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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-11-07
So JEWISH WORKERS
GOING lover THERE
Col. Barker Bids Godspesd to
the Graduates Of Train.
Ing School.

The whole-souled cooperation b.
tween the seven great organizations
working for the happiness and welfare
Of our soldiers and sailors was re-
Gently illustrated at the graduation
exercises Of the tenth class Of the
Jewish Welfare Boards Training
School In New York. Col. William 8.
Barker, who went to France represent.
ing the Salvation Army with the hrst
contingent of our troops and has been
"over there" fifteen months, was the
principal speaker and wished the fifty
eight Jewish workers Of the class God
speed, while Louis Marshall, the promi-
nent Jewish attorney and philanthro-
pist Of New York. lauded the work Of
the Salvation Army among the boys
at the front.
"What our fighting boys need 10 In.
SEPARATION and heart and character In
those who are there to help them,
declared Col. Barker. "You will rep
resent in the camps and overseas the
ideals and standards Of the Jewish
faith, and II 10 up to you above all
things to be consistent n your re-
ligious practiceA Practice what you
preach. That. ] am sure, has been
the secret Of our own success. II you
live up to the principles Of your faith
and give what you have to give from
heart big with love, the boys will re.
spect you, whether they b Protestant
Catholic or Jew"
The newly graduated Geld workers
will make Q total Of 200 men doing
6eld work In our camps and naval
training stations under the auspices
of the Jewish Welfare Board. The
Board has about nifty "huts" In the
various camps and maintains centers
In oil large cities where soldiers and
sailors Of oil faiths are welcomed A
headquarters has recently been cstab-
lished IN Paris, and 100 men are being
recruited here for overseas work.
There are now nearly 125,000 Jews
serving 10 the army and navy.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-11-07
CATHOLIC BOYS Join
WAR WORK CAMPAIGN
Girls. Too, win Stand With Them
Behind Every Fighter
at the Front.

TO put behind every Catholic fighter
In France the support Of one boy or
girl In every parish throughout the
United States u the plan Of the Ma.
tionai Catholic War Council for back
ing the Victory Boys and Victory
Girls Earn and Give" Division Of the
United Work War Campaign to raise
$17O. 500,0 900 "for the boys over there"
during the week Of November Ills
Through diocesan. county and parish
organizations, the rallying Of one
youpgster for every man who has gone
to war In every community ID already
under way. BY their own earnings.
and not by contributions, It 10 expect
ed that these sturdy little sponsors
for the boys abroad will each raise at
least I'VE dollars for the joint wei.
I fare work Of the z. n. @ A., 7. w.
@. A, National Catholic War Coun.
ell, including the knights AZ Colum.
bus. War Camp Community Service.
Jewish Welfare Bosrd, American Ii.
brary Association and Salvation Army.
Boys and girls In every Catholic
parish throughout the United States
are already being picked to represent
each lighting man who has left their
church tQE the front In every home
tl,at h{es . servics dag little brothers
and sisters sons and daughters. are
eagerly volunteering to look out for
the share Of their family fighter In the
huge Joint welfare campaign for oil
the boys abroad.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-11-07
mo American May Refuse"
Cardinal Gibbons Says

James Cardinal Gibbons, the
leading Catholic churchman In
America, has issued a strong mp.
peal In support Of the United War
Work Campaign.
1T Is an American campaign" he
said. "Its appeal Is one that no
American may refuse. Americas
answer will be another triumphant
announcement that we are in this
war Us one people and as one ma
ton to see It through to victory
Into the splendid work Of sustain
ing the morale Of our fighting men
the great social organizations of
America have thrown themselves.
The American people will raise the
sum they ask--generously and
gladly"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-11-07
800 WOMEN NEEDED
| BY SALVATION ARMY
Commander Evangeline Booth
Says War Relief Work
Must Be Extended.

