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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-02
President Wilson's Example.

President Wilson sets an inspiring ex
ample to the people Of the country by
his supplementary subscription for a $50
liberty bond. He had already "gone the
limit" Now he goes beyond the limit
and takes another bond. If everybody
who has already bought bond will &c
Just once more to the bank and take out
another, the third loan will be the great.
est success Of the series, and America
will send a message to Berlin that will
convince even the most doubling junker
that the people Of this country are in
deadly earnest in their determination to
win the war.
And there are many Americans who
have not yet bought bonds who must be
moved by this example of the President
to subscribe before Saturday night. The
way is easy. Five dollars down and IS
month. Seventeen cents a day! That
is the way the President is paying for
his supplementary subscription, and
practically every American can do the
same.
The banks will be open tonight until
o'clock for the receipt of subscriptions.
After dinner this evening, get down.
town to the nearest bank and pass in a
IS bill and take a bond-or another
bond. You will feel better when you
have done it. You will feel more like
a soldier.
The President has done what every
good soldier does. He fights ito the
limit" and then fights some more. This
war will be won, says Premier Clemen-
ceau Of France, in the last quarter of
an hour, and victory will 90 to the side
that has in reserve the punch that will
tell III those final fifteen minutes. Just
30 in this liberty bond battle-and every
loan issue is q battle-victory will come
through the exertion Of that final ounce
Of strength exerted after tAs "limit" has
been reached.
True patriotism has no limi6. There
Is always something in reserve. Take
that additional bond today and strike
the maximum which means victory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-02

Maj. Higginson's retirement from the
personal management Of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra's affairs is a dis
appointment to many people. Maj. Hig-
.ginson had made personal pet of the
orchestra, and his withdrawal of patron
age must be regarded as the result of
DR.. Muck's tactless and untiinely demon
STATIONS. Music has charms to soothe
sometimes, but not always.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-02
Germany's Worries.

Berlin is worried. Things are not 60
ing exactly according to program. There
are three centers of trouble and they
are all in action at once. This is an
unusual condition. Heretofore Ger
many has been fortunate id having to
face only one difficulty at a time, as q
rule, and to have three causes Of an
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-02
10 Repeal by Rider Of Haf-and-
o. Half Law.
Half Law.

Again the effort is renewed to repeal
The half-and-half law of 1878 by indi-
f. :fecticn through legislative rider on the
District appropriation bill.
Congress in 1916, after full consider
alton, decided adversely to this very
proposition. It refused to repeal the
half and half law, which after thorough
investigation had been discovered to be
fair, by rider on an appropriation bill.
In decided, in effect, that when the law
sf 1878, fixing the financial relations Of
nation and capital. came to be changed,
The alteration should be made, not covert
" and by indirection, but after thor
0ugh preliminary consideration Of the
proposed legislation by the District COM
nittees and by Congress, and in shape
which should substitute for the repealed
law one establishing q definite policy Of
regular and liberal appropriations by
Congress for capital maintenance and
development and a fixed and certain tax
burden for the District Of Columbia.
The Commissioners estimates this
yeas ask for appropriations approx
naske.y double the Districts tax revenue,
but iacresscs are almost entirely in
maintenance provision. rejecting In part
the higher cost of living. The estimates
are weak (as they have chemically been)
in outlay expenditures for permanent
/: public improvements, as distinguished
from maintenance.
The House appropriations committee
cuts from these estimates, already in
adequate in permanent improvement pro.
vision, over four millions of dollars, and
: tho House in committee Of the whole
: ineousiderately, unwisely and unjustly
treats this unlawfully created surplus Of
= nnsxpended District tax money As evil
idenee that the District no longer needs
the protection Of the half-and-ha law,
and as convincing argument that this
h~ shssid be repealed and chaos left in
It, place.
War conditions Influenced the COM
missioners in making their estimates.
The appropriations committee reports
that it cut millions from the Commits
J, sioncrS estimates in view Of the neces-
sity Of war economies, and Of the pro-
hibitive cost in war time Of constructive
work in municipal permanent improve
nentc
Clearly these needs of the District
which cannot be met now on account Of
the war must be met after the wa1> and
= clearly the money which would wisely
be spent now on local public improve
ments but for the war must be held in
trust for the Districts use to meet those
snecnmulated needs after the war.
This is no time, with the naxon in
:, the throes Of war, to try to enact just
substitute for the law Of 1879 deter
mining the financial relations OF nation
and capital
- The joint fiscal committee of Congress
has reported that this law in practical
: operation is fair to the nation, so that
no injury is suffered by the postpone
ment of enacting just and wise SUBJ
: stitute for it until after the war is
ended.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-02

The arrest Of a Vassar teacher for
trying to justify. Prussian atrocities
again calls attention to the fact that
education may fail to develop or confer
common sense.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-02

New Workers elnAps that there has been
profteering in aenrsrkraut." This is
adding insult to ixSsry. sSauerkraut"
should be one Of the most humble and
submissive articles on the bill Of fare.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-02

Adjacent to Washington 10 extensive
territory suitable for homes and within
easy reach under normal conditions. It
must be admitted that the street car
problem has added to the difficulties of
the housing problem.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-02

America has developed . better word
than efficiency" which the Hohenzol-
lern system has degraded to the depths
Of selfish materialism. The American
word Is co-ordination"-"all for one
and one for all"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-02
Faith.

