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The Washington times., 1918-09-08
Patient German Woman Dragging
q Water Cart IN Berlin Street
In Place Of q Horss, Another
illustration Of the Docility
That VIII Submit to the
Most Extreme Tyranny
Why the German Government
Plans Forced Marriages

During the three years 1915-1917
the fdu IN tie German birth has
been sqaieolsnt to tie loss of
9,000,o0 iafaHts.
Forty per cent feICer births 0c-
Cured in 1916 than in 1918.
The infantile death rate IN Ger
many is so per cent higher than fn
England. 1t IOdS 157 per thousand
IN 1918, as compared rith 105 in
England and Wales.
The death rate rose to 1913 per
thousand IN Bavaria during the first
year of the WGr. 1t also rose rapidly
in Prussia and SdrOny.
TheatOss of males by death and
disd6E cement in the DGr is expected
to be not less than 5000, 900.
The Washington times., 1918-09-08

fail to write the laws Of the land; their
private emotion became political power,
for our modern sense of freedom is q
stream which. has romantic love as It's
quiet source. II is the springs OF such
freedom that the Kaiser now seeks to dry
up, and II Germany can be taught to live
without love, the. Kaiser can rule the
world.
Germany has been far from innocent OF
sentiment in the affairs OF the heart, and
its gush Of emotion has compared well
with the finer expressions peculiar to the
more romantic races toward the south.
Germany has had no Petrarch. but it has
had its Goethe, and the Rhine which 1t
watches with care and anxiety knew its
Inflated Lorelei. Just how Fritz and
Gretchen will accept the substitute for
love remains to be seen, but what modern
nation has made so much of Springtime
and moonlight. of plighting troths and
broken hearts? But the Kaiser has de-
cided to set the matrimonial clock ahead,
so that the youth will reach the age OF
twenty before he knows what love is. The
iniiction of law upon the human heart
may be the last straw of Germany's bur
cen, for the Government which has been
so clumsy in its psychology of other peo-
ple may be committing a fatal error in
dealing so blindly with its own. Out of
the insulted heart of the German people
to whom love has ever been precious may
come the looked-for revolution which hun
ger has been unable to arouse
The romantic love which the Kaiser
has decided to annex as though it were
but another Belgium, is far from being an
Copyright 1918, by Star Company.
The Washington times., 1918-09-08

Is planning is the result Of German science
Biology works well with the beast, why
. should IT not demonstrate its efficiency
!: with the human species? The NOR
: ganatic unions which the Kaiser is
planning are not new with man, who
was not born yesterday, but who dates
back to a period before the Kaiser's coro-
nation. or even the first Roosevelt Admin
istration. N the Kaiser's desire to manu-
facture bridal wells by the ream, he should
consult some of his historians in re Sparta,
which Used matrimony for the purpose of
peopling the land with warriors. Fighters
Il did produce. but their swords were
mightisr than their pens.
Take different example. Athens, which
left matrimonial choice open to the con-
tracing parties, produced both fighter and
writer. brave men and men of genius, SO
that one century Of Athenian civilization,
which reioiced In no more than twenty
thousand citizens, or no more than some
Of our suburban towns boasts produced
more than . dosen supermen of whom
move these men and their works and your
Athens had been no more impressive
than Albania. or Kansas. It's quality OF
life not quantity which counts, and the
Kaiser's attempt to stretch the census will
tend to make the prolific hen rather than
the conservative eagle the national bird.
Germany will outturk Turkey in its at
tempt to multiply for militaristic pur-
poses. The slavery Of these new soldiers
will be more complete than the JaniZaries
Of SULLIVAN the Great. Can romantic love
succeed IN stsmming the militaristic tide
where individhalism and hunger have
failedf VIII the Romeos and Juliets show
the courage which the German people gen.
orally have swallowed In silence? Sull-
man failed In his attempt to place his
heel upon the human heart; Napoleon met
the Waterloo Of human emotion; and the
Kaiser IL doomed to see the Jena Of out
the stars in their courses fought against
Sisera.
The Tannhausers Of Germany, hitherto
mute, viii continue to sing their low,
songs whether the Raisers wills it or
not The Tristans and Isoldes will drink
their love potion whether it be of imperial
brew or homemade. The ardent Siegfried,
will defy the Wotan OF the State as they
make their own way to Brunhilde's flame
fenced mount There are still ideals in the
war-stricken world, even in Germany, and
there are places where CONSUMPTION Is in
vain. Prominent among these restricted
areas is the marriage-altar Of the human
heart, for the right to love is more pre-
Cious than the right to vote.
The Washington times., 1918-09-08
BIZ Rudolph M. Binder,
Charles Gray Shau,
Professor of Philosophy, New York UNI
VersIty.