Commander Evangeline Booth, lead.
or Of the Salvation Army In the Unit
ed States, has been suddenly called
upon to furnish 800 additional war
work women for France. The request
10 contained In report Just received
by her from Col. William A. I,arkcr
Of the Salvationlst forces whom she
sent to France over year ugo to ca
tablish hutmeni nnd general war relief
work with the American troops.
1--WE will do NIL W. Gun to MI this
demand" said Commander Booth when
discussing the approaching United
War Work Campaign. land the need
itself should impress the American
public oil the more with the absolute
necessity for sustaining and enlarging
the war relief work Of the seven or.
ganiEations, besides the noble Red
Cross, now merged for a drive for
funds Each Ia a vital cog In a vast
machine for human relief, and each Ia
Indispensable. serving it, particular
elements In its own way. 10
~ "The Salvation Army was born In
1Ardshfp, reared In privation and
trained to every phase Of human mis-
cry and how to cope with It Perhaps
that accounts In some degree for the
success our work has attained and for
which we are thankful.
I'VE are Of the common people, and
We toll on q practical basis. We learn.
cd the lesson Of how to do II In the
Boer war. when we stood at the side
Of Britain's troops and weathered II
out to the end. We have been tried
BY nre. and the mothers and fathers
Of America, as In other countries, trust
the Salvation Army to do the thing
they would like to do for their men II
they but had the chance.
"With 1910 trained workers at the
front, operating from 40 huts and
dugouts, the Salvation Army 10 doing
has done and viii continue to do ii
best for The eauss Of humanity and
Liberty"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-11-07

And that while the battle Is ON
we must waste no time worrying ov-
er the inequalities and inconsistent
cies of life.
That we must accept our war
sacrifices in good temper.
This is what the man said
He paid his fine cheerfully and
said he was glad that the money was
going to the Red Cross.
That Is the spirit, the real Am
erican spirit--obey war orders and
take our discomforts as well as our
joys
With a smile.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-11-07
CURE FOR BLUES
NEAR The CAMPS
Community Service Takes Place
Of Mother, Friends and
Home for Soldiers. /

Ten young officers u the Student
Army Training Corps Of the Universe.
~ Of Detroit recently applied for Q
furnished house and . housekeeper
who would not b . servant, but ~
one young oflicer expressed It, "the
sort Of woman to whom the boys can
call out Hello. motherr when they
come In the front door,"
Homesickness 10 the malady for
which War Camp Community Service
supplies innumerable cures.
"We've got your number" says the
w. G. G. 8. to the homesick boy from
camp with leisure to spend In any one
Of the three hundred towns scattered
over the country. While he's wonder
ing what on earth he'll do with him
self when he gets there. not knowing .
soul In town and with limited per.
centage Of his "thirty per" In his peck.
ct, along comes friendly printed card
4 p the local branch Of his own lodge
a 4buncing a reception that night es-
pecially for soldier members. BY the
same mail the Methodist church sends
an announcement of all Its meetings,
addressed to him, with This Means
You printed at the bottom. How did
they know he was Methodist
He had forgotten about the little
personal Card" he made cut at the
adjutant's request during his first day
In camp when 1t was only one Of the
endless details In the round of dentists
and doctors and general confusion.
The w. @. @. s. had not only his num-
Der. but his name and address, his
home town. the name Of the school
he'd gone to and good bit about the
things he was fondest Of doing-each
tact written Into little blank on the
card especially for It
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-11-07

tionality of temporary war regula-
tons do not worry us. ,3
The most of us are glad to sur
render for the time. such liberties as
are necessary to make ur war regu-
lations effective.
1t was this sort of man who was
punished for the trifling offense of
using an extra lump of sugar.
He realized at once that we cam
not win the war by evading war reg
ulatons.
He realized at once that we can
not win the war by evading war reg
ulations.
That II We expect our soldiers to
obey orders in the field We must
obey orders at home.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-11-07

books contributed by the American
people the association bought 500,2I1
books, mostly technical. Of which 1885,
287 were sent overseas. More than
1900 900 books of oil kinds have been
assigned to libraries In Y. NJ @. A.,
X. of G. or Salvation Army huts In the
war zone, similar number being dis
trlbuted In American training camps.
while half million are on warships
or transports. The association has
erected and operates forty-one library
buildings.
The Salvation Army. with 1910
workers. principally women. overseas,
hns won the affection Of the fighters.
Its sol huts, rest and reading rooms
are popular gathering places for the
soldiers. The doughnuts fried by Sal
walton lassies In huts or trenches and
given to the then have become famous
around the world. The Salvation
Army gave forty-four ambulances to
the American and Allies armies and
in many other ways gives constant un-
selfish service.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-11-07
Uncle Eben.
With q smile.

