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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-19
SWINDLER HELD
TO GRAND JURY
Bond of $1,000 Fixed in Case of
V. X. Swartz on Charge OF
Confidence Game.

V. r. Swartz was today bound
over to the grand jury under $1,000
bonds on charges of operating a
confidence game The case was
heard in the court of Justice D. J.
Cleland, States Attorney Floyd E.
Thompson appearing for the state,
with Henry NJ. Hendren as COM
planning witness.
Hendren stated that SWartZ had
approached him two weeks ago and
offered to sell him peaches at 1925
a bushel. Hendren said he CAV.
Swartz money sufficient to pur-
chase one bushel at the price quot
ed. He also said that the defend
ant had offered to obtain 25 pounds
of sugar for S2.75. Swartz is al
legged to have stated that the sugar
could be obtained for canning pur-
poses, and that he could buy it at
a low price from friend who
conducts a grocery store at Du-
rant, Iowa.
Hendren advanced the money for
both purchases, and as the arti-
cles did not materialize, a war
rant was sworn out for the arrest
of Swartz Hendren also stated
that SwartZ wanted him to enter
into a scheme for the purchase OF
a car load of coal. 1t was said that
a charge of $3.50 a ton would be
made for the coal delivered.
Other witnesses were ready to
appear against Swartz, but they
did not testify. The man is al
legged to have perpetrated conf
dence games along several differ
ent lines
When arrested by a member of
the Rock Island police force,
Swartz had just been released from.
the Davenport Jail under $500
bonds. The charge lodged against
him in Davenport is similar to tic
one upon which he is held here
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-19
ISLANDER LEAVES
FOR ARMY SCHOOL
AT CAMP HANCOCK

Frank J. Colesey, $50 Twenty
third street, left yesterday for
Camp Hancock. Augusta, Ga,
where he Will enter the officers
training school for machine gun
work.
Mr.. Colesey is over draft age,
and his application for the Off
GERS school was filed July 13. He
has had eight years experience in
the army. and had served for some
time as an officer.
He has been employed by the
Henry W. Horst company as ma
terial purchasing agent and chic:
of timekeepers.
Before leaving he received valu-
able presents from the company,
the office force and from the men
on the construction Jobs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-19
BOyDS MAKE RECORD.

bonds, 312 per cent opened on the
stock exchange at 101. a new high
record, exceeding the previous high
record by one per cent,
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-15
Counting the Cost.

Sooner later the will come to end
Whenever it ends and is over with, the civilized
nations of the earth will begin to count the cost.
They will count the things they could have &C
complished with all of this money if it had been
devoted to the advancement of learning and the
elimination of disease They will count the
stupendous constructive program they could have
undertaken with all of this material which has
been burned up or wasted They will count the ex-
pense and toll of reconstructing devastated areas
They will count the long years of taxation ahead of
them to pay back something spent and gone.
But all of these costs, as great they are, will
not compare with the other and greater and i'm
measurable cost-the cost in blood the cost in
tears the cost in anguish.
And when the civilized nations of the earth
count up this cost and contemplate this inexpress-
ible horror which has been inflicted upon them
they will justly and correctly charge it all to Ger
many.
By admitting its defeat, by acknowledging its
wrong by making reparation, by asking the for
gveness of civilization, Germany may in the course
of a century win back measure of the worlds re-
spect and friendship, but not until them.
In the meantime, Germany must and will be
punished until she is profoundly sick of and
disguised with the war than any of the peaceful
nations which had it brought upon them and which
are implacably determined to carry it through to
the ultimate conclusion
These civilized and peaceful nations are not
going to stop until they have completely and for
ever beaten out of the German mind its stupid and
brutal idea that Germany's place in the world de-
pended upon military power and military prestige
Having thus removed any possibility that Ger
many will again attempt the part of an armed
bully, terrorizing a community of civilized and
peaceful nations they going to form an associa
ton to prevent any other from disturbing the
peace.
Certainly Germany will never again invade
other peoples premises without warning or provo
cation. hold them up at the point of a gun rob
them and loot them and slay them then desnoiI
and ravish in sheer brutal lust.
Perhaps other nation may forget the les
son of the and amuck, but whatever its
name and whatever its seeming provocation the
wrath that will be instantly visited upon it will
stop its disturbance before it has got any further
than Germany got when she arrived at the forts
of Liege.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-15

