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The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-09-11
will be able to hold it much lon.

will be able to hold it much lon.
ger.
On the Douai-C Cambria and i'm
mediately to the south the en-
envy gives signs of stiffening re-
sistance, but nevertheless the
British have moved further
ahead at various points. Their
most notable gain was southeast
OF Bertincourt, where they took
additional ground east of the
Canal du Nord and captured
Neuville.Bcurjouval.
The Germans made an effort
to disl odge Field Marshal Haig's
forces from their position along
the canal, east of Cambria, at
lacking at Inchy-En-Artois.
They were repulsed, however, as
they also were further south in
an attack east of Manancourt.
PARIS, Sept. 5.-Victory still
smiles on the allied armies. The
enemy is in retreat along the
whole line from Ypres to Rheims.
Honors yesterday were with the
French and Americans on the
allied right wing, which at last
gained the reward of several
days. persistent effort. Exactly
how far they advanced is difficult
to say, for the line moved for
ward hourly.
The enemy, who has lost heavi-
ly in men, announces by a hur-
ried destruction of material his
Intention of abandoning, if he
has not already done so, Chauny,
Jussy, La Fere and probably
Ham.
| There can be no doubt of his
retreating in a general direction
Iof st. Quentin to take up the
positions of the Hindenburg line
that he held after the strategic
withdrawal in 1917. Only this
Continued nm mage &
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The ENTENTE Of THE .lSMS.

The News believed with most
other Democratic newspapers of
the State that the party could
have democratized it's candidate
and nominee for United States
Senator by submitting the Sc
lection to the will and choice of
the people. There was no reason
chronological or otherwise for
not doing this.
The party leaders in power,
and those who sought and con-
sidered only their own future
selfish ends, and protection.
must bear the contumely, if
there should be any, on account
of democratic defeat at the polls
in November. If such a bitter
catastrophe should happen, the
only good that could result from
such an untoward debacle, would
indeed, be the ultimate elimina-
tion of the two an d
factions hat have alter
nately controlled democratic pol
itics in Kentucky for the past
twenty years. This alternate
control by INSCRIPTIONS machine
tactics has often been disastrous
to the industrial and education
al development of the State; as
well as discouraging to, and sup
pressive of a great majority of
the States best and cleanest tai
ent, who had, and has a demo-
cratic right in the party to seek
preferment at the hands of the
people on account of merit and
efficiency of service.
There are thousands of demo
Gratis in Kentucky and on the
fields of battle abroad to whom
God has vouchsafed the privilege
and duty of service to this coun.
try, who under the rules OF
democracy had as much right to
lay claim to the honor of stand.
ard bearer of the Democratic
party at this time as did the dis.
tinguished democrat upon whom
by oligarchical bestowal, this
honor fell. In the light of this
and in the light of the fact thai
of two hundred and fifty thou.
sand democrats, only one mar
was given an opportunity fol
seeking this honor second only
to that Of being President of the
United States, many democrats
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-09-11

may not view the nomination as
q democratic nomination. If two
many should take this view of
the situation, az we indicate
above, the only good that can re-
suit, will be, we trust, not the
RELOCATION of democrats from the
ranks, but the death knell of the
two great -ISMS of the party,
for the paving of the way four
years hence for the young de-
mocracy fresh from the field of
victory and honor.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-09-11
TEACHERS PAY AND The SCHOOL
FUNDS.


the money anticipated from the
State Treasury this year for the
partial support of the public
schools will be something like
$50, 900 less than the year be-
fore. The same kind of report
comes from every county in the
state. Superintendent Noah
10y says that Adair County
faces a most serious predica-
ment. The State funds for this
county will be more than $500
short of what they have been.
For decades past, it has been
more than common suspicion that
the public schools and the school
funds of Kentucky have suffered
at the hands of political manipul.
ators who in either one political
party or the other have from
time to time bluffed and overaw-
ed the influence of the Depart
ment of Education at Frankfort
In its legal ssand constitutional
right to wisely: and broadly ad-
minister for:the public schools of
the state. Save in a few instan-
ces in the historyrof the state,
since the adoption of the present
Constitution, itshas been the poll
cy of Governors, Auditors and
Treasurers of the state in an or
ganized way to limit as far as pos
sible a liberal Interpretation of
the Constitution and other laws in
the matter of apportioning re-
venues to the school fund. o.
casionally there have been State
Superintendent at Frankfort
who in defiance of BOSS orders"
and political consequences de.
manded and in part secured a
fair and equitable deal for the
schools, and of the school funds.
But such officials are usually
retired early from participation
in public service.
In the readjustment of the tax
laws of the state it was hoped
and promised that the schools
would not be made to suffer on
account of the state debt booga-
boo, a debt that was made and
created in the general expendi
ture fund under the management
and control of that coterie OF
professional politicians, styled
well, the Sinking" Fund Com
mission. But in the face of an
overwhelming sentiment in fav.
or of better schools for the
state, and a national policy Of
improved educational conditions
in view of W a r exigencies
that the make it more imper.
alive. that state under presen,
control swings backward with 8
deafened ear to the bitter cry Of
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WAR NEWS.