LII over Europe governments are
"a confronted with the urgent prob.
1 \ lem of restoring the population
decimated by the colossal slaughter Of this
war.
Germany has reason to fear depopula-
ton more than any other country. We
know that prominent German writer's have
urged the legalization of polygamy in
order to provide an increase Of population
and to care for the great superhuity Of
women. We hear that women in Ger
many are encouraged to become mothers
without regard to legal ties, that they are
said to visit 'rest houses" behind the lines
- here soldiers, given brief leave for this
purpose meet them. We also understand
that the discredit formerly attaching to
unwedded maternity has been entirely re.
moved.
We have now information concerning
certain legal enactments by which Ger
many hopes to recruit her failing popula-
ton. A recent cable from Amsterdam
stated:
"The German committee appointed to
examine the decline in the birth rate In
Germany has reported a recommendation
for the compulsory marriage Of Germans
before their twentieth year is passed.
Financial assistance would be granted
by the State, according to this plan, which
provides penalties for those failing to
comply. Provision is also made for the
punishment Of married couples who re-
main childless."
Estimates indicate that Germany's loss
If population by the war will be not
less than 100000 men. With this must be
considered a rapid fall in the present birth
rate and an accompanying rise in the In
FAINT death rate. The 9TH rate in 1916
had fallen 40 per cent since 1918.
Is it possible to make up for this ap-
palling loss of life and vital growth by
legal enactments? 1t is undoubtedly Pc
culiarly Prussian proceeding to order
that population shall increase at a Ger.
tain rate without regard to affections, in
clinations morality or religion. But have
we not found that the Prussian philosophy
Of government is failure?
The Kaiser is both the great war-maker
and the great match maker. His faithful
Fritz must be ready for either the trench
or the altar. Mars has sent Cupid to the
rear: the tender darts of the little god have
been displaced by the superguns of the
war deity. and martial law has assumed
he form of marital law. II wisdom is
Justified OF her children, Kultur must have
Us Kulturkind. From this time forth, so
the imperial decree runs, old maids and
Id bachelors are verboten.
Germany has found a substitute for love,
and German science has invented syn
twenty, when only princes and poor people
ever think of marriage. the German boy
End girl must wed in order that the mar
rlage altar may be the last line of defense
for the Fatherland. In the past, society
has enjoyed its marriage damour'' and its
marriage de CONVEYANCE" but now comes
The marriage de guerre."
After calling upon his well trained PEG.
pie to bleed at the front, the Kaiser
seems to think that the German heart can
bleed in the fond anguish of extemporized
love; if his people can sing the Hymn of
Hate toward everybody outside the Faith
:
The Washington times., 1918-09-08
1.-THE Right Of the First Night,
a Shocking Medieval Custom
Which Gave the Baron an
Outrageous Power Over His
Newly Welded VaSsals
Bride. Its Prevalence
in Germany May Ex-
plain the Racial
Callouness to
Womanhood'S
Rights.
(Frem the Painting
BY Jules Carnisr).