"a man bctrays hlssef by braggin'."
said Uncle Ebcn. "When l hears man
tcllln' bout how easy he Kin drive q
mule, / knows right of he amt no
rcgiar mule driver
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-08-13
REDUCING THINGS.

A writer in the Boston Post tells
of seeing placard in an office
building announcing that, III order
to help along coal conservation, the
management intended to reduce the
elevator service, lighting service
and heating service.
Underneath some long-sufferine
tenant had written the inquiry, "Wil
rent be reduced, too"
Needless to say, the rent would
not be reduced. A consumer
whether of office space or any other
commodity-is driven to wonder
however, now and then, why SC
much of the conservation should be
at his expense.
Many OF the economies practiced
by landlords, merchants and bust
ness and professional men in gen.
eral are not only patriotic, in that
they conserve fuel, labor or some
other war-commodity. but are econ
omically profitable to those who
practice them. Couldn't little OF
the saving be passed along, now and
then, to the public? Is the con-
sumner never to have anything re-
duced except his bank-roll and his
girth?
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-08-13
THIN PEOPLE
SHOULD TAKE
PHOSPHATE
Nothing Like Plain BitrO-PhOsphate to
Put ON Firm, Healthy Flesh and
10 Increase Strength, Nigor
and Nerve Force.

Judging from the countless prepara-
tions and treatments which are contin-
ually being advertised for the purpose
of making thin people fleshy. develop
ing arms. neck and bust, and replacing
ugly hollows and angles by the soft
curved lines of health and beauty.
there are evidently thousands of men
and women who keenly feel their ex-
cessive thinness.
Thinness and weakness are usually
due to starved nerves. our bodies
need more phosphate than is contained
in modern foods. Physicians claim
there is nothing that will supply this
deficiency so wlel as the organic phos-
phate known among druggists as bitro-
phosphate, which is inexpensive and
is sold by most all druggists under a
guarantee Of satisfaction or money
back. by feeding the nerves directly
and by supplying the body cells with
the necessary phosphoric food ele-
ments. bitro-phosphate quickly pro
iuces a welcome transformation in the
appearance; the increase in weight fire.
quentiy being astonishing.
This increase in weight also carries
with it n general Improvement in the
health. Nervousness. sleeplessness and
lack Of energy. which nearly always
accompany excessive thinness. soon
disappear. dull eyes become bright. and
pale cheeks glow with the bloom of
perfect health.
CAUTION: Although bitro-phos-
phate is unsurpassed for relieving
nervousness. sleeplessness and general
weakness, il should not, owing TO its
remarkable flesh-growing properties. be
used by anyone who does not desire
TO put on flesh
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-08-13

| rem, innocent victims of the IN
famous outrages of your submarines
And now once again we believe
it to be our duty to raise our voice
in protest against the new crimes
committed in your name. In this
very hour when your enemies have
seized our own ships in order the
better to oppose you. we say to you !:
Do not imagine that we, citizens
of old Holland, ancient land OF
honor and of liberty, have fallen
so low as to listen even for a
moment to the shameless sugges-
! tions Of the traitors who seek to
dishonor us. The interests of our
land are one with the interests OF
Humanity at large. We can only
rejoice that Dutch ships will par
ticipate henceforth in the cause OF
liberty, which must guarantee Peace
and Right to the world, and which
first of all. must give freedom to the
north of France devastated by the
barbarism of your military chiefs,
Each new voyage of each of our
ships will hasten the day when gar
den and orchard will blossom again
in the fair fields of ancient and
noble Picardy. Each happy voyage
will hasten the hour Of deliverance
for that glorious martyr Belgium, for
Poland, Lithuania, Livonia, for the
Slavs and Rumanians of Austria; Tor
the Servians, or at least for whatever
NAV remain of those poor peoples
so pitilessly oppressed and outraged
bv Germans, Turks, Hungarians and
Bulgarians.
As for you, peoples of Germany
we can only wish that your eyes
may be opened at last to the light,
to the truth. Turn back before 1t
is too late. Do not wait until the
entire world rises up against the
selfish projects which, more or less
openly, your authorities are plan
ming. Redeem yourselves by sim
cere repentance of you wish to re-
cover even a portion of the esteem
once enjoyed by your country.
Your government has long de-
luded you with senseless dream OF
domination and supremacy. 1t as
pres to the control of Europe and
of the world. Despite fleeting sue
cesses, its plans are doomed to de-
feat. Humanity has been free too
long for it to consent to bear the
hateful yoke which the authors OF
the Treaty OF Brest Litovsk would
place upon the neck OF the peoples
of the East.
Your rulers have made you be-
come the horror and the abnomlna-
ton of the civilized world.
Awake! Set yourselves free.
On this condition alone will you
escape the doom reserved by history
for people sunken in degradation.
G. WALSH,
Secretary OF Affairs.
Amsterdam, Holland.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-08-13
DRAFT AGES.

