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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17

German Governments. the Govern
ments that declared the treaty insur.
ing the inyiolabilty OF Belgium a
scrap of paper" and forced the oser-
Gus peace treaties on Russia and Ru.
mania.
The President has gained the oppor.
tunlty he has sought. officials declared
the opportunity Of telling the Ger.
man people:
"You are willing to evacuate all
conquered territory. You are willing
10 make good the wrongs you have
done. There Is but one way in which
you can convince the people of the
United States and the Allies OF your
sincerity, and that is by getting rid
of the political system responsible for
these wrongs"
The Presidents reply, It was de.
clared, will be officially addressed to
the German Government, but he will
actually speak above the head of that
Goyernment-to the German people
themselves-in an effort to convince
them that the Hohenzollerns must 90
ere peace can be returned to them and
the whole OF Europe.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17
Two Kinds of
Allies
n
BY GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON
Of The VigiianfeJ

An Italian widow living In New
York city had five sons. -Four Of them
were born In the United States, the
other In Italy. He was one year old
when his parents came TO New York
to live. When Italy entered the war
against her domIneerlng, cxactlng ally
three Of these boys-all American sub
jects-lOst no time In doing what
thousands of other American boys al
ready had done. Where the other thou
sands had east their lot with the Ca
nadlans, the French and the British,
as free-bOrn Americans had the right
for the land Of their father, and took
up the arms of their fOrefathers
against the foe. They entered the
Italian army. They were volunteers,
not conscrlpts. Two Of them had
never even seen the land from which
came their father and mother.
Then came the decision of the Unit.
ed States to engage In the conflict
on the side OF civilization and hu-
manlty. This old Italian mother gave
her two remaining Americans to the
army Of the United States. They were
her yOungest-one Of them barely
clghteen-and they were as eager to
fight as their brothers had been. They
did not want to be drafted. They en-
listed as common soldiers, and went
away with the troops TO France.
The old mother did not give up her
boys 10 the armies Of Italy and France.
She gave them 10 the armies that
We're fighting for the things dear to
them as Americans. They went as
Americans. not MS Italians. No mat
ter what their father may have been
when he was II boy, these boys were
Americans. They loved the land In
which they were born, even as their
father loved the land In which he was
born. They believed In the land OF
their birth and In It's Ideals, as their
father and mother had taught them
to believe. They did not 90 forth as
adventures, but MS soldiers with n
principle behind them.
Difference in Mothers.
A German mother In Connecticut
city also had five sons Of the fighting
age when the war broke out. They
were all born in the United States and
they were American citizens, as their
father deliberately had made himself
by the processes of naturalization per
haps before any one Of them came into
the world Two of these sons sue
ceeded in reaching Germany, and. like
the sons of the Italian mother, took
up the arms of their fathers native
land. No one will galnsay them the
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17

tlon. The answeri Is No! We are en-.
TO choose. That Is and must he real
power else we are victims of ghaSt-
ly Jest, hideOus deluslon. If God has
limited Himself by giving us this pow.
cr we can If we wlll choose evil in
stead Of good. Men have chosen evil
and the world Is suffering because OF
the choice. Once more you ask. why
does not God withdraw from us our
freedom of will, since II Is abused? Be
cause the privilege Is so great, so in.
estimable, so necessary, that II is bet.
ter even 10 suffer all the ills that fol.
low upon It's abuse. than that 1t should
he withdrawn or abrogated, and we as
cend TO the position Of autOmata. ir.
responsible beings, moved about arbl-
trnrily by nm omnlpotent hand. We
must work out our own salvation by
the help Of God. We are not children
OF the bond woman but OF the free
and we must so continue.
What Is Your Answer2
How, then, Is Gods will TO be donei
How Is the war To be won? In what
way Is n stop to be put to all these
atrocities? When men. by whatever
means and searching, do discover the
will of God, and after the discovery
develop sufficient conservation and de-
votion to do the will of God. then, and
not until then, will II be done.
"The Son of God goes forth to
war" Yes, always and at all times.
but He never comes back victor UNI
less the Sons of Men 80 with Him.
When we find out the will of God
and do Il, we shall end the war, and
every other evil that results from the
inability or unwilingness of men to
see and do that will.
Are your hearts set upon righteous
ness. upon doing the will of God, oh
We people Of America? So the question
is not of Gods duty but Of your own.
What answer are you makingl
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17
GODS WILL
OR MANS
n
By CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY
OF The VigiianfeJ