erland, they can sing the Hymn Of Love
toward everybody within the iron ring. In
thus Communicating the unborn, the Kai.
Ger is but emulating the example Of Fred.
erick the Great, who desired TO have his
big grenadiers mate with the sturdy wom-
en- about the camp; but Kaiser Wilhelm,
with his efficiency, wants the matrimonial
matter carried out wholesale and with sys
tematic completeness. The older ruler
hayed his people with whips, but the newer
master will fay them with scorpions.
The Kaiser has conquered hunger in the
stomachs Of his subjects. Can he conquer
human love in their heartsY May It not
turn out that people Which could starve
or be shot for the sake Of country will
refuse to suffer this new indignity which
their ruler seeks to in1ict upon them?
For eight centuries the heart Of Europe
has palpitated in the Joyous throes Of ro-
mantle love. which has had the power to
:nfiame tender breasts and has not for
saken the tougher hearts Of those who. in
love matters. never reach the age Of dis
erection.
As a rule the sons and daughters Of
France and Italy. Spain and England and
even Germany have sailed into loves har-
Dor under their own power. Instead of
being driven TO the marriage altar by some
grim power, they have been lured there
by Venus who awaited herself of music
and moonlight, Of poetry and song. Out
of this fitfuI sentiment has come a sense
of self-consciOusness, a feeling that as
thou art thou. so am l. Out of this thrill
have come poems and pictures, deeds of
skill and valor; for the simple proposition,
81 love thee" contained a splendid
corollary which involved the alteration
Of the True, the Good. and the Beautiful
Such exalted selfconsciousness has
borne fruit both poetical and political.
since he who felt the little tempest in the
tea cup of The heart felt none the less the
emotion peculiar to him who exercises the
rights of a free born citizen. Those who
loved developed the fine arts, but did not
Cheyenne record., 1918-11-28
1919 WHEAT PRICE
TO STAND AS FIXED,
DESPITE PEACE

The Food Administration Grain Cor.
porst.ons guarantee of $z.lS per
bushei l.. o. b. primary markets Tor
the 1919 colorado wheat crop stands.
This is the assurance OF the Food
Administration for Colorado.
In spite of the fact that the end o.
the war has released great stores OF
wheat upon the markets Of the world:
that wheat is now selling in Australia
at 95 cents . bushel; that only $1.03
is guaranteed for the 1919-1920 crop
of Australian wheat: and that there
is prospect of even as low as 70-cent
wheat in Europe after the Argentine
harvest this month, the government
will maintain the price promised
American farmers for their wheat.
According to George S. Clayton.
chairman of the milling division of
the Food Administration for Colorado.
it is probable that a sliding tariff on
wheat will be arranged to protect
American wheat growers.
Cheyenne record., 1918-11-28
U. S. cuRss HUN FOOD PLEA.
Lansing Tells Germany t. Make Re-
quests to All Allies.

Berlin.-In his me essage 10 Secre-
tary of State Lansing at Washington.
DIR. W. S. Solf. after appealing to him
to intercede with President Wilson to
rend peace delegates to The Hague
as soon as possible. "in order to save
the German people from re"lshlnpf
by starvation and anarchy susgestei!
that Herbert C. Hoover. the Americana
food administrator. be assigned TO thet
task of assisting the German people. |
Washington. Secretary Larsin.
made public the text of his reply to-
radio communications from tie Ger
man government seeking E:odifica-
tions in the terms of the aImistfceo
with Germany and Turkey.
1t is announced that the requests
would be referred to the allied Gov
einments and the supreme war coun-
Gil. and pointed out that such coz.s-
munications should be sent 10 all tho
associated governments instead OF
only to the President Or government
Of the United States. and should come
through established diplomatic cham
nels.
Cheyenne record., 1918-11-28
DISTRICT NO. Z

