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The Prescott daily news., 1918-10-10
COMPETENT LECTURERS
 FOR DRAFT REGlSTRANTS

Little Rock, Oct. 10.-Dr, C. w. Garrison, state health officer, has been directed to see that competent lecturers go before the registrants who are to be called together by the local boards for instruction on the subejct of venereal disease It is the purpose to reach the entire state in this way. It is stated that 15 per cent of the men examined in the first drafts were found unfit for service on account of disease. It is believed the proposed course of instruction and simple remedies will tend to overcome this condition to great extent.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-10-10
COTTON MARKET
 ON THE DECLINE
Prices Break Below 30-Cent Level for December at New Iorh-Favorable Report on Weather Was Factor.

New York, Oct 9.-There was a further sharp decline in the cotton market today, with prices breaking below the Soc level for December and all the later deliveries under contin- ued liquidation and hedge selling. The general list closed steady at a net loss of ? to 6l points.
 The market showed rather reac- tionary tone at the start The pres sure became heavier after the publi- cation of the favorable weekly report from the weather bureau. There was another rally of p or 30 points dur ing the middle of the day on covering which seemed to be promoted by re- ports that a leading Vienna paper had published a statement that Austria must have peace at any price. But offerings again increased and the market reached the lowest levels of the day in the later trading. Liver pool was seller on the midday rally and the belief was that a good part of the selling represented liquidation of old long lines that had been ac- cumulated on a belief that improving peace prospects would have a bullish influence.
 The close showed rallies of several points from the lowest on reports that spot offerings were being with drawn on the decline.
 Spot cotton quiet; middling 32.05c.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-10-10

without interference with the usual trading between farmers and buyers or merchants. Third: all purchases both for foreign and for domestic consumption will continue to be made at market prices through the market ing and distribution agencies com monly used, unless and until the cot ton committee shall determine and announce that the necessity has arisen for making a change. In view of this announcement the cotton com mittee hopes that agencies engaged in the cotton industry will proceed in the normal transaction of business without uncertainty or hesitation.- Franklin. director of the War Loan Organization, Washington, D. C.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-10-10
THE NEW CALOMEL FINE
 FOR COLDS AND GRIPPE
Calotabs, the New Nausealess Calomel, Breaks Up Severe Cold Overnight.

Physicians and druggists have at last foun da quick and dependable remedy for colds, influenza and grippe. One Calotab on the tongue at bed time with a swallow of water, that's all Next morning your cold has vanished and your liver and en- tire system are purified and refreshed without the slightest unpleasantness or interference with appetite, diet or work.
 Doctors have always contended that calomel is the best medicine for colds, bronchitis and la grippe and the first medicine to be given in pneu- monia and acute levers. The new calomel, Calotabs, is purified and re- fined from all of the sickening and dangerous effects and with the me dicinal virtues vastly improved
 Calotabs are sold only in original sealed packages, price 35c. Your druggist recommends and guarantees them and will refund your money if You are not delighted
The Prescott daily news., 1918-10-10
CANCEL. ENG AG EM ENT

St. Louis, Mo, Oct. 9, 1918 Mir. John A. Davis, City.
 Account ruling your State Health commissioner, compelled to cancel band engagement in your town.
 Liberty Loan Organization.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-10-10
BLACK SPANISH JACK

Just arrived from Illinois, large registered Black Spanish Jack. For sale or trade at bargain, Moore X Martin 9tt
The Prescott daily news., 1918-10-10

