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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-01-10

!. Open covenants OF peace, openly
arrived at, after which there shall be
no private international understand
ings of any kind, but diplomacy shall
proceed always frankly and in the pub
lie view.
II. Absolute freedom of navigation
upon the seas, outside territorial wa
tiers, alike in peace and in war, except
as the seas may be closed in whole or
in part by international action for the
enforcement of international cove
nants.
III. The removal, as far as possible,
of all economic barriers and the estab-
lishment of an equality of trade condi-
tons among all the nations consenting
to the peace and associating them
selves for Its maintenance.
Nv. Adequate guarantees given and
taken that national ornaments will be
reduced to the lowest point consistent
with domestic safety,
". A free open minded and absolute
ly impartial reimbursement OF all colo
NAL claims. based upon a strict obsery-
ance ~ tho principle that Ia determin-
iue al such questions Of sovereignty
l'sh }rl9fests Of the ponniNfions con.
<i|<ped NilSl have fQsS|A' H1' A< I<4
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-01-10
Not Jealous of Germany.


Eve have no jealousy of German
greatness and there is nothing in this
program that impalrs It, We grudge
her no achievement or distinction Of
learning or of pacific enterprise such
as have made her record very bright
and very enviable.
"We do not wish to injure her or
to block in any way her legitimate
influence or power We do not wish
to fight her either with arms or with
hostile arrangements of trade. il she
Is willing to associate herself with
us and the other peaee-loving nations
of the world in covenants of justice
and law and fair dealing.
~We wish her only to accept place
of equality among the peoples OF the
world-the new world in which we
now live-instead of place OF mas
terry.
Neither do we presume to suggest
to her any alteration or modification
of her institutions. But Ii II neces-
sary. we must frankly say ana neces.
sary us preliminary to any Intelligent
dealings with her ON our part, that we
should know whom her spokesmea
speak for when they speak to us.
whether for the reichstag majority or
for the military party. and the men
whose creed is imperial domination.
''We have spoken now. surely. m
terms too concrete to admit of any
further doubt or question. An evil
dent principle runs through the whole
program have outlined.
1T II tho principle Of Justice to Ill
peoples ana ilationalsties. and their
right n ti>e 81 e0ppI seFsos * liberty
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-19
WHERE WOUNDED MEN
YIELD TO DAY DREAMS
Restored to Health and Vigor In
Red Cross Convalescent
Homes.

The surgeon has extracted the i'm
partially distributed bits Of shrapnel
from your works. The wounds have
healed. The wheels go round again,
and the clock ticks.
But It doesn't keep correct time.
This business Of calling Thine !" on
the Boche means so many broken clocks
nowadays that the master-menders
can't keep them on their tables after
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-19

the works he's tinkered, and tlat the
soul within you is grouslng as it never
did when the body was down and out.
1t wants something, and it doesn't
know what 1t is. But If it doesn't get
1t pretty quick the works are going to
get gummed again. You know your
mother could find out what that dog
gone thing is right away and hand it
to you on a plate. But General Per
shlng won't let you go to her. : I"
And the War Department won't let her
come to you
Then you're ,aken to a Red Cross
convalescent home-and there is the
very thing you wanted! But you
couldn't describe 1t even then to save
your life
1t Is a bit of ccddling, and pretty
surroundings, and women's faces, and
light laughter and time to play and all
that sort of thing. 1t is forgetting the
crash Of war and remembering that
there are pleasant, soft voices. It's
even such things as gaily-flOwered sofa
pillows to jam into corner and make
a nice lolllng place while you read
and smoke and talk. It's slippers in
stead of trench boots, or day-dreams
In place OF the nightmare Of killing.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-19
NO SEALS SOLD THIS YEAR.

