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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-12-26

Before leaving the New Jersey
state house for the White House,
Governor Woodrow Wilson announced
that two things especially were going
to characterize his administration,
pitiless publicity and an open door tn
all corners at the White House.
George Creel has long been furnishing
the pitiless publicity, and fewer peo-
pie are received at the White House
than during any previous adminietra-
tion in the nations history. The
newspaper correspondents have not
been received since May, 1916, and
for a full year President Wilson has
not given an audience to single
newspaper correspondent. National
Republican.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-12-26

will come With pork and dsrlry PROD
ucts, vegetable oils, sugar and coffee.
Utmost economy will be required in
tie use of fats and oils, in which there
is Il world shortage of about 100000, :.
600 pounds. There are sufficient sup
plies for us to return to our normal
sugar consumption If other nations
continue their present short rntions,
or even If their rations are slightly in.
creased If the European countries,
however, are to resume their normal
sugar consumption 1t will be through
our continued conservation in order
plus of coffee.
OF the world total required to pro-
duce these results North America will
furnish more than 60 per cent. The
United States, including the West In
dies will be in position to furnish
total of about 20,O00000 tons
against our pre-war exports Of about
G,0OO,O0O tons.
The bread grains situation allows
the world to abandon the use OF sub
stitutes In wheat bread. Large sup
plies have accumulated in the Argen-
tine, Australia and other hitherto in
accessible markets. A continued high
milling percentage, economy of con
sumption and elimination Of waste
make 1t possible for the world to re-
turn to white wheat loaf.
OF all our export possibilities In
fats, the largest and most important
item is pork. While we cannot supply
the world deficiency, we will be able
to help 1t enormously because of the
past policies of stimulating production
and restraining consumption. The
governments policy with regard to
stimulating the production of wheat
and OF pork the readiest source of
fats, is thus amply justified by the sit
uation upon the return of peace.
Famine specter Still Stalks.
The people Of the United States
must continue care and wise economy
in the use Of food In order to complete
the work of liberating the world. But
even with the utmost conservation and
production in this country there will
be in Europe for the next year or more
starvation beyond all human power to
allay In North Russia there are 40
100000 people to whom food cannot
be made accessible this winter. Their
transportation is demoralized in com
plete anarchy. And even If internal
transport can be assured their ports OF
entry would soon be frozen. Millions
more who have felt keenly the oppres
sicn of war will be beyond reach of as
sistance.
We must realize that upon oul
shoulders rests greater responsible
ty than we have ever before beef
asked to assume. We must realize tina
millions of lives depend absolutel,
| upon the continued service and sacri
| fee Of the American people.
We must realize that the specter o
famine abroad now haunts the abun
| dance of our table at home.
|
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-12-26

The supreme court has set aside the
conviction Of 27 men in Hutchinson
county convicted under the espionage
law, and remanded the case for a new
trial. 1t has also reversed the judg-
ment against William T. Head of
Mitchell, convicted under the same
law. While the full text of the su-
preme court decision has not been
published, it is presumed that these
decisions will result in multiplying all
convictions under that law. It is re-
ported that the validity of the law
was not passed upon by the court, but
the law is of little consequence If con.
victions can not be secured under it.
If such is the case the law should be
repealed at once as law that can
not be enforced simply tends to exas-
perate the people who are trusting in
it, AMI is worse than no law at all.
The espionage law was passed as q
war measure, and was designed to
suppress disloyalty in time Of war.
As such it probably served a good
purpose, as law abiding citizens trust
ed to the efficiency of the law to sup
prees dieloyalty, while without such
law violence might have resulted.
But if the law is unenfcrcable it is
simply encouraging lawlessness while
it remains on the statute books.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-12-26
THE HARMONY OF DEVOTION
YULETIDE GREETINGS
BY o. ". Coursey, Mitchell, 5. D.

