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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-04-05
DANNY DIES; GETS FURLoUGH
Kansas City Soldier Finds 1t Not DlffI-
cult to Get Leave Of
Absence.

Camp Doniphan, Okla.-Leaves Oh
absence are usually difficult to get put
one Kansas City soldier here recently
obtained one with great ease. He re-
ceiyed a telegram which said:
"Danny died this morning. Come at
once. Bill"
Sadly and with tear-dimmed eyes
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-04-05
Important
News Events
of the World
Summarized
U.S.-Teutonic WarNeiVS
i;@.,st.@;,8;iS;i9; 9;iS Si;@i. 8i,@;i6tS8;

A message from David Lloyd
George, prime minister Of Great Brit
ain, calling upon the United States
90 send American re-enforcements
across the Atlantic in the shortest pos
sible space of time" was read by
Lord Reading, British high commits
sioner To the United States, at din
ner given In New York In his honor.
After an hours battle with Ger
man U-boat the American oil tanker
Paulsboro sent the enemy vessel be-
meath the waves damaged and In dis
treSs," the navy department reported.
1t was the tankers second struggle
with a submarine in six days.
Americas effort TO meet German
submarine war, was outlined Ht New
York by Chairman Hurley of the shiTr
ping board In n frank statement set
ting forth the shipbuildlng situation
In the United States. Before the Ma
tional Marine league Mr.. Hurley dis
closed that the country soon will have
73O ways turning out ships and that
the governments steel shipbullding
program Of 100000 tons ON March l
was 2S per cent on its way 10 COM
pletion.
The American positions on a GER
tain part of the TOul front were bonn
barded with mustard gas shells at the
rate of six minute ut night. but in
effectively. The American artillery re-
piled with heavy fire and demol-
ished segments of the German front
lines and other points.
The German lines were heavily bonn
barded aud muchine-gunned for an
hour by American troops during the
relief changes by the enemy. The
French official statement says that
east of Badonvillers (where American
troops are in the line) the enemy at
tackled, but was thrown back with
heavy losses.
General PerShing cabled the war de-
partment that TWO regiments of Amer
lean railroad engineers are attached
to the British force on the front at
tackled by the Germans. Three COM
panies of the engineers were working
in the area in which the German Of
fetal statement mentioned the pres
euce of American troops. This mes
sage definitely disposes Of reports rhat
American reserves had been sent into
the battle.
Praising the condition and work of
General Pershing'S eXpedtionary
forces, General Wood recommended to
the senate military committee that an
American army of 100000 men be
maintained abroad as soon as possible
and that another 100000 men be
trained.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-04-05

Defense has called upon all county
defense councils to furnish maps OF
counties with the area infested by
the rodents plainly marked. A cam.
paign will be launched shortly to treat
all the infected areas with poison, fur.
nished by the department of agricul.
turp
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-04-05

A scheme is on foot to take tin ore
from Bolivia via the Panama canal to
Jamaica bay, where a European firm
of tin smelters has just purchased
nine acres of land.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-04-05

ganic Trouble WhIch
pulled me down un-
Ill / could notputm my
foot to the floor and
could scarcely do my
work, and as i live
on a small farm and
raise six hundred
chickens every year
it made it very bard
for me. ~
al saw the Com
pound advertised in
our paper, and tried
il. 1t has restored
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-04-05

A patent has been granted for a
stretcher that can be moved in the
same manner as a wheelbarrow and
that also will serve as q bed or reclln'
ing chair.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-04-05
The Other Wav.

"When my husband yells to me from
upstairs / don't answer him."
'I do. / call mine down."
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-04-05

When the other fellow ceases to dis
play any interest it's time for you to
shut up.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-04-05
NOW RAISES
800 CHICKENS
After Being Relieved Of Or.
ganic Trouble by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.