The customary sale Of Red Cross
Christmas seals will not be held this
year. 1t seemed best to both the
American Red Cross and the National
tuberculosis Association to unite In
the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call to
reduce the number Of appeals to the
public for contributions. There will
be no lessening Of activities by the
National tuberculosis Association
through this arrangement, as the Red
Cross War Council has appropriated
$2,500,000 for anti-tuberculosis work
In 1919 In lieu Of the money that ordi.
narily would be raised by Christmas
Seal Campaign. However, every per
son joining the Red Cross during the
Red Cross Christmas Roll Call will be
awarded ten seals to be used a. here
tofore.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-12-19

rney'Te rnrnueo. 80 the question where
they shall sit around while they're be-
ing regulated looms large.
The Red Cross answers that ques-
ton with its convalescent homes. 1t
has six Of these In operatloD A suit
able place Is found-sometimes do
nated-and management and equip
ment are provided by the Red Cross,
while the Army has furnished discl-
pline and q never-failing supply Of con-
valescents.
These homes mean that men who
are scarcely hospital subjects, yet who
can by no means go back to their du-
ties, have a place that does what
"home" does for the French or Eng
lIsh soldier, what "home" does for
any one, in fact, when the doctor gets
through.
You know. He says: you're all
right now. It's only a matter Of nurs-
ing and food"
But yev know he's only looking at
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

beginning 10 change. Not only were
the pigs. which ran about the street
in Dickens's time, now banished, but
the human elemen. was undergoing
regeneration. Italian residents were
coming in. pushing out the Irish
who had given the locality its unsav-
cry reputation. The new element was
by no means perfect as citizens, and
stabbing afrays were frequent; but
he old criminal gangs disappeared.
From this time on the work of
the mission became more that Of
any settlements: ministering to the
needy; supplying cloChirg, food and
fuel wherever it was necessary at
nominal cost, in order not to pauper-
ize the recipient; conducting day
school and a nursery; still maintain
ing, of course, its Sunday school, its
weekly mothers meeting, and conduct
ing industrial classes in cobbling, car
pentry, basket weaving, Gaming, sewing
and millinery.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Carrying On at
Hotel de Cink

When the wholesale condemnation
proceedings for the new court house
site arose, the mission was forced to
abandon its quarters, and in 1914
moved into the Hotel de Gink, on the
corner of Worth and Centre streets
tramp hotel established and success
fully maintained by one OF these no.
mads himself The work continued
quite as before. The Thanksgiving
dinners still fed 500 hungry young
sters; baskets were still given at this
time to 300 families; and at Christ
mas some 500 gifts were distributed.
The fresh air home on the John Ohm
stead estate at Cornwall OF the Hudson
afforded accomm odatons to seventy
FIVE children. who rollicked there in
enjoyment Of summer camp sports.
Now, however, the government has
taken these Worth Street rooms and
the mission is once more making
move. The new quarters occupy a
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Occident and Orient
Mingled in Opium Smoke

Mott Street, the centre of the Chi
nese section, lured to its shops and
JOSS house, its restaurants and curio
places, visitors, who eyed with interest
the figures slipping in and out of door
ways, pattering up and down stairs, or
pauslng before the old priest of the
JOSS house to make an Offering and re-
cclve printed prayer or an invocation
of good luck for some business venture.
But such curiosity seekers seldom got
beyond the open places, and knew little
OF the opium dens, filled with Chinese
and white smokers, men and women.
some of whom had come from good
families, but had fallen to the lowest
kind of living through the insidious in
huence of the drug obtainable here. At
best, the mngling of the Orient and
Occident, as found in Mott and Pell
streets, was unhealthy and unnatural.
The children of all these people were
drawn to the mission, and learned
quickly. The good they absorbed they
carried with them into their homes,
and Five Points began to feel the in
auence of the Methodist ladies who
had come to live among them.
In 1894 the first building was torn
down, and we'll equipped, conmodi-
Gus structure, suited in all respects
to its uses. was erected for the mis-
sion and occupied in 1895. BY this
time the character of the section was
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Five Points Moulds
An Alaskan Governor