II God be perfection IN wisdom and
love, and all powerful, why does He
not stop this war? He must know OF
the suffering. He must feel for the Suf-
fcrcrs, II He can why does lie not
end It? Grave questions, indeed, ana
wrung from hearts unaccustomed TO
doubt, by sorrow and shame and tie
Spalr. God Is wisdom, love and power;
God knows and feels, yet the war goes
ON. lie does not act There Is no Divine
Intervention What then? Shall we,
like Jobs wife, curse God and DIET
by no means.
Let us nsk ourselves the exact
meaning of that clause In the world
wide prayer "Thy will be done on
earth as II Is In Heaven" Is that a
statement of invarlable ever-present
fact, or Is Is necessary petitionf Is
Gods will always and everywhere and
ut all times being done upon earth. or
IL II not?
think that statement Is petition
and that II Is properly included In the
Lords prayer. ! am sure that Gods
will Is not always being done but that
often and for long periods the evil VIII
OF man Is being done under the In
spIration of the devil lncldently, nfter
the experiences of the past few years
| don't see how any one can doubt the
existence of the devil and legions or
attendant spirits Of evil. He Is incar-
nated at Potsdam, and his fallen
Angels In the ravagcrs of the strick-
on lands of Europe and Asia. Have
Won seen that terrible cartoon In
which the devil shakes his finger Mt
thc kaiser and snys. "If you don't quit
calling me Cod you will get into
troubles"
We Must Continue Free.
VIII any one say TO the MANNED
children, the outraged women. the
starved men, that these sufferlngs are
inflicted upon them by the VIII OF
God? Were Reims and Ypres and
Louvaln destroyed by the Will of God2
Does he pollute wells, and devastnte
fields and destroy villages? Is He re-
sponsible for Poland, Serbia and Ar
menln? Is the torpedo launched
against the merchant ship In accord
ance with His WHIP Is He using liquid
fire and poison gas? Is God accessory
nfter the fact to murder, rape, outrage,
devastation, destructlonp The thing Is
unthlnknble; the claim monstrous, I'M
possible, incredible.
But II God be not responsible and
II men are, still why does He not pre-
vent them2 A restntement of the ques-
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17

right to Join the kaIser's army. They
were free-bOrn American citizens, as
much so as the boys who went out
to fight with the Italian, the French
and the Canadian forces, ard II was
their individual right 30 fight where
soever and with whomsoeter they
elected. But when the United States
went into the war, did the three re-
the country in which they were born,
the country which had enriched their
father, the country which hcnored
them by calling them citizens? They
did not. They were not Americans.
They were Germans. The mother OF
the three young men openly declared
that she would rather see them dead
by her own hand than TO have them
take up arms against their kaiser!
The Fortunes Of War.
But the fortunes of war produce
strange conditions. The fortunes OF
war demanded that three Americans
should 90 forth and shoot two Ger
mans. There can be no going behind
the fact that the instant the United
States entered the conflict these three
boys automatically became the enc
niles Of their brothers. Their brothers
had gone out voluntarily to fight with
the German armies. That was their
right. their privilege. They did so nj
the time when their native land was
not lined up against the kaiser. They
elected to face the bullets that were
aimed at Germany, just ns those other
boys elected to face the shells fired
nt Italy. But the two Germans went
out TO fight for Germany because they
were Germans, because they were not
allowed to be anything but Germans.
Their mother sent them out to die for
Germany. Was she willing to send the
other three out to die for the United
States? NO! She preferred TO kill
them with her own hands The ltal-
ian mother did not send her two re-
naming boys to fight in Italy but In
France. They went as American sol
dicrs They would have gone with the
American armies to fight against Italy
If the call had been from that dlrec-
ton She would not have preferred
to kill them with her own hands.
In the great Civil war that threat
ened the existence of the United
States of America back In 1S6l-65
brother fought against brother. Thou
sands of young men came up from the
Southland and put on the uniform OF
blue. Their brothers, their cousins,
even their fathers, were wearing the
gray. The instances In which North
ern-bOrn men went to fight with the
Confederate armies are notably rare.
These men who came north loved
their Southland with n devotion that
cannot be questioned, and yet they
loved their country more. They did
not fight with the North because they
were Northerners but because they be-
lievcd in United States Of America.
Blood may be thicker than water,
but 1t is neither blood nor water that
counts in the making Of an honest
man. 1t is his heart that counts.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17
PRESIDENT LEADS TROOPS.
Marches At Head OF Armed Forces In
New York.

