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wouldn't be only too delighted to swap
his rights to import goods into Russia
free OF duty after tho war for three
quarters Of a pound Of porterhouse
steak and a ten-cent loaf OF white bread
right now. which the way food IS SO
scarce nowadays In Germany. Abe.
when q Berlin business mans family
gets through with the Sunday dinner.
and the servant girl clears off the ia
BILE, there's no use asking should she
give the bones to the dog because the
chances is they are the dog. under
stand me. AS for sugar. we think
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German ships. but the buying of cop
per. rubber cotton. machinery. zine,
steel and MANY other things went on.
We found 10000 barrels of luhricating
oil stored in Philadelphia. The Ger
mans. you see, were preparing for the
days of peace and were piling IN sup
plies for the use OF their manufacture
ing industries. All Of this property has
fallen into the hands OF the govern
ment
"A woman in Georgia sent us 70 cents.
She said that she owed that amount to "A
woman now in Germany. This money went
into the national Treasury. Another won-
an sent us $500, saving that she owed a
woman in Berlin s2S1 She made it an
even sum by contributing SO out of her
own pocket ard asked us TO invest the
$500 i'll liberty bonds and to keep the
bonds. All debts owed to Germans and to
their allies by Americans are payable to
the United States.
Some one in Hoboksn, n. J., sent out
little tin banks for the collection of pen
MES for the war widows and orphans of
Germany. These banks are being sent to
the alien property custodian in Washing
ton. After the war the pennies. am sure.
viii reach the persons to whom they were
intended to be given. In the meanwhile
they will be employed against the bar
barians."
viii the property of unnaturalized Ger
mans, Austrians. Bulgarians and Turks
living in this country be taken by the
national government" Mr.. Palmer was
asked.
at has not been taken" he replied. but
it can be taken if a proclamation is issued
by the President. A subject of Germany
or Austria-Hungary or either of their allies
residing in this country. even though he
has made no declaration of his intention to
become citizen, is permitted to continue
in trade and commerce and to retain pos
session and control of his property, in
Guiding his bank deposits, of course, so
long he remains in the United States
and obeys the laws"
80 long as he obeys the laws" the
writer repeated.
Yes; that is the lash on the whip" Mr..
Palmer answered.
Copyright. 1917. by Jau> B. Morrow.)
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The Alien Property Custodian and His Gigantic Job

