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The Hickman courier., 1918-07-11
ANOTHER LARGE LAND DEAL.

5. L. Dodds sold the 51G acre plan
tation belonging 10 him and his man
ager. +. ID. Johnson. just across the
river from Hickman. I'm Missouri. o.
Morris solomon Of Cairo. This was
approximately a Sf5.OoOOO deal and j.
the last Of Mr. Dodds' sarge land hold
inEs near Hickman. aud makes six
farms OF plantations thnt Ee has sold
within the last six months. agsrerat-
ing about S4JO.OOOOO. Last week he
also sold his large electrical cotton
gin 20 the Lake County Manufuctur-
ing Co. Of Dycrsbure. Tenn Tor "a
consideration Of sig.JnOt Also sold
quite a lot Of city real estate. being
blacksmith shops. etc OF the o.d Hick-
man Wagon Co Of which De WAS own
er, and several residences that he
owned In Hickman. With the live
stock. crops. etc. that he has retained
had been sold. these deals would aggrc-
gate more than half "A million dollars
Mr. Dodds has offered his services
% the Government I'm any capacity
that he can BE- Of service and expects
90 be called right soon. He has large
interests at and near Clarksdale. Miss
but has good managers operating them
and expects % give them power of at
sence. in any capacity. His only son
who was nineteen years old when the
war broke out and would have gradu-
ated from Tulane University that year
volunteered as soon as the call was
made. and while Mr.. Doclds Is Ina his
fifty-third year he feels that 10 is his
duty 10 do anything that the Govern
ment may call upon him % DO and be
H. 80 shaping his business that he can
20 10 France il IL becomes necessary.
lie has been Chairman Of the National
Council OF Defense. Chairman of the
National Labor Committee and a great
many other active organizations in
his county and State. lie was also a
member Of the Appeal Board for the
Western District 81 Kentucky. He.
has the utmost contempt for a Stacker
or anyone that viii aid a Stacker who
Is trying 20 avoid doing his duty and
has been instrumental i'm running down
many slackers as well as some desert
ers. advancing money out Of his own
pocket TO the officers for expenses in
bringing these men 10 Justice. ON ac-
count OF his reputation and experience
ON the Appeal Board. he has been call
ed upon by the present Appeal Board
and others for a great deal OF infor-
nation
The Hickman courier., 1918-07-11
CAYCE NEWS.

a number Of the Cayce people cele-
brated very sane and safe 4th of
July by going fishing and reported a.
tine time and regretted not getting
the usual 4th Of July rain. The flying
machine came over from Columbus
and we got "a good view Of it-Drs.
Lon and John Naylor left Friday for
Colorado Springs for the formers
health We hope he will derive much
benefit from his trip.-Mrs. H. Burnes
went % Columbus 90 visit her new
granddaughter who arrived ON the 4th
at the home Of T. r. Peregin.-Mrs
Thelma Lawrence returned 10 her
home in Jackson "Wednesday Mr.
and AIRS. Henry Burns and Mrs. Nan
Burns went TO Columbus SUNDAY Co
visit Mr. and Airs. r. T. Percgin.-
Mrs Lon Nayi0r and children return
"a 90 Hickman Monday after few
days visit 90 relatives hcre.-Mr Lee
Atwill cime on the ffh fo visit friends
and relatives. He returned 90 his
home In ChicagoSunday. his wife and
tANAA| tNAN-AAA'N NN'ffAtl I'NAl. /. NNA- AAIll-
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Boon Iuman visited
Mrs Chas Rondurant Monday Mr.
and Mrs. win Jones and Mrs. Mau-
rice Jones. Of Fulton. visited Mrs Jo.
Jones sunday MIR. and Mrs Drew
Bacon visited Mrs. Fannie Jones sun
duy-Loys and Iiazell Mayfield spent
Saturday night with louise and Eve
lyn Powell.-Claricc Bondurant has
returned from three weeks visit to
Mrs Jim Boone Inman-Mrs. Arch
oliver spent Sunday with Mrs. Alfred
Clara Carr and Myra
Bell spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs
Jno. Rnnkins. "A number from here
attended the children's day exercises
60 Union Church Sunday night-Mrs
Joe Asllell has been very sick-Mrs
r. A. Mayficld and children spent
Tuesday with Mrs. Tom McClellan.-|
Mrs. x. q. Alexander spent Tuesday
with Mrs. Will Alexandcr.-Mr Fan
ME Murchison has returned from an
extended visit I'm the Crutchdeld neigh
borhood.-Mrs. H. Burues who has
been suffering for some time from
blow on the head. is some better.
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CHAUTAUQUA.
Began Tuesday Afternoon. and Big
Crowds Attend