rious drive through the linden
burg defenses, are knocking at
the gates of Cambria, but appar-
emily are momentarily pausing
before attempting to force an
entrance. Prisoners to the num-
Der of more than $1,000 and
guns exceeding 100 in number
have been taken by them in this
advance.
Meanwhile the center of great
est activity has shifted to the
Franco-American front, where
the Germans are in full retreat
on a wide front north of the
Vesle, with the French and
Americans in pursuit, and re-
ported as having reached the
Aisne in their chase.
FRENCH PRESSURE.
Between these two sectors an
other notable German retrograde
movement is in progress. The
French pressure in the region
north and east of Noyon has
forced a German retirement on a
wide front in this sector and adj
vances of five to seven miles
have been scored by the French
forces within the past forty
eight hours.
The town of Guiscard has
been captured and the French
have pressed beyond it, until
they are but little more than
two miles from the important
road center of Ham. They are
approaching Ham on both sides
of the Somme, and its speedy
fall seems proprable. The Ger
mans here are apparently head
ing back for the St. Quentin-La
Fere line.
Between Allette and Aisne
the French also are gaining
ground. They have crossed the
Aisne at several points north
east of Scissors and have taken
the town of Misey-Sur-Aisne on
the north bank, where they were
already in possession of Buoy
Le-Long. Further north on this
front they have taken the towns
of Braye and Clamecy.
The Franco.American opera
ton on the Vesle front has been
extended further eastward to-
ward Rheims, and new crossings
have been effected on the two
and one half mile front between
Ventraux and Jonchery, seven
miles west of Rheims.
IN FLANDERS.
| In the North the Germans are
continuing to move backward
along the Flanders front. The
British are accelerating the re-
tirement by sharp attacks, II
one of which they captured the
village of Ploetgsteert. They
have regained their April line OF
the southern part of this front
from Neuve ChapeIle to Given
chy, and have even pushed be-
yond it in spots to the eastward
of Giyenchy.
The Germans are still clingins
to the Messines Ridge, the high
est ground of this sector, but
from the manner in which they
are being forced back further
south it seems doubtful if they
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'It was before his cts, also. that
there was ,u"rh; "a great battle seven
r%eutur.cs latter. during Vhlch tho
l'truu Eirou, marshal OF France. wu.
Ruled hy 10 cannon htll Marshal Hirou
Was th, ancestor a. Armand Louis &C.,
Goutaut du, do l-tulun. uftcrward
duo do H.ruu who fought with the
Americans at Yorktown during the
revolutionary war and who later was
rulllot.ucd during the r,ign of terror
Boo Paris
The streets loo the Older section cot
EpcruaN are narrow ana irregular. but
BOO tho beautiful suburb Of Ia Folic
the wide bouleslrds are Rraccd with
thr piIitiul villas Of wealthy wine
merchants Prosperous tporuay both
literally and frurattVcly b. founded
upon the chlik rock of champagne
200 which are rWu long galleries
where n Be- estimated that five mil
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annually before the war
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-07-09
SOMETHING FOR NOTHING

