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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-05-17
Automobile Battery,

| Rave been appointed the FAC.
TORY REPRESENTATIVES, for the
EXIDE STORAGE BATTERY for
automobiles. | have a stock of
these on hand and can fit your car
1t orCe | have a stock of repairs
for EXIDE BATTERIES and can re.
pair your Exide Battery without the
delay usually encountered owing to
sending away for parts. | want
your business and am equipped to
take care of your wants at once
! make NO CHARGE for inspecting
ANY MAKE of battery
R V. Graham,
EXue Service Station for Monroe,
Norion. R Ills and Shelby Counties
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-05-17

Red Cross Workers Solve i'm One Minute the
Mystery of the Stony Hearted
Mrs. Britt.


Farlow back on her chair; with the
other she thrust at her the half fin
ished bandage. Her tone as grim as
her face, she spoke, and again the
sound of it was like hail pattering on
slate. You're not thinking of your
son." she said you're just thinking
of yOurself!'
There was murmur of remOn.
STRANGE. Mrs. Britt heard it, and she
flashed look about her. But when
she spoke again IL was TO Mrs Farlow
she spoke.
Think Of Your Son.
You're not the only mother I'm this
war" she said. "Ef you thought a lit.
tie more about them and a little less
about yourself you'd he doing some
thing. You'd be helping your son. for
one thing!"
"Why, what do you mean?" gasped
Mrs. FarIow
Mrs. Britt smiled another adamant
icy smile.
"Your son wouldn't die for want Of
care. Any one of those bandages I've
seen you ruin might save his life. Any
one of them might save the life of
some other mothers son!"
Mrs. FarlOw shrank as if she had
been struck She'd never thought of IL
that way before.
The silence. the grim reserve, which
had cloaked Mrs. Britt seemed for a
moment to quit her II have no son
she said. her ninty voice hitting ont the
words II had one. bur he died AT
Guantanamo. II was in the Spanish
war" snapped Mrs Britt. land there
were no handageS-- nothing That's
why he died. That's why I'm here
now It's to keep other wonIen--moth.
ers--from becoming the sort of woman
! am" harsh. brittle laugh escaped
her "Oh. | know what YOU think of
me. I've heard what you said Well"
said Mrs Britt, my son wouldn't have
died like that maybe if | hadn't sat
around smiling and snuf1ling. never
doing thing"
Then, her lips drawn into a bony
smile. she glanced about her once
more and stalked back TO her place in
tne corner
That night Mrs Farlow rose from
her place AT the handage table and
sought the table al the back. For the
first time that day Mrs. Farlow had
managed TO create half q dozen band.
ages, none of which had to be thrown
away. Timidly she held out a hand to
the drab, dingy figure in the corner
"I--i've done better today" she said
timidly.
Mrs. Britt looked up al her Out of
the corner Of one CLASSY eye something
weIled, then fell, running slowly down
her cheek.
He was only twenty. He was all !
had" said Mrs Britt.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-05-17

A diamond is not the hardest thing
in the world. A diamond will cut
glass and bore through case hardened
tempered chrome steel, but glass and
steel--the diamond itself too-are soft
compared to some things The hardest
thing in the world is hard woman.
Mrs Britt was such woman.
| have seen hard women in my time
but never one who was harder She
smiled seldom, and when she smiled 1t
was like the glitter of ice She spoke
infrcQuently, and when she spoke her
speech was the tinkle of hail on slate
roofing. She did not look as if she had
ever wept in her life.
Every morning Mrs. Britt appeared
at the Red Cross auxiliary in upper
Broadway. She was the first to arrive
in the morning, the last to leave at
night. No one knew much about her,
though. She was not the sort that
make condolences. But that she was a
worker-a hard worker-no one would
dispute. Efficiency, as you'd suppose,
was trait of Mrs. Britt's
Are Efficient Women Hard2
Efficiency-dreadfu word that How
often hard women are efficient! How
often efficient woman are hard She
was both, Mrs. Britt. The moment she
came in at the door she had her hat
and jacket off. The next instant she
was at her place, her mouth set. grim,
austere and hard-hard at work. Prob
ably she did her work only from sense
of duty. Hard women always profess
that trait. Duty duty But, then,
few women are as hard as Mrs. Britt.
In contrast to her was Mrs. FarlOw.
She was soft and wOmanly and gentle
the exact opposite. She was not
very efficient, of course, though she
tried. Day after day Mrs. Farlow sat
at the work table. her mouth culver
ing, smiling wistfully, the tears starting
in her eyes. The bandages that came
from her were often sOiled and rum
pied, poorly sewn, too. by her poor lit,
tie trembling fingers. It was O Won
der she could even see to sew at all
Again and again what she turned in
had to be thrown away.
But no one reprimanded her. No one
even let fall hint that she was more
of burden than help The hearts
of all those women ached with woman
ly pity for the poor. stricken mother.
Once in awhile, though, in her corner
at the back of the room Mrs Britt
would turn around and throw glance
at her. The glance was as hard as
rOcks-harder. in fact.
Mrs. Farlow had son in the Rain.
bow division. The son was the oldest
Of her four children, and until he went
away the LITTLE mother had been the
hNppiest woman in the world. Now any
day he might be ordered off to France.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-05-17

