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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-12-12
SMALL PAPERS
WERE HARDEST
HIT BY YHE WAR
Statement Issued by Republican Pm.
blicity Association Praises
Country Press

Washington-The Republican Pub
LEFTY association, through its presi-
dent, Hon. Jonathan Bourne Jr., gave
out the following statement from its
Washington headquarters:
mo other business has been hit
harder by the war than the newspaper
business, particularly in the smaller
cities and country towns. The large
metropolitan papers have probably SUI
fered least. During 1917 more than
1000 publications went out of bust
ness, After making allowance for
new papers started, it appears that
there was net loss of 81 dailies and
$50 weeklies.
The mortality Of statistics for 1918
will probably show as great loss,
for the shortage of paper, the increas
ing cost of all kinds of SUPPLIES, and
the higher wages, together with the
heavy call upon newspaper men for
military service, have been more Sc
we're this year than last
And one OF the serious features of
the situation is that the people of the
country probably do not realize that
the most valuable portion of the press
has sustained the greatest loss. I'm
der popular government the country
press, including not only the country
weeklies, but the smaller dailies, is
the real voice of the people. Editors
of large metropolitan papers do not
have and cannot have the close touch
with the people that is a necessary
incident of the life of the country
editor. Just as Washington is the
poorest place in the country to get
a line on political thought of the ma
ton, SO the big city newspaper office
is the poorest place to get a correct
picture of national thought, either po-
litical or otherwise. The people of
the United States should realize this
and should see to it that whatever else
happens the country press shall be
maintained
"Freedom of speech and of the press
is the first essential of republican
form Of government, for the repre-
sentatives of the people cannot know
the thoughts and aspirations and de-
sires of their constituents unless voic-
ed through the mediumship of the To-
cal press to which they have access
either directly, through the publica-
ton Of communications, or indirectly
| through the editors Interpretation of
the views of his community.
"The country press, including the
smaller dailies, represents the produc-
ing element of our national life The
large metropolitan press represents
the commercial factors. Just as pro-
duction is the first essential Of a per
manent prosperity, SO the press that
speaks for the producers is most i'm
portant.
''The metropolitan press has its
place in our national life and nobody
wishes it i'll. The fact remains how
ever, that the vital interests of the
nation are most promptly and most
clearly represented and the thought
of the people most freely and most
courageously voiced by the country
press.
The people of the country may not see
It now, but they will some day realize
that the large preponderance of sus-
pensions among the weekly publica-
tions is a menace to national welfare. y
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-12-12

ident's visit, Mr.. Hurley said. He will
probably be more concerned with re-
suits than with forms. As the United
States entered the war with no selfish
purpose, similarly she will go into the
peace conference with no selfish OBJ
iectS in view.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-12-12

Under the terms Of the federal
nd act each state must make appro-
priations equal to the federal appro-
priations for highway work on the
federal roads. This would obviously
double the amount above given and
mean a total of $3O,8O6,708 for con-
struction of federal highways.
Another important amendment to
the federal road act provided for in
the bill is one which practically elm
mates the requirement that federal
money shall be spent only on post
roads. In many places turnout the
state this was considerable of a
stumbling block due to the fact that
sections of roads on the state trunk
highway system were not rural de-
livery routes.
In addition to this bill, which is the
greatest measure Of financial assist
ance ever proposed in this country for
highway work, another bill is to be
introduced through the instrumental
ty Of the Post Office Department,
which empowers the Postmaster Gen
eral to set aside 60 per cent of the
net proceeds derived from the opera
ton of motor trucks engaged in car
rying parcel post. The sums so set
aside are to be used for construction
and maintenance Of the roads on
which parcel post is carried by motor
vehicles -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-12-12
REVOKES LICENSE OF
BUYER OF STATE BUTTER

The license of Charles E. Davis,
Philadelphia firm which has been buy
ing butter from various Wisconsin
creameries, has been revoked by the
L. S. Food Administration. Magnus
Swenson, Food Administrator for Wis
consin is warning dealers of dairy
products in this state not TO ship their
products to them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-12-12
SCHOOL BOYS
WANT WORK
EBBITT.

