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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-06-07

The Supreme War Council has COM
plete confidence in General Foch. 1t
regards with pride and admiration
the valor Of the Allied troops.
President Wilson Given Credit.
Thanks to the prompt and cordial
cooperation of the President of the
United States, arrangements which
were set on foot more than two
months ago for the transportation and
brigading of American troops will
make it impossible for the enemy to
gain victory by wearing out the Allied
reserve before he has exhausted his
own The Supreme War Council is
confident of the ultimate result and
the Allied peoples are resolute not to
sacrifice single one of the free ma
lions of the world to the despotism OF
Berlin. Their armies are displaying
the same steadfast courage which has
enabled them on many previous oc-
casions to defeat a German onset
They have only to endure with faith
and patience to the end to make vic.
tory for freedom secure. The free
peoples and their magnificent sol.
diers will save civilization.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-06-07
SOUTH LYNCHES THEM

Henry Johnson, a colOred soldier, of
Albany, New York, has been cited and
decorated by the French military auth
critics. for what the French general
of division terms "a magnificent. ex-
ample of courage and energy" Both
men fought bravely," says Pershing in
his official report of the exploit.
sOn the same day that the cables
from France brought the news of
JohnsOn's and Roberts heroism, the
wires from Valdosta, Georgia, brought
the story of the lynching of a colored
woman, Mary Turner <by. name,. be-
cause she had attempted to resist the
lynching Of her husband
This coincidence has moved the
New York World to inquire: with
tens Of thousands of American negroes
fighting for civilization in France I'M
der the American flag, how much
longer are the American people to toll
crate negro lynchings?'
The answer is easy. Negro lynch
ings will be tolerated in the South
where they occur almost exclusively
so long as the political party to which
the New York World adheres is per-
mitted to deprive negro citizens of
their right to vote, and thus, through
the exercise of their civil rights, to
protect their rights to property and to
life. e~
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-06-07

German society is based on abso-
lutlsm and militarism. The ambition of
the house of Hohenzollern is to dom
mate the world; it's pretext is to
spread Germanism. German culture
we have hitherto warmly Welcomed
and we shall do so again. But the
Kaiser's brand of Germanism we do
not want. We prefer our own civiliza-
ton which is based on liberty, not on
despotism.
The Kaiser says: ".The soldier
should have no will of his own; you
should all have but one will, and that
is my will. There is but one law for
you, and that is mine.
He says to his recruits: Should
the necessity arise, you must even
shoot down your fathers and mothers
at my order"
He says again: "Only one is mas
ter in the land. That am 1! Whoever
opposes me will smash in pieces!"
He refers here to Social Democrats,
the only important party in Germany
that stands for democratic liberty and
for the rights of the common man.
He calls them "a gang unworthy of
the name of Germans, traitors to
their country"
The Kaiser and the government are
intensely militaristic Wilhelm's first
speech as Kaiser was to the army and
navy. These are his idols. German
militarism is the best thing we have
achieved in the course of our develop
ment as state and a people,, says
Chancellor Won Buelow. A chorus of
professors and politicians joins in.
Professor Sombart proclaims war "the
hottest thing on EARTH, and all re-echo
Moltke's words that perpetual peace is
only a dream and not even beautiful
dream.
Under such government there is
little liberty, and much oppression
1--WE Germans in Prussia, says Karl
Liebknecht, "have three cardinal
rights: to be soldiers, to pay taxes,
and to hold our tongues between our
teeth" In Prussia they are not very
considerate of the common man.
In the first place, is he educated for
his own good? OF the common-school
teacher and of the university professor
alike the Kaiser says: According to
his rights and duties he is, in the first
place, a state official. In this position
he should do what is demanded of him.
He should teach the young and pre-
pare them for resisting all revolu
tionary d. democratic) aims"
The German boy not only learns at
school that he must not be Social
Democrat, he learns that he is to be a
soldier,-not very pleasant business.
His dril1-ma STEERS do not treat him very
In 1902 the Reichstag pro-
tested, and 600 officers were condemn
ed for cruelty to soldiers-one lieuten-
ant for 600 cases of mal-treatment, and |
one non commissioned officer for 1920. |
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-06-07
The Caste System in Germany
Published of Defense
By F. W. GEESE Professor of Romance Languages,
University of Wisconsin

