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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-07-03
RECONSTRUCTION PROBLEMS

Secretary Lane has his head work.
ing and he is looking forward to the:
time when the boys will return to find
their places filled by women and those
who stayed at home. If there is not to
be a congestion and Reorganization when
they return, provision must be made in
advance of their coming and Secretary
Lane has plan ready according to VIM.
Marion Reedy of St. Louis, who says:
Secretary of the Interior Lanes
suggestion to the President that survey
of lands in the United States be made
with a view to finding means to take
care of our soldiers when they shall
return from Europe is the beginning,
let us hope, of programme OF national
reconstruction after the war. Practically
we shall have to "repatriate" our soldiers.
They will come back to conditions un-.
favorable to their employment and the
securing of homes. The devolution of
the industrial situation will be slow
process, adjusting the status of woman
labor, Strengthening out the relations
between employers and organized en-.
ployees, getting the factories engaged in
war supply back to peace time produc-
ton, taking care OF wounded soldiers,
carrying out the necessary action with
regard to the vast housing enterprises,
recognizing the railroad system. With
maybe five million soldiers coming back
from the battlefelds there will be a vast
problem. To get those men on the land
will be a great first step to the solution.
It will take them out of competition for
jobs and put them at once to producing
wealth. There is little free land avail
able. Secretary Lane would reclaim or
purchase the land needed and sell it
cheap on long time to the soldiers. EOn
this all reconstruction must be based.
With this we'll begun the remainder
construction must be individualistic i
no pensioning, no institutionizing, no
coddling. Not drilling people into line
with new arbitrary conditions. Just re-
organizing the country on the basis of
freeing opportunity and freeing people"
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-07-03

With the greatly increased number
of automobiles which daily line the
streets of the city it might be a good
plan to consider the parking Of the cars
in the center of the streets instead of
at each side as is done at the present
time. This would leave lane for cars
to pass down the right side and up the
left side and would help to prevent
accidents which are likely to occur on
streets which are now crowded with a
double row of cars at the curb. The
center parking of cars is carried out in
many Of the cities of the state, especially
in cities where the streets are narrower
than ours but even here it would be a
good move. -.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-07-03
Oar Part of the Flqht

E. G. Pipp, newspaper correspondent
of Detroit, Michigan, has recently
visited France and has been over the
ground where the last great drive of
the Germans was made. He has pre-
pared a series of articles describing
vividly the situation and the plan of
attack employed. The Review has
secured the exclusive right to the use of
these articles in it's columns where they
will appear from time to time as we
find space for them. The first, showing
the awful sacrifice of human life to
Militarism is a part of this issue of the
Review.
There are things related in these
articles, which we would rather not
know about. Horrors Of army life
that we would shut our minds to if we
could - but we must not. There is
the war to be fought to the time when
peace shall be made but more important
even than the war is the necessity for
proving to all that we must not tolerate
the upbuilding of a military machine
in this country. We must at every
step combat the influences now at work
to fasten upon this country a system of
militarism like that which is draining
the life blood of the world. Parents
who are giving their boys must make
sure that the sacrifice is not in vain.
The war-makers must be thwarted in
their plans to place America in the class
of armed camps.
In order to arouse parents to the
horrors that we must fight against We
are printing these articles ,altho one
would much prefer to write OF less hor'
rible things and parents would far rather
read of less awful days. But we must
understand what the Krupps and othel
war makers the world over would faster
upon the people and it is quite as i'm
portant to win the fight against them a.
, to win the present war. To win against
Germany but to lose the fight agains
militarism at home would be to sacrifice
all for mere pretense of victory.
= In conversation held the other da,
) in. New Ulm, one of our militarists de
" clared we must have military training
) in our schools and begin with boys 0
tender age to train them for the bushes
e of killing. A man, father of an enlisted
boy of the city, made reply in terms NOR
: forcible than polite, 1'Then what in y -
e are we sending our sons to France fol
if that's the plan?' "a
+ But it isn't the plan Of Presiden
Wilson nor of any of those who ar
fighting the war for the ideal Of Dem
t ocracy and we must see to it that thos
n would thwart the high ideals of til
President are prevented from carryin
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-07-03
ONE PROFITEER TO BE CHECKED