We cannot agree with either Nh.
Cooper or Mr.. Richards on the schol-
arship question. We are in full ac-
cord with the proposition that there
is TO justice in taxing all the people
of his state for the purpose of edu-
eating one hundred and t~wenty-four
young women in Winthrop, or an
equal number Of young men at
Clemson. Whatever excuse there
was for the creation of these schol-
arships, as we'll as like scholarships
in, other state institutions, we are of
the opinion hat the law no longer
should be allowed to remain on the
statute books of the state.
In the first place, those whom it
is designed to help do not receive
the help Of the state. In the cities
and towns and in those eommuni-
ties where there are good schools
the pupils are better prepared to
stand examinations while in the ru-
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but for a people. 1t has been left
for US to see to it that it shall be
understood that they spoke and act
ed, not for a single people only but
for all mankind. They were think
ing, not of themselves ond of the ma
terial interests which centered in the
little groups of land holders and
merchants and men of affairs with
whom they were accustomed to act,
in Virginia and the colonies to the
north and south of her, but of a
people which wished to be done with
classes and special interests and
the authority Of men whom they had
not themselves chosen to rule over
them. They entertained no private
purpose, desired no particular privi-
lege. They were consciously plan
ming that men of every class should
be free and America a place to
which men out of every nation might
resort who wished to share with
them the rights and privileges of
free men. And we take our cue
from them-do we not? We intend
what they intended. We here in
America believe our participation in
this present war to be only thu fruit
age of what they planted Our case
differs from theirs only in this, that
it is our inestimable privilege to.
concert with men out of every ma
ton who shall make not only the
liberties of America secure, but the
liberties of every other people as
well. We r happy in the thought
that we are permitted. to do what
they would have done had they been
in our place. There must now be
settled once for all what "a settled
for America in the great age upon
those inspirations, we draw today.
This is surely a fitting place from
which calmly to look out upon our
task, that we may fortify ou- spirits
for it's accomplishment. And this is
the appropriate place from which to
avow, alike to the friends who look
on and to the friends with whom we
have the happiness to be associated
in action, the faith and purpose with
which we act.
-; "This, then, is u conception of
the great seruggle in which we are
engaged The plot is written plain
upon every scene and every act of
the supreme tragedy. On the one
hand stand the peoples of the world
not only the people actually en-
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HELPING TIE

Mrs. G. W. Syfan, CT Fort Pick
els, is growing a slendid crop Of
tomatoes this year ard in addition
to what she cans for her w use
and what she sells, she contributed
to the Civic Club cannery
enough fine tomatoes to make nine
quarts. The gift was greatly ap-
preciated and does much towards the
conservation of food.
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A MISTAKE.

