Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-03-07
BarabOO.
War Activity at San Diego

inches since last spring. Yet the cOun
try does not appear as dry as one
would expect. Many of the growing
things absorb moisture from the air,
as the soil does also.
Among the many good things the
best two I can say for San Diego are:
no prO-Germans or English sparrOWs
here. Should the latter appear hope
they will be shetland | hate the for
mer worse than the latter. There are
10000 soldiers here. They are all
good shots.
Practically all branches Of the serv-
ice are represented. Most of the in
fantry is at Camp Kearney, twelve
miles north. The artillery is east Of
the city. The marine camp occupies
the exposition grounds and buildings.
The aviation camp is On North island
in the bay. Other smaller camps are
scattered about in various nearby
places.
One Of the worlds most powerful
wireless stations communicates di-
rectly with France.
AirpIanes Circle Daily
Airplanes circle daily above North
island like bees over a hive. One
day seventeen on their way to Camp
Kearney passed in as many minutes
over my head. 1t is exciting to watch
the planes direct the artillery fire.
Recruiting is continuous. So-many
e., 100
none except the very exceptionally
fit is accepted. Many are on the wait
ing lists.
Fifty-six of the less than 300 mem
members of the University club have
enlisted and more will follow.
The morale of all the troops is very
high. A spirit of earnestness pre-
walls. There is no feverish haste.
There is the utmost confidence.
To Get to the Front" is the donli-
nant thought And they are getting
there all the time.
Address on the War
Last Sunday we heard an open ar
address by an officer of the British
army at the exposition grounds in
the organ amphitheater. Not orator.
cal nor boastful; just the plalnest
spoken facts without efar or undue
prejudice. The words so well chosen,
so clearly and convincingly spoken.
None except the blindly perverse or
ignorant could fail to be inspired by
them. Then the great melodiOus or
gan, tremendous in volume, pealed
forth America" Everyone standing,
heads barred, ever soldier at salute.
At the close bowed heads and silence.
German Propaganda
I could not but wonder had Miss
Emma Gattiker been there would she
possibly have come to a sudden real
ization of how specifically plausible,
yet insidiously seditiOus, is her attl-
tude as expressed in her recent News
article justifying German propaganda
in the public library. | do not ques-
ton her right or any ones to read
KunO Franck or any other German
writer, but | inveigh to the utmost
against her taking advantage OF an
official position to place German kul-
tur literature before the eyes of the
public. We must give Miss Gattiker
credit for the best of intentions, but
good intentions are no excuse for dis
loyal acts. To even discuss the ques-
ton of the alleged right Of the Ger
man cause at this time is to tacitly
admit the possibility Of that right. 10
espouse the German cause since April
2, 1917, is seditiOn-one step more is
treason. No matter what her motives
are. Miss Gattiker has no moral or
legal right to place German propa-
ganda books so that an uniformed
public may thrust its face between
pages softly and patiently held as
binders while the ruthless rulers of
Germany diabolically break down Eu-
ropean civilization ana treacherously
ploy to Germanize and disintegrate
America.
By what strange and devious pro-
cesses of mind Miss Gattiker has ar
rived at this momentous time when
she, comfortable, safe, surrounded by
friends in her undisturbed home, mild
ly and insidiously justifies, indeed
takes a part in the spreading OF Ger
man propaganda utterly beyond
my conception.
No Other Conclusion Possible
I have known her SO long, she has
been such a close and good neighbor
and friend that it is just short OF in
conceivable to find myself now be-
holding her as a weak and unsuspect-
ing tool of the designing rulers OF
DER Vaterland In the light OF the
recent exposures of the until now IN
believable attempt by Germany to
make of Wisconsin German state, no
other conclusion is possible. If one
is not now for his country, he IS
against it.
In Miss Gattiker's article she does
not so much as claim being neither
for nor against-she brands herself
as against. How can she, and others
like her, be so strangely oblivlous,
SO unaccountably unquickened, as to