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Iditarod pioneer., 1918-04-27
GERMAN FOOD SUBSTITUTES
 INJURIOUS TO HEALTH

London, Mar. 2G.-German scientists say that unless the government ac- lively intervenes to put some control over the food of substitute foods with which the country is overwhelmed the end of the war will also see the end of a third of Germany's population. Prof. Juckenacl of the University of Berlin says: "The devil alone knows what are the ingredients of thousands Of these wretched substitutes. The latest products of the ingenious substitute mongers are really too terrible to be tolerated. A preparation of crude kerosene is now being largely sold for irving oil, and 800 cases of serlons illness, together with nine deaths, have been traced to it's use in Berlin alone. A preparation called goose drippings" is prepared from dogs fat; egg substitute from mixture of chalk and baking powder; caviar from fish scales, and bread from straw. What people, no matter how patriotic, can hold out on such fare?'
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-04-27

age, surely you can understand that the issues involved in this dreadful war must be settled and settled right before the world may hope for abiding peace
 Therefore, if anyone asks you what you think about the war reply as fol lows;
 "President Wilson was right when he said that the world must be made safe for democracy. The American people have no desire to destroy Ger many or prevent it from regalnlng commercial importance. They want Germany to restore the stolen property and go home in a chastened mood. They want to jam the knowledge into every close-cropped Prussian head that just because man owns hlghprlced automatic gun and has lot of ammunl- tion and a collejc education, he has no right to 60 out aud shoot up his neighbors. The American people are hoping to make it clear to the kaiser and the crown prince and the various square iawed Hindenburgs that 1t IS highly improper to form partnership with God for purposes of murder, ana then treat God as silent partner. As to the final outcome, the battle Ct the Marne was the beginning Of the end, For 200 years all tho big events ot hi5' tory have marked an irresistible adj vance toward the establishme nt Ot de mocracy. When the Germans failed in their mad rush of 1914, it meant that an All-Wise Providence and the laws of evolution were not to be thvarted by military despot with bristling mustache. Germany cannot win and therefore Germany must lose. The end of bloodshed and sacrifice and widespread terror will come as soon as the United States of America begins to strike aggressive blows. The more men we send to the front the fewer we will lose. Our greatest enemy at present is indecision. Our strongest ally is speed. Our most needful watch word is faith. We are going to end the war and then sit at the council table to repress greed and curb injustice"
 Of course the foregoing will sound rather hifaluting to come from siE- year-old child, but it will be the truth and the truth is needed in large doses at present, especially by people more than six wears old.
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-04-27

Geneva March 2I--Germans are making every effort to conceal thelr submarine losses. according to q Swiss engineer employed for the past 10 months at electrical work at Kiel and who has recently returned. Because of the increased difficulty in mastering crews German naval officials particu- larly keep news of U-boat losses from the navy. During the time he was at KioI, the engineer estimates submarine losses were 30 per cent.
 1T saw a score of submarines lined up in the canal undergoing repairs" he said. "They had been hit by depth bombs, which the Germans seem 10 fear greatly"
 The engineer added there had been two serious mutinies at Kiol during 1917.
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-04-27

New York: The war has changed the ocean routes and trade relations. Now the United States is dealing di- rectly with the producers of raw mate rials. Half of the tin mined in Bolivia will be refined in this country here after. Palm oil into which steel plates must be dipped before they can be coated with tin, is no longer purchased in England, but imported from Africa Germany will sell no more dyes in the United States and the Sl5, ,00O. 900 yearly taken from domestic industries will re- main here to the benefit of American labor and capital. American dyes are now being sent to 2l countries.
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-04-27
HELPING } I'D WIN
 THE v WIAlRl[ B
ADVICE TO YOUNG AMERICANS SIX YEARS OF AGE AND UNDER
Ky George Ade

