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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-01
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philadelphia Public Ledger

philadelphia Public Ledger
The president, having put by, in
| grim times like these, the American
people for the return of a Demo-
cratic congress, of course invites a
respectful consideration and discus
sion by every loyal American citizen
of what he says.
The appeal of the president is for
chile but specious. The unified lead
| ership he asks is autocratic power in
| fields in which the constitution and
principles of democracy require that
he should consult other representa-
tives of the people than himself. In
pursit of his policies he consults
| He wishes a Democratic senate not
| because he would seek their assist
ance in the foreign policy to which
| by fundamental law they are to ad-
wise and consent, but because he can
mould them absolutely to his will
without consulting them. He has
visited his displeasure on every Dem
ocratic member of either house who
has differed with him and called upon
that members constituency to reject
him.
Is it necessary for the country's
welfare that he should be absolute
ruler of this nation for the two years
| ensuing from March next? That is
the premise upon which the sound
ness of his appeal, in its ultimate
analysis. must rest Do we need dur
ing the life of the next congress- n
dictator?
One who knows the facts of the
war, and our part in it, and who loves
liberty and popular government, must
| answer "No." The war, is nearly
won 1t may take a year longer. We
hope it will be less The complex
| question of the terms of peace are
to be settled in the terms of the con-
gress now to be elected
The still more difficult questions or
| reconstruction after the war are to
be met by that congress. Do the
American people by their action in
the next election wish to make both
the terms of peace and the recon-
struction after the war depend on the
uncontrolled will of Woodrow Wilson ?
That is the issue which he puts to
them in his appeal.
UNLESS you give me uncontrolled
power, you repudiate me and my lead
ership before the world"
Aut Caesar aut nullus.
Never in the history of this coun-
try has the president had such vast
| and unlimited power as he has to-
day, 1t has been often exercised thru
agencies selected by him without
great consideration of the individual.
Far too many instances of partisan
ship in the selection of these AGENCIES
are known OF all men to give point to
the presidents disclaimer OF thought
of party In this appeal. The people
have restrained protest against arbi-
trary exercise of power in their anx-
iety to win the war. The power which
the president has was voted to him
by the Republicans in both houses.
They manifested no partisan desire to
withhold II In spite of the knowledge
that Il would tempt the use OF 1t for
partisan purposes.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-01
RAILROAD TIME TABLE


Time table effective Sunday Feb
ruary 10th.
No. II leaves MaysviIle S:sS n m
daily except Sunday.
No. leaves Maysvills $40 D. m.
except Sunday.
NO. 2OS leaves Maysville 4:1O D. m.
Sunday only.
No. 10 arrives in Maysville GAS a
m, daily except Sunday.
No. 21O arrives in MaySville 1885 D.
M, Sunday only.
NO 1t arrives in Maysville $3.50 n.
m' daily except Sunday.
H. 8. ELLIS, Agent
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-01

Even when he is decorated for brav-
cry the wounded soldier will tell you
a fractured skull isn't all it's cracked
up to be.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-01
BEWARE OF SPANISH INFLUENZA


1t is caught by breathing a germ in
to the nose or mouth. Sterizol kills
germs and prevents disease. Sold by
MRS. GEO. SIMPLIFY,
sos East Second Street.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-01

Abuse the public all you like; nc
one ever considers 1t personal af.
front.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-01

The mightiness of the hairpin ex.'
ceeds that of the pen and sword.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-10
ONE IN TWELVE.

Dr. Ava w. Taylor, of the Mis- Souri Bible college, in an address recently to the students of the uni versty of Missouri presented sta tistics to show that in the United States one out of every twelve mar riages is annulled by divorce, and that this percentage is rapidly in creasing.
 Dr. Taylor showed that, whereas in 1870 there was but one divorce to every 33 marriages, and in 1880 one to every 21 marriages, in the year 1912 just closed there was one diverse to every 12 marriages.
 What say those who falsely charge Socialism with being a men ace to marriage to this showing?
 Who is it that is in fact Gebauch- ing the marriage relation, break ing down the family life and de stroying the home.
 If the percentage of divorce in creaseS in the same ratio during the next twenty years, half the mar riages will be annulled by divorce and there will be state of af- fairs that will tax the subtlest oi the retainers of capitalism to ex, plain or excuse.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-10
sCHwABs EULoGY TO LABOR.