Oregon. Ill.-"I took Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound for an or
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-04-05

A drive against slackers and anti
Americans celebrating the German at
tempt to break through the Halg line
was made by police and secret service
men at Chicago. Fifty enemies of the
nation were swept into the net and
taken 20 Gel
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-04-05

Cadet William S. Mcnamara of New
York city was killed and Second Lient.
A. ~ Lunstan of Toronto, Ont, was
injured slightly near Dallas, Tex,
when the airplane in which they were
riding fell 800 feet in a spinDing-nose
dive.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-04-05

Joe Sing, a waiter at Tulsa, Okla,
was shot by S. l. Miller, a special Of
fcer of the county defense council.
Sing is said to have expressed hope
that "every American soldier in
France he killed"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-04-05

Fire following series of unex-
planned explosives destroyed the six
story building Of the Jarvis Ware
house company, Inc, near the Erie
railroad terminal in Jersey City and
badly damaged the Erie repair shops.
The damage was estimated at 81 ,500,-
DOO
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-04-05

Negotiations for the transfer of 15O,-
600 tons of japanese shipping to the
United States have been completed at
Washington ON the basis of two tons
of steel plates for one ton OF dead
weight ship capacity.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-04-05
Domestic

The city council of Chicago by a
vote of 63 to passed the anticabaret
ordinance, divorcing entertainment and
liquor 1t goes into effect May ], un-
less the mayor vetOes it.
Wheat boarded with unpatriotic In
tent will be seized by the food admin
Istration. Already 100000 pounds be-
longing to Kempenich brothers, farm
ers of German extraction in New Mex
leo, has been taken and orders have
gone out to state administrators to
act promptly when boarding is discOv-
prpd
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-04-05

Confirmation of the German report
that the British have been forced out
Of Bapaume is contained in a supple
mentary official statement issued by
the British war Office in London.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-02-07
NO COMMON GROUND.
BY Charles j. Roaebauit. Of the visiiantcs.

Recently an official dispatch from the front reported the finding
OF the body Of al American soldier in No Mans Land, with his throat
cut from ear 10 ear. That was a Prussian way Of treating dcfcnseess
prisoner.
Not long thereafter appeared The story Of the sinking Of . German
submarine by the United destroyer Tanning. Among the incidents
was the saving OF a drowning German sailor by two Of the Fanuings
men, who jumped INTO the ICY sea for that purpose. The rescued Ger
man died OF exhaustion on board the Tanning, which later made a
special trip out to &c from the port where she had taken Der other
prisoners IN order to bury thus nan with full military honors.
In commenting upon these two incidents the American Alliance
Tor Labor and Democracy observes. These two reports tell so netbing
OF the story OF autocracy versus dennOcracy.'
But this is not all there is to say. In America fine action az thc
commander OF the Tanning and OF the brave volunteers who rnkcd
their lives to save AZ enemy was greeted with applause. How was it
received IN Germany? " we may rely at all upon the record OF the
past the chlvalry oil our ncn could only have aroused sneers and
leilSIon. II could only have proved anew that the Yankees are weak.
hngs and not at all to be feared. They have not learned the lesson
of sclrccIhchkeit. They are incapable of rising to snch heights of
kultlu.
All oil which raises the question, can there be at the present time
a"i under present conditions, peace and amty between two peoples
so Tar apart ON the fundamental questions of morals and ethics?
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-02-07
This War and the Next.
). q. w. Gardiner, in the Worlds Work.

German leaders are INDUCING in much senseless pratting about
ultimate victory. But all this comes only from the lips, and is intended
solely to blind the noneombatant elements of the population. In their
hearts, these leaders know that the victory about which they babble is
impossible in this far. Germany cannot win, and the leaders know it,
Therefore, we have seen all the force OF the German uganda here
as in Europe exerted toward peace. Not yet beaten but fearing that
she must be if the wan continues to its logical conclusion, Germany
wants peace while the situation is such that she can recover from the
war more readily than her enemies. Then, when the next war comes,
which Germany will provoke when she is ready for it, the victory
which has now been deferred will be attained. This situation exists
because the German leaders feel thai there is still hope of bringing
about the desired end. On the map she is victorious; her enemies ae
war weary and stale; they long for the day of peace to dawn when
nations may escape from the all absorbing, all consuming business oil
war and return to their normal life. This is all true. And Germany
realizing it's truth, is using every means to advance the day of peace.
so that she may avert the pending crash. This will continue as long
as hope OF such al adjustment OF the worlds troubles exists. But
when this hope dies. when the victories of the entente have been So
fruitful that it is impossible even to hope, resistance will cease.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-02-07
The English Trainer.
William Slavcns McNutt. in Golfers

