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Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-10-24
SOLDIER PROTECTED PAL
Although Wounded and Suffering,
Trooper Covers Dead Friend =.
With overcoat.

How little we at home are called
upon to do toward the ultimate Allied
victory when compared with the sacri-
fices made by our men in the lines can
bs gathered from an excerpt of Private
Peat's narration OF his experiences
"over there"
One day as. he was lying on q.
stretcher after the first German gas
attack at Ypres. Peat says in the
American Magazine. a soldier. soaked
with blood. mud and rain. minus his
o%vercoat. his tunic torn by shrapnel.
came into the field dressing station.
IA he was %shivertng with cold, the
nurse hurried over and asked him
what had become Of his oyercoat.
"Oh." he answered In a voice CULVER
ing with chill, my pal was killed back
there, and he looked SO cold lying
there In the rain that l took off my
Coat and put 1t over him.
Peat's comment on the story is that
.if the men ln-the trenches. with their
dirt and their filth. their swearing and
fighting, can show such tenderness and
unselfishnsss and sacrifice l don't be-
heys you here at home r going to
fall below them In nobility OF spirit"
Need we make further COMMENT
Just think Of this story during the
Fourth Liberty Loan campaign.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-10-24
BATTLE. CRY OF FREEDOM

Abraham Lincoln said: "All you
have to do is to keep the faith, to re-
main steadfast to the right. to stand
by your banner. Nothing should lead
YOU to leave your guns. Stand togeth-
er. ready, with match in hand."-Chi.
cago, March /, 1853.
The match in your hand that Will
fire a gun against autocracy Is a Lib
erty Bond.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-10-24
HONOR FLAGS IN LOAN DRIVE
To Be Awarded Communities and In.
dustrial Concerns lover
the Top"

Honor emblems are to be awarded
to communities and industrial con
Germs that 20 cover the top" as a whole
in subscriptions to the Fourth Liberty
Loan. The plan 10 be used is that Of
distributing to communities that ex-
coed their quotas Fourth Liberty Loan
Homer Flags. and to industrial con
Germs and other organizations whose
employees or members subscribe to.the
extent Of rs per cent Of their number.
The community honor flag to be
used in the Fourth Liberty Loan Ia
similar to the one used In the Third
Loan, except that 1t will have four
bars instead Of three. The Liberty
Loan Executive Committee Of the
Eighth Federal Reserve District will
have charge of the competition in this
district. They will give special dis
tinction to communities for large over
subscription and will add stars to the
flags Of such.
The industrial honor pennant Is .
new award to be made. and It Is ex-
pected that plants and organizations
Of all kinds will enter into the spirit
that the coming Of the pennant will
suggest. The number of individual
subscriptions is expected to increase
largely on account of the pennants.
Window cardboard emblems to indi-
cate the percentage attained by indus
tries will be furnished, and those who
make the rs per cent required will bs
permitted to purchase through the
local Liberty Loan Organization the
permanent Liberty Loan honor pen;
nant with its final standing indicated
on Il.
Both the honor flag and pennant are
protected BY patents, 80 that they can
not be reproduced or used without
permission from the local Liberty.
Loan Committed.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-10-24
GERMAAY's RULE OF
CONQUERED LAAOs IS
LESSON TO AMERICA
Consider What Would Happen to Us
u the improbable Should
Take Place.

