : reyerston to the conditions of the
jungle.
The American soldiers In France have proven ID.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-03-04

out. although it would require some stretching OF the
theory to bring this within the rule governing special
taxes for permanent improvements, which improvements
themselves enhance the value of the security.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-03-04

The American soldiers IN France have proven sp.
pupils in the. modern science Of war, and seem to have
|beensable to learn the tricks at least a. well as an,
others.
The Bismarck tribune., 1918-04-26
SOUTH DAKOTA
OFFICIAL LOAN
REPORT FIRST
Oversubscription of $4,000, 900
Quota Announced; Montana
Believed Over

Minneapolis, Mimi, April 26.-South
Dakota is the first of the states in the
ninth federal reserve district to make
official reports of sufficient subscrip-
tions ITO carry state over it's allot-
ment, which was $22,000,000, it was
announced at the reserve bank here
tonight. Montana was the first state
toffeport oversu description, but official
figures filed with the reesrve bank to
date have not carried that state over
its allotment 1t is known, however,
that Montana has subscribed more
than 100000 in bonds on an allot.
ment of s9,000,000
1t was pleasing. the executive COM
mittee said today, to find South Da-
kota first to officially record an over
subscription as the task set for that
state was more difficult than any 9th.
er of the ninth district states. South
Dakota subscribed $12,63l 900 in the
second loan and was called upon to
produce $22,O0O,OO0 for the third loan
1t is expected that final figures from
the state will be in the neighborhooi
of $25 100000.
Late yesterday South Dakota had
hut two counties that had not report.
ed their allotment oversubscribed, Per
kins and Walworth. These two coun.
ties and seven in northern Michigan
are the only ones of the 297 in the
The Bismarck tribune., 1918-04-26
TIDE OF BATTLE
UNDECIDED, WITH
ATTACK FAILING
Huns Driven Almost to Lines
They Held Previous to Of
fensive
FRENCH LINE UNCHANGED
South of Albert Allied Army
Holds Firm on Strong
Positions
FRENCH LINE UNCHANGED
(BY ASSOCIATED PREss.)

The great double German drive in
the Somme and Armentieres sectors,
which began Wednesday morning, has
developed into a terrific struggle The
tide of battle has surged to and fro
during the last two days with the de.
cision still in the balance. The Brit
ish, having been forced back out OF
Villers-B s-BretonneuX,, launched a count
er attack and swept the Germans back
almost to the lines which were held
before the present fighting began,
Thet French have, been driven back
out of Hangard-En-Santerre but are
holding their positions close by, while
on the line southwest of Ypres the
British have been compelled to with
draw slightly before furious attacks
along the MeterenB Bailieul-W ytschae
line ". .5,E : ~,
Wounded Americans are arriving at
a hospital behind the French lines in
the .Somme sector, showing that gen
eral Pershing's men are bearing their
share Of the burden Of the great bat
tie. 4..
Hun Gains Small.
Notwithstanding the frantic prepar-
ations made by the Germans for q
continuance of their drive toward Am
lens and the extreme violence of the
fighting, their guns thus far in that
region have been very small. Along
the line from Albert south to Castel
except at Hangard En- Santerre, the
German assaults have been hurled
back by the allied forces which are
strongly posted on the higher ground
to which they retired during the last
days Of the German drive in Picardy
1t is unofiicially reported that four
to six German divisions, or from g.
600 to 10000 men have been hurled
at the British and French lines near
Ypres.
The retirement of the British in this
sector must have been small, for there
are no great gains reported by Berlin
The Bismarck tribune., 1918-04-26

New Rockford, N. D., April 90
Matt Endres a prominent farmer re
siding five miles west of this city, has
been arrested under the terms of
the espionage act, United States
Marshal Doyle taking him into custody
here yesterday.
Endres was arraigned before COM
missioner Duel here and pleaded not
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of the day to allow citizens to partici-
pate in liberty parades, or to make
house to house canvasses for subscrip-
tiOns. . nH
In Washington government clerks
will be released from work to march
in a great procession down Pennsyl-
vania Avenue. Many high officials
had enrolled tonight to march.
Subscription reports Jagged today,
adding only $l0S,0O0,O00 to previous
reports, and making the total $685.
1856 1850. ~,
The Bismarck tribune., 1918-04-26
INTRODUCE NEW
AMENDMENTS TO
0YERMAN BILL
President Would Be Given Pow
er to Put Aircraft in One
Executives Hands
SPEECH PREVENTS ACTION
SPEECH PREVENTS ACTION

Washington, D. c., April 2G.-Critics
Of the Overman bill renewed today
their vigorous opposition to its pro-
posed authority for the president to
re0rganize government agencies and
many speeches for and against the
measure prevented the expected vote
on pending restrictive amendments.
A surprise of the day was the intro
duction of new amendment author.
izing the president to appoint a single
executive officer to control the air.
craft program, which Senator Over.
man stated he probably would accept,
Senator WadswCrth of New OrYk,
republican, offered the new proposal,
under which all applications made for
airplane production would be turned
over to the man by the president. Sen.
atOrs Thomas of Colorado and Kirby
of Arkansas, democratic members Of
the military committee, promptly sup
ported it, the former declaring it was
necessary to cloth John D. Ryan,
yesterday appointed director of air
craft production for the war depart
ment, with necessary powers to make
his work effective.
Expressing confidence in Mr.. Ryan's
ability Senator Wadsworth also said
unless legal control is assured, I'VE
will jeopardize prompt progress of
this work" Senator Overman said he
was in sympathy with the idea, but
desired to examine its relation to past
legislation regarding the aircraft pro-
gram.
The Bismarck tribune., 1918-04-26
TWO BILLION FOR
LIBERTY LOAN is
EXPECTED TODAY
Record Breaking Sales Planned
to Accompany Patriotic
Demonstrations

