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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-07-05

plaqf OF death. 1t was a place OF
achifvebent. A great promise that was
! meant for all mankind was here given
plan and reality The associations by
which we are here surrounded are the
InsRiritlng associations of that noble
death which is anly glorious consum-
nation. From this green hillside we al
SO ought to be able to see with compre-
hending eyes the world that lies about
US and should conceive anew the pur-
poses that must set men free.
ut is ignificant-significan of their
owH character and purpose of the in
flJ&ences they were setting afoot- that
Washington and his associates, like the
barSns at Runnymere, spoke and acted,
not for class, but for the people. 1t
hassbeen left for us to see to it that it
shall be understood that they spoke and
acted, not for a single people only, but
for Fall mankind They were thinking
not Sof themselves and the material in
terests which centered in the little
grotps of landholders and merchants
and men of affairs with whom they
were accustomed to act, in Virginia and
the Colonies toward the north and south
of her, but of a people which wished to
be done with classes and special inter
ests and the authority of men whom
they had not themselves chosen to rule
over them. They entertained no private
purpose, desired no peculiar privilege.
They were consciously planning that
men of every class should be free and
America place to which men out of
every nation might resort who wished
tQsshare with them the rights and priv
iiekes of free men. And we take our
cue from them-do we mott? We in
tend what they intended. We here in
America believe our participation in this
present war to be only the fruitage of
what they planted. Our case differs
from theirs only in this, that it is our
inestimable privilege to consort with
men out of every nation what shall make
not only the liberties of America secure
but the liberties of every other people
as well. We are happy in the thought
that we are permitted to do what they
would have done had they been in Our
place. There must now be settled once
for all what was settled for America in
the great age upon whose inspiration we
draw today. This is surely a fitting
from which calmly to out upon our
work, that we may fortify our spirits
for its accomplishment. And this is the
appropriate place from which to avow,
alike to the friends who look on and
o the friends with whom we have the
happiness to be associated in action, the
faith and purpose with which we act
This, then, is our conception of the
great struggle in which we are engaged.
The plot is written plain upon every
scene and every act of the supreme trag
sdy On the one hand stand the peo
lies of the world-not only the peoples
actually engaged, but many others also
who suffer under mastery but cannot
lct; peoples of many races and in every
,art Of the world-the people of stricken
Russia still among the rest, although
hey are for the moment unorganized
md helpless. Opposed to them, mas
ers of many armies, stand an isolated,
riendless group of governments who
peak no common purpose, but only
elfish ambitions of their own by which
lone can profit but themselves and
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-07-05
DIR. Lindley to Orofino

DR.. E. H. Lindley left today for
Orofino, where he delivers patriotic
address tonigh. From Orofino he
goes to Weippe, to speak at land
clearing demonstration. The trip is
being made by automobile and L. F.
Parsons and c. J. Hugo accompany
him.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-07-05
WILSON DECLARES
DESTRUCTION 30F M|L|TAR|SM

WASHINGTON President Wilson
today answered all feelers for COM
promise peace with new and unquali-
fled conservation of America to the
struggle for cleaning military autoc-
racy from the earth.
At an independence day gathering
on the gentle slopes Of Mount Vernon,
home and tomb of George Washing
ton, and surrounded by scenes which
looked upon the creation of this ma
ton, the president addressed small
gathering of officials and of diplomats
of the allied nations.
But he spoke to the world and he
spoke the logical sequel to his "force
without stint or limit" declaration Of
several weeks ago.
Unreservedly the president declared
that there could be no thought of a
peace which did not mean the desruc-
tion of military autocracy or it's re-
duction to virtual impotence.
"a reign of law, based on the con-
sent of the governed and sustained by
the organized opinion of mankind" !"
was the way he summarized in a
single sentence the objects of human
iy in the world war.
Whether the president was address
ing his remarks directly to the recent
speech of Germman Secretary Won
Kuehlmann, or to the foreshadows of
new German offensive, or whether
he merely took the occasion of the
celebration of American independence
to emphasize to the world the war
aims of the nation can only be difined.
He did not deal with the progress Of
the war or any particular phase of it,
but he spoke eloquently of Americas
attitude toward Germanys so-called
peace treaties in the East by group
ing the people of Russia "for the mo-
ment unorganized and helpless" among
the peoples of the world standing
against the enemies of liberty.
'sThe past and the present are in
deadly grapple and the people of the
world are being done to death be-
tween them," said President Wilson.
"There can be but one issue. The
settlement must be final. There. can
be no compromise. No halfway de-
cision would be tolerable. No half
way decision is conceivable. These
are the ends for which the associated
peoples of the world are fighting and
which must be conceded them before
there can be peace:
The presidents speech in full was as
follows
Gentlemen of the diplomatic corps
and my fellow citizens: I am happy to
draw apart with you to this quiet place
of old counsel in order to speak a little
of the meaning of this day of our ma
tons independence. The place seems
very still and remote. 1t is as serene
and untouched by the hurry of the
world as it was in those great days long !
ago when General Washington was here
and held leasurely conference with the
men who were to be associated with
him in the creation of a nation. From
these gentle slopes they looked out up
the world and saw it whole, saw it with
the light of the future upon it, saw it
with modern eyes that turned away
from the past which men of liberated
spirits could no longer endure.
"It is for that reason that we cannot
feel, even here, in the immediate pres
ence of this sacred tomb, that this is
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-07-05