"They attempt to tame men as they
attempt to tame animals" says Lieb.
knecht.
| A civilian, when he has to deal with
an officer, is in even worse plight. AT
| Zabern, a colonel locked up thirty
civilians (including a judge) for "a
| hours in a cellar, to make them prop
erly respect the uniform! On trial he
was acquitted lin spite of an over
whelming protest from the pOwerless
Reichstag), and the CrOwnprince sent
him his congratulations! Numberless
cases are cited of civilians run through
by officers whom they happened to
jostle in the street, of ladies forced to
surrender their seats in street cars to
officers, or pushed off the sidewalk
into the mud by uniformed gentle
men,"
After his army service, the work
man, back at his job, has longer
hours and poorer pay than almost any
other European workingman. AS re-
suit, IS per cent of the workmens
families in Berlin live in single room,
according to Ambassador Gerard.
If the laborer does not like his
wages of course he can strike, but he
must not forget that the Kaiser once
proposed, on his own initiative, law
making strikes punishable by three to
five years of penal servitude. Against
sickness, unemployment, and desti
tuition in old age the government
shrewdly protects him, in part, of
course, at his own expense. He will
have to pay large share of his slen-
der savings into the governments in
surance fund-and, if he should ever
leave the country, he will lose all he
has paid in! There's a reason! 1t is
an indirect method of restoring serf-
dom and of imprisoning the German
within the bounds of his own country,
so that he and his children may fur
nish the Kaiser a generous supply of
cannon fodder.
The German-American who loves
freedom and the blessings of peace
cannot therefore love a system, which
is the deadly foe of both. "Kultur",
says a celebrated German writer,
Thomas Mann, lis spiritual organi-
cation of the world, which does not
exclude bloody savagery. 1t raises the
demonic to sublimity 1t is above mo-
rality, reason and science" Since this
picture of German imperialism is only
too true, is it astonishing that it holds
out little attraction to anyone who
knows it for what it is. Is it astonish-
ing that many German-American,
who has gone back to pass his old age |
in the fatherland which he had left as |
a youth, has found life there SO par
row and freedom so restricted that |
he has after a short time come back |
again to land where the common man |
enjoys full political liberty and finds |
every business and social opportunity |
open to him and his children? |
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-06-07
MUST SAVE IA BABIES
5 In. RUSK. COUNTY

Uncle Sam has given RuSk county
another big job to add to the rest of
it's war work. Like that of the Red
Cross, this is a task of mercy. Rusk
county is asked to save the lives of
IA children under five years of age
this year Such is the word which
has come from the q. S. government
10 the people Of Rusk county.
Tie Federal ~Children's Bureau,
naming the second year of the war the
"Children's Year." is urging that social
welfare activities center about the ma
TONS youngest citizens. What" the
Childrens Bureau has asked, "dOes it
profit nation to gain the whole world
and lose the little children for whom
it is fighting?" Baby specialists hold
that, through the utilization of our
present knowledge, available but in
sufficiently employed, one-half of the
deaths among young children can be
prevented. Let us prevent at least
one-third of them,' says the Children's
Bureau. This means the saving of
100000 lives in the United States,
2410 lives in Wisconsin, and II in
Rusk county. # #
1t would be glorious thing to over
subscribe our quota as we have done
in all other campaigns.
Some people believe. that rural Wis
cOnsin has no infant welfare problem.
Death records give the lie to this
optimistic delusion. Every Wisconsin
county-this is said with full -knowl-
edge of arguments advanced to the
contrary-has it's infant mortality
problem.
How to meet it differs, it is true, in
the country and in the city. The
wOmen's committees of the county
councils of defense have been given
the job of administering "Children's
Year" In cities and towns, existing
social agencies will combine and sub
divide work in the interest of the chill
dren. In rural regions, success or
failure. in this war work rests largely
with the individual parents. The
children not only need enough food, but
the right kind, prepared in the right
way. They need fresh air in the house
as well as outside. Keeping the water
supply, the milk supply, and the school
free from contagion is often an indi-
vidual rather than community mat
ter in the country. Above all, it is the
individual parents responsibility, if
his children do contract contagious
disease, to make it impossible for them
to become centers for it's further
spread. - t
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-06-07
Supreme War Council Has Conf
dence Allies Will Defeat
.euton Armies.
NO NATION WILL YIELD
Entente Peoples Are Determined to
Continue the Struggle Until Dan
ger Of Berlin Despotism Has
/ .a Been Wiped Out.

