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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-04

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Proof Of the warm hearted contact
Of the American Red Cross with the
enlisted men is furnished in number
less instances, OF which the following is
typical.
A farm youth enlisted from Kentucky
and was sent to an Atlantic training
camp Of the regular army. 1t was the
longest trip he ever had made and
the first Christmas he was to be sepa-
rated from the family.
He was looking forward to the box
which ne knew mother and sister
would send to him, but three days be-
fore Christmas he was ordered to
Washington to do guard duty The
young soldier was immensely proud at
being assigned to guard the White
House.
But his sudden change in address re-
suited in his Christmas box going to
his original camp and Christmas day
found him with neither letter nor pack
age from home or friends 1t was in
this mood OF depression that Red
Cross Christmas package reached him.
Il sure did appreciate that remen-
brance," ne wrote home. In due time
the army forwarded his Christmas
mail from home. but 1t reached him
from one to two weeks after the holt
days The Red Cross gift contributed
TO sustaining his spirits. and not only
to him but thousands situated like him.
General Pershing and other high off,
GERS consider such work by the Red
Cross vital factor in winning the war.
1t makes all the difference in the world
how a soldier feels. When a whole
army becomes depressed, disaster fol-
lOws
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-04
America 10 The Issue.

This isn't a question OF PERSONAL
ties. This is not question between
the president and myself. 1t is ques
tion OF America and every man ought
to make it his whole purpose to see
that America is saved" In these words
Senator Chamberlain summed up the
whole war situation as 1t concerns this
country. -
It Is America, not President Wilson:
it should be the whole purpose of every
man to save aud President Wilson is
neither America nor our government.
When he is right everyone should sup
port him, but not when he is wrong.
In this instance if Senator Chamber
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-04

New apartment houses in Berlin will
rent 10 none without children. So far
no new apartment houses have been
erected for children who have no faith
ers That would include a housing
problem too great for even Germany to
tackle.
The Redwood gazette., 1918-04-17
SIDEWALK RESOLUTION.

WHEREAS The Village Council of Delhi the County Redwood
Minnesota
along West
side H. Block OF
Block H. the West of
West side of Lots s. g. and in Block H. all in said Village of
Delhi, Redwood County, Minnesota, therefore be
RESOLVED, the Village of
the following n of
On Third along of
Block the g. in and
of
of
all said sidewalks be built established
the which sidewalks built
structed of the following
The said sidewalk
can
and to be mixed
thick said sidewalks all
8, g
to
curbg
built
Village
further that this before
ing said where said sidewalks
The of the all Lots and parcels of ground said
o be constructed follows
The Redwood gazette., 1918-04-17

prey. If we are to survive, that
malign doctrine of might-makes-right
must be destroyed forever.
Have you learned that you, too, can
fight in the battle for Freedom?
Lend your money to the Liberty
loans; give it to the Red Cross. Ev-
cry dollar lent the government helps
equip soldier; every dollar to the
Red Cross succors him in his time
Of need. If you are a patriot you
can no more keep out of these
"drives" than, if a soldier, you could
refus to go over the top into No
Mans Land.
Dollars are soldiers, too! Your dol
lars will fight to end the war. Each
private may think his own worth
small-but all together they make
an army. Your dollar seems small,
but if each does his share the war
will have sufficient backing.
For your boys sake, if he is cover
there" subscribe! You would not re-
fuse to help pal? Well, you have a
million pals! Help them!
Have you learned that the Enemy
The Redwood gazette., 1918-04-17
MIKE s. JOE

une's attention to an excellent pre-
scription for catching "rats," as CIV
en- in a trade publication. The "rats''
under discussion are individuals who
should have registered on June 5,
1917, but who deliberately evadNd
that duty. The prescription, in part,
follows:
If every employer Of labor every Y
employer | say--were required to
demand registration card from ep-
cry employee-both present and pros
pective-and were empowered and re,
quired to act, when no such card il
Forthcoming, the vast bulk of regis
tration days riffraf would give ur
the fight and confess.
Some of them perhaps would take
to the rails and the rods for a lv
ing. They're doing that even now
but what are you doing about it I
When chap taps at the back. door
and tells how he's walked from Buf-
falo since last night to get job in
Frisco and hasn't had even cup OF
coffee since August"-when that hap
pens, do you first ask for his regis
tration card, if he be of draft age
or thereabou,s?
When a chap boxes you in the
traffic and taps your till for dime
to keep his thirst from starving, do
you tax him for his registration
card? Just try that gag on the next
one-and please have policeman
handy-a policeman that can run!
It's only. fair play for the regis
tered men to search out the eva J.
ers and give them their just dues
Secret service agents are working on
that problem, to be sure, but the res :
istration system was so big that it
is impossible to catch all Of the evad
ers. AS stated in the foregoing clip
ping, citizens generally can help by
special measures.
The Redwood gazette., 1918-04-17
is herewith us, too?