make my way through the thick brush
at Camp Upton. New York, to a machine
gun range. guided by the intermittent
staccato chatter of a Colt, and hoping
that I'm not by any chance wandering on
To the private reserve of any busy bullets.
I come out of the woods in the rear
of the gun position. Near a big camp
fire a dozen or more American officers
are grouped around two machine guns
listening to the Instructions of an Eng
lish major. The English officer is a short.
spare. peppery veteran with a raspy voice
that he can use for the same purpose
that a mule skinner uses a b!acksnake.
"Furr-wuff!" lie shouts That's as near
as I can get to 1t Theoretically. Two cap
tains zap to their places by tho machine
gun. The one who sights and operates
the piece throws himself flat on his back
with his head Graded on the knees of the
man feeding. There is some slight delay
and the English major breaks into song.
Some. come! Carry on! What are we
waiting for? You should have killed 10,
by now. Not so slow. We're not having
Inner. you know: we're killing boches
What the blinkety blank wrong now?
Come, come! Cary on! Carry on"
The gun speaks jarringly. One side nf
the barrel spits a stream of yellow cart.
ridge cases over the breast of the opera
tor holding the trigger. Three hundred
yards distant the blade of bullets slices
liIe SIotIlo NliV toISCt wv fIIoN
up Il little line of dust.
The major orders a 5O-yard advance. TIL
American officers dismount the piece. &C
forward at the double quick and set i,
up once more. The operator pulls the
trigger. Nothing happens. He fuses ano
tugs. Still no result. The English major
calms himself and heaves IA deep sigh.
He looks at the gun crew like Il nan with
no insurance viewing a total loss. "Oh.
my eye" he groans sadly. ''How dead
you'd have been by now! All right. leave
oft; leave off! Never mind"
He points to the man who carried the
ammunition and who is standing behindI
the gun curiously watching the efforts
of the crew to make it shoot.
Next time don't stand up behind the
gun. You stick up there like a dummy
in a shop window. A body would think
YOU We're an advertisement for something
You're not trying to sell the gun to the
boches. you know. Standing there giving
away the gun position. Next time find
cover 20 PAGES TO the Ugh or left and try
to act like a hit of mud. Yesi"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-02-07
The Advance Of Suffrage.
from the Was hington Star.

The aI.Anco made by suffrage in for
eisn countries is summarized in the re-
port from III. suffrage rorumittcr OF the
House az follows:
Great Britai.i-premie LioNd George
on behalf OF the liberal party has
pledged the parliamentary vote to British
women, and by u vote OF : TO ] the meas
ule passed the house of commons in June.
canada-Flve provinces Within thr last
$50 years nave extended fun suffrage to
women by acts OF tEeir legislatures. and
III September a bill WAS passed by the
dominion parliament giving the parliament
tary vote 10 an woinen who are mothers.
wives. widows, sisters Or daughters of sol
diers. making the parliamentary vole
practically universal, except for thns. Of
alien enemy p.rth. naturalized since i9o2.
Premier Robert Borden has pledged fu,i
suffrage.
MeNico-ln November. 1917. the stat. of
Guanaiuato conferred the privilege Of SUI
frage n municipal matters upon women
of reputable character.
France-A suffrage commission appoint
ed by the hambe of deputies has brought
In i favorable report on woman suffrage
declaring that woman should have the vote
first OF all as an act of delayed justice.
and, secondly, rs a move dictated by pub
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-02-07