whose peoples are fuel in their hands !;
governments which fear their people
and yet are for the time their sovereign
lords, making every choice for them
and disposing of their lives and fortunes
as they will, as we'll as Of the lives and
fortunes of every people who fall under
their power"
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-07-05

today yer-
day things lively and the allies making substantial
place The day was entirely successful for the allies who the
American holiday by giving Fritz good beating places
All of the the continues has
the small suffered nights
by taking retakng the the
the Gemans all around.
Following cable
Finlan to Central Power
the declaration
nations momentariy
Brtish Take 1900
position the British the Amiens front the east of the village
The enemy was reud heavy losses many prisoners
the hands Of the British These have not been counted yet
the somm In addition this number Of prisoners the British took
smore than 100 machine guns and number trench m and other war
French Were
many sectors the pcardy Many
- the French raidng parties
Three Negro Soldiers Hanged
CAMP DODGE-Three negro soldiers martial of
assautng and 0d white girl on the cannnt grounds
the night of May a. were hanged here with virtually the entire division
witnessing the executions
Army Casualty Is Light
.ns an @ e aaa s died % eun was
wounded severely, 8; missing in action s.
Two Idaho Men Severely Wounded
casualty contains the Private
Knight Kimberly Idaho and Lieutenant Mortimer Vano-
strand, Lewiston, Idaho, severely wounded
8 AMsrERDAMThe Rechag passed
supplementary dispatch direct from
South Africa Again Is Restless
SouthA
exists South
Strong police being taken with the siua
discon
amo the people of this country
TwOG German
FORCES IN FRANCE ON THE MARINE
brought
downtw two German falling in flames
Marin Thirty
casualties yesterday 3d. Killed
died Of disease severely wounded l.
undet Ia.
Powde Factor Explosion Kills
NEW YORK-Sevea menwe and expo
Kendi
in building the explosion occurred
PoesR Rule
Warsaw Polish
council many Polish involved has been dis
Zeiter directed against the
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-07-05

Mrs, B. T. Byrns of Moscow is regis
tered at the Hotel Portland, Portland
Oregon.
The sun., 1918-09-22

1t is a task now for Miss Rathbone 10
get enough recruits to meet the needs Of
the fruit growers at Stuyvesant. She
has sent out an appeal for helpers to
work from now till the fruit crops are
gathered and packed.
The farmers are literally clamoriug for
the girls to help them, and this c.an,or
is by no means confined to TIE Columbia
county fruit farms. On Long Island, On
Staten island, in Westchester, in Dutch
ess county, out in Erie, in Chemung and
Orange counties the farmers are awake
and are strong for the farmerettes.
As short time labor, ready to answer
any emergency call, willing to tackle any
job, cheerful under all conditions, giving
the farmers wife no trouble. because
she is housed in her own camp and
brings her MONDAY meal with her, the
girl with the hoe is there"
ID. N. Cammann, Long Island farmer,
writes:
II would like to tell YOU that the
ulticItCS nave uOut NCI
work for me. 1t has certainly relieved
the labor situation for me and hope that
for the rest of the season they will do all
the work on my place.
"The girls are all right" AYERS Charles
Ludwig of Staten Island. II am salts.
fed with them. They are more conscl.
entious than men and neater in wedding,
which is the only work had them do so
far. They would do better than men if
they worked as many hours"
The manager Of Doriskill Farms,
Orangeburg, N. Y, writes:
"Farmerettes from the Orangeburg,
n. Y, unit of the Woman's Land Army
of America have been working here on
this farm about two months. During this
time they have been doing all kinds Of
farm work, especially field work. They
always came to their work happy and did
it cheerfully and with a will. We are
v9y thankful to our farmerettes who
The sun., 1918-09-22
By ROSE WESTON Ball.