ever, when the United States itself got
into the war, but sales continued to be
made through the agency Of neutral
countries.
Shares and bonds could be sent, let
US say, to Madrid or to some city in
South America and from there shipped
to New York and sold. The money
reached Berlin by the same instrument
talities and over the same route.
THE law of October stops all such
transactions. Every corporation in the
United States must give the alien prop
erty custodian the names of it's share
holders living in Germany and the
countries allied with Germany Every
bank is required to submit list of its
depositors who belong to the classes l
have named. Every partnership in
which persons residing in Germany or
IN the territory of it's allies are fnan-
cially interested must report the iden-
tity Of such persons under oath. Fail
ure in any OF these respects to comply
with the law can be punished in one Of
three ways: BY a fine of $4,000, by i'm
prisonment for ten years or by both
money fine and term in the peniten-
tiary.
"A German, living in Hamburg, as an
illustration, owns 1000 shares of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He
purchased the shares in New York and,
following the usual custom, left the GER
tifcates with his banker or broker IN
that city. Under the law, the cerlii-
Gates must be delivered to me. and so
long as the United States and Germany
are at war I get the dividends on the
stock and vote the stock at all of the
meetings of the shareholders of the rail-
road. ] am temporarily the German in
Hamburg. except that l do not use the
dividends, but deposit them in the
Treasury of the United States, so that
they can be invested in liberty bonds.
4
Thousands of railway and other
shares are still owned by persons re-
siding in Germany. Some are owned
outright and others are being carried
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know how to handle the situation over
in the old country, and then II you want
something near at home to worry
about like stomach trouble. y'under-
stand. there's plenty OF misfortunate
people in orphan asylums and hospitals
right here which will be very glad to
have you worry over them in a prac-
teal way out of what you've got LETT
when you're through paying income
and excise profit taxes, Abe"
Maybe there is some people which
would get so upset over having to give
twenty dollars or so to an orphan asy-
1um or a hospital Mawruss. that for
the time being they could forget how
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has got a sweet tooth and has been
trying to make out with one two-grain
saccharin tablet every forty-eight
hours. neither.i
But the Germans seems to be max
ing e lot OF progress everywheres." Abe
said.
Except at home" Morris declared
Maybe the German people still feels
encouraged when the German army
gets ahold OF more territory. Abe. but
it's a question Of a short time now
when the German people is going to
realize that they don't need no more
room to starve in than they've got at
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hausted The broker, under the rules of
speculation, could not close the account
without notifying the customer. What
am 1 to dor he asked.
Sell the stocks told him. and
send me a statement He disposed of
the stocks and found that the German
had a credit of $4,000 remaining. The
money went into the funds ct the
United States and win be spent in the
war against the Prussians.
THE broker informed me that his of
flee alone had 2S3 open accounts with
Germans residing in Germany at the
beginning of the war between that
country and the United States. There
were. Of course, many similar accounts
with other brokers in New York.
What eventually will become Of the
property that is being seized BIZ the
government" Mr.. Palmer was asked.
We'll. that is a matter which must
be decided by Congress. / cannot pre-
dict what will be done a the end IF
the war. But you know that the
United States is governed in all Of its
acts by the principles of justice. What
ever may occur. the United States. with
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the Russian people won't have enough
purchasing power to make It a fair
territory for q salesman with . line
OF 1--WE and ten cent store supplies. So
II Germany started this here war to
get more trade, she's already licked"
Then what does she 60 on fighting
for?" Abe asked. 1T seems TO me that
II we saw we couldn't accomplish moth
ing by going on lighting. Mawruss. we'd
stop. ain't it?'
Sure we would Morris agreed. but
then. Abe. we amt got nothing to stop
US from stopping. because we amt
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ter Saturday night and eats after
wards a little chicken q Ia king. yum
derstand. It was a case Of ringing up
a doctor at o'clock Sunday morning
while his wife's relations sat around
his fat figuring tho inheritance tax
Now. take Hindenberg which he is six
months older as Old Man Baum. Abe.
and what that Teller has went through
in the last three years two hfetimes
in the cotton converting business
wouldn't be marker to 1t. understand
me. and still there are people which is
worried that when he begins to run
things on the western front. 1T Is 60
ing to be serious matter for the allies.
instead OF the Germans"
Eyes. Abe" Morris continued. with
all the things them Germans has got
to attend to on the western front. It's
no cinch to have on their hands an old
man seventy-two years of age. which
If anything should happen to the old
Kosher. like acute indigestion from
eating too much cruel. or lumhago.
y'understand. them real generals on
the western front would never hear the
end of it,
Amt Hindenberg also a real gem
eral?" Abe asked.
mot an old man like that. Abe" Nor
ris replied. He used to was real
L,,4 ho lie ft,et
for the Germans and a DOGGY man for
us. which I bet yer the most that
Teller does to help along the war Is to
wear warm wooden underwear. keep
out of draughts and not get his feet
wet under any circumstances at his
age Furthermore, Abe. I amt so sure
that the Germans is Withdrawing so
many soldiers as they claim from the
Russian frontier neither. understand.
because the way them bo1shevikf has
swung around to Germany must sound
to the kaiser almost too good to be
true and 1 bet yer also he figures that
maybe it isn't because nobody knows
better as the kaiser how much reliance
you could place on a deal between one
country and another even when It's in
writing and signed by the party to be
charged, which, for all any one could
tell. whether Russia is now a govern =.
ment. a co-partnership. corporation
or only SO to speak a voluntary asso-
citation, Abe. the kaiser might Just as
we'll sign his peace treaty with Paw
Iowa and Nordkin as with Lenine and
Trotzky so far as binding the Russian
people is concerned"
ut amt a peace treaty which them
fellers wants to sign. Mawruss." Abe
said. TITS bill of sale. which I see
that Lenine and Trotzky agrees Ger
many should import goods into Russia
free of duty and that she should take
Russian Poland apd Courland and a
lot of other territory, and if that's what
Is called making peace. Mawruss. then
you might just as well say that law
suit is compromised by allowing the
Teller which sues to get Judgment and
have the sheriff collect on it,
And at that, Abe" Morris said.
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ProfiteerS' Tactics.
SENATOR was talking about a f