Although the old Five Points Mission
works with more plant material and
meets with less serious moral problems
than troubled it in the "Old Bowery~
davs its need Is still great and i.s
work momentous. The boys and girls
who have grown from sordid and often
degrading surroundings 10 POSITIONS a.
prominence through the influence o.
the missions work are many. Gos.
ernor Brady, the first executive e
Alaska. was a Five Points Miss.v.
and from this same institution sprs>~.
one of the present judges on the New
York bench, a prominent merchant in
Connecticut and the superintendent of
one of the largest department sto,~- #
this city Some of the little Italians,
Greeks and sundry other nation
alities represented among those who
are attending the mission classes to-
day, eating the apples and fresh vege-
tables sent in by kindly friends,
warmed by the coal distributed in win
ter~-some of these very waits may one
day startle this cynical metropolis by
genius and ability brought to light and
fostered by the old mission which is
inevitably part of Five Points. even
though X has moved across that sec
tion's boundary line.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Die k e ms, in His
American Notes."
G a " e the Neigh
borhood It's First
Write-Up Many
Successful M e N
Brought Up There

space of about 50x100 feet facing on
Catharine Street. OF this, twenty-eight
feet is occupied by & three story build
ing in the front and various small
buildings in the rear This was bought
from Miss Mary Van Buren Vanderpooi
side walls are Of wooo. On the corner
Is . iive-story brick rooming hotel, in
the rear Of which is three-story an
mex, the entire building running 100
feet along Madison Street, and com
prising Nos. 39 and Al. which was pur-
chased from the Beekman estate. The
necessary renovations will cost in the
neigh borhood Of $30,000-a sum much
larger than the mission had hoped
would be necessary 10 expend on
temporary establishment; but the
amount is needed IN making the new
quarters adequate for the work of the
mission. There will be large audi
torium for the Sunday school and
social gatherings, ligh, and airy work
rooms for the Industrial classes,
gymnasium and showers. and a large
lunch room, where the children Will be
given their midday meal. This is one
Of the oldest customs Of the mission,
and one of the advantages most thor
oughly enjoyed, not only by the pres
ent students, but by any of those who
have originally been students and care
To rome in for lunch
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

IN this great rapprochement. A
league of nations is the ideal, not
an Anglo-Saxon league, as such.
Americans and British will only be
good friends in the long run if they
use their friendship, and especially
their immense advantage of CON-
mon language, for the good of
others.
America Not Bound
By Pact Of London
Technically, the United States is
not yet an ally. She is not bound
by the Pact of London, which de-
bars the Allies from making peace
except in common. She is at war
on Washington's principle of polit-
ical detachment, and she is not at
war either with Bulgaria or with
Turkey. That appears to be a some
what anomalous situation, but it
does not worry Great Britain. We
are accustomed to an unwrittan
constitution-to gentlemen's agree
mcnts. Many distinguished jurists
are working out, as they believe, the
verbal structure of league of ma
tions; what votes shall be allotted
TO Nicaragua and what votes to
France or Britain; what measures
shall be taken to insure navigation
on international rivers like the Con-
SO and the Danube, and what shall
be the guardianship of canals like
Suez and Panama. All this debate
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

the Five Points Mission, this title was
not officially adopted until 1900; but
the work was incorporated as "The La
dies Home Missionary Society of New
York City" And difficult job it was
that this little group of women, led by
Mrs. Bishop James, Mrs. Deuel-after-
ward Mrs. Governor Wright-Mrs. II.
B. Skidmore, Mrs. Phoebe Palmer ana
Mrs Mercein unde dertook.
They began modestly, in q small
building at the intersection of Little
Water and Cross streets-merely a
Sunday school, that brought, on its
first Sunday, an attendance of seventy
five waits whose faces had already lost
the round freshness of childhood and
whose sharp eyes stared suspiciously
at the clean walls of the mission and
the kindly women who welcomed them.
But the lessons were interesting, diff
ferent from anything they had run
across in their disordered lives-and
not the sort of sky-pilot stuff they had
expected. The class grew, and very
soon the mission moved into the "Old
Brewery" on the south side of the
square-erected in 1892, and the site of
every kind of violence and crime imag-
Unable.
Nor did violence end when the mis-
sion moved in. Wrecking it's rooms be-
came almost a favorite diversion with
the tough gangs that fought for un-
savory prominence in the district.
Many service was broken up, many a
set Of furniture had to be replaced as
result of the raids Of these toughs.
Still the mission persisted and showed
results.
For two years, until the building was
torn down, the Ladies' Missionary So
ciety held it's classes here, and drew to
it's influence the children of the Ital-
ians, Chinese. Hebrews and Negroes
that inhabited the section. In 1853 the
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Britain and America Drawing Closer Gntemans Agreement as
suit OF Lord Readings Efforts Harmonic Programmes Both
Countries Link League of Nations That Will Preserve Peace