in,tiuctively.
The choice of France has made
her forever the crAtiFor Of the hon
OrAh!e world. America is today
paying France in the only coin by
which the debt may be discharged
mingiing the blood of orr own val
or0uS sons with the blood of France
When the war is ended ami the
problem of rehabilitation confront>
us. we shall have abundant 0ppor
tunlty n show our appreciation To
France in so called practical way.
We shall not fail There will be n
SUGGESTION of philanthropy in the
relation 1t will be a noble partner
snip, creditahle to both.
TO France, America viii lend
without limit aud wait without
end-Daily Oiiahpnan.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-05-17
Tariff, OF Ancient Vintage.

An exchange in advocating the
piratical doctrine of protective
tariff gives President Wilson and
the present National Congress
lot OF UNDERSIGNED abuse and in
dulRes in lot of gush inspired by
set of rich manufacturers and
dealers who grew fat off a protec-
tive tariff This exchange closes
Its insOlent and unpatriotic remarks
with this question when this war
is over and these millions of soldiers
get back into the factories and
mills what will be the result?" OF
course the writer answers his own
question with a dismal picture
which he assumes to be all caused
by free trade. We would inform
this hireling that when "Sammie
comes marching home" he will en-
ter upon his duties in the factories
and mills and no fat and favored
trust shall dare to import ship
loads of foreigners to take his place
as is possible and was actually done
under a high protective tariff. That
dream of the ancient pirate and
freebooter known as a protective
tariff has been exploded and rela-
gated 70 the junk pile of ignorance
and falIacies of by-gone days. Yes,
when our brave boys come home
flushed with the pride of victory of
truth, justice and democracy over
injustice and tyranny, there viii be
no place for a tariffJcracy protected
by law They will not be compelled
to compete with cheap foreign labor
importet to take their places The
days of legal piracy will be nlm-
bered
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-05-17
BY MAMMALIAN FOSTER
OF the Vigilantes.