vanish from France but there exceptions, for
the irresistby attractive daughters of France have
accepted hostages from the best of our young men,
and some of them. no doubt, will remain and be-
come truly of France, but we will also carry
some of these charming daughters of France back
with us, to become truly daughters of America Who
wins, America or France? AS a man fully con-
sfious of the charm of the French women, l should
say America. But as a matter of cold judgment
| should say both" for there will be born children
who will inherit the traditions of both countries to
carry the struggle for freedom and international
decency after all of here present have passed on
into the great unknown.
For forty years Germany has been waging COM
mercial upon the rest of the world not by fair
competition, but by bufng, by chicanery trickery
and fraud of the most despicable kind. Because
could not believe that nation, otherwise great
could be vile, did not realize what she was
doing. Now that we know the full measure of her
duplcity, that she is deliberately and totally de-
PRAYED, hope that after the war, France, England
and America may unite their resources, unity their
commercial efforts even they have their military
command, and make forever impossible a repetition
of the present attempt to enslave the world by a
nation of pirates and ruffians. If this is done. the
lower L should become of the greatest
ports of Europe and the whole surrounding country
one of the great commercial and industrial centers
of the world
And may I express to the citizens of L.
B, - and that means the citizens of all parts
of France-our sincere and grateful appreciation
of their unfailing and sympathetic hospitality to
and their forbearance with our somewhat insistent
manner of doing our work. May add that as the
dunes to steam shOvels, not one of you regret
ted the destruction of these dunes moTe-than l. But
it was case of stern necessity-and L B.
even without its dunes is better than L B.
a German spa. Besides you will soon need all
the villas you build from l. B to P
-; with fine boulevard along the beach and
row of attractive villas backed by the dunes of lie
Bots d'Amour, who will say that the l. B of
the future will be attractive than the
l. B of the present.
Again, for my country and my countrymen, I
thank you. May ask you to join me in toast to
the Franco-American army, now a living reality,
and to the success of the for which is fight
ing 'valiantly.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-15

Cattle raising is the increase in Laurens
county" reports the Dublin Courier-Herald land
the stock is all purebred"
The latter fact is more noteworthy than the
first although any growth of interest in the live
stock industry is to be welcomed. Better cattle
will lead swiftly and surely to cattle, just
good roads good schools are their own best COM
mendatiOn. The returns upon investments in pure
bred stock are so incomparably larger than upon
scrubs and "razorbacks' that no county in which
the former is fairly tried will fail to go steadily
forward on improved lines.
The marked increase in pure-bred stock
throughout Georgia is ascribable to number of
agencies. Fundamental perhaps is the States
broau system of agricultural education reinforced
by the national Governments liberal aid. But
great deal of credit must be accorded such co:opera
ton as that given by the railroads, the Southern
Bell Telephone Company and in many instances by
banking houses and mercantile concerns. EXPOSE
tions like the Southeastern Fair, the 1918 season
of which opens Saturday, and the numerous dis
trict and county fairs also notably instrument
al in promoting high standards of animal hus-
bandry.
OF all influences however, none has proved at
at once so directly and so broadly stimulating as
those centered in the farm itself Particularly
helpful has been the work of the boys live stock
clubs. They are largely to be credited with the
foundation of Georgia's remarkable record in hog
production; and they are giving marked
impetus to calf and sheep raising. All agencies
that encourage the increase of pure-bred live
stock are to be counted among the Common
wealths upbuilders.
General Foch proceeds on the assumption that
for the present, at least the machine gun is
mightier than the typewriter
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-15