1t is possible that Lord Reading
has been assisted by his long ap-
premiership at the bar, where he
had no rival in the art of putting
his case without suggesting offence,
even to party which might be
definitely on the other side. Hap
PLY, there is in America to-day no
"other side" to the patriotism that
defends democracy. II
have seen it hinted that Lord
Reading has been the bearer of pro-
p"sals for closer relations between
Great Britain and the United
States. Indeed, the word "alli-
ance" has been mentioned. With
the world slowly organizing order
cut of chaos, the future of the Eng
lisl-speaking countries must be con-
sidered in all it's aspects, but |
should be surprised if, at this stage
OF the war, the terms of any special
Anglo-Saxon alliance were to be
laid before Congress. Neither coun-
try would agree for one moment to
any step being taken which would
appear to exclude France and our
other gallant comrades in arms,
who have suffered in this business
more severely than either the Unit
cd States or the United Kingdom.
Moreover, 1t must be obvious that,
with the larger strategy of all the
be']igerents under the mastery
guidance Of Marshal Foch- no dis
cussions can go very far in which
Italy and France are not parties.
For instance, it has been at Paris,
as much as at London, that tho vast
problems Of intervention in Russia
and trade after the war have been
canvassed. Every proof of friend
ship between Britain and America
is welcomed by English people with
an enthusiasm which Americans
can hardly appreciate. That recon-
cill;. ton means to US the dawn of a
new day after dark night. But
there must be no alloy of selfishness
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

city, it now exists more or less as set
tlement for guarding the physical and
mental needs Of a community poor and
of q somewhat low stratum of life but
hardly vicious or criminal.
Dickens, visiting New York in 1912,
describes in detail in his "Amercan
Notes" the iniquitous character of Five
Points as then existing-a section that
comprised practically that region which
runs from Park Row to Chatham
Square; through Mott Street, the Chi
nese centre, to Canal Street; then back
to Worth Street through Mulberry
Street, the Italian centre; from Worth
to Canal Street through Baxter, and
back from Centre Street to the Tombs
"a district Infamous as the Sixth
Ward.
Here, within a stones throw Of the
City Hall, and radiating from the Tombs
itself, lay the hunting ground for the
most desperate characters, the haunt
Of dssolute and vicious men and
women, and the rendezvous Of petty
criminals. No crime was too dark to
be hatched in the dens which f1ourished
underground, and many were the pas
sages rabbited out beneath the streets
-cryptlike dives providing escape for
the hunted and a human sewerage for
the refuse from the drcgs Of city life.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

ance to amity, link and symbol
of affection. King George genuine
iy enjoys the life lived overseas.
lie likes Americans, more perhaps
than ne likes some people nearer
home-though that remark is not
to be taken too seriously. If honors
were offered TO eminent American
generals and adm:rals, no challenge
to republican institutions was in
tended. | wish to state openly that
weeks ago | sent to England COM
munication in which I put the
American viewpoint on these hon
ors. don't yet know what hap
rened to my dispatch. But my inl-
preston is that the most suitable
compliment to our American COM
rades would be, at the proper time,
resolution of thanks passed in
both houses of Parliament. | am in
formed that this would be in strict
accord with Congressional practice
In the meantime, no American will
take umbrage where none was in
tended.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

saloons of the section, and many daring
thefts and brutal murders were planned
over their bars.
Chatham Square, whose marshy and
sluggish streams were covered from the
eye, was a breeding place for fever and
ague, and unhealthy bodies fostered
minds proportonately warped. At the
time these places were cleaned out, one
block alone was found to contain over
one thousand cases of tuberculosis, and
the record of foul deeds committed here
is intermlnable
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
First Settlement
BE g an w ork
Eighty-fve Years
Ago and Persisted
Since in Most Dis
reputable Part of
City
By Natalie McCloskey