The Wood County Agricultural
School boys have arrived and we still
have a few boys who wish to work
for their room and board, or else for
room or board. They also would be
glad to take odd jobs after school or
on Saturdays. Call up S. G. Corey,
Phone 266.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-12-12
Cut This Quit Is Worth Money

DON'T MISS THIS. Cut out this
slip, enclose with Sc to Foley & Co..
1885 Sheffield Ave, Chicgo, ILL.,, writ
ing your name and address clearly.
You will receive in return a trial
package containing Foley's Honey and
Tar Compound, for Coughs, colds and
eroup, Foley Kidney Pills and Car
hartic Tablets. Sold Everywhere.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-12-12

The Hoffman Feed company of
Madison have been brought before the
L. S. Food Administration for ex
cessive sales Of Lour It was sug-
gested by the Enforcement Division
that they contribute $50 to the gov.
eminent for the United War Work
campaign.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-12-12

Tie wholesale grocery firm of
Gould, Wells, and Blackburn of Mad
ison, and the produce and feed firm
of 2. P. Brown, also OF Madison, have
been ordered closed by the United
States Food Administration on the
charge of profteering.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-12-12

ARE YOU LOOKING FOR AN
OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE MORE
MONEY?
One of the oldest and largest life
Insurance Companies with headquart-
ers in New York desires local repre-
sentative. New policies, life, acct
dent and health. Whole or part time
men or women. Leads furnished, sal
airy to producers. Address Lock Box
229, Chicago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-12-12

If You are a suf-
ferer from Appen-
dicitis, Rupture, Gal
Stone, Collie, Goitrc
or Chronic diseases
of a private nature
you should avail
yourself of his offer
to send you this val.
liable little book free
simply for the ask.
100 4 nocfol will
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-12-12
$55O,OOO,OOO FOR HIGH :
WAY WORK
Wisconsin's Share 17,328,742

money is distributed among the states
on the basis of ariea, population and
road mileage. Under this arrange
ment Wisconsin would receive 81, 1926
416. Under the proposed act $780,
)00,0 GOO would be available at once on
it's passage, and $75,OOO,OOO on July
1, 1919, making a total of $4,000, 600
available next year. Based on the
method of distribution, the funds al
lotted to Wisconsin under the amend
ed bill would be as follows:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-12-12

bring it to you, in plain wrapper.
MANY socalled surgical diseases have
been proven to be durable by medical
treatment more safely, more easily,
and cheaply by modern medical meth
DDS than was believed possible a few
years ago.
After you have read this little book
YOU can consult Dr. Goddard on his
monthly visits to Grand Rapids, free
of charge, and have the satisfaction
of knowing that you have secured the
expert opinion of reputable special
| ist in these matters. IF you have been
advised to submit to an operation,
surely do not fail to consult him be-
fore undergoing such an operation.
His advice may save you many weeks
of suffering, loss of time, and expense
possibly your life
DR.. Goddard will be at the Witter
Hotel, Grand Rapids. all day Thurs
dav. December 18th and he makes ID
charges for a friendly visit. Hours,
a. m. to p. m.
Address,
DR.. GODDARD,
121 Wisconsin ST.,
Milwaukee, Wis.
dxarti aet
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-12-12

Modern Methods Of treating
Chronic Diseases without Opera
ton has just come from the Specialist
and is one of the most interesting as
well as instructive little books the
doc+or has ever written.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-12-12

Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Van Alstlne are
rejoicing over the arrival OF oaoy
bow. born Saturday morning, Dec. 7th.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-12-12

Thomas Bratton, residing on 10th
Avenue and Gardiner St, has just re-
csivsd word from the War Department
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-12-12
Golden Glow
Joseph Grab, LIST prize; 0. J. Leu
End prize.