Charley Schwab, of Steel Trust fame and chief sponsor for the GID ellfare Plan of the Lake Car riers' Association. made sd he rather striking remarks at a recent dinner given in his honor by certain we'll to-do citizens of Philadelphia.
 Said MT. Schwab:
 There is nothing that really f. gures but labor Materials-ana- lyze material. You will find that material means nothing but labor. Freight and supplies? AnalNe them They mean nothing basically but la bor-just so much labor.
 "In other words, from, the first magic touch to the last. which turns everything into gold ' is all labor.
 "It is lab0r which produces every thing, all the riches, all the splen- dor, all the wealth.
 Nothing has any value until turned over by the hand of labor.
 Everything is begun by the hand of labor and is finished by the hand of labor.
 Labor has produced all the wealth of the world"
 Which in short is precisely what the socialists have bcen saying all the while Amplification of the above comprises much of what si printed in our books and papers. If only the workers understood as well as the Schwabs do it would all be over but the cheering.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-10

life span of the wage worker. Here is what The Milwaukc Leader says: "Dr. Gorgas knows more about saving life than any other person on earth. He turned Panama from plague spot into a health resort if we are to judge by mortality sta tistics--and they seem about the best test possible. He has been hur- ried hither and thither over the world ever since to take command of the forces of life whenever death seemed about to gain victory over whole people.
 'Gorgas has always fought death with sanitary technique. Therefore, when he was asHed con- cernirg methods of saving life it would be natvra! for him to talk of drainage, water supply, food pro- lection and general sanitary legis- lation. Not one of these were nc tntioped Gorgas struck directly to the heart l of the questions and aside that the way to save life is to raise wages. : Living wages would add more than decade to the average life was his carefully considered statement
 "Hc could have illustrated his statement with plenty of facts. All vital statistics show that death rates vary inversely with the wage rate in every instance. As wages go up, deaths go down. This is true of single trades. When the cigfr makers' union secured the eight hour day and raised it's wages some 50 per cent, it added more than 1G years to the average life of it's members.
 Tn every city the death rate is highest in the poorest and lowest 1 in the richest wards. In trades, nations, classes and in every other way that humanity can be classi- fled the same result is seen. Every where, life increases as income rises.
 No one disputes these facts. So- cialists have been repeating them and emphasizing them in every other way that humanity can be classified the same result is seen. Everywhere life increases as in- come rises.
 No one disputes these facts. Soz cialists have been repeating them and emphasizing them in every way possible. Yet when Dr. Gorgas states them they are accepted as wonderful discovery.
 Not that we would belittle his statement of them. It took more courage and honesty for him to tell that simple truth than is possessed by nine-tenths of the medical pro fession.
 "It was for telling this truth, in part, that Dr. Nearing lost his posi- tion at the University of Pennsyl- vania. It is because other profes- sors are trying to tell similar facts that there is a general effort to stiff le educational freedom in a dozen
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-10
GOVERNMENT TAKING THE
 TRUST.

Trust control having failed, re- turning to competition and to the happy days of Jackson and Jeffer- son being an impossibility, what other solution is there, then, for the trust question?
 Socialists say the trust is good thing and bad thing. It is a good tiEng for all the fellows on the in side and a bad thing for all the people on the outside. If we should ask Rockefeller what he thinks of that it is the best money making machine he ever tumbled into, but the people who buy the products of that money machine hold an entire ly diffcrnt opinion.
 A trust is like an automobile. To chase down the pike and to see some old farmer climb q barbed wire fence behind a pair of run awGy mules is funny to the fellow on tho inside of the automobile. Running 2head of the buggies and carriages, and giving the people the dust of the road and the stink of the gasoline is highly amusing to the fellow on the inside of the au- tomobila. Chasing through the streets of city at the rate Of thirty 1,oil hlnuFino o honk, which means for us common people to jump, jump, is the fun niest thing that ever happened-to the fellow on the inside of the automobile.
 But the old gentleman who climbed the barbed wire fence be- hird pair of bob tailed mules; tine people who swallowed the dust of the road and inhaled the stink of the gasoline, anG all those who do the jump, jump, when they hear the honk, honk, joint in one grand and glorious chorus, saying, 'D-n the automobile. That machine SnCulo De DuSLeU. EOS6 PSpplS ought to be sent to tho peniten- tiary. Why don't you shoot them, Jim?' etc.
 And yet every mothers son and every fathers daughter, just as soon as he or she gets on the inside of an automobile, acts just exactly IS tho people have acted who were in there before.
 So we see that the only way we ever can become reconciled to the automobile is by getting on the in- side of it. And since we find that all the people on the inside of the trust are well pleased with the trust, tho only remedy and the only way we will ever become reconciled to tho trust is by all of us getting on the inside of the trust. And that is the proposition made by the Socialists.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-10

