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WILL LEARN BRITISH.
PEACE TERMS FRIDAY.


inence will gather to w.si, the party
farewell. The idea of visit TO Oxford
by the President has been abandoned
owing to lack of time, but ii is sug-
gested that he lay anothcI visit to
England before his return home.
When President Wilson ceases to be-
the guest of France at Calais at 10:30
o'clock on Thursday morning the Brit
fish Admiralty will assume the role OF
host. The president will go directly
from his train to cross Channel
boat, probably the Brighton, an Ad-
fniralty controlled vessel The steamer
will be escorted by flotilla OF British
destroyers. as we'll as seaplanes. IL the
weather permits. The crossing will
be In charge of Vice Admiral Sir
Roger ]. b. Keyes.
No American craft are included in
the plans for the escort. The Ameri-
can army and navy will participate In
the reception only through the at
taches In the diplomatic service. ,
Will BE Given "BeIgian Suite"
The Belgian Suite" reserved exclu-
stvely for royal guests until now, will
be occupied by President and Mrs.
Wilson during their stay in London.
In the years Of its interesting history
II has had within it's walls many
crowned heads, one of the latest but
the least mentioned at Buckingham
Palace being the former German En-.
peror. II was given it's name during
Queen Victoria's reign.
At the request of President Wilson,
who evidently found that too much is
being crowded into his short stay in
England, the proposed dinner at Lam
caster House on Saturday night has
been eliminated. This was to have been
q function only second to the banquet
ut Buckingham Palace Friday night.
Instead OF the Lancaster House ban
quet Premier Lloyd George will en-
terrain the President and War Cabinet
at dinner Saturday.
Those in charge OF the details, par
ticularly the officials at Buckingham
Palace, are at times puzzled over the
niceties of etiquette, the result OF
the unique situation that there will
be no royal guests at the palace
These puzzles, however. have been
only OF momentary duration, except
among some Of the aged attendan ts,
who have been casting about for
guidance. 1t is understood that they
have been informed that 1t will he
plain "Mr. Wilson" and Mrs. Will
son." much to their relief.
After President Wilson is presented
with the freedom OF the city at the
Guildhall on Saturday he will lunch
with the Lord Mayor at Mansion
House, proceeding thence to Bucking-
ham Palace by way of the Thames
Embankment.
The freedom of the city parchment
will be placed in a handsome gold
casket. which Will be sent to the
President later as II will not be An
ished in time for the ceremony itself.
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AERO FALL HURTS GEN. RHODES
Had Nearly Reached Paris in
Flight From Treyes.

PARIS. Dec. 23.-An airplane piloted
by a British officer and carrying an
American General from Treves, Ger
many, capsized this afternoon at
Louvres. on the outskirts Of Paris.
The pilot was killed and his pas
senger. Major Gen. Charles u. Rhodes.
head OF the American Armisticc Com
mission. was seriously injured.
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desire close and cordial relations with
the United States.
I'VE think the people of the United
States are conscious of the great and
benefcent influence they exercised on
the history Of the world by the part
they took in this war. We cannot be-.
lieve that they will let this influence
abate or dle.'
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al" Car Ties Up Traffic.

The rear car Of an empty north
bound Third avenue elevated train
jumped the track at 164th street yes
terday morning. ripping up the rails
and splintering the ties for about
twenty feet Traffic was tied up for
an hour.
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Navy Regulations Hospital.

The Navy Department requIsitloned
yesterday the use OF one entire floor of
St. Johns Hospital. Long Island City,
for use as a base hospital for wounded
sailors. Between so and 100 wounded
sailors will be taken there to-day,
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real appreciation among the Germans
is open to question.
There is no doubt, however, the
sight of the Americans brings smirks
and smiles to the faces Of the Ger
mans. There is no hatred In the
hearts of the Americans for the Ger
mans.
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Jewish Leaders Views.