His picture was In the locket she
wore. Every half hour she would stop
her work to look at 1t. Sometimes, her
face wistful, she would show It to the
other workers, voicing the anguish that
with every waking breath she drew
twanged holloway in her mothers heart
One afternoon Mrs. Farlow's oldest
daughter came hurrying in. Her face
was white. She had just learned that
the Rainbow division had been ordered
overseas.
Mrs. Farlow rose, her face tragic.
One glance she gave about her. then
she collapsed, sinking to the floor. In
her fall she overturned huge pile of
antiseptic gauze just torn into squares
for Triangulars No. 10.
The room instantly was in confu.
sion. Instantly every one sprang to
the mothers aid-that is, every one
but Mrs. Britt. She rose and rescued
the bandages under foot. Then, her
face hard as nails, grimly Mrs. Britt
went back to her work. When Mrs.
FarlOw, still stricken, was led away to
her car outside the drab figure in the
corner was plugging away as mechan-
ically and methOdically as ever. The
one glance she threw over her Shout.
der at the weeping woman was almost
contemptuous
A hard woman, Mrs. Britt; heart
less one, too, it was agreed.
For days nothing was seen at the
auxiliary of Mrs. FarlOw. 1t was I'M
derstOOd that in her grief and appre-
hensiOn she was i'll in bed Then one
afternoon. paIIid and Quiverng, she
came in at the door She smiled visit
fully when the others gathered about
her. LET me work." she appealed
plaintively. "Work may help me not
to think"
Her Bandages Worthless.
She took bandage and tried to
sew. She made poor work of it, how.
ever. Then her head sank on her
breast and the bandage slipped from
her hands 81 can't-oh, ] can'tw she
wept.
Once more she was led away.
The same thing happened three or
four days later. A week later the
mother wandered in again BY now
the first of the troops were in the
trenches. and her pale, transparent
face was like wraith's. She took
bandage she tried to sew, and for
third time Mrs. Farlow gave in.
"Oh, my boy, my boy!" she walled.
The next instant face was thrust
into hers. The face was Mrs. BIRTHS,
and the hard, bony visage was CULVER
ing with Ill concealed anger and con-
tempt.
"Sit down! Stop itr' said Mrs
Britt. With one hand she thrust Mrs.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-05-17

That premiums aSardyd at the
Missouri State Fair be paid in
thrift stamps and War Saving Ger
titicates is the timely aua patriotic
suggestion of Gov. Gardner. The
stamps are as good as cash and the
certificates bear interest aud can be
in current use in commercial Trans
actions.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-05-17

The Kansas City Bar Association
is planning to have its members
spend their vacations on farms and
help to increase food production.
1t is possible that quite number
of them may be more active 10 in.
creasine the food consumption on
the farms.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-05-17

Nine big insurance companies, it
is said have withdrawn lrom KlrXS-
vile on account of the !arae number
of fires in that city. Well the folks
who escape damage by fire will
save quite a lot of haId cash, but it
is going to be hard on those who
are burned out.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-05-17

Uncle Sam is going to send two
million men to Europe this year
They are moving rapidly now from
every cantOnment Soon your boy
and our boy will be over there
fighting the most cruel deSpot and
tyrant the world has ever known.
Behind these brave boys we must
stand in solid phalanx, backing them
up to the limit ofour power Smash
any man or organization that refuses
to fight at home that the boys may
make the best fight abroad. We no
longer are getting into the war
we are in it, Let every soul do its
duty.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-05-17

Looked upon from any angle, Hol-
lands position is not an enviable
one When the Dutch smile dr the
kaiser the allies threaten To srarve
them, and they flirt with the allies
the kaiser threatens 70 turn his
long-range guns in that direction
and pump their systemS full Of
railroad iron.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-05-17

Springfeld's chief al puiice has
issued a peremptory order to the
effect that the promi>cuuus kissing
of the soldiers at the Springfield
station must stop. Wha, right has
a chief of police To uHerfere with
soldiers rationSS
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-05-17

II may save you considerable
worry later if you will lay in your
winter coal Now when you Can get
it. The Government is handing
out this advice.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-05-17

Local papers, which used to give
page write.ups to the closing cxer-
cises of local schools, now devote
that valuable space to the regular
run of news. This Is not because
they have lost interest in tn, young
people but because the publicity
work is now done by Chicago, New
York and Philadelphia firms from
which graduates buy their COM
mencement invitations. If we we're
the faculty or the board we would
eliminate graduating exercises al
together, thus saving much money
and bardships for poor parents who
have to put up for a lot OF expen-
Ave things a graduate thinks he
must buy on such occasions, and
also try to discourage a school mail
order business. the tendency Of
which is to teach disloyalty To nome
institutions and false ideas of re-
spectabllity Using printed matter
from home concern which helps
support a home school does not
make a pupil seem half as cheap
and common as sticklers for engrav-
ed stuff often imagine Instead, it
is an evidence of commju sense
and thrift Paris Appeal.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-05-17

The President might get larger
response to his request that the Boy
Scouts help the Government in its
search for black walnut trees if he
had waited unul the nuts are ripe.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-05-17
The Aircraft Issue

