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The Irish standard., 1918-05-18
A JAPANESE CATHOLIC.

Captain Yamamoto, naval attache to
the Japanese embassy at Rome, now
in the United States on business for
his government, is one of the leading
Catholics of Japan. Before leaving
Rome, he was received in private
audience by the Holy Father.
The Irish standard., 1918-05-18

"The Apostolic Delegate, Cardinals,
Archbishops and Bishops of the United
States have set their seal of approval
on this great Irish Missionary Move
ment, and promised it their support"
The Irish standard., 1918-05-18
IRISH EVERYWHERE.

Charles ]. Mccarthy, of Honolulu,
has been nominated to be governor of
Hawaii
The Irish standard., 1918-05-18
Miss Grace Kleven
Miss Gertrude COnnOle

Special guests for the play were
the Senior Glass of Sacred Heart
Academy, Madison, Wisconsin. The
thoughtful hospitality of the hostesses,
the Saint Clara Academies, and the
appreciative spirit of their visitors
made the week end enjoyable for
both. In honor of the guests the
Junior Academies gave a May break
fast and the Senior Academies a pic.
mic supper, both periodically planned
"according to Food Commissioner
Hoover" An informal program rep
resentative of Saint Clara talent was
also given.
The Irish standard., 1918-05-18
MAMMOTH DRUG SALE
Three Days. Thursday, Friday, Saturday

$1.OO Hard Rubber Black Combs
TOT o9C
Csc Hard Rubber Black Combs
for .................. .19c
8Oc Bottle Pinaud's Lilas de
France Vegetal .......... .69c
The Irish standard., 1918-05-18
DR.. THOS. P. RYAN
DENTIST
Offices:
Physicians and Surgeons Building,
Corner 9th and NicoIlet Ave.
N. w. Phone, Nicollet 1913.
NIGHT" PRESENTED
AT SAINT CLARA ACADEMY.

1t was privileged audience who
witnessed the presentation of the
Twelfth Night" by the Senior Glass
of Saint Clara Academy. From be.
ginning to end it was a marked sue
cess, distinguished by delightful nat
uralness of speech and action, by life
and vigor of movement and by artis-
tic finish. The excellence of individ-
ual work combined with sustained CO.
operative action of the entire cast re-
suited in production far above that
of average amateurs. The cast was as
follows:
Characters:
Duke Orsino. Miss Bonita Dolan
Valentine. ..... Miss Bessie Mullaney
Curio. Miss Elizabeth Fitz Gerald
Sir Toby. Miss Margaret Heiss
Sir Andrew Aguecheek. ..........
......... Miss Abbie Kneedler
Sebastian, twin brother to Viola
. .
Antonio. 900. i. Miss Placide Thorning
Malvolio. Miss Marguerite Caravan
Clown. ...... Miss Margaret Murphy
Fabian. .... Miss Margaret O'Brien
Sea Captain. ........ Miss Ave Smith
Viola. ............. Miss Ann Crowley
Olivia. Miss Catherine Dewey
Maria. ........ Miss Genevieve Walsh
Ladies-in Waiting
The Irish standard., 1918-05-18

Ladies-in-W aiting-
Miss Myra Johnson
Miss Loretta Power
Officers
Miss Bessie Mullaney
Miss Ave Smith
The Irish standard., 1918-05-18

Prepared and issued by Henry W.
Lauderdale.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-12-04
PRINCIPAL POINTS IN PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

PRINCIPAL POINTS IN PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
Briefly told the following paragraphs the chief features
of the Presidents to Congress delivered last Monday
1--WE about to give order and organization to this
1t is international justice SEEK not domestic safety
merely"
His Trip Abroad
The gallant forces have consciously fought
for the ideals which they know be the ideals of their country
have sought express those ideals It is my duty
to play full part in making good what they offered their m
blood to obtain"
Railroads.
Il frankly turn to for counsel have confident judg
ment of my The only thing that is perfectly clear
that is not fair either to the public to the Of
the railroads to leave the question unanswered
Labor.
development public works of every should be
promptly order that opportunities should be created
for unskled labor particular The Congress at
once direct thousands returning soldiers the reclamation Of
the arid lands
The least tribute them (women) to make them
the equals of in political rights they have proved them
selves their equals every field Of practical work.
Reconstruction.
81 have heard much counsel to the plans that should be
formed and personally conducted to happy but
from general scheme of reconstruction
emerge which thought it likely could force our spirited BUSH
seean boers to accept with due pancy and
obedience
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-12-04