l universities. "For raising wages reduces pro ] fits and the class that rule9 today | lives by profits" @,
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-10
LIFE FORWARD.

Iris sweet to live; to feel the pri- nal urge Of combat in the titan struggles stress; To breast the storm; embrace the flood; duress To work, ct Freedoms battling forces surge. But when dim terrors from the mists emerge, And somber shades approach with chill caress; When day is done nor sanbright kisses bless, And Death waits where the paths of fate converge. Oh. that the boon were granted thor to die Tn some vast vortex of the Holy Cause, Some cataclysmic travail of the strife, Whence from the depths ny eager soul might cry To others, ..straining mid mad men and laws, And Death englorify as well as Life.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-10
WAGES AND LIFE.

pr. Gorgas, foe of death, started |something when he declared that |raising wages would increase the
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-10

Reasonable prices, and first class workmanship at the Nome Tailoring Company.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-10

Clothing cleahed, pressed, altered
 and repaired at the Nome Tailoring Co.,, next door to SegerstrOm and Hagen's.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-26
WAR EPITAPHs COLLECTION
Is Being Made for National War Museum
in London.

London, Aug. 26.-For the proposed ma,
tional war museum here, collection OF
war epitaphs is being made Here is one
from a British graveyard in France:
when you go home tell them of us and
say,
For your tomorrow they gave their to.
day"
From the graves Of men who went
down at the battle of Coronel, the fol
lowing is taken:
IF life's best prize be to end life we'll
Then envy us; we died at Coronel.'
From war memorial in an English
city:
"These in the glorious morning OF their
days
For England's sake lost all but England
praise"
The following is an epitaph for soldiers
who died in the first battle of Ypres:
when Might in scornful millions came
arrayed,
Here few English stood, and he was
stayed"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-26
D0CTORED PEARL
TRIPLED IN PRICE
Paris Pearl Broker and Hindoo Were
Fined and Sentenced to Imprison-
ment fer Taking.

Paris, Aug. 20 Correspondence of the
Associated Press How an American
white pearl worth $l4,400 was treated
with chemical, given temporarily the
rosy hue OF an Oriental pearl and then
sold for $1,000, has been disclosed here.
For doing this, Barboza, pearl broker,
and Varma, Hindoo, were fined and sem
fenced to imprisonment for taking. BY
use Of chemicals they endeavored to in
crease the value Of the pearls fourfold
This case clears up the mystery which
has existed in the Paris market for five
years since a dealer in precious stones
first learned that manipulated pearls"
were being sold here.
Varms, who is lapidary, claimed in
court that he possessed a method of i'm
proving American pearls and that he had
been promised a share in all the profits
derived in treating the one which led to
his detection, If il were sold for more
than SCI 900. He was at work at it
when it was seized by the police. The
evidence showed that Narma has used on
the pearl acetate Of amyl and collodion.
A pearl expert, Reinach, told the Judge
that Varma had given the pearl the
rosy tint of the Oriental pearl by glazing
it with chemicals bat that the glazing
disappeared when the pearl was placed in
alcohol. Varma was sentenced TO six
months in prison and TO pay fine OF
81 600, while Barboza was sentenced for
three months and to pay fine of 500,
In its Judgment the court stated that
sea pearls from the Orient are very lu-
4 II. n
fresh water pearls, called American, are
less fine, generally white and Of lower
value The pearl treated by Varma, the
court added, has been offered to leading
Paris and American jewel houses which
had failed to detect the deception he had
practiced The court declared that
Varmas treatment added no value TO
the pearl and that it had only tenn
porary effect which disappeared if the
pearl were rubbed or placed in alcohol.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-26
GERMAN FRIGHTFULNESS
VIA AIR FOUR YEARS OLD
1t Was on Aug. rs, 1914, That the Huns
Began Dropping Bombs on Civil
ians at Antwerp.