- Land lords in the city of Washington
are gathering in heavy crop of war
profits, exempted from the excess
profits tax. One of them has for a
tenant Major General Black, Chief of
the Army Engineers, who has accom-
panied Secretary of War Baker to
France. General Black paid $500 a
month rent. After his departure his
family received a notice from the land
lord that the rent would thereafter be
$3.50 a month. The case was not
an unusual one, but the prominence of
the tenant made Congressman Ben
Johnson, Chairman of the Committee
on the District of Columbia, sit up
and take notice. He promptly in
troduced a bill for communicating of
the house by the Government and
renting it to General Black for $100 a
month until one year after the war;
The landlord, moreover, is to be re-
quired to pay all repairs. ~
The bill, if it passes, will settle the
rent question for General Black. But
how about the thousands of other. cit
liens who have suffered from similar
extortion? it is clearly unreasonable
to expect a special measure to be passed
by Congress for the relief Of each and
everybody. And yet they are entitled
to it as much as General Black. -.
1t is not necessary, however, to adopt
special measure for each case. The
wrong done to General Black is due
to the same cause as similar wrongs
to others less well known. The funda-
mental cause is the maintenance of a
system that gives to private owners
of the earth power to extort unearned
tribute from those who must live upon
it. Unwise legislation of other kinds
tends to make the evil worse. Con-
gress could have ameliorated matters
generally by legislating so as to dis
courage Withholding of land from use,
and encourage building Of houses. Com
petition between house owners would
then have prevented such holdups as
in General Blacks case. This could
have been accomplished by exemption
of Improvements from taxation and in
creased taxation of land values. But
Congress has so far refused to adopt
that policy. A bill, applying to Wash
ington, which would have been a move
in that direction, was introduced some
years ago by Henry George Jr., then in
Congress. Unfortunately that bill was
so mutilated and distorted, mainly
by Representative Ben johnson, that
Mr.. George had to repudiate it and
vote against it. Thus Mr.. Johnson
was himself factor in creating the very
conditions that he is now seeking to
remedy through his inadequate special
bill. Perhaps he realizes now the error
of his ways. II. n .:
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-07-03
. NEW REl:GIsTRANTs

p At the second drawing Of numbers
for the selected draft which was held
at Washington, D. C.. last Thursday
morning, a Brown County man, Arthur
II. Zuhlsdorf Of Sleepy Eye was the
eighth number drawn. There were 1913,
who registered in Brown County June
5th Of this year and therefore any num-
bers above 1913 will not apply to more
in this county. In the list drawn there
were So from New Ulm, So from Sleepy
Eye, As from Spring field, 10 from Hanska,
II from Comfrey, 5 from Golden and IL
from other points. Il. VS. :S S.s9,
| .154 Arthur "A. Zuhlsdorf s. Sleepy Eye
10 Edgar a. Burk q. s. !. ]. New Ulm
90 Norris w. Hier. 4. }. Springfield
II Frank w I. Schwantes New lJlm
"a Louis P. Schwartz Springfield
ls136 Ana Otis Potter 4, Springfield
las Edwin II. Laude chlaeger New Uln
sc Elmer b. SCOT. 1. Winnipegy, Can,
!. rs Walter Gale. J. u q. Springfield
rs Vinton G. Bird Springfield
l122 John Vogel y. !. 81 Springfield
81 Arnlliin Tauer. h. /. n. New IJlm
l177 Fred. Biorneberg Hanska
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-07-03
! The I Open Forum.