Copies of the Journal de Geneve re.
ceived at Washington show just what
sort of a peace the Germans enforce
on a conquered people when they feel
able to dictate to the conquered.
BY cable from London and from the
Geneva newspaper just mentioned II
appears that among other terms forced
by the Huns upon the R%oumanians the
whole male population from age IA to
age 90 IL subject to forced labor at the
Mill of the Prussians. Under this de.
Zee Roumanian farmers have been
required to work at long distances
from their homes and for the sole ben
eft Of the invader.
Officials here point out that America
could expect no better peace terms
from the Huns In case the fortunes Of
war should turn against this country
and the Germans should dictate how
we should make peace and manage our
affairs.
Means Virtual Slavery.
1t would mean that q farmer might
be required to leave his family and
farm to get along a.. best they could
while he val put on q train with thou
sands Of others and taken to the pass
es Of the Alleghenies to build fortiIca-
lions for the Huns against any posi-
BILE rebellion of Americans against
their conquerors.
The same tactics have been followed
ir Belgium. In Serbia, in Poland and
in the Ukraine of Russia. wherever the
Germans have made themselves the
masters. Roumanian elections have
been dictated at bayonet points and
the people are not permitted to pass
from one part of the country to an.
other without special permits that are
very hard to obtain.
Il Is this known history and these
known traits of the German character
that make the most telling arguments
for subscriptions to the Fourth Lib
erty Loan. 1t 10 only by subscribing
| the full loan that we are able to main
tain armies and keep up the fight, and
1t Ii only by creating an army to
smash the Hun forever that we can
absolutely assure ourselves that this
country will not undergo the fate of
| Belgium or Roumania or North France.
II there were enough "slackers"
among the people of this country 1t
would be only a question of time until
we were in the same condition as Rou-
mania. The world opinion Is firm that
Germany had set out to make itself
master OF the world.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-10-24
GREAT CHANGES.

"Times have changed" remarked
the reminiscent man.
II should say they have" rejoined
Senator Sorghum. Everybody is SO
busy thinking about military that us
statesmen are liable. to be overlooked.
There isn't a political orator among
us that has the nerve to rise to his
feet as of yore and claim personal
credit for saving the country"
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-10-24
LIBERTY LOAN WISDOM

God Be With Our Boys Tonight"
Sounds lovely and Is true.
But when you pray DIG UP AND
PAY!
Just go and buy a BOND today
And you'll be with them. too!
Who steals my purse steals trash in
deed
II in my purse, all gone to seed.
Remain the dollars | should pay
To buy a Liberty Bond today!
WILLIAM F, KIRK,
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-10-24
C0VEhANTED PEACE
WITH GERMANY IS
OUT OF QUESTION
AMERICA WOULD HAVE TO RE.
PubiATE CIVILIZATION TO
BARGAIN WITH eRUTES.
HAGUE CONVENTION IS CITED
Evidence Of Violation Of All Rules Of
Humanity can Be Doubted
by No One. :

America, unless we repudiate civili-
zatlon and abandon humanity and put
. PR MUM on sayagery and brutality.
make no covenanted peace. NO
peace ny agreement or negotiation
with Germany. It would be q cove
nant with hell, q partnership with
infamy.
Nor would such q peace secure
peace. except SO long as It suited Ger.
many. We can Judge the future only
by the past, and to Germany sacred
treaties are scraps Of paper only. Ger.
many's whole history 10 q record Of
national %treachery. national bad faith,
national dishonor, national murder and
national infamy.
Article Sc of The Hague Convention.
to which Germany solsmnly sub
scribed. Is: Family honor and rights.
the lives Of persons and private prop
srty. as we'll as religious convictions
and practice. must be respected. Pri-
vsts property cannot be c~onftscatsd."
World Knows Of Violations.
The world knows how Germany has
observed this article. There are mil,
lions of individual Witnesses to her
fragrant breaches of 1t. Every acre Of
foreign soil Germany has occupied
bears mute but unimpeachable evi.
dence Of 1t. There is plenty of Ger
man evidence of It, too.
THE goods OF different sorts seized
in the enemies territories are in such
large quantities that the difficulty of
knowing where to put them increases
day by day. At the request Of the Prus-
sian Minister of War. all chambers of
commerce have been asked to give all
possible information with regard to
s%tOrehouses, sheds. etc, which could be
used temporarily to warehouse the
spoil" (From the Frsnkfurter lei
tung. January. 1879
The German papers have been
crowded with Advertisements Of sale Of
property taken from France and Bel
GUM. Members Of the Reichstas have
boastsd Of. others have censured. the
amount Of booty brought to Germany
from the occupied territory, and the
destruction has been far greater than
the conftscation.
Loan Must Show Our Answer.
OF the old men and children muir
dsred, Of the women and girls raw
iahed, Of the noncombatants taken
from their homes and deported to
work for their %conQusrors. of the mer-
chant shipS sunk and passengers and
crews murdered, Of the hospital ships
sunk, the hospitals and unfortified cit
les bombed. of the mutilation and muir.
der by crucifixion and otherwise Of
wounded and captured soldiers-of all
this beastlinsss there is plenty Of evil
dsnce, evidence that no one can disbe-
llsvs.
The best answe to German peace
propaganda II sinking more U-boats.
sending more men to France. speeding
up NJ work along every line and a
heavy subscription to the Fourth Lib
erty Loan. Peace must mean the tri-
umph Of right and Justice. the defeat
of Qermanism. not a truce with 1t. not
q compromise with it.
Our soldiers in Trance are glorious
ly doing their part toward victory: the
Liberty Loan subscription must show
them that the people at home are do
ing theirs.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-10-24
At COMMON TABLE.