! It i y ii as-E
What Harmony is produced in q
Life of pure Devotion! The Devotion
OF Jesus to hfs Divine Mission is the
Poetry of the Universe. The Rhythm
Of His mission was the result Of his
Devotion.
He entered life az the Child Of
Mystery in little Bethlehem Man
ger, Beginning it in the soft Idyl of
conscious dream, he rose to nigh
ty Diapason Of power in the Sermon
on the Mount.
Descending into the crystal food of
the Jordan, he ordained the first great
Sacrament Of the Church Baptism.
Assembled in an upper room with his
Twelve Apostles, he instituted the
Second Sacrament-the Lords Supper.
Delivered by Plate to the rabbling
multitude, he trudged from the Prae-
torium along the Via Dolorosa to the
top Of the Cross. tasted the Vinegar
of Stealth and drank the Gall Of
Death.
+
Not once did he doubt his Mission; /;
not once did he falter in the execu-
tion of his Trust.
His bruised body was placed in Jo-
seph's virgin tomb. where, after three
days, he broke the shackles of Death
and came forth again. Forty days
later, God caught him up from the
Brow Of Olivet, in a Whirlwind of
Joy.
His Devotion had been complete.
The Harmony Of it echoes adown the
years. Its poetry inspires the human
soul to acclaim with Isaiah:
'tUnto US Child is born.
Unto US Son is given, and the
Government shall be upon his shoul-
der, and his Name shall be called
Wonderful, Counsellor,
The Mighty God,
The Everlasting Father,
The Prince of Peace"
His Devotion inspired the Classic
Poetry of the Nations, the Paintings
of Raphael and De Vinci, thousands
sef Statues that adorn the Art Galler-s
les of the World, Handeps "Messi-
alb, = and Haydn's Imperial Mass"
and the Harmony Of it still lives
IN THE HEARTS OF MEN.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-12-26

Dakota Republican: There is COM
pensation in everything. Even the
Richards primary law just adopted
by the people is going to make it
necessary for prospective candidates
for the presidency to come to South
Dakota and debate the paramount
issues" before they can legally find a
place on the ballot. If we can't go
and hear the big guns talk, we can
make them come within our range.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-12-26

Ameeting of members of the nom
partisan league was held in Sioux
Falls last Thursday, called by some
members who appear to resent being
led blindfolded by Townley and his
gang. An effort was made to organ
ize an independent league of South
Dakota, but Townley was too cute
for them. By rallying all the faith
fulls he managed to capture the meet
ing and got a resolution passed en-
dorsing him and all his isma. Town
ley boasts that he towns the league"
and he is shrewd enough to prove it.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-12-26

The ample supply Of food found by
the allied troops in the occupied por-
tions of Germany confirms the impress
sion that the German plea for help to
save her starving people was simply
a play for sympathy and designed to
temper the findings Of the peace con-
ference.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-12-26

Miss Carrie E. Lawrence. who
died at Chamberlain last week and
was buried in Yankton Thursday. held
the remarkable record of having
taught in this state for forty years.
most of that time in the city schools
of Yankton.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-12-26

The report that American dele
gates favor the sinking of the vessels
captrrued from Germany turns out to
be only the imag;nations of some
dreamer.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-12-26
AN AMERICAN HABIT
THAT WAS EXPANDED.

Coming to the relief Of the dis
tressed Is not a new sensation to u.s..
Having sent shiploads of food to the
famine sufferers of India as offhand-
edly as the housewife hands out cut
OF the loaf to the wayfarer. it seemed
the most natural thing in the world to
succor Belgium, to take onzthe feeding
of nation quite Informally.
The test of peace Is to summon FOR
the healing OF nations devotion equal
to that given the tasks Of war.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-01-16
principle am opposed to war.

pillClple ain OppOSeu W WdT.
Before the war | was one of the
many Alsace-Lorraine politicians
who were content to limit our national
program to an autonomy within the
boundaries of the German Empire
From this it must be gathered that we
had forgotten that in 1871 our right
as a nation to self.definition had been
violated by Bismark No, we were
willing to limit our demands for the
sake of peace, that was all. We knew
that we could be reunited to France
only at the price of war and we wished
to avoid that.
He further explains the reason why
the people of Alsace-Lorraine do not
wish to and cannot become Germans.
Our national culture is French, not
German" he says. The Germans
state that by descent in language and
in history we are Germans. This,
however, is untrue, or only partly
true.
Admitted that the great majority
of our population is mixture of
German and Celtic races, as is also
the case of good part of the popula-
ton of North and West France; ad-
mitted also, that considerable part
of the population speaks in the Alsa-
clan dialect, which is branch of the
German language. Nevertheless, our
history has removed us far from the
German root and has made us French
During the sixteenth and seven
teenth centuries we were utterly sep
arated from Germany and took nc
part in the formation of the new Ger
many which was forming under the
banner of Prussia. The new Ger
many became a stranger to us, while
France drew nearer and nearer to us
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-01-16

