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The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-08-05
TAKE NOTICE

j. L. stephens, candidate for State
Senate, will support and vote for the
ratification of the National PrOhibi-
tiOn Act as passed by the United States
Congress. adv.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-02

no romance ABOUT war for England
today.
you know war is a sordid thing,
| but it calls for splendid qualities;
sordid thing, yes, but it calls for
splendid qualities. You know war
calls for courage, for resolution, for
self denial, for sacrifice; yes, you
say, from the man in the line-oh no,
| that is where you make the mis-
| take. 1t calls for these qualities as
much from the man behind the line
as it does from the men who are
| in the line. 1t calls for these quail
tiles, not only from your lads in the
| line but from your men and women
in the nation that sent them there;
| a sordid thing, but it. calls for
splendid qualities. Yes, America, the
war has called out splendid qualities
from you, too. You know that your
nation, great as it was in the past,
was never so great as in the hour
when you stepped down from your
pedestal of neutrality. and took
your part in this world conflict for
right and God.
Some how you here, fathers and
mothers of boys who are gone, you
know your boys, much as you love
them in the past, were never so
worthy of your love as in the day
you sent them out knight Grants of
God, to take part to fight for right
and truth. But you know this great
war, its cost in sacrifice to your
allies perhaps has never really been
drought home to your homes, you
don't know what it has cost Eng
| land. You know, never sit down to
To- fF1 afy-xy Ill Srt
orally true-I never sit down to a
meal in your country without a
feeling of sadness. Oh, the plenty
of your boards pains me, when ]
remember England. have found
on my plate on several occasions
! more meat for one meal than my
wife and three little children at
home in England can possibly hope
l TO get in a whole week. You don't
know war, yet, America! have
seen groups Of women and children,
almost equal to this audience. out
IN the streets of our great towns.
4 waiting hour after hour in the rain
and weather for a store to open for d
1 little While that they might possibly
obtain quarter of a. pound Of
margarine, butter being quite out of
/ the question. When in Trance com
/ ing nome on leave have been very
anxious to bring home something
mat would be treasured and valued
by my little children, and I have
Egone to the Expeditionary Force
canteen and have been very pleas
| ed and very proud if I have been
able to purchase a. pound Of rafsins
or pound of currants to put in nv
pag ana take home as one. Of the
greatest prizes I could bring them.
a man asked me the other dav
there We're a large number of bank
ers gathered together Have Won
ever seen so many bankers together
before in one Toou12' There were
500 present. said I have seen many
more bankers than this assembled
1 together, British bankers. Where ?
will tell Won on the fields Of
France, marching into action. NV
regiment is the Royal Fusiliers
] regiment and the S1st battalion az
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-02

peace mean that daddy will come
homer yes, dear she said. Then,
mother he said, why can't we have
peace nova? I tell you there are
tens of thousands, hundreds of thou
sands, millions of our men in the line
who long for peace now just as that
little lad did; but much as long for
peace there is a price can not pay
for it. Much as long for peace l
can not purchase it, nor consent to
purchase it by the betrayal of all
that hold true and right and
sacred and good.
''Therefore, knowing the pain, and
the cost, the sacrifice and the tears
ave. the blood and the life-I say
we must carry on, carry on, until
the day Of victory dawns, the victory
that shall mean a permanent and
blessed peace for our children and
'children's children. We must carry
on. But all this means sacrifice, I'M.
speakable sacrifice. YOU know |
sometimes think that in America
Won stand today in very much the
same place that we did in 1914. I
know there still is, especially among
YOUR young people, there still is for
Won about war something of glamor,
something of halo, something Of
romance and of adventure. All, but
in England for us that has passed,
never to return: we have drunk the
cup of bitterness to the dregs. Let
me put it this way, perhaps con-
crete Illustration will explain what
I mean.
II have been in your country now
three months. left France on the
18th of April, in the middle or, rath-
er, the latter part of that terrific
drive at Cambria. The iirst two
weeks L spent in Iowa and was in
a town in the south Of the state OF
Iowa. and / saw some boys going
away as you say, on draft. me
whole town was filled with enthns-
iasm and great excitement preaviled.
Those bows. twenty Of them, were
going away to the camp to be train
ed and when I saw the enthusiasm
and the excitement and the part
ings. / thought of the drafted men
/ had taken-we call our ceinforce-
rnents drafts, / will call them re-
Inducements, that / had taken. DUR
ing the Cambria fight came to Eng
land three times in ten days, and
once / had to take back 1000 men
TO stop the breach. marched those
1000 men through one Of ourNsouth-
ern ports on a Sunday morning. The
people were standing along the
streets there were thousands of
them there, but as I marched those
men to the boat I marched silent
men through silent streets, the
street was as silent as you are.
There were 1000 men going over,
but they were going there to die.
They knew it, and others knew it;
and I remember seeing an old gray
headed man with a gray suit and a
black band on his arm that told its
own story, raising his hat reverent-
ly to the lads as they went by, and
the women standing there fiuttered
their black edged handkerchief
which told their own story. Men
marching in silence through spec
tators in silence, men going to die
we drank the cup of bitterness to the
dregs. There is no glaulor, no halo,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-02