London, June Elm an official
statement made public the Supreme
War Council, which has had under
advisement the entire war situation,
expresses full confidence in the out
come of the conflict, with the aid of
the American forces.
/ Complete confidence in General
Foch also is expressed and tribute
is extended to President Wilson for
his cooperation in the work Of trans
porting and brigading American
troops
/ Enemy to Force Issue in West
"The Supreme War Council held its
sixth session under circumstances OF
great gravity for the alliance of free
peoples" says the statement. "The
German government, relieved of all
pressure on the Eastern front by the
collapse of the Russian armies and
people, has concentrated all it's eff
forts in the West. It is now seeking
to gain a decision in Europe by a
series of desperate and costly as
saults upon the Allied armies before
the. United States can bring it's full
strength effectively to bear.
/ "'The advantage it posses in its
strategic position and superior rail,
way facilities has enabled the en-
envy command to gain some initial
successes. 1t will undoubtedly renew
its attacks and the Allied nations
may still be exposed to critical days.
Allies Will Battle Enemy.
/ after a review of the whole posi-
ton, the Supreme War Council Is con-
WINGED that the Allies, bearing the
trials of the forthcoming campaign
with the same fortitude they have
ever exhibited in defense of the right,
will BATTLE the enemys purpose and
in due course bring him to defeat.
Everything possible is being done to
sustain and support the armies in the
field.
/ "The arrangements for unity Of com.
mand have greatly improved the po
sition of the Allied armies and are
working smoothly and with success
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-06-07
Servants Released for Army.

London, June fixing George has
put into effect rule doing away with
all men up to 35years of age in the
royal households. The king previous
ly had released more than $50 men
from the royal hous eholds for military
service, of whom IS have been killed
and rs wounded. In the kings private
room in Buckingham palace hangs a
'war service rolf giving, particulars
Of the service of all soldiers drawn
from the royal employ. ss The places
of the men will be largely filled by
women. E I E. I
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-06-07
STEPS TO CHECK RAIDERS

American Navy Is Preparing to Deal
With U-Boats.
Washington, June 5.-"The Navy de-
partment is doing everything possible
to cope with the y-boat raids said
Senator swanson, Virginia, acting
chairman of the Senate naval affairs
committee.
Senator Swanson and Senator
Lodge, ranking Republican member OF
the committee, visited Secretary DAN
iels to learn what steps were being
taken to capure or drive off the sub.
marines,
Both expressed complete confidence
that the fullest defensive measures
are in operation.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-06-07
COUNTY SCHOOL NEWS
By o. e. Rice, County Sapt. \