Hiciman's annual Redpath Chau-
tauqua began Tuesday afternoon for
session of five days. and the big tent
has been crowded every session W
q. Suft T. the superintendent ia charge
and has the programs running smoothly
The worker in charge OF the children's
hour is graduate of Chicago Univer-
sity who entertains the children every
morning. Tomorrow night there will
be patriotic pageant by the children
under her instruction
The first day the Fairchild Ladies
Quartette pleased large audience.
they are talented and skilled musi-
clans Tuesday night Lieut.. Lee
Nichols. am English hero OF the battle
Of Npres. made an appeal 10 his audi
ence FOR every one 10 help win the
war. His description Of the battlefield
of Flanders held his audience 10 the
last minute. Wednesday afternoon
the Montague Light opera Singers
furnished the musical program and
Mr.. VIM Forkeil. the lecturer. deliver
ed talk Of am hour and half that
was greatly appreciated. His patri-
otie speech is one Of the best ever
heard here
This afternoon the Christine Giles
Company will furnish the musical
entertainment and Detective Harry J
Loose. of the Chicago Police force will
discuss ~Crime-Its Cause and Pre-
vention-" Tonight Ralph Bingham.
Americas premier funmaker win lee
ture.
Friday afternoon. Paramount Enter
tainers and an exhibit Of war cartoons
Of the Allied Nations Friday night.
Paramount Entertainers patriotic pag-
cant by local children. Lecture by
Charles Howard Pdttenhurg.
Saturday afternoon. Liberty Bellies
Lecture by Dr. John c. Acheson. Sat
urday night, Grand Concert. Liberty
Bellies.
The program so far this week Is up
10 the standard usually furnished by
the Redpath people and the balance
Of the week viii be just as good-or
better
This year the season tickets for the
uarantee-$SGO sold before
the opening day. ma inly through the |
efforts of Henry Amberg. assisted by
j. q. West, 4. T. Sullivan and a few
others.
The Hickman courier., 1918-07-11

Rev. s. Bashra. pastor OF Greek
Orthodox Church In san Francisco is
in Hickman this week. the sucst Of
Faris Naifeh. and other Syrians.
Mildou Strong. . months old eiiild
Of AR and Mrs. Claud Strong living
on Bond hill died Tuesday of sum
mcr complaint.
Hope bleachcd domestic. q yard 2S,
DOliSous-
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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.

Sunday School at . ;45 a. m.. Sunday
morning service at IL o'clock. and
evening service at 5 :15. Prayer meet
ing Wednesday evening az s:1J. Ev-
cry one cordially invited. H. NJ. Grain.
Pastor.
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Dr. J. NJ. Hubbard returned Ia.

DIR. J. NJ Hubbard returned last
night from TT Benjamin Harrison.
Ind. where he was called for training.
He failed to pass the physical exam
ination and was discharged by army
authorities.
Georgette Waists. new styles az Sl95
Dubsous
SIX skirts. varied colors at S495
Dohsous
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Harry Barnes. FOR some time with
the Southern Express Co. left las-
night for the naval training camp as
a recruit lie volunteered some time
ago. bEt has just received his call.
Good Cream. good Sodas and re-
freshing s0lf drinks Of all kinds at the
Hickman Drug Company.
Tom Andrews Is spending n few
days at Dawson Springs.
Lost: Radiator Cap TO automobile
Return 70 w. r. Baltzer.
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Joe Taylor and family have gone to
Nashville. where he has n position
with the powder plant
The Hickman courier., 1918-07-11

