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American prisoners on way home.

c%herishing the spirit of our fore
fathers who first celebrated this festi-
val of Thanksgiving we are proud to
have repaid a debt of gratitude to the
land Of Lafayette and to have lent
our aid in saving civilization from de-
struction.
The INSCRIPTIONS invader has
been driven from the devastated
scenes of his unholy conquest. The
tide of conflict which, during the dark
days of midsummer threatened to
o~verwhelm the Allied forces. has been
turned into glorious victory. As-the
sounds of battle die away and the
beaten foe hurrics from the field, it is
fitting that the conquering armies
should pause to give thanks to the
God of battles who has guided our
cause Alright.
"Victory was our goal. It is a hard
won gift Of the soldier to his coun-
try. Only the soldier knows the cost
of a gift we now present to the ma
ion, AS soldiers inspired by every
spiritual sentiment, we have each
silently prayed that the success Of
with thankfulness we humbly ac-
knowledge that His strength has
given us the victory.
"In this hour of thanksgiving our
eternal gratitude goes Out to those
heroes who loved liberty better than
life. who sleep yonder, where they
fell: to the manned whose honorable
scars testify stronger than words to
their splendid valor, and to the brave
fellows whose strong relentless blows
finally crushed the enemy's power.
Nor in u prayers shall we forget
the widow who freely gave the hus-
band, more precious than her life. nor
those who, in hidden .heroisnl have
impoverished themselves to enrich
the cause. nor our comrades who in
more obscure posts here and It home
have furnished their toll to the. SOL
diers at the front.
T many fame has come. New
names have been inscribed on the roll
of the immortals. To all have come
a new outlook on life. a clearer
perspective regarding it's obligations,
a more exalted conception of duty
and honor and a deeper sense of re-
sp%onsibility to the nation and to God.
May we give thanks that unselfsh
service has given us this new Tsion,
that we are able to return to our fire.
side and our country with higher
aims and a frmer purpose alike en-
nobling to ourselves and to those who
have held long vigil and have prayed
for lis that we might worthily repre-
sent them.
This spirit that has won the VIC
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Many Germans Are
Suffering What They
Made Others Endure

~Strasbourg, Wednesday, Nov. 81
Several hundred thousand Germans
in Alsace and Lorraine have begun to
experience suffering which equals, if
1t does MOI exceed, that which the
Germans have inflicted upon the
natives during the past 48 years. "A
great many of them who are holding
public offices find their occupations
suddenly withdrawn. Many others
who were employees of the public ad-
ministrations are living in daily fear
OF discharge n the necessity of
leaving he country.
Lack of comprehension Of the atti-
tude of the native population in the
provinces is general among the Ger
mans, who have seen only their own
great moral suffering of the native in
habitants during the past Al years.
The people of Alsace and Lorraine,
however, show feeling only toward
those who have had a share in the
responsibility for the harsh treatment
they have endured. Toward all others
they are remarkably considerate and
the few incidents that have developed
so far in the changed situation are
traceable to cases Of undoubted use
by the Germans of power they had
over the native population.
A good representative Of the Ger
man immigrant population here
might be found in the son of a Prus-
sian who settled in Alsace in 1874.
Asked if he would go back to Ger
many should Alsace become French,
he replied with tears in his eyes:
ut would be the browning grief OF
my life il ] should be driven from
S~trasbourEt and I will go unless
driven. Seventy five per cent of the
German population Of Alsace and
Lorraine feel as I do. We have lost
sympathy for the ideas which have
ruled Germany. If we have not be-
come Alsatian we love Alsace as well
as anyone"
The great distress of a considerable
portion of the German population is
that even after At years of residence
here there is nothing in common be.
tween them and the natives. Their
monopoly of public offices and the
large hold gained upon business
through the influence of the govern
: ment and army required considerable
formal contact with Alsatians, but
their relations remained formal.
Only in rare cases did the Germans
get across the threshold Of family
intimacy. Inter-marriages were re
markedly few, while the. mingling OF
immigrants and natives and social
organizations was unknown. German
Inhabitants who affected to ignore
this social ostracism while they had
the upper hand in official life. now
feel it keenly. Some will try to face
it out but others say they will return
to Germany.
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ONLY ONE FLAG in AMERICAS