New York.-Presiden Wilson. com
manderin-chief of the Amerlman Army
and Navy marched at the head of the
American forces in the Columbus-Lib.
erty Day parade, one of the most i'm.
pressive and inspiring spectacles New
York has ever had.
Under canopy formed by the flags
of the 22 nations arrayed against au.
tocracy and with squadrons OF Amer.
lean airplanes lowering overhead, the
President strobe with $4,000 fighting
men from five continents and islands
from every sea over the entire three.
mile line of march along the Avenue
Of the Allies. Then, at the foot of
Fifth avenue, beside the Washington
arch, he took his place in an automo.
bile and reviewed the long column.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17

Yates william J. Rlnebold. OF Athens.
Pa, and John Il. Redcay, OF Rending,
Pa.
The first shell broke n few yards
from the dressing station Just ns Paul
started to crank his ambulance to 20
to a more advanced post. Sbrapnel
fragments slightly cut him. A sccond
shell followed closely, almost In the
same place, and Paul was cut In sev-
ernl places.
A doctor at the post, with Rlnebold
and Redcny, came out Of the station
and was dressing Paul's injuries when
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17

the third shell landed, heavier piece
Of shell striking Paul and his death
followed IN u few minutes.
Rlnebold was cut on the right foot
by n splinter from the same she'll while
Iedcay was cut below the left eye.
Rlnebold was taken to hospital, but
Redcay was able to resume his duty
after receiving medical attention.
Paul, ut the time of his enlistment,
was n junior In the engineering school
OF Lehlgh university. where he was
prominent In athletics. He was mem
ber OF the Sigma Chi fraternity.
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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17
Favored BY Germans.

Par!s.-The tendency is remarked in
certain German circles, says dis.
patch from Geneva to the Temps, to
represent the eventual fall of Emperor
William as concession which the Ger.
mans would be disposed to allow to
the Allies II they demanded ii.
Such talk appears, above all, the
message adds, to be an attempt to
bring about an event which many Ger.
mans Judge to be inevitable and even
desirable.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17
YANKS QUICKLY
ADAPT SELVES

to explode-it is likely TO be mistaken
for gas shell and the alarm sounded
Nearly all OF the doughboys In the
line wrap their tin hats with burlap
or some other material to cover tho
metal, as In walking through the
trenches If ones helmet strikes wire
or some projection 1t rings like bell
and Is often taken rs signal to open
fire by some Boche snlper lurking
hidden and camouilaged In No Mans
land.
A stray bullet striking barbed
wire strand makes ping that can
be heard half mile, and IL one strikes
n steel hat 1t sounds like village fire
alarm bell.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17
A GIRL FIRES ON OUTLAWS.
Barricaded In A Tower, She Keeps
Train Wreckers OF.

Uniontown, Pa.-Barricading herself
In the tower at the Pennsylvania Rail.
road crossing at Gist, near here, Miss
L. NJ. Vensel, signal operator, pluck.
lily held her post and fought re.
volver duel with three men who at.
tempted to wreck an ammunition train
by placing ties across the tracks.
With bullets crashing through the
sides of the tower house she returned
shot for shot until the arrival of the
freight train frightened away the in
truders.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17
THIRD SHELL PROVES FATAL
"ee Ambulance Driver Killed While
navIng Previous Wounds At
tended to.