London, Aug. 26.--Four years ago, Aug
rs, 1914, the Germans began their cam
paign of frightfulness in the air, the kill
ing of -combatants by dropping
bombs from airships.
The first German air murder of civil.
ians took place at Antwerp. 1t sent a
shudder of horror through the whole
world, but since then the world has
travelled far on the path of horror.
The battle of Mons had opened and
the French and British forces were fall
ing back rapidly under the overwhelming
pressure of the German armies. There
was only one cause for dissatisfaction at
German headquarters-the delay which
the little Belgian army had imposed dur
ing the passage through Belgium, and
the stubborn refusal of the Belgian king
to surrender, although his capital had
fallen and his army had been driven into
Antwerp.
1t was under these circumstances that
the order was given to make the first
trial Of Germanys great air weapon. A
Zeppelin was sent to make midnight
raid on the city of Antwerp. The com
mander had special instructions to try
for the royal palace, for King Albert was
felt to be the soul Of his peoples resist
ance.
Antwerp was a fortified city in the
technical sense of the term, but the ring
of forts was located far from the parts
inhabited by the civilian population, and
the main forts we're at an average dis
lance of 10 miles from the center.
But the Zeppelin did not attack the
forts. With its engines stopped, it drift
ed over the city and discharged six
bombs, all Of which fell near the palace.
An American army officer who was in
Antwerp at the time wrote the following
account of the incident:
No bomb actually struck the palace,
but one narrowly missed the cathedral.
Three found human victims, One killed
four women and two policemen. A sec
ond killed one man and wounded two
others. Another fell in the courtyard of
the hospital of st. Elizabeth, smashed
all the windows, but wounded no one, al
though the crucifx hanging over the bed
of sick child was smashed to pieces by
fragment of shrapnel In all, 10 people
were killed and eight wounded"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-26
SAYS GERMANS
WILL DESERT
Plenty of Them Will Quit if
They Get an Oppor-
tunity
SAYS PRISONER
TAKEN BY AMERICANS
Declares War Leaders Are
u Worried by Ameri-
can Entry

With the American Army on the Vesle,
Aug. 25.-(By the Associated Pressl.-
German soldiers believe Germany is not
planning any more offensives because of
the man-power shortage, according to
one of party of seven of gang patrol
captured by the Americans early Sunday
east of Fismes. The soldier, who was
former bank employee and the owner
of a Berlin restaurant, said the soldiers
no longer had any enthusiasm. Most of
these with whom he came in contact be-
lieved the war would end soon.
The prisoner had been fighting three
years and declared he was thoroughly
tired of it. He said the soldiers under
stood the German losses during the re-
cent allied offensive had been very great.
These reports were credited by the SOL
diers and were having demoralizing eff
feet He said he knew of one division
of $4,000 which had been reduced to less
than 5000.
Plenty of Germans, he added, would
desert and surrender if given the OPP
portunty. Many Of them are constantly
watching for chance to give themselves
up to the Americans Trouble has been
threatened in the German ammunition
plants and the army leaders were tight
ening conditions there. He said the rules
governing munition workers were more
strict now than ever.
Germany, he said, has plenty of am
munition but the man-power question
and the actual entry of American troops
into the fighting are worrying the mill
tary leaders.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-26
BACK FROM WEDDING TRIP.
Field Agent Tolstrup of State Marketing
Department.

