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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-10-31

Back up our gallant fighters with
your money. You have lent to the
government, now give to the sol
diers.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-10-31
Y. M. G. A. WANTS
FOUNTAIN PENS

2eoo fountain pens are being ship
ped from the United states in answer
TO an imperative cali from the Y n.
l.. A. headquarters in France.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-10-31
CAKES FOR SOLDIERS.

10000 cakes for raining camps and
" a. C. A canteens are being made
weekly al the "Y" bakery in North
hampton. England
Give to the homesick boys!
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-10-31
WAKE UP

Send for the free book on canning
aud drying issued b. the Nationai
War Garden Commission. Enclose two
cent? FOR nostnre
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-04-18


latest edition of Wheaton's "Interna-
tional Law, we read: Many host
ages were shot, many were held in
oppressive and humiliating confne-
ment, many were carried off to Ger
many They were treated far worse
than prisoners Of war" .
The German government has DELHI
erately adopted a policy of EXTERN
mating it's enemies by the imposition
of enormous and illegal fines and lev
les, by the destruction or wholesale
theft of the peoples means Of earn
ing living, and by the starvation of
men, women and children.
The imposition Of fines and 1evies
upon invaded countries out of all pro-
portion to their ability to pay serves
the double purpose of enriching Ger
many and impoverishing the conquer
ed people. The incredible sums of
100000 dollars, now collected every
month in exhausted Belgium, are paid
only because "Germany's knife is at
her throat"
The German armies have deliber-
ately destroyed the factories of Bel
GUM and Poland and sent to Germany
the machinery and raw material used
in manufacture. They have system
atically driven off all the live stock
from the farms. These things form
part of the plan to reduce Belgium to
poverty and ruin.
The starvation of the people to
make ready the country for the pos
session of the Germans is a deliber-
ate plan of the invaders. Said Gen.
eral Won Kreis to F. G. Walcott, an
American sent by our Government to
investigate conditions in Belgium and
Poland: starvation is here, so we
set it to work for Germany. BY
starvation we can accomplish in two
or three years in East Poland more
that we have in West Poland in the
last hundred" But how came starva-
ton to Poland? The answer may be
found in the book, when the Prussi-
ans Came to Poland" by Laura Black
we'll de TurczynowicZ, an American
woman resident in Poland. She
writes, Notices were posted by the
commandant, Anyone touching or US
ing any grain, potatoes or vegetables
from his own garden or field will be
punished to the full extent of the law,
and the Germans took the crops to
the last bean and potato"
Of all the war practices of the Ger
man government, the most brazen is
the deportation of the people from
France and Belgium and Poland to
work in mines and factories in Ger
many. Men, employed and unem-
ployed, women and children, are
taken; more than a hundred thousand
from Belgium alone. Few ever re-
turn and these are worn out Or dis
eased In spite of protests from all
nations the deportations still con-
tinue. In October, 1916, Cardinal Mer-
cier wrote: 1.-TWO years ago it was
death, pillage, fire, but it was war
Today it is no longer war. 1t is cold
calculation, intentional destruction,
the victory of force over right, the
debasement of human personality, a
cry Of defiance 20 humanity"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-04-18
Germanys Plan for World Power
By FREDERIC AUSTIN OGG Professor of Political Science,
University of Wisconsin.
If Wisconsin State Council of Defense.