The attention of district school
officers is called to the following Off
cial notice from State Director for
War Savings for Wisconsin. As this
is mandatory and emanates from
Secretary w. G. McAdoo, all school
officers and adults Of each district are
required to comply under penalty for
not so doing
Milwaukee, Wis, May q, 1913.
Mr. Oliver e. Rice, Supt.
Ladysmith, Wis.
My Dear Sin: June 2Sth has been
designated as National War Savings
Day by President Wilson. On that
law. each state will be required to
,ledee itself for the quota OF War
savings stamps assessed it by the Sec
etary of Treasury, which in Wiscon-
in case is $51, 100000.
Tie plan, which will be used to
comply with the Presidents prOclama-
lion. calls for meetings on Friday,
June 2Sth, at 2 100 O'Clock p. M in
every rural schOOlhouse in the United
States.
Just think what a stupendOus thing
this is and how effectively our school
system is again to be used in really
big way to help win the war. Every
adult in each school district in your
county will be summoned by the Sec
rotary of the Treasury to attend a
meeting in the schoolhouse June 2oth
and will be called upon to subscribe
his or her individual quota Of War
Saving stamps for 1918. This sum-
mons will command the party adj
dressed to present himself at the
schoolhouse on this date. Public rec
ord will be made and kept of all those
in attendance and also off those swho
fail to come or Subscribe. You can
thus see how imperative it is for every
adult in each school district to be
present.
1t is planned that these meetings will
be conducted by district officials, act
ing under the direction of the War
Savings chairman for each county.
The summons includes women also.
Get in touch with your County War
Savings chairman for each county at
once, ESQ that you can give the neces-
sary information to your district
school officers and patrons.
(Mr w. E. Thompson, Ladysmith, is
the chairman or director for Rusk
county,
Very truly yours,
J. H. PUELICHER,
State Director
for Wisconsin.
Preliminary mass meetings will be
held in practically every schoOlhOuse in
the county prior to June 29th for ad.
Using more fully the duty of our peo-
pie. District officers will see that the
schoOlhouse is open and in condition
for holding the two meetings when
notified These meetings should be
announced publicly by the Board and
by all persons who know the order, Sc
that no person may, become liable.sfor
neglect to attend.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-06-07
Plan War Wheat Substitutes.

Kansas City, June Glow to i'm
prove the keeping qualities of wheat
flour substitutes already under manu-
facture and to develop new sources OF
raw material for the many Touring
mills that already have exhausted
their allotment of wheat for grinding
were the problems considered by the
American Association of Cereal Chem
lists, which is holding a three days
session here. They reported mills al
ready were grinding rice, corn, oats
barloy and other grains into flour.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-06-07
Teachers Pension Law

L Only such teachers who were not
teaching in Wisconsin during the Win
ter and spring of 1910-1911, or who in
1911 signified their desire to come I'M
der the law, are required to contribute
toward this fund One per cent is to be
deducted annually from the wages or
all teachers for the first ten years
teaching. and two per cent thereafter
for fifteen years, if teaching, OF all
teachers, unless they were teaching IN
a public school outside of Milwaukee
during the winter and spring OF 1910
and 1911, in Which case no deduction
should be made. When making the de-
auctions the clerk should without fail
give the teacher a receipt Tor the
amount deducted, however, it is Su1fl-.
cient if preferred to issue at the end
of the term one final receipt for the
centre sum deducted. Teachers should
mot fail tosesecure this receipts and
carefully keep the same until needed
in later years, or until they permanent
" retire from teaching. A teacher VINO
wishes to retire before the full term
of twenty-five years teaching is COM
pleted. should write the Secretary OF
the Teachers Insurance and Retire
ment Fund Madison, Wisconsin, ask
inc for directions how to proceed in
order to draw the annuity then her
due. This should not be neglected, or
allowed to run on indefinitely other
no tn
the required proofs of teaching done.
This is important. s...'..s'. =
Corrections
We are informed that in a recent
report of teachers retained. the, name OF
Ethel Blowers of No. 3 Marshall should
not have been given. as she has not
accepted a reelection.
Also, a correction concerning Red
Cross meeting held in the Soft Maple
district. towns of Big Bend and Stubs.
The correction is that the program and
exercises were mot prepared or given
under the direction or help of the re-
firing teacher there, but WAS entirely
the efforts of the children and
patrons of the district and community.
The meeting held was on May 27th,
and was a patriotic one for the pur-
pose Of demonstrating the loyal and
patriotic spirit of the. citizens there. A |
good meeting was the result, and the
neat sum of S26.25, which was real
lied, has been turned over to the Red
Cross cause. The people rejoice that
the Soft Maple district has at last
Gone Over the Top for Uncle Sam
in a very gratifying manner.
We are glad to make these correc-
lions, and we all rejoice now that al
most without exception all the towns
and districts in Rusk county have
done splendidly in the various efforts
they have been called upon to assist.
Observation-Disclosures +4l-- illi'lllii!iiitsia'
New Hutchinson district held sue
cessful loyalty meeting last week. Q.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-06-07
GERMANY'S WAR AIMS-PUBLIC
VERSUS SECRET