To the Editor Of The New Ulm Review.
Dear Sir: ~ si u NJ.
The way the newspapers and the big
and little politicians are attacking the
sNon-partisan League makes me wonder
League is to attack the farmers. To
question the loyalty of the farmers,
The farmers of the country are not dis
loyal and any attempt to make them so
is dishonest.
This attack on the League has another
motive behind it that would not look
good in print. The real reason for all
the lies being printed about the farm
ers' organization is the fear that this
union of farmers will free them from
the clutches of the combines that handle
his produce. They have him now where
they want him and they don't want to
let him slip, away. With an organiza-
ton to back him they know that he will
be in position to stand up for his rights
and compel them to give him square
deal. ~ -: ..'-. r..
And square deal for the farmer will
be new thing in the world. He has
DeeN cnedCeu anu IODDeu OIL every udLu
and he has submitted tamely. But the
worm will finally turn, and the farmer
has slaughtered up his back and turned
upon his oppressors. -. ~
= The Non-partisan League is his answer
to the combines and he is going to
put it thru in spite of all the abuses and
all the lies the hired men of the daily
press can invent about it or it's officials.
The farmer is now wise to the fact that
organization is his one hope of freedom
and he is not going to permit the tools
of the combines to check him.
:. The farmers organization is going
thru, and I hope you will let this ex-
preston of opinion see the light in the
columns of your paper.
- Respectfully,
WILLIAM WAIBEL.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-07-03

Continued on Page g.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-07-03
tsi.-r Y sissss-
THE GERMAN-AMERICAN
By Katharine Lee Bates

-.ss
Honor to him whose very blood re-
members ,zes.
The old, enchanted dream-song of the
Rhine, - ~. .<. ~. II
Altho his house of life is fair with shine
OF fires new-kindled on the buried embers;
Whose heart. is wistful for the flowers he
tended ~
Beside his mother, for the carven gnome
And climbing bear and cuckoo-clock, for
home, 7 l.. -. -
For the whispering forest path two lovers
$50. .. wended; r., .:~
Who none the less, still strange in speech
49, q. and manner, 4 4s,... -.
With our young Freedom keeps his
plighted faith,
Sides with. his, children's hope against
the wrath 2zs..
OF his own childhood, halls the Starry
Banner Isl {. #
As the emblem OF his country now, to
moro W;
A patriot, by duty, not by birth.
The costliest loyalty has purest worth
Honor to him who draws the sword il
sorrow! 81
From Drums and Flies, Z published b,
The Vi0ilartes
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-07-03
THE YELLOW MENACE

Last Wednesday morning the front
of the Fairmont Cream Station build
ing which is occupied by Philip. Jo-
hansen, manager of the station, and
H. H. Mueller, tin-smith and stove
dealer was found to have been daubed
with yellow paint sometime during
the previous night. The eggs and
produce sign over the door was almost
completely covered, both front windows
were smeared over and the screen door
was almost entirely covered. The side
walk in front of the place also received
attention from yellow paint artists.
A large number of people were attracted
to the scene. The artists did not select
a fast color, however, as by noon the
offending paint was removed with the
aid of gasoline.
The windows in John Berg's har-
ness shop were also decorated with
sign, Indicating a threat to paint
that front next. Thus far no clue
has been obtained as to the identity
of the parties who did the job. The
occupants of the buildings we're much
incensed over the matter.-Sprimgfield
Free Press.
The following communication was
received by the Review, relating to the
same acts.
"Last week the Yellow Menace showed
it's artistic hand in our: neighboring
village of Springfield by using the
yellow paint brush and giving the front
of the Joe Schumacher building on main
street a coat of yellow paint. While
the front was painted and decorated,
thugs broke open the rear door OF the
same building by breaking the lock,
stealing two spools of copper lightning
rod cable, emptying gasoline tank and
painting Mr.. Mueller's auto. The build
ing in question is occupied by Phil.
Johansen, a produce dealer and Herm.
Mueller's Hardware and Tin shop.
Both parties have been residents of
Brown Co. for over 80 years and are
we'll and favorably known. Their pa
triotism and loyalty are beyond question
and indications show that the paint was
not applied because of any act of dis
loyalty on the part Of either owner or
tenants of the property but as an act Of
business, both parties having started
in their respective lines of business less
than year ago and having been very
successful. It is unnecessary to say
that good, loyal citizens do not approve
of these kinds of methods to get even. -
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-07-03

Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
sees a great light on the tax question.
He is going after the war profits as Great
Britain goes after them. The new bill
for $8,0O0,000 revenue may not exact
an 80 per cent tax on war profits but it
will go up in that direction. Inherit
ances will be more heavily mulcted, as
they should be, seeing that inherited
wealth is not earned by the inherltors.
In the matter of income taxes heavier
tax is to be paid on unearned income
than on the earned. Those who earn
money by service will not be hit as hard
as those who get money out of the labor
of Others The secretary speaks of a
tax on luxuries. That is justifable as
a war measure. But a tax on tea and
coffee is hardly defensible save to the
minds OF those who would, if they
could, prohibit both. But why doesn't
the government 60 out after the great
est unearned income of all, the income
from increasing land values? Putting
money in land is the best way OF escap-
ing the war taxes. That way should be
Mirror.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-07-03

Surely Philip, since you ask it here
you are. You and your kind certainly
are to blame for the starting OF the war.
If it were not for people of exactly your
stripe there would have been no such
thing as the world war. You, as would
be Kaiser of New Ulm continually stir
up strife here and if you could make a
big enuf noise to be heard about the
globe you would be hard at it if you saw
a chance to fill your pockets with the
money that rolls in to the hands Of those
who fatten off the misery of the world.
Your whole thought is to "Get, Get, Get
and now that things haven't worked out
just as you expected they would you
are sorehead and can think Of nothing
else but to "get'' those who do not fall
in with vO1lr Methods ... T.. ,.'s
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-07-03

4 This weeks issue cnf the Review
contains an article furnished by the
Telephone Companies who are to merge
theiir: phone service. All II users OF tele-
phones should read the article in order
that they viii know when and how the
work viii be done and govern themselves sa
accordingly.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-07-03
ut their plans to militarize America.

out their plans to militarize America.
Read the Pipp articles. See what il
means to place your son at the absolute
disposal Of military machine and then
make UP your mind to fight to the last,
ditch to prevent militarism and lingo
ism in America. And remember this is
"a fight which must begin at home We
have our ,jingoes right here in New Ulm,
plenty of them. While the boys are
fighting the German militarists over
seas we who stay at home must fight,
and lick-the militarists here.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-06-26
"PLUNOER OF PARIS"
PROMISED HUN ARMY
BEFORE DRIVE JUNE G

WASHINGTON. June 26-PIun-
der of Paris and loot from the rich
country side We're some of the
promises made TO the German sol
diers by the high command before
the offensive of June 9. according 10
an official dispatch Tuesday from
France.
A German deserter related how
the officers during the rest which
preceded the attack painted in
glowing cOlors the advantage of an
advance in rich country where the
men could live in abundance and
recompense themselves for their
hardships. lie said that measures
were taken TO guarantee and appor-
tion the plumber, but soldiers were
warned that there was not 10 be q
renewal among the guards of the re-
grettable incidents OF NLlers-
BrettonneuN. where the valiant
guards OF this division. breaking into
the cellars. became so intoxicated
that they refused to follow their
officers"
Before the attack the srenadier
guards complained that reserve
regiments We're sent into the front
line and 50 would have first chance
at the loot of Paris
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-06-26
BIG HARVEST OF
TAXES TUESDAY
Nearly a Half Billion Dollars
Tax Paid for Income and
Excess Profits.
ASEIINGrnN

WASHTNGToN June 26-The
biggest harvest or taxes ever gath
cred by the federal government was
finished Tuesday night with the eN-
Tirat.on OF the time for paving eX-
cess profits and income assessments
without added penalties for delin-
Guency. Estimates placed the sum
collected from these sources at So
$4,000. 600. and exact figures prob
ably will be known next Monday or
Tuesday. Almost half billion
came in Tuesday from corporations
and other big tax PAYERS who post
poued payment as Ions as possible.
Payments not made Tuesday are
subject Jo penalties OF five per cent
with one per cent month interest.
Indications were that the aggregate
of DELINQUENT payments on returns
actually led would not be large
Hundreds of small business and
professional men and other individ-
ua'S failed 10 file returns or TO make
payments, however. and against
these an Intensive campaign win be
Waged starting in two OF three
weeks. They will be required 10
make belated reports Of incomes and
TO pay heavy penalties 10 avoid
prosecution as tax dodgers. The in
ternal revenue bureau. with its
ramidcations in "a collection dis
tricts and its methods OF gathering
accurate information on incomes.
already has prepared a quantity Of
statistics 10 serve as proof OF the
'ntcntion OF many citizens and bus
mess firms TO dodge tax liability
Tax collectors have instructions
TO tabulate their receipts as soon as
possible and 10 telegraph the re-
SILT not later than next Sunday
night, June 80, the expiration of the
fiscal year.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-06-26
1900 PEOPLE HOMELESS
IN 100000 FIRE

