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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1918-03-15
HIGHWAY ASSOCIATION
OUTLINES CONSTITUTION
The Name Contest Closes April i
$40 To The Winner.

Messrs. w. T. Fenton, of Fentoni L.
C. Shepard, of Oakdale; William Polk
of Alexandria, and Herbert BayllSS OF
Lake Charles, constituting the eXecu'
tive committee OF the Lake Charles
Alexandria Highway Association, met
in Lake Charles Monday afternoon TO
formulate constitution and bylaws
for the association.
At the conference held recently IN
Oakdale it was decided to offer a prize
of $40 to the school pupil furnishing
the most suitable name for the pro-
posed highway. All answers in TINS
contest must be in by April l.
Answers should be mailed to Coleman
Lindsey, secretary OF the Oakdale
Chamber of Commerce, Oakdale, La.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1918-03-15

THERE'S no safer or finer investment
nthe world than War Savings Certifi.
ais Buy them now regularly while
you can, for you can not expect to
hsO good a bargain offered always,
there, Save, Lend and Hasten Victory.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1918-03-15

Ibe purpose of the War Savings
Committee is to create an yof savers
Vhowill, by saving, release labor and
patsrals for the use of the govern
psnt in the war, and who will lend
hsir savings to the government to
Dtosecute the war.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1918-03-15
The Emporium
Weekly Budget
Will r. Friday March Is 1918 Number 6
Volume /.

VolumoI Welsh La, Friday March Is, 1913 NuhlOer
Just plain folks and trying to do wel-gettng pleasure
out of attending to our business and doing what good
we can for Others That cement of kind feeling thaV
is gradually coming from our great melting pot
The more good common sense you put IN your work.
the closer to earth with your fellow men, the better
We are here to serve. five can figure with you on a
, ,oouor ~ q SET of harness-we have the time and
are anxious for a part of your business
We have plenty of rope and line OF hardware you
are familiar with.
Since the city election one of our customers bought
several feet of Plymouth rope fifty cents worth OF nails
wash tub one bushe of good seed corn-got middle
bstar for Blue Blount pillow, and said our store looked
better every time he came in We saved him some money
and apprecated his tradeand the same applies to YOU
THE E1pORlUn Opposite the Depot
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1918-03-15
600 90 GO Q @ . % 900 &C
A TIE n ITO n .

0 Divine services in the PrPSb''
0 terrain church on Sunday, March
0 nat 7:3O p. m. All members ale
0 requested to be present.
0 The public are cordially invited
0 Preaching by Rev. J.F. Mckenzie.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1918-03-15

SEEDS! SEEDS! SEEDS! We
have sold you seeds since 1903.
That is something to go by when
planting your spring garden.
Kimball's. mchlIl
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1918-03-15

A few Duroc-Jersey pigs left at
$3.50 each, if taken at once. b.
r, and A. R. Kimball. mchltf
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1918-03-15

Try a bottle of Swine Elixir
it may save your pen of hogs.
At Kimball's. mchltf
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1918-03-15
sesesesssses ssssssssssss
LET HIM LIVE.

AS long as flowers their perfume give
So long I'd let the Kaiser live
Live and live for million years,
With nothing to drink but Belgian tears,
With nothing to quench his awful thirst
But the sailed brine of a ScotChmanS curse.
would let him live a dinner each day
Served from silver golden tray
Served with things both dainty and sweet
Served with everything but things to eat
And I'd make him bed of Siken sheen
With costly linens to lie between
With covers of down and tetS of lace,
And snowy pillows piled in place;
Yet when to this comfort he would yield
1t should stink with rot of the battle field
And blood and bones and brains of men
Should cover him, smother him-and then
His pillows should cling with the rotton cloy-
Cloy from the grave of soldier boy,
And as long as Gods stars their vigil keep
And while the waves their white sands sweep,
He should never, never, never sleep.
And through all the days and through all the years
There should be anthem in his ears,
Ringing and singing and never done
From the edge of light to the set OF sun
Moaning and moaning and moaning wild
A ravaged French girls fatherleSS child
And would build him castle by the sea
AS lovely castle could be;
Then I'd show him ship from oyer the sea
las fine ship as ever could be
Laden with water, cold and sweet
Laden with everything good to eat;
Yet scarce would she touch the Slvered sands
Scarce could he reach out eager hands
Than hot and helng molten she'll
Should change his heaven into hell,
And though he'd watch on the wave swept shore
Our Lusitiana would rise no more.
In "No-ManS Land" where the Irish fell,
I'd start the Kaiser private hell;
I'd lab him. stab him. give him gas;
In every wound I'd pour ground glass
I'd march him out where the brave boys died,
Out past the lads he's crucifed.
In the fearful gloom OF his living tomb
There is one thing I'd do before was through
I'd make him sing in stirring manner =.
The wonderful words of THE Star Spangled Banner
Wanna mburgh
NotoThe above verse originally appeared the November
b Partner So many requests have been received TO
sion TO reproduce that Mr. Ambugh has decided to waV
,obt ANYONE anywhere may this verse in way. Al
as been read or recited almost every American CITY,
~AA> ~%~~~~
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1918-03-15

