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The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-19
German Reply to President Will
Not Be Decisive She Will Seek to
Prolong Discussion Military Caste
Has Prevented Complete Submission
(By The United Press.)

LONDON, Oct 19.-Germany's reply to
President Wilson, according to best information
available here today, will be decisive All to-
days dispatches from Holland and Switzerland
indicate that the German military caste has sue
ceeded in preventing complete submission Re
ports generally agreethat in her reply Germany
will seek to prolong the discussion.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-19
Will Turn Clocks
Back October 9th

The clocks will go back to the old
time on October 81.
Although the senate passed the
bill of Senator Calder to continue
daylight saving permanently and
though Chairman Baruch, of the
War Industries Board recommend
ed it, it has been found impossible
to get it through the House.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-19
Ruling Classes of Germany Restored
The Kaiser After He Had Actually
!. Abdicated-Of Throne Few Hours
(By The United Press.)

LONDON, Oct. 19-Interyention by the rul-
ing classes Of Germany restored the kaiser after
he had actually abdicated and interfered with
the sending Of the reply to President Wilson's
last note, the Chronicle today declared it has
reaso nto believe According to this news it
appears that the kaiser abdicated for several
hours z$1@
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-19
Breaks
From Austria

LONDON, Oct. 19.-The Hunga-
rian parliament has issued a proc
lamation declaring Hungary an in
dependent state, with only a oper-
sonal union" with Austria, accord
ing to a Central News dispatch
from Copenhagen quoting Berlin
dispatch.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-19
Americans Make Another Advance
Of More Than One Mile Today
In Region of ChampigneulIe
(By The United Press. )

WITH AMERICAN ARMIES, Oct 19.-The American
troops today made advance of about mile and
quarter in the region north Of Champigneue and Banthee
along 5me front The doughboys at began organ
izng their positions The Germans hastily strength
enng their defenses along the heights of Ancreve and
five miles northwest of Breues which roughly about
kilometers north of the present line
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-19
RemoIding of Austria-Hungary :.
With Autonomy and Austrian
Confederation Comes Too Late
(By The United Press.)

WASHINGTON, Oct 19.-The remolding of Ausra-Hun-
gary with autonomy and Austrian confederation promised
too late Representatives of the submerged groups said
today that the old monarchy Of Hapbrg must and will be de-
sroyed proof of its destined disnegaon that pointed
the Czechoovak declaration of independence just issued
this plan.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-19


WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.-Little
new information reached Washing
ton today about the conferences GO
ing forward in Germany upon which
will depend the nature and time of
the next move toward peace. The
situation apparently is what it has
been for several days. The Germans
are Fastening their constitutional and
electoral reforms in the hope of pre-
senting a government with which the
United States and the allies will deal
in restoring permanent peace, while
conferences proceeded on how far
the military machine shall go toward
meeting the conditions precedent to
consideration of the plea for the ar
IDENTIFY desired armistice.
There is no evidence here of great
disappointment over the failure of
new note to come from Berlin as
quickly as persistent reports through
neutral countries have indicated it
might be expected.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-19
German Defenses Southwest Bruges
Broken Belgian Troops Marching
On Ecloo-Allies Are Pushing
Rapidly Toward Deynze
(By The United Press. )

PARIS, Oct 9-The German defenses southeast of Bruges
reported broken The Belgans marching Ecloo
Attire Ecoo ten miles from Ghent The allies
also pushing rapidly toward Deynze miles from
Client The enemy reported to be masg hurriedy front
of Vaencennes. The population Of Bruges expecanty
awaiting the triumpha entry of King Albert
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-19
Window Panes In Imperial Palace
merlin Are Smashed by Rioters
In Peace Demonstrations
(By The United Press. }

AMSTERDAM. Oct 19.-Hundreds of win
dow panes in the imperial palace in Berlin were
smashed by riotous mob during peace demon
strations Wednesday, according to reports re-
ceved here this morning.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-19
Eight Hundred Square Miles Territory
Relinquished by Germans in Four Days
(By The United Press }