and more to elect him. than any
course the republican opposition can
pursue. The wise course politically
is always the wise course patriotical-
ly. If the republican leaders will
sustain the president in every large
aim of his administration, trusting
him to observe the example Of Wash
ington and of every president since,
and then will name man OF their
own in 1920, who is forward looking
and not wrapped up in ancient con-
troversies Wilson third term presi-
dency will have been made as nearly
impossible as it lies with republican
leadership to make it,
President Wilson is right in going
to Versailles. He will be serving
the largest ends of his office if he re-
mains in Versailles until a world
peace is arranged guaranteeing AM
erica and everybody else a free and
unfettered future. What possible in
terest can we have as a people just
now at all comparable to our interest
in the terms of the coming peace
agreement? II congress should be
until the peace treaty Is
we should never know the
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-12-04
REPRESENTATIVE MANN RE
DUKES THE PRESIDENTS
GRJVTCS n

Representative Mann OF Illinois, the
Republican leader of the House, has
issued the following statement re-
buking the men who are trying to in
terfere with the Presidents mission:
ssThere will be no concerted effort OF
Republicans to embarrass the Presi-
dent.
II think the American people would
not be in sympathy with ANY attempt
Z to pinpriek him.
Personally am not in sympathy
with any of the resolutions which have
appeared in the'Senate or House.
II cannot help what individuals may
do, but Republicans Of the House as
body will certainly make no move
to embarrass or hamper the President
while he is on a mission that affects
SO vitality the interests of the American
people.
81 believe he should have the sup
port of the Congress in those interests
and that fractional strife ought not to
be permitted to give the rest Of the
world the Impression that the Ameri-
can people are divided on issues in
volving the peace of the world.
Il do not think the American peo-
pie would tolerate any meddling in
that which so vitality concerns them.
"The Presidents is a highly i'm
portant mission. am opposed to at
tempt to throw any rocks in his way"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-12-04
BRITISH INDORsE TRIP.

President Wilson'S address, formally
announcing his intention of going to
the peace conference in France, re-
|celved warm approval in the London
press.
president Wilson'S mission viii be
the raising on the foundations OF VIC
tory of new bulwarks Of human tran
guilty and we'll being" said the Pail
Mall Gazette president Wilson'S at
tendance at the peace conference is
welcome and valuable. His moral sim
cerity contributed directly to the
breaking up of Austria and while re-
mapping Europe there is none whose
authority will go farther in command
ing respect for the solutions reached"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-12-04

the lover. and he IS starving her dear
little heart. Let us become crusaders
in waking him up. Next week is his
birthday"
Eyes"
you think up all the gifts you imag-,
ine would please him most. You've
spoiled him, that's what's the matter.
Do you want to rouse him up for his
own and Myrtle's sake? Then-listen,
and O low-toned consultation ensued,
which made them talk and look like
plotters.
Hal Devon kept his eye on Wade
upon his birthday. Practical and un-
poetical as was Wade, the fact that 1t
was, his natal day inspired him ITO
perk up somewhat" as Hal expressed
1t.
Usual supply of gifts, ! suppose"
he remarked, with feigned indifference
to Hal. There's not only Myrtle, but
mother and my sisters wasting their
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-12-04

spirit Of vengeance to disable an adj
versary and as suspicious of allies as
foes. Worse than that, however, it
shows a cynical attitude toward the
high professions on which this war
has been fought by the Western Pow
ers and a purpose at the peace table
and elsewhere to cling as tenaciously
as ever to practices Of bullying and
buster which have been and must be
prolific Of strife.
Fortunately for a world weary of
war and not easily to be deprived of
the fruits of its triumph, Tories,
Junkers and autocrats are not to con-
troll the Versailles Conference. There
will never be another Congress at Vi
emma at which peoples and their lib
critics were shamefully and secretly
huckstered. It may be that the vir-
tue and wisdom of mankind will
prove unequal to the task of doing
away with war at once, but that pro-
gress will be made toward that SPLEEN
did aspiration we have an abiding
hope.
no this end, one of the first steps
must be respect for private pro-
perry at sea, and another must be
the gradual reduction of all naval
and military ornaments, The lead
ers OF the various democracies who,
in unity. have borne the responsible
tiles Of this awful conflict are not
likely now, in disagreement, to sink
either ships or ideals.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-12-04

