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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-09
HOxY About DuttermiIk :.

"I am puzzled as to what drinks to serve with the refreshments at the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce tomorrow night said w. Blanks Everett, general manager of the Chamber of Commerce 'as so many people can't drink coffee, and punch sounds rather sissy So I don't know just what to do
 T do hope someone will come along with good suggestion, as this mat ter of securing something to drink to please the majority of people, both men and women who will be present, has me worried"
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ALABAMA PRESS

Ashland Progress: Now if Uncle Sam can put a war punch into car move mcnts of coal' he will have performed another great service for the people.
 Talladega Home: Every now and then statement drifts through from Berlin. Pilate, Pontius Pilate, who inquired, What is the truth?''
 Sheffield Standard: The same old crowd that whipped the last legislature into doing their bidding is now shaping up antt ther nasty political fight.
 West Alabamian: The numerous aspi- rants for gubernatorial honors in Ala bama are being put to It badly over the question of indorsement of that national prohibition amendment.
 Demopolis Times: A letter from a Bir- mingham soldier in France to his parents tells among other things of finding American canned goods in captured German dugouts, after the Hindenburg line was broken. He said it made him mad to think that we had to feed the Roches and fight them at the same time Neutral countries that make such things possible have only themselves to thank for the food embargo.
 Cianton Press Some time or other we expect to write our Hast line of edito- riai, and we hope it will be an appeal for personal freedom as guaranteed by a strict adherence to democratic princi- r1l~
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draft upon our man-power for the army
 the stores, the fields, the shops, the
 mines, the professions. A long drawn-
 out war means that the American labor
 market will be depleted and that we will
 have to make the sacrifices already made
 by our allies to fill up the gaps. The call
 will come first by trying to utilize those who hitherto have not been industrially occupied and those who are ill-occup.ed. Now I haven't time to go into this. but look around you and perhaps you will be encouraged to think it through for your self. It will pay you to take stock of the situation. It may convince you that you are parasite and not serving in any helpful way. Sooner or later we have all got to come clean. John Sparrow said it's high time to can the expression, | T am ready to do my bit" and to sub stitute for it, 'I am ready to do my all. . 1 Most of you no doubt have seen how
 at last England woke up from her silly dream of being content ito muddle siio"5"' ei'e e"" " was d~SS>'' V l life and death for the men in the 1 trenches to have a civilian army at their backs. Lord Northcliffe came back from Flanders and told them the brutal facts | that Englishmen were dying by the thou sands because they were trying to fight without proper arms and sufficient mu- nitions. It stirred the stolid Briton from his lethargy and Lloyd George, the human I dynamo. got busy and mobilized the fac tories and enthused the workers Oul l American ship building industry needs at present 4Oo.Oco men. and the scarcity
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-05
a POOR SPORT"

GERMANY il protesting AGAINST allied
ir raids and threatens rcprisals unless
bombing il confined To the larger mill
tary nosts
I, is another case NJ the h.nrman
when he furnishes the pr,ncipal attrac-
tion of tho execution.
The German WAS never a good snort.
All the fighting men agree upon that.
GERMANY delights in crucIty She
struck medals whom tho Ilisitania was
murdered Sba cb,crcd whom her zeps
and nlanes crushed ror-comha,ants in
I.n,d,, and t,yc5 Who, , long range
she'll DESTROYED "A church and its wor-
sinners in Paris.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-05
As 70 POLITICAL DYSaSTiES.

The Hapsburgs arc done in Europe
and good riddance. That family be
gan with pirate and a robher who
built a castle nine centuries ago and
began to rule by the divine right Of
arms over the weaker Then about
300 years later a Haps5urg became en-
peror of Germany. Since then the
Hapsburgs have held kingship and
power. The family intermarried, held
its wealth and its power together with
the one thought of the divine right of
that family to rule other men and their
families. They got away with it until
the dream of further power allied ii
with the schemes of Prussianism. To-
DAY the last Hapsburg is pleading to
abdicate.
The idea of continuing one family or
one ruler in power seems to have long
worked we'll for the Hapsburs family.
1t hasn't worked we'll for Austrians.
1t hasn't worked we'll for the German
people and in the end will put the
Hahenzollerns where the Hapsburss
have gone.
The American idea Of changing rulers
often has it's disadvantages but those
are less disadvantages than annoy =
ances Dynastic rule either by ruling
families or by parties are the enemies
Of democracy Emergencies may seem
to call for limited dictatorship over
free countries Sbut dynastic rule either
by families. sons or daughters or som
in laws lacks the approval of history.
The Philadelphia Ledger heads an
editorial "Of Course Swap Your
Horses" which bears on the subject and
is worth reproduction at the present
time and under present circumstances;
Why, Of course. swap your horses
politically, That's the constitutional
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-05
HOW SOME OF THEM c)N- HoM :