The following address, reproduced from the
100 La La Times' the journal of the U. s. En-
gineers CRy) A. E. F. was delivered by Colonel
John Stephen Sewell, at a dinner given to him and
his staff by the citizens of town somewhere in
France" Colonel Sewel and his regiment which
includes a number of Atlanta and Georgia boys,
are admiringly remembered in this city.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen:
l going to be very rash, and speak to you in
French. 1t is my first effort in that role and
crave your indulgence for making you the victims.
About year ago, had the honor of being
a guest here on an occasion similar to this At
that time there hardly 900 Americans in
France. Coming fresh from commercial life in
America, l told you, as an American citizen, that
my people very seriously in earnest, that they
intended to see this war through to successful
finish, that had come to help France and Eng
land to finish the job.
Today we have at least one million two hun
dred and fifty thousand men in France, and we
are bringing men at the rate of three hundred
thousand per month.
Our men have proven the field of battle
that they are good soldiers, worthy companions
even of your incompatible poilus In the
meantime, with the cooperation of your govern
ment, have been creating facilities for support
ON scale that proves that we mean to stay in
the fight until Germany is vanquished, renquishes
all of her i'll gotten gains-even those of the war
of 1870-and sues for peace
When that moment arrives, we, the soldiers of
America, will vanish from France more rapidly
than we came, but not without much of the same
feeling we experienced when we left our own ma
tive land, for to France will ever be foster
mother, beloved by only less well than the land
which bore
But then will follow real American invasion
of France-for our aged fathers and mothers
our wives and sisters will want to the land
consecrated for them by toll, blood and
our lives, fight beside the of France
in the cause of freedom and justice. May l be-
speak for them the same kindly welcome you have
given to us who their husbands and brothers
and sons? If so, even those who come to seek the
last resting place of their loved will feel their
loss as a benedction, and will like u.s. look upon
France as our mother country.
1 have said that the soldiers of America would
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-15
4 PerilOuS Jncture.

We entering the most perilous phase
Of the entire war. The terrific onslaughts against
Verdun and the gigantic drive that carried linden
burg fearfully to the approaches to Paris
not so dangerous the Hun peace offensive will
prove if Americans lulled by overcondence, suffer
themselves to be deceived
The war is not yet won. 1t may yet be lost If
we now lag or nod The war will never be won
render 1t will certainly be lost, far its larger
detectives and ideals concerned, if give a
moments heed to peace mirages.
See how cunningly the Germans timed their
latest overture to the United States They chose
the moment when our Fourth Liberty Loan cam
paign was reaching it's most important stage
and when their own military prospect was darken-
ing with sundown's approach. They calculated that
news of continuous Allied successes would relax our
concern over the future and make more recep-
tive to peace propaganda. And they knew in their
craft that if such were really the case they would
have gone long way toward counterbaancing
their military reverses
Shall we play the dupes of this German trick?
Shall we slacken our efforts at home at the very
moment our armies at the front are in greatest
are yet to strike? Shall we let ourselves be
wneedled into peace negotiations with criminal
foe who will strive all the desperately and
subtly to win through a treacherous truce, now
that he defeat certainty, provided the war
Is fought end? If should fall into that trag-
ical bunder, all our sacrifices would be vain, all
our victories unavailing, all our hopes of enduring
peace an empty dream.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-15
. His Letter From Home.

The Walker County Messenger wisely urges
that prime duty of the people at home is to write
to the boys at the front. 81 doesn't matter wheth-
err you have a brother or friend lover
there" choose someone, or as many as you can.
and tell them that you are right behind them in
every minute of the game. Do it today tomor-
row may be too late"
This is wisely benevolently urged, we say.
because nothing is better for the morale of our ex
peditionary forces than intimate cheerful and fire.
quent news from home. No amount of courage
can cure nostalgia; no amount of excitement will
allay the soldiers longing for word from his
own people. Writing from the front in France a
Georgia officer says:
ut happeans to be my job to censor Com
pany mail and from reading these letters l
know how much the men want to hear from
home and frlends-and not all of them are
fortunate enough to hear. Letters don't seem
very momentous things back home; one ac-
cepts them along with other blessings as
matter of course But here, mail from
home is-wellit is mail from home. A bright
CHEEKY letter from home just naturally knocks
the spots out of trouble, adding to the spirit
and consequently to the efficiency of the man
who received it. Tell the people to write
often and long; sob stuff, but bright
cheerful letters about home doings. The men
thrive that"
The taboo on sob stuff is well put in It is
better to write nothing than to write whiningIy or
weepingly or gloomily. Epistles of that tone and
color deserve place along with the Huns poison
gas. But letters spced with neighborhood news
breathing forth the kindness of freside thoughts
and the simple courage worthy of a heroic cause
these heart-warmers and soul-fortifiers to the
boys at the front and in camp.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-15

