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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-12-04
Real Friendship.

Honest men and women esteem and
value nothing so much in this world
as a real friend. Such one is as it
were another self, to whom we impart
our most secret thoughts, who partake
of our Joy, and comforts us in our ar
Fiction; add to this, that his company
is an everlasting pleasure to US
Translated from the Brahmin.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-12-04
U, S, HEALTH SERVICE
ISSUES WARNING
Increase in All Respiratory Dis
eases After the Influenza
Epidemic Probable.

Influenza Expected to Lurk for Months.
How to Guard Against Pneumonia.
Common Colds Highly Catching-Im-
portance of Suitable clothing-could
Save zoe, 900 Lives.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-12-04
SPAIN AND ENGLAND REPORT
INCREASE IN TUBERCULOSIS
AFTER INFLUENZA
EPIDEMIC.
U. S. Public Health Service Warns
Public Against tuberculosis.
One Million Cases TuberCu-
IoSis in United StateS-EaCh a
Source of Danger.

Influenza ConvaIescents Should Have
Lungs Examin ed-Colds Which Hang
On often Beginning of tuberculosis.
No Cause for Alarm if Tuberculosis
is Recognized EarIy-Patent Medi-
cines Not to Be Trusted.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-12-04
Food VIII Win the World.

America earned the gratitude of al
lied nations during war by sharing
food. America under peace may win
the worlds good will by saving to
share
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-12-04

4 X
X Beware tuberculosis after in \
+ fluenza. No need to worry If +
< you take precautions in time. 4
4 Don't diagnose your own con- =
4 ditiOn. Have your doctor exam \
K inc your lungs several times at \
K monthly intervals. Build up your i
X strength with right living, good =
X food and plenty of fresh air. 4
X Don't waste money on patent \
4 medicines advertised to cure tu- i
4 berculOSis.
X Become a fresh-air crank and 4
K enjoy life. y
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-12-04

Copies of this poster can be OBJ
tanned free of charge by writing to the
Surgeon General, u. s. Public Health
Service. Washington. D. @
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-12-04
Suitable Clothing important.
Could Save 100000 Lives.

81 believe we could easily save one
hundred thousand lives annually in
the United States if all the people
would adopt the system OF fresh air
living followed, for example, in tuber
culosis sanatoria. There is nothing
mysterious about it-no specific medi
cine, no vaccine. The important thing
is right living, good food and plenty OF
fresh air.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-12-04

. DEMOCRACY VS.. AUTocRAcY.

K There is no royal road to !
i. food conservation. We can only !
i. accomplish this by the voluntary +
+ action of our whole people, each !
j. element in proportion to its /
X needs. 1t is a matter of equality !
!. of burden" !
4. The truth of this statement, !
+ made by the United States Food :.
!. Administrator soon after we en- !
!. tered the war, has been borne /
1. out by the history of our ex- !:
/. ports. Autocratic food control !.
1. in the lands of our enemies has !
!. broken down, while democratic !
!. food sharing has maintained the :.
i. health and strength of this coun- !.
+ try and of the Allies. I:
\ !.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
America Finding Her Strength