TINE old Five Points Mission, at
heart a home-loving institution.
never nomadically inclined, has
yet made four moves in the course OF
slxty-eight years existence, and now is
ence more forced TO pack it's lares and
penates. assemble its desks and black
boards. hymn books and monthly re-
ports and migrate from the first floor
OF the Hotel de Gink, And this fifth
exodus Is taking the mission across
Park Row to the corner of Madison and
Catharine streets-virtually out Of the
Five Points section.
Not that the sponsors of the institu-
non would have chosen this exact site
had all things been equal and the
Aaiser dead, but the government has
decided tc take over the present quar-
ess' and since the cost Of labor, ma
eriais and the sundry factors to be
considered IN the erection of a new
eIieing are soaring far beyond the
reach OF the missions balance in hand
u became necessary for the board of
directors 10 consider, with due expedi-
eaey. some new location which should
's temporarily permanent" - large
'noogh TO accomm OF date the classes and
'aee' the varied needs Of the people Of
'ae mission, and incorporate some, at
'sss'' o1 the advantages they had hoped
" gain through the erection Of new
sna Permanent home. DR.. Belcher and
"'s assistants looked around, elimi-
"<'ed the undesirable possibilities and
A'0nd themselves with the Madison and
"'hsrine streets location-~or none.
"- buildings already on the site being
'"a'eaua'e, architects are already
wiring on plans for remodelling and
's"pSa'ing, incident to making the new
sA~f'ers thoroughly up TO date and ad-
ssua4.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
What Draws Canada
And Australia

What draws Canada to the Unit
ed States is, from the severely
practical standpoint, finance. Aus
tralia is chiefly exercised over the
future Of the Pacific islands and the
security of ocean routes. Ameri-
cans will realize, | am sure, that
Britain is suDordinating her just
pride Of empire to the hope of a
wider freedom still. She has put
her army of millions under the
brilliant command of France. She
has encouraged her dominions to
talk with the United States face to
face. She is proposing for India a
vast scheme Of political liberation
Now Englishmen of my own type,
who have lived for liberalism ard
level i'll the rough-and tumble of
democracy, understand "shirt-
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

70 be brought into the courts. hopeless
drunkards and already adept and hard
ened criminals. The "groggeries" that
lined the streets were the meeting
places for we'll known and infamous
men ard women, who practised their
crimes in broad daylight. and often
aided by the police of the vicinity.
Pawnshops and saloons - the latter
known as "morcues,' because their
commodity was used both for imbibing
and embalming further rem
devious.
Steve Brodie's and Patsy Egan's
places are two of the best known
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

is useful. 1t educates. 1t uncovers
pitfalls. But the real questions are
settled day by day, not according
to elaborate rules, but according TO
good faith. The United States may
rot have signed the Pact of London,
but we all know that she intends to
go through with this business to
the end. Russia did sign the pact
and it was treated by Lenine and
Trotzky as scrap of paper.
Still, l am sure that our French
end Italian friends will realize that
the very process of adapting the
british Empire to the new outlook
on the world must lead England, a
country which speaks for others be-
sides herself, to seek counsel from a
statesman so detached and far.
sighted as President Wilson. Irish
N.ationalists and Ulster men have
alike laid their case before the
White House. Canada has her rep.
resentative there accredited. Aus
ITALIA is considering some such ap-
pointment on her own behalf. The
visits of Sir Robert Borden and Mr..
Hughes-Dominion and Common
wealth prime ministers-are full of
significance.
No modification of British sover-
eighty is suggested. No declara-
ton of independence from England
IS conceivable. But the British
crown exists, not as a barrier be
tween democracies, but as an assist