but guilty. When Myrtle presented him
with lawn mower. When they were
all gone he glanced at her In re-
proachful way She burst into tears
and fell into his lap and wept out her
grief on his shoulder.
ooh, Wade!' she sObbed. Il didn't
want to give you that horrid, common
everyday lawn mower, but they made
me, and after ] had saved and scraped
to get you this. You mustn't tell
them gave it to you, or they'll say
/ was traitor" and this" was pref
" diamond scarfpin.
"Say!" cried Wade, hugging her
close, II see what this all means.
"Bless your dear little heart! can
take lesson and profit by it, so the
next birthday Of yours 1t won't be q
scrubbing brush, or new dishpan."
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-12-04
SINKING SHIPS AND SINKING
IDEALS.
New York World

L . z.
If the noblest purpose of the VIC
| tors in this war was to rid the earth
of war it must be said in all frank
ness that considerable journalistic
element in England now seems dis
posed to forget the fact or to treat IL
as of little importance
If this war is to end war, what
reason is there for sticking over the
freedom of the seas? And il this war
is to end war, what insensate folly 1t
| is for anybody in Great Britain TO
propose that, rather than risk dis
pute over the division of the spoils,
the German war vessels now in the
hands of the Allies be sunk mid
ocean!
What the United States demands in
the way of freedom of the seas is no
new thing. If there is to be no more
war the freedom of the seas will be
gained automatically. There is free
dom of the seas in peace, but when
Great Britain has been belligerent
it has used its naval power against
friends as well as foes, Insisting
upon neutral rights, the United
States has always upheld the sancti-
ty of private property on water as
we'll as on land, and Great Britain,
we are sorry to say, has been the
principal opponent Of the idea.
If we are to go right on with war
it rs conceivable that, with several
other nations powerful at sea engag-
ed In hostilities, the British Empire
as neutral might find ruination in
its own doctrine. Unless it is to ac-
cept war as the normal status OF men
and nations and be always prepared
to enter the lists, it should not forget
how narrow was its escape from the
submarines, and it might even reflect
that the law of blockade to which, as
interpreted by iself, it has held SO
firmly may some day be enforced in
the same fashion on its own shores.
We are glad to say that all this up
roar in London in support of the old
contention-that because Great Brit
ain is an island and has big navy 1t
has been in some manner endowed
with Divine right to lord it over the
seas-is made by newspapers and not
by responsible statesmen. One OF
these journals refers to The Worlds
position as fine example of demo-
cratic brusquerie, whatever that may
mean. This sentiment bears out
however, what we have said all
along, that, while democracy is now
in power in Great Britain, France
and Italy, imperialistic ambition is
still influential in every one of them,
and we all know that in the United
States the forces of reaction are never
at rest
The shocking proposal that Ger
man warships be wastefully sunk as
the easiest way to settle an inevitable
dispute among friends must have or
iginated in the brain of quarrel
some Tory who, instead of welcoming
true disarmament, was anxious in a
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-12-04