a SENATOR was talking about a fuel
6 ~ profteer.
The scoundrel." he said thinks, IL
he roars and bowls loud enough. Well
relax our pressure on him. Well, he's
wrong.
"All these roaring, raging proiteers
are using the tactics of little Eileen.
Eileen, at the New Year dinner, was
refused a fourth helping of rnince pie,
and at once set up frightful cater
wauling.
Eileen said her mother. do you
know what I'll do if you keep on
screaming like that?
yes the little girl answered.
Wow. WOW! Yes.
What will I do?' said her mother.
You'll give me-, said F.ileen--wow.
piece of mince pie."
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about how thew should be wor. and
they mean TO SEQ that their idees con-
tinue to have a fair trial TIL there amt
enough German soldiers alive to give
them !dees fair trial, and that's tho
way It goes. Abe. All the idees that
VS. want to give a fair trial. Is that
we are going to keep on fighting TIL
we've proved TO the German people
that 1t don't pay to back up the Won
Tirpitz. Ludendorff and Mackensen
idees"
And how long is this going to take"
Abe inquired.
Not so long as you think. Abe Nor
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on Looking at the Bright Side

about what they put In the papersf"
of the bridgeheads which the Germans
capture in the New York morning pa
pers might just so well be French vii
lagos. except that the reporters would
have to look up the names of the vii
lagos on the map because some edi-
tors are very particular that way: they
insist that the reporter should use tho
name OF a real village. whereas II he
puts down that the Germans has cap
tured a bridgehead on tho Piave river
he could go right out to lunch. and he
never even stops to think that II some
body would check up the number Of
bridgeheads which the Germans has
captured that way in the New York
morning papers. Abe. the Piave river
would got to be covered solid with
bridges from end to end"
But 1 am just so bad as a reporter.
Mawruss-I never stop to think that.
neither" Abe admitted. It's my ma
ture that I couldn't help believing the
foolishness which I read in the papers
and If the Germans capture a bridge
head on me in the sporting edition with
final Wall street complete. they might
Just so well capture 1t in Italy and De
done with 1T. because If I play cards
afterwards, I couldn't keep my mind
on the game anyhow. Only last SUM-
day I had a three hundred and fifty
hand in spades with an extra ace and
king. understand me. when I happened
to think about reading in the paper
where the Germans is going to build
for next spring submarines in extra
sized six hundred feet long. yunder-
stand. and the consequence was for
get to meld a twenty in clubs and lost
the hand by eighteen points. Before
l fell asleep that night / thought 1t
a big submarine as the papers claimed.
but by that time I was out three dol
lars on the hand anyway and that's
the way war affects me, Mawruss."
We'll that's where you are making
a big mistake, Abe" Morris commented.
because even when the articles which
they print in the newspaper is true.
understand. If you only stop to figure
them out right, Abe. you could get a
whole lot of encouragement that way.
Take, for instance, when you read via
Amsterdam that Hindenberg is onw
commanding the western front, Abe.
and with some people that would
throw a big scare into 'em, y'under-
stand, but with me not. Abe. because
the way I look at it is from expert
ence. I've known lots of fellers from
seventy to seventy-ive years old. Abe.
and in particular my wife's mothers
a brother Old Man Baum in the cotton
converting business.
There's a Teller which he actually
went to work and married his stenog
rapher when he was seventy-two Abe.
and, compared to an undertaking like
that. running the western front would
be child's play. Abe, and yet when all
was said and done. If he went to theay-
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NOR more than twenty-four hours
In they had been travelling across
Germany, shut N like animals,
= in a cattle car IN which there
still fingered an acrid odor of the stable.
At one of the stations where the train
stopped a big Prussian had come in.
grumbling, to attach TO the roof Of the
car a sort of miners lamp. with an open
fame. And since they were afraid of
him he began to laugh-with a cruel
laugh which exposed three whole teeth
and some blueish tooth stumps.
one OF them. bravef or more resolute
than the others, went up to him.
Mr.. Soldier" she asked, lin case one
of us should die on the train. what
would YOU do2"
The Prussian reflected q moment He
seemed almost to smile. Then he eS-
tended his hairy paws ard went through
the motions of taking hold of = corpse
and tossing it roughly through the open
door. No matter where--irito the ditch.
perhaps, which ran alongside the rail-
road track.
bah. / would do like THAI, Ha! ha.
Just like that
And he appeared TO enjoy hugely their
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By MONTAGUE GLASS.