The condition of college athletics
at eastern institutions is we'll illus.
trated by the situation at Cornell, one
of the leading universities of the Sec
ton in the support of sport. There is
hardly me department of athletics in
which, at the beginning of the year, a
complete program or schedule is
planned Efforts are being made to
support, as far as compatible with
other more important activities, each
and every branch Of sport INDUCED in
during the spring months. The sit
uation in rowing is perhaps typical
and as outlined in a recent issue of
university publication gives an in
sight to conditions prevailing at Cor.
nell at this time. The article, In
part, is as follows:
Rowing plans have not yet crysta-
lized. Practice on the rowing ma
chimes in the gymnasium will go for
ward, and when the inlet is clear of
ice In the spring, crews will be boat
ed as usual. On account of the early
closing of the University, however, it
will be difficult for the management
to schedule dual races, either on Lake
Cayuga or elsewhere It is taken for
granted that no attempt will be made
this year to revive the Poughkeepsie
regatta. Obviously Cornell could
not participate in such regatta next
spring. John Collyer active rowing
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-01-16


while here he conferred with Mr. ing the
Courtney others rowing
situation but definite conclusion listing
was reached Final decision will not ter the holidays
be made until later the winter umed
In general athletic activities except for fairly
In basketball and wrestling have Elephants"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-01-16

Petrograd, Jan. 15.-The Alsace,Lor-
raine situation from a natives point
Of view is laid before the Russian pub
lie in an article published here by the
Alsace delegate, George Veil,
IL myself am a walking example of
our peoples attitude" he says. Il am
a social democrat and therefore in
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-01-16

"The great French revolution fin.
ally decided our national character.
The entire population of Alsace-Lor.
raine was caught by the revolution
movement. The Marseilleise was
written in Strassburg and sung for the
first time by Rouge-de-Lille at the
house of the Mayor of strassburg."
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-08-24
The "Kept Press y
Meets at Fargo

Fargo, N. D., August 23-The Peo-
pies Press Association of North Da-
kota, Nonpartisan league organiza-
ton, began two days convention
hero today. A permanent organization
is to be formed and it is understood
that matters affecting the league are
to be discussed. -....\.. ..
z For several weeks Nonpartisan
league leaders have been busy in the
newspaper field. New papers have
been purchased and others have been
negotiated for. -
The list of prospective speakers in
cludes r. II. Phillipa, Grand Forks;
l.. w. Buck, Stanley; n. S. Davies,
Fargo; John Andrews, Wahpcton; A..
J. Norm, Mayvi1lc; H., P. KnaDpen,
Bismarck; NJ. F. Blank, Edgeley; Carl
Nelson, Cando; B. G. McElroy, Daw-
son; J. B. Burgster, Jamestown; r.
B. French, Bowman; Ed. Vernon. For
man; F. J. Prochaska, Park River;
Roy V. Fyles, Fargo and c. M. -Brin-
ton, Fessenden.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-08-24
VIII I7FF'T VT1I T"7IyU TFIfL IDTT0--
\! PAYING y J! 4
100000 MORE |: |.
FOR T0WNLEY
Costs of North Dakota Govern
ment Mounting Rapidly Each
- r Year !
DEFICIT NOW IN PROSPECT
Emergency Appropriation Prob.
ably will be Asked of
r. Assembly