It looks drastic, at first blush
lowering the draft age to l8 years
and raising it to 45, making every
male American within those limits
liable to military service.
1t is not SO drastic as it seems,
however. The statutory military
age period is now from Is to A.
Every man is already under obliga-
ton to serve his state militia-and
hence in the national defense-dur-
ing that period if called upon. Con
gress merely proposes to apply the
general principle to the selectiVe
service act.
In theory, then, all the able-bodied
men from l8 to IS might be called
into the army. In practice they
will not be during this war nor, we
assume, in any other war. SO big
a nation does not need to use its
whole male population to fight its
battles.
BOYS under 2l may be taken for
the army, and probably will be II
authority is given, because they are
considered by most experts as the
finest kind of fighting material. We
shall hardly go as low as lS, but the
lo and 20-year-old classes may be
called. 1t is doubtful, though,
whether men over 80 will be drafted
except in rare cases, and certain that
men over 40 will not be. Men III
their forties are poor military ma
erial. Men in their thrities are, in
general, far inferior to younger
fellows. The youth fights better,
and can better be spared by his
family and community.
The extension of the draft age
will accomplish two important pur-
poses. First, it will make the selec-
tive service law more flexible by ad-
ding few classes from which men
NAV profitably be taken if needed;
and second, it will enable the govern
ment to organize the entire man
power Of the nation for war pur-
poses.
The latter consideration is proba-
bly, the more important of the two.
Far more men are needed at home
than are needed in the army. If the
war department is given authority
over everybody from Is to IS. it
can classify them according to their
qualifications. and see that every
man is occupied with work suited
to his capacity and useful directly
or indirectly for the winning OF the
war. Surely no patriotic citizen can
object to that.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-08-13
MASTERS"

Trust the Huns Tor ingenious ex-
plantations of reverses. General
Ludendorff's version OF the big Ger
man retreat is another masterpiece.
The German high command, he
says. quickly perceived General
Foch's plan to break through the
German right flank and cut off the
Marne salient. and proceeded tri-
umphantly to foil that purpose. We
reckoned on an attack on July IL,
and were prepared for it. BY the
afternoon of the 10Th we were al
ready fully masters of the situation,
and We shall remain so. We lett the
abandoned ground to the enemy. ae-
cording to our regular plan.
Gaining ground and 'Marne' are
only watchwords without import
ance for the issue OF the war. We
are now. as before. confident"
Confident Of what, = We might
curiously inquire. But let Us not
seek to probe too deeply into the
mysteries of the Prussian mind. Ii
suffices to know that the Germans
are masters OF the situation" which
in this case means that they are
masters of retreat-a military art IN
which Americans have little skill
and less interest.
AS for gaining ground and
"Marne" being merely -catehwords
without importance" We really
would like to know why the Ger
mans threw away so many lives in
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-08-13
PATRIO TTEERGNG