And comes the Spanish influenza, surround
ed by all the mysteries and preceded by all the
fears that usually accompany a new and strange
bugaboo.
1t is even limited that it is novel form of Ger
man frightfulness. prominent health officer
says:
ut it is quite possible that the epiddmc
started by Huns sent ashore by boche submarine
commanders. We know that men have been ashore
from German submarine boats, for they have been
in New York and other places. 1t would be quite
easy for of these German agents to turn loose
Spanish influenza germs in a theater other
place where large numbers of persons are as
sembled.
1.-THE Germans have started epidemics in Eu-
rope. and there is reason why they should be
particularly gentle with America. OF course, there
is no way of proving that the disease started
here by German submarine agents, but it is we'll
within the range Of possibility"
Far be it from me, one of the great unlearned
mass to say that there is such thing, that it is
Just form of bad cold. 1t may be a brand-new
pest
But whether it is or not, one thing is certain,
and this the point of the present writing that the
ravages and deadliness of the malady furthered
and increased by the fear of it,
The way of rumor is past finding out. There
fads in diseases as well as in religions and petit
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-15
The Soldiers Santa Claus.

Concerning the soldiers Santa Claus the
Triton Gazette quotes official estimates which show
that il every man in the American Expedtionary
Forces is allowed a five-pound Christmas parcel
from home, it will require hundred cars a
day for ten days to carry the gifts from the base
ports to the soldiers due to receive them THE rail
roads in France" comments the Gazette ARE
doing their level best these days to supply and
feed the Allied armies, and a spare car is almost
a thing of the past" From the transportation
problem in America we can gather idea of how
acute il must be in the very heart of the war zone
and thus soften our regret over the limitations and
uncertainties of the boys Christmas mail by re-
Numbering that every inch of the crowded car
space is stored with things vitality essential to
them.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-15
Editorial Echoes.

William Henry Waters, Jr., carpenters mate
first class, and Frank Joseph Grogan, machinist's
mate first class, of the u. S. Naval Reserves
force have been commended by Secretary Daniels
for their galantry in jumping overheard from the
U. S. S. Aloha on the morning of July 10th, and
assisting in the resuce of a shipmate who had &C
cdentally fallen overheard and would have been
drowned but for their assistance.
Waters enlisted at New York, May %, 1917.
His father, William Henry Waters, Sr, lives at
S43 Boulevard, Bayonne N. j.
Grogan enlisted at New York October 5, 1917.
Mrs. c. A. Grogan, his mother, lives at 491 Four
teenth street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-15
OUIPS AND OUIDDITIES

ooh, come now, Murphy, said the captain grim
~, I'll try to stand the shock"
We'll sorr, it's loike this intoirely Oh had the
misfortune to have brother born blind, sorr.
Heaven he praised, he's got his soght, an he wants
to me, sorr."
Leave granted snapped the captain, as he
burst into uncomfortable laughter
Able Seaman Murphy of the U. S. S. Somespeed
the inventor of the most ingenious excuses in
order to obtain leave.
What earth do you require leave for this
time, Murphy" asked the captain, hero
made his oft-repeated request 1T isn't your
great-aunts wedding day. is it?"
Faith no, SORT" replied Pat. Its not so bad
as that. It's-bedad, Oh hardly loike to tell yez.
sorr."
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-15

coats and one has certain pride in being attacked
by disease which is all the vogue than by suffer
ing with a plain, everyday cold.
We can remember back to the days of something
they called the epizootic. 1t vigorously for
while but before the average man could find out
how to pronounced the name it disappeared
Then there the grippe, to say nothing of tno
sudden rise in popularity of appendicitis.
Copyright, 1918, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-15
The Journals Service Flag