Austin yorhees spent Wednesday in
Nengelwood-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

once more in the full swing of his perse
cutions. The Czech sympathies are wholly
with Belgium, Russia, Serbia, France and
Great Britain. And what is true of the
Czech is also true of the Slovaks, who suf-
fer even more under Magyar oppression.
The Czechs and Slovaks in Austria Hun
gary fight only under compulsion; their
unwilling regiments were decimated; their
political and national leaders fill the Aus
TRAN and Hungarian prisons. Thousands
of Bohemian and Slovak volunteers are
fighting enthusiastically under the banners
of France and Great Britain, and there are
whole regiments of them attached to the
Russian army.
The same natural law of preservation
that rules over individuals rules also over
nations-ony the strongest survive the
struggle for existence. Not the strongest
in numbers nor even physically, but the
richest in that healthy virginia. life-cur-
rent which suffers under defeat, but is
never crushed; which may be suppressed
to the limit, yet wells up again stronger
and fresher than ever the moment the
pressure relaxes. One such nation is sure
~, it seems, that of the Czechs. A 1900
year-long life-and-death struggle with the
races which surround it from the north
west and south, with a near-burial within
the Austrian Empire for the last three
centuries, have failed to destroy the little
nation or break it's spirit"
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the second division of our inquiry: How
did they get into Siberia? And the an
swer to this question merges quickly
into an answer to the other question:
Whittier are they bound?
David Lawrence, writing recently in
"The New York Evening Post" said:
"To those who have not been following
this Czecho-Slovak movement closely it
should be recalled that at the time the
American Commission, headed by Elihu
Root, was in Russia, the Russian army
made a drive into Austria and captured
hundreds of thousands of Czecho- Slovaks
Not much significance was attached then to
the Willingness with which they surren-
dered, but it was plainly understood when
their leaders in exile in France began to
arrange for the transfer Of the Czecho- Slo-
wax contingent from the status of prison
ers of war to loyal soldiers of the French
army. Professor Masaryk went to Russia
to arrange this with the Russian govern
ment. The Bolsheviki successfully revolt
ed against the Kerensky regime but, after
prolonged negotiation, they, too, agreed to
the passage through their territory and the
equipment of about 100000 Czecho-Slovak
troops.
"The objective of the latter was France,
by way of Siberia and ocean Transports
Until few days ago the Bolsheviki kept
their agreement. The Czecho-Slovaks en-
countered difficulties on their journey, but
foloweds their instructions not to get mixed
up with the Bolshevik.
professor Masaryk is confident, how
ever, that German intrigue set to work to
pit the Bolsheviki against the Czecho- Slo-
walks, and that, contrary to their own
wishes and intentions, the capture of
Vladivostok became necessary in self pro
lection. He believes the Germans were try
ing to wipe out the Czecho- Sovak force
and prevent it from ever becoming incor-
porated in the Allied armies in France"
Professor Masaryk is the commander
in chief of the Czecho-Slovak forces, al
though at the present time he is far
away from them himself. Professor
Masaryk is at present right here in
America, but he is keeping in close
touch with the situation in Siberia at
the same time that he is keeping an
eagle eye on developments in this coun-
try looking toward a definite Russian
policy.
1t seems that the Czecho- Slovaks, be-
ginning their long, long march across
Siberia toward the sea and an intended
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
why There Is An
w Intending Feud

Between the Czechs and the Germans
there is long-standing feud, wrote r.
S. Nolan in "The Nineteenth Century"
in 1915. And he continued:
"a certain arrogance, which is very
marked in many types of German charac-
ter, and offensive conviction of the
superiority of all that is Teutonic, are
largely the causes of the feud. The Czechs
are, of course, a Slav race They are on
the whole, more numerous in Bohemia than
the Germans. There certain districts
where of the races is solely represent
ed or dominates. When both find them
selves in large numbers, there is a peYpet-
ual conflict. The wary shopkeep-
er in Prague generally allows the intend
ing customer to be the first to wish Good
day. fearing lest, if the latter were a
Czech, he would at once walk out of the
shop if addressed in the German language,
or, if he were a German, he would do like
wise if addressed in Czech"
More light on the unhappy condition
of these peoples is thrown by Wolf Won
Scheirbrand in his recently published
book, "Austria-Hungary, the Polyglot
Empire" He declares:
"Of all the Slavs living under the shadow
of the Austrian double eagle, the Czech
does so most unwillingly. The long his
tory of this, the most gifted and energetic
of all the Slav tribes. goes far to explain
this strong and undying hatred of his Aus
trian master. Ever since the Czech
people first emerged from the dim light of
legendary lore, it met the racially so differ
ent, so much more numerous, so much bet
ter organized German in its path. From
tho RI MIH1o Ara IN
ago. the Czech was the helot, the newer of
wood and drawer of water. Ever the Ger
man, wherever he came in contact with
him and wherever he tried to compete, had
the best of it.
"From prehistoric times on the Czech,
like all Slavs, has been a tiller Of the soil
not a warrior, not herdsman, a hunter,
builder of and dweller in towns, not
mechanic, trader craftsman. In all
these points the German was much more
than his match. ="
But
ION top of this hateful feeling of in
feriorlty that had lived darkly in the sim
pie Slav soul of the Czech for so long
came the trickery first, then the fiendsh
cruelty and systematic persecution of the
Hapsburgs, once Bohemia had passed un-
der their sway.
FOR fifty years past the Czechs have
wrought patiently by day and night to
achieve their territorial and political indie
pendence, and have failed. Every Austrian
statesman during that long time has tried
his wits at the conundrum, praisinp this or
that new remedy-and has EQUALLY failed
And thus it is that the Czechs entered this
war with the sting of abasement. with dis
loyalty in their hearts"
Having it clearly in mind, now, who
the Czecho-Slovaks are, we may turn to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
They Were Victories Won
1 Without Design