But there are stronger proofs. One
Of them is the meddlesomeness Of the
Berlin government. The Kaiser once
remarked that nothing must go on
anywhere in which Germany does not
play a part" For a long time before
1914 the Empires staggering, saber-
rafting habits kept all Europe in fear
of the terrible thing that finally hap
pened. More than once-as when the
Kaiser's government tried to form
coalition of European nations against
US in 1898 to prevent our going to the
relief Of Cuba-our own country has
felt the sting of this German desire to
have hand in everything.
But if any one still doubts that the
German purpose was to rule at all
costs let him consider the Empires
record in army and navy building, and
it's attitude toward the reduction of
ornaments. From the days of Bis
marck, every interest was suOord1na-
ted to the ends of military efficiency.
AS late as 1913 the army although
already much the largest in western
Europeans increased at a stroke by
100000 men. Beginning in 1898, a gil
gantic navy was built up, with a view
so men in high position freely said
to Germany's future control OF the
seas.
Furthermore, the Kaiser's govern
ment persistently blocked all propos-
ais for a reduction Of ornaments. In
ternational conferences were held at
the Hague in 1899 and 1907 to discuss
this subject. But Germany both
times prevented action. Her delegates
at the first conference declared that
big ornaments are mot burden but
a privilege; and shortly before the
second the Kaiser told King Edward
VII of England that he would go to
war rather than allow disarmament
to be discussed. English proposals in
1912 and in 1913 that the two powers
take a holiday" from bodybuilding
for one year met no response.
Here is a striking fact. In the
spring of 1914 representatives Of Great
Britain and Germany signed a treaty
settling all territorial disputes be-
tween the two nations on terms so
favorable to Germany that a leading
German imperialist writer, Rohrbach,
was moved to pronounce the treaty
astonishing" and to add that 1t met
every reasonable demand. Yet Ger
many was not satisfied, and within
six months had dragged Europe into
war.
She knew, as all the world now
knows, that the international arrange
ments at which she was aiming were
of such a character that no nation
could be made to accept them until
brought to it's knees by force.
Macmillan Harden, the most fear
less of German editors, knew whereof
he spoke when he wrote, in Deem
Der, 1914: mot as weak-willed blum
derers have we undertaken the fearful
risk of this war. We wanted it."
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-04-18
COST TO CRUSH THE KAISER
Boersianer, Financial Expert, Gives
Figures as Boost to Liberty
LoaH.
By BOERSIANER,

Financial Editor, Chicago Examiner.1
Not many years before Abraham
Lincoln became president Mr.. and Mrs.
Lincoln were fed and sheltered in the
Globe tavern, Springfield, H., at four
dollars a week. In other terms, they
each paid two dollars q week for room
and board at what then was one or
the best family hotels in the state capt.
tai. Incredibly cheap? To us today,
yes, but not to the Americans Of the
sos and COS. The purchasing power
of a dollar in those days was ire
mendOuS.
When the Civil war broke out the
wealth of the United States was ap-
praised at $1700O,OO0, Let US be
liberal and make it $2O,O00,0OO,OO at
the end Of that internecine strife, the
total cost Of which was $4,000, 100000.
At that time the national debt was 3d.
625,00O,000. Put in another way, the
country had spent in the Civil war one
fifth of her entire wealth.
What happened? Within eighteen
years the whole of the national debt
was paid off; eXtinguished by q com
monwealth with only one-third of the
present population; with little Or no
prestige as q world power; with all
her railways, half of her city real es-
tate and 60 per cent Of her farms mort
gagged to European capitalists; with
bank resources of only $4,O00,000,00O
and with not q dollars worth of invest
ments abroad.
There are estimates that ere kaiser
ism shall be crushed our national OBJ
legation will stand at $4,000 100000.
That would mean about 8 per cent Of
the wealth Of the nation (Which is not
less than $25O,000, ,0O0) or A per cent
less than the percentage in 1865.
America today is the leading power,
the wealthiest country in the world. It
is q creditor nation. It's railways, real
estate and farms are owned by her
own people and her bank resources to-
tai $49,389, 100000.
After this, is it necessary to ask If
a United States government bond is q
safe investment? There is nothing
safer in the world; nothing which
promises so rapid and SO high an APP
probation once the war is ended
These are the cold facts of the prOpo~
sition. There is another side: the love-
of-country, the lOve-of-Liberty, the
great-humanity-cau side.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-04-18
War and the Weather.