Mance slightly wounded when two
p,,ra. landed near dressing station,
wos @,e W., John Paul, Of Paterson. N. j.,
"a "'ed when third shell exploded
a,,on, was having his previous wounds
soun, 'oSt shell also inflicted slight
' On two other Americans, Pri-
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17
To Stop Death Under Fifty.

London.-Death under fifty must be
prevented. Sir George Newman, In
making health report to the board of
education, lays down this aim. All
medical education, he argues, Is build
ed primarily on the curing of disease,
not Its prevention. Examination Of
records shows, says Sir George, that
most fatalities under fifty are more or
less directly preventable.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17
ONLY ONE POUND AT A TIME.
Revised Rules Governing The Sale Of
Sugar.

Washington. Revised rules govern.
ing the sale of sugar to consumers
while still permitting the issue OF two
pounds month for each person re-
strict the sale to one pound at a time,
Hereafter only one pound for each
person can be issued between the first
and Hfteenth OF month and the other
pound between the fifteenth and thir-
teth.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17
Reports That Kaiser May Abdicate In.
creases.

Zurich, Switzerland.-Ne travel.
ers arriving here from Germany report
that rumors that Eli. peror William may
abdicate appear to take greater con.
sistency day by day. The arrivals add
that the unpopularity of the German
Crown Prince has considerably in.
creased in Germany.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17
HIS WELCOME IN ITALY
MAKES HIM FAVOR WAR

Cleveland, O.-"If this be war,
to hell with peace I"
This Is an extract from n let
ter written by Lieut.. @. w. Con-
nelly to friends here from his
billet In Italy, describing the
welcome accorded the first
American troops to arrive In
that country. His letter stated
that the soldiers were deluged
with flowers, fruits and gifts as
they marched along and were
rendered several banquets and
receptions.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17
HUNS BALK AT EXCHANGE.
viii Not Ratify Agreement On
Prisoners.

London.-The German Government
has communicated to the British Gov.
ernment, through Holland, its decision
not to ratify the Anglo-German agree
ment for an exchange of prisoners
unless guarantees are given against
the deportation and internment OF
Germans in China
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17

The man who used to burn the mid
night oil making his money now has a
son who consumes the midnight gaso-
line spending it.--Indlnnapolis Star.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17
SERGEANT LOSES
HIS LAST FIGHT

saw him go out. I shouted, Good
luck, Sarge when the strctcher was
carried through the door, and he
smiled and said: Thanks, I'll be back
In n few minutes with you"
The sergeant was Frank Carbaugh
OF Greencastle. Pn.. member of the
Seventh Machlne-Gun Sanitary dctach-
ment. No mother ever reared braver
son.
The sergeant, who was mnthemat-
les teacher before the war; was
wounded when his outfit was rushed
into action near Chateau Thierry.
None Of his bunklcs knew Just how,
Lecnuse, ms one Of them explained,
"thc sergeant wasn't the kind Of n
fellow who'd tnlk Of himself. You
can bet he was wounded doing some
thing for somebody, though"
They did know thnt the sergeant lay
out In the open long time after he
was wounded. Medical records show
that. His left leg was badly smashed
and they operated at the first hospital
he reached. But gangrene had set
In. and four operations had followed.
They have had lots of brave pa
tlents that doctors and nurses and
patients admired alike In that hos
pltnl, but never one Just like the ser
gcant.
The little group sitting on the cots
with the nurse, had been talking Of
tie sergeant for long time. when
ono Of the boys said: "You ought to
write to his mother, Miss Cutter. The
surge thought the world OF his moth
or"
I'm going to-" replied the nurse
"You boys write out what you think
OF the sergeant, and I'll send that.
too"
What the Boys Wrote.
The boys did, and here are few
lines from them:
Private Elmer Hylnnd wrote: ~ was
With him. as soon as he came from the
operation, and | cried when he went.
lie was great boy-a clean fellow
through and through. I wish my foot
was so could walk with him to the
cemetery"
Wagner John Trnsk wrote: "Our
sergeant Is gone. Why. loved that
fellow like my own brothers. I've
seen other fellows go, but never
f,lt like this"
Sergeant Vincent Saucr wrote. "T
never felt worse since | came In the
light. He was game to the last; al
ways cheerful, and when called Good
luck to you he answered: Thanks.
III be o. X. SOON We always had
fun around his bed; he was so cheer
ful. He was one OF the finest fellows
] ever knew"
Arthur Stain, who knew the SER
geant better than the rest, the boys
say, because he ana the sarge liked
to dnbble In poetry wrote n poem to
send the sergennt's mother.
They buried the sergeant In the 1T
tie American graveyard In pretty
Lorraine valley, with an American flag
over the coffin, as 1S soldiers fired
three shots over the grave and the
hugler gave "tnps." Then some Of
the boys whose injuries permitted
their attending the funeral, gathered
flowers In the valley and the nurses
placed them on the grave with red.
white and blue ribbons around them.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17
TO PLAN LEAGUE OF NATIONS
German Foreign Minister viii Name
Committee OF Reichstag.