The cost of government under Mr.
Townley's administration is mounting
Tin North Dakota at the rate Of more
than 100000 per annum, according
to the biennial report of State Treas
urer John Steen, which now is being
prepared foi' the printer. Mr.. Steen
does not comment upon the figures,
which speak for themselves.
June 80, 1917, there was balance
in the general fund of $40S. 0G0,l6. Dur
ing the fiscal year ending June 80.
1918, the state collected in it's general
funds $2,373,S2394 and it Spent ST.
465, O61.23, reducing the balance at the
end of. the year to s316,S62S7.
In the fiscal year ending June 30,
1917,.the first in which Townley haG
control of North Dakota's administra'
ton, the expenditures were $2,32O,000
as compared with $2,1z4,000 in the fis.
cal year ending June 80, 1916, when
the Hanna administration was In pow.
er. The balance on hand at the close
of the years business June 80, 1916,
was $40S,S41.
Practically every state department
shows substantial increase in ex-
penditures for the last two fiscal
years The most notable exceptions
are the offices of the governor and
state treasurer whose expenditures
have remained almost stationery
."If the administration plar -
creating commissions for every pur.'
pose under the sun continued, I pre-
dict that the expense Of government
in North Dakota will be doubled dur
ing the ensuing year." said a promln
ent state official this morning. Zone
Of the first bills to be tossed into the
hopper when the legislature convenes
next January will be one calling for
an emergency appropriation of $l,o,
900 to make up deficits in several de-
partments which have already almost
exhausted their appropriations. In
stead of wartime economy in the al
ministration of public affairs we seem
to have entered ~.,N~era of wholesale
extravaganza"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-08-24
OLD KING BASEBALL IS DEAD
Pershing's Boys Can't See Why Husky Athletes
Should Play for Fat Salaries While They
Fight and Die for America

bloody heritage of the western front.
And their fame here belongs with
the mass, not with individual men,
ton. What then is left in the main
for sporting page printed in France,
within hearing of the guns? Such
headlines as these-'Star Players Dive
For Shipyards or Farm to Escape
Work or Fight Order-'Cobb is Think
ing Of Enlisting This Fall'-Fulton
and Dempsey Haggle Over Purse
willard Refuses to Fight and so on
through countless list that doesn't
make any too heroic an appeal to
those living and dying in the mud
and dirt of the front, 5000 miles away
from home.
"'The Stars and Stripes is printed
for the A. E. F., not to help perpetuate
the renown Of able-bodied stars, who,
with unusual qualifications for war
or useful work, elected to hear only
the business as usual Slogan above
their cOuntry's call for help in the
greatest war she has ever known.
There is but one Big, League today for
this. paper to cOver-and that league
winds it's way among the stations
scattered throughout France and ends
at the western 'front.', Amy work that
is part OF the Big Job either in the
lines or back of it. from Chateau
Thierry to San Francisco, Is Of ut
most value. But entertaining the
people back home isn't part Of he Big
Job, nor do we believe the bulk OF
them want to be entertained in my
such way.
When it finally came to the point
where any number of able-bodicd men
were rushing into various occupa-
lions at the point Of the boot, who"
the secretary Of war was forced to
produce a ruling that would make
hundreds of these men work or fight.
as the squabble and scurry grew day
after day, this paper felt that it no
longer had space LETT for such .activ-
ities-not with so many events of far
greater interest taking place within
sight and hearing of its working staff.
There is no space left flor the
Cobbs, the Ruths,} the Johnsons, the
Wizards and the Fultons in the ease
and safety Of home when the Ryans,
the Smiths, the Larsens, the Bern
stems and others are charging ma
chine guns and plugging along
through shrapnel or grinding out r.
hour details 200 miles in the rear.
Back home the. sight of high fly
drifting into the late sun may still
have its thrill for few. But over
here the all-absorbing factors are
shrapnel. high explosives, machine
gun bullets, trench digging; ~stable
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-08-24
BY E. G. Rodgers