There is only one flag in America! Time was when
there were thirteen within these shores, but that was be-
fore the Union was formed. Since then, away back in
1877. there has been but one flag, and it never has been
hauled down In defeat. Today there are those who are
trying to fly another flag. a red flag of disorder. of yyio-
lence, of class hatred.
But there is only one flag! On June II, 1877, it was
given to the world by congress, which decreed that the
flag of the United States be thirteen stripes. alternate red
and white; that the Union be thirteen stars, white in a
blue field, representing a new constellation There were
changes. Of course. for as new states came into the Union
another star and stripe were added. Soon it contained
twenty stars and twenty stripes. when it was found objec-
tionabe to be continually altering the national emblem.
In 1918, it was determined to so back to the original thir-
teen stripes, but to add a star for every state admitted to
the Union.
Today there is only one flag, the flag that has surviv-
ed through the changing years of war and peace, and it
has forty-eight stars, representing the greatest constella-
ton in the world. There is only one flag, and it is the flag
that Betsy Ross made for the brave soldiers of the Revo-
lutionary army. It is the flag that Perry flew on Lake
Erie when the British navy, long considered the mistress
of the sea, was defeated; it is the flag that Perry carried
up the Tobasco river when he captured Tobasco and cut
off Mexico from Yucatan. 1t is the flag that Zachary Tay-
lor flew at Palo Alto and Buena Vista and that Winfield
Scott unfurled at cerro Grando and Chapultepec; it is
the flag that flew from Farraguts ship as he steamed
down the Mississippi to New Orleans. 1t is the flag that
Grant had at vicksburg and Appomattox and that sher-
man carried with him to the sea. 1t is the flag that Dewey
fought for at Manila, and it is the flag that General Per
shing carried with him to France, the flag that now flies
in trump phi, beside the flags of Great Britain and France
and Belgium, just beyond the German border.
There is only one flag in America, the flag for which
four million men offered their lives; for which millions
of fathers and mothers sacrificed their all. They want no
other flag-they will have none.
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they developed in their bearing and in
the straight, leeel way thai they met
your glance that spirit which says,
Il fight to win. I shall win!" and
with that spirit a smile, a ~philosophic
acceptance of what m their way,
an upstanding pride-a new sort Of
Americanism; that of the DETERMINE
ton and enterprise of the individual
ism OF the youth who mea to get
on in the world and of the aimlessness
of the youth who stands at the street
corners with his hands in his pockets,
amalgamated by discipline and ex-
ample into a common purpose and
character, which would bring a nation
into a new era.
Had our general done no more
than train the army and built an or
for its direction, his place
in history would be quite secure with
out regard to how he was to use the
weapon which he had forged and
tempered and sharpened.
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tory is/to become a permanent and
indispensable mainstay of peace and
happiness. 1t is not a matter of in
dividual choice but of obligation that
we should proudly carry it back with
us.
Our nation awaits. the return Of
its soldiers. believing in the stability
of character that has come from self
discipline and self-sacrifce. .Conf1-
dent of the new power that the stern
school of war and discipline has
brought to each Of us, American
mothers await with loving hearts
their gallant sons. Great cause In
deed, have we to thank God for trials
successfully met and victories won.
Still more should we thank Him for
the golden future with its wealth of
opportunity and its hope Of a perma-
nent universal peace"
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Pershing Delivered
Address To Soldiers Al Main
Headquarters on THANKSGIVING