NJ. Prilucki, n leader Of the Jewish
party and a member OF the Warsaw
Municipal Council, speaking 10 me on
this programme said:
We recognize the Polish state, but
within the limits OF that state we de-
mand n certain autonomy Jewish ma
tionality must be recognized by the
Polish Government and all Jews within
the Polish borders must he enabled to
form in that union a personnel which
must be quite autonomous: they must
be able to found schools at tho expense
OF the Polish State and the Polish
State must renounce all right OF con-
troll over these schools. We pay our
share OF taxes. therefore we have the
right to demand that money shall be
found for our schools.
We shall elect on a universal suf-
frage basis. a supreme Jewish National
Council which will have undivided
control over our schools and our social
institutions. The Jews. OF course. in
addition to voting for their own coun-
ell will ballot for the Polish Parlia-
ment, but their representatives will
abstain from casting votes there on
educational or social questions"
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the President and Is one of the rea-
sons why he Is insisting that prece-
dence be given the league Of nations
in the treaty.
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Toids Cause Grip and Influenza.
80 ~ bHoMO QCISISE Tablets rerox.
y ~ VS.; There Is only one 'RrUmo Ouinins :,
'''N'NE Signature on the hox 0c.~Adp.
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MAYENcE, Dec. %. The French
threw pontoon bridge across the
Rhine at Nierstein on Friday. This
bridge. which is more than 1000 feet
in length, was built in five hours.
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DELAY OF PARLEYS
HAS ADVANTAGES


tions TO the civil governments. Con-
siderable interest was aroused in Paris
by telegram from Rome stating that
the Giorndle dItaIia was reverting to
the idea Of concord between Italy and
the Holy See and insisting upon The
community Of their interests in Ar
menia and Lebanon. The Giornale
dItdltd Is represented as suggesting
that the Pope might find Palestine a
compensation for any territorial re-
nunciation he might make to Rome,
To this suggestion the Vatican organ,
Osserrdtore Romano. is allie tscd to have
replied in an article entitled "a New
Phase Of the Relations of italy and the
Holy Sce."
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Suggestion IL Not New.

There is nothing new in the idea Of
a formal understanding between the
Vatican and the Consulate, IL not b&-
tween the Vatican and the Qulrinal
This repeatedly has been discussed and
AZ often allowed to lapse. What Is new
Is that II should be ventilated by a
journal edited and written by per-
sonal adherent OF the Italian Foreign
Minister.
Though by religion a Protestant.
Baron Sonnino always has been under
stood to hold that the Roman Ques-
ton" was solved in 1870 and that any
decrease in the appearance OF hostility
between Italy and the Vatican might
damage italian national interests BY
exposing a predominant Italian HER
orchy in the Roman Catholic church.
If not indeed the Holy See itself, to
the suspicion Of being unduly Italian
in sentiment.
Baron Sonnlno hitherto has been be-
lieved toSFegard the Roman church as
the greatest Italian institution and to
fear lest any display of official init
macy between Vatican and Quirinal
would cause the German and British
Roman Catholics to work for a due
and effective representation in the COL
lege OF Cardinals and ecclesiastical
hierarchy, II not eventually in the
chair of st. Peter itself.
The publication OF this suggestion
for n concordat in the journal Baron
Sonnino controls, therefore, is felt
doubly significant at time when
Catholics in all the allied countries are
de eply mortified that during the war
tho prestige of the church should have
been endangered by the failure OF
Pope Benedict XIV. to wean the Roman
hierarchy as n whole from its obvious
tenderness for the forces OF upright
eousness
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WARSAW STIRRED
BY DANZIG SEIZURE
Poles Hope 1t Will Remove
All Chance of BOlShevik
Invasion.
By J. NJ. n. JEFFRIEs.
Special Gable Despuch to THE svS from rAe
London TSmes Service.

