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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23

Nobody, observes tThe Ithaca Jour
nal, dreamed last winter that I'VE could
do better than half as well.'' Nobody
for one thing, dreamed ''that we could
find the ships to transport so many thou
sands Of troops and at the same time
maintain them and keep up our food
shipments to the peoples of our Allies"
Yet the thing has been done.
In other words, America has arrived.
''It is not difficult to imagine the con-
sternation that the developments of the
past few months have created at German
Great Headquarters" concludes "The
Ithaca Journal"
1t begins to look as though the con
sternation might spread. George Renwick,
in cable to "The New York Times"
states that information from reliable
source has reached him, to the effect that
instructions have been sent around to the
that lit will be advisable gradually to
prepare the country for the news of the
active participation Of American forces
in strength on the West front" The
writer goes on to say:
"Such orders are being carried out Ia
{nst
thorities doubtless desire. Numerous cor
respondents have been permitted to report
that there 100000 Americans on this
side of the water. Having said SO, they pxo.
coed to calm the Fatherlands nerves with
the assurance that of course half that num-
Der are employed on the lines of communi-.
cation, while the other half are worth
nothing.
$50 far the official and semi official state
ments have nothing but American defeats
to report, but the fact that the American
forces are making themselves felt is one.
that can no longer be hidden from the Ger,
man people. The authorities think
it we'll that the period of wild, unbridled
sneering and despising of Americans az
actual factors on the Western front had
better be brought gradually to a close"
But what sad blow to the German
military critic who, according to 'The
st. Louis Republic" figured that the en-
trance of the United States into the
war twas about equivalent to the addi-
ton of country the size of Rumania
to the enemies Of the Germans!"
America has arrived. And now. urges
THE Wisconsin State Journal" eve
must carry the war home to the Ger
mans, into the very heart of the Ger
man empire. On to Berlin"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
-Notsmkvaker, Amsterdam
-.yotenkroker, Amsterdam


Finally this remarkable historian
shows us the Kaiser tucking Hindenburg
snugly in when the festivities are over:
"The Kaiser takes his departure and
calls the field marshal to his side, and in
the car he himself places rug over Hin
denburg's knees.
eyes, he is chivalrous man, our Kaiser,
and he is permeated with gracious solicit
tude for ALL
And it is on such material as this. OBJ
serves "The Des Moines Register" that
the people of Germany are fed, "day in
and day out, year after year. And they
seem to like it."
"He fiattered them," says "The New
York Times" referring to the jubilee
grafton, "by telling them that they are
the most capable people on EARTH"
But, this paper adds
chow long will the Germans feed YEARLY
on promises whose delusiyeness has been
proved so often. how long listen respect
fully to the most loquacious and multivocal
ruler that ever donued purple7
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23

some one attempted to explain to them
that the United States was not fighting
the German people but only the German
government. "Das list einsv' "They are
one and the same" On the other hand,
"The New York World" points out, the
German people-the very same people
to whom the Kaiser so proudly and con-
1idently alluded--"begin to ask ques-
tons, to wonder what will be their posi-
ton after the war in a hostile world.
They even doubt the Drive! Once more
is imperial eloquence called upon to pla-
cate, to reassure, to flatter; as we see it,
to delude." And how long, this paper
asks, will "even imperial eloquence pre-
vail when 'cannon-fodder' begins to
Think"
But to return to the more picturesque
phases Here is little episode chroni-
cled by Karl Rosner. One of the best
known correspondents in Germany, Herr
RoSnar, writing in the "Lokal-Anzeiger"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
"By July A. declared The Tribune

"By July A. declared The Tribune
editorially-
1--WE ought to have 100000 troops in France
more than 100000 of them combatants.
Our men are now only getting their bap-'
sism of fire. AS fully organized American
divisions, corps and armies they will soon
be in the thick of the coming German of
fensve. The Kaiser has been
promising the German public victory be
fore the Americans arrive That promise
Unless Ludendorff can reach one of his
main detectives before the end Of July his
hot race against time and our transatlantic
transport service will be lost"
Yes, lost indeed And, as "The New
York World" goes on to show
eff 100000 troops reach France by January
!, 1919, by that time 100000 more in this
country will be ready for foreign service.
If it is then possible to transport and sup
ply larger numbers, larger levies can be
called for training. There is nothing boast
full in the estimates. After year of prep
aration, the United States is merely get
ting into it's stride. 1t pleases German
military writers to decry for home con-
sumption the fighting strength OF the
United States. With 100000 men soon to
be in France and 100000 under arms, tho
American people may feel that they have
made fair beginning, while preparing for
unlimited expansion"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
America on the
Road to Berlin
The whole of consists getting at what is on the
other side of the hil.-Duke of Wellington