It is a mighty>good thing for Chi
Cago> that the census bureau isn't out
gathering population statistics now.
For Chicago, second of American Git
les, each day sees it's citizens pack
their trunks and stream eastward and
southwark. ~
Chicago is being depopulated"
cries the Chicago Tribune. And Chi
cago business men are worrying. !
Charles A. Munrow, Illinois director
OF the U. S. labor reserve, says more
than 125,OOO Chicago men have quit
the big city by the lake to work in
eastern and southern war industries,
shipyards, munition factories, coal
mines and other HUN-defeating estab-
lishments. Within three months 5000
men have been sent to the govern
ments high explosives plant in West
Virginia. The employment service will
take at least $4,000 more men out OF
Chicago within the next six weeksi
1t IS estimated that Chicago will
lose over 100000 workers, mostly men
this year. If they remain permanent
ly they will send for their families
and thus reduce Chicago's population
by million or So Should the drain
extend over the next two years, and
it may if the war lasts, Chicagos
1920 census figure may entitle her to
third place in the list, Philadelphia
doomed by the war, going into second.
This population loss does not take
into" consideration Chicago boys who
have gone into army or navy, but on
ly workers who have left the city for
employment elsewhere.
In one small section of Chicago a
survey made showed 5000 vacant flats,
500 unoccupied houses and 10000
rooms Off rent. Other parts of the
city have about the same proportion
of avcant dwelling places. This has
had the effect of reducing rentals and
now it is possible to get cheaper flats
and houses in Chicago than in. any
other large city east Of the MISSISSIPPI
pi. =. -.
Chicago's dwipdling population is
due. to Chicago's lack of war work.
Other cities, east and south, are filled
with, men and~women working on war
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-08-24
NEUTRALS MUST
COME DOWN OFF
: THE FENCE NOW
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any time come into my possession;
and do hereby claim relief from liza
ibility to military service in accord
ance with tie law and regulations"
Copies Of Act Received.
"A copy of the act and a blank form
of this affidavit are being mailed by
General Fraser to every neutral in
North Dakota who has claimed exemp-
ton on the ground of his neutrality.
The cancellation of citizenship re-
quested in this affidait will automatic
ally withwrad homestead rights and
any other benefits of citizenship
which the declarants may enjoy.
1--WE now have an opportunity to
wed the sheep from the goats; to
prove that these men are either with
us or against us. said General Fras-
er today in commenting on the new
regulations. 81 regard this act as one
of the best things congress has done.'
Number Not Large.
The number of registrants affected
in NORTH Dakota will not be large. but
a. considerable proportion of those who
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-08-24
(By Associated Press)

July 18th confirms the earlier report from Paris placing them well
Il (3y Associated Press) 4
Overcoming resistance with smashing blows the al
lied forces between scissors and Noyons continue advance
creases hourly r=
On the north having hurled the Germans from less
important positions 30e 'front.' the British approach
Bapaume and threatening the outlying defenses Of Peronne
Flea Marshal Hsigs only little more than
two miles the northwest having taken Bihucour in
' - As'''s. CROSS D1vE1TE
West Of Noyon the French have forced the crossing Of the
Dvete hre miles from Noyon and they maintain their strong
pressure from the south and east
Between the Aisne and Aete north of Scissors the French
troops the to the German troops along the
The British third fourth armies fighting the old
battlefield Of the Soe persistenty forcing the enemy back
They have crossed the road most Of it's
length They have seized the high ground northwest and SOUTH
Phiepza three Sides North and south Of the Somme they
Il % Bray yv sktn tine ngi east oft ra
From Chaunes to south Of Roye the battle line remains u
POURING HEAVY FIRE.
French and British guns are pouring heavy fire into and
Noyon is still in the hands the enemy but its usefulness
as ss Frsnc artillery bobard two allied armies
reported burning behind Germans position north
of the vs and believed the be preparing to
retire Infantry and transports have been seen moving north
AMERICAN BLOW ANTICIPATED.
While the fighting has ben wagng the front from Ypres
to Rheims the stretch front from Rheims to Switzerland
cisive blow in this region by the American forces anticipated
hourly at WASHINGTON W. ,oo hoo,n o,r .o+;on o,d
:ntn s tn: We Words nsve e ssEs
strategy has placed the Germans in their present nenviabe
For five weeks now Marshal Foch has held the initiative
and the Germans have lost ground during that time than
o ON ANY w Pf h German line from to
under allied blows and unable to retire without inviting disaster
In a@ So have BEEN m
covered and the allies still press on es|& o.. a.@