Special Gable Despuch to The svs iron, rAe
London TGnes Seruicc
Copyright. 1875; all rights rsserred.
WARSAW. Dec. 22.-The whole city
is stirred by report OF the arrival OF
Gen. Haller in Danzig with Polish
troops from France. All hopes are
centred in Halter and the conjunction
OF Kaller with Gen. Pilsudisky.
Poland has faced so many problems
that II seems past a man TO solve
them. but 1t is hoped that the arrival
OF Haller's large contingent: OF troops.
which is placed at $4,000, will remove
all possibilities of disorder and of a
Bolshevik invasion and will enable the
first general elections to be held so as
TO allow a start at least to be made.
-Four Great Problems.
Poland has four great problems;
first, reconstruction: second, nnem-
ployment; third. the Jewish problem.
and finally the BolShevist danger. At
Lemberg several streets were burned
out and in the central synagogue
the sacred ScruHs OF the Covenant
were torn from the Ark. The Jews
declare a thousand persons are miss
ing. but these figures are unreliable
ana one must await the result of A
mixed commission named TO inquire
into the pogrom.
Lemoerg is a symptom OF the whole
I.NNish nrnhIafT1 hn hA f,,-
ture OF Poland Russian Poland has
- per cent. Jews In her population.
Gal!cia II and some cities far exceed
this, The Jews have begun an agi-
tation which the Poles declare COM
promises the security OF the new
regime.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-06-24
THEN AND NOW.

Soon after the United States severed
diplomatic relations with Germany in
February, 1917, discussion was start
ed as to whether or not this country
should send troops abroad. There was
a large sentiment against such thing
and many people thought the United
States would do its full share merely
by furnishing food and supplies to the
allies. Col. Roosevelt was the most
strenuous advocate of sending an
army to France, declaring that ii
would be a disgrace to get into war
and then expect other nations-na-
lions already sorely bled from the
ravages of more than two years OF
conflict-to do our fighting. However
nobody at that time, not even Roose-
welt himself, thought we had such a
job before us as now seems so plain
The question now is the number OF
millions of men it will require to win
and some are putting the mark as high
as ten millions, while nobody expects
less than two or three millions can
do the work successfully.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-06-24

document by which this guilt is estab-
lished. It was so-called 'memoran-
dunn by Prince Karl Max Lichnowsky.
who before and at the time of the COM
mencement of the war was the am
bassador for the German empire in
London"
After quoting at length from the
memorandum" the editor says: ut
is to be remembered that these words
are not those of an Englishman. They
are the words of one of the noblest
of the German nation, to which the
German Emperor entrusted the most
important foreign post and with whom
William II in his youth was closely
associated" And the editor conclud-
es: "Who bears the blame that the
German people were goaded into a
furious hate and thereby into war
spirit? Only those in the service of
the junker class, who are the ruling
military caste in Germany, in control
of the government The pan-Germans
in their megalomania are the ones
who brought about this calamity upon
the German people,"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-06-24
TROTSkY'S DELUSION.

It was a most unfortunate thing for
the world that Trotsky, the famous
Russian leader, came to this country
few years ago and lived in New
York City He was a fugitive from
his native land and when he arrived
in New York was without funds. He
naturally gravitated to cheap lodging
house and just as naturally picked
up" with the class of hangers-on
usually found around such place.
He met wild-eyed anarchists, unrea-
soning socialists and some worthy
poor who were suffering real and, to
them, unavoidable poverty. These
associations gave Trotsky a wrong
idea of the United States, as he judged
the entire country by the standards
common to his surroundings.
When the car was overthrow
Trotsky returned to Russia, taking
with him wrong impressions of the
people of this county He was i'm
pressed with the conviction that capt.
talistic influences controlled the Unit
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d States and that the common people

ed States and that the common people
here stood no more chance for real
advancement than did the common
people of Russia. Had Trotsky be-
come familiar with conditions in rural
districts and the smaller towns of this
country, or even Of the more satisfied
portions of the great cities, he would
have carried far different story back
to Russia, and it is possible a more
satisfactory situation would exist to-
day in the great empire of the late
car.
For itself, the Freeman-Journal
has some faith in Trotsky's honesty,
but none in Lenine's. Trotsky, we be-
lieve, really wants to serve his peo-
pie, but must fail as long as he holds
to the false ideas of government that
seem to have taken possession Of his
entire nature. Had he met and asso-
ciated with the right kind of people
while in the United States his views
might have undergone important
changes.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-06-24

crop Of each farm in the county last
year was approximately $7,50O---a
record in material prosperity that
cannot be excelled and perhaps not
duplicated anywhere in the world,
except where intensive farming is
practiced and the average size OF
farms is from two to ten acres, and
where one man devotes his entire
time to three or four acres.
If this $15,O00,OO0 in wealth pro-
duced from Hamilton county soil
last year were invested in Az per
cen government bonds annual interest
returns would be $637,500, approx
imately $31S for each farmer. The
per capita value of the 1917 crop in
this county was approximately $3.50
If the entire nation produced like
that, in comparison with its popula-
ton, the annual returns from the
farms of the country would be about
$57 100000.
However, from an agricultural
standpoint, Iowa has all the states
backed clear off the board. Illinois is
really the only one that comes any
where near the Iowa record, when
the number of acres is considered.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-06-24
sAN OPEN CONFESSION,