Nov that the harvest is nearly over
\ it is time for taking stock of the
farmerette. Has she been a help or a
nuisance on the farmf
There are 1000 women and girls en-
rolled in the New York State Woman's
Land Army, living in forty units or
camps established by the organization in
agricultural sections. When these camps
were first established the camp supervisors
had an uphill fight TO get any of their
neighbors TO give them half-hearted prom
Uses of employment.
The story of one camp is typical. 1t
comes from the supervisor of the unit at
Stuyvesant Falls, Columbia county, Miss
Frances Rathbone
Stuyvesant is in the heart of the Hud-
son River fruit region. Besides fruit
The sun., 1918-09-22

1000 square miles in extent and lying
almost due north of the port of Bagamoyo.
In one of those treaties Sultan Hugo
not only placed all of his ''land on the
Tana, from Massa to Kenia, under the
protection Of Peters," but he gave Peters
the right to work the country "above and
below the ground in every direction {.
and DR.. Karl Peters is to be supreme lord
in the country of the Calais, to command
the armed forces and to Judge the people.
This is done for the blessing and welfare
of the Gala land"
Personally Killed Native Chief.
The first act of the new supreme Gala
Lord was to personally shoot the chief of
the Gallas at Bokore, when, to use
Peters's own words, 'he felt the proud
intoxication of the victor" He also de-
stroyed the stations Of the British COM
pany and publicly burned their official
papers, and shot down all who opposed
him.
"In the year 1894" wrote the Danish
explorer Scavenius in the Copenhagen
Politiken on his return to Europe in 1896,
Il undertook an expedition up the River
Tana. A few years before DR.. Peters
had made practically the same journey.
No Europeans had, in the meantime, been
through the desolate region. On every
side | came across traces of war. The
natives were terrified at my white face,
for the last white man they had seen was
DR.. Peters, who had committed all these
atrocities and whom they named Mkono-
wa-damu, i. e., the man with the blood
stained handsv'
While Peters's conduct caused a re-
action in the fatherland against the
The sun., 1918-09-22
Land Army.

farms, it has innumerable truck farms.
Miss Rathbone is a native. She knows
and understands the farmers, appreciates
their point of view and is familiar with
their prejudices. Yet she had the courage
TO undertake the formation of unit, and
inveigied one expert orchardist, E. W.
Mitchell, a graduate of Cornell University,
into promising employment
Mr.. Mitchell, animated by chivalry
rather than by faith, put a number Of
girls on his payroll. In the spring he
set them to work driving spray rigs. They
did it as well as any man he had ever en-
ployed. so he tried them out at planting
young trees. Once they had learned how
TO handle a spade they proved themselves
first rate planters.
He found they were not afraid to jump
into the dirtiest job. One little girl.
former New York telephone operator,
took his breath away one day by mixing
1900 pounds of spray dust-about as dis
agreeable a job as can be tackled. She
appeared eheerfully next morning ready
TO work.
Mr.. Mitchell was thoroughly convinced
by this time and the farmers in the
neighborhood began to take notice. When
they saw the farmerettes doing bridge
grating. pruning, cutting out blight,
scraping the trees and digging out borers
they began to make inquiries as to the
possibility of getting girls to help them.
James Van Alstyne of Undertook, the
owner Of big dairy farm, made up his
mind the girls could be trained to replace
his men, whom the draft had taken. Those
who went to him didn't shirk even clean
ing out COW stable.
As a result of Mr. Van Alstyne's ex-
pertinent one Land Army worker has
been engaged permanently to have charge
Of his dairy. She is young widow who
attended the Farmingdale School of Ag-
riculture last year and now means to
make dairying her life work.
The sun., 1918-09-22
Tunnels and GEOLOGY