American Headquarters in France,
Thursday, Nov. 2S.-(By the ASCOT
ated Press. )-Victory, won by the
American soldiers in hard fighting
and at the cost of great sacrifices, was
the Thanksgiving day gift to the
American nation and the American
army. General Pershing declared in a
Thanksgiving day address at general
headquarters today.
The debt of gratitude to Lafayette
has been paid and the invader has
been driven back in defeat.
The American commandments
paid tribute to the dead and wounded,
urged the soldiers to thank God for
the victory and declared that a new
vision of duty to God and country
had come to all. American mothers,
he said. await with loving hearts the
Homecoming of their gallant sons.
American Headquarters in France.
Thursday. Nov. 28.-(By The Associ-
ated Press.)-Where ", possible,
Thanksgiving day was observed
throughout the war zone by the
American forces. all unnecessary mil
itary duties being suspended. The
day found many troops marching or
%entrained for ports but in canton-
ments and fxed@amps services were
held, and an effort was made to pro-
vide some substitute for the tradition
al American dinner.
An impressive service was held at
the great general headquarters. The
troops were paraded without arms
and the officers and men held a
meeting which was attended by local
dignitaries n the members Of Allied
military missions here. The Rev.
Charles Henry Brent, former
Protestant Episcopal bishop for the
Philippine Islands and now working
among the American troops, read the
presidents proclamation announcing
Thanksgiving day. General John J.
Pershing made a brief address.
Bishop Brent then read Washing
toms prayer.
Led by the headquarters band the
meeting sang the Battle Hymn Of the
Republic, "Marseillaise.' and Amer
ica.'
After Bishop Brent's benediction. a
band concert was given.
Pcrshing Speaks.
The text of General Pershing's adj
dress follows:
Fellow soldiers: Never in the his
tory of our country have we, as a
people, came together with such full
hearts as on this greatest of all
Thanksgiving days. The moment
throbs with emotion, seeking to find
full expression. Representing the
high ideals of our countrymen and
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Bit OF Hun Kultur
Machine Gun Hidden Behind a Cross
in French Cemetery.

Machine Gun Hidden Behind q Cross
in French Cemetery. s...-
From my dugout entrance I can see
two crosses-crosses that hold out the
promise of victory and peace to the
Allies and that furnish a concrete ex-
ample of Germany infamy.
One cross stands behind our front
lines. many feet above the ground, on
what was once a tower Of a massive
cathedral. 1t is untouched by German,
fire. Around it all is ruin. The town
is desoletc, the cathedral itself stands
in a mass of ruin. That part of the
tower that holds the cross aloft seems
but a narrow needle jutting out of the
horizon. Every day the boche shells
this town, and many missiles fall on
the ruined shell Of the cathedral. But
the cross still stands untouched. AS
though some unseen hands guide the
whistling shells from this emblem of
the Christ, the cross is protected.
Every afternoon as the sun sinks
down in the west this cross is silhou-
cited against the evening sky, a prom
Use of victory and peace. The triumph
Of right over wrong.
The other cross stands in No Mans
Land. 1t is in the center of a small
village cemetery. 1t is the largest cross
prominently among the smaller head
stones in the city of the dead. =
For several months we have been.
losing men from machine-gun fire in.
this section. We have been unable to,
locate the gun that was playing such
havoc On u lines. Our best patrols
went out in al effort to discover this
particular machine-gun emplacement.,
Our best aviators circled so near the
ground in an effort to locate the gun
that they were in danger of making
a sudden landing in No Mans Land.
But still the machine gun was .undis-
covered. Every night its pat-pat-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. would ring out,
and some M would paid the price.
1t was as though some phantom'ma-
chine gunner was operating a phan-
tom gun.
Then came the order to. advance.
Over the top we went, fright on to the
German lines. But still the phantom
machine gun worked.
AS we pressed closer and closer to
the boche lines we came into the EN-
etery. Then some one discovered the
secret of the phantom gun. =
The boche had violated the sanctity
Of thegtomb. With all his sacrilegious
cunning he had placed his machine
gun beneath the cross. His death ma
chine was placed within the very
shadow Of the Holy Cross.
Is the story of the two CROSSES.
One a silent sponsor Of the Allied
cause. The other a silent rebuke to
German Kultur.'-Captain o. @.
Melton in Atlanta Constitution.
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Austria Threatened
With War By Germans
When Peace Is Sought

Copenhagen, Friday. Nov. %
People of prominence in Vienna who
are in touch with the foreign depart
ment there assert that in 1917 when
Count Czernin, then Austro-Hungar-
ian foreign minister, sought, by EN-
peror Charles order, to Induce En-
peror William to conclude peace, he
was referred to supreme headquar-
tiers.
When Count Czernin pointd out
that Austria "a exhausted and might
be compelled to make a separate
peace. General L~udendorff, striking
the table exclaimed:
The same day that Austria con
cludes a separate peace, it will ro-
ceive a declaration OF war from Ger.
many. That will be our only answer
to such a breach,
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THINK II OVER

