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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-07-16
Big Teuton Offensive Seems to be Nipped in
the Bud
INVADERS EVIDENTLY THOUGHT THEY COULD DRIVE DOWN MARINE VALLEY Tn PARIS 0R
THE FRENCH AND AMERICANS


With the American Army on the
Marine, by the Associated Press, July
16.-Information this morning from
east of Rheims shows that the allied
defense was not only still holding, but
appears to have broken the enemy's
spirit.
AMERICAN COUNTER ATTACK
A counter attack by American
troops at one point east of Rheims
drove the Germans out of a small
salient after hot fighting. The Amer
leans allowed the Germans to come
through their first positions and as
they came up slight hill machine
gunners from excellent positions
moved down the advancing ranks
The Germans broke and retired in
many places.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-07-16
DUNNELLON SCHOOL DISTRICT
Put Up Ten Thousand Dollars in War
Savings Stamp Pledges

1t is with pride and pleasure that
we announce the final result of the
war savings drive in Dunnellon school
district whic hamounts to ten thou
sand dollars. The pledges from our
white and colored popular are as fol-
lows:
White pledges ...........S 7,835.00
Colored pledges .......... 2,165.OO
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-07-16

Weather Forecast: Fair tonight;
Wednesday showers except fair in
northwest portion.
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New-York tribune., 1918-10-13
, wonder the Bulgar Has Been Seeing Ghosts
In Disposing of Bulgaria's Future,
Remember the
Past

the presence of her army in Macedonia be
fore she had given proof of active CO
operation on their side. Bulgaria was too
astute to imagine the Entente would make
the last Macedonian concession, and there is
every reason to believe that she demanded
1t only in the anticipation Of refusal
Such was her neutrality vis-a-vis the
Entente. There are, however, plenty Of in
dications that even her allies, in rnese
crowded months before her entry into the
war, were none too sure which way the
Bulgarian cat would finally jump While
she was fully determined to enter the war
on the Teutonic side, foreseeing greater
prospect of loot there Bulgaria saw NO
harm In extracting few extra concess sions
out of both groups of belligerents by sit
ting on the fence for while The trick
worked. for she squeezed offers Of Mace
donia out of the Entente, and has since re
peatedly exploited them as an acknowiedg-
ment (Which they we're not) of her right to
the territories in question. Out of Turkey
she got more than ofer-the actual ces-
sion of piece of railroad that she coveted
Some of the Turkish leaders congratulated
themselves on having outwitted the En-
tente Allies by offering Bulgaria bribe
which won her over. Since she unquestion-
ably intended joining them in any case the
Turks would hardly seem to have had the
best Of that bargain
New-York tribune., 1918-10-13

the establishment Of Robert College and the
American Missions in Bulgaria created a
nucleus of friendly interest here; but in
England also Bulgaria has somehow sue
cecded in attaching to herself little group
of sympathizers, despite the fact that not
single public act of hers can be adduced
ground for such sympathy.
The years 1912 and 1918 saw Bulgaria
breaking her own black records IN the be-
trayal of her friends. Even at this late
date, when there has been time for the
events of the Balkan wars to the sifted, and
the blame and credit fairly apportioned,
there are still people who, thanks to the
clever Bulgar propaganda, believe that Bull
garla bore the brunt Of that war, and who
do not realize yet the black dishonesty,
eliminating in treachery. of which Ferdi-
nand of Coburg and his satellites were
guilty over and over again. 1t was not only
the attack on Serbia, made without warning.
which showed the Bulgarian attitude in
1912-13
Bulgaria's repeated acts Of dsloyaty to
her agreement with the other Balkan allies
proved her utter inability to keep faith, and
her final attack Serbia simply made it
clear to all who had eyes to see that not
only was she bent on policy of the most
selfish aggression, but that she was once
more working in collusion with Austria
Hungary for the suffocation of Serbia.
There is, indeed, need to bring outside
accusations against Bulgaria for that piece
of perfidy; she is quite willing to acknowl-
edge it herself. Here is a statement made
by the mir" April %, 1879 as to her
motives in allying herself with Serbia and
then betraying her:
"We made use Of the Serbs to gain our
end; to conquer our common enemy
(Turkey), realize own ideal: the re-
constitution of the Bulgaria of San Ste
piano. No one, the Minister no more than
others, was ignorant Of the fact that the
Serbs would be jealous But would
it have been possible to make war without
the Serbs? No, the military chiefs had de-
clared that definitely Thanks to
New-York tribune., 1918-10-13
How Serbia Tried
IL to Help Her