LOOk-12 gallons Hop-Brew-Lager
Beer, for $1.0O. Send me soc for one
starter and full directions. P. L.
OSTLUND, Globe Hotel, Wausau, Wis
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-12-12
A Medical Book Free

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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-06

of water suitable for drinking and fol
domestic and industrial use is so essen
tial to the health, progress, and pros
perity of community that its impor-
lance can scarcely be overestimated. The
state and federal geological surveys are
charged with the duty of determining
the nature and extent of water supplies
and from time to time issue reports on
this branch of their work
More than half the state of Georgia
the part lying south of line passing
through Augusta, Macon, and Columbus
lis included in the photographic and
geologic province known as the Atlantic
and Gulf Coastal Plain, which sloes
southeastward from maximum elevation
of about 900 feet to sea level. This vast
lowland supports a rapidly increasing
population now about half the popula-
ton OF the state-and its water supply
has become so important that the Uni.
ted States geological survey, department
Of the interior, in cooperation with the
geological survey of Georgia, has investi-
gated the groundwaters of the area. The
results of the investigations are pub.
ished by the federal survey as water
supply paper BAL, by /. W. Stephenson,
Otto Neatch, and r. B. Dole.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-06
U. S. AIR SERVICE.
Filters Do Not Constitute Nearly All the
Aviation Department.

Edward r. Stettinius, the recently ap
pointed surveyor general OF supplies fol
the army is turning his attention first
to a tightening up of the business organ
ization of the signal corps, for here, as
in no other branch of the service, is typi-
fled the INTERPOLATION between the indus
trial and the military processes of war
making.
The reader of newspapers and maya
zines is accustomed to think of the air
service as consisting entirely of intrepid
hiers who soar over the enemy's lines,
accommodating, bombing, and, in gener-
al. fulfilling the tradition of that most
picturesque branch of our military serv-
ice. Perhaps no department of warfare
appeals more to the imagination and less
to realization of the practical, mechan-
ical grind of the days work.
And yet, if each pilot were to take up
in the air with him all the men who are,
in their way, as intimately connected
with that single airplane as he himself,
4 Zeppelin sized conveyance would be re-
luired; for, besides the pilot, there are
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-06
THE THIRD LIBERTY LOAN.

The third United States Liberty loan
is coming sooner than most people had
been led to believe, the date, April 9, be-
ing month or more in advance of the
time more generally agreed upon by
those specializing on the prospect. The
details of the loan are not before the
public at the present time, but the Amer
lean people should be making up their
minds to participate in this loan as read
lily as they participated in the first two
loans. In the meantime they will not
lose sight Of the L. S. thrift and war
savings stamp idea, a plan which prom
Uses to bring two billions of dollars into
the treasury of the United States by the
close of the present calendar year. A
very large number of people in Vermont
can be investors in both forms of secur-
tiles, placing their small coins in the war
savings stamp class and their larger
amounts in the Liberty bonds. Surely
the third Liberty loan is not calculated
to interfere seriously with the success of
the Liberty savings stamp campaign be-
c-use the two represent two distinct ave-
nues toward aiding the United States.
The Liberty loan will not be open to all
the people because the amount of the
minimum bond will be beyond the peck |
etbook of many people, particularly of
the younger generation; but the war
savings stamp medium is always open
to them, even the smallest investor, and
it will have almost all the attractive
features of the Liberty loan. Therefore,
while preparing for the third Liberty
loan, let us not for moment lose sight
IF the war savings stamp way of helping
he government.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-06
The Mighty Thrift Stamp.