NoteThe above originally appeared the November issue
tho "sent Partner requests have been received for
mission TO reproduce has decided waive the
conrqb Anyone this verse any way Already
has heen read or recited almost American city
ssesssSSSSSS SSSS SSSSSSSS
New-York tribune., 1918-09-01
What Will Happen in Britain s Fall Election?

that it would terminate his astonishing
career. He might throw himself frankly
into the hands of Labor and the more CON
structive Liberalism, and, in any case the
very fact that he had quarrclled with "Thc
Times" and "The Daily Mall would lead
other journals to think more kindly of him.
The situation to-day is that Mr.. AsQuith.
whether by choice or by necessity declines
resolutely to bid against Mr.. Lloyd George.
whether in Parliament or in the constitu-
encies. Some people declare that Mr..
Asquith will never again be Prime Minis
ter That was said of Mr. Gladstone in
1874, yet he was called back to power in
1880, and again in 1885, and again in 1894.
Mr.. Asquith is simply waiting and seeing.
He has never been in hurry. No one
knows better than Mr.. Lloyd George that,
if he made serious mistake, there is the
other man in reserve
New-York tribune., 1918-09-01

against men who have made great sacri-
fees during the war may provoke a reac-
ton. For this reason | rejoiS, that sug-
sestion first made in The Tribune that Mr.
Gompers should go to England has now
taken effect Every one will be delighted
to see Mr. Gompers. He will put the
American viewpoint and he will learn at
first hand what a statesman like Mr. Hen
derson really thinks. Mr. Henderson has
lost son in the and he ought not to
be treated with injustice. My own infor-
nation contradicts point blank the theory
that he is defeatst | may be wrong
though | do not think so-and nothing
could be less diplomatic than to drive Mr..
henderson into the arms of those who are
really pacihsts. Frankly. doubt whether
his scheme for an,international conference.
either in Switzerland or elsewhere, would
serve any useful purpose No statesman
has a more international mind than Presi-
dent Wilson, and, if he is unable to secure
clean peace without further and decisive
hghting, the workers may take it that
neither Mr. Henderson nor any one else is
hkely to succeed. But this is a very diff
ferent thing from saying that Mr.. Hcnder-
son and the great mass of trade unionists
who look up to him have any sympathy
with the Kaiser or would accept the Kai-
Ser'S terms
New-York tribune., 1918-09-01
Nov What About
l Y Labor?

There remains the question Of labor in
the forthcoming election. This party has
thrown of the truce, which means that
Labor seats can be attacked by Liberals or
Conservatives and that Liberal and Con-
servativc seats can be attacked by Labor
men 1t was said some time ago that there
would be four hundred Labor candidates,
which would have meant that Labor in
tended to invade purely agricultural con-
stituenccs. Mr.. Spargo tells US that the
latest estimate Of canddaturcs is two hun
dred, and he refers to the appeal for
American money which Mr. Sidney Webb
made some time ago in the columns of
"Thc New Republic" When that letter ap-
pcared | wrote in The Tribune my own
sense of its improprcty, and | agree with
Mr. Spargo that If rs per cent of the Labor
candidates are like Mr.. Ramsey Macdonald
and Mr.. Snowden, paciists, they ought to
be defeated, and are likely to be. In Amer
workingmen have been seriously obscured
by the minority who oppose the war. Tho
only point in Mr.. Spargos statement on
which | am not convinced is whether he
has confused paciism and defeatism, on
the one hand, with quite different thing
namely, the desire for international de-
mocracy, which is the real basis of a
League of Peace According to the latest
statistics, | find that of ITO workers in
Britain 1863 are actually at their jobs. This
does not look like wavering on the war,
and am, frankly, a little amused at the
nervousness of some Americans, and espe-
o,1l, 1ol; ,x,L1 A.
lest England should dissolve into Bolshe-
vsm
If Labor is really tainted with pacifsm
it will have little chance at the polls But,
on the other hand. unreasoning suspicion
New-York tribune., 1918-09-01
Looks as Though Lloyd
1 George Could Hold His Own