Bulgaria seems to feel no sort of obliga-
ton whatever for benefits received. 1t is,
OF course. all a part of her vaunted "real-
ist' policy, which recognizes no law but
that of material advantage. In view of
her bestial treatment of the Serbs in the
past three years it is illuminating to recall
the attitude of Serbia toward Bulgaria. in
the days when the Serbs by their own
pluck and energy had regained their liberty
and the Bulgars still lay supine under the
Turkish heel. No sooner had Serbia made
for herself an independent footing mod
est enough in all conscience, and full of
diffcultes-than she began to try to i'm
prove the lot of her oppressed fellow
Slavs on all sides.
In those days the Bulgars were glad
enough to call themselves Slavs, since it
only from the Slavs that they could
hope for relief; and the Serbs were as
ready to aid them as to aid their own. 1t
was not Serba's fault, but Austria's, that
the union of Serbia and Bulgaria planned
in 1867 by Prince Michael of Serbia and
his great Premier, Garachanin, with the
Bulgarian Committee at Bucharest, was
not allowed to materialize. Serbia was as
eager for it as the Bulgars, ana the terms
New-York tribune., 1918-10-13

of the union provided absolute equality
for both states, in spite of the fact that
on Serbia, as the only Independent state
of the two, must fall the brunt Of the
struggle for the release of Bulgaria from
Turkey and the establishment of the union
Though Austria Hungary strangled that
project, the Serbs did not cease the.S
efforts on behalf of Bulgaria and thew
met in the end with the inevitable be-
trayal. Bulgarian refugees fled constantly
into Serbia from the Turks Serbia
formed them into volunteer regiments
drilled and armed them and prepared them
to take their share in the liberation of
their country. No sooner had these regi-
ments crossed the border into Bulgaria,
nominally on their way to help release
their people, than they gave themselves
up to the Turks, with all the arms and
equipment they had received from Serbia
without striking a blow on their own be-
half! The recent surrender to the Allies
is thus by means without it's precedent
in Bulgarian history.
Again, in 1896, when Bulgaria had al
ready received her independence ready
made at the hands of Russia, an agreement
was made between the Serbian and the
Bulgarian governments with view to
concerted action at Constantinople on be-
half of the Slav populations still under
Turkish rule. Scarcely was the ink drv
on the agreement when the Bulgars sold it
to Turkey for the price of three new Bull
garian (Exarchist) bishoprics in Mace
donla, l. e., three new means of pushing
Bulgarian political propaganda there at
the expense Of the Serbs.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-13

perative the dictates of Christian law
and morality, it will be of lasting value
and they will buy bonds even after they
have left the theatre and forgotten me and
my talk. 1t is only the spiritual appeal
that has any permanent value. The emo
tonal appeal is transient and in five min
utes is totally obliterated"
Mr.. Thomas has sold as many as $4,000
worth of bonds in five-minute intermis-
sion. 1t is an ingenious method he en-
ploys, yet there is force more potent
than mere ingenuity. Perhaps it is en-
gendered in the conclusion of his talk:
"Children, keep perfectly still minute,
every one of you," he admonishes in
hushed voice. And from orchestra pit TO
topmost gallery the house holds a breath
less silence. There, don't you feel it >"
he whispers, don't you feel that vibra
ton, that invisible something. that i'm.
pulse--to buy bonds?"
The audience chuckles in merriment I'm.
underneath that merriment, in the momen.
of great stiffness, an ndefinable maonetic
current is generated. 1t is the quiet ear
nestness and sincerity in the verv soul Of
this man reaching out to all persons in the
audience, actuating them to fulfil their nm.
questionable obligations as citizens Of Tho
United States.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-13