German Americans generally are
beginning to see that Germany is
wholly responsible for this great war;
that Germany deliberately launched it
in the hope of extensive conquest.
There can no longer be any doubt of
this in the minds of intelligent and
unprecedented Germans. One of the
most influential German newspapers
in the United States, the Germania-
Herald of Milwaukee. has made can
Open Confession" which reads:
at is our duty to make it. We, too,
were among those who laid the blame
for the world war at the doors of
English statesmen. We. too, have
time and again repeated the assertion
to our readers that these English
statesmen, jealous of Germary's sue
cess in the world markets, attempted
to 'encircle' Germany. We, too, have
repeatedly stated that Germany is
entitled to place in the sun. We
did SO in good faith For we then
believed what the organs of the Ger
man Government proclaimed. We be-
lieved at the beginning of the war,
and years thereafter, what most of the
other German papers repeated.
eve were then fully convinced. that
the program of English statesmen con-
sisted of nothing less than to stop
Germany's commercial and colonial
expansion. With us one-half Of the
world of the western hemisphere was
convinced through the press of Ger
many. We believed in the press of
the old fatherland, which preached
hatred against England everywhere,
following its governmental press,
where the German voice was sounded.
Sir Edward Grey, the dictator of
foreign affairs for Great Britain, ap-
peared to us as paragon Of baseness.
Now we and with us the rest OF the
world which then credulously listened,
are convinced of the opposite. We
know now that the British statesmen,
and with them the statesmen of the
allies, did not only have no warlike
measures against Germany in mind
but to the last minute endeavored to
their utmost to avoid the war The
blame for the bloodshed lies with the
German Government
''Politiken, the organ of the Swedish
socialists of the extreme left, On
March 10, published the historical
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-06-24
GOOD FOR MINNESOTA.

It is a matter for general cOngra-
tulation by loyal Americans all over
the country that Gov. Burnquist was
so handsomely endorsed at the Min
nesota primaries on the 10th inst.
The so-called non-partisan league,
which might aptly be designated the
non-partisan plague, made a hard
fight against the governor, but he
won by a tremendous majority. On
the whole Minnesota is all right, even
if there are some pest holes in the
state infested with pro-Germans and
other traitors. The great heart OF
Minnesota, which has large popu-
lation of German birth or extraction,
beats loyalty to the union and can be
relied upon in the future, as in the
past, to render all possible aid to the
government in the prosecution of the
war.
Gov. Burnquist took an early and
vigorous stand against the league in
Minnesota and it is matter for
genuine rejoicing on the part of his
friends here in central Iowa, where
he is well and favorably known, that
he received such handsome endorse
ment at the polls. He is man of
large capacity and Rooseveltian cour-
age and is just the sort of material
needed in gubernatorial positions in
times like these.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-06-24
IOWA LEADS, OF COURSE.

The bureau of crop estimates at
Washington gives Iowa credit for
producing the most valuable crops
including live stock-in 1917 of any
state in the union. The grand total
for the state is put at $1,469, 100000
Illinois is Iowa's nearest competitor
the value of her agricultural products
being $1,2S7 100000, with Texas third
credited with $1,254 100000. These
are the only states reaching the bill.
lion dollar mark Missouri and
Nebraska almost reach it with values
of $942,OOO,0O and $941 100000 re-
spectively. Then Ohio comes next
with $S73,0O0,000 and Indiana follows
with $7S3,OOO,O0O. Minnesota produc-
ed 1881 100000 worth, Georgia SOL
100000 and California $63S 100000.
In area of square miles Iowa is
the smallest of any of the states pro-
ducing more than $900,000,000 worth
Of products, hence this state has
fewer acres than any of them, though
it has more acres that are productive.
The area of Iowa is Sc, 147 square
miles, Illinois, 1866, Texas 256.S94
Missouri 69,420, Nebraska 1880.
There are ninety-nine counties in
Iowa, and as Hamilton county is
about an average, the value Of the
farm oduction-including live stock
produced in Hamilton county last
year was approximately S15,000.000.
There are in round numbers 1000
farms and 1000 farmers in the coun-
ty. Hence the average value o-'-'
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-06-24
GOOD PROFITS ON CATTLE.