The War Departments decision to
ask for an extension of the age linn
it's in the new Army legislation to
include the IS and 45-ycar-old
classes, discloses a right apprecia-
ton both of the size of our war job
and the obligation of every physical
ly fit American to bear a part in 1t.
The problem, when all else is said,
remains one of manpower, and
America has the men. How much
of our manpower we shall be COM
PEELED to put into the battle before
the enemy breaks nobody can ven
ture to estimate, but the first part
of wisdom is to have it ready to put
in when it is needed. That means
the whole population of fighting age
must be trained.
Our national business now is war,
and every American who can carry
a gun, hammer a ship rivet, cut
down a tree or produce a food crop
must become a soldier. No matter
how many millions are required,
they must be made ready. they must
be made ready even beyond the
needs so far as we can now see
them. No commander in battle uses
up his last division of reserves If
he can possibly help 1t until he sees
WneTe OI16 iS COullI6 " b1hS TO
place, nor ought we as a nation to
stop in the process of raising and
training armies, either front line or
industrial armies, on a mere guess
that we may have provided enough.
We must keep on raising and train
ing them as long as the war lasts,
right up to the limit of our re-
sources. If we don't have to use
them, so much the better; we can
turn them back into our civil life as
a leaven. But we must have them
ready as long as the calls come, for
we are the reserves, and reserves
win the battle.
The new age limits are the notice
to the enemy that we are putting
our full manpower in. He will know
what that means. He knows 1t
means his utter defeat as an inexor-
able and mathematical certainty, for
he has Americas war strength down
on his private card index system in
the minutest detail. But his hope
had been that America wouldn't use
it's full strength, wouldn't consider 1t
necessary. Just as America in the
old Jogging peace times wasted more
food than it ate and threw away
more money than it spent usefully,
so would America make war ineffi-
ciently, he thought, sending one
army in without providing another
to replace 1t. skimming tthe surface
but never getting down to the bed
rock of our strength. That was the
German view of America. But the
German was wrong about that as he
has been on other things.
America has taken the war on as
business, and from the moment It
viewed 1t as such and prepared for
it as such Germany never had a
chance-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
Out With All PdcifiStS

GCol.' Harvey's War Weekly1
Four years of war, and how much
more God only knows. The blood
outlines of it rests in awful meas
ure upon us. for our stubborn un-
willingness to prepare for it. for our
neglect of moral obligations, for our
Grass persistency in dreaming of be-
ing too proud to fight. in thinking
that We had no interest in the causes
and motives of the war, in pretend
ing that we had no quarrel with the
Hunnish nation, in hoping for peace
without victory, and in laying to our
souls the fiattering unction that the
war was 1900 miles away. These
are the reasons why the war is SO
prolonged, and why after nearly a
year and a half in it ourselves the
end still seems so wearily far away.
1t is fearful lesson that we are
learning, at a fearful cost; perhaps
yet to be prolonged for years. But
the part of man. of a nation, is to
learn, 1t at whatever cost; and let
him who in SNUG stupidity or smirk-
ing smartness- would try even now to
ignore it and to NEEDLE with the
learning and the application to which
the nation is at last coming-let him
be ground between the upper and
neither millstones of contempt and
wrath
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
THE TIME is RIPE

nRESIDENT WILSON'S decision
70 act in Siberia and Russia
proper came none too soon. In
few days or a few weeks the op-
portunity would have passed. The
Bolsheviki are on their last legs and
Germany has been bending every eff
fort to become the dominating fac
tor, If no longer through the Bolshe-
vik leadership, then through other
agencies, and countless Prussian rep
resentatives are already at work
throughout the empire, trying to
turn sentiment away from the allies
by lies and to convince the people
they would be better under the wing
of Germany.
Russians have come to the place
where they are demanding a change
from present intolerable conditions,
and no matter how antagonistic the
Bolsheviki may be to intervention.
great masses of people in private
life are ready to turn to the allies
as their only hope. Peasants who
believed the stories OF the Bolshevik
leaders that they could have more
land by taking it away from richer
neighbors have found that increase
of property by mere appropriation is
anything but easy or profitable. In
some cases. says William Franklin
Sands in writing of conditions within
Russia, the peasant has attempted to
take the land and has come into con-
fiiet with other neighbors who also
wanted the farm he coveted. and
there have been fights and murders
as a consequence. Marauding SOL
dicrs have made the lives of others
miserable. Countless adventures
and criminals are going about look
ing for victims. The government Of
. fers any Russian anything he wants.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
NO TIME FOR PEACE

A GAIN the word comes from
~ Europe that Germany is
about to launch a new peace
offensive. If so, Lloyd George has
replied for the Allies before the
peace movement could get under
way.
NO quarter" must be the allied
watchword now. This is no time for
peace. 1t is time to concentrate on
giving the Hun the beating he so
richly deserves. We cannot honor
ably enter into peace negotiations
with the present German govern
ment any more than a Judge in
court could discuss with the MUIR
derer upon whom he is to pass SEN
tence the terms of his punishment.
Germany has become an outlaw.
She has chosen the path of crime,
rapine and murder. Falsehoods,
blood, loot, the lives of babies and
the honor of women have been her
stock In trade. The present German
government has decided to live by
the sword and it must die by the
sword. We shall talk peace with
Germany when her armies are shat
tered and the allies are speaking in
the terms of force upon which the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
Giuseppe the Guide
Public LEDGER