is herewith us, too?
The soldiers blood, in the trench
es, is not only drained by flying
shells-it is sucked by rats and lice.
Here at home we have human YER
min preying upon us. Just as evil
and insidious as the trench pests are
the pro-German spies and propogan-
dists and the pacifsts who seek to
impede or discountenant the war.
Watch them, watch for them, seek
them out. Let no seditious word or
act go unreported.
Have you learned that your Pa
triotism is being tried by your Faith
and your Works?
Be not cast down by defeat. Spread
no rumors of calamity. When the
dark days come, encourage the timid
and fearful, reprove the alarmist and
backsliders. Aroused now to the SOL
emnity of our task the duty will be
performed to the end-victory! Yet
only when every one does his full
share shall that victory come.
Urge haste, urge thoroughness
urge unremitting effort. Take the
war seriously, for war is grim work
e%AN we AoNO dII CIlCIIly WIlO IfuIlkS
of nothing but efficiency. Our SOL
diers are not only to be amused, but
armed and taught to fight. Insist
that this comes first.
More guns, more ships, more aero
planes? Is your congressman OF
senator tagging? Punch him up Act
every day as if your life and your
wife were in danger. They are!
Speed up the war!
Have you learned that Waste is
Treason?
Upon us our Allies depend not only
for men and munitions but for food
and clothing. If our permanent lib
erty is to be won, they must for a
while defend it for us, till we, too,
can fight.
Shall we waste, then, while they
want? While they are to be fed end
clad, waste is treason. Save wheat,
save wheat, save wool! The war
needs everyone's strictest economy.
The good ship Democracy is sorely
beset by the storm. Shall the pas
sengers revel while the crew starve !?
Divide! Divide, and save the ship
lest all be lost!
The Redwood gazette., 1918-04-17
The Five Great
Lessons of the War

(By Gelett Burgess of the Vigilantes)
What have you learned from this
first year of the war?
Have you learned that no Peace is
possible but one founded upon the
Triumph of Democracy?
Germany's faithlessness to her
treaty agreements in Belgium has
had it's sequel in her deceit in Rus
sia. Germany's frightfulness is the
deliberate policy of autocracy in its
design to enslave the world. All pre-
lenses of liberal reforms have been
drowned in the rising lust for world
conquest.
intoxicated by self love the ruth,
less ambition of the kaiser and his
war lords seek to bring all civiliza-
tions under the reign of brute force
Nation after nation has fallen theil
The Redwood gazette., 1918-04-17
COMMANDING RESPECT.

care you going to town in your
working clothes, Hiram?" exclaimed
Farmer Corntossel's wife.
9'That's what I am. Whaen | walk
up High street I don't want to be
mistook for any city chap. | want to
look like I had a barrel O. potatoes
or a load O. hay that I might con-
descend to sell somebody if I took a
fancy to him."
The Redwood gazette., 1918-04-17
CATCHING THE "RATS. .

One Of Sioux City's live wires
above the age Of military service,
but doing his part for the country
in other ways, has called the Trib-
The Redwood gazette., 1918-04-17

It is just as easy to look pleasant
as it is to wear a long face and look
as if you had dined on crabapples.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-05-03
T0day's War
Summary

Flanders and Picardy, and the Ar
ras salient between, continue quiet
and the Germans have given no sign
Of where the next blow will be or
when it will come. The present lull
in the fighting now exceeds three
days and there has been less minor
activity than during the previous
break in heavy fighting in Flanders.
The German offensive is not end
ed in the view Of military authorities
and the enemy is expected to make
further attempts to reach the cham
mel. The supreme in%ter-allied war
council has completed a two days
session with q meeting Vt Abbevillc.
northwest Of Amiens. All military
questions were discussed and decid-
ed on and the results obtained are
reported to have been most satisfac-
tory. Premier Clemenceau, who pre-
sided, said that General Foch, who
as a result of+the conference it is re.
ported. is commander-in-chief OF the
allied forces in the west. is very opti-
mistic.
In Flanders there has been no ac-
tivity except by the artillery, while
on the British portion of the Picardy
battle front a German raid near He
buterne. north Of Albert. has been
repulsed. South Of the Somme the en-.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-05-03

write the president. at a moment OF
depression in the country's fortunes
urging him to give up and make
terms with the enemy?
No historian will write Of Presiden,
Wilson that he had behind him a
country Exposed to disunion, hesita.
ton and quick reaction" No one can
say OF this time that any leader, how.
ever authoritative. could have in.
augurated a policy Of stampede
and have had "a vast and tumultuou.
following" The American people see
and value the issues of this war more
clearly than they saw the issues OF
the Civil war. So we must Judge by
the greater unanimity and vtgor OF
the American attitude toward thi.
war. This fact is solid ground fol-
American hopefulness and confidence
in the face Of its present undertaking
-Nebraska State Journal.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-05-03
THANKS FOR THIS MUCH