, Throughout the war we shall be
sitting at a common table with
the Allies. Good manners say
that when there is not enough
food to 60 around each ono must
take a smaller portion. Tho Food
Administration intends to see that
the Allies get the food they need
and that there will be. sufficient
for our own needs.-U. 8. Food
Administration. Missouri Divisioa.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-10-24

The Journal says further that the
Treasury Department IL watching with
. keen eye every piece Of legislation
which has to DO with government Il.
nance, and nothing gets Ito approval
which would have any tendency to
make anything more desirable a IN
1avsstmsat than the Liberty Bonds,
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-10-24

Shipments of rice from China 70 the
United States increased greatly during
1917 and according to present iAdic@
lions will break all records this year.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-10-24

In spite Of scarcity Of implements
and shortage Of farm labor. Msland.
scotland and Wales have all Increased
their acreage Of wheat.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-10-24

Sugar bowls have been banishsd
from American dining csrs. A trsv.
elsr u served his portion Of sugar and
No more.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-10-24

Moderate shipments Of wheat and
-four are being made from Australia
to the Pacific coast Of the United
States,
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-10-24

The present household sugar ration.
with little chance of increase. Is two
pounds q month In the United States.
two pounds In England. n and one
half In France and one pound In Italy.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-10-24

Restaurants and hotels are restrict
ed to two pounds Of sugar for essrysS0
meals served. This includes sugar for
kitchen a. well as table use.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-10-24
WHOLE NATION At WAR;
NOT ONLY SOLDIERS
Dy c. n. Martin, Major General v. Q
Army, Commanding Camp
Grant, illinois.

The Fourth Liberty Loan should
again forcibly remind everybody that
the whole nation 10 in the war. and not
merely the men In uniform.
We are teammates In . mighty
game; q game which has been develop
ing for centuries. The contending
teams are Autocracy and Democracy.
and life Is the stake for which they are
playing. We are now at the very eli,
max of that age-long atruggle.
Your part on the team requires a
devotion and d~istinterested forxetful.
ness Of self as complete and ~unflaggins
40 you expect from the men in uni
form. No n can do his duty on any
team who measures his duty by any
other standard than his entire abili,
ties. 1t cannot be measured by com.
PARSONS with the performances Of
Others.
Do not think that the front, only. is
the war: the front ia . part of the
team. like to think that It Is a part
Of sufficient importance to engage
your enthusiastic interest and support
The anxiety with which you wait fol
good news from the front 10 Of the
same variety a. that which the from,
waits for good news from the back
Any especially good plays ON any par
OF the team strengthen the heart Of
every member Of the team.
It ID your play how; oversubscribt
this loan cheerfully and with enthusi
asm.
Get into the game.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-10-24

Out OF the last harvest the American
people. BY institutins wheatless days.
saysd 100000 900 bushels Of wheat to
feed the hungry Allied nations. and
these same people are going to stay
right ON tfss susar Job and see It
through,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04