On January & Is was briefly reported
from flemish hat pneumonia was givins
concern In Mongolia and northern China.
70 those who recalled the beginning of
tho last epidemic of the plague this bit
Of news had a sinister look. 10 be sure
this is the season when pneumonia is rife.
but II could not he overlooked that it was
in just that region that the plague u
decade ago took its start in q peculiar
form, the symptoms of which we're some
what similar to those OF Pneumonia These
forehoGings. expressed by the Republican
at the time, proved to be only too wei
founded. No details are yet available,
cans. who undertook 10 investigate tho
ogres of the epidemic in Shansi prov
ince We're turned back by a mob. and have
had To appeal to the lesu;ions for aid.
But ii Is admitted that the disease is
plague in its ultav;rulent pneumonia
form. and the diplomatic representations
Of the owe have asked the Chinese
government 10 appoint a military o II
troller to check If possible the spread Of
the epidemic
HOW serious this news is Tor the world
need hardly be pointed out. When the
plague set out on its las. Journey the
highest point of economic power and SAM
tary efficiency ever attained. yet ii was
only by strenuous and sustained interna-
tional efforts that the disease was kept
TN check, and there were years of deep
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-02-07
Not Foe of Education.

From the Fargo. n. D., CoMller-News
There has been no more striking .vi-
aence of the fact that the farmers polit-
teal movement in North Dakota is essen
TALLY q constructive movement in the
pest sense of the word th.n the emphasis
which the farmers legislature and the
members of the farmers administration
have given to imp owing rural education.
What this means to Nor,i; Dakota is
almos: beyond the pGwer Of anyone to
estimate.
1t is safe to say that never in any state
In the union has there been witnessed so
strong an impulse toward the betterment
of the country schools. The plea of State
Superintendent Macdonald for more lib
eral state aid Tor thu country schools
found QUICK and viii response among the
farmer member. OF the legislature. who
caused to be more than doubled the
amount 0: state money goirg to the rural
schools.
Following this. members OF the state
nc minis ration, including the governor.
and members of the state legislature,
joined with the state superintendent in
putting over a great campaign of awaL-
ening the people OF the state to the need
for improving their schools. As a result
everywhere in the state little country
schoolhouses are being standardized: bet
ter tcachels and equipment are being Sc
cured; consolidation and plans for now
buildings are under way: music is being
added to practically all the schools. and
q majority of counties in the state are
now preparing to employ school nurses
to care for the health of the pupils in thu.
rural districts.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-02-07


ing conducted through, the Intelligence de-
partment of the German war office in
hersln. Here we keep our card index
Tiles giving the records OF officers in the
armies of other countries" said his guide.
Captain Wilson named several officers
OF his ran IN America and found. when
the files were consulted. that there were
cards giving minute information abou,
them.
hut OF cou's~. You have no information
about me, venture the American.
Whrreupon the guide produced a card Civ
.DS captain Wilson'S military record.
Turning the card over. the guide said
You live in Utica. N. Y. where you have
a home, about an acre of ground. and on
the grounds are two wells"
My home is in Utica all right said
Captain Wilson. but you are mistaken
about the wells. for I nave only one
When Captain Wilson returned to Amer
lea he carefully vent over his property
IN Utica, and, TO his surprise, found an
other well which he did not know was
there. II had become overgrowu With
weeds and shrubbery.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-02-07
The Real Athlete.
rom the Christian Herald.

An athletic authority says IS is the
maximum axe for a gooi athlete. Per-
haps most people rave noticed that pro-
fessional athletes wear themselves out
young Prize fighters. sprinters and cir
Gus performers quit in early prime. But
are these the real athletes? How much
more true an athlete is the we'll preserved
farmer. who. at 6, can pitch as much hay
as his son or grandson? The best Athle,-
icism is hat which holds through the
ripper years and enables a man to sit on
mas morse az erectiy at N ~ at -. The
kind of athleticism that fail. at 4 is IN.
wrong Kind Of athleticism. II is the tense.
violent. virtuoso sort Of skiii in mere spec.
tacular accomplishment. The proof Of
real athleticism ia health and activity In
Old age. Happy and healthfui old age IL
The final proof ot right living.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-02-07
Where Is Lost S1au Ar1nv?
From tho New York Times.