The Thrift stamp is the poor man
Liberty bond. And as people compre'
bend more fully the tremendous value
of the plan, the greater will be the pop
ularity of the Thrift stamp.
The treasury announces that up to
Feb. 26. the sale of Thrift stamps had
lions of dollars and of that, forty mil
lions were paid during the first % DAYS
OF February. There is note of pride
in the treasury statement that during
the same period the sale of Thrift
stamps in England was thirty-seyen mil
lions and England has been booming
the Thrift stamp for two years.
Thrift stamps are now being sold at
the rate of two millions a day and the
rate is steadily increasing. The national
war saving committee expects that two
billions Of the stamps will be sold by
the end of the current year. 1t would be
In that event it would be
the equivalent of the first Liberty loan
and do something that the Liberty loans
so far have failed to do, bring the prob
lem of war finance home to the great
mass of Americans.
If the campaign has a full measure
of success it win cover the entire cost
Of the governments shiphuilding pro-
gram for the year Already it is said,
the government is receiving enough mon.
sy daily to build more than 10000 tons
If shipping. 1t has up to the present
lime got sufficient funds from this source
10 build 700 tons, or "a ships Of
200 tons each.--Brattleboro Reformer.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-06

80 industrial soldiers to every plan,
which flies over the front. Each pilot
Is the personal representative of 80 ma
chanists, toolmakers, engine filters, cab
inetmakers, carpenters, sailmakers, mo-
tor and plane repairmen-al of them
soldiers, all of them members of the sig.
nal corps, and all of them waiting on
| the ground with a personal interest in
that machine.
1t is the building up of this combina
ton industrial military organization
that has made the work of the signal
corps so phenomenal and it is to this
| further development and coordination
that Mr.. Stettinius is bringing his ex.
ceptional talents for organization. Prog
ress in this branch of war preparation
may be said to have begun at minus
zero, because, at the declaration of war.
1t became necessary to cancel large per-
centage of the work which was being
carried forward on a peace time basis.
On July "a, 1917, when the appropria
ton bill providing for the expansion of
this fighting branch was passed, the per
sonnet of the flying service consisted of
only a few hundred men. To-day, the
personnel of the signal corps numbers
10000, including fliers, mechanics, and
trade experts in every line
The industrial soldiers enrolled in this
service are all sent to schools for trade
testing. Here they are sorted into
squadrons for training in that branch
of the work for which they are best
fitted. Those squadrons are given mil
itary training for purposes of discipline,
but their intensive training is in the in
dustrial phases of the service so vital
to the maintenance of the ships of the
air
Added TO the great manufacturing &C.
tivty which is being concentrated cease
lessly upon the production of engines
planes, aircraft parts, machine guns,
scientifis instruments and materials, is the
big task of whipping human material
into shape for active service. A ire.
work has already been done by
the signal corps. European experts have
stated that the flying and training
schools in the United States, created
within few brief months, surpass any
hing in this line to be seen in Europe
after three years of war.
Ii is to the perfecting of this great
business and manufacturing organization
which is so essential to the picturesque
Cavalry of the Clouds" that Mr.. Stet-
inius' knowledge and organing ability
$ first being turned.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-06

folks they came into contact with, ex.
tracing every drop of sweetness from
every single day. And Others went
through, wrapped up inside their own
little selves, envying their neighbors
fancying themselves abused, worrying
over trifies, always on the lookout for
sights, spelling full 50 per cent of
their days through their own pettiness,
And few days pass, and they all are
laid out here toesther, the meu who
laughed their way througit life and made
Others laugh little more, and the men
who gnawed their hearts out. All lying
side by side, never TO live again
Think of the things that those dead
men worried about. What do they
amount to now2 Think of the good luck
that they envied in other fellows. Who
in the world remembers it? They had
one little lifetime to live, and they
spoiled it by oversensitiveness and ieal.
ousy Doesn't it strike you as an aw.
fully foolish way to waste a lifetime,
when it's the only lifetime that YOU
will ever haves'n
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-06