Washington, D. c., April 26.-Liber'
ty day will be celebrated tomorrow by
the nation with patriotic demonstra
tions in practically every city and
town to speed the sale Of liberty
bonds Subscriptions by tomorrow
night are expected to be we'll above
$4,000, 100000, or two thirds of the
minimum total.
In big cities special efforts will be
made to get banks and corporations
to turn in their pledges, held back
heretofore for a multitude of business
reasons, and local campaign commit
tees sent word tonight that the ds:'s
sales undoubtedly would break records
for the campaign.
In many states legal holiday has
been declared and in others arrange
ments have been made for business
houses and factories to close for part
The Bismarck tribune., 1918-04-26
Duccess Crowns Fierce
Struggle of Allies On
North and South Fronts

| With the British army in France, April 26-(By
the Associated Press.) )-Success in the southern
sector of the battle front and long, fierce strug
gle in the north have fallen to the lot of the allied
arms in the contest for vital positions which the
|Germans have been trying at a heavy cost of life
Ito secure. The latest information from the south
lis that -Bretonneux apparently has been
|retaken as result of brilliant British counter
|attack, and not only has the town virtually been
cleared of the enemy, but large portion OF the or
iginal positions north and south of it have been
|claimed German dead are heaped about the un-
happy town and some seven hundred prisoners
ARE in British camps.
north Mont KENNEL has been attacked desperately by
great force of German troops especially trained for mountain
warfare attempt Mont KENNEL another in the
obvious scheme control of chain of hills running
west this sector and including such elevations as Wyts
This pretenous has its object the forcing
the allies to pull back their lines to the north still further
The Bismarck tribune., 1918-04-26
Local Druggists Are Selling 25c Jars
on 30 Days Trial-No Charge if
Not Delighted with the Results. =

Every year thousands of people
suffering from various forms of lung
trouble, make pilgrimage to the pine
barrens of North Carolina, "the land
of the long leaf pine The reason
lies in the warm, dry air, perfumed
with the spicy odor Of the pines.
Local druggists, however, have re.
Gently received a treatment that is
almost as good as trip South. This
is Vick's VapoRub; the invention of a
North Carolina druggist.
VapoRub comes in salve form and
when applied over the throat and
chest, the body heat releases medi,
Gated vapors. that are inhaled with
each breath. through the air passages,
to the lungs, loosening the phlegm
The Bismarck tribune., 1918-04-26
FARMER WHO REFUSES TO- RAISE
WHEAT HELD AS A SEDITIONIST

guilty, demanding i: preliminary hear
ing. He was released of $500 bonds
and will be given a hearing here on
May 7.
1t is alleged Endres said: "I won't
raise more wheat for this government
when they force us to use substitutes
for our own consumption" The COM
plant further charges he used pro-
fame language not fit to print.
so far. It was rumored Thursday that
Mont KENNEL, dominating height
north of Wulverghem, had been taken
by the enemy, but this has not been
confirmed.
Allies Were Prepared.
That only slight gains have been
made anywhere along the two fronts
which have been subjected to attack
is proof that the allies are prepared
to defend their positions. In the last
three weeks the Germans have hurried
up heavy cannon to the Somme battle
ground and have marched many fresh
divisions to the points where they
have been held for the moment of at
tack Their failure to do more than
gain almost insignificant bits of ground
is one of the most encouraging tea.
lures of the fighting that is now going
on and which may be looked upon as
the\ third phase Of the great German
offensive.
Raidng Operations.
Raiding operations are reported
along the French lines east of Mont
Didier.
1t is officially announced at the
Hague that the negotiations between
Germany and Holland "are not pro-
crossing satisfactorily" The Dutch
foreign minister has declined to give
the details of the situation between
the two countries, which is admittedly
quiet delicate.
Winston Spencer Churchill, British
minister of munitions, speaking in
the house of commons, said that not
the strain on production
and the losses in arms and material
during the great battles of the last
month, the losses mad been Mate good |
almost twice over, and that so well
had plans ben made that the British |
can continue the fight at it's great in
tensity until next winter.
The Bismarck tribune., 1918-04-26
PLANE PROGRAM
TO BE SPEEDED
Ryan Begins Work to Determine
Steps That Are Neces-
Sary

Washington, D. c., April 2G.-ReOr.
ganiZation of the army aircraft ma
chinery, announced yesterday was
said at the war department today to
be preliminary step designed to
meet the immediate need for eXpedit.
ing the aircraft program. Congress
will be asked to legislate on the ques'
ton as soon as John D. Ryan, director
of production, has determined just
what further steps are necessary.
Complete severance Of the signal
corps and the air service are forecast,
and possibly an additional division of
the general staff, will be created to
harmonize the air service with other
arms in operation.
Mr.. Ryan attended the meeting OF
the aircraft board today as did How
ard Coffin, whose place on the board
and as chairman the new director will
take when his nomination has been
confirmed Under existing law, Maj.
or General Squier, as chief signal Of
ticer, remains a member Of the board
and also handles aviation funds.