Can mere child be of service to his or her country while we are trying tC make the kaiser behave?
 Undoubtedly.
 How?
 By observing the conduct of weak kneed, hysterical and complaining g adults, and then being just as dit. ferent from them as possible.
 This war is neither d joke nor a pro tracted funeral.
 You will notice that some of the older people refuse to accept it as a fact, while others move about in a blue funk, eXclalning, between sobs, that the U. $. A. is going to the bowwows.
 Let the very young children set their elders a good example by remain ing calm but determined
 If you pick up the morning paper and read that the U-boats bagged 11 ships instead of the customary l5, and the Canadians captured only one line of trenches instead of two, do not shak 3 your head and declare that the Ger mans never can be licked.
 Set a good example to your fathers and mothers and uncles and aunts by renewing your faith daily, in spite of an occasional setback.
 Quote to them the words of Abra- hAm Lincoln: Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let Us, to the end, dare to do our duty"
 You might remind your grown-up relatives that all during the Civil war the Northern states harbored a good ,nany well-meaning people who went about moaning that the Union never could be preserved and we had better accept peace at any price.
 These invertebrates Ian inverte- brate, children, is a creature with d string of macaroni where the backbone should be)-these spineless ones were willing 10 let certan states secede. The blacks were to remain in slavery. Our flag was to be lowered. Anything to avoid a fight to finish.
 Even after the battle of Gettysburg when the fortunes of war began to fa- vor the North, just as they are now favoring the allies, every community had to put up with a few of the whin- CTS and faultfnders who bellttled each victory and magnitied each reverse.
 Your grandfather can tell you about these peace lovers who helped to pro- long the war by failing to give united and loyal support to the soldiers at the front. If it should happen that grand father was one of these "peace- at-any- price' advocates, doubtless he will change the subject and talk about some hing else.
 I'v.f. if \Du arc loss than six years of
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-04-27

Paris that if France would decide 10 remain neutral, Germany would re- quest IS Q guarantee of French ne''- trality, the handing over of the French Actresses of Verdun and Toul to the German for tho period of the war
 Ar Pich0n said this showed conch~ siyely that the Germans deliberately made war inevitable.
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-04-27

Washington: Theodore N. Vail. in letter to members of the League of National Unity of which he is chair man, said: "The public should not be too critical or expect too much too quickly. The public ignored all the warnings and would have nothing to do with pureparation and, totally unpre- pared. they expected within 6 short year that the country should be put upon the basis of those countries that have been more or less prepared for years for the definite emergency which has occurred"
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-04-27
VERY MEEK REQUEST

Paris, March 22-Foreign Minister Pichon showed up today another Ctr man trick which forced the war, The foreign minister, in q public statement, said that just before the outbreak Of the war, former Imperial German Chan cellor Bethman- Hollweg, sent word to
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-04-27
EARTHQUAKES IN
 CALIFORNIA TOWNS

Los Angeles, Cal, April ?. General earthquake shocks in Southern Cali fornia at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon. The tremors broke large plate-g lass windows ard shook down c0rnjces. One life was lost.
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-04-27

Washington: The new Ford sub- marine detector perfected by Thomas A Edison, the microphone. The device has been found to work upon this type of vessel SO we'll that it is possible to determine within mile the exact location of the preying Uboat.
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-04-27
Big Losses st Heu7et

Hemet, Cal., April ?. EarchQuake shocks occurred here at 3:3o o'clock this afternoon and destroyed every brick building in the town,
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-04-27
WHAT THE ]. s. ASKS

One meatless meal each day. One wheatless meal each day. 4 whoatIe5s Monday.
 A meatless Tuesday each week A wheatless Wednesday.
 A porkless Saturday each week. (Meatless means without beef, mutton or pork.)
 (WheatIess means without bread, cracker or cakes made of wheat flour alone
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-04-27