On May /, 1915, the Lusitania sailed from New York.
1t never reached its destination.
On November 25. 1918, the Mauretania, her sister
ship, sailed from Liverpool. Soon she will put into port
at New York. and many American soldiers will have come
home.
Historians have much to say about what happened
between these two dates, but what they have to say is
nothing compared to what the kaiser has to think.
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Germany Starts 70
Deliver Railroad
Cars 10 The Allies

Paris, Friday, Nov. 2s.-The MIST Of
the 1900 railway cars which Ger
many must deliver to the Allies UNI
der the Terms Of the armistice, ar
rived yesterday at the frontier and
were received by military authorities,
according to Matin.
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PAYS WELL.

London, Nov. so.-chiropody ii
paving business in the west end a.
London This was disclosed f.. a
oun the other day when a chir-
9podist revealed the fact that he had
lso annuai subscribers who spaid
1Dloouoe lI1s,VV0 2 year.
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Such . measure should meet with strong protest.
OF the unfair burden it places upon manufacturer. re-
taller and consumer. They. then. should decide to strike
the proposal from the bill.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-05-02
TROOPS
FIGHT IN OPEN
Americans in PiCardy Face
Huns For First Time in
War Without Trench
Protection.
BY FRED s. FERGUSON.
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT.

With the American Army in Nor
thern France, April 2S.-American
forces are now fighting beside the
French in northern France, holding a
sector in the heart Of the worlds
greatest battle.
This announcement is now possible,
after three weeks silence regarding
the movement of troops.
Infantry, artillery, machine gunners
and other branches or the service are
in line.
The Americans face the German
army at the peak of a German salient.
The outposts are only 200 yards apart
at some places. At some points the
American positions are maintained in
shell holes.
AS soon as all troops and guns were
in position, the sector was formally
taken over from the French The
American commander, who is under a
French corps commander, expressed
the greatest confidence in the French
leadership.
The entire country here is open and
rolling with very few woods or other
screening facilities, M 40 trenches.
The entire problem is n of open
fighting.
The boche artillery. which is active
in Smelling all roads and villages within
range, is visible from an American OBJ
servation post.
Although the French characterized
this sector as quiet the present fire
is the vastest the Americans have yet
faced.
The skies are ablaze every night
with the flash of guns and h air
uuivers with the o Of artillery and
exploding shells. As the high eX-
plosives pound the American lines, the
soldiers dive into the shallow cover Of
bitches and shell holes.
One American outfit carried its flag
into the front line. Although furled in
a waterproof case, Old Glory is on the
battle line.
The Americans entrance into the
battle line in northern France followed
a trip partly by rail and partly by
marching.
The troops were in the highest
spirits throughout. They cheered the
villagers from their freight cars and
flat cars as they passed through the
towns. Rolling kitchens, mounted on
flat cars, kept them supplied with
hot 'slum."
Leaving the train after two days
and nights Of riding, they marched to
the mobilization area, where they were
billeted in villages and chateaus.
They rested in reserve three days,
then began the march of marches to
the line.
They swung through villages singing,
Hail, Hail the Gangs All Here"
Big c~amouflaged American guns
rolled across the plains for the first
time.
The march was made in stages of
from Is to 20 miles a day, the men
sleeping in barns, mills, anywhere, at
night.
Strict censorship for military rea-
sons. prevented disclosing all move
ments after departure from the orig
inal American lines TO the south.
Prior to their departure from a Ger
tain village, an important conference
was held at headquarters in which all
officers participated n received their
final Instructions.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-05-02
CHARGES PRESIDENT
HID AERIAL. REPORT