Most Of us have a picture in our
minds of the Homecoming of the hOys
We shall meet them at the train and
they shall march up the street between
lines Of cheering me. and fearful
women to a glorious welcome home.
Part OF that dream will co.'s 100.
The boys will come home tC s.aI
claim whether they come marching y
companies and plantoons or slip quiet
~ rack on the regular trains A Few
TO gether or one at a time. The heart
Of all America is waiting for them.
But all will not come back that way.
There is a sorrowfully large contingent
of that physical perfection that left US
in its strength and complete manhood
that will come back wrecked and torn.
the salvage of the great war. Above
all let us not forget them or fail them
in a single particular.
4 Marshalltown lad on his way
across has been three weeks in the
surgical ward at a base hospital al an
American emba rCa ton port. Net him
tell what he saw there and how it af-
fected him.
In this ward ! am in are about
thirty fellows back from France and
believe me some of them are sure plug
ged. Most of them are doubhboys with
a few field artillerymen-they got hurt
at Chateau Thierry and at SCISSORS
along in July and August.
The big thing about them is their
spirit or, as army men say, their CUTS.
They sure are men. Fellows with holes
in them big enough to shove Your hand
into, torn all to the devil by high ex-
plosive shell. but they are as Cheerful
and plucky as can be. They srcan ana
yell at times hut you never hear them
kick or fuss They have the stuff IN
them-thats all
The fellows with arms and legs on
suffer the least and are little more
cheerful. They are all glad that
they were able to give all that they
were able to give and knowing that
they have given they are glad TO be on
their way back home. That helps.
One little fellow has a Snipers bull
let thru his spine and half dozen
machine gun bullets thru his legs. He
is paralyzed from his hips down. But
he has the CUTS and only once in
while does he go on an emotional ram
page. Then. there's another with
high explosive fragment wound. 1t hit
him from the side and went thru the
fleshy part of both thighs. Hes awful
" torn but he's game. They are
splendid bunch.
And God. how it makes you wan,
to fight You don't think that you
might get the same thing. You only
want to get across there and hmht'
fight like hell
They are coming back to US that
pitiful procession the more pitiful from
their splendor Of spirit and acceptance
of sacrifice. Put them in the fore
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-05
A prof;teerino Party,

OF all men Secretary Daniels ought
to be the last to talk about profiteering.
since if the full roster appeared OF just
how the section he represents sec
ton without industrial competence or
business leadership-has monopolized
appointments under the administration
and has even acted as the first hand
contractors. for a profit" leaving the
actual work to the northern Industrial
centers Of the country. the whole coun-
try would be amazed. Nothing like the
protiteering of a party out Of "A war has
ever been seen compared with what has
been done for and by hungry and de-
serving democrats. That any have been
overlooked is incredible. Almost all the
south from North Carolina to Texas
has migrated to Washington for pas
lures green. while il has been left for
republican Industrial leaders to rise to
the aid OF the government and receive
La small return when wages. taxes
(leveied sectionally) and the interest on
the investment are al, taken into ac
count The real junkers in America
raise cotton. not wheat: the greatest
profiteering agency in the war is the
party in power. that has truly spoiled
the Egyptians" and yet sets up a
Daniels to dkaw the red herring of par
the guns roar abroad the only sound
heard in the inner democratic circles
is the song of the spokesman who has
come into his own.--PhiIadelphia Pub
lie Ledger.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-05

and the American way of carrying on
a government OF the people, and II has
proved a magnificent success FOR over
hundred and thirty-one years. So
just why the democratic cabinet men,
one or two OF whonf>are citizens OF ad-
option, and hence not familiar at hrst
hand with the fundamentals of the AM
cr.Can viewpoint, keep on harping on
hat old atsurdity that not 10 con-
t.nuo president or any one else In
Cff.ce or his friends, or his party in
p,wCr For that matter, indefinitely, IL
akin Ia the alleged. evil OF swapping
horses While eros rE = Stream. oasses
lClief. We do no. '"'',,s IN .Hicr
holding IN pIrpetp't "a" - '
bro ,donts. and No hat
since the currents of w. ahd
politics are always running stronger.
We We At war or at peace. the best thins
Is "a change ia executives, ,ce me
foretathcrs rightly assumed that every
one " no took high Office would be just
as American as his predecessor and be
fresher al the bat, and hence they set
us horse swapping while your Uncle
sam crossed the stream as the very
fundamental fact in the American sys-
TEN. And the swapping. on the whole
has worked so much better in all our
ma ional crises than the trained guild
ing hand" Of the perpetual kings or
dynast'cs IL Europe that at last
Europe, sick to death OF kings and
autecratS and the perpetual and divine
right of certain men To reign and gov
ern and continue in office. is kicking
the system overheard. In fact all
Europe is Getting ready for some cE-
tensive executive swapping on its own
account, and while crossing the stream
of war and peace at that
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-05
Red Cross "EIu" Rules.