CLEELCM. Wash. june 26-
Fire Tuesday swept the business
quarter and 10 blocks Of residences.
City officers estimate there are 1900
persons homeless and place the
property loss at more than ST.
100000
All coal mines in the vicinity sus-
pended operations and crowds or
miners. experienced i'm the use OF
explosives. went from house TO
house. blowing them mp i'm an ef-
fort 10 check the flames
Twenty -four blocks of buildings.
including The principal business
structures. have been destroyed.
Prosecuting Atty, MCGUIRE and
Chief of Police Bunker have sp-
peaied To COY. Iyseter for authority
10 call out the home guard com
pany az EIlensburs to assist in keep
ing order.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-06-26
Danger inGernan
Plots in Ireland
Says Short

LONDON. June 26.-Edward
short chief secretary for ireland,
speaking i'm the house Of commons
Tuesday on the Irish question, said
he hoped to satisfy the house that
the German plot i'm Ireland was a
real and imminent danser 10 this
country He said he was satisfied
that both the clergy and the ma
tionalists had used their influence
20 respectively assist in keeping the
peace.
Secretary Short said the govern
ment had found that Germany was
in touch with Ireland and that not
only were messages going 10 Ire
land from d German source. but
that they were going from Irish
sources TO Germany.
The collapsible boat i'm which the
man. who is now a prisoner, land
ed in Ireland from a submarine.
Mr.. Short said, was made of cam
vas similar 10 that made al Hanover
before the war.
Mr.. Short said the government
knew that i'm certain port OF Ger
many a large amount Of ammuni-
ton was loaded into a German sub
marine. and that. moreover sub
marines had been seen in localities
where the destruction Of shippinS
could not have been their object.
Mr.. Short said that since the pre-
mier had announced the govern
ments policy with regard TO Ire
land circumstances had entirely
changed. there being two main
causes for the change. The first
and most far-reachIng cause, he
said. was the discovery of a Ger
man plot I'm Ireland which he hoped
he would be able 10 satisfy the
house was a real and imminent
danger 70 the country. In addition,
there was the fact that the feeling
I'm Ireland was against consumption
and the movement which neces-
sarily follows that feeling had been
used by the extremists in a physical
movement in conjunction with the
German plot
The speaker said he did not for
a moment say that any substantial
proportion of those i'm Ireland who
were opposed TO CONSUMPTION had
any knowledge that they were be-
ing used 10 further a German plot.
Mr.. Short said that Sim Feiners
had been captured in the anti-con-
scription movement. IT had been
declared that the German plot was
a bogus plot intended &c injure Ire
land. but he regretted 10 say that
there was no need for investigation.
for the plot was a fact. When he
and Niscount French went TO Ire
land Mr. Short continued. they
found the temperance OF seditious
propaganda i'm the form Of poems.
pamphlets and notices posted on
the walls. melting the people 20 aid
any German force that might land
in the country.
ANY straw and fodder taken by
the German army said Mr. ShorIt.
one of these poster read, will be
paid for bN Germany"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-06-26
AIRMEN DROP is TONS OF
BOMBS ON METZ STATION

LONDON. June 26.-The Metz
Sablons railway station (the station
Of the great German fortress of Metz
in Lorraine) was bomb bed four
times on Monday BY British air
men, it was officially announced
Tuesday. Sixteen tons Of bombs
We're dropped. Factories and rail-
way sidings at SaaTbucken and Dill
lingen also were bombed In the
raid on Metz-Sa blons station one
German machine was shot down in
flames and another was sent down
out OF control All OF the British
planes returned safely.