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19-The Germans, in four days this
week. renquished 800 square miles of territory which they had
held long, Chief Of Staff March stated AT the same time
the British reported have reached the Holland frontier
opposite Bruges
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-19
British and American Troops
Have Captured Mazinghien and
Complete the Capture of Bazeuil
(By The United Press. }

LONDON Oct 19The British and American troops have
captured Maznghen northeast of Bohan and have also
pleted the capture Of Bazeu Haig announced today
ZURICH, Oct 19-Venna newspapers confirm the report
that Baron Burian, the Austrian premier has resigned
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-19
French Troops Have Crossed Oise Canal;
Are Within Mile and Quarter of Guise
(By The United Press.)

PARIS Oct 19-French troops have crossed the Disc canal
wide front and have approached to within one mile and
quarter of Guse the office indicated Additional gains
have been made on the Asne front west of Atigny
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-19
Belgian Troops Have Reached Canal
Between Zeebrugge and Bruges
CBy The United Press. }

LONDON Oct 19.The Belgian troops have reached the
canal between zeebrugge and Bruge according dispatches
from the front Germans reported be still holding the
outskirts of Zeebrugge
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-19
Washington
Is Waiting

BASEL, Switzerland, Oct. 18.--
There were government conferences
in Berlin yesterday that lasted all
day, according to advices here. The
war ministry held fye-hour session
in which the military chiefs partici-
mated.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-19
Austrian Premier Has Resigned;
The Report Has Been Confirmed

ZURICH Oct 19.-Vienna newspapers confirm the report
that Baron Burain the Austrian premier has resigned
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-12-06

the world can afford to accept this gift made in Ger
many"
Certainly the fact that this socialism is derived from
Germany does not recommend it. Germany. having be-
slowed upon the world militarism and its consequences OF
the last four years, may we'll be looked at askance. when
she offers another sort Of gift. & .Ys%ah
The Russians. for the nonce, have set up a Bolsheyiss
state. but the example does not commend itself to the rest
OF us. The Germans may set up a Socialist state tpat
impressed by tho notion that what suits Germans would
suit Americans. Certainly the autocracy and mihtarasn
which the Germans loved. died for and attempted to
force upon the world. did not suit US. BY the same token.
German Socialism would not suit us. A German suit Of
clothes, whether patterned by Bismarck or Kari Marx,
will never fit our backs. 4
The fact ia the German is immature politically. But
yesterday he was a medievalst engaged in blowing up
liberty with cannon. and poisoning democracy with gas.
Tomorrow the German as doctrinaire Socialist may be
posing as humanitys benevolent teacher and endeavor-
ing through "internatonalism" to sap the strength of his
conquerora.
Assuming that the German has dismissed malice
from his soul (Which he hasn't) and is animated by a
philosophic humanitarianisn, there is nothing in his
deeds of the past or his arguments of the present to rec
|omnend him as a teacher, as a leader, a thinker. an ex-
ample. He has himself failed in his gigantic attempt to
enslave mankind. II now, in his extremity, he elects to
experiment in the opposite direction, that is his own at
fair. But for the rest Of us, the fact that the German
chooses to try socialism constitutes a reason why we
should not. What has looked good to the Germans has
looked bad to all others. What now the German in his
wisdom prefers seems to US a folly that we should avoid:
The label made in Germany no longer commends
anything. Rather it condemns everything on which i, is
stuck.
Instead of educating christendom to anything, au-
tocracy, militarism, socialism, internationalism, Germany
ought herself to go to school. A humble conceit would
become Germans now, that and a con,r1teness of spirit
for the crimes they have committed
But, putting aside the need for repentance; no, 10
say remorse, Germans have proved themselves "boobs"
Germany is a boob nation, and German socialism is
boob doctrine, as much as German kultur was boob"
stuff. William II made a mess Of it, and SO would Karl
Marx.
Let Mr.. Berger 60 back to Germany to apply his
German socialism. Germany is the soil that would suit
his doctrine. In America it cannot fourish.-The Min
neapois Journal. ..u
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-12-06
AMERICA AND THE WORLD POLICY