For release on or after oct. 30 When
the hospitals are full and the doctors
arc all busy and you can &c a
nurse for love or money. what shall
do" the average. housewife asks. I'll
some one in my family gets influenza :"
This question is answered in a state
ment issued today by Miss Jane A
Delano, director of the department OF
nursing American Red Cross. who out
of her own experience as nurse. offers
gestions: ..
IF member OF your family Is
stricken with Spanish influenza, or
shows decided evidence Of being seri-
ously i'll, do the following things until
physician can be summoned:
Put The patient to bed. and keep
him there. Select a quiet, sunny room
as far removed as possible from other
members of the family. and remove all
unnecessary furniture. so that the room
can be easily cleaned. ~ ..a
THE room should he ventilated
but not too warm. ventilated room
does not mean a cold room, and the
pa tient should always he protected from
direct draught. The window should be
raised at top and bottom, at least. once
every hour. to keep fresh air circuiat-
ing. Use extra covers. If necessary.
Keep away other members OF the
family. and exclude visitors until the
doctor has seen the patient
only one person should attend the
patient. She should wear wash dress,
covered by a long apron with sleeves
while nursing This apron should be
left in the room. near the door and put
on Immediately upon entering tn
sick room
In order TO keep from breathing in
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-05
[Bv David Cory. J

In the last story Master Billy Bun
ny. of Old Briar Patch. Snake Fence
Corner, L. s. A.. was talking to the
little beaver, who was ma king dam
across the Babbhng brook. byou rem
ember. SO that the water would be
deep and not freeze, over his front
door in the cold winter time.
Every one is getting ready for the
cold weather" said Danny Beaver.
1T wont be long before my dam is mn
ished, and then IN set to work ana
make my house Of mud and sticks,
and then he jumped into the water
with a flap of his big broad tail and
disappeared SO the little RABBIT
hoped along. and by and by he came
to the cave of Friendly Brown Bear.
Hello, Mr. Bear" said Billy Bunny.
and the Fr.andy Brown Bear looked
up from where he was sitting just out
side his front door and then he said:
Winter time will soon be here.
But l shall have no fear.
I'll curl up in my nice warm cave
Till spring again is here.
But what will you eat?" asked the
little rabbit. >.
"Oh, that doesn't worry me, SAID
the bear. When you're asleep. or even
Just doing, you don't feel hungry.
And on a warm. sunny day | may
come out for a little while and find
something to eat. | don't worry.
Worry never makes you fat,
Instead it makes you lean.
Never worry for a minute
Worry has the devil in it
Keep your mind serene.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-05
Billy Bunny and HIS Friends

And il YOU don't know what serene
means, take your fathers dictionary
and look IL up. for the more words you
learn the wiser you will become.
Well. | don't have TO worry about
the cold weather laughed the little
rabbit. Mother Natare will give me
Ia new white fur overcoat, and the oid
Brier Patch keeps the wind away, ana
mother and have plenty OF cabbage
| leaves and caroots stored away Tor
the winter" And then away went
Billy Bunny to see more OF ms
| friends in the Friendly Forest
Well. by and by. after a while. ne
heard the honk OF an automobiie norm
| Il wonder whether that's Uncie
Lucky" thought Billy Bunny. ana ne
| stopped and looked all around. and
pretty soon. not very long. the old
gentleman rabbit drove by in his
Iuckymobile He looked very well in
his old stovepipe wedding hat and
blue polka dot handkerchief and ms
gold watch and chain and his great
big immense diamond horseshoe pin
| in his pink cravat Oh. my. yes
Uncle Lucky was quite dandy. he
was the best dressed habbit In RAD
bitville. and why shouldn't he be when
YOU consider he was president or the
hank and the Welsh Rarebit Club.
Hello. there. little nephew" shout
| ed dear Uncle Lucky.
Hop in and take a ride with me.
| Wen take a spin for mile or three.
And maybe we'll come where the lol-
lypops grow
| Pink and yellow. all in a row.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-05
Topics Of the Times