I win rent my home in Island Park
furnished until next spring or sum-
nler. Inquire of w. ID. Sweet. 329
Eighth Ave. south. Phone l401-W.
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LODGE N0TICE-Knight Of Fyth--
las, Fargo lodge No. 2, meets second
and fourth Mondays of each month, A.
O. u. w. hall. Sojourning knights cor
daily welcomed.
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The foregoing are a few pictures
of war-war as it is known by the
people Of England-painted by Cap
tain Frank Edwards, of the British
army, in an address heard Saturday
evening at the Fargo auditorium by
tremendous crowd. y.
You know this year, 1918, it is go
ing to be a great year, a critical, a.
thrilling year for the world" said
Capt. Edwards. 1.-THE man 1 stand
most in fear Of today is not the man
in the enemy line but the man be-
hind our own lines; men and wom-
EN- of America, the man 1 am most
afraid Of today and the man most of
the men in the line are afraid of
today is the optimist, the blind and
shallow optinaist, the man who says
that because America is in,' with
all her resources, everything is all
right. The man who says that be-
cause of this disaster that befalls the
enemy, or this event, or that incident
or the other, everything is all right,
there is no need for personal sacri-
flee or self-denial or service on his
part at all-that is the man am
afraid of
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-02

$5,250.00 buys a good seven room
house. Fireplace, bath, gas, lights;
all modern; fine location. South
side. $1,000 cash, $4,000 per month.
6 per cent.
No. 5129.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-02
ENGLISH SUFFER.
BRAVELY THOUGH
LOSSES BY WAR
ARE TREMENDOUS.
Captain Edwards Brings
Remarkable Message to
the People of America
REAL "HOME FIRES"
ARE ON FRONT LINES
War, AS It Is Known by
England, Only Tragedy
and Suffering, He Says

Two thousand silent men, walk
ing down silent streets, lined with
silent thousands of people, in a
southeastern English city, about to
embark for France to stop the gap
at the Somme-
A hundred thousand bodies Of dead
Frenchmen. lying on single battle
field, some Of them there nine
months
: Ten thousand British officers lost
in the battle Of the Somme in 1917
Five million Englishmen in the
army the first year-siX million at
the end of the second year--one-
seventh of the whole population Of
all England
Eight hundred thousand English
women engaged in the manufacture
of munitions-from women Of high
birth distinction, to England's low
est in the social scale
Ten thousand English women do
ing mental tasks back Of the British
lines in France--that 10000 men
might be released for the front
lines
Long lines of waiting people at
the door Of grocery or food shops in
England, to purchase fourth Of a
pound of oleomargerine, the supply
for an entire week for whole fam
lily
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81 200 on terms. a good cottage Of 4
rooms, shed, garage, cement walks,
near new school and car lina.
No. 1857.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-02
War AS England Knows It.