The Almighty makes the weather,
not man, and if the weather doesn't
suit us, we have to wait. The farmer
knows what days rain will do In
the way Of upsetting plans. One
can't pillow in the mud and a cutting
of hay or wheat may be damaged or
ruined by one nights doWnpour.
The war department, too, is up
against the weather in France. Three
inches Of rainfall may make the coun~
try impossible for half million men
and horses and motortrucks and
ruin the chances of victory or bring
defeat. When the war department
has the weather to worry about, dont
add to it's worries by Withholding
money and, consequently, supplies.
The purchase of Liberty bonds will
help Pershing lot this summer.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-04-18
Iub.saed under direction of '

What is Germany fighting for? In
the memorable days of July, 1914,
when the peace of Europe hung by
hair, England and France begged her
to throw her influence against war;
and without a doubt she could have
prevented a blow from being struck
if she had wanted to do SO. Why did
she want war?
The Kaiser himself answered the
question in 1915 when he said: "Ihe
triumph of the greater Germany
which some day must dominate all
Europe, is the single end for which
we are fighting" Nothing indefinite
about that And no one can dispute
the right of the Kaiser to say what
the war is for. After all, it is his war.
But the German purpose to domi-
nate was not suddenly reused by this
war AS long ago as 1902 the Kaiser
declared, in a speech at AiX-la-Cha-
pelle, that 'it is to the empire of the
world that German genius aspires."
In 1912 the Imperial Chancellor af-
frmed that Germary's purpose was to
make her strength and capabllity
prevail in the world. "The German
people is so situated in Europe, Tan
neberg gloatingly remarked in 1911,
in his "Greater Germany, that it
needs only to run and take whatever
it desires"
The means by which Germany ex-
pected to achieve dominance was war.
At his accession the Kaiser said to
the army that they were born for one
another. In 1913 the Crown Prince
wrote: ct is only by relying on our
good German sword that we can hope
to conquer that place in the sun which
rightly belongs to US. Till the
world comes to an end the ultimate
decision must rest with the sword. %
On the Imperial ships of war the faV-
orite toast has long been Auf den
Tag-"TO the day"-that is, the day
On which the German dreadnaught
should be let loose upon the British
Navy.
Back Of the plan to dominate has
been the cool assumption that the Ger
mans are superior to all other peoples,
and that it is part of the divine order
that they shall rule. 1--WE are the salt
0 ne earJh," asserted the Kaiser at
J. men in 1905 "The Teutons are
the aristrocracy Of humanity" de-
c. Is Woltmann. God has called us
t cigiii%e the world" said the Kaiser
in the Bremen speech; eve are the
/ ,naIics Of human progress" eve
s. i conquer everywhere" he said
a. in; for there lives a powerful
ally, the good old God in heaven, who
. has always been on our side"
These views which for twenty
five years have been diligently cult
waited by government officials, army
and navy men, scholars, journalists
and even preachers = clearly betray
the German purpose to gain power at
the expense Of other peoples.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-04-18
MONEY AS NEEDFUL AS
MEN, SAYS GOVERNOR
Wage Farmers, Business Men, Farmers
and Capitalists Are vitality Inter-
ested in Triumph Of Our Arms.
BY FRANK O. LOWDEN,
TGovernor of IIIinojs.7


This is war to establish the right
of people to govern themselves. It is,
therefore, peoples war. But peo-
pie cannot govern itself successfully
unless it is willing to finance a war
waged upon it by military autocracy.
democracy Is doomed, unless it has the
vitality to put forth it's resources in
support Of war, in which it's very
right to exist is challenged.
Our enemy frequently has said that
we, as nation, care for money alone.
More than a million Of our young men
have given the lie to this charge by of
fering the supreme sacrifce-the sac
rifice of life itself-that their coun-
try might endure. Shall it now be
said Of the other millions-the mil
lions who remain at hOme-that this
charge is true? VIII not our people at
home, for whose security and future
our soldiers have gone to the colors,
will not they loan their dollars to the
government in the support of cause
for which these men gladly offer to
give their lives?
Remember, money is as needful as
men, if we are to prevail. Remember
that if we do prevail, these bonds will
be the best investment we shall have
made during the period of the war. If
we fail, even then they will be worth
more than our cattle and lands, our
factories and stores, or any other prop
erty we NAV own
Our wage earners, business men and
capitalists are vitality interested in the
triumph of our arms. Let all sub
scribe in proportion to their means.
The number who shall partake of this
loan is as important as the total
amount subscribed. If our people gem
orally are united in absorbing our Lib
erty bonds, it will prove to the world
that democracy knows what it's liber-
ties are worth, and is willing to de-
fend them at any cost.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-04-18