He Is a poor sort of citizen who fans
Ia vote. Don't be that sort. Vote.
Chances are that more people will sill
up for the returns tonight than have
done so in an off election for man!
years. The sudden interest aroused by
the edict against republicans is mainly
responsible. Let alone folks would
have gone to bed at the usual hour
Get ready for the eleventh of Noyem
Der. That's when you get shot at the
enemy
And when the war is finally over
where is industrial Germany TO look for
a customer?
The handsome and commodiou
home" OF the late Senator and Mrs
James Mcmillan is mentioned by the
Washington Post. Bet you some oil
those Oskaloosa boys are working on
the sheet.
Republicans are not and have not
been ~anti administration" They are
and have been simply All-American.
The strain on the Austrian army has
been greatly relieved by the armistice.
This looking backward while you run
is a hard strain on the neck.
II Germany get the same terms as
Turkey which include the giving TO
justice up of all who have violated the
rules Of civilized warfare some OF the
boys will have TO stay over quite some
time to see to the hanginss.
IF Europe Iaughrs at the idea OF a
hereditary president surely America
would not take any similar suggestion
seriously.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-05


the germs Of tnGusnsa and pneumonia
which are expelled into the air by tn
| patient, the attendant should wesr
contagion mask over the mouth and
nose.
1.-THE mask In made by folding to-
gether SIX thickneeses Of eauze, eishi
inches square when finished. attached
tapes To the four corners to be tied
back OF the head, Have several Of
these and boil each one after using.
THE attendant should remember TO
wash her hands frequently with warm
water and soap, especially before leay-
ing the room to mingle with other
members Of the family.
IAN towels and washclothes used 10
wash the patient should he kept sep
aratc, also the basin required Tor his
toilet ~
Use cloth or paper napkins ~ re-
celve the discharges from the mouth
and nose. Burn these after being used.
Old cloths or cotton used to receive
material should be placed In q paper
bag and burned. Immediately.
"Soiled handkerchi-fs. which may
not he burned. should not he placed
under the pillow. Keep them in a
paper bag near the bebdside Before
sending to the laundry. they should be
put in a pan filed with water and
little washing soda. and boiled.
Select certain dishes to he used In
the sick room and keep them there for
the sole use Of the patient. II nee
essary 10 take them to the kitchen.
boil them before washing.
Scraps of food left on the tray after
the patient has eaten should also be
placed in a paper bag and burned.
'siive no medicine that has not been
ordered by a physician
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-05


ground of your picture Of the home
coming soldiers.
Keep that picture In your mind
Think Of IT. See It. Does II make YOU
want to hght9 Then come to the
front with your money when the drive
for, the war service fund begins. You
can't get ov'-tt.are an ''lisht, hsht Ike
hell" but YOU can hack up the boys
who do and make their sufferings
caster and tighten their hardships,
what a small thing II is to give a few
dollars with the picture OF the men
Who have given so much. so willingly
and so uncomplainlngg before o,i
eyes.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-05
Masonic Meetings
IN visi<ors Always Welcome.
y MARSHAL LODGE NO. 1903, A. r

vtsi<ors Always welcome
MARSHALL LODGE NO. 1903, A. r
A.. M.-Special communication Friday
Nov. 8, 1880 p. m. Work in second dc
gree. r. r. English, W. NJ: John W
Wells, secretary.
sieNEr CHAPTER, No. 3s. r. a. "
Stated convocation Monda: evening
Oct. II. at 1890. Business session. Ira
A. Davenport. II. P. John w. Wells
secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY. KIM Solo.
80, Council No. 20. r. a. s, NJ. Mon
aay. Oct 81 1913. $50. Regular
business. 7 r Forbes. recorder: Georg"
cveeo-v. l. ~.
So~e;.I rooef.v. s.. Alder-ar Con,
ard.-v No. 40. X. T. Monday. Nov.
at 1880. Work in the order Of the
Red Cross. J. F.. Frederick. COM
|mander. T. T. Forbes. recorder.
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. 81. o. e S.
Special meeting Wednesday evening.
Nov. 6. 7:so o'clock. for initiation. Mrs.
Archer Walter, secretary. Mrs. Cora
Wiley. W. NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-05

object to bcinw located 20 miles back
Of the Rhine. The probabilities are
that sixty would suit him better.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-05
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

The Des Moines Register says Ger
many should consider herself luck,
that the armistice terms do not cal
for the occupation of Berlin by thu
allies
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-05

"rhe presidents purely partisan
appeal is one that gives surprise and
chagrln TO every believer in represent
tative government" declares the Mon
ticalo Express.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-05

I'm war times as In other times an
ounce OF practical efficiency Is worth
a pound of theoretical knowledge
remarks the Mason City Globe Gazette
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-05

The Davenport Democrat thinks
"One Of the best guarantees OF an
early surrender by Germany is the evs-
denCe she can SEQ in every direction
that ii Is easy to walt too long
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-05

is he president of the whole coun-
try or just president OF the democratic
party" asks the Knoxville Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-05

The average German soldier will not
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-05
On Cheek and Head. Cross and
|Fretful and Restless. Scalp Dry.

"When my baby was three months
old a,r,sh cane on his right cheek