The fire must burn itself away;
Flowers must replace the ashes gray
A sky benefcent and warm
Waits to replace the passing storm.
We do not know just how and when
The day Of peace will come again.
But this we hold in faith secure:
The day Of strife cannot endure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-02

Affairs have become so desperate as to
render Prussia Indifferent to the amount
Of indemnity she promises to collect for
the German people.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-02

A proper sense Of humor would have
prevented the people Of middle Europe
from taking those superman pretensions
too seriously.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-02
Generous Attitude.

"Do you believe in the study Of Greek
and Latiny"
"Surc," replied Farmer Corntossel
Everybody has his rights. And man
who hasn't anything worth expressing
i'll plain English ought to have some
thing to occupy his mind with"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-02

It may be assumed that Q number of
commissions which have drifted out Of
public attention are reporting progress
from time to time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-02
Delicate Ground.

ado you think public official is a
servant of the pcople!"
"Look here, my friend" rejoined Sen
ator Sorghum. "This republic has trou-
bles enough without dragging in the
servant question"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-02

Occasionally an enemy alien suspect
turns out to be merely one Of those peo-
pie who talk too much without thinking.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-02
On the Ground Floor.

The farmer is a happy man,
Ee'doesn't fear the worst.
For, by necessary plan,
He gets his foodstuffs first.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-02

In the absence of any news to the
contrary, it is assumed that Carranza
and Villa are still fighting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-02

Il has noticed" said Uncle Eben, "dat
de man dat sho' huff docs big things
aim got very much time fob talkin' big"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-02

Getting rid Of Bolo Pasha did not
necessarily get rid Of some Of the in.
fuences he established.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-02
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Accurate Destination.

Accurate Designation.
EWhat was that selection your daugh
ter played on the pianof"
THAT wasn't selection" replied Mr.
Cumrox. "Nobody chose it. 1t wa.
forced on u.s."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-02

Prussian desperation has taken the
place of German confidence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-02

The disiHusioned paeifst usually
makes most reliable and indomitable
warrior.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-02

: The Prussian motto is, "When prepar-
ing for more war, talk peace"
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EDITORIAL

EDITORIAL
A budding Soprano sang beau
tiful song the other evening
beautiful in execution, yet
it lacked the thrills that one
could expect from such a
musical gem.
Now we're not posing as critic
of music. but if asked why
the rendition failed to bring
a hearty response from the
audience we would say it
was because she did not
know the meaning Of the
/ words. She sang them me-
chanically, without feeling.
No doubt she followed the
markings on her music, but
even they could not impart
the heart throbs that a
knowledge of the meaning of
the words would have given.
A store that does not under
stand the meaning of the
word service is as uninter-
esting and mechanical as the
girl referred to above.
;IzZZ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-02

In white. pink or blue; about
five different patterns; bro
caded in heavy self designs.
5-inch Hair Ribbon to
match, 39c.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-12-25
THE GREAT ARMY THAT DIED.

Y N the grand silence Of the peace so dearly won
4 they sleep the warriors sleep. They will
not again sit about the hearth. Those of us
who are to clasp beloved hands once more shrink
at the thought of the loneliness of the mothers
whose sons return not.
cit is kind and tender impulse, but we are
wrong. If in those mother hearts there yearns
the sorrow of loss, there triumphs the glory of
sacrifice The whose lives were spent for
the highest that they knew the sons of moth
ers whose ideals they carried forward with the
banners of a just and holy cause. They drew from
the blood that bore them the strength of will,
the firmness of purpose the fearlessness of death
which we celebrate in this tremendous hour They
fought and fell as the protagonists of American
motherhood, which their signed devotion now has
vindicated and enshrined Their souls were steep
ed in patriot cradles and nurtured in homes where
virtue and honor and faith were more than all.
Forever living, incapable of death, are the
noble boys who lie where freedom for the world
mothers whose offering was beyond earthly mea-
sure, the mothers of sons who return not The
God of battles is also the God of compassion They
need not the pity Of men and women He his
raised them up to greater heights by sacrifice
made perfect. Newark News
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sAND THE ANGEL SAID .WRITE!o