Lord Baltimore Pound Paper ant envelopes at Guthrie's.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-10-10
,,. PRESCOTT DALEY NEWS
 Published by The News Printing Company

r,,srsd as second class mail mat ,., November 4th, 1905, at the post ,T,s at Prescott. Ark, under the act d Congress, March 8. 1879.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25

execution of Nurse Edith Cavclle; as the
man who has permitted the bombing of hos
pita ships?
"The trouble is that the Kaiser and the
people Of Germany are getting dose of
their own medicine 1t was all right for the
Germans to attempt to spread death and
CONSERVATION in French and English cities,
but when the Allies retaliate, the impossi
bic Kaiser, who has broken all Of the laws
that most men hold sacred, begins to rant
about the 'unlawfulness' of the business"
THE Baltimore Sun" thinks that
"But one Of two differences can'be drawn
from this telegram either that the EN-
peror is a fool or that he thinks the Ger
man people are fools. The Emperor is not
fool in the ordinary sense, and he knows
perfectly we'll that he has long ago cut the
throat Of international law, that he has
no more right to protest against its viola
ton than red-handcd and defiant murderer
'has against violent methods of subduing
him. But he seems to believe the German
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25
In Arms Against This Wolf

professors and divines who have declared
their militarst proclivities. In another are
their opponents. And, last, there are hun
dreds Of prisoners of war reproductions of
photographs from the illustrated papers, to
which my friend, an expert in physog-
nomy, attaches high value.
"Ihc type which he processes to have
found more or less strongly marked in the
great majority of these faces is that of
the wolf To make this apparent, he has
executed we'll drawn VOLTS head on those
pages where the type stands out clcarest.
of the generals no one could overlook the
resemblance few of them, like the
Crown Prince, appear to be men of low
order of intelligence. and one would hardly
say OF these that they make convincing
wolves. But the great majority have the
marks of exceptional intellectual power.
and 1T is precisely in them that the lupine
traits are most pronounced and unmistak
able.
Every remarkable, too, is the increasing
Among the common soldiers the wolf face
Is absent fully as often as it is present
Among the unior officers one misses if
only hero and there. The generals repro-
duce 1T almost without exception. while in
the Kaiser, of course, it comes out pur
sang.
ION the whole, the collection does justice
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25
\ New System Was
"A Put in Operation

What these courses in Kultur consist
of is wildly DESCRIBED in a special cable
dispatch to THE New York World"
from Oldcnzaal, on the German-Dutch
frontier. The World" correspondent
there relates the following as told him
by Anton Schwartilegh, a sergeant at
tached to the Pomcrian Infantry Regi-
ment "a, who deserted to Holland:
"Our authorities, evidently acting on IN
structions from headquarters, dec ided to out
do their own record of cruelty toward Amer
lcan prisoners. A system newly devised was
carefully worked out under the watchword
The fewer Americans who return home the
better for US Now in operation, if it is
permitted to go on there is no telling how
many Americans taken prisoner viii ever
be allowed to America again. Surely,
very few.
after seeing q good deal OF service in
France and Russia in France again, where
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25
The Kaiser Sheds Some More Crocodile Tears

people are fools enough to swallow every
thing he tells them
"Perhaps they still are. But after a while
they may begin to realize that the respon-
sbility for their sufferings lies with their
pious ruler"
But while the Kaiser "squeals like a
pig under a gate over the recent bomb
droppings on German Cities" as "The
New York Globe" puts it, nevertheless
"On the All-Highest rests the blood guilt,
for he forced his advcrsaries to resort to
prisals as the only means of self defence.
For nearly four years the governments of
the Allies without retorting in kind permit
ted German barbarity to continue"
The same newspaper thinks such re-
taliatory raids should have been insti-
tuted four years ago, because
"The Kaiser would have squealed in 1914
as readily as he squeals in 1918. AS he now
is being brought to a state of mind wherein
he will offer to desist, SO he could have
been brought four years ago The senti-
mcntalists who shrank from doing that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25

to the alternative title my friend has in
scrlbed on the cover-'The War Interpreted
at Glance You close the book with the
feeling that the question has been reduced
to It's ultimate terms. 'Mankind' YOU saw.
is IN arms against this wolf Nor is this
mere lmpressionism. We may use these
words with the assurance that we are an
uclpatng the verdict of history. These
German miltarists have justified their
faces. They have won for themselves a
reputation in cruelty by which they will be
remembered hereafter, even though every
thing else should be forgotten. They have
made cruelty the keyword to the human
meaning of the war--the word that explains
better than any other single word that
could be chosen what it is that binds the
Allied nations into unitary force, what
they are fighting to establish and what
they fighting to overthrow"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25
for American Prisoners