A milk testing machine has been
installed in the dairy of the Boys In
dustrial school, and the test for July
showed a production of 1850 pounds
of milk from seventeen COWS. 5.4638
being from five cows. This milk
would be worth on the market about
1856. something like $298 more than
the cost of production.
The Ladies' Aid of the North To-
peka Baptist church will have a din
ing tent at the fair grounds next
week. Mrs. A. T. Rowe is directing
the work and will be assisted by the
following women: Mrs. C. A. Jones,
Mrs. w. NJ. Van Ness, Mrs. Zarker.
Mrs. D. L. Button, Mrs. E. A Palmer,
Mrs. VIII Forbes. Mrs. Herst, Mrs o.
L Weir, Mrs. Hannah. Mrs. Petro,
Mrs. L. Fraser. Mrs. Kenneth Clark.
Mrs. Reed, Mrs. Hoberg, Mrs. Price,
Mrs. Charles Lukens. Mrs. Kirk Cecil,
Miss Edna Kincaid and Miss Eleanor
Caldwell. In the evenings the girls
of the church will also assist.
Notes and Personals.
Carl N. Chapman. Headquarters
company, 210 engineers. of Camp
Funston. spent Labor day with his
mother, Mrs. Flora Chapman, 1917
Van Buren, street.
Misses Irene and Elizabeth Swartz
were the guests Monday afternoon of
MIS- Elmer SWartZ or 1888 AFTER ave-
nue..
Homer wolford. formerly with
Bueehner Bros, has been notified to
report Friday afternoon at the court
house, when he will be assigned to
military service.
Mrs. Bert Trahoon, who has been
visiting her husband at Camp Lewis,
Wash, is expected home this week,
MT. Trahoon'S company expects to be
sent to France soon.
Dad and Wade Owens and wayne
Horning were in from Granville yes
terday.
Fred NJ. Joseph of s2a Kansas
avenue will leave this week for Fort
Riley for military service.
Lenora Swartz and Mabel Mckee
OF Garfield avenue will entertain the
A. M. girls tonight at slumber party.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Schwartz of l406
Ffafrchild street have received word of
their son Elmer's safe arrival overseas
Mrs. Elmer Schwartz of 33S After
avenue has also been notified of her
husbands safety.
has returned from a two weeks visit
to relatives in Centralia, Kan.
Harry Hastings. formerly with
Morns & Myers, has gone to Albuquer-
que, N. M. where he will be in the
employ of the Santa Fe.
Miss Dolly Wells has taken a posi-
ton in the Charles Klussman electrical
store.
Mrs. Hense1 ana children of San
Francisco. who have been the guests
of Mrs. Hensel's parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
c. A. Jones. of 913 Jackson street. for
the summer, returned home today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04
EAST SIDE NOTES

Notes and personals from East Side
by Frances Jones. Telephone $780, ri
A joke is told on an Industrious man
and his wife. 1t happened on Labor day
they celebrated the holiday by working.
She did the family washing and he made
The Wife Of the family i in her Efforts ui to
clean up the laundry washed her hus-
bands work trousers, The next morning
was minus fifteen dollars in bills which
ne had left In his pockets the day before
They hunted and hunted the house over
the two which left them cold with appre-
hension. the bills might be Inferred with
the cement walk. The water the trousers
had been rinsed in had been used to mix
the cement, After several hours counsel
1t was decided that with cement at the
present prices 1t was cheaper to allow the
up the whole walk. Some time later the
bills were found. tucked in the corner of
the washing machine where they had been
washed out of the pockets.
Mrs. Everett Morford and baby of Ar
kansas City. Kan, are visiting Mrs. Nor
lords mother Mrs. E. B. Jolley and fam
lily, Chandler street. Mr.. Morford will come
later i'll the week to spend several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Morris. 1890 Lawrence
street. have returned from a motor trip to
Mrs J. Mates, Rrarner street, expects
TO leave soon for New York City
with Mrs. H. n. Bastian. 1921 Lane street.
MISS Hila Mcbride will leave the latter
part of the week for Washington where she
has accepted position as clerk in Il gov
eminent office.
The Missionary society of the East Side
Methodist church will meet Friday after
noon with Mrs. Mortimer Gragg East
Tenth avenue Officers will be elected
and the mite box opening held.
Miss Margarita Howe. 496 Green street, is
spending several weeks with friends in
Burlington. Kan.
Miss Gladys Ritts. 634 Branner street,
VIII leave Friday for Manhattan. Kan,
State Agricultural college
Walter Sloan, 515 East Eighth avenue.
who was injured in accident Saturday
evening Mt the corner of Fourth avenue
and Jefferson street when an automobile
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04
WIN IN INDUSTRY
Allies Prove Their Superiority
Over Germans.
Have Overcome Years of Prep.
aratiOn by Huns.