In one part of his address to congress President Will
son said, with reference to the naval building program
~ecommended for appropriations:
1T would be clearly unwise for us to attempt to adj
just our program to a future world policy as vet undeter-
mined"
We hope that the significance of this observation is
one of real indication of conviction in the presidents
mind, that it will prevail in congressional action, and that
it will be spread out to cover all the needs and prospects
of the United States.
The presidents specific reference was to the neces-
sity of goiag ahead with the navy building program as
devised before we entered the war; We could ask for
an amplifcation of the advice to cover all the require
naents of the United States, requirements which deal with
its own responsibility for the character and security of
its citizenship.
We not only believe that this principle ought to ap-
ply to the navy but it ought to apply to the army. We
believe that the United States should be strong in its own
right. and that it can be strong without threatening an
invasion of the peace Of the world. a disturbance of any
international agreements; without finding itself in dis
cord. but finding itself merely sufficient il discord came.
We believe that there should be not only a, reserve
toward a future world policy not Yet determined blu. a
reserve toward a world policy determined but not proved.
We not only do not know what the world policy will
be, but when we do know what it will be we shall not
know how it will operate. We do know that the United
States is not a provocative nation and will not become one.
It's diplomacy Will not offer Indictments to war. Its dips
lomacy always will endeavor to find ways out of war.
If the new world policy is one which promises guar
antics of peace there will be no act Of the United States
to threaten the beneficent condition. But even when we
know what the policies are we do not know whether they
will prevail. We cannot know how they will stand the
test of experience. .
We do know that if the United States will continue
to build the navy which it has under construction and in
its program, and if it will keep the wonderful army es-
Enlistment which it has-if it will put its young men
under military Instruction. will be safe and secure.
We know that if the United States is strong in its own
right it will not less be a willing subscriber to new world
policies. We know that If the policies fail it will be able
to take care Of itself.
We have everything to gain and nothing to lose by
remaining strong. We have everything to lose and moth
ing to gain by lapsing into weakness.
If we cannot trust now to a world program which
has not been defined we cannot wholly trust later to a
program which has been defined and has not been tested.
If we obtain universal military training, retain our
military equipment, organization, and material, we can
face the future confidently, hopeful that the best plans OF
altruists will work, secure if they do not work.-rhe Chi
lcago Tribune.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-12-06
SOCIETY LAUNCHES
CAMPAIGN TO SAVE
LIVES OF BABIES

Chicago. Dec. 5.-A campaign for
universal baby training" was launch
ed by the American Association for
the Study inc Prevention Of Infant
Mortality. at the opening of a three
days session today.
superior American women are
s1ackers SO far as motherhood IL con.
cerned," said Roswell H. johnson of
the University of Pittsburgh. IF the
poor unfit are to be prevented from
propagating. the splendidly fit must
be encouraged" \
Other speakers urged that the reg
ulationst established for obtaining a
clean army be applied to obtain a
healthier civil population. :
Miss Pansy v. Benson. chief child
Welfare supervisor Of Boston. said
that an increase in the death rate Of
babies in American cities is one Of
the results of the war. When the
draft took away the fathers, she said.
me support OF many families fell
on the mothers who were thus unable
to give proper care to their children.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-12-06

Washington, Dec. 6.-How are the
sick and wounded soldiers. coming
back to America In increasing but
happily not very large numbers, being
cared for in that trying period be-
tween their arrival on transports and
their distribution among our widely
scattered reconstruction hospitals?
A great majority Of the soldiers
sailing to war passed through the
port Of New York. and through this
port, whether well or disabled, will a
great majority return.
The New York port of embarkation
and debarkation-really includes
all the coas from Baltimore to Can
ada. but its work is directed from
Hoboken. The surgeon Of the port,
who has charge of the reception and
care Of invaded troops, is Col. James
M. Kennedy, medical corps. U. S. A.
manding general Of the port, William
V. Judson.
: Ships Well Equipped.
Sick and wounded soldiers are
brought from Europe on army trans
ports having every hospital facility.
Each transport has normally a good
sized hospital, which may be expanded
to accommodate any number Of men.
Every patient has more than enough
room. One of the great liners con-
verted into a troopship may have car
ried 10000 men to France. but >as a
hospital ship it brings back only a
thousand or so. The medical attend
ance for the returning soldiers has
been uniformly satisfactory.
The transport arrives off quaran-
tine. 1t is boarded, there by two
medical officers detailed for this pur-
pose by the port surgeon They
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-12-06