war AS England Knows lTs
! Captain Edwards story of the war
was that Of a man who has been
through it-who has served four years
in the trenches of France; who en-
listed as a private and attained the
rank of commanding officer Of the
company he started. 1t was a grip
ping story-one that stirred the deep
est emotions, and it left that ire
mendous audience of Saturday even
ing in a thoughtful mood. His was
not glorification Of war-he painted
| the pictures as it actually is. He
brought glimpsese Of life in the
trenches, where men served % days,
| hip deep in the mud and water, and
were relieved finally to go back, back
| to farm barn, or a granary, or even
| a pig-sty, to recuperate. He told OF
French farm life-where farm women,
for there are no farm men, billeted
troops by the hundreds through the
long years of the war. He told of
English cities. under the fire of the
baby murderers," while his own wife
with her children, sought safety in a
cellar, and, made a bed for
her sleeping. ones underneath takle,
on the floor of-the damp. dark Gel
II lar, while bombs, bombs, bombs
I tilted towns, the Germans seeking to
kill babies that never had a thought
of harming any one. He told OF SOL
dfers in the trenches, more fearful at
the fate of their own at their homes
in England, 'raided by Zepps, than
they were Of their own safety lie
told Of life under German fire, hour
after hour, their own batteries silent
because there were no shells. He told
of the English women Of noble birth
going into the munitions factories TO
Save the line"-and they saved the
line and thereby saved the world, IN
the crisis of 1915.
LET me put it to you in this
way. One day, coming home on
leave from France, I saw two men
on the platform of the railway
station in Truro, Cornwall, England.
One man was reading a poster and
he called the other man: Bill, come
here And Bill came and looked ut
it and Bills face glowed with de-
light. He said: That is great, that
is wonderful, America is in Amer
lea is in! Why he said, it, is all
over but the shouting!' America is
in, it is all over but the shouting!
"It was a great compliment to
<AAllS4ASos 44CAy L lS4l -SOA Ia kSGA5SA1AS5
that it would be very difficult for
me to express to you the thrill of
thankful exultation that passed
through, every heart of the British
nation when your mighty nation
stepped into this conflict. Now,
there is no man in this audience who
has "a deeper admiration or a keener
appreciation of the resources, the
wealth, the might, the man power,
the enthusiasm, and tremendous re-
solution Of your great nation than I.
but, though America is In 1t is not
all over but the shouting, perhaps by
a very long way. Look here. there
are days OF great slaughter before
the day Of great shouting, and tens
of thousands. perhaps hundreds of
thousands of gallant men must go
down, down the Valley Of the Sha-
dow, ere the day of victory dawns.
1t is a blood-red pathway that leads
to the final triumph.
Now, don't misunderstood me,
will you, please2 Don't misunder-
stand we when I speak OF disaster.
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When I speak of disaster am not
thinking of defeat, ladies and gem
tlemen-thank God, Mr.. Chairman
and here as a man from the line 1
have an uncomfortable confidence in
the ultimate triumph of the allied
cause. But there are other forms
Of disaster than defeat. You know
that an unnecessarily prolonged war
would be a disaster? You know it
well. none better than you. A man
said to me the other day: 1T doesn't
matter to us in America how long
IF we can't lick them this year, we
will lick them next year; if b, we
can't lick them then we will lick,
them the year after; if we can't lick
them then we will go on until we
do 1t said very much for his spirit
but it said very little for his COM
mon sense.
"Ah, men and women, 1t does *
matter how long this war lasts; 2
have you counted the cost of it,
have you counted the cost of i
every added month and every
added year? You know of the +
billions it has cost this year and
you know something about the f
increasing, ratio in the cost Of
each succeeding year. 1t does
matter how long it lasts, but, af-
ter all. men, am not thinking,
when / speak of the cost, am
not thinking of billions-I am
thinking Of your boys. / am not
thinking of money America,
am thinking Of men. am
thinking of men. am thinking of q
my own land, through the expert
ence of my own land, am
thinking Of your land; / am
counting the cost, not in money
but in the blood of men, and the
tears of women and orphaned
little children and Iesolated
homes. Oh. men and women, it
does matter how long this war
lasts, and it is the bounden duty
Of every man, here to do mis- ut
most as a patriot, not only to
gain the ultimate victory, which
believe today is inevitable, but
to gain that victory at the earli-
est possible hour.
Until the day of victory we must
Garry on, carry on, and know
what / am saying; I know the cost
OF it quite as much as anybody here.
Look here, men-there is no one in
this room who longs for peace as L
do. am not here to glorify war,
God forbid; no man in this room
longs for peace as I do. I have had
four years Of this war and that
means have been away from home
for four years and have been cut
off from the life of my home and
my little children for four years in
the happiest and loveliest years OF
their lives ! have a little boy at
home, 4 years old, and that little
chap has never known peace; he has
never known peace in his mothers
heart, he has never seen peace in
his mothers face He said, the 9TH
er day, Mother what is peace? Al
child question, what is peace? His
mother tried to tell him in baby
language Mother ne said, does
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-05
American Guns
That Outranqe
Kaiser S Ready
Will Be in France, With
Crews, Next
Month
[Staf Correspondence