The German militarists aren't deceiv-
ing themselves, 1.-THE Philadelphia In
quirer assures u.s.
They know that their submarines have
utterly failed to prevent the great current
of American fighting men that is steadil,
flowing eastward. They are not without
knowledge Of the vast resources of the
United States. It had been their hope that
these vast resources would not be called
upon; that we should make only g half
hearted demonstration. They took \
gamblers chance and have lost"
And then this paper goes on to con-
slider the achievement which has thrown
the enemy into such frenzy of haste:
1T is really wonderful thing that this
country has accomplished in a year. More
than 100000 men are under arms. Guam
tfty production of most munitions is under
way. Supplies and men are goinr forward
continually. On the other side an immense
port has been built with miles upon miles
OF warehouses. Railroads have been laid
down and locomotives of American manu-
facture--locomotives Of a size hitherto un-
known on the continent of Europe-ar.
dragging huge trains over the rails And
ships! Out of the chaos-the almost utter
chaos of a year ago-has emerged truly
marvellous construction. And while the army
has been growing, the navy has Joined hands
with the British and French to patrol the
seas and battle with the submarine of the
enemy.
ooh, yes, we have made many mistakes.
But we are overcoming the very last OF
them"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23

His personal fortune is the largest in
Germany and one Of the largest in the
world. He has been busy money grabber
and speculator His favorite investment
has been in munition stocks, and then in
his capacity of handler of other peoples
money he bought from himself as cannon
maker. More than any other country Ger
many under his leadership has been money
mad 1t has been most in the grip of cap
italism
But, however much the Kaiser ex-
poses his hypocrisy and assigns to 9TH
ers the role he has played himself, he
is right in saying the war is between two
opposing world views. This has been
manifest since the first gun was fired.
Civilization, democracy, freedom, face
barbarism, autocracy and slavery" And
the fact stands self-expressed: Ger
many is out for world dominion"
But does Germany stand undivided
behind such project as this? 1t seems
not. 1t seems, for example, that there
is portion of the German press which
does not share the exultation of the pam
Germanic organs. There are Liberal and
Democratic papers which, according to
a dispatch from Zurich, "reproach the
Kaiser with having purposely hidden
from the people at the beginning of the
conflict the real war aims of the rulers
of the empire--the destruction of the
Allies, who oppose German hegemony in
the world
eve do not approve" cries the Frank
furter Zeitung,"-
land many Germans will agree with US, that
the Kaiser has made war and is continuing
it for the sole purpose of enforcing Ger
man supremacy on the world. On August
a, 1914, they did not tell the German people
they were going to make war in order to
put down Anglo-Saxon supremacy. If they
had told the people that, if they had even
made the slightest allusion to it, the will
of the German nation would not have been
which, the Kaiser has always sought would
issvs been broken from tbs vary tirgs sssy.
Every German believed his fitheriano
was in danger, and he set out to defend
his home, his workshop, his wife and his
children. Germany. at the present mo-
ment, knows that the worship of money
and materialism is not merely confined to
England. She also knows that honor and
morals are not German monopolies She is
ready enough to fight to defend herself;
she refuses to shed the best of her blood
to make q theological ideal triumph and
to enforce her ideas on the world, as If she
were the chosen people,
Nor does the "Frankfurter Zeitung"
stand alone. The "Vorwarts" and the
"Berliner Tageblatt" do not conceal
their dissatisfaction with the oratory Of
this thirtieth anniversary jubilee at
Great Headquarters. "Such oratorical
manifestations, they agree, fare likely
rapidly to break up the internal equili-
brium of the empire"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
!Ald1lu

And furthermore, in the Reichstag,
almost at the very moment when the
Kaiser was so loudly proclaiming the
divine right of German conquest, the
still, small voice Of indignation was
raised, when Socialist Deputy Cohn de-
nounced German activity in Russia,
Ukraine and Finland. After citing evil
dence of most colossal injustice and bru-
tally, the speaker took fling at the
Hohenzollerns. I've do not WISH" he
said, chat this cruel European war
should become a family affair of the
Hohenzollerns
So it is manifest that the camp is di-
vided. Yet what is this the Kaiser is
saying? Drinking to the health Of the
army and its leaders, he rejojces that
"the German people and army indeed ar.
now one and the same and look up to you
with gratitude. Every man out there knows
what he is fighting for, the enemy himself
admits that, and in consequence shall
gain victory-the victory of the German
standpoint"
Partial confederation of this point of
view was cabled to "The New York Her
aid" by it's correspondent. Don Martin,
who credited certain German prisoners
with the rejoinder, "Das list zines" when
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23