Washington. D. c., April 30.-Sevore
program were made In the Senate to-
day in connection with discussion Of
the air craft report made TO President
Wilson by Gutzon Borglunl, the sculp-
tor. Senate Brandegeo, who brought
UP III subject referred 10 newspaper
publication OF what purporred to DO
the sculptor's report and suggested
tina President Wilson had "pocketed
it.
The whole subject, he said, should be
investigated by the Senat military
committee. Borgium's report as out
lined in the newspaper publication was
critical OF Major General Squier, chief
of the signal corps and OF others.
The committee, n Thomas said,
had declined 10 call Mr.. Borglum be-
fore it be cause he was not entirely q
disinterested witness, as he was report
I'll to have connections with an aero
nautical association. which was a po-
tential aircraft manufactures.
Senator BrandeSee said that Mr..
Borglum, although given d letter by
President Wilson authorizing him 10
secure agitation information from tina
war department, had pcen very much
INSTRUCTED" by army officials. Refer
ring TO his report. said 10 have been
given President Wilson, the Connec-
ticut mate said:
IF it Is anything like what Is do
scribed In those clustering words, II IL
limo the legislative department or tho
government 9hc'ld take some action
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-05-02
GREAT PROPAGANDA
CAMPAIGN IS BEGUN
New Whispering Offensive Is
Launched by Germans to
Divide Allies.
BY ROBERT j. BENDER.
United Press Staff Correspondent.

Washington. ID. c., April 29.--Cer-
many's bloody effort to split the Brit
ish n French allies in the west will
be followed by q tremendous propa
ganda effort directed to the same end.
Diplomatic advices today indicate
that the Teuton is laying his plans for
a whispering offensive OF ~treachery
as carefully as he prepared his gigan-
tic military effort in Flanders and
Picardy.
From the advance guard of the pro-
paganda assaults, it appears Germany
VIII follow two courses in France
offer to arrange for settlement OF
French loanS to Russia, now apparent
ly lost, and stir up dissatisfaction with
England for starting tSe war and then
not doing her part" Advices here in
dictate that much Of the new propa-
ganda is emanatinS from switzerland
The Germans, apparently preparing
for the future, have organized Il vir-
tual army Of propagandists in Persia
in an effort to demoralize h allied
influence there. BY creating trouble
there-at the rea door of India
Germany believes she may hasten her
expected realization of a dominated
east. President Wilson, in his Balti-
more address, warned Of Germanys
purposes TO ultimately enslave under
her power Persia and India.
To beat the German in this, allied ane
American leaders here are suggesting
q strong allied offensive in Italy and
Macedonia. This might be made
sufficiently powerful to disengage
Germany's undisturbed efforts in Rus
STA. which ultimately, it is believed by
any here, will result in the pressing
of thousands Of Russians on the side
of the Teutons.
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OUR BOYS "OvER THERE" EN-.
JOY TOASTED CIGARETTES.

Through the patriotism of the citi-
zens of this country thousands of
smoke kits are being distributed to
American soldiers in France. Author
tiles agree that men in the trenches
need cigarettes almost as much as
food and munitions.
Doctors, nurses, and commanding
officers all join in the demand which
has awakened in this country a great
movement to keep our boys supplied
with smokes.
Millions of the famous LUCKY
STRIKE Cigarettes are going over"
all the time. There's something
about the idea of the toasted ciga.
rette that appeals to the men who
spend their time in cold, wet trenches
and billets.
Then, too, the real Kentucky Burley
tobacco of the LUCKY STRIKE ciga.
rette gives them the solid satisfaction
of a pipe, with a lot less trouble. Adv
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-05-02
FIRST VETERANS ARE
BACK FROM TRENCHES
Squad of 80 From Firing Line
Here to Boost For Liberty
Loan.

New York, April 29.--New York to-
day welcomed the first American SOL
diers back from the firing line. Fifty
lads from P~ershing's army marched
up Broadway and into City Hall park
for the noon Liberty loan rally while
thousands cheered, climbing upon win
dow stills, statues and upon top Of
subway kiosks to get a glimpse Of
Americas first veterans of the great
war.
At City Hall park, the troops lined
up and were greeted by Mayor Hylan.
Afterward they were entertained ct
luncheon.
With total subscriptions Of $500, o00,-
coo New York started the last week OF
the drive with the intention OF raising
81, 500, 900 900, instead OF merely Ats
S9s, 600, 900 quota. Big. individual sub
scriptiors are looked Tor this week