In the forthcoming election, therefore,
official Liberals and official Conservatives
will maintain their truce and refrain from
trying to capture each others seats. In the
case of Liberals like Mr.. Ponsonby, of
Stirling Burghs, or Mr.. Trevelyan who
have opposed the war, a severe contest is
likely unless these members retire But
me seats will still be regarded as Liberal
and War candidates belonging to that
party will be put up. With Liberals and
Conservatives thus sharing the constituent
cies and working together in a kind of
coalition, it would look as if Mr. Lloyd
Georges fortress were impregnable against
onslaughts frtm the outside. | believe this
10 be the case. His fall, if it ever comes.
will be due, like that of Mr.. Asquith, to a
revolution within the government The
danger of personal rule is always such
palace conspiracy. 1t is idle to pretend
that Mr.. Lloyd George is loved bv the
Cecils and the Curzons who are now work
ing with him. They cannot get on without
his demonic energy as an organizer of vic
tory. Bat they know that if he under
takes reconstruction after the war he will
New-York tribune., 1918-09-01

with the French half way across the
Lassigny Hills and the road functions
of Roye and Chaulnes under the Allied
fire. Together the enemy brought in
more than 1870 divisions from the re-
serves, and thus there were involved
more than forty out of the sixty German
divisions which on July l8 had been
left fresh for action
We had now arrived at August 19,
exactly one month after the recovery
of the initiative and the turning of the
tide by the Franco American surprise
on July IS. The action slackened;
there was no considerable advance any
where between the Disc and the Somme
for day or two. The western half of
the Lassigny Hills had been occupied
but the eastern half still stood firm and
New-York tribune., 1918-09-01
n Surprise Attack, But No
\ Attempt to Break Through

This second step was initiated on Au-
gust 8. 1t took the form Of attacking
the western or left side of the Amiens
salient. The British fourth army, under
General Rawlinson, and the left of the
French first army attacked upon a front
of less than twenty miles, with, let us
say, division or less to mile. AS in
the case of the attack on July 1S, there
was an immediate initial surprise and
advance, and the capture of many thou
sands of prisoners and hundreds of guns.
But there was no attempt to break
through, either by the concentration of
great masses or by simultaneous at
tack upon great length of front.
On the contrary, the whole thing was
deliberately restricted; it was designed
New-York tribune., 1918-09-01

once more you began to get, though now
less confidently, the tone have referred
to in German dispatches and in the Ger
man press-once again with an echo of
it even on the Allied side among the
civilian population. There had been no
break through. The excitement of the
first days of the second battle had died.
The movement on the map appeared
significant, ETC., ETC.
Then came the third blow 1t was
struck on August 18, in the sector be-
tween scissors and the Disc, against
front of about twenty miles, with force
strictly limited to the requirements of
the plan laid down. For this local move
ment General Mangin, with the tenth
French army, made two comparatively
small surprise attacks, took not much
New-York tribune., 1918-09-01
he Enemy Front Had
4 Been Strengthened Out