votes Ia mere perfunctory arrangement
will be for Governor Graham TO appoint
board of trustees, three in number,
who shall have oversight of the selection
Of a site for the buildings and shall then
have charge OF the construction OF the
building, after which they will consti
tute the governing board, subject TO the
approval of the state The buildings are
10 be built by money raised by the coun.
~ through bonding and the care of tic
needy patients is to be borne by the
state. This. in brief, is the outline of
the splendid movement which the voters
of the county put on foot yesterday.
That il means the dawning OF a better
day for Washington county seems GER
tain inasmuoh as the hospital will form
the nucleus for the effort TO wipe out
tuberculosis in the county, 1t is an ear
nest of success that such strong public
sentiment shall stand back of the un.
dertaking as is evidenced by the very
large majority OF fayoring votes through
out the county. Almost with one accord
the cities and towns of the county ex.
pressed their approval of the idea. I'm.
der careful guidance, the county hospital
should prove TO be a strongly beneficial
factor in the life OF the county
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-06

The revelation of the correspondence
which Germany directed to France just
before the outbreak of the war in order
to secure the neutrality of France in
Germany's war against Russia, France 5
ally in the entente alliance, may tell the
story why the German army made such
tremendous efforts to capture Verdun by
force of arms. The fortified city of Yer
dun was one of the two hostages which
Germany demanded of France to secure
Frances non intervention on the side of
Russia, the other being Toul, near which
place the American army now occupies
a sector. Then, again, Verdun lies on
the direct road to Paris from German
held territory.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-06
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Cigarettes for Soldiers.

Editor, Barre Times, While no on,
can doubt the kindly motives that
prompt mothers, sisters and sweetheart'
TO send cigarettes to our soldiers IL
training camps and at the front, yet
to say that such "A procedure constitutes
Il mistaken Kindness is stating the mat
ter altogether too mildly. For what are
cigarettes but a rank poison that sooner
or latter are more certain to claim their
victims than are German bullets. For
there Is ground for hope that many OF
our soldiers viii escape harm from enc
my bullets, but not so from cigarettes,
/ Their sure destruction Is only matter
OF time, dependent largely upon the va.
rious Compartments of those who use
them.
A few years since, hoard of army
| physicians examined l47 cadets for nigh
err military training and found that only
10 of that number were perfectly sound
in every physical organ, and they were
all nonusers of tobacco in any form,
while many who. had longest been nd.
dieted 10 the use of cigarettes had nj
ready become victims of incipient heart,
lung or kidney diseases, induced by ;he
use of tobacco, more especially of cigar.
cites; whereupon that board of ply IL
clans declared with due alarm that che
use of tobacco, and especially of cigar
cites, is fast undermining the military
power of the nation"
They also stated that Gin a few more
years, if the cigarette habit is allowed
TO continue, the American nation will
become a nation of weaklings." And that
this alarming prophecy is being fulfilled,
the writer only needs to state that when
in Massachusetts, last April the endur
ance of military regiment of that state
was being tested at high rate of speed
and before they had reached the dis
tance Of one city square, many of the
cigarette smokers, the officers observed,
began TO haul for breath" and il was
feared that some would be discharged
as incapable of performing the duties o!
soldiers. And yet, sad it is TO say, at
that very moment when the cigarette
soldiers were hauling for breath" poor |
foolish young women and girls were IN |
the sidewalks soliciting funds ito buy |
cigarettes for soldiers What mistak- |
en- kindnessi What false friends we
really are when we send such implements
of self destruction TO our soldier boys!
How could we better help Germany.
or prove ourselves disloyal to our sol
diers and TO America than by sending
cigarettes to poison and weaken oar
soldiers, upon whose manly strength d.
ponds the freedom of the world! 1t is
too bad that our soldiers in the trenches
must endure as best they may the phi.
onous fumes of German gas, but do their
owed ones at home realize how serious.
" the selfinflicted nicotine poison OF
cigarettes weakens and units said sol
Tiers for resisting not only the gas a.
acks, but also all other kinds of as
,aults from the INSCRIPTIONS foe. Moth
ny too good to send those who are offer
ng their lives as a libation upon he |
acred altar of America and of the wor
While their highest welfare and success
recludes the sending of poisonous eig
rettes. i. +, Fortney.
Plainfed, March 2, 1918.