principle of modern constitutions by
Anglo SaXons.
"The third is the independent or self
developing system of law by which the
people assembled as court Of law and
themselves interpreted, modified and en-
forced the laws of the land"
The absolute justice of this impartial
statement by Mr.. Thomas has resulted in
thousands of dollars worth Of subscrip-
tions from great body of loyal German
Americans.
When questioned about definite rules for
speaking on the Liberty Loan, Mr. Thomas
replied, ut is necessary always to be thor
oughly earnest and sincere.
81 feel that it is superfuous to resort to
the popular method of reciting German
atrocities or even telling in detail what
the boys are doing on the other side
always infer that my audience is intelli-
gent. They know all those things. They
read those things every day. Why should
| distress them with q reteration
But most of ALL" Mr.. Thomas added, "I
feel that it is important to make spirit
ual appeal. I always try to make MY
audience see this thing in the light of
moral obligation. If I can impel them to
share in my spiritual conviction that this
loan is moral responsibility, just as i'm
New-York tribune., 1918-10-13
For Years He Had Been Boastino
That Serbia Was
Dead
By E. M. Chadwick

JLGARIA has collapsed: not alone
X through the general Allied press
- ure, not through the lack of Ger
man reinforcements, nor through
dissatisfaction among the people. The
Allied pressure had hardly begun when
the Bulgars fell on their Knees and begged
FOR peace. AS for renforcements, Serbia
IN 1915 was infinitely more hard pressed,
and more utterly alone, with the Austro-
German hosts before her and The Buless
snifc in her BACK; and YET fashitch could
fling back the peace offer in the teeth of
his enemies with that superb reply of his:
at is better to die in beauty than to live
in shame: We fight"
1t is something more than all these
things that has caused Bulgaria to throw
up the sponge. If there is no more fight
in her armies it is because the Bulgar ma,
seen ghosts and they have frightened him.
For the last three years Bulgaria has
been shouting from the housetops. through
the lips OF her public men, through her
newspapers and through every other avail
able voice. that Serbia is dead and can
never be revived She has declared that
there is no longer any place for Serbia in
the map of Europe. Did not Radoslavoff
say only last February: SERBIA no longer
exists and she gives no anxiety? And
did not the Emperor William promise at
Nish that Bulgaria will inherit all the
booty OF annihilated Serbia? Indeed,
she has inherited it. She has spent the
last three years gorging on it, secure in
the thought of Teutonic supremacy and
the conviction that the pitiful remnant of
the Serbian army which survived the hell
of the Albanian retreat would never be
able to take revenge. But, despite all the
devilish ingenuity employed in doing her
10 death-and no one of the revaged lands
Of Europe can show so deliberate de-
struction of the race. that owned it-Ser-
ba is not annihilated. The spirit that
illumines all her tragic history is not a
fame that mortal hands can extinguish,
but part of the impershable heritage of
the world
New-York tribune., 1918-10-13
I Tse a Man, Then Stab
~ Him in the Back