ascertain the number and classes .~of
the sick. the pier and hour at which
the ship will dock. One of them
stays aboard, arranging for debarka-
ton.
The other returns to the quaran-
tine station and telephones his in
formation to the Office of the surgeon
Of the port in Hoboken. The surgeon
then sends a harbor boat with a party
of medical officers and men to the
designated pier. He also notifies the
with all the supplies. food and drink
needed by the soldiers about to land,
and something to spare for emerg-
encies.
D~ebarkation continues without in
terruption until completed unless it
extends into the night, The patients
are transferred without delay to the
i.dcsignated d%ebarkation hospital, the
Red Cross attendants remaining or
the pier or transport and dispensing
refreshments as required. In the hos
pital the sick or wounded men are
classified rapidly, as to the nature OF
their disabilities. the reconstruction
hospital to which they are to be sent
and their home address.
AS soon as. the classification is
SOlIlPtSSEu az lN0 uCOdl ndSAOA 4lOS-
pital a report of the numbers in each
! class and the reconstruction hospitals
to which transfer is recommended is
wired to Washington. Authority be-
ing received. transportation is ar
ranged for.
Red Cross Aids Work.
The Red Cross canteen service fur.
nishes food and drink during the
transfer from hospital to train and
until the train leaves. So far as prac-
ticable the patients are carried from
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-12-06
U CHANGE YEAR.

Kansas City, Mo, Dec. GA sug-
gestion to make November II, 1918,
the Fret Day Of the Year One and to
discard the present calendars Of all
races and creeds is made by Rabbi
salo Stein, Phi. D., d. D., OF KANSAS
City.
II our glorious victory shall really
lead up to the independence OF the
world" Dr.. Stein says, why then not
choose this means to commemorate
eternalize that victory which will
create a new world Of all mankind, by
changing the old calendars and bury
with them all misery and baseness OF
the times they cover, and start a new
world and a new time. regardless Of
nation or religion? Let theS Eleventh
Of November, Nineteen Hundred and
Eighteen, be the First Day Of the
Year One. Of the Independence Of
mankind. Such a memorial cannot
fail to- stand forever and be a saxum
acre perennius." He said such ac-
ton would be a more hitting memorial
than expenditure of millions Of vari-
Gus districts for monuments"
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-12-06
HI KEPT PRESS"

Townley's kept press is running true to form. MI
Of his subsidized papers are publishing glowing accounts
of the Big Chief and the Nonpartisan league convention
in st. Paul, but the peculiar thing is that their accounts
differ from those given out by the leagues official repor-
ter in st. Paul. Townley has the Independent press told
one story; his papers print another, print it because they
wish to hoodwink the farmers.
When the convention opened, it was announced that
NO correspondents would be admitted, except league re-
porters who had their story prepared for them anyway.
Herbert E. Castor, general manager of The Courier
News, Townleys Fargo organ, was appointed official
reporter, and it was his duty to give the press a con-
densed story of what actually occurred on the convention
floor. Mr.. CASTOR did as ordered, and he did a most ex-
cellent job, so far as Townley is concerned. The first
night, he told the press that Townley had been reelected.
When informed that there were reports that Townley
had declined the election, MI. Castor denied them. Yet.
his own paper, The Couricr-News, the next morning
printed a story to the effect that Townley refused to ac-
cept the election from the accredited delegates and would
not continue as president unless a referendum of the
entire membership showed that he was wanted.
There could have been only one object in giving
out such varying reports: the league wanted its own pa
pers to give its own membership the impression that the
car had suddenly become democratic and would give
Independent press to appear before the farmers as print
ing stories that did not conform to facts. Verify, Mr..
CASTOR is an excellent servant.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-12-06