PHILADELPHIA, April 4.-Morc
powerful guns than anything Germany
has SO far produced are in the making
within a dozen miles of this city, and
the first will be ready for shipment to
France next month, declared Samuel
Vauclain, vice-president and executive
head of the Baldwin Locomotive Works,
at dinner here tonight.
A plant on the Delaware River is
almost ready to turn out the big guns,
Mr.. Vauclain said, and the artillerists
to man them have been in training in
the United States for some time
When the first gun is ready for try-out
and shipment in May, he declared, its
crew will be ready to go with it.
Not only Will the American gun out
range the German monster that has
been shelling Paris, the speaker con-
tinued, but it's shells will be more de-
structive and the gun itself has advan-
tages which the German weapon has
not displayed. For one thing, he said,
the American gun would be mobile; it
could be moved from point to point be-
hind the line with comparative rapidity.
Once the first gun was completed
and left the factory, said Mr.. Vauclan,
others would follow in quick success
sion.
In mentioning the existence of the
gun. he went on, he had had to exer-
else the utmost caution lest he betray
some secret of value to the enemy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-05
New Pershing Position Is
Revealed by News of
Enemy Raid
Heavy Fire Halts
Advance of Foe
Listening Post Ambushed:
Other American Sectors
Quiet
uy Tho Associated Press)


WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
in FRANCE, April 4.-American
forces are now occupying a sector
on the Meuse Heights, south of Yer.
dun.
Ihls announcement was released
for publication tonight simulta-
neously with a statement that the
enemy raided one of the American
listening posts in this sector, follow
ing a heavy bombardment.
The raid was made against one
ct the few positions in this region
where it is feasible, because of the
terrain, to conduct operations with
out heavy loss to the attacking
forces. The enemy first vigorously
bombarded the American first line
and communication trenches zig
tagging up the hillside, and then
sent over a raiding party, which
swarmed about the listening post.
The further progress of the
enemy was halted by strong fire
from the American first and secono
lines, and, as a consequence, the
enemy can hardly claim success.
Because of the topography of the
Meuse Heights region, there has
been little severe fighting there for
many months, and the opposing
forces took advantage of the mac
tlvlty to construct fine dugouts.
many of them being lighted by elec +.
trlcity. Each side enjoys the adj,
vantage of excellent observation
posts, and shells echo among the
surrounding hills, which are COW
cred with spring flowers.
The other American sectors wer.
reported quiet to-day. The Germans
sent in few shells in the sector
northwest Of Toul, but the enemy
airplanes were fairly active in
patrolling.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-05
Nine Billions Is
Americas Bill
For Year of War
More Than One-half, How
ever, Has Gone Into
Loans for Allies