AA0 YES. Mawruss." Abe Potash
w W said as he Laid down the
morning paper after gianc-
aug over the alarming headlines, "a
Teller which has got stomach trouble
- the itoothache nowadays Is playing
In luck, because when you've got
stomach trouble you couldn't think
about nothing else. and what 10 a lit
tie thing like stomach trouble to worry
over with all the tzuris which is hap
pening in the world nowadays?'
well, then have stomach trouble"
Morris Perlmutter advised.
What do you mean-have stomach
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on margins. A broker who came to my
Office the other day said that a man in
Berlin was carrying 100000 worth of
American stocks when war was de-
clared last April. Communication be-
tween broker and customer was cut off
Stocks having fallen in price. the mar
gins OF the customer were almost ex-
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suites already leased. was meanwhile
nearing completion. Mr.. Palmer, being
in the Selling business, promptly COM
Wandered and occupied 1t. With him
into the new building went PA clerks,
stenographers. accountants and law
yers.
The organization that he had written
out on paper was soon materialiZed
and put at work. Never before in this
country had there been custodian of
alien property. There were no land
marks. consequently, to follow. Mr..
Palmer chose J. Lionberger Davis to
be his chief assistant and gave him the
title of managing director.
Mr.. Dauia is vice president of the st.
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The cruelest tragedy of this war is
the fate Of the little children caught
in the pitiiess sweep OF its relapse Into
barharism. Humanity shudders At the
ruthless methods of warfare reintrodgced
by the Germans. On the battlefelds
ard between armed combatants these
methods are rernltiug enough. But when
applied to a civilian population, 10 nom
combatants. to women and, most Of
all, to children. they represent re-
version 10 savasery almost Nyord be-
lief.
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we've got a kick coming when we
could only get two Nteaspoonfuis to
cup of coffee for FIVE cents, y'under-
stand. whereas in Germany they would
consider themselves lucky If they could
get two teaspoonfuls to a gallon Of
coffee If they had a gallon of coffee in
the entire country. understand me.
80 that's the way 1t goes in Ger
many. Mawruss; the people ask for
bread and they give EN- a report on
Norwegian steamers sunk by U-boats
during the current week, and if one
of the steamers was loaded with sugar.
y'understand. that. amt going TO be
much satisfaction to a German which
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ris replied, because Germany may
have made peace with Russia. but she
has still got fighting against her Eng
land, France. Italy. America. Starva-
ton, Bad Business. conceit. Lies and
Stubbornness."
And In the meantime. Mawruss.s
Abe said. what's going to happen to
us?''
Don't worry about u.s." Morris said.
'.AlT America has got to do is to try
to be an optician and look on the bright
side of things. and she's bound to win
olft in the end"
Copyright. 1918. by Mcclure syndicate.)
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AT HAPP To
GERM IS
CONSEQUENCES FORGOT
A LOST THE EIGHTEEN
sending
italian front.
wha
condition of the
idee that there's Of brai
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fighting for the sake Of fighting. the
way Won Tfrpitz, Mackensen and Luden-
dorff are doing. Take. for instance.
Won Tirpitz. and that Kosher insists
that the U-boats is going to win the
war, so 1t don't make no difference to
down in U-boats. he's going to keep
on sending out U-boats right up to the
time the German people shoots him.
and his last words will be that the rea
son why the U-boats didn't win the
war. was because they didn't have a
fair trial.
Then there's Mackensen and Luden-
dorf which they've got their fdees
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BY ALFRED ,EAcHARD.

Translated by william I. Mcpherson.
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1918-10-17
Somewhere In France.