the port to the distant hospital on
especially fitted hospital trains which
have hospital beds. a mess kitchen. an
operating car, Offices and other con-
veniences. If the number of men Is
too great for q hospital train standard
Pullmans or Pullman sleepers are
used.
when the patients are transport
ed on these cars" says Colonel Ken
nedy, feeding them becomes a more
complex problem. than on hospital
trains. To meet this problem a spe-
cia1 organization of medical person
mel Is in operation whose training is
directed specifically along these lines.
S"No patients are allowed to travel
without >proper medical attendance
the travel. The medical officer is ac-
companied by such help as may be
required. He is furnished with such
medical supplies as may be needed,
cooked food and money to buy food
as required.
Arrangement is made with the
Red Cross canteen service for assist
ance all along the route. Two days
before the movement is begun full
information is given to the canteen
headquarters Of the Red Cross in New
York. 1t sends. notice to Its canteen
stations, so each knows just when the
train is due, the number OF patients.
the number Of ambulance and litter
cases and of those unable to leave the
car.
I'm this ann complete cooper
alton is provided between the medi-
cal and the Red Cross services from
the tinle~the patients leave the hos
pital at the port until they are trans
ferred to the designated reconstruc-
ton hospital"
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-12-06
GREAT IT. N. r"
PLANT WILL BE
MADE DYE WORKS

Ashland, Wis, Dec. 6.-The plant Of
the Barksdale Powder company, near
here. which had gradually been en-
slarged since the beginning Of the
European war until it had become
one OF the greatest producers Of the
sAeadiy q. N. r." explosive in the
has partly shut down and
ma be converted into a dye works.
vi built 10 years ago with q
small cApacitH for the manufacture Of
saSdynaanite for : in the Michigan and
Z Mtnnescta mining districts and In
shiowfng UP tree stumps in the north
ilWeof lumber regions.
When the European war broke out
gttsNAa ereatly enlarged and turned,out
s4Apaoetves day and night for the
zAittas. When the United States ems
SH&ed he war the plant again wa en-
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-12-06
FEDERAL AID TO SOLDIER FARMERS

The federal government has already in operation
a system of land banks designed to aid under capitalized
farmers to obtain possession Of the land they till. This
aid extends to the amount Of fifty per cent of the mar
kt value of the land and twenty per cent Of the insur-
able value of the buildings thereon. From some other
source must come the other half of the purchase price
and the other four-fifths Of the value Of the buildings.
as we'll as the total cost of equipment and seed.
The federal land bank is not designed primarily
as an institution to make farm owners out of penniless
men-but it has gone about as far in that direction as
the principles of good banking will permit.
The settlement Of soldiers on farms contemplates
the financing Of men without means, but this does not
exclude the federal land bank from a hand in the work.
A plan for administering for the soldier both government
Eratuity and farm loans through these banks. has been
set forth by George H. Stevenson, president of the fed
eral land bank of Baltimore.
This plan would settle rather the subdued than the
raw lands, and to this end each state would make a list
OF its farms for sale with description and price Soldiers
desiring farms would be classified as to the states in
which they would choose to farm. The soldier who has
had no farm training would receive a specified practical
education at the agricultural college of the state in which
he chose to live. The land bank would make the usual
loan, for the usual term Of thirty-four and a half years,
while the federal treasury would advance the remaining
money required for purchase Of equipment, taking a
second mortgage therefor without interest. When by
the regular process Of amortization the first mortgage
was paid out, the land bank would take over the federal
treasury loan as a first mortgage, and the soldier farmer
would have received as a gratuity only the interest, on
the money advanced by the treasury, and the treasury
would have had fair security all the while for the re-
payment Of the loan.
There may be objections to this plan. but at least it
does not have the fatal weakness of making indlscr,m,n-
ate gifts to soldiers which may be frittered away. or
which some snaooth-tongued rascal may fitch at the cost
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