Mr.. Richard M. Skinner is down
with the flu Tut the doctor thinks
there is no danger.
Thanksgiving locks to be !
quiet day in our neigoborhood as
there are several Ceases of sex
ness and We. ybody is busy
No. z Red Cross has plenty of
sewing on hand but have held no
meeting for some time. Anyone
who will help with pajamas and
suits can get them of Mrs. Pryor
Mrs. Pfost or Miss Darling.
A cablegram received from
Chester Anderson, who is with
the seth division in France dated
Oct. 16 says that he was we and
had come safely thru the big bat
ties fought in early October.
Any one having Red Cross
work completed can leave it W. h
any of the ones who have unfin-
ished work on hand. or if MOI e
convenient leave with Mrs. Dels :
plain at Cheyenne Wells and no
tify the secretary of No. z, Mrs.
Pryor.
w. H. Skinner and wife left
last Thursday to spend Thanks
giving with Mr.. Skinner's father
sisters and other relatives at
Barnesville. Ohio. On their re-
turn trip they expect to lvisit rel
atives in Illinois. Missouri and
Kansas.
Cheyenne record., 1918-11-28

Temporary peace has added two
Injuries to the American table. The
.n.teo States Fooa Administia al.on
LOT Co.oraco announced last ,eeA
MAI pure wheat Tread may now be
servea on all tables. The sac and
use OF substitutes is no longer neCes-
-ary, it is stated, because OF tne re.
easing of large sto.c., Oh .iour IN the
oou,Een, Heiulsphele wh!cl. w.s
orIlsr tiea u b the war an war
erlauds on shipping.
.r-ptoluCins states, such 81
Go'OfR- with its beet, 4d L, u
Tl,h H. ane sugar, L -ood Il
10 n increased sou Odd
! nNaT of sugar to four pounds per
cranu : I..Cnth.
Rssrr rants however, though per
mitted 10 serve wheat bread, are still
limited as to quantity served and are
permitted to serve only an extra tea
spoonful OF sugar.
The need for keeping strictly with
in the sugar allowance and for vast
ing not 4 crumb of the welcomed
wheat bread is reiterated by the food
board.
Cheyenne record., 1918-11-28

from a newspaper, sixteen years
ago. The present world war
ma6esit indeed very interesting.
The following strange state
meEt, made over his own sigma
ture, has been given out by R. w
Bowman. a Penn township farm
er, says a press report from Port
land Ind.
On the evening of the 10th
day of December 1901, while in a
perfectly normal state of mind
and body l saw what seems to
me to have been a remarkable
vision in the heavens. mostly in
the northwest. which l make
known in the hopes that some of
the wise-acres may be able to in
terpret it. as l believe it portends
something in which the nations
of the earth are to figure in the
year 1918. / saw with the natur
al eye what scene l.tot the ban
ners, or flags. of all nations Of
earth suspended. as it were, in
the clear heavens by cords. or
lines. The whole heavens seem-
ed to be dense with the beautiful
emblems. among which old Glory
occupied position of prominence G
at the head of the columns.
Some of the emb!ems appeared so
low as to aim ost touch the earth.
In the southeast saw splen-
did train of cars. drawn by steam
moving rapidly through the air.
Tn train seemed to moving south
west. 1t entered bridge and
was lost to my view thereafter.
In the midst of the vision l clear
jy saw the date, 1918. with no
Fl cures nor words about it, only
the gray heavens for a'back-
ground. d.-Ex
Cheyenne record., 1918-11-28
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