When thc stories of German atrOci-
ties in Belgium first reached the
United States, many men were un-
willing to believe them. Even now,
when abundant evidence is available,
some still doubt, and even question
the fairness of persons who have
been convinced. Yet, we must face
the facts i'll order to keep our minds
alive to the real nature Of the con-
hict which we have entered.
To tell in detail the story Of Ger
man atrocities since August, 1914,
would be a long and painful task. The
evidence is open to everyone in the
reports of numerous commissions, ID
the testimony Of Cardinal MERCER OF
Belgium, of other foreigners OF undls-
puted standing, and of our own min
listers and ambassadors to the coun
tries affected by the war. This evil
dence is supported by the diaries OF
captured German soldiers and the
prOclamaNons of German officials.
These documents have been subjected
to the closest examination by experts
trained to deal with testimony OF this
kind There can be no doubt as to
their truth And the more the Ger
mans have tried to justify themselves
the more they have convicted them
selves by the Acknowledgement of
deeds which they can only excuse un-
der the preteXt of Misrepresentation"
1t will be enough to describe briefly
a few of the crimes committed against
unarmed citizens to show that the
spirit of German army of invasion
is one Of ruthless cruelty and intlml-
dation.
Germany has repeatedly used un-
armed men and women as screens to
protect her soldiers. The proof of
this comes from all the invaded coun-
tries. Cardinal Mercier testifieS that,
AT the time of the invasion Of
Belgium, civilians in twenty
places were made to take part in
the operations of war against
their own country. Peaceable
citizens were forced to march in
front of German regiments to
make a screen before them"
German military leaders have or
dered the burning and pillaging of
towns and villages, Sometimes because
of the acts of individuals, sometimes
in mere ruthlessneSs. To cite one in
stance from the diary Of an officer in
a Saxon regiment:
The pretty little village of
Cue d Ossus was apparently set
on fire without cause. A cycliSt
fell off his machine and his rifle
went off. He Immediately said he
had been shot at. All the inhabi-
tants were burned in their homes.
homo thnra will no M moro c,,oh
horrors"
Germany claims and practices with
out mercy the right to take prominent
citizens and hold them captive in or
der to protect herself from attack
from the civilian population. Numer-
Gus proclamations of German officials
give proof beyond question. AS part
of the system of ''frightfulness" these
hostages have been repeatedly mis-
treated by German officials. In the
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-04-18
How Germany Makes War
BY M. S. SLAUGHTER, Professor of Latin,
University of Wisconsin.

Published
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-04-18
Germans Buy Bonds; Why Not You?

Germany's last loan was over-sub-
scribed. The Germans are determined
to win this war. We have more money
than they, and we must spend 1t.
Lend to your government by buying
Liberty bonds. Crush Germany's arm
se,J under the weight Of American dol
lars.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-04-18

The Norwegian government has ap-
propriated 100000 to assist inten-
sive agricultural development. OF
this amount, $4,50O,OOO is to maintain
low maximum prices for cattle feed
and fertilizer.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-04-18

There are now four times as many
vessels in naval service as q year ago
The estimated pay Of officers and men
in the navy for the first year of war
was S125OOO,OOO.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-04-18

Recently there has been consider
able discussion through the press and
at public meetings in Australia con-
corning the ACCESSIBILITY of producing
more beef cattle and sowing less
acreage to wheat, according to a re-
port to the department Of commerce.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-04-18

Several hundred submarine chasers
built since the war, have been deliv.
cred to the navy by 81 private con.
Germs and six navy yards; many of
these boats have crossed the Atlantic
some in severe weather.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-04-18

Through card catalogue system
109,487 men have been transferred
out of army divisions into technical
units to function according to indi-
vidual educational, occupational and
military qualifications.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-01-25
A Cheering Word.