WASHINGTON, April Anime bill.
ion dollars is the approximate cost tc
the United States of one year of war
More than one-half has gone in loans
to allies, and will be repaid eventually;
over one-third has been spent for the
army and military establishment, one
tenth for the navy and one-tiftcenth
for shipbuilding.
Just one-sixth of this big war cost
has been raised by taxation and other
ordinary sources of revenue, and the
balance has come from the sale of Lib
erty bonds and certificates Of indebted
ness.
Enormous as these war expenditures
may seem to country whose govern
ment in peace times costs between
S7OO,00O,000 and $800,0OOOO0, they are
less than Great Brtain's and are only
about two-thirds of estimates made by
officials less than a year ago. Slow
progress of the shipbuilding pro-
gramme and the retarding of the out
pouring of war supplies are regarde ed
by officials as the chief reasons why
expenses did not equal estimates.
Billion Dollars a Month
Government expenses row are run
ming about billion dollars month
with somewhat less than half going to
allies, who spend the greater part of
their loans for war supplies in this
country.
Since the declaration of war on April
6, 1917, the governments actual cx-
penditures have been more thar $9,-
300, 100000 but about S8OO,OOO,OOO of
this sum would have been spent for
normal activities, even if the United
States had not entered the war
Ordinary expenditures, under which
the Treasury classifes all outlays for
operation of the governmental ma
chinery and war enterprises, since the
declaration of war have been approxi-
mately S5,084, 100000. Actual payments
to allies amounted to about $4,743,-
100000
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-05
Wilson Is Sure Army
Will Prove "Finest
Metal Of Fyeer1en''
tBy The Assoc,ated Press,

tBy THO Assoclatcd prcss)
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, April 4.-This weeks issue
of "The Stars and Stripes" the sol
dier's weekly, will contain the following
message from President Wilson:
please convey to the officers and
men Of our expeditionary forces my
warmest greetings on this the ami
vcrsary of the entrance Of the United
States into this great war for lib
erty, and say to them that we all
have not only greatly admired and
beer very proud of the way they have
SO far accounted for themselves, but
also have the utmost confidence that
in every sense they will prove to be
of the finest metal of freemen'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-05

no obstacle to German advance and
again when Montdidier was captured.
1t was at this time that Lloyd George
appealed to the American people. his
message being read by Lord Reading
IN New York. AS The Tribune excll-
sively told the next day, the object Of
that appeal was to obtain American
soldiers to throw into British divisions
to make up for the losses of the last
few days and to insure the mainten-
ance of reserves. The President acted
at once upon the British request, which
the army here had long opposed, and
the rushing of troops to France in
British food ships is the consequence.
1t was learned to-day in Allied circles
that this prompt act of cooperation on
the part of President Wilson had had
most favorable effect in France and
England 1t had strengthened the
morale of the Allied armies and almost
equally the moraie of the peoples of
England and France.
Now or Never
For Germany
This plan of using the Americans in
sn all units to fill up the French and
British armies enables the prompt use
of American troops. Long training will
not be necessary, as the men will learn
war quickly from close contact with the
experienced fighters of France and
England. And the units of green troops
engaged will be too small to be a
source OF weakness. A great reservoir
of men is thus made promptly availa-
bic for the emergency created by Ger
many's attempt to win a victory in
France before American forces reach
there in great strength. When our
armies can be armed and shipped and
the emergency is passed the scattered
units doubtless will be collected and
an American army will hold a large
part of the line. This plan to use the
Americans in small bodies applies to
the men already over there as much as
to the men now being hurried across.
The German effort to win decisive
victory this summer will be unremit-
ting as long as Germany has any re-
serve power left to thrust forward. It
IS now or never with her, for it is
recognized even by the Liberals in all
countries that the war will have to be
fought out to a military decision. If
Germany does not get her decision this
summer the Allies will exact theirs
next year. Therefore, tremendous and
repeated efforts are expected. Espe-
cially will this be Germanys policy,
for the pressure which she is bringing
to bear upon the Allied line is being