the officers to shoot them down in s..,.
defence n-
American negroes are really wors. 80
than the white prisoners. The Ca-r.-
sentries authorize and infiict fogeines ~.
them for the least reason, or witbou. ~
son. Two negroes, absolutely innocent NJ
thrashed almost to death in the nreso..-
of their comrades, when the proceed;ns
were interrupted by another negro W.
boxed the scntry's ears He is now a. ~
court mart;alled.
Those Americans who are not bu,,;..
or who are spared on account of Cermau
ancestry are used in the German nror.
ganda service in Russia. 1t has often ban
pened that your soldiers or under offcar.
have been taken to Russia either bo,.
cuffed like murderers or in cages like u,;,s
animals-this is the absolute truth-fo,
lowing a German officer lecturing for ~
benefit of the Russians on 'Germanr,s
Victory Over America AS proof of thoy
victory an American soldier chained on
platform was exhibited"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25

which the situation plainly demanded have
at their door blame for large part of the
atrocities. Germany, deaf to other appeals,
is nhuenceable by fear"
To compare the Kaiser with Attila is
a defamation of Attila's character, de-
cares "The New York Times" which
further observes:
at is not international law that the Kai-
ser is concerned about in his whine to the
Burgomaster Of Frankfort. The destroyer
Of cathedras, works of art, monuments and
ancient relics, who thanked God in inter
views dictated to Karl 'Rosner that the fair
Fathcrland has been spared the horrors of
war is fearful for the treasures Of Frank
fort the R0merberg market place, the Gu
tenberg monument, the Kaiserplatz, the
Goethe and Schiller statues, the Cathedral
of St. Bartholomew the Nikolaikrche. built
in the thirteenth century; the Kasersaal,
the house in which Goethe was born, the
picture gallery of the Stadel Institute, and
many other treasures not to be touched by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25

vandal hands. The Kaiser can regard devas-
tated Belgium and despoled France with
equanimty, but let bombs be dropped upon
historic Frankfort and he stands aghast at
the enemy's wanton disregard of interna-
tonal law
Not even the generally misinformed
people of Germany will be convinced by
their Emperor's "disgusting plaint," in
the opinion of "The New York Evening
Post" which adds:
"Civilized people hoped that the Allies
might be able to refrain from meeting
frightfulness with frightfulness But it has
become evident that Germans will under
stand no language but German"
Distasteful though such retaliation
may be, "The Charlotte Observer" is
convinced the Germans have it coming
to them:
"The war is now being brought home to
Germany in earnest, and we could want no
better news than that of raids still further
into German territory, to the converting of
these treasured German towns into the same
sort of ruins that have dotted France The
Germans have courted a dose of frightful-
ness-and they are getting it,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25

was wounded, I was sent to camp at Wit
tenberg to guard prisoners. Later I was
moved to -Soltau, thence to Holzminden,
where I managed to escape What I saw in
the camps worse than what saw at the
front, ever since we BEGAN taking American
prisoners.
Especial instructions were given to the
guards III charge of the Americans to apply
so-called sharp regime meaning to
treat them worse than Russians, Belgians
and Italians, all Of whom enjoy the sinister
privilege of being bulled in d manner worse
than either the French ar English.
Traditional camps were erected at Wit
tenbcrg Soltau and Holzmnden. Near the
former ones is the reprisal camp, kuestrin,
which was supposed to have been suppressed,
but which is going as strong as ever and
was considerably enlarged, the reason being
that it was intended to send Americans to
reprisal camp straight from the battle
field before they had a chance of committing
the least offence. This the Germans call
preventive punishment and is supposed to
be what Americans need One Of my su-
pcriors told me explicitly: we must teach
these Americans something
an Kuestrin, where | often went on duty
because | speak English, having lived five
years in Norfolk Va, prisoners were sub
mitted to helish treatment, seventy having
to sleep in huts hardly fit for ten, dirty
boards. without mattresses or covers, except
in the case of those who could bride the
sentries.
CHE food consisted chiefly of dirty
plate of hottish soup, which the men had to
fetch from the canteen at noon. The bread
ration was small and missing three
times weekly.
accomplishing on the part of Americans
was met by requiring them to remain mo-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25