ing men of the Wisconsin regiment
cursed the captured German sold
iers with an inhospitable frankness
very shocking to the prisoners, who
had been passed in silence by other
American regiments, and had re-
ceived cigarettes from a battalion
of English. Words like ''dummkopf'
and "schwinhund" were employed,
with prophetic expletives; and the
general sense of what the Wisconsin
men said to their German cousins
was as follows: you dash hblanlted
iackasses and idiots, we and our
fathers left your old fathcrland and
went four thousand miles to live in
better place. Now We have to
come all the way back again yet,
to slaughter you, because you
haven't got any more sense than to
believe and obey that old pig-dog
of Kaiser! Well send your Kaiser
and princes to sheol,, where they
can't do any more harm; and as tor
YOU. dunderheads, you ought to be
hanged for making us all this trouble
of coming over here to teach you
some sense with our bayonets!"
The citizens once called German
Americans will work out their own
salvation if we do not make 1t too
hard for them. What man can show
enthusiasm for anything, when he
is threatened with punishment II
he is not enthusiastic? Loyalty is
feeling; it is not spoken word.
You cannot possibly produce a
beautiful feeling in any man by
threatening him or prosecuting HIM.
Let us not threaten at all, and let us
prosecute only when we have evil
dence. Is it certain evidence that
man is loyal if he have son in
the American army? No. There
were Rebels in '63 who had sons III
the Northern armies. Is it certain
evidence that man is disloyal II
he have a son in the German army !
No. There were loyal Union men
in "a who had sons fighting for
the South. SO it may be now.
There are American citizens who
have relatives in the German army
and other relatives in the American
army. Here and there is an Amer
lean citizen who has one son IN the
American army and another son in
the German army. Let us go gently
with a fellow citizen who finds HIM
self in such a position. 1t is a
hard enough one, without the addi-
tional burden OF his neighbors'
suspicious. IL his conduct be loyal,
then in heavens name let us be-
lieve him loyal.
The finest answer Germany has
had from any source is the loyalty
of the "German-Americans' 70
America; and that was the answer
of all most CALLING to Germany.
Let us not punish them-now,
when their boys are dying in the
American cause-let us not punish
them for sins that are not theirs.
Let us not patrioteer at their ex-
pense. Let us not patrioteer at all
The war is too serious for patrioteer-
i ing
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-08-13
MR.. GEISSLER'S PASSING.
(The Oklahoman.)

The action of the republican state
central committee in unseating Ar
thur Geissler as chairman by vote
of forty to three, following the res
olution of removal adopted by the
republican preferential convention
last May, ends that gentleman's ca
reer as party leader. 1t is imma-
terial whether he contests this YER
dict in the courts or whether, as is
rumored, he will submit it to the
republican national convention. Inc
action might be illegal from
the standpoint Of law, or
it might be irregular from the stand
point of party procedure, but the
republican party of this state mas
emphatically repudiated Mr.. Geiss-
Ter as leader, and against the ex-
preston of sentiment no technicallty
can vitally prevail.
The Oklahoman believes the re-
publican party has served itself well,
and what is of greater moment, has
served the state well, in deposing
Mr.. Geissler. That he has many
elements which make for leadership
all who know Mr.. Geissler will read
ily admit. He has personal charm,
force, TACT good working knowl-
edge of party history. But he does
not possess the large view necessary
for state leadership and he seemingly
did not sense the new order OF pa
.iotism born of this war. He planned
to erect a republican party structure
in this state on the mistakes and al
leced delinquencies Of the demo-
cratic party. He advanced no con-
structive idea. And in continuing
his partnership with the socialist
party in these times he affronted the
Americanism of this state. He might
fill acceptably the state committee
Craftsmanship of a majority party
under circumstances. But so tar as
he has been tested he has shown no
creative ability, while the bigness
of this great hours demands evoked
from him neither recognition nor
response in a commanding degree.
The republican party OF Oklahoma
must have big-calibered leadership
if it is to have future.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-08-13
A Long Time.

How many summers ago
Was it helped with the hay
Helped when they started TO now
Helped when they slowed it away
Twenty-Five years. would you say;
oh, 'iis impossible-no,
How can smell II today?
How many summers ago.
How can 1t come TO me so
Plainly and poignanily. pray?
(Waier-jug kept from the glow
Wrapped in wet doek-leavcs II
lay
How many summers ago,
Was II ]. helped with the hay:
Cleveland Plain Dealer.