~ NE does not now need the spur of direct
III J divine command to teach him that writing
a friendship letter to friend is a good
deed and duty, Everybody has known that
from his earliest day. But friends need constant
| reminding that this good deed is worth doing Of
ten and we'll No boy back from The war or from
the dull, crowded, lonesome camp will ever again
think slightingly of the great value Of big, good
natured letter from home-a long letter written
ff::ce both sides of the sheet witt. the margins
all filled with postscript thoughts and leftover
bits of news.
Just now the friends at home need fresh and
vigorous reminder of the necessity of more fire.
quent and more friendly letters to the boys in
the service. These are the dull days, the days
of fret to be free, the days of discomfort and of
looking homeward without being able to go home.
Letters from home full of the small doings, little
domestic commonplaces- letters so frequent that
they tread on each others heels-these are the
investments in friendship that will pay great
dividents to the investor now and in time to
come
In the pleasant field Of letter writing is plot
uncommonly rich bu. not commonly worked This
is the writing of letters to old people. AS peo-
pie grow older their chums grow fewer and so do
their pen friends. For a young person to make
practice of writing regularly to an old uncle
or aunt or elderly family friend, is not only
gracious act it will almost surely result. in fine
enriching friendship that would never have been
won in any other way at so small cost.
Writing the first letter may he hard, but writ
ing the hu1dredth is not. By and by the task
becomes pleasure, and when it does, the letter
becomes more valuable. In writing to soldier
boy or to an old uncle, the dividends of friend
ship will be greatly increased if all thought of
debit and credit is banished from the mind even
to the writing Of ten letters for one
"Give and it shall be given unto you, good
pressed down and shaken together and
running over shall men give into your BOSOM
For with the same measure that We mete withall
it shall be measured to you again" Minneapolis
Journal.
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TEACHERS UNDERPAID.

K Lane, secretary of the inte.ior
r in an article that appears in Everybodys,
expresses the hope that larger portion of
them in our public schools shall be given to the
teaching of the principles for which we have been
fighting abroad. He states: american boys and
girls should be taught entirely in the American
tongue, be made to think in American terms. TO
Judge by American standards, to contribute to
the American idea, by learning to know our his
tory, not as series of incidents, but as the de-
velopment of philosophy, by making every boy
SO passonatelys devoted to our form of govern
ment as growing expression of the love which
men have for justice and liberty, that he will be
willing to fight for it and make himself able to
fight. To do that, the work of the teacher must
be elevated in public esteem. The salaries of
teachers must be raised. The profession mus. be
made to draw to it men and women of superior
kind, for teaching is the most important of all thu
professions"
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WOMEN AT THE PEACE TABLE

p" Consistency, expedency and the plain
rights OF the case are all for giving women
proper share of representation among our
delegates to the Peace Conference. The obvious
objection has already been made: an American
delegation, exclusively male be trusted to re-
present women's rights faithfully as the wo-
nen themselves might do. But this same objec-
zion has been made in the matter of men doing
che square thing by their women at the ballot box
and has been found unconvincing The logical
result OF woman suffrage is full participation in
the life of the state, and there is no use in crouch
ing about details when the main principle has
been conceded 1t didn't take that Unconditional
assembly, the British House of Commons, verv
long to decide that if women can vote for Parlia-
ment they sit in Parliament If women have
worked for the war so resolutely as to win the
vote in Great Britain-and almost winning it
in Louisana-they are entitled to their chance
in working for peace.
There is another consideration, not as senti-
mental as may seem at first sight. The chances
are that from socialist Germany based on uni
Fersal suffrage there will be women among the
delegation. If Russia is to have voice in the
peace discussions, it is not unlikely that among
her advocates will be that pioneer of Russian
freedom the heroic Katherine Breshkovsky. It
would be out OF the picture if the western demo-
cracies alone should refuse full partnership to
their women in the great readjustment
The proposal is all the more practical because
the Peace Conference is likely to take the form
Of large number of special commissions intrust
ed with the study of special problems. In such
specific matters of interest it is inevitable that
women should find opportunity. 1t may be
recalled for instance, chat one of the first sub
jects of international collaboration in modern
times has been the question of white-slave sup
preston.
It will be The purpose of the historic confer
eace to safeguard the world against wars of all
kinds-wars of conquest, trade wars, class wars
as envsaged by the Bolshevist crusaders. Why
not seize the opportunity 20 signalize the end
of that sex of which the novelists are so fond
of talking? Women at Versailles would be the
unmistakable recognition of great world fact,
woman's attainment of her full majority.-Col
aiers.
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STAMP IT OUT.