Join the Lincoln Red Cross Club,
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24

the. Fastening of the day when right
md justice shall prevail to deliver
them from oppression.
CORDIALLY and sincerely yours,
"WOODROW WILSON.
Reverend X. C. Bodholdt,
1915 Union Street, Racine, Wis"
The text of the petition presented to
the President by Americans hniling
from Slesvig and indorsed by thou
sands of Americans of Danish descent
follows:
ITO the Presidents:
AT this moment of glorious dawn,
when a new day seems to be breaking
upon the world with promise of uni
vcrsal readjustment on the basis of
justice and right, we, American citi-
zens hailing from the German province
Slesvig. turn to you with an urgent ap-
peal that you bring before the world
the case of our oppressed kinsmen in
the old country
What they ask, and what we ask
on their behalf, implies no taking of
territory from one nation for the en-
largement or aggrandizement of an
other. While we know that Danes all
ever the world, without regard to po-
litical allegiance. are with US, our ap-
zeal Is made regardless of them and
without thought of gain or loss to
Denmark. All we ask for our race in
Slesvig, and all they ask for them
selves, is that they be granted the
right for which you have spoken with
such convincing power--the right of
determining for themselves whether
they are to give allegiance to Germany
or to Denmark.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24

There can be no less question or
hesitation about the validity Of their
demand, because it was explicitly re-
served to them by Point 5 Of the
treaty made at Prague in 1855. Is 1t
not meet that to-day, when other
scraps of paper torn by Germany are
being pieced together again, this one as
we'll be made binding once more?
1--WE think that we know what you
feel about the subject so close to our
hearts-closer than. ever because we
ourselves are no longer victims OF the
tyranny against which we protest. We
can see more than one reason why,
until now, the name of Slesvig has not
been included In any one Of those
art-stirring utternnccs Of yours that
are being made the fundamental docu-
ments for the worlds rebuilding into
safe refuge for true democracy.
But now we believe that all such rea-
sons have lost their binding force.
Now, when the fetters are falling from
the limbs of one nation and race after
another, the time has come, we be-
lieve, to add the name of Slesvig to
those that have a valid claim to the
support and sympathy not only Of this
great nation but of all the worlds VIC
torious democracies.
"As Americans we pray you: Speak,
and speak soon, in order that those of
our people who aree less fortunate than
we may be granted the simple ele-
mentary rights of elf-determinatnin
and self-government for the preserva-
tion of which we and our children are
now working at home and fighting
abroad"
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24

war was declared there we're nearly
two thousand enemy alien applicants
for citizenship in this county, alone.
Most of these had paid their So fee
for their second papers, with the
knowledge that the usual ninety day
interval before receipt of their Anal
papers would be extended to the dura-
tion of the war.
Mr.. Schneider's investigation. car.
RED on for the last nineteen months.
shows that Germans and Austrians
were the most tardy in recent wears
OF all aliens in seeking American citt-
zenshlp. On the average they waitcd
ten or twelve years longer than was
necessary to enable them to make an An.
plication. - ~
Mr.. Schneider believes the war will
bring about changes in the naturahsa-
tion laws beneficial to aliens. Hp sa;d :.
"ln the past this country has do.
manded too little for the boon of
naturalization. Because it could be
acquired without expense or travail
carried into the minds of many for
elgners the impression that it Was Of
little value. ~
I'm the future, for instance. strict
er watch will be kept upon natu-
ralized citizens who wish to 20 abroad
Ihey may go, Of course; but their re-
turn will be attended by the same dis.
comforts which met them upon thei,
original arrival. In other words, if the
authorities find any good reason TO,
not admitting them they may be de.
ported, the fact that their homes arc
here not prevailing in their favor"
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
President Heeds
Slesuig's Plea
For Self Rule
Continued from page i

to America's sympathy and passion for
justice will not 70 unheedcd, for it
foupds itself wisely upon the rights Of
men to rule themselves and to, choose
the manner in which that self-rule
shall be exercised. lido not doubt that
your. voice and that Of your former
countrymen will be heard and needed
wherever the thought Of the nations
turns to the righting Of old wrongs
kept fresh by the lengthsnsd oppres-
sion Of tho intervening years. Mis- for
the whole world witch has borne the
burdens of war to share IN the adjust
mertts Of pence. NotAmerich nj one, But
all the peoples now .quickened to, a
newer sense of the. values of Justice
must join in the relief'of a grievance
whose continuance would traverse the
Of nations are now fighting.
PLEASE accept on behalf of the Sles-
yhg ylge1s t.,tn II this Il. G country my thanks for
evidence and on behalf Of your race
in the old country, my earnest wish for
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
schneider Announces He
Will Resume Issuance
of Certificates
Expects Change i'm Law
r.ehnical Enemy Aliens May
Alter Status at Once,
Official Declares