Apart from the delays in ship
building, those in the completion
of aircraft in considerable numbers
have provoked the most sweeping
criticism. Perhaps the greatest
mistake in the aircraft situation was
the undue optimism that had been
created by promises that could not
be fulfilled The moment that
success on large scale is obtained
as it certainly will be-. the simple
truth will accord much credit to
men who are now blamed for failure
But for their great conceptions and
bold initiative, the aviation program
would not have come up at the
time ii was presented to Congress
and unanimously accepted. I'm.
mense undertakings have been
carried a long way The criticism
begins to be harshest at the very
time when the outlook for results
becomes most promising and the
difficulties are beingovercome. The
training of aviators in this country
will 90 forward on an increasing
scale, and we shall doubtless do
more than heretofore to aid in the
production of battle.planes in en-
iareed French and British factories.
Later on, we shall have many of the
bombing planes to send abroad as
ship space becomes available.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-05-17

If the German losses in the battle
of Flanders are as small as some of
the reports make them, then the
machine guns, the repeating rifles
and all the other engines of destruc.
ton used in modern warfare are
not as deadly as the old muzzle-
leaders used in the civil war.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-05-17

We do the better kind of cleaning
and pressing. Call US up. Bell
phone Al. L, Lane, Tailor.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-05-17

Sunday papers nov sell at seven
cents each, and YET nobody on earth
ever did or ever will read all of the
contents of a Sunday paper, incIud-
Ing the supplements.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-05-17

Canada wants to abolish titles
but titles vii! amount to even less
in the tuure than they have in the
pasr. The pInudp,t tile Of the fut
ure is going t. br the light 70 wear
little button that signifies that its
wearer at one line or Hn0tn, I
fought for this country.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-18

the first bulletin came in Every Of.
ficial accepted it as proof that the long
days of purely defensive operations are
ended and that General Foch. largely
because Of the million American sol
diers that have been rushed overseas
now is able to use aggressive tactics
American forces probably are en-.
gagged to some extent in the counter
blow acting now on the right flank OF
the forward movement as they pre-
viously held fast on the left flank in
the defense in the German drive which
opened last Monday. The American
positions as last known definitely, ex-
tend to the north and west of Belleau,
which is given as the southern ex-
tremity OF the French counter stroke.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-18
FOCH WINS 4 MILES
ON MOST OF SWEEP

LONDON, July 18-Reports received in London showed
the situation to all along the line of the attack begun
by the French this morning to be excellent The attack the
biggest offensive move made this year by the allies
The French have gained from two to four miles every
where on the twenty front of their offensive today
between the Ane and the Marn according reports
ing London this afternoon.
Several Thousand Prisoners
The French have captured thousand prisoners and
about twenty guns
Ihe French have reached point menacing the inn
porant German railway cenrs which feed the entire front
west OF Rheims The French artillery within easy she'll
ing distance OF these railways and should be able make life
miserable for a large section of the German army.
Huns Taken by Surprise.
The French move this morning appeared have
surprise to the Germans The which this surprise
was accomplished best be judged from the map which
shows great of forest covering ground behind the
French lines Under of these forests Foh has
been preparin gfor some time for the move.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-18
Freight Rate Reform
Is Promised Owen

There is absolutely no question about
Oklahoma having the same freigh,
rates as Texas, Kansas and Arkansas
IS the promise made Senator Robert l.
Owen, director of traffic. accord
ing to letter received today from
Senator Owen by w. V. Hardie, man
ager of the traffic association here
Upon calling again to ascertain the
cause of the delay, Senator Owen
stated that Mr.. Chambers, the director
had gone to California, but that the
matter was being handled by w. Hast
ing, who assured him that everything
possible was being done to conclude
the plans.
The traffic association today COM
pleted a long series of reports which
will be sent to Washington in an effort
TO get the matter adjusted at once, says
HArdiA. ----'-------------
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-18
BY Walter M. Harrison.