The "Tonys," Pasquales and Gui-
seppes who are returning to their
native land or that of their fathers
in American Army contingents which
have reached Italy are capable of
performing valuable services for AL
lied unity. Happily pilingual, they
can not only converse with their CO.
workers, but solve many perplexing
problems for the solely English
speaking "doughboy." Immediate
solution of the sort of riddles which
have baffled many of our soldiers in
France is thus at hand.
Piloted by companions in arms
who rattle off opera libretto talk
with comforting volubility, many a
private may learn that an article
marked ISOLDE" has not been sold.
but is purchasable at the modest
equivalent of one American cent;
that a "chiesa" is not a cheese, as
Mark Twain confessed to believing
it, but a church, and that "caffe
caldo" is not distressing cold cof-
fee. but the welcome hot variety
Thus cleared of complications, for
eign air can be congenially breathed
and pangs of homesickness percept-
IDLY relieved.
Half of our troops now in Italy
are said to be of Italian birth or
origin Their Americanism of spirit
is not in the least impugned by this
fact, while their usefulness in bring
ing two liberty-loving nations closer
together is greatly enhanced. A
stranger in a strange land will ex-
change a dictionary for a pal who
is also an enthusiastic interpreter
any day in the week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
The KdiSer'S Sir Boys
[st. Louis Glohe-Democratl


Pastor Drysander, founder of the
German-American journal named
The Peace Call, published at Eur
ich, in Switzerland, has asked the
German Kaiser how many sons he
has lost since the beginning of the
war. He even goes further and
prints: I'm the event there have
been no casualties in the imperial
family, we demand an immediate
explanation" After publishing the
inquiry and demand, both were sent
by Pastor Drysander in n telegram
adressed to the Kaiser.
The report concludes with the
sentence: Emperor William has
not replied" He may be impressed,
as was that young member of Con-
gress who, in the midst of a heated
speech during the reconstruction
period, was asked if he had served
as a soldier in the Civil war. "Mr.
Speaker" said he, 'I am willing to
answer all proper questions, but do
not want to be interrupted by mere
technicalities." Pastor Drysander
may not realize that he has been
highly technical, but from the Kais-
er's point of view he must seem to
be so. The Kaiser longs to appear
medieval. He has approved the
methods of Attila the Hun, with the
exception of leading his troops into
action, as Attila did, or of placing
any of his own flesh and blood in
places of actual leadership which
can be filled by Captains, Lieuten-
ants, and noncoms. The Kaiser is
medieval in war with these few ex-
ceptions. which probably he only re-
serves for the purpose of proving the
rule.
In Medieval wars Kings led their
armies, 'Noblesse oblige! History
shows us a long list of names of
Kings slain in battle. Harold of
England fell at Hastings, James of
Scotland at Flodden Field, Hard
rada of Norway at Stamford. Rich
ard at Bosworth. The history of
Germany shows a bright galaxy of
names of royal Germans dying with
their boots on at the front of bat
tie lines. Before we condemn the
Kaiser utterly as an atavistic rever-
sionist we must credit him and all
of his princelings with that degree
of modernity moving them to eXer-
of staying behind and urging their
men forward.
For all practical intents and pur-
poses in hard fighting the Hohen-
zouerns are only drafted for the war
in class 23-Z. Let the record stand
and mark the rating of al presump-
tious royalty hereafter. not only in
military but political life. If, there
fore, blue blood should want to boil
red in combat, let ti7e world rest
at that wise point in philosophy Of
the old ballad:
If Kings would show THEIR
might,
Let those who make the quarrels
Be the only ones to fight.
st Louis Globe-Democrat
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
MOTHER