WE I'LL IN 10
Chairman Evans has called the DEM
ocratic Executive Committee to-
gether to consider a proposition to
open the lists in the ace for United
States Senator. Fair play, as well
as the protection of the rights of
the candidates who have already en-
tered, demands that no other can
didate now be allowed to enter the
race. The people will not support
any sVch movement.
There is another consideration.
The Executive Committee itself has
no right to open the lists. Only a
convention duly called could do so.
The delegates to the May conven-
ton are no longer in Office There
fore, in order to open the lists it
would be necessary first to call club
meetings of every club in the state;
then, county conventions; and, last
ly, another state convention to con-
slider the matter. In that time those
candidates who have already an
nounced, and who have complied
with all the requirements of the
party, would have gone over the
whole state in the expectation that
the party would deal with them in
accordance with the rules under
which they have entered. The peo-
pie in the meantime would be in a
state of uncertainty, and more poll
tics would be stirred up, and more
bitterness in politics than we have
had for years, and in a year too
when politics is adjourned. !
There is no need to get excited
over the situation. Cole L. Blease
is in the race to be voted for by
those people who are against the
war and who do not believe in sup
porting the administration in its
conduct of the war. N. B. Diel is a
supporter of the administration. He
is a lawyer of ability, a business
man of parts, a citizen of unimpeach-
able character, we'll thought of at
home, and as able to represent this
state in the United States Senate as
any of the men who would offer. The
people, therefore, will have a chance
to support a man of their choice,
and we may await their verdict with
confidence.
" No man who would now announce
for the United States Senate would
have a chance anyway. The people
will feel, if the lists are opened,
that Dial has not had a fair show,
and they will demand it for him.
The result would be that Dial would
be the leading candidate of those
opposed to the policies advocated by
Blease, and a second race would be
run by the two. So we had as we'll
end it in the first primary, and
let the people render the verdict.
That it will be a proper n we
have no doubt.
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gagged, but many others also who
suffer under mastery but can not
act; peoples of many races and in
every part of the world-the people
of stricken Russia still among the
rest though they are for the mo-
ment unorganized and helplss. OPP
posed to them, masters of many ar
mics, stand an isolated, friendless
group of governments who seek no
common purpose but only selfish am
billions of their own by which none
can profit but themselves, and whose
peoples are fuel in their hands; gov
ernments which fear their people
and yet are for the time their SOW
ereign lords, making every choice
for them and ~disposing of their lives
and fortunes as they will, as well as
of the lives and fortunes of every
people who fall under their power
governments clothed with the
strange trappings and the primitive
authority of an age that is alto
gether alien and hostile to our own.
The past and the present are in
deadly grapple. and the peoples of
the world are being done to death
between them. -
Settlement Must Be Final.
"There a be but one, issue. The
settlement must be final. There can
be no compromise. No halfway, de-
cision would be tolerable. No half
way decision is conceivable. These
are the ends for which the associa-
ted peoples of the world are fighting
and which must be conceded them
before there can be peace:
81. The destruction of every ar
bitrary power anywhere that can
separately, secretly and of its single
choice disturb the peace of the
world; or, if it can not be presently
destroyed, at the least its reduction
to virtual impotence.
"2. The settlement Of every ques-
ton, whether of territory, of sover-
eighty, of economic arrangement, or
OF political relationship, upon the
basis of the free acceptance of that
settlement by the people immediate
ly concerned, and not upon the ba-
sis of the material interest or. ad-
vantage of any other nation or peo-
pie which may desire a different
settlement for the sake of it's own
exterior influence or mastery.
"3. The consent of all nations to
be governed in their conduct to-
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wards each other by the same prin4
ciples of honor and of respect fol
the common law of civilized society
that govern the individual citizerl
of all modern. states in their rela|
tions with one another; to the end
that all promises and covenants MAJ
be sacredly observed no private plot
or conspiracies Matched, no selfs1
injuries wrought with inpunity, AMI
a mutual trust established upon TIL
handsome foundation of a mutua
respect for right.
"a. The establishment of an Oh
%ganization of people which sha
make it certain that the combine
power of free nations will check seJ
cry invasion of right and serve
make peace and justice the more Sd
cure by affording a definite tribuna
of opinion to which all must subm
and by which every internation3
readiustment that can not be am
cably agreed upon by the peoples d
rectly concerned shall be sanctione,
"These great objects can be pj
into a single sentence. What y
seek is the reign Of law, based upd
the consent of the governed and SD
tanned by the organized opinion
mankind. :
"These great ends can not
achieved by debating and seeking
reconcile and accommodate VIII
statesmen may wish, with their pr
jects for balances of power and
national opportunity. They can
realized only by the determinatil
of what the thinking peoples Of
world desire, with their longing ho1
for justice and for social freedd
and opportunity.
"I can fancy that the air Of II
place carries the accents of su
principles with a peculiar kindne
Here were started froces which
great nation against which til
were primarily directed at first
garded as a revolt against its rig
full authority but which it has Id
since seer to have been a step in
liberation of it's own people as v
as of the people of the United Sta
and I stand here now to speak
speak proudly and with confdS
hope-of the spread Of that rev
this liberation, to the great stage
the world itself! The blinded rul
of Prussia have reused forces
CONTINUED on Page Five, Cob g
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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-04-05
VII.
Milky Docs a Reckless Thing.

Milky Docs a Reckless Thing.
Milky Larisch had been having eh
exciting time.
First of all, he exchanged garments
with the chauffeur. and cursed his own
long legs which proved difficult to
cover adequately. But the chaufeur's
long fur ulster helped, considerably.
The exchange was rather a ticklish
matter, and would have been more so
had he not found a revolver In the
fur coat pocket.
Behold. then. Milky Of the brave
heart standing over his prostitute pris-
Oner. and rolling him. mummy fashion,
in his own tunie and a rug from the
machine.
ut Is cold, my friend" he sad
briefly "but I nm a kindly soul, and
if you have told me the truth, you will
not have so much as a shuttle to re-
mind you of this tomorrow
81 have told the truth"
"As q soldier, of course" Milky
went on, 81 think you have made a
mistake. You should have chosen the
precipice. But as a private gentle
man. I thank you."
Having examined the knots In the
rope. which were very we'll done. In
deed. and having gagged the chauffeur
securely. Milky prepared to go. In his
goggles, with the IOw-visored cap and
fur coat. he looked not unlike his late
companion. But he had a jaunty step
as he walked toward the car, n bit OF
swagger that covered. perhaps, just d
trif1e of uneasiness.
For Milky now knew his destination.
knew that he was bound on perilous
work. and that the chances of his re-
turning were about ffty-fifty. or rather
less.
He did o know his way. Over the
mountains IT was plain enough. for
there was but one road. After he
descended into the plain OF karnia,
however. 1t became difficult. Sign
posts were few and not explicit. Eut
at last he found the railroad. which
he knew well-that railroad without
objective. save as It would serve to
move troops toward the border. After
that Milky found 1t easier.
But. with his course assured. other
difficulties presented themselves. To
take the letter to those who would re-
ceive 1t was one thing. But to deliver