Inc action went on for week. until
Hill 205 was taken; it Continued another
1'Ve or SIN days in the enemy's precipi-
tate retirement upon the Vesle Heights
When these heights were reached the
sahent had been completely reduced. tho
enemy front had been Strengthened out
and the battle was virtually at an end.
During the progress of it something like
twenty fresh divisions had pcen dragged
IN to save the enemy from disaster, out
OF reserve of, say, sixty divisions.
Then came the lull which was COM
paratively free from action, or at any
rate with actions only on a small scale
along the Vesle River, though they in
cluded the occupation of the city of
scissors itself. That was the situation
at the beginning of August The enemy
press and even the enemy communicates
Tor that matter began to breathe freely
again, and they put their own construc-
ton on the affair. They told us that
the Allies tried to break through, and
failed; that "the retreat had been con-
Quoted according to plan," and with
great success; and that Foch had lost
his chance
Hardly was this completely false view
digested by the German public, and,
am sorry to say, propagated to some
extent among the Allied civilians, when
we got the second step. The second
step was exactly like the first. No very
large forces were employed; there was
an element of surprise and there were
progressive additions to the battlefront
as fighting developed; the whole action
was limited in design, economical and
steady.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-01

not spare property and that he may be par
tcularly severe on landlords. Here lies
the real insecurity of Mr.. Lloyd Georges
ultimate position. The crisis will not
come at once. During the war he is GER
tam Of popular support. 1t is with peace
that he will have to face the cross currents.
or these cross-currcnts will only men
tion one Up to the present Great Britain
has been Free Trade country. Since 1906
three elections have been fought. and in
each case Tariff Reform has been defeated.
conservative pressure now assals the
Cabinet with view to securing a protcc-
tive system of customs duties which would
allow Of a preference being granted to our
oversee domipions. Mr.. Hughes. Of Aus
tralia, is making strong speeches in some
Of which he alleges that Free Traders are
all ro-Gcrmans. This is perhaps little
hard on Vlscount Grey and the government
which. in August, 1alA, flung the British
Empire regardless of consequences into
the breach against the Kaiser. This CON
troversy is Of vital interest to Americans,
because the suggested preference in favor
Of our dominions would be obviously an
economic barrier against America and our
ftIllcS. ITcSiueHt w llSOH mas lnulCated his
desire that such economic barriers shall be
reduced far possible, and my own be-
lief is that no British Parliament will ever
be persuaded to sacrifice the great ideal of
a League of Nations to selfish policy of
trying TO exclude from our markets those
who have been our comrades in arms
The very fact that materials will
have to be apportioned between the free
peoples means surely that no single Ally
will be able to erect a stone wall against
. the others Yet Mr.. Hughes is undoubt-
cdly exploiting a real sentiment. 1t is not
against the United States and France that
Great Britain would have her trade pro-
tected. The fear is Germany The sug-
gestcd preference will prove to be nothing
except our participation in any general
boycott of Germany which may be approved
by the United States and the Allies. At
the same time Americans will do we'll not
to deprecate the value Of Liberalism and
Labor in Britain, which are working
New-York tribune., 1918-09-01
p estricted Assaults,
~ Increasing Each Day

With the dawn of August "a the
fourth step in the great action was
begun. This blow was delivered north
OF Albert, between that town and Arras.
by the British, and is still proceeding.
1t has gone on from step to step. lust
as the others have, and the front has
been widened both to the north and
south. This was not one great attack
exercising an immense pressure at great
expense and-in case of failure-at the
price of exhaustion. But it was like a.,
the est-deiberately restricted as
saults, increasing each day.
On the first day, August 21, the at
tack was upon a front of no more than
ten miles, beginning in the early morn
ing with front of seven and adding.
an hour or two afterward, a further
front of three miles. 1t advanced to-
ward Bapaume, but with limited OBJ
Jectives, which it reached at noon of
the first day, taking only some 5000
prisoners, and suffering itself only ex-
tremely light casualties Indeed, the
total casualties are little more than the
number of prisoners captured.
On the second day, August %, the
developments were exactly as they had
been in the other battles There was
further extension of the front, and con-
sequently there was further disorgan-
zation of the enemy's defenses and fur
ther interference with any attempt on
his part at a concentration. The British
extended their front right down past
Albert, which town they recovered, and
they exercised pressure right up to the
Somme, so that by Thursday night the
whole line was in action and there was
no quiet sector within three miles Of
Arras right away down to Rheims.
All day Friday, August %, the move
ment continued, and by Saturday the
English on the north were at Croisilles.
their line passing through St. Leger, and
they were outside Bapaume; they had
taken Bray on the Somme, they had
collected $4,000 prisoners since the be-.
ginning of the operation, and the total
line now engaged had been increased
to not far short of $50 miles.
That is the plan the successive full
filment of which is proceeding before
our eyes. 1t isn't even an attempt at q
decision; it is preparation, and prepa.
ration not one step of which has gone
wrong during all the six weeks through
which 1t has continued virtually with.
out interruption
New-York tribune., 1918-09-01
lie Had to Draw Constantly
l l On I lis Reserves