The whole business shows. indeed re
alst policy run mad, claiming at every
turn advantage for itself, while refusing
to recognize the right of any other part
to any advantage whatever. even in paymen,
of services rendered. 1t arrogates to itsel
the right to use a man and then stab him IL,
the back.
How is any reliance to be placed in A
people like this? How can we expect not
to be fooled and bedevilled in the fusure a.
in the past if in our relations with Bulgaria
we fail to remember that hers is men
tality distinct from ours?
The fundamental point which must he
borne in mind in every attempt either to
understand or to deal with Bulgaria is that
she acknowledges no moral law for nations
and that her sole guiding principle is her
own material advantage
AS she has just betrayed the Central
Powers at the first breath of defeat. so she
will assuredly betray US in our turn when
ever she deems it to her advantage. The
only way to keep her out of mischief is to
dlsarm her and take control of every means
whereby she might work US harm.
1t is, indeed, an uncivilized spirit that
relgns IN Bulgaria. One is sometimes
tempted to wonder whether she can ever
civilize herself. The "virtues" of thrift and
industry, which the pro-Bulgars so loudly
claim for her, no evidence of civiliza-
ton, limited they are to purely material
well-being, and divorced from all those ideal
aspirations which alone sanctify either
thrift or industry. The Bulgars have
changed little enough since the days when
a Chinese historian wrote of the~ Hun
nlsh ancestors in pre-Christian times:
When they have the advantage they ad-
vance; when they have not the ADVANTAGE
they retire; they are not ashamed TO fee.
but when they retain the advantage thcv
recognize neither custom nor justice.
They respect strength and energy they de
splse age and Weakness"
The least we can do to help them is to
demonstrate clearly that their outlook is
intolerable at this stage of the worlds de
velopment.
Nemesis in most fitting guise has over
taken Bulgaria at last and given her fate
into the hands of the Allies For tn, So
curlty of all we hold sacred let us. in dis
posing of Bulgaria's future, remember Bul-
gara's past.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-13

1t Will be we'll to keep him there, with his
hands up, until peace is signed, The nm.
conditional surrender signed by the Bull
garian chiefs provides for the comnlete
disarming of the country Yet at the
same time one hears rumors and specu]a.
tlons as to the likelihood of the Bulrars
oe'ng invited to join the Allied forces
against the Turks. 1t is hardly probable
mat after all that has happened the Allies
would take such risk. A Bulgar with
arms IN his hand is at present menace
- |1HAlss.9""- For our own security
ABOVE all Tor the security of our faithful
Balkan friends, who have taken so heroic
share in the long conflict with so little
support there could be no traffic of this
KIND. 1t is not possible to trust Bulgaria.
1t never has been possible, and those who
have'trled it have one and all, paid heav
liy tor the experiment.. 1t is as useless to
imagine that We can count on Bulgaria to
fulfil any undertaking that docs not please
her as 1T is to put faith in the Prussians.
The path of her history is strewn with
eVaded treaties, treacheries, ingratitudcs
and hes. Never have the great powers
taken more trouble on behalf of a small
nation than for Bulgaria, yet there is not
one OF them whose hand she has not bitten
sooner or later
1t may be useful, in these coming
months, to remember Bulgarla.s methoos
with her friends.
She owes her very existence to Russie
and so long as there was ANYTHING TO he
got out of it she pleaded her Slav blood
tslight though it isl as a claim to Russian
sympathles. Having used Russia to secure
ner release from Turkey, and decided that
there was more to be gained in future
from leu5onlc than from a Slav alliance,
she threw the whole Slav connection over
board and turned to Austria Hungary. Her
excuse was the fear that Russia would
absorb her on her way to Constantinople.
The fact is that while Russia in the mast
certainly worked to establish Slav as
against Austrian influence in the Balkans.
she consistently treated Bulgaria better
than the other Slav states If one Balkan
state had to be sacrificed for the advan
tage of another, it was always Bulgaria
who came off best when Russia could COM
pass 1t. Bulgaria, indeed, owes Russia far
more than her mere freedom; yet in the
early days of her participation in the
great war the Sofia papers were filled with
brutal gibes at Russias amazed disap-
polntment over the step she had taken
In the same way she turned on England,
regardless of Gladstones tremendous
efforts on her behalf and of the vast
amount of help, sympathy and backing of,
all kinds that she has had from England
and the English. Even the ant-British
invective of the German press pales into
hos <bo
Bulgaria at her British benefactors.
France, too, in spite of her ancient friend
illness to Bulgaria, in spite of Victor Hugo,
who did in France what Gladstone did in
England; in spite of her repeated efforts to
improve the wretched condition of the Bull
gars in the days of the Turkish rule
France, too, has come in for her share of
mudslinging
New-York tribune., 1918-10-13
Augustus Thomas, Liberty Bond Salesman