But, as has been already shown, these
victories were not desired victories.
They were, like the classic instance of
greatness, thrust upon them Of course,
observes "The Buffalo Express
Their success would have been impos-
slble If tAey had met any determined re-
sistance, for they hardly can have had
enough ammunition to fight any prolonged
battle. The most significant fact, however.
is that there has been no sign of any pop
ular uprising to oppose them. Instead Of
rising in mass to defend the Bolsheviki.
the Siberian people appear to have well
coined the CzechoSlovaks as deliverers"
"The Montgomery Advertiser" feels
"the preliminary successes of the Czecho-
Slav clarifies the vexed Russian situation
for the Allies. At last party of popular
and military strength has appeared out of
the ruck and confusion of the Russian
chaos to which aid and comfort can be
given. At last the Allies have one party
enough for the Allies to stand by it,"
And further:
1.-THE CzechoSlavs represent the spirit
of the hardy, triumphant Russia of other
states-a spirit which reorganzed and sup
ported Russian nationalism, and which
honored love of country as one of the real
ly great virtues"
Thus this party of old Russian
patriotism has assembled about it
great part of the wronged and dissatis-
fled element in Russia" And SO "the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

forced them, in desperation, it seems, to
fight back. But they offered, once it be-
came necessary to strike, resistance of
no mllk-and-water variety. In fact, they
took the Bolsheviki off their feet, drove
them out of the way, and went on. When
they came to the gates of Vladivostok
the Bolsheviki again came out against
them. The Bolsheviki said they could
not enter the city. But it was essential
they enter the city if they were to en-
bark to join the Allies. So, again,
against their will, they were forced to
attack. The result was, they entered
the city Of Vladivostok as a victorious
army. They occupied the port. It was
another chapter in their romance.
The American press has seized upon
this newest development in Russia, find
ing it both picturesque and of the high
est potential Importance. "The Spring
field Republican" speaks of the cana
basis of the Czecho-Slovaks-
"some of whom have already reached the
sea at Vladivostok, though a remoter and
Stranger sea IMAM the one which thrilled
the souls of Xenophon's ten thousand
stranded in what now is Turkey"
The situation is the more peculiar,
this paper later observes
Gin that for months past Czecho- Slovaks in
Siberia have been fighting on the side of
the Bolshevki in repellng the invasions
of General Semenoff and other leaders of
the reaction, and have indeed been distort-
ed into German menace by imaginative
correspondents in Hardin and Toxic Cir
cumstances alter cases, and we must not be
misled by words; in so vast and chaotic a
country as Russia it is not very surprs-
ing that Slavs of the same nationality
should appear pro-Bolshevik in one place
and anti-Bolshevk at another. Probably
the fact is that they are neither, but mere
ly anti-Austrian and in sympathy with the
revolution because that stands for freedom
of oppressed nationalities"
"The New York Times" perceives a
strong note of irony, demanding:
"1n the long years of oppression when
the Czecho-Slovak nation like the other
western and southern Savs, looked to
Russia the ultimate deliverer from the
German master, who would ever have fore
seen that the first victories of the Czecho-
Sl6vak army after the nations independ-
ence had been formally recognized would
be over Russians, the first conquest the
conquest of Sberia?"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
Independence Is the Dream
OF This Warning People