At this stage, on the night of August
20, after General Mangin's three days
movement, there had been captured since
the Allied recovery of the initiative just
under 100000 prisoners and just under
1000 guns. In the meanwhile, the front
which was put into movement-that is.
the front along which the enemy was
kept on the jump, and into which he
was compelled to draw into one section
a:ter another his reserves until those
were nearly exhausted-had been grad
ually extended all the way from little
south of Albert to the neighborhood of
Rheims, distance of 18O to 200 kilo-
New-York tribune., 1918-09-01
Dreventing an Orderly
i German Retirement

The essential character of the Allied
reply to this plan has been to keep THEN
attacks not only perpetually alive, but
also continually extending as the Ameri-
can recruiting pours in, and preventing
the orderly retirement of the Germans
from being accomplished.
What is going on is not any attempt to
break through the German line-all talk
Of that sort at this stage is nonsense, and
| shall show in a moment why it is nom
sense. The efforts are confined for the
moment to compelling the enemy to put
in his reserves continually In order to
save himself from disaster and to force
him to retire, not in his way, but ours.
suffering perpetual loss in men and ma
terial and a perpetual weakening in or
ganization. The process will continue
for just so long as the Allied Higher
Command chooses, and it will be pro-
longed up to the moment when the main
blow can be struck. What that moment
will be, and where the blow will fall, no
one outside the Higher Command itself
even to speculate upon it.
The enemy himself knows least of all.
All he knows is that unless he can fore
stall US and strike himself the blow will
fall with decisive effect, for the Allies,
his opponents, are daily growing in pow
er, are possessed of the initiative and are
now moulding the battle in their own
form.
In the meanwhile the most illuminat-
ing commentary in a long while on the
course of affairs is the series of enemy
communicates. 1t is, perhaps, to the in
terest of the German government politi-
cally, and perhaps to some extent it helps
the morale of it's armies also, to repre-
sent all successive movements of the
Allied armies as so many attempts to
break the line and so many failures in
that attempt
New-York tribune., 1918-09-01
Decent Movements Give the
~ Lie to Enemy Reports

Now, to show how completely false this
view is, let us take the recent movements
one by one and see how little they con-
form to any such plan and how exactly
'ney conform to the plan have just de-
scribed.
First, you have the surprise of the
counter offensive of July 1s. This was
struck between Chateau Thierry and
oolssons, on a front of about twenty
miles. 1t was struck on only one side of
'he salient, and in a place where there
could be no question of rupture, because
1he strongest position on the whole Ger
man front lay in the enemy's hands i'm
Medlately ahead the Chemin I des
pames. 1t was struck with force of
p1ooaDly no more than twenty divisions,
4 SO many, and it proceeded regularly
from stage to stage, in the fashion de-
manded for the reduction of a salient
ohiy' for dragging as many of the enemy
reserves as possible, and for preventing
Jun from concentrating elsewhere, ana
1or preserving the initiative.
mere was no massed attack; there
was no simultaneous attack delivered
s0ng Very wide front, which is es-
ssntlal to any attempt at rupture; moth
lug was done east Of Rheims, and be-
s"een Rheims and Chateau Thierry lit
w. was done besides holding the posi-
svns and exercising steady pressure
~ the work accomplished was the reg
sAr daily progress along the twenty
New-York tribune., 1918-09-01

to proceed step by step, gradually en-
larging, as it's succeeding phases show.
For on the morrow of the original at
tack, that is, on August 8, the right
of the French first army came into play
beyond Montdidier. and on the evening
of the next day the French third army
attacked the Lassigny Hills. Each blow
was delivered not only with method but
with precision, and what is most i'm
portant to remark, with economy of eff
fort and daily limited objectives.
What was its effect? The enemy was
compelled to draw in yet another great
mass of reserves to meet the increasing
pressure, after this pressure had been
exercised all the way from the Disc to
the Somme for ten days. By that time
the salient had gradually been reduced,