st. Adams, Aug. 26.--Mr. and Mrs. Mo-
gems r. Tolstrup arrived in the city on
Saturday evening from their wedding
trip and have taken up their residence
on High street. Mr.. Tolstrup and Miss
Lyla Ferne Chadsey, daughter of Mr., and
Mrs. A. H, Chadsey of Des Moines, Iowa,
were married Saturday. Aug. II, at the
Congregational parsonage in Albany, n.
Y, by Rev. Charles Hager, former pas
tor of the Congregational church in Hyde
Park, this state The bride is a graduate
of the West high school, Des Moines, of
Des Moines college and 0berlin (Ohiol
college Mr. Tolstrup, who is a native of
Denmark, has resided in this country
several years. He received his bachelors
and masters degrees from the Iowa
State college at Ames, Iowa, For over
two years he has been field agent in mar
keting in the state department of agri-
culture and the United States bureau of
market cooperating. He has his head
quarters in this city.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-26
TREATING SHELL SHOCK.
One American Hospital in France Espe-
cially Devoted to That.

A Chateau in Lorraine, Aug. 26-(Cor
respondence of the Associated Press -
The dread of so-called shell shock, that
has grown out of inconsiderate talk
about it, is being taken out of it here in
special American hospital within sound
Of the big guns. A charming old chateau
that grew out of q sixteenth century
farm has been filed with twentieth cen.
fury comforts for officers; enlisted pa.
tients are quite as well housed in near
by wards, where they enjoy the same
! luxuries.
A sign post identifies the place as
Base Hospital No. ll7p Modified al
Allentown, Pa, and brought to France
by its present commanding officer, Col
Clarence r. Bell, it is the first and only
American hospital dealing with shell
shock.
What appears to be going on here
mostly is farming, amateur mechanics
and outdoor sports. There are between
80 and 40 acres Of land under cultiva.
tion, piles Of stone being broken for road
mending, heaps Of old tin cans and old
packing boxes, being made into all sorts
of knick knacks, and soldiers playing
baseball and croquet, and officers tramp.
ing around the roads and through the
handsome forests.
There Is nothing visible that suggests
the infrmary or the clinic. Aside from
the skill of the medical staff and the ex-
perience, tact, and patience of the nurses
and attendants, tools, baseball bats and
croquet mallets appear to be the only
curative agents around the place, How
eticacious they are is shown by the fig
ures. The hospital has sent back to the
army cured six out of Is officers, 40 out
of 240 privates treated there since II
opened June 10. OF those that remain
few have not reached the convalescent
stage.
Captain Sidney T. Schwab, who came
to France with Unit q from st. Louis
in May last year, is the medical director
His staff consists of six neurologists
from various universities and special
hospitals in the United States, such as
Harvard, Johns Hopkins, The New York
Neurological institute, Bellevue and
Washington university. Miss Adele Pos
tum, Of Bloomingdale, is the chief nurse
having under her direction thirty spe-
cially trained nurses that were chosen
from all parts Of the United States after
years study Of the qualifications Of
numerous candidates.
Six young women specially trained for
the purpose supervise the work in the
shops and the recreation of the patients
completing staff which is not only clear
ing up confused minds and settling shat
tered nerves; it is rendering an immense
service TO mothers at home by proving
that boys suffering from conclusion can
be cured and sent back to their regi
ments instead of being sent home as
dereicts.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-26
OVER 600 AMERICAN WOMEN
Are Enrolled in Scare Committee" of the
American Red Cross.

London, Aug. 26.--More than 600 Amer
lean women in all parts of Great Britain
are now enrolled in the care committee"
of the American Red Cross, the head
quarters of which is in London, in charge
of Mrs. Robert Peet Skinner, wife of
the consul general. There are sub-com-
mittees in 20 cities in England, Scotland,
Wales and Ireland.
The care committee" is Immediately
notified of the arrival in any hospital of
an American soldier, sick or wounded,
whether he belongs TO the American army
or to the British or Canadian forces Ev-
cry such soldier is visited at least once
week mad is supplied with comforts of
various kinds--including whenever pos
sible, copies of the local newspapers of
his home town.
More than 5000 Americans in hospitals
have received personal calls from the
women of the care committee during the
past few weeks, and the number of sol
diers visited will soon reach monthly
average of nearly 5000 The visitors
make special effort to get the men into
touch with their relatives and friends at
home. Useful things to wear, made by
the mothers and sisters, are actually
placed in the hands of their boys by
these American women visitors.