Sometimes young mothers press their
babies close
And lavish kisses on a rosy cheek.
In just this way you surely fondled
me,
who could not understand or even
speak.
When wondrous women through the
early years
Do joyfully a thousand little tasks
That childhood needs and only moth
ers know,
I must remember that you labored so.
youths go out when school
days end
To seek adventure or success in life.
You watched me reach this gate and
carry through
No grander lessons than were taught
by you.
And now forever in that dim beyond
You see and understand and always
wait
Till He shall call together you and
me.
Keeping the best things for eternity.
MARIE c. HIGGINS
I'm the Catholic Standard and Times
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Commissioned A. c. Gumbert. of
county, elected president
of the County Commissioners of the
state, used to play baseball years ago.
Ralph d. Paine, the author, is
giving his time to publicity to speed
up production in Pennsylvania coal
mines.
Jacob z. Weaver, who made
one of the addresses at the Pen Mar
Odd Fellows gathering. has long
been a member of that organization.
William S. Mckee. Pittsburgh
lawyer, has been appointed major
of infantry in the army.
Logan Mckee. secretary OF the
Pittsburgh Chamber Of Commerce,
has taken up war work.
Senator p. C. Knox will occupy
his Valley Forge residence this fall.
It is now being renovated.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10

providing he can go out and take 1t.
but can givo him no protection from
the next man who happens along and
wants what the first has got. The
common people are terrorized. de-
jected and confused. II tho allies
can convince them that the expe-
ditionary soldiers are kindly dis
posed and in earnest, their armed
forces doubtless will fnd them
selves in high favor. particularly
provide food for the hungry and
medicine for the suffering.
America has always been held, in
high esteem by the Russians. Our
great effort now must be to persuade
the people of that stricken country
that what the Bolshevik have told
them of us are so many German
made lies and then demonstrate by
our deeds the friendly spirit we en-
tertain.
Russia is capable of great things,
but she is like a man in the critical
stages of fever-too weak to throw
off the disease that holds him and
greatly in need of the ministrations
of a physician. America, in this
case, must be the doctor. The time
is here and the opportunity is ripe
for a great stroke of statesmanship
in freeing the former domain of the
Gar from the Shiny clutch of the
Prussian beast.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
HerOineS of Olden Time

good sport" for she Immediately
started out to see if she could get
by as a man. In the pamphlet
which she issued after her discharge
from the navy she details her first
days adventures thus:
Being garbed completely in a
sailors suit, 1 quit, unnoticed, my
lodgings and passed into the public
street. From my awkward appear
ance in attempting to assume the
character of a man l was not with
out my fears that / should be sus-
pected. Nor were my apprehen-
sions relieved until, passing through
Court street, 1 ventured to accost
one of my own sex. She answered
with a ready Yes, sir which
strengthened my confidence that
should pass for a man.
81 then bent my course to the old
market, where, entering vtctualing
cellar, I procured my breakfact.
The remainder of the day 1 spent
pleased in being enabled to visit
public places where women would
not have been admitted"
The young woman sailor" then
obtained lodgings, without Difficult
ty," and the next morning sought a
passage southwark. But the harbor
WdS ClOSely DlOChduSu anu ~ NCoSSlo
ventured abroad, so she had to give
up the idea of a southern cruise.
She says:
Passing through Fish street, I
entered a house where there was a
public rendezvous for the enlistment
of men to go aboard one of the
United States frigates then lying in
the harbor, and shortly bound on a
cruise. 1 viewed this as a favor
able opportunity to try my fortune
in the public service of my country,
provided 1 could avoid the search
which new recruits generally under
go. This I succeeded in doing by
an artful stratagem and entered as
marine, receiving my advance
money and clothing, and the next
! day 1 was taken aboard
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
He t1ho cannot SnsiIe ought not to
Keep Shop.-CHINEsE PRovERB.
THE NEW DRAFT LAW