In honor OF the seventy-three Atlanta Journal
men who have entered the service of their country
The two white stars are in memC-- Of Captain
Meredith Gray ana Captain James s. Moore, Jr.,
Journal men, who gave their lives for our country
in France.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-15

Seventy million marks worth of securities
nailed to the kaiser's chateau have been stolen
but the dispatch announcing the theft didn't make
it clear whether the kaiser other thief
was guilty.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-15

TIE peace dove may develop into ordinary
crow.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-15

The German note at least suggests a confession
that the Huns don't intend to take Paris this year
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-15

At the present rate of progress, Pershing
could eat his Thanksgiving dinner in Cologne
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-15
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-15

The pedestrian is convinced that gasless sur
days make the streets safe for democracy.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-15

General Foch proceeds the assumption that
for the present, at least, the machine gun is
mightier than the typewriter.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1918-03-21
g. 5!zIs ssan

The first church in Philippi was
built IN 1851.
Henry G. Davis was station agent
at Piedmont in 1854.
Shinnston lodge l. o. 0. r. was
organized Oct. rs, 1854.
There were eleven libraries in West
Virginia in 1850
Barbour county had 222 free
negroes and 113 slaves n 1850.
A big food on Monday April s,
1852, did great damage along the
Monongahela river
Harrison county's first courthouse
cost $3.50; the first enc in Marion
county cost $3,15075.
Taylor county was formed in 1854
from Harrison, Barbour and Marion
and named for John Taylor.
Michael Kern opened a boat yard
at the mouth of Decker's Greek (now
Mergsntewn) as early as 1772.
The first county fair in what is now
West Virginia was held at Sheperds-
town, then known a sNsw Mechlen-
burg.
Preston county was formed q ham,
dred years ago last month and was
named in honor OF Jams P. Preston,
governor Il Virginia in ISIS.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1918-03-21

not rarer, among them than among
men.
"The work of the Blue Cross is the
same for the horses of all the Allies.
There are twelve base hospitals in
France, together with supply depots
and branch hospitals, from which
the work is carried on. These have MI
been installed under the authority of
the French Minister of War. Tai
ented veterinarians make up an en-
Gent staff.
when wounded horse is brought
to the hospital he firsts gets a drink
of water. He is then taken to the
stable, where good straw bed and
good food await him. Some of the
horses are too tired to eat, SO they
sink on the straw and fall into .
stupor. Unless immediate treatment
is necessary they are not disturbed
during this rest But on the follow.
ing day all the horses are washed
and their wounds cleansed, inspected
and treated. The badly wounded are
taken to the hospital, and after
operation they are sent to the Blue
Cross pastures for recuperation ant
! conyalescence." Elk.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1918-03-21
Church Directory.

BAPTIST CHURCH-Rey. 81. A.
Stellar, pastor. Sunday School at
s:ls A. n. J. NJ. Ferrsll, Supt. Pray
er meeting Wednesday night Of each
week.
N. z. CHURCH-Rev. RIA. Skaggs.
pastor. Preaching every Sunday.
Prayer meeting every Wednesday even
ing. Sunday School every Sunday at
$50 A. NJ. J. L. Ernest, Supt.
M. 4. CHURCH, SCUTH-Preach-
ing and and 4th Sundays Of each
month, Rev. O. z. Thorn, pastor. Pray
err meeting Wednesday evening. Sun
day School at 9:45 A. III. Howard
Price, Supt.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Preaching services at II A. I'd. every
first and second sunday, and at Ii A.
M. and 1880 P. M. every third Sunday.
Rev. John Mckenzie, pastor Prayer
meeting Wednesday at 500 P. M.
Sabbath School at 9:45 A. M. J. P.
Tfbbsts, Supt.
UNITED BRETHERN CHURCH
Rev. H. D. Farmhouse, pastor. Preach
ing every Sunday. Prayer meeting
Wednesday evening of each week.
Sunday School every Sunday morn
ing at s:3e A. II. II. D. Gamer, Supt