Unionl
"Fol-de-rol!" calculated Wade Guth-
RE contemptuously. you'd think it
was a fiancee you was making pres
ent to, instead Of staid, sensible
wife,"
"Well, you see, Winnie and ] are
| about as silly and sentimental as we
were when we were only engaged re-
sponded Hal Devon. SITS these deli
cate attentions that please the wom-
en-fowers, box Of sweetmeats, a
pretty collar pin. 1t isn't much, but
1t lifts the wife out Of the ordinary,
recalls old girlhood days and makes
her happy"
"a woman's home is her idol" quot
ed practical Wade Guthrie. Provide
for that first"
Sometimes it gets to be a prison.
What do you do for your wife on her
birthday"
"Give her something useful, of
course. Last year it was sewing ma
chine"
'"TO give her more work to do, ehI"
"Well, she wanted it and appreciated
1t. When the birthday came around
last week it was carpet sweeper
"And what does she give you on
such occasions"
ooh, box of ties; year before last
q seal ring. She never forgets me.
I'm wanting watch fob. l calculate
1t will come along next week. You
see, our birthdays are near together"
Guthrie will be giving his wife a
coal hod or stepladder next time,
If something doesn't reform him." OBJ
served Hal to his wife that evening
recounting his colloquy with his tel
low clerk at the bank.
Winnie Devon and Myrtle Guthrie
had been schoolmates and saw good
deal Of one another in these later
days. Wade Guthrie was model man
In his habits and reputation. but he
had fallen victim to the old-time fall
lacy that to be "a good provider" be-
gan and ended the duty Of a husband.
Myrtle had never complained, but
more than once Winnie had noted a
wearied expression upon her face. the
sure sign of a dull home life. Eve
nings at least twice week Hal took
Winnie to some entertainment. Wade,
slippers and pipe tray close to hand,
read and smoked, while Myrtle silent
ly sewed or mended, and then he
dozed In his chair until bedtime.
He was proud of her housekeeping
capabilities and Dragged Of the same,
but he had been spoiled as the only
son of a family Of sisters, was selfish
In his exactions without realizing 1t,
and withheld unconsciously from his
wife those superficial, but heartsome
little attentions that keep woman
young.
"The pink in Myrtle's cheeks is be-
ginning to fade" Winnie intimated to
sister of Wade a few days later.
"Don't you think she stays In the
house too much?'
II know it," promptly agreed the
outspoken sister-in-law of Wade. HE
has settled down into regular rut
and has pulled Myrtle into it with
him.
also he has forgotten how to act
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-12-04

money on tribes" and ms fingers
twirled about the pocket where his
watch reposed, apparently iii antici-
patton of the expected new fob.
But for Wade Guthrie that evening
there arrived the surprise Of his life
when the dinner was over and they adj
journed to the dining room, Wade's
mother prefaced the gift giving with
the remark:
eve are all turning over new leaf
this year, Wade. You always give
Myrtle such sensible, practical gifts,
that 60 towards adding to the home,
that we decided to follow your exam
pie"
Wade Guthrie looked blank, then
suspicious, and finally thoughtful as
his mother revealed her gift--a snow
shovel. His sisters followed, one with
shoe-blacking outfit. another with a
whisk broom, third with a garden
hose. Wade, however, looked shocked,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-12-04
safety Matches Cause of Disease.

-Four writer's in turn" says the
Ugeskrift for Lager, Copenhagen, "de-
scribe cases Of eczema which they were
unable to explain in the otherwise
healthy patients until they learned Of
Rasch's experience with local poison
ing Of the skin from the use Of GER
tain brand Of safety matches. In most
Of the patients the burn was on the
thighs corresponding to the trousers
pockets In which they carried the
match boxes"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-12-04
THE PRESIDENTS PLACE.

(Des Moines Register)
1t would be easy to have more
patience with the critics of the
president who insist that his place OF
duty is in Washington if they did not
make it so plain that what they want
is to keep him away from the peace
conference.
The same newspapers that have
for six. years been protesting against
too much Wilson at Washington, are
now printing long opinions on consti-
tutional law to show that he should
not set his foot outside the sacred
limits of the District Of Columbia.
But passing by this after all incl
dental phase of the matter lis it not
time to recognize that this war has
greatly enlarged the scope of Amer
lean interests, We broke a precedent
OF long standing when we sent an ar
my to Europe. The reason that in
fluenced our action in war will be
found to be no less cogent now we
are confronted with the equally
troublesome problems of peace.
Then, there are considerations OF
a more general nature than that. Ev-
cry means of REORGANIZATION has
been developed in the century and a
halt OF the American experiment, I'M
til the world has become in a way
smaller than the thirteen American
colonies were in Washington's time.
There was less to bind the original
colonies together then than now serves
to draw the whole world to one COM
mon meeting place.
No matter what might have been
the original policy as to our presi-
dents, if any world purpose can be
served today by the presence Of Pres
edent Wilson at the peace confer
ence-and as to this we must accept
the pressing invitations of the allied
leaders as conclusive-then the
president belongs at the peace con-
ference, for precisely the same rea-
son that General Pershing belonged
on the Verdun line.
The president has conceived a
large plan of world coordination to
secure certain great ends, common to
the well being Of every people No
body knows better than he what can
be done, nobody knows better than he
how to do it. Why should he be tied
to the District of Columbia, If Europe
is calling to him to act as arbitrator
Those were just as reasonable who in
the early days of the war cited the
old statues to prove that state mill
tia-men could not be compelled to
serve anywhere outside the Unit
ed States.
But we must have in mind the
election of 1920" remarked promi-
nent member of congress not long
ago. As to that it may be set down
out of hand that policy of narrow
backcapping will do more to make
Wilson candidate for a third term,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-12-04