N ECRETARY BAKERS proposal
- to place all men with dependents
in deferred classifications under
the new draft law was doubtless
prompted by the fact that with tie
age limit extended from eighteen to
forty-fve, inclusive, there will be
plenty of electives without depend
ents to meet all apparent demands.
The Secretary's plan is fair and will
save a vast amount of work on the
part of local boards. who will not be
required thereafter to make deci-
sions of a delicate nature and men
who have dependents and who are
intended by the terms of the law to
remain at home will not be put to
the embarrassment of having to ap-
ply for deferred classification. In so
far the Secretary is doing a good
stroke of work.
But there are other matters to
consider IN the new draft well
worthy of attention. Our armies in
France are quick on their feet and
hard of fist because they are COM
posed of young and vigorous men.
To brigade men of forty five with men
of twenty and twenty-one can have
but one effect. which would be to slow
up the whole military machine, for
a regiment is no stronger than it's
weakest soldier and men of forty-fve
cannot compete as soldiers with lads
just come of age.
Not that men of forty-five should
be kept outside the fighting zone;
they would be the first to protest
against sucd a course, but that it
would seem the part of wisdom to
keep men under thirty-one in or
ganizations separate from those be-
yond that age, for the sake of eff
cheney as well as in justice to older
men, who would break trying to keep
up with their younger and more Wig
orous comrades.
There is also in this recommenda-
ton the consideration that younger
men can be brought into first class
physical form in much shorter time
than can men approaching middle
age, and speed of preparation is one
of the chief demands of the moment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
AUGUST ON THE RIVER
By BRIGGS

The swooning heat of August
Swims along the valleys bed.
The tall reeds burn and blacken,
While the gray elm droops its
head,
And the smoky sun above the hills is
glaring hot and red.
Along the shrinking river,
Where the salmon-ne hang
brown
Piles the driftwood of the freshets,
And the naked logs move down
To the clanking chains and shrieking
saws of the mills above the
town.
Outside the booms of cedar,
The fish-hawks drop at noon;
When night comes trailing up the
stars,
We hear the ghostly loon;
And watch the herons swing their
flight against the crimson
moon.
-Lloyd Roberts,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
[St. Louis Starl
VTTHO will be this wars heroine
wv in troIsers3

w in trousers9
A Deborah Sampson in 1875
laid aside her petticoats for Min
ute Mans uniform without any of
the stern Puritans being any the
wiser, and a Lucy Brewer, in 1912,
donned a jackie's costume, enlisted
in the Marine Corps, and after a
thrilling career in naval battles.
where she conducted herself as
hero" returned home, resumed her
hoops and brocades and married
perfectly respectable man.
Up to the present, so far as is
known, there are no fellows" wear
ing the olive drab or the navy blue
who should be attired in Georgette
crepe waists and serge skirts.
Adventurous damsels who might
be tempted to emulate the example
of either of these early feminine
fighters will find the entire details
of Lucy's adventures and her meth
DDS of masculine camoufiage in her
own account of her experiences.
This historical document is given in
part in The Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution Magazine.
Like many a man patriot, Miss
Brewster entered the war to escape
the unhappy life at home. At IT
years old she had an unfortunate
love affair, and her unfeeling father
ordered her out of her home. Her
parents were well-to-do. living in a
small town in Plymouth County,
about forty miles from Boston. She
took the name of Louisa Baker"
and went to Boston.
When war broke out between the
United States and Great Britain she
induced an officer of an American
privateer, then lying in the Port of
Boston, to obtain for her a sailors
suit. She cropped her hair and DON
ned it.
Lucy must have been what would
be called in these days "a mighty
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
Gas Mask and All

(From the New York SUM
Those who have wondered over
the fate of the Dove of Peace will
be relieved to learn that she has put
on a uniform and is serving Uncle
Sam as a carrier pigeon on the
western front.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
As Our Pastor Might Say

(From the Kansas City Starr
1t probably will be unnecessary for
the German war office to offer a
higher position to General He'll. He
is what the American soldiers have
been raising already.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
Another Forwdrd Step

(From the Newark News)
A 90 per cent. tax on musical in
struments has been suggested. At
last a means of discouraging the
second-story cornetplayer has been
found.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
EditorS'H Always Be around

(From the New York World)
The war which could not possibly
last four months because no nation
could longer endure the physical and
financial strain has lasted four years
yet there will always be proph-
ets'
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-10
Ole'-Clo'S Man
kansas City star.1

The German government has
called for all the old clothes in Ger
many, everybody being expected to
give up at least one suit. The Crown
Prince has a uniform he apparently
has no use for And what has be-
come of Hindenburg's shoes?