THE enormous
resources Of this
cou n try" de-
clares "The Hous-
ton Chronicle"
"are just begin
ming to make
themselves felt,
and Germany is
just beginning to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
The Kaiser Gives
a Party

-NHE picture is almost Homeric.
= 1t is not stepped in ease and
security, but is full of harsh,
N ambient strife. Here is the
field itself of war; and here is
:. Kaiser. spending the day midst my
.,n;esr moved "to the depths of my
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23

Il know that Prussian militarism, so
much abused by our enemies, which my
forefathers and in spirit of dutiful-
ness loytessf. .sdese and obediescs have
nurtured, has given Germany's sword
sd ito German nation strengrs TO. Inf
su'npn ana rnar vscs6Fsy viii bring peace
which will guarantee the German hfe.'
Nor must one take ones eyes from the
heroic canvas without observing, as has
been pointed out by Karl Rosner. that
The Kaiser is "in radiant health, bronzed
and bright-eyed." What picture, ex-
claims "rhe New York Times" this
health and radiance make! OF course
by his act, as truly as if by his hand, mill
ions of mon are dead Thousands are blind.
Whole faces have been almost exterminated
alter cruel suffering. Starvation is tn.
normal lot OF millions. Plaques, typhuses,
legion of diseases, have ragged over the
verdi Multitudes Of little children droop
aud die for want of the scantiest foods
and remedies. Even in his own empire
ROBUST health has faded from the crowd.
EUROPE and Asia are sick. The world is
hospital and graveyard. And this
poor strutting cabotin of a Kaiser is
healthy as e horse and merry as a cricket.
30 Death is healthy. Staying but unslain."
but attention The imperial lips are
again in notion Lo it becomes evident
mat the war is not matter of strategic
campaign, but struggle of two world
Views, wrestling with one another"
and furthermore, "either German prin-
eples Of right, freedom, ,honor and NOR
ahty must be upheld, or Anglo-Saxon
principles with their idolatry of Nam
mon must be victorious" These Anglo
saxons, he goes on to declare, aim at
maklng the peoples of the world work
. slaves for the Anglo-Saxon ruling
uce.'
but this is bewildering Yes, asserts
The New York Evening Globe
aav'ng begged Great Britain, which is
s'nsed with Anglo-Saxonism if any coun-
as Is, to stay out of the war, expressing
~ undy'ng friendship and admiration for
W. and offering brides after he had put
= armies in motiop to invade Belgium
sne would remain neutral, the Kaiser
"" rather outdoes seven himself in n.y.
eNnsy. If he was chivalrous defender
great world ideal and a defender Of
- human race against British slavery.
strange he assailed not the British,
~ 'ae Russians, the French, and the Bel
.~as. and equally strange he energized
hungary into attacking little Ser
sftcularly delicious, thinks 'The
we is the Kaiser's adherence OF
xsanonism.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23

IGHT hundred thousand Amer
lean soldiers already shipped
Franceward! In this country
- million more. Next spring
still another. No wonder Mr.
Bonar Law should have exclaimed,
"America isn't coming into the war; she
is in It'll"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23

heart" yet al
ways "flled with
the most profound
gratitude for Gods
mercy"
| The occasion is
the thirtieth ami
versary of Kaiser
" ilhelm's reign.
- W h en- I cele-
hrated my twenty
FIVE year Jubilee"
he begins, II was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23

able. with special gratitude, to
ro,rt out that had been able
n do my work as prince of
oeace." But it was otherwise ordained.
ssince then the world picture has
changed. For nearly four years, forced
TO it by our enemies. we have been en-
Gagged in the hardest struggle history
records. God the Lord has laid heavy
burden upon my shoulders, but carry it
in the consciousness of our good right,
With confidence in our ship, our sword
and our strength and in the realization
that have the good fortune to stand at
the head of the most capable people on
sarfh.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1918-02-16
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1918-02-16
HOME GARDENS
CUT STORE BILLS
President Georgia Chamber OF Com.
merce Shows How Millions Were y
Saved Last Year