The admission of Germans and Aus
,,ians to citizenship. which was
tanned during the war, viii be re-
r,red in New York County tomorrow.
,.eording to statement issued yester-
Nav by County Clerk Schneider. When
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24

Hemstitched damask table cloths
and napkins to match. The entire
stock of famous Irish manufact-
urer. Extra heavy and very fine
satin damask. (Closing out prices)
20 in. x 70 in., $3.50 each
10 in. 88 in, $1l.sO each
70 ink 100 in, $3.50 each
Napkins, size "a in. "a in,
$3.50 dozen
Irish Linen Satin Dan1ask Table
Cloths, So in. 6S in ~
$3.7s and $3.50 each
Napkins to match, ~ in. 22 in,
$4.75 and $3.50 DOE.
Irish Linen Double Damask Table
Cloths with napkins to match.
Very pretty circular designs.
II in. x II in, $3.50 each
II in. 90 in, $8.25 each
u in. fo8 in, $9.75 each
81 in. 81 in, $3.50 each
Napkins to match; size, a. in. u
in; price $3.50 dozen
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24

tpr M Coats have stepped out into the meght as the smart
VI @ season reports from Paris unusual interest
% me he ending Of the war has brought
Coates of Salts Pushes textures are not frs M
do they simulate the ~ ~ O 81 "oloeiluny
+ Goa Illustrated is There dozens of other
stye IN ne various Salts Think
sa ] new d C0ae say OF Salts Meritex gorgeous silk lined
ana cuffs that keep the
VIDE with full 81 inch utiful as costly ur
ingenuity for it. ~ ~ ' -'"S "'"'A o'oel
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-02-20
Temperament of CameIs.

Bearing an innate grudge against all
restraint and all who restrain him, the
camel will use the great strength of
Ills long legs TO kick his keepers or the
dogs which guard him In the waste
places, but in the presence of enc
mics, among wolves or other beasts
of prey, he is a coward, forgets the
very use Of his legs and proves his
erratic temper by screaming and spit
ting in terror. No camel wants to be
loved, and no one familiar with camels
ever entertains the least affection for
them. They make savages of what
ever people breeds them. The man who
owns and uses camels cannot live I'm
a city, he cannot travel the highways
through cultivated country, he cannot
have a permanent abiding place. He
is doomed TO live I'm deserts and arid
grasslands, to follow the paths that
are lined with evergreen thorns, tama-
risks and bitter weeds, to drink the
saline water that his evil tempered
beasts prefer and to avoid the haunts
Of men and horses as the horseman
circles the deserts, says Rodney Gil
bert In Asia.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-02-20
PRACTICAL USE OF POETRY
Without Verse People Would Go About
Isolated From Each Other by
Chaos of Misunderstanding.

If poetry could be In an instant
swept not merely out of print, but
out of language and tradition, there
would be Babel indeed. We should
go about isolated each one from each
by chaos of misunderstanding, with
no more communication than we could
imprOvise out Of intellectual terms,
says a writer in Century Magazine.
We could suggest nothing, cOnnote
nothing, say nothing but what we
could define. The practical reality Of
that loss one may measure by our
prOverbial ignorance of certain saw
ages and oriental races whose poetry
Is alien to our own. Nor Is that all !;
for poetry is not alone our common
repository of past experience, but to
q degree far greater than we realize
our source of present action. There
Is no need more than to remind any
observer Of human nature that man
kind acts rather upon passion than
upon conviction. Brutus demonstrated
his point In prose; it was a poetic APP
peal that made the stones of Rome to
rise and mutiny. We define and de-
termine and decide, and still do moth
ing; but when we begin to feel, some
thing is done.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-02-20
Evolution Of the Lamp.