J. Mclaughlin delivered twenty
two head of fat cattle the last of the
week to Jas. O'Neill at an even $1,000
per hundred, averaging 1850 pounds.
Mr.. Mclaughlin bought these feeders
last fall at around $500 and at that
time they weighed $50. He kept
them all winter on silage and the
gains they made returned him a
handsome profit on the field thus
stored. The past few months they
were on full feed. With 1850 pound
cattle selling at $168, it looks like
splendid investment for farmers to
put up silage and thus get the full
feeding value of the corn crop. And
this is more especially true at the
present time, as the government is
limiting the home consumption OF
beef in order to supply the demands
of the army and the allied countries
Williams Enterprise.
The foregoing indicates that silage
pays. These twenty-five steers cost
Mr.. Mclaughlin approximately $1,14A
last fall and now he sells them for
1886, getting for each steer
$116 more than he paid. He made
profit OF eight cents a pound on each
of the $50 pounds the steers weighed
..s-
ting 16 cents for each pound of weight
added. That looks like a mighty
good proposition and if present prices
of cattle and hogs and corr could
be assured for an indefinite time Iowa
farm land would be worth all the way
from $500 to $1,000 per acre. 1t
would pay good interest on those
values.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-06-24
JAPAN AND RUSSIA.

1t Is hard to see what harm Japan
in eastern Russia could do the UniteS
States Times-R Republican
1t is not hard to see at all. Results
would be in doubt. If Russia would
seriously resent Japan's invasion Of
Siberia there is no telling what could
or what would happen. 1t has been
charged that Lenine, the most power
full parsonage of official Russia, Is
pro German, and the charge is war
ranted by Lenine's conduct. 1t might
be easy for Lenine to fan the Russian
mind into such hatred against Japan
that he could turn his followers
against the allies and induce them to
take sides with Germany. That
would certainly harm the United
States, as it would give Germany
almost unlimited man power True
Japan in eastern Russia might help
the allies and this. country, but no
man can see far enough into the
future to be certain of that.
1t is a gamble, a toss of the dice,
and might come out all right. So
far as the Freeman-Journal is con-
cerned it is ready to trust President
Wilson and his advisors as to what
action is best to take. 1t is really
the most battling question before the
allies today and if a mistake is made
results will be disastrous.
1t might do all right to tell Japan
to go ahead, and give her every
possible aid and encouragement, but
there are so many possibilities for
serious mistakes that nobody is justi-
fed in condemning those charged
with the responsibility of solving the
problem.
For itself, the Freeman-Journal is
inclined to favor Japanese interven-
ton, but it would want far more in
formation upon the real situation in
the east before it would feel like re-
commencing such a procedure.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-06-24

to get through war successfully, but
we know that if we ever have to rely
on arms and the trial does not find us
with trained army we shall have
to accept the consequences.
For that reason the physicians who
have seen the making of an army
most intimately, have seen the raw
material going into the soldier form,
declared for universal service upon
the ground that it will save, develop,
and strengthen the human material
of the nation.
Tie human material of the nation
is as essential to it in peace as it
is in war. The physical examination
under the selective draft showed a
large percentage of young men unfit
for military service. Most of the
disabilities revealed were durable.
Against these weaknesses, both ply
steal and mental disclosed by the ex-
aminations, stood the great benefits
resulting from the military training,
benefits affecting both the body and
the mind.
That influenced the medical judg-
ment and universal service was in
dorsed as humanitarian means OF
conserving the national strength.
1t is because universal service not
only would give the nation system
of defense which would protect the
country, make it safe, strong, and
dignified, but because it would make
it stronger, better, healthier and
sounder nation for all purposes of
peace that the advocates of the system