Atlanta, Georgia.-(Special. more
money was saved in 1917 through the
medium of the home garden than ever
before, the United States Department
Of Agriculture estimating that there
were fully one million new gardens
madetlast year." says H. G. Hastings.
President Of the Southeastern Fair and
the Georgia Chamber of Commerce.
in an interview reviewing the 1917
farming operations in the South.
Thousands upon thousands of our
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up to the present II has been very
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home garden seriously as a real sub
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the consequent saving of money that
went for food supplies at the store.
Unless we are much mistaken the
home garden will from now on be
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"a quarter to half acre devoted
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Let no one be fooled by the lies
spread abroad that the Government
is going to seize home canned goods
on closet shelves in the farm or
home. These lies are started by Ger
man agents for the express purpose of
discouraging our people in increased
food production and saving. Few can
go to the firing line, but all can join
in and have pant in home produc-
ton of food
I'VE have never seen a permanent
ly prosperous farm section either in
the United States or in foreign coun-
tries that was not a diversified Sec
ton, and in every diversified section
the home garden has an honored and
valued place. The home garden is q
Store bill cutter of the first rank"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1918-02-16
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1918-02-16
LIVER DIDN'T ACT
DIGESTION WAS BAD.
Says IS year Old Kentucky Lady, Who Tells How She Was Relieved
After Few Doses Of BhckDraught
NEW ORLEANS, IA.

Meadorsville. Ky.-Mrs. Cynthia
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1918-02-16

Red Cross Members Called to Meet on
Monday, Feb. Is.

Red Cross Members Called to Meet on
Monday, Feb. Is.
A meeting is hereby called of
the members of the Colfax Red
Cross chapter for Monday, Feb.
Is, at a p. M, in the study hall
of the Colfax nigh school build
ing, at which receipts will be
handed those who joined the Red
Cross during the Christmas
Drive, on delivery of campaign
receipts. Also renewals will be
asked of the old members for
dues of 1918.
Other important matters will
be discussed.
All members are urged to be
present, and chairmen of all COM
mittees will be requested to make
reports at this meeting.
]. H. MCNEELY,
Chairman Colfax Chapter.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1918-02-16

Total payments ............... l,776 lS
The mayor paid to the treasu
rer SIS for grave lot sold to But
Moses. Also w. C. Carnahar
paid to the treasurer 1878 for
sale of scrap iron.
On motion of w. C. Carnahan,
seconded by P. A. Dean, the
treasurer was authorized to sci
aside 2 mills of the taxes of 1917
and deposit the same as a sink
ing fund to meet the payment OF
certificates of Indebtedness on
the light plant.
The following ordinance was
offered by p. A. Dean, seconded
by w. c. Williams, same being
unanimously adopted, viz:
ORDINANCE NO. 24O8.
By P A. Dean ~
An ordinance fixing a budget of ex.
penses for the town of Colfax, La.
for the'year 1918 and levying a tai
of ten t10) mills on all property sub
ject to taxation in the town of Col
fax, La.
Section i
{ Be it ordained by the mayor ant
board of alderpen of the town of Col
fax, La, in regular session convened
That the following is hereby declared
to be the budget of expenses for the
year 1918, to-wit:
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1918-02-16

Be it further ordained, etc.. That 8
tax of ten Q0) mills be and the same
is hereby levied on all the taxable prop
erty in the town of Colfax, La, for
the year 1918, to meet expenses as
budgeted in section l of this ordinance.
Section 81
Be it further ordained, etc.. That all
ordinances or parts of ordinances in
conflict. herewith be and the same are
hereby repealed.
Adopted Feb. IL, 1913.
Yeas-Carnahan, Dean, Goodwin and
Williams-4. ABSENT araldo.
Approved Feb. IL. 1918.
J. @. LONG,
A. M. GOODWIN, Mayor.
Secretary.
There being no further bust
ness the board adjourned.
j. @. LONG,
A. M. GOODWIN, Mayor.
Secretary.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1918-02-16

Among the soldier boys on the
steamship Tuscania, which was
torpedoed off the Irish coast
several days ago, was John A.
Johnson, son of w. L. Johnson.
of Pollock, La, and brother to
Mrs. B. S. Simmons. of Colfax.
He was among those who escaped
with their lives. There were
about 230O troops on the ship, of
of whom 167 lost their lives,
while 2133 reached the coast in
safety.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1918-02-16

Work on the Iatt sawmill is
progressing right along. and
with the fine weather now pre-
vailing the management hopes
to be able to resume operations
about March 10. They are put
ting in the machinery now, and
everything is moving along nicely.