Downtrodden for centuries, the Czechs
and the Slovaks now look forward to
attaining their great national ideal, in
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS from Austri-
an and German oppression; indepen-
uence that they may set up state of
'neir own, that they may establish the
sovereignty Of their own tongue, and be
Tree to progress in their own way with
Ou' the interference of tyranny. The
same writer goes on to say:
ne true Bohemian, as can easily be
ss 1 has nothing but the bitterest
,seilhgs toward Austria, the stranger and
N'ufper, who, since the war started, is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
\Y1hile the United States
w Debated and DELAYED

Providence, writes "The Washington
POST
"has shown more than once that it is on
the side of the Allies, notwith standing the
fact that Germany usually has had the
heaviest battalons. Nowhere has fortune
favored the Allies more strikingly than in
the interpositon of the Czecho- Slovaks in
Siberia at the psychological moment when
the Allies are debating the delicate ques-
ton of sending armed forces to bolster I'D
Russia. While the United States has de
layed decision on this question, it has
been answered by events. Armed Allied
forces are actually at work bolstering I'D
Russia. To the small nation of Bohemia
belongs the credit of being the first of the
Allies to extend helping hand to Russia
The question now before the Allies is
shall we join with our ally Bohemia in aid
ing Russia in Siberia, or shall we stand off
and see the Bolsheviki arm German and
Austrian prisoners, sweep the CZecho-Slo-
vaks of Siberia and turn Russia over to
Germany"
A dispatch from Washington noted
that
"there is now real nucleus in Siberia
for the gathering of the various elements
which have revoted against Bolshevik
control and against surrender to German
influences"
Yes, observes "The New York
Times
there they are all the way from the
urals to Vladvostok. The Czecho-Slovak
nation has been formally recognized as one
OF the Allies; its army is an army of the
grand alliance as much as is any other
Allied intervention in Siberia is present
TACT, thanks TO the ready submission of
the Bolsheviki to German orders. If there
were hundred thousand American troops
in Siberia, trying to withdraw from the
territory of a nation which had made
peace after accepting their military aid
and If those troops were attacked by the
Russians while they were on their way ont
America would not be stopping to talk
about whether or not it would be theoreti-
caiy correct to aid them by an armed
force"
In "The Providence Journal" one
reads:
Their success is a striking demonstra-
ton OF the accuracy of the judgment that
1oresaw no grave danger 10 the Allied
cause IN armed Intervention in Russia The
timld councillors who have urged US to alb
stain from such Intervention, on the
ground that it would throw the country
into the hands of Germany, are now CON
fronted with a very strong indication. not
TO say proof, that it would do nothing of
the kind"
The Czecho-Slovaks appear to be we'll
intrenched. The Tribune notes:
There $500 Dalmatians at Vladi
vostok now serving under the Italian FLAG.
British, French, American and Japanese
marines are also there. II is, therefore.
not a question of initiating Intervention.
but Of reaping the fruits of an nterven-
ton which is already under way"
And in another editorial this paper
observes:
While we have been debating the diff
culties Of reaching Russia through the Pa
cfc door, the Czecho Slovaks, intending
only to let themselves out, have seized
the door from within. They would swing
itSopen if the Allies were ready to enter"
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days Of the Bolsheviki are numbered
For, in the words of "The Providence
Journal
1.-The sons of Bohemia, in many respects
the most important single nationality in
the Austro- Hungarian Empire, are heard
from at the far separated corners of en-
battled Europe and Asia, in arms for the
cause of the Allies and for the destruction
of the power which they refuse to call
their country"
But the most important phase of the
situation, the press generally feels, re-
wolves about the question: What, now,
are the Allies going to do?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

embarkation that they might eventually
reach the French army, were instructed
by their leaders not to attack any par
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

reaching the port of Vladivostok. But
and this is a salient feature of the ro-
mance-the Bolsheviki did not see fit to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

let them pass along in peace. The Boil
sheviki attacked them, harassed them,
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ties they might encounter en- route. Thus
they set out with the design simply of