IOrk tImoS.
many famous exploits in ancient history.
again thrilled the world and served to
put the Russian army of Asia Minor we'll
In the forefront of public interest.
pressing onward from ErZerum and
Trebizond. the Russians took Baiburt,
~Erzingan. Bitlis and Mush. spread over
most of Armenia, and seriously threat
ened the Ottoman empire. In fact. proph-
ccies of dire disaster to Turkey were rife
and the fan of C%onstantinople seemed by
no means a futile dream. especially in
view of the activity of the British Mesopo-
tamian army and the Russians fighting
their way from Persia toward Basdad.
These Russian forces. after hard battles
with the Turks. %debouched from the
Khanikin pass and effected a Junction
with the British before the occupation of
Bagdad by the latter. This junction great
~ raised the hopes of the allies and the
capture Of Bagdad by Sir Stanley Maude
sent them to their zenith. 1t seemed as tf
the Turks. caught between the British
and Russians to the southwark, and the
Russian army advancing from Armenia
to the northcastward. were on the eve
OF being forced into "A pocket and am
INITIATED by the converging forces of their
i opponents.
These high hopes were doomed to dis
appointment. But news Of lesser sue
cess of the Russians working with the
British in Mesopotamia served to keep
Asia. Minor In the public eye. As late as
| April. 1915. the Russians there were press
ing the Turks hard. despite the disin-
tegrating influences already at work In
Russia as a result of the revolution which
had ovcrthrOwn the czar a month before.
On April s the Russians recaptured Khani-
kin and seemed headed toward far greater
achievements
Then. however. u veil fell. There came
no more word OF Russian operations in
Armenia or south OF 1t. Instead Of the
long awaited news of the fall of Mosul.
Of the victorious advance of combined
Russian and British forces toward Con-
stantinople. nothing leaked through to
satisfy an eXpectant world. From the Rus
sian front In Europe came. first. news
of the smashing advance OF Korniloff
against the Teutons last July. followed by
tales OF defeat and disruption and armis-
tice. by disjointed stories of the rise and
fall OF Kerensky and Korniloff and Kale-
dine. of the fantastic acts and speeches OF
public after republic from tho chaos into
which the old Russian empire had fallen.
Yet there was never q syllable about the
lost Russian armies in Asia Minor. Once,
there was = report nb0ut q fight between
Russians and Turks. but the dispatch
telling Of It stated that the Russians In.
volved were forces OF one Of the stat00
that had suddanlys sprung Mp n the CAp-
casus region. It gave no reason for SUI.
posing that their movements Wero In any
way y resumption q the campaign which
had added to military history such bril-
liant fsats q tho stossnane Of 0Fserum
and TreoleonA.
Where IL Russia's lose arnyI~ /,
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-02-07
The Plague in China.
From the sprinafield (Mass.> Republican.

anxiety. 1t cannot be said that the pres
ent conditions are so favorable. Much
more than half the world is at war, and
war and plague have always marched to
gethcr through history. In Siberia and
Russia something very like anarchy ex-
lists if the pest should get into Europe
by that route it is impossible to measure
the disaster that might result. Wherever
the standards OF living have been lowered
and the peoples power of resistance re-
duced, an opening is given to disease
which not even the discipline OF war time
might be able to keep closed.
On the other hand, the meticulous tcgu-
lation of shipping which the war has
prevent the spread of the plague by sea.
Some precautions for that matter are
still retained from the last visitation of
the disease, which has not absolutely died
out in all South American ports. Ships
from such ports are required to mount
rat shields on their cables. and the war
or rats which was wagcd in San Fran
cisco. New Orleans. San Juan and other
cities presumably has left some lasting
effect. But this new outbreak will have
to be watched very carefully. To stamp
it out in China is probably impossible, but
il may he kept from spreading. Such a
plague moves rather slowly and may take
years to run it's course; all countries will
reed to be vigilantly on their guard. and
must not let war lead them to neglect a
peril which negligence might make very
grave indeed.