= BIOLOGISTS owe much of their
NJ knowledge of the Alps to the tun-
nels which have been bored through those
mountains to make railway routes between
the northern and southern parts of Eu-
rope. There has been no more important
: discovery made in this way than during
the construction of the Loetschberg tunnel.
This was the unexpected piercing of
great coal seam in the centre of mass
of much younger Triassic stone.
The Loetschberg tunnel proved a much
more difficult proposition than the St.
Gothard tunnel, which is driven almost
entirely through hard gneiss. At Ander-
matt and Airola one can see in the quar-
ries how under tremendous pressure the
Jurassic chalk has been turned into marble.
In the case of the Loetschberg the geolog-
zeal profile presented the unusual sight Of
primitive rock piled on top of stratifed
rock
All the Alpine tunnels are run on
straight lines except the Loetschberg,
which was built on a curve. This was
necessary because of unforeseen obstacles
in the interior composition of the noun
tain, and resulted in an expenditure Of
100000. The engineers did not believe
that the Kander stream, which flows down
the mountain side, would interfere with the
boring of tunnel 600 feet below the river
bed, but it did, and there was a cave-in
by which twenty-five wOrkmen lost their
Lives.
The sun., 1918-09-22

schemes of the colonial party, imperial
Germany again showed her contempt OF
the opinion Of the people by making
Peters Imperial Commissioner for German
East Africa But he SO misused his Office
that the cutlery against him in Germany
became general, and he was dismissed
from office and ordered home to Germany
for trial The coward fled, however, not
daring to put IN an appearance.
The charges against him were substan-
tiated.
The Huns now have the supreme and
colossal impudence to declare through DR..
Solf, their Colonial Minister, that the
African colonies must be returned to Ger
many, even if Belgium and occupied
France and ce-Lorraine must be given
in exchange therefor.
"For Germany's future position as a
world power seems most closely bound up
with her colonial future. This
balance Of power created in the colonial
field will, by removing future possibilities
of conflict, constitute one Of the best
guarantees for lasting world peace!'
Germany was never more brutally and
frankly Prussian than when this peda-
gogue, this mouthpiece of the All Highest
end the rest of the Potsdam gang SO put
himself on record. She has given further
notice that her idea of lasting peace
is one where she, triumphant, will con-
troll the rest of the world and make it
dance to her bidding.
But the blacks from Africa fighting
side by side with our own black, patriotic,
courageous troops, aided by our white
troops and those of our allies, are seeing
to it that Germany does the dancing.
The sun., 1918-09-22
Waste in Coal
THE United States produces about
Il 100000, 900 tons of coal a wear.

THE United States produces about
L 6OO,0OO,0O0 tons of coal a year.
According TO Government authority this
coal contains about 100000 tons of
nitrogen, or enough to give thirty pounds
to each improved acre of land in the
United States.
England and Germany recover a con-
siderable amount of nitrogen from coal,
but this country RECEIVERS little. At pres
ent, it is pointed out, there are two fea-
sible ways of saving the nitrogen. One is
in the manufacture of coke and illuminat-
ing gas; the other is in making producer
gas for power by processes that preserve
not only the nitrogen in the form of sui
phate of ammonia but also the tar and all
the by-products of tar.
The latest figures show that approx
mately 100000 tons of sulphate of am
MONA were produced in one year in the
United States, chiefly from coal, thus pre-
serving 1000 tons of nitrogen, or enough
to supply nearly one-half of the amount
required for the staple crops grown in
New England At 10 cents a pound the
value Of the nitrogen in the coal alone is
equal to the value of the coal at the mines,
leaving the gas, tar and its distillstes to
pay expenses and profit.
The sun., 1918-09-22

helped us so nobly to raise and harvest
our crops
A resident of St. James Section. l.. T..
who was sceptical at first, writes:
Il must say in all honesty that you and
your girls have surely saved the situation
for the farmers here this summer"
The New York State Land Army
opened ten day drive for million sup
porting members on September IS. This
drive is to secure the moral and financial
support of all the men and women of the
State who are interested in food produc-
ton. Mrs. Charles S. Whitman is hon.
orary chairman Of the drive. Headauar-
tiers have been opened at 303 Fifth avenue.
The sun., 1918-09-22