and bonds; then I display some perfectly
valueless bonds I have in a motion picture
company No." he retracted, ~ forgot, I
didn't show them tonight. I carelessly
left them in my overcoat pocket and my
overcoat was back-stage somewhere but
told the folks out there what they were
Then with another simple explanation
showed them some bonds that were of real
value. They were Liberty bonds" he
added emphatically. "By chance did
leave those in my overcoat pocket" and he
thrust hand into an inner pocket to re-
assure himself.
"After carefully explaining the bonds in
clear, simple language, I ask them to buy
bonds if they have not already done so,
and-well-that's ALI"
But Mr.. Thomas neglected to explain
his method Of asking the audience to buy
bonds.
1t is undoubtedly the penetrating ntui-
tion Of the man. supplemented by his wide
and thorough knowledge Of human psy
chology, that accounts for the universal
response he invariably arouses. He speaks
intimately to his audience with sincere
and almost tender regard, gently calling
them "children." He inspires their conf
dence by relating little personal incidents
of the third loan.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-13
The Centrist Horizon

A The recent convention of tho
German Catholic or Centrist party
the following programme was drawn VI.
which is said to represent the views Of
all the Centrists, the party which has the
largest number of representatives in the
Reichstag:
Loyalty to the empire and loyalty 70
the Fatherland. Preservation of the federal
character of the empire
2-Mantenance of a powerful monarchy
and strong representation Of the people.
3-Popular ana free development of the
constitution.
4-Guarantee of the development of Ger
manys world position in the political. cul-
tural and economic sense
5-Creation of a colonial empire sufficient
for Germany's economic needs. Fyrtherinc
all possible means for Christianizinc all the
natives.
6-Education of the people for better
understanding of our foreign policy.
7-Creation and execution of interna-
tional laws CORES spondng to Christian prin
ciples. Complete independence of the Hol,,
See.
Maintenance and strengthening Of
Christian Kultur and German ideals of edu
cation.
9-Furtherance of the harmony between
State and Church; struggle against the
separation Of the two from each other.
Freedom of the Church and Church orpan-
lzations, especially of Catholic orders and
congregations.
lo-Toleration for all religious confes
sions.
Maintenance of parochial people
schools. Guarantee of religious instruction
in all public schools
lz-Protection of marriage and the fam
lly condemnation. of divorces
1"-The annulment of all laws in regard
to compulsory dues
l4-Protection of national trades
1o-Guarantee of economic reconstruct,
after the war.
Reconstruction of all industries ana
trades affected by the war.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-13

Then he explains that a great MANY peo-
pie have not bought bonds because of un-
certainty about some things; perhaps it is
uncertainty about the bond itself, or an
uncertainty to whether they can afford
it, or an uncertainty whether every one else
is buying them. Then he questions his
audience, "How many have bought bonds :?
How many have bought fourth Liberty
bonds ?"
But it is not aggressive or peremptoyy
questioning. 1t is civil and courteous. 1t
invites instant reply and wins over the
hesitant bond buyers.
Mr.. Thomas never fails to appeal to the
German Americans in the audience, an ele-
ment the average speaker d;sregards
Usually he quotes from history of the
Middle Ages by George Burton Adams pro-
fessor of history at Yale University, citing
a special chapter entitled, What the Ger
mans Have Added to Civilization"
There are three elements added by the
Germans, out of which intervening CEN
tures have developed modern free consti-
tutional governments. The first of these
is the public assembly, which is the origi-
nal germ of our modern free legislatures.
"The second is the elective monarchy.
which developed into the fundamental