The time has arrived when every
right thinking American citizen will
exert his every effort and all his in
flue1ce to stamp out Bolshevik move
ments in this country.
We have room in free America for
but one flag-the flag of our faith
ers-Old Glory! Let those who would
strive to raise the red flag meet a
traitors fate and a traitors death.
This is no time to stand for any red
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-12-25
THE UNIVERSAL MOTHER

Just because I am "The Universal Mother"
Of The sick and wounded broke and distressed.
Do not think l merely call the Hun a brother
Or have tenderness toward him in nv breast.
| have seen the crimes his ruthless hands COM
mitted
l have nursed the ruined victims of his lust
Seen the crucified' whose bodies he has spitted!
pray not "Mary God Have Mercy" but
"Be Just!"
have seen my ships full-aden with these brok
Who were headed, full of hope, for love and home
Seem with hate too spirit wrenching to be spok-
en-,
Wasted bodies floating helpless in the foam
When the Hun torpedo burst beneath the hold
OF my vessel plainly marked and free from
guide!
can give the beast no welcome to the fold
When l know him to be merciless and vile.
| am hating naught but what my God is hating:
All my love is for the ones the beas. has torn,
Yet my mother hands are empty oft and waiting
And my loving mother hear. is made to mourn
That the help you might be giving is with held
That your careless heart forgets my awful
Let your clouds of mercy shed their shower gold
Thus do l. "The Universal Mother" plead! .
| Written and dedicated to the Christmas Roll
Call OF the American Red Cross by Strickland
Gillian
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER rs, 1918.
X X X x X X X X
A YULETIDE WITH MORE MEANING

A YULETIDE WITH MORE MEANING =
W HE Christmas spirit is surgiag up with a
fullness that has no. been felt in several
years. and the yuletide Of this year will
bring greater happiness to many home-the
boy went there to offer his life that the
teachings of Christ nigh. have bigger mean
ing, has returned safe and sound, and the bugle
of battle is stilled
Surely the very essense of Merry Christmas.
There homes throughout the land with the
vacant chair at the FEAST but the boy who left The
home did not give his life in vain. He gave all he
had to protect he babies and .her mohers and
their homes from the ravshing might of a brutal
monarch, and his will be the glory in the happy
Christmases to in the countries chat had
almost given up belief in just God.
Christ gave His life that the world Nigh. be
saved
And it is the boy who remained there, as we'll as
Ehe one who returned, that carried the message
q Gods loving kindness to the stricken people.
We have learned, too, that it is not difficult to
carry the Christmas spirit along throughout the
whole year, and it brings us to the happy sea-
y with better understanding.
It will indeed be a Merry Christmas-Mesaba
Ore.
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flag nonsense. If the wildeyed y
tators are not summarily dealt y
now there is no telling what m
happen. This is not Russia, nor G
many! 1t is America, and let
Stars and Stripes wave in trir
over every Bolshevik movement
matter what title that movement
bear. There is still use for the +
squad and blank wall. Death L
who e7deavor to overturn our 4
and true government.-Fre Ha0
Try n11r WANT Alp nnI,,no
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:. :: X !: ). X
THE TRUE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

I'D like stocking made for a giant
And meeting house full of toys;
Then I'd go out on a happy hunt
For the poor little girls and boys;
Up the street and down the street,
And across and over town,
Ia search and find them, every one,
Before the sun went down.
Eugene Field. Il + 4 +
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-12-25

The newspaper reports say that Presiden.
Wilson cleft clean desk before leaving for Eu-
rope. Pooh! we do that every night before leav.
ing for home! We just raise our desk blotter.
sup all pleas RENTS" and "why- did you -rots .
under 1t and 10, not Woodrow himself could leave
a cleaner desk! Blotters conceal lot of things
BESIDE the mystic writing which is read from them
In 1ovels-wlth the aid Of mirror Abous
the only thing that never does seem to find it's
way under ours is uncashed check
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SMALL TOWN TALK

Take few minutes off right now before the
bells begin to ring for Christmas Eve, and do
your Christmas shopping.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-12-25

Fred Hadley made the following Christmas
suggestion in his paper of last week.
"Just to help Santa out little on his long
and arduous trip, we would suggest that:
He give the kaiser what is technically
known as hell
He give us a few more oysters in the time
honored stew.
He give all ro-Germaa tickets back across
the broad Atlantic"
we would add to this that Santa give Townley
back to North Dakota-we've finished with him
in Minnesota.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-12-25

Larry Ho has announced his intention to quit
politics and ge. back into the newspaper game.
That decision keeps Larry exactly where we who
love him most want him most.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-12-25

Our idea of foresight was realized the other dav
when we heard The Gazette forman ask novice
who came to use the shop paper cutter to be
a bit careful not to get his finger under the
knife as i was coming down because FINGERS
dulled the edge So" And the novice was agree
able says he, "Since you put it that way I'll bs
bit carefuller than l otherwise might"