tionless in the sun for three hours. Each
movement meant fifteen minutes more of
this torture. Any remarks about the food
were met with such retorts as: You want
our German bread, Ell? Ask Wilson for
some; he ought to help you
"The conditions of labor at Kuestrin were
territic-eghteen to twenty hours daily. The
men were forced to repair roads under the
scorching sun, under guard Of sentries in
structed to shoot any one on sight if only
suspected of wishing to run away or to sit
down TO rest When soldiers collapsed
owing to weakness guards would threaten
to crush their skulls with rife butt or to
shoot them. Three colored soldiers died at
kuestrn in June of weakness.
"The kuestrin commander found two
devices to make the Americans miserable.
He forbade the men to speak to each other
except on camp duty Furnishing infractions
by twenty days confinement in cell. He
prohibited the men taking baths in a small
brook inside the camp grounds, and bathing
was allowed only as a special favor. Any
soldier bathing without written per
mission liable to be shot.
I"O OF tHIee younger OHlcerS seem TO
have made it a business to drive Ameri-
can soldiers crazy. Not only do they in
suit them Wiley whenever addressing them
but they infict extravagant punishments,
such as forcing them to fill dried pond
within two hours, using only a water glass
The man thus punished has to run from
a faucet to the pond, back and forth con-
tnually for hours on his impossible GRAND
In where the pond is not filled the
gets one months solitary confinement
This is only one punishment out of hun
dreds devised either to kill Americans
'spurlos or to drive them to despair or
to some sort of revolt which would allow
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25
\ Small Matter-Just
~ a Little Liquid Fire

Through an Associated Press dispatch
from London word has come of the
spraying of British prisoners last March
with liquid fire. Scotch soldiers have
made affidavit to the following atroc.
tiles:
private of the Royal - Highlanders
tells how he and a number of comrades
consisting of one officer and fifteen men. ten
OF whom We're wounded, were compelled 70
surrender near Monchy on March %. They
were lined up in the original front line
trench, and after some time German officer
and two men appeared. One of the men.
under orders of the officer, turned stream
of liquid fire straight down the trench in
which the Britishers were standing. and
notwithstanding the fact that they were un-
armed, continued to spray them for six or
seven minutes. The private testified that he
and few of his companions who were able
to move scrambled down communication
trench and got over the top and back into
the British lines.
Another private testified that he and other
prisoners were marched down a trench to
an emplacement about feet deep, feet
wide and from to IL feet long, and, while
tightly packed in the Enclosure, two Ger
mans, one of whom carried revolver and
seemed to be officer, appeared. The other
man had cylinder on his back, and at
tached to it was a flexible pipe.
Just as he reached the entrance to the
inclosure," said the soldier referring to the
man with the cylinder on his back, "a fame
spurted out in a stream from the pipe, and
caught the men who were nearest to the
entrance. The other men lay in heaps around
and partly on me. l heard a kissing sound
for short time. Then it stopped. but
started again. During this time the men
were shrieking and writhing. The fame
reached right back to where l was. My over
coat and tunic caught fire. By this time
all the men were on the ground
Add to this the report that Czecho-
Slovak prisoners are to be treated as
traitors and shot because their right to
nationality is not recognized, and the
picture seems fairly complete
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25
Over the Bar gain

face hopeless starvation, for cruel dynasty,
and still endure beggary, individual and
national in the vain chase of another phan.
tom honor?
forgotten nothing. Metternich's pupils are
as devoid of political sense as they are o.
compassion for the common herd. Let them
set up their King of Folly. Motley be his
royal robes-but dyed in crimson,'
The New York Tribune remembers
that at "Brest-Litovsk Czernin and Won
kuhlmann swore adherence to the prin
clple of 'self-determination' by the peo-
Piles detached from the former Russian
Empire. This is the self determination
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25