DR.. Walter Clark of Philadelphia
has recently made some interesting in
vestigatiOns to find out how the old
time lighting conditions in his city
compare with those Of today, says the
Popular Science Monthly. He has dis
covered that until as late as 1885, only
Pickering sperm oil and candles were
in use. Not until the following decade
did the "highly improved" kerosene
lamp appear. Gas did not come out
until the period between 1865 and 1875.
And then only the wealthy could use
it. 1t sold at $3.50 per thousand cubic
feet! The efficient Welsbach mantle
came out ten years later, revOlutioniZ-
ing artificial illumination. The pres
ent era began in 1895, when gas and
electricity came into general use-gas
selling at 81 per thousand cubic feet
and electricity at 10 cents per kilo-
watt hour. Since that time the gas
mantle and the electric 1iament have
seen vast improvements, so that today
the average family is obtaining about
eighteen times as much light as the
people of half Il century ago.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-02-20
ANIMALS ARE GOOD SWIMMERS
Polar Bear, Who Passes His Time in
Icy Waters, Is Regarded Best,
Though Not Swftest.

Nearly all animals are better SWIM
mers than man and take to the water
naturally. The rhinoceros and hippo
pOtamus are wonderful swimmers and
divers, while the Indian elephant
crosses great rivers with heavy loads,
London Tit-Bits states.
The elk and the reindeer are first
class swimmers. The elk keeps his
head above water and crosses directly
from bank to bank to avoid turning.
The reindeer, on the other hand, turns
as often as he likes, keeping his head
all swimmers of all climes the best,
though not the swiftest, is the polar
bear, who passes half his time In the
water swimming and diving. His
swimming power is nothing short of
miraculous if it be remembered that
the water in the regions he frequents
is invariably cold and that cold is nor
mally prOhibitive to good swimming.
There are bears that can swim from
twenty-five TO thirty miles without
great effort.
One of the swiftest swimming ami
mails is the squirrel. A sportsman on
one occasion, having at hand a squir-
rel born in captivity, which had never
seen water, wanted to see if it could
swim and took it with him in row.
boat to the center of the lake. The
squirrel turned toward the bank, head
and paws above the water, back and
tail underneath it, and began to swim
so rapidly that it was with the great
est difficulty that the man recovered it
when it reached the shallow water
near the land.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-02-20

lighted and plumbed at cost which
would not begin to reach one like it
in the city. He may live on $4,000
a year and still occupy a business and
social position of most eminent re-
spectability, and, sitting or the lawn
Of an evening managing the sprink-
Ter, may be the object of an envy
that humors his vanity all he de-
sires.
Almost al the houses in these
small towns are homes, and the
home spirit that one feels in the very
air is one of the things that makes
the city visitor wish that fortune had
thrown him also here.
The census has been telling us
about the larger cities. 1t will be in
teresting to learn what it has to say
about the towns of from 1900 to
5000 population.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-02-20
CHARM OF THE SMALL TOWN.
You May Walk to the Office and
Know Your NeighbOrs.

The metropolis aid the large city
have their fascination. A resident
in one of them may feel some pride
that he is an actual part of big
thing-so big that he cannot COM
prehend it all, but which he can lay
a certain personal claim to. Then
there are the skyscrapers, the noise
and hustle, the swarms of life, the
boulevards, the privilege of benefit
ting close at hand from talent of the
highest order the opportunity for
pageants and spectacles. Big things
of one kind or another are always
passing under ones eye. All of this
fascination is not wholesome, but for
the sake of this alone great many
people insist they must live in a
large city, even when it is not neces-
sary by virtue of their being engag-
ed in large bushes enterprises that
must have their roots in great GEN.
tiers of population, and even when
the mere question of having COM
Portable competency does not de-
pend on 1t.
But there are many il every large
city who feel the charm of the small
town. Not the village, but the town
just too big to be called village and
not big enough to have paved streets
and modern conveniences such as .
water system, sewerage, electricity
and gas. These towns have their
charm. Here one may hive in the en-.
joyment of almost all the privileges
afforded by the large city, but with
out the inevitable Inconvenience ana
annoyances and the inevitably high
err cost. In this small town grass
and trees and garden spots are not
curiosities. One may walk, If he
likes, from his Office to his place of
business. He really cares who lives
next door or across the street, and is
likely to find himself taking a kind
ly interest in, il not becoming at
tached to, his neighbor, and he may
have a house, steam-heated, electric