The ability of German chancellor to
say one thing while he means another
and to hOOdwink his cOuntrymen con-
corning his governments war aims is
illustrated by two utterances of Mich
aelis while he was chancellor. of Ger
many s'7t =.
Both concern Germany's war aims
and peace proposals. One was public
delivered in an address in the Reich
stag on July 10, 1917 The other was
Secret-an official communication to
Austria which Michaelis wrote about
the same time and which fell into the
hands of Hugo Haase leader of the
Independent Socialists in the Reich
stag, and was later published. Com
pare these extracts:
Michaelis told the Reichstag:
Germany did not desire the war in
to make violent cOnquests, and
fore would not continue the war a
ay longer. merely fortRe sake of such
OnqueSts, if it could obtain an honor
able peace"
He told Austria in secret:
THE motive OF all of Germany ssacts
is the lack of territory, both for the
development of commerce and colon
izatiOn. Germany has to solve. two
prOblemS-the freedom of the seas and
the opening of a route to the southeast
And these two problems can only be
solved through the destruction of
England"
He said to the Reichstag:
IF our enemies abandon their lust
for conquest and their aims of subju-
cation, and wish to enter into negotia-
tions, we shall listen honestly. and
readily for peace"
But he told Austria in secret
Cur object is the permanent secur-
ing of the German Empire in Central
Europe and the expansion of its terri
tory. No one who understands the
significance of this war can doubt that,
i'll spite of our wish to be moderate, we
shall not allow ourselves to be deferred
from eXtending~tAe. borders of the en-
pire and from. UNDER all seircumstances,
annexing such territories as are fitted
for colonization and are not subjected
to the influence of the sea power"
In this secret document, he went on
to explain that this object involved
not only the destruction of England,
but the weakening of Russia by taking
away her provinces, the anneXing and
Commanding of the Baltic provinces,
the changing of the border between
Germany and Poland so as to annex
certain lands and the annexation of
certain French valleys in the Vosges.
Among the items which he thought the
Central Empire must have was Briey
/. belonging to France) and strip west
of Nuremberg because 100000 tons
of iron ore are produced there"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-06-07
WILL REMAIN ALL SUMMER
U-Boat Seaman Says Raid Will Last
~ ~ Until August.

New York, June GA member OF
the crew of the U-151, the German
submarine which destroyed the
Schooner Edna, told Enoch Roker, one
of the Edna's crew, Roker said here
that the U-boat fleet plans to remain
in American waters until August. Ro
.ker, for eight days prisoner on the
submarine, was rescued after he and
other prisoners had been placed in
the open boas of another sunken ship
"The storekeeper told me that they
had left Kiel two months ago, after
a big celebration before the subma
.rine fleet left" Roker said, "They
were provisioned for six months
cruise and he had said they intended
to stay on the Western Atlantic coast
until August at least"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-06-07
NOTICE

All those knowing themselves in
debted to the undersigned will please
call and settle at once. All accounts
not settled by June 10 will be placed
in attorneys hands for collection
II. +. DAVIS,
2t* The Feed Man,
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-06-07

Miss Jessie Sergeant in No. 6 Hub
bard gave a pie. social and party in
her district on the 24th of May and
Melted $5100 which she turned over
to the Ladysmith Red Cross chapter
That district and community has roy
ally contributed to the cause of the
war relief the past year. Miss Ser
geant declines a disappointment to her
school, as she is undecided at present
as to what she Will do next year. No.
6 loses valuable and faithful teacher
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-06-07
German Prince Reported Killed.


Washington, June "a diplomatic
dispatch from Switzerland says that
Prince Won Buchan, the commanding
general of Bavarian division, has
been killed in the fighting on the
Marine.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-06-07

Esther Kuehl will join the list OF
teachers who will attend summer
schools this vacation.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-06-07

Miss Ruth Nelson goes to Portage
county next year, and Agnes Void to
Polk county Both teachers were es-
pecially successful here the past year
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-06-07

Petitions are out calling for new dis
tricts in the towns of True and Stubs
also in Strickland.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-06-07

800 pairs inens work Shoes, REGULAR
prices 1915 to $3.50. on sale at The
Fair Store for $685.