wes:<rn Ne srpap~r I. ni"n News Service
The alfalfa mill at Broomfield will
soon commence operation.
Beet growers were paid about $1s.-
100000 for beets delivered in October.
State inheritance tax collections
for the last biennial period amounted
to s593.G92.
f. F. Stroman, of Pueblo. is report
ed in the Canadian casualty list as be-
ing wounded.
Mrs. Mcdonald. wife of Former Gov
ernor Jesse F.. Mcdonald, died at her
home in Denver.
A sugar beet weighing 17la pounds
was raised by j. A. Benner on his
ranch near Craig.
Approximately 100000 bushels of
wheat have been threshed in Larimer
county this season.
The town Of Miner. 10 miles west
of Steamboat Springs, has been
equipped with electric lights.
At a meeting of the Routt county
commissioners, a petition was granted
for the proposed Todd Creek road
from Morrison creek to Yampa.
The honor flag OF the United States
shipping board has been awarded to
five Denver machine manufacturing
plants for meritorious production.
TIE Colorado Farmers and Farm
Women's Congress at Fort Collins
will be held early in December this
year instead OF January as originally
planned.
Work will commence at cnce upon
7OO-foot accompaniment shaft on
the famous Pinnacle vein at the In
tcrnational Fuel Company's mine
north of Mt. Harris.
Prices were advanced on nearly all
the principal food products sold by
grocers by the Denver county price
fixing committee, which announced
its weekly list Nov. Is.
Mrs. Theodore NJ. Stuart. wife of
the Denver lawyer and captain in the
United States army, died at the home
of her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. David
WHEAT Ek.EAD AND
FL-lsII SNHAR NOW
UN COLOA.AADO TABLES
Cheyenne record., 1918-11-28
Letter from Chester Ander.
son.
Somewhere in France
Octot er 4, 1918.

SSkSNSk AS&Ss
Dear Foster Mother and Brother:
Well after several weeks of
chasing the Huns Il will try and
write you a letter. l have had
no show to write for some time.
l have received several letters
from you right up at the front.
They sure make a fellow feel a
lot better. l am glad that you
folks are well and that you have
a good crop. 1t will be quite a
while before you get this letter.
/ am sorry that Allie has been
sick and hope she will sooa be
we'll again. You do as you think
best about the stock, it will suit
me. We have sure been going
some. My old pal Flynn was
wounded and our gunner also.
My new pal was caught under a
truck and hurt pretty bad. but
your boy is still going, but l am
pretty tired and worn out. Sew
eral times l thought the German
bullets had my name and number
but miss is good as mile.
Say l tell you it sure makes you
think about your past life when
the big shells and shrapnel get to
flying thick and fast thru the ar
l have been hit several times by
shrapnel but light. l wont get
time to write to the st of the
folks. but give them my love and
bes. wishes. How is U Gle Riley
1t has been very bad weather 50
cold and rainy all the tina. Well
l will close with love and best
wishes.
Pvt Chester Anderson,
Co. B 354th Inft 8)th Div
A E. F.
Cheyenne record., 1918-11-28