plies INTO the colony and otherwise 10 pre-
pare for The Day.
But when The Day finally arrived in
August, 1914, despite her preparations
and her intriguing to foment trouble be-
tween Briton and Boer, Germany was
amazed and disguised TO find Briton and
Boer fighting shoulder to shoulder, and
after nine short months of the most siren
nous and bitter fighting known in this
great war of hard and bitter fighting she
was in full retreat in southwest Africa,
and over Windhuk, its capital, was hoisted
the Union Jack. Among other German
supplies captured were enough steel horse
shoes to shoe all the horses in South
Africa for the next twenty years!
The foundations Of Germany's other
African colonies were also laid in blood.
From 1891 to 1903 there was constant
warfare in the Cameroons and Togoland
on the northwest coast and in German
East Africa.
There were no fewer than twenty nine
punitive expeditions during that time, and
although they were spread over an i'm
mense amount of territory, they are also
eloquent of Germany's inability to impose
her imperia!istic rule upon subject peo-
pies without the aid of gun and bayonet.
Her trail in East Africa was particu-
larly bloody and it was left principally
by one DIR. Karl Peters.
In the year 1884 and under the guise
Of an individual trader, by so-called
treaties" secured from native chiefs and
in defiance of the prior rights of the
Sultan of Zanzibar and of England and
Spain, Peters got pA-essiOa of a solid
block Of territory composing upward of
The sun., 1918-09-22

~eive 1000 marks, and for Samuel Ma
hercro l Will pay 5000 marks.
The Herero nation must now leave the
country. If the people do it not | will
compel them with the big tube. Within
the German frontier every Herero, with
or without rife, with or without cattle,
will be shot. | will not take over any
more women and children, but will either
drive them back to your people or have
them fired on. These are nv words to the
nation of the Hereros.
1.-The great General of the Mighty
Emperor, Won TRoTHA."
The Hereros would not surrender their
chiefs and Won Trotha made his threats
good. He shot and hanged and crucifed
and outraged and poisoned and starved
and buried alive So fendish were mis-
acts that he became the object Of bitter
attacks by the Social Democrats at home,
but he was vigorously defended by the
Imperial Chancellor in the Reichstag on
December 8, 1905, when it was officially
stated that he had "given proof of great
humanity during the period of his COM
mand!"
Hereros Practically Wiped Out.
BY that humanity the Hereros were
practically exterminated OF driven into the
Businesses Of the kalahari Desert, there
TO 'eke cut a miserable existence until
many finally Sucrumbed TO HUNGER and
thirst"
While the Herero rebellion cost Ger
many the huge sum of $50, 100000 and
more than two-thirds of the native pop
nlation, it enabled her to introduce great
numbers of troops and vast military snp-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-28
MEAL ON AMERICAN PLAN;
WE HEAR OF 1T. WHAT IS IT!
Food Administration Starts Something Which Docle bur
Inqurng Citizens Want Explained
More Fully

folks were raised by good and loving but
at the same time highly etficient Ameri-
can mothers. Well. go into one of those
restaurants and have something to eat.
Get an order of bread and butter along
with 1t. Save little spot for the
sportive mince or pineapple or lemon
meringue, as the case may be.
Then order mince pie or any other
pie or custard where they use a bread
crust Do you get It?
oh no You had your two ounces uf
bread. and there you are. Nothing doing
on the complaint stuff. You might as
well walk
And then. the next day. get it all
planned to trip em up at their own
game at breakfast. Charge in with r
smile like walrus after an escape from
the dentist. Look over the menu with
avid appetite. Select. say. some bacon.
poached eggs on toast and your de.
sideratum of coffee
Along about poached-egg time YOU
notice total absence of bread or toast
or anything like that Not even a bullet
roll. And your heart beats with appre.
| tension. Do you get toast?
why, the manager will point out is
| plain to be seen You had toast beneath
each of those handsome poached eggs.
And what beats the Dutch is the fanat-
ical patriotism of the American plan
nerS.
"Offer one of 'em a bank roll the size
of a cantaloupe and he'll probably dec
| crate your mush with a cup of GUSTAV rd
| built for comfort and not economy
That's all that makes me feel o. X
about the stunts they're pulling off They
are sincere in their desire to help lick
the Hun-and for once I'm for it,"