II somebody tells you that the aver
age life of nm officer in the trenches is
nine days and that II your boy gets
into the front line he is certain to be
killed With. two weeks, don't believe
him, says Milestones. He probably
got his information" from German
propaganda, since our Teuton friends
seem bent on trying to brighten us out
of this war. No losses were more ex-
cessive than those among the British
infantry officers during the first year of
the war, when they fought a losing
fight without artillery support, and
Insisted on exposing themselves In
conspicuous uniforms The percentage
OF casualties among them for the first
year was 1873, according to the official
figures.
The percentage Of casualties among
our allies has been decreasing. The
proportion for the entire French army
was 5.41 per cent In 1914. 4 per cent
In 1915 and 2.75 per cent for 1916. The
total for 20 months was little over l.
per cent.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-01-25
GREEN'S AUGUST FLOWER

Has been used for all ailments that
are caused by dlsordered stomach
and inactive liver, such as sick head
ache, constipation, sour stomach,
nervous Indigestion, fermentation of
food palpitation Of the heart caused by
gases in the stomach. August Flower
Is gentle laxative, regulates digestion
both in stomach and intestines, cleans
and sweetens the stomach and alimen-
tary canal, stimulates the liver to Sc
crete the bile and impurities from the
blood. Sold in all civilized countries.
30 and 80 cent bottles.-Adv.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-01-25
AMERICAN MANNERS OF TODAY
Prevailing Bearing In Thoroushfares
and Street Cars Indicates That
Courtesy 10 on tho Decline.

As for manners, we are kindhearted
as a people and civil when appealed to,
but no one would suspect 1t II our bear.
ing In thoroughfares and street cars be
a criterion. The spirit Of the age Is
first come, nrst served; to be waived
only in favor of the crippled and the
positively indrm. Courtesy in the old
fashioned sense-the Difference Of the
young for the seniors. Of the stronger
for the weaker sex, Of the vigorous
for the frail-if not extinct Is so spor-
adic as to be noticeable when mani.
Tested, Robert Grant writes In the
Yale Review. The young men who
push their way forward In public con-
veyances retain without conjunction
the seats for which they have strug-
gled.
Here again we have the philosophy
Of the tired business man: II got there
first; we are all equals in the United
States, and want to read my news
paper" The apotheosis of naturalness,
and in self-defense we all more or less
subscribe to 1t; but after all, 1t is nat.
ural for pigs to struggle for places at
trough. Well may we ask ourselves
If 1t Is impossible to safeguard indie
pendence, initiative and equality ex-
cept at the cost of all the social graces
that prevailed when society was more
artificial.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-01-25
"Bruges Ia Morte."

In n lost corner of the great low
land fiat of Flanders, defended from
the sea by an artificial dixie, and at the
point of intersection of network Of
canals and waterways, there stands
little town known to the Belgians as
Brugge and to the rest of the world as
Bruges, writes Niksah.
Fortunately for lovers of the quaint
and picturesque this city with its slen-
der bell turrets, its lacelike gables and
decorated house fronts has so far been
spared the general devastation that fol-
lowed in the wake of the invading Ger
mans They call II "Bruges la morte"
and at every turn there is something to
remind the visitor Of the decay that
has fallen upon the town. The ever
recurring view of pcturesquely
grouped tower, gable and bridge, of
wide tree-filled parks, breathes an at
mosphere OF Infinite stiffness and
charm, which Is at the same time
strangely pathetic.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-01-25
What Moves Men.

Man does not live by bread alone,
but by the ideals that stir his heart,
observes Il writer. Napoleon's men
were struggling through the snow and
cold and encouragement of Alpine
passes. Would they ever come through?
They did, but the great French leader
neither drove nor bribed them. He
fired their souls, He called them TO
look down upon the smiling plains Of
Italy and pictured to them its sunny
fields, Its warm waters, It's orange
groves, Its comfortable cities, its
whole lure and romance. For things
like these men work and fight.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-01-25
Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There Is
only one way. to cure Catarrhal Deafness.
and that is by a constitutional remedy.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE acts
of the System. Catarrhal Deafness is
caused by an inflamed condition of the
mucous lining OF the isustachian Tube.
When this tube is infamed you have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing. and
when II Is entirely closed, Deafness is the
result Unless the Inflammation can be re-
NAL condition, hearing may be destroyed
forever. Many cases of Deafness are
caused by Catarrh. which IL an indamed
condition OF the Mucous Surfaces.
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for any
case OF Catarrhpl Deafness that cannot
be cured by HALLS CATARRH
MEDICINE.
All Druggists 75c Circulars free
II. j. Cheney e. Co, Toledo, Ohio.