Chicago, Sept. 4.-The Prussian
dream of, world mastery has been
banished by industrial achievements
as well as by the courage of armed
forces. Lord Reading. British am
bassader to the United States. said in
a message read by Colville Barclay,
British charge d'affaires here. at the
United States government war EXPOSE
ton today, celebrated as British day.
II feel certain that your exhibition
adequately represents the immense eff
forts OF the allies and America" the
ambassa doris message read. 'It will
serve to illustrate to every one the
marvellous success with which inven-
tors. manufacturers and workers
turned from the arts of peace and
adapted themselves to altered copdi-
tons when the call came.
Germany Prepared for Years.
For years Germany has been
secretly making and storing vast ac-
foundations of every engine of war
and article of equipment, confident
that by their means she could at her
chosen time obtain world mastery.
1.-The Industrial achievements of
millions of patriotic men and women.
together with the valor of our COM
bined armed forces, have banished that
Prussian dream, and if in the strenu-
Gus months before US, we drive ahead
and work hard and fight hard, the
time will be brought nearer when Ger
many will be definitely and decisively
beaten. Then the world will be re-
modelled on the cardinal principles of
justice, security and freedom; and
force, violence and autocracy will be
swept away"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04

rr.eeting of the city commissioners.
The bid of this firm was s23,794.
When completed the bridge will be
similar in construction to other
bridges recently constructed in the
city. 1t will be 100-foot span arch
bridge with a 20-foot roadway which
Will be surfaced with asphalt On
either side of the roadway there will
be a five-foot cantilevered sidewalk.
The entire bridge will be Constructed
of reinforced concrete.
Construction on this bridge will be
begun at once The contract calls for
completion by June I. 1919 How
ever, in the face of war conditions,
which will cause difficulties in obtain
ing labor and material, delay is an
ticipated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-04
OAKLAND NOTES
Notes and personals from Oakland by
Frances Jones' Telephone $3.50.

1t is reported that the bank in Oakland.
the Oakland State bank, had the best
business day Saturday of last week that
they have had since their opening several
months ago
A party of -pfcnickers motored recently
to the fair grounds at the Indian reserya-
and Mrs. A. P. Nelson, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Patterson and sons Lawrence and John,
Mrs. Arnett, Mr.. Maupin. Mr.. Sam Maupin,
Miss Fairchild. Miss Isabelle Woodwork,
Miss Helen and Miss Lilas Nelson;
club offered prizes to the children of Oak
land for display Of garden produce.
aid civic Improvement, offers prizes for the
best sweet peas grown, and this year in
order to stimulate food production the
garden produce. So far no entries have
been made. ANY children in Oakland de-
string to make entries are asked to
prizes S viii be given, totaling five DOLLARS.
who have spent several weeks in Gimon,
Colo. with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T: J.
Nichols, are are expected TO return home within
seriously ill for ten days, is reported
afteneoon Witn M4s George
Forest avenue. Mrs. Anderson's guests
were Mrs. Frank Dawson, Mrs. Porter
Mrs. Frank Meyers, Mrs. W. G. Greer.
Mrs. Dickson, Mrs. c. Poort and Mrs. f. S.
Wallace. The next meeting of the club
will be held with Mrs. o. NJ. Anderson in
two weeks.
To date about eighty pupils have en-
rolled In the Oakland high school. The
school beginning early in the fall, there
will be many more pupils to enroll several
weeks later.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Barney and son.
Theodore, of Manhattan. are guests of
Prof. and Mrs. S. w. McGarrah, .s4 Forest
Merle Vanorsdol was a recent guest of
friends in Oakland. He has returned to
the Great Lakes naval training station.
Mr.. Vanorsdol is the eldest son of Prof.
and Mrs. Will Nanorsdol of Eureka.