Dear mother:-I will write you all
a few lines this morning to let you
here from me. This leaves me well
at the present time and hope when
this reaches you will find you all the
same. Mama, we made the trip all
right and landed safe across. / hope
you got the card / sent you. Mama
| know you was proud to get it and
was sorry to here that l was leaving
you. / was sea sick one day on my
trip, but was all right the next morn
ing. know you was uneasy about
me by not writing last week. The. rea-
son | didn't write and tell you when /
left the camp / was afraid some one
would find it out. Papa / hope you
got the money and letter / sent you
from the camp. / had plenty without
t. Mama I don't want you all to wor-
~ about me, am not any better than
the other boys. want you all to
put up with it the best you can. Tell
all the boys hello for me Tell Conner
saw more Of the world last week
chan ever before. I want him to be a
good boy. / will close, havn't time
to write much, will write more the
next time. Hopping to hear from
you soon. Mama / feel all right if ]
get killed, you can look for me in a
better world above. Good bye, your
son.
HARGIS BUTLER.
Battery D. 317, F. A.
A. E. F. France.
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1918-10-17

Darling Mother:-While time ap-
proches me l am glad of this oppor-
tunity I have in addressing you all a
few lines in form of letter.
am fine and dandy and hope this
will find you all much better. | have
arrived safely overseas, had a nice
rip and a big time while on board. /
lid not get sick and feed the fish as I
was expecting to. | went through
Did England and saw lots of fine
,ountry, got struck on old England,
you'd like to spend a few months
here in peace times, where l could 90
about AS l came through England
hey were cutting wheat and oats 1t
sure did look natural to see cradles
md binders running. 1t made me
think l would have plenty of bread
while in France and we are stationed
N a little town and plenty of wine to
drink. / can get up in the morning
and take drink of wine before
breakfast and feel like getting the
bloody KAISER" all the day. Well,
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1918-10-17

Plans for Tennessee's part in the
First United War Work CAMPAIGN
viii be perfected at a conference to
2e held Friday in Nashville of rem
resentatives from each of the seven
organizations cooperating. In addi-
lon to the executive committee form
ed by the National War Work Council.
h@ee representatives from each of the
organizations will be present, as pro
Vlded for in the resolutions adopted
at the recent War Work Executive
Conference in Chattanooga. This
Will be the first state meeting of the
enlarged Executive Committee.
During the period of the Fourth
Liberty Loan drive, September % to
Oct. l9, the organization of the United
war Work Campaign will cooperate
to the fullest extent to make the Loan
a success and will refrain from push
ing Its own work at that time. in order
tnat nothing may stand in the way
OF the Liberty Loan At the close Of
that drive, however, it will begin an
intensive four weeks campaign cuI-
mlnatlng in the drive for funds. Nov
ember 11-18, in which it is hoped to
raise $2,OOO,000 or more in TENNESSEE
the seven organizations cooperat-
ing this first united campaign at the
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1918-10-17
Defeated, Tenn, Sep.

De1eaCed, 1enn., sep. 70.
To the Carthage Courier:-I am
proud to read your paper. get news
from the soldier boys over in France
have been reading the letters and
some of these boys / am personally
acquainted with, and it makes me
feel sad and it makes me feel glad
sad they have to go such long trip
to defend their country-glad to know
we have these boys who want to go
and get a peep at those hell-houndS
and cut-throats of Germany. can
almost jump out of my boots when /
read of the victory of the Americans
and allies. / try to put myself in
The place of some of these boys /
know so well, but they are too far
away, and all / can do is stay here
and help. / can make hog and hon.
ny for them. | have a boy over there
and of course know how to feel for
parents who have sons there. My
BOY belongs to Bat. E. 316 F. A. 81
Div. He writes me he is all right
and is well equipped for service. He
Uses a gun that will shoot Is miles,
tearing up ever thing in a 3O-foot
square, and. they are well equipped
with small arms if the enemy should
attempt to slip up behind. He said
20 me the last talk we had that he
never would be captured by those
cut threats of hell. He made a record
On shooting small arms, beating his
officer. Hope he will be able to re-
turn to his wife and little babe, and
to his many friends.
Your friend,
NJ F. M. MAGGART.