Now that the fourth Liberty
Loan and the political campaigns
are over, Colorado yet has one
more task to complete by Decem-
Der 31st, in order to round out
a perfect year of war activities.
That task is the raising of her
quota of $40. 600. 600. 90. thru the
sale of War Savings Stamps. To
date we have sold approximately
$l1. 600, 10000 worth of these
stamps leaving 50, 600. 600 90 yet
to be sold. During the drive Of
June 28,h, our citizens are ple,l-
ped to purchase $18. 900, 600 90
worth of these stamps. The re-
demption of pledges has not been
AS complete esch month as the
redemption of pledges to pur-
chase Liberty Bonds.
We want you to cooperate
with the War Savings Stamp
Campaign Organization of your
city, county and state. to secure
the redemption of these pledges
and the purchase of an addition
al amount sufficient 10 complete
Colorado's quota. The Colorado
State War Savings Committee co
operating with the varioa, coun-
tv and city committees is just be
ginning a campaign a that will ex-
tend to December 3lst and will
include an Intensive drive some
time in the early part of Decem-
Der to secure the completion of
this quota.
Yours FOR the success of the
War Saviags Ssanp Campaign.
l.. ". EVANS.
Stat, Director.
Cheyenne record., 1918-11-28
ARMY OF 1,7so.coo AT cAnTcn-
MENTs BEGINS MOVEMENT
TO HOMES.
RELEASE 10000 A DAY
OLD GLORY WAVES ON ROAD TO
RHINE AS ALLIED MOVE FOR
WARD AT ALL POINTS.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Neutrality-suspicious. of Ameri-
can troops across the Atlantic La;
stopped entirely, and demobilizat:'.n OF
troops in cantonnents ami camps at
home is under way.
Gen. March, chief CT staff. made this
announcement Nov. 16, outlining the
War DEPARTMENTS plans in answer to l
the questions the country has been
asking since the day the arilist:ca
was signed and it became apparent
that the war was over. He said or
ders already issued would send 200,-
900 men back to civil life within two
weeks, and that when the program
was in full swing about 10000 would
quit the army daily.
Fighting divisions of Gen. Pcrshing's
army in France will be demobilized as
far as possible In their home conf
munities.
Supplementing Gen. March's state
ment, Secretary Baker satd it would
not be necessary to maintain all the
existing cantonments for demooiliza-
tion purposes and that study was
for that purpose. Tho others, with all
the divisional camps, he Indicated. will
be abandoned as soon as the men now
occupying them have been mustered
out.
The rehabilitation will be carried
out in the following order:
First-Development battalions, sew
entyone in number and comprising
9S, ,199 men.
Second-Conscienti objectors not
under arrest.
Third-Spruce production division.
Fourth-Central training schools for
officers, with some notifications.
Tifth-United States guards. now
numbering $4,000 men.
Sixth-Railway units.
Seventh-Depot brigades.
Eighth-Replacenen units.
Ninth-Combat divisions.
I'VE have in the United States now
something like 100000 men, and to
muster out a force of that kind, Cs
course, will take some time" said
Gen. March. Each man Eai to b.
examined physically, his final ac-
counts made, so that the men may
get compensation they are entitled to.
g 'ank forms are being shipped to tire
various camps for use as these orders
go into effect.
Paris, Nov. 13.-Frencb .t-oop7 have
occupied Mulhausen, Sc Ian. GrHTp-
lotte. the forts south of Me:z, Nuns
ter and Aitkirch. according to the
French communication
The American Third army has
been designated as 1.-The army Of occn-
PATTON" 1t will be under tn" imtne-
diate direction OF Gen. Pershirg. 'tsa
chief. who will he n
command of the American positions
in occupied territories.
The Third army will consist of t',ss
First. Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth,
Twenty-sixth. Thirtysecond. Forty
second, Eighty-ninth and Ninnticth di-
visions. which. divided an'ong the
Third and Fourth corps, will oonGst
for the present OF about soo,0ol ricn-
1t will be commanded by Maj. Cen
Dickman.
Cheyenne record., 1918-11-28

Word was received here last
week of the birth of a baby girl
born Nov. 16. 1918, to Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. H. Owen, weight 10lbs.,
n lme Georgia Marie, but follow
ing a few days later the sad mes
sage that relatives had failed to
read all of the announcement
card, and that the little life had
been denied the privilege of
Frightening the lives and homes
of parents and other relatives
but had been called 10 help brigh
ten the home of our Father in
Heaven. The little body was laid
to rest by relatives in Todds GEM
etery, near Richmond. Mo-. home
of the M )ther's parents and
where baby was born.
Oh little han6s in Heaven
Reach out and guide our way
That we may walk more closer
To thee and God e. ch day
But God alone knows best
And he alone kI ows of our sorrow
As we watch your peaceful rest
But safe from earths dark shadow
Dear little one Of ours
Help US find cur Savior
In these our dal kest hours Xxx
Cheyenne record., 1918-11-28
FOOD ADMINISTRATION
TO KEEP PRICES DOWN TO
LOWEST POSSIBLE LEVEL

In . recent interview Herbert
Hoover assured the American peo-
pie that the Food Administration. as
long as its power continues, will main
tain its Fair Price committees, con-
tinue to exercise wherever possible
Just control of prices, and will en-
deavor to the fullest extent of its
-owers to keep prices down.