General Foch ha, developed his
first big counter surprise. The
front between the arrows on the
map is twenty-five miles. The sue
cess was complete along the whole
line. Americans and French are
advancing four and five miles be-
yond their old lines as this is
written.
The railroad which feeds Ger
man reserves from the west into the
big Marne salient already has been
crossed. The Germans in the Marine
wedge are in dire peril. The whole
German offensive on both sides Of
Reims must be stopped Immediately
TO meet the menace to the west,
where our boys and our allies soon
cause a German retreat clear to
their positions of May on the Aisne
unless Foch is stopped Immediately.
Until the movement OF reserves
for the new stroke began, Ameri-
cans held only the sector around
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-18

The towns OF Torcy and Givry and
the Givry wood were taken by the
Americans In their advance.
The final objectives In the Givry and
Torcy sector were reached In about two
hours Of hard fighting.
The troops on this part OF the front
bid equally a. well ss those on the front
farther north, taking quantities Of mate
rial and prisoners who struggled back.
Hastily organized counter attacks
against the Americans developed here
and there, but all were broken up and
our troops continued TO advance.
In one town along the southern
part of the front under attack, the
Frsneo-Ameriesn forces captured
eighteen guns.
Probably the most stubborn resist
Ance to the allied advance developed in
the region west OF Chaubun. which Is
four and a half miles southwest of
SCISSORS. The Americans and French
fighting side by side, however, refused
TO be checked. The American machine
guns moved the enemy down and then
our troops went on.
The fighting still continued in this
region this afternoon and seems likely
to become heavier when the German
reserves arrive.
In the region OF Soissons, where the
attack was especially successful, the
Americans carried everything before
them by storm Early this afternoon
ohay had passed their final known OBJ
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-18

This is the moment Foeh has been
looking for" said a military authority
here today, "and if all goes well, his
splendidly executed counter attack
should bring the whole German often
sive on the Rheims sector to a halt i'm
mediately."
All the way from Belleau to Aisne,
the French attack was launched at day
break today. II was what the British
call q full dress show" with every
department, every weapon available in
play, including the French mosquito
tanks. These tanks did excellent work
at some OF the most difficult poitns.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-18

the tip Of the Marne wedge To-
day they are all along the line from
Scissors to the Marne, seemingly
participating in a bigger way than
our troops on the Marine in the first
half OF the present week.
Undoubtedly most OF the Ameri-
can troops available for action,
roughly 10000, are in the combat
rome and destined to participate in
what bids fair to be terrific de-
feat for the Hun on a scale that
will make future grand attacks by
him for the balance of 1918 out of
the question.
General Foch has struck where
his success will wipe out the curving
line that was reaching out for a
grand battle for Paris.
The counter stroke is the best evil
dence that the preponderance of
numbers is no longer with the enc
my We are abreast OF him in men
today and are striking out for
victory.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-18
French Retake Montvoisin, on Marne;
Deepest Hun Penetration Is 6 Miles

LONDON, July l8-News received
in London indicates that the attack
started by the French this morning on
the front from Chateau Thierry and
Soissons is on a considerable scale
The attack was believed to be making
good progress.
Advices this afternoon stated that
the Germans had made no further at
tacks east Of Rheims and that the
French at various points on the front
had regained ground.
The French, the reports state,
have recsptured Montvoisin, south
OF the Name. at the point whore the
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-18

Germans had advanced farthest to-
ward Epernsy and Chen-la-Reins
to the west and took a. well the
heights west Of those villages over
looking the Marne.
The Germans are reported 10 have
made slight progress north Of ST Agnzn
IN the district 10 the southwest of
Dormans below the Msrne. but fheis
progress here has been slow. -
The maximum penstrstios u ~
French lines since July IS h sls
miles. according TO the Istssl ~
ports.
In fighting north Of ths No. =
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-18
Neglect Charged
By u. S. to Pilot
Of River Steamer

WASHINGTON, July ls-"Un-
skilful navigation and neglect" arc
charged against the captain and piIo,
Of the steamer Columbia In a prelimin-
airy report to Secretary Redfield by the
local inspectors on the Illinois river
disaster which caused the loss Of nine,
ty-two hvea
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-18
Capital Thrilled
By First News

WASHINGTON, July l8-Word that
the French were striking the Germans
on a twenty-five mile front below the
Aisne. sent a wave Of enehusiasm
through the war department today when