Amsterdam. - Dr. Solf, German
Foreign Minister, will soon appoint a
committee of Reichstag members, rep.
resentatives of the Foreign Office and
jurists to formulate the German draft
of league of nations plan. according
TO the Nord Deutsche Allegemelne
Zeitung today.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17
U. S. SUB CHASER SINKS.
Goes Down In Foreign Waters After
An Explosion.

Washington American subma-
rine chaser designated as the 219,
sank in foreign water October Q after
an explosion, with the death of one
enlisted man and the injury OF one
officer and eight men. One man also
IL reported missing.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17

Except along the Caspian sea coast.
agriculture in Persia is dependent on
irrlgntion-
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17

London's population includes 471,.
600 persons who reside In fats.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17

At cat owned by Mrs. Mcleod, OF
East Cleveland, Ohio, eats olives.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17
To the WRITING Guys.

Cast thy manuscript upon the edl-
tors and after many days II will return
agnn--ln such n condition that II Will
hnve TO be recopled.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17
Soldier Wins Admiration OF Com
rades Through Cheerful
ness in Hospital.
He WAS GAME TO THE END
Four Operations Were Too Much for
Strength Of Non.com. Who Was
Wounded in Action at
Chateau Thierry.

An American Hospital In France
No, they're not going to bring the
sergeant back to the ward, boys"
These were exactly the words the
nurse used. But the tone Of her voice
and the look In her eyes said more.
The little group In the ward which
had been playing cards on one Of the
beds to forget the tension they felt
while the sergeant's operation was
taking place. stopped suddenly, all at
tentlon, all hungerlng for good news.
"You don't mean the sergeants
gone, do your" exclaimed one.
ayes, boys, the sergeant's gone. Four
operations were just too much for his
strength. He never regnlned conscious
ness."
He Was a Game Boy.
"Gee, the sergeant's gone" husklly
said chap with one leg gone, "he sure
was Il game boy
"IIe was the best fellow I ever
knew" said another. 'and the cheer
fullest too. I've seen them dressing
his leg time and again, and gosh but
Il hurt. But did the sergeant ever
say anythlngi Not the sergeant-he
never bntted nm eye"
"Just to think" mused third, ut
wasn't half nm hour ago when we
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17

In the six years from 1911 to 1917
membership In trade unions In Canada
has grown from 1873, ,l32 to 20i,630.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17
ENTIRE DRAFT BOARD OUT.
Members or Georgia Body Remove
BY Wilson's Order.

BY Wilson's Order
Atlanta, Ga,-,Removal at the order
of President Wilson OF the member S
OF the local draft board of Liberty
county because of alleged irregularl
ties and improper conduct of the reg
ulations was announced by Major Joel
D. Mallett In charge of administration
OF the selective service law in Georgia
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17
U. S. CUTS PEN INDUSTRY.

Brass And NiekeI-Plated Styles Are
Stopped; Others curtailed.
Washington.-The manufacture OF
brass and nickel plated pens will be
discontinued shortly by ruling OF
the War Industries Board. No new
types of pens are to be produced dur
ing the war. The variety Of existing
styles also is to be materially reduced.