For our unfortunate soldiers who have
fallen into the hands of fends there viii be
in this country the most heartfelt sympathy
But there viii also be a realization OF the
fact that the only way to bring about their
release is through the defeat of the Ger
man armies. Here surely is motive for
the speedest possible pressing Of every ad-
vantage. Those who thinking of a peace
that does not bring with it the severest
punishment for all who have been guilty OF
mistreating prisoners, and the destruction
Of the government and system responsible
for it, the enemies of their country and
the foes of civilizations"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25

iph of the Faithful. Let Karl carr home
the Polish crown and give it to kinsman.
When the ends it will be only one more
crown for one more king in exile"
''The New York Herald does not
want the United States to forget Kos
ciusko and Pulaski and describes the
measure Of debt that America owes to
the Polish cause:
Since the days of these two Polish he
rocs many thousands of Poles have helped
to build up the prosperity and fame of the
United States, and there arc no more highly
regarded American citizens than those of
Polish origin.
The Poles enthusiastically loyal to
their adopted land. OF that there has never
been, and never will be, any doubt Theirs
has been no hyphenated patriotism or half
and-half allegiance. Nevertheless, thew love
with deep and undying affection the country
for which their fathers died or suffered
and which Is now suffering as terribly as
any part of ravaged Europe Led bv that
great patriot and gentleman Paderewski.
who has abandoned his beloved art to serve
his country, they have formed a Polish
Legion in America, for which there have
been thousands Of volunteers. manv Of whom
are already fighting in France 1t has been
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25

offered Poland--to be traded to the Aus
trian crown in exchange for ten or fit
teen divisions. The Tribune adds:
poland viii never be Austrian. She will
never be German. The uNconQucrable race
instinct of the Polish people has dehcd AL
attempts at assimilation, whether by Aus
trian, German or Russian conquerors. The
garment of the Polish nation cannot be gam
blcd away al German Grand headquarters.
Poland will arise out of this war re-
united and regenerated state, cured of tho
follics of her glorious past by long dis
ciplinc of servitude
"Wihclm has sold Karl nothing for some
thing, Just he sold nothing for some
thing to Ferdinand the Bulgar and the Ca
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25

Kaiser shedding crocodile tears over Che
bombing of Frankfort by Allied air
men. Referring to the sympathetic tel
egram sent by the Emperor to the Bur
gomaster of Frankfort, that newspaper
points out:
"And yet, even while the contents OF this
hypocritical dispatch were being conveyed
to the credulous peop$ the German bomb
ing squadrons were dropping shells upon
non-combatants in French cities.
"A fine creature this. to pirate about in
ternational law! Is there any other man in
the civilized world to- day who has done so
much to destroy and discredit international
law as the ruler who agreed that the treaty
with Belgium was mere scrap Of paper; as
the man who ordered the sinking. Of the Lu-
stanfa and the murder Of innocent women
and children; as the man who tolerated the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25
ME eyes of the world are on the

NeIlildll III Is hard TOY him to
hide from the pitiless light.
what he has been and what he is and
expects to be cannot escape revelation.
Students of every kind-scientists and
historians and humanists - scrutinize
nm to discover some key to his mon
strous variation from the norm of civ
lllzatlon. l.. P. Jacks, principal Of Man
chester College, Oxford, and editor of
The HILBERT Journal writing in
Land and Water" declares that the
fight with Germany is not fight be-
tween ideas, but fight between tvpes Of
character And the character of the
German, he declares, is that of the wolf
Further:
"A friend Of mine. who is a student of
history, makes point of collecting all tbc
contemporary German portraits he can law
his hands on. He has them pasted in .
book handsomely bounG, on the cover Of
which he has printed these words: .rhe
Wolf, or the War interpreted at n Glance,
inside Is vast collection of fnces-ou
thentlc photographs of the Kaiser. his min
listers, his generals, Hindenburg. Luden
dorff, Won kuhmann, Won Tirpitz and the rest
all the representatives of the military
party In another group are the various