According to the best information
obtainable the Germans built ap-
proximately $50 submarines, and that
200 OF that number were sunk during
the war. The claim repeatedly made
during the war that the submarines
were being sunk faster than Germany
could build them seems to have been
well founded.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-12-04
Worlds Greatest Cataract.

What is set down as the greatest cat
aract in the world is on the Iguazu
river, which partly separates Brazil
and Argentina. The precipice over
which the river plunges is 30 feet
high, that of Niagara being 1877 feet
The cataract is 1923 feet wide, or
about two and half times as wide as
Niagara. 1t is estimated that 100000.
600 tons Of water pass over Niagara
IN an hour. A like estimate gives the
falls of Iguazu lao, 0OO,0 900 tons.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-12-04
Queer Epitaphs.

Queer epitaphs are frequently fakes /;
but the following really appears in a
Salop churchyard: elizabeth. the
wife of Richard Barklamb, passed to
eternity on Saturday, 21st Of May,
1907, in the seventy-first year of her
age. Richard Barklamb, the Ante
spouse Uxorious, was inferred here,
26th JAN. 1906, in his eighty-fourth
year." What an antespouse uxorious
may be is not OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Western Mail
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-12-04

Mr.; Mann, the venerable Republican
statesman whose statement appears in
this colum, gives voice to the great
body of loyal Americans whose love OF
country rises above party lines. The
envious politicians who are striving
to detract from the Presidents infiu-
ence at the peace conference, will live
to regret their mean little splutterings,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-12-04

The present epidemic of influenza
has already proved fatal to 22,556 per-
sons in the state Of Illinois, and It's
death roll in New York City amounts
to 1914. 1t is safe to say that the
flu will kill ten times as many Ameri-
cans this year, as the entire number
Of United States soldiers killed in bat
tie on the western front.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-12-04

History will record many marvels
In connection with the great war, but
none more marvellous than the rapidly
with which this peaceful, unarmed,
democracy was forged into most for
nlidable military power.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-12-04
Ideals.

We must love ideals and struggle
toward them ourselves, but we must
not use them excessively in the meas
urement of others.-David Swing.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-12-04
THE NEW WATCH ON THE RHINE.

(By Charles B. Driscoll,.
There sounds voice, like trumpet
call,
Above the noise of thrones that fall.
"The Rhine, the Rhine, the noble
Rhine!
who guards today that silver line"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-12-04
CHORUS.

CIORUS.
Humanity, no danger thine;
Humanity, no danger thine;
The Yanks now keep the watch, the
watch on Rhine!
The Yanks now keep the watch, the
watch on Rhine!
The tyranny that used to dwell
Beside the Rhine has gone to hell;
Now Yankee hands, so firm and true,
Plant there the old Red, White and
Blue
The Yankee soldier, head held high,
Swears here an oath that will not die;
While flow thy waters to the sea
Thy banks of tyrants shall be free!
There flows no more brave Belgian
blood
To stain with shame thy rushing flood;
Along the Rhine the world now sees
The Starry Flag flung to the breeze.
Bright emblem of a world redeemed
Emblem of dreams our fathers
dreamed,
Thy stars of hope in triumph shine
Along the Rhine, the noble Rhine!
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-12-04
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The AWAKENING
BY GEORGE ELMER COBB.

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