The announcement comes from Washington that
hereafter the addresses of soldiers abroad whose names
are included in the casualty lists are to be published, this
being a return to the practice formerly in vogue, the rea-
son for the abandonment of which does not appear to
have been understood.
When the regulation eliminating the addresses went
into effect it was stated that the request for it had come
from General Pershins. who had acted at the request Of
the French authorities. Nevertheless, dissatisfaction with
the order was SO great, that appeals were made to the
president for a reconsideration Of the regulation. The
change appears now to be made by the direct authority
Of the president in response to these appeals, although
it is made after consultation with Secretary Baker, who
has just returned from France, and who has undoubtedly
had this matter up With General Pershing and the French
authorities.
The only explanation Of the original order that has
seemed At all plausible is that in some way there had been
a lack Of common understanding between the French and
American authorities, the former not understanding fully,
perhaps. just what the conditions Of American service
were, and the latter not being accurately informed as to
the precise object which their friends sought to accom-
plish.
AS has often been pointed out, under the American
custom of assigning men to units without regard to their
home address, the publication Of the address Of a soldier
who had participated in a given engagement could not
in any way inform the enemy as to the identity Of the
military units engaged on that front.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-05-03
FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 8. 1918.
AS MANY AS NEEDED

It is to be hoped that congress will fix no limits to
the number Of men who are to be recruited for war serv-
Ice, but will carry out the wishes Of the president and
the secretary Of war and authorize the recruiting. train
ing and transportation to wherever they may be needed
Of a. many men as are needed, and As fast as they can be
handled
how long this war is going to last, nor how many men
will be needed in it. And we may as we'll announce to
the world in our legislative acts what is already our
fixed and inflexible purpose to remain in the war until
We and those associated with US have won a conclusive
victory, and to supply all in men, in money. in goods and
In effort, all that is needed, and as fast as we can pro-
vide it, in order that such a result may be reached.
There is no question as to what we are going to do.
If another million men are needed they will be supplied.
No matter how many it takes. no matter what it costs
the need will be met. There have been mistakes in the
past. There will be mistakes in the future. The de-
mands Of the war may be such as to require the entire
reorganization Of our political and industrial affairs. Our
people at home may be drafted into the industrial serv-
Ice Of the nation as our young men are drafted into its
military service. 1t is all immaterial. in so far as it will
affect the inflexibihty Of our purpose. We are in the
war to whip Germany. and Germany must be whipped.
undertaking a piecemeal policy Of providing men and
material in handfuls. it has by a single act authorized ir-
revocably the performance from time to time Of any and
all acts that may be necessary for the winning Of the war,
and let the executive authority be empowered to make
he levies and carry on the work as fast as may be neces-
nary and possible.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-05-03
Nubs of NewS
Mohall will have a second paper, II
"a reported. A consolidation was Of.
fected thera a few days ago.

Moha1l will have a second paper, it
Is reported. A consolidation was Of.
fected thera a few days ago.
Nels Koppang Of Adams. has ac-
cepted the position a. manager Of the
Robertson Lumber yard at ,LAnkin.
The front Of the ONCE of a German
paper at Bismarck. edited by Receiv.
or Brandt Of the United States land
ONCE, was daubed with yellow paint.
Eddy county is the smallest in
North Dakota. It's Third Liberty loan
allotment was $4,000. The patriotic
citizens didn't believe that was sum-
GENTLY large, and raised $1sz,500, al
most three times the amount request
ed.
The following are the new officers
Of the Merchants and Farmers bank
Of Cavalier: e. r. Green, president:
X. G.. Adams vice president; C. w.
Glow, cashier, and Freda Arnason,
assistant cashier.
A special election will be held in
Walhalla IN May IA for the purpose
Of determining the question OF village
OF city government for the town. II
the city government is agreed on it
is the intention to take in considera-
bic territory than constitute the
present village Of Walhalla.
The work Of getting the park and
grounds in readiness for the coming
chautauqua assembly, June 80 to July
10. is progressing favorably at Wal
halla.
Four Of the men discharged by the
Fargo branch Of the weAern Union
Telegraph company 10 days ago, for
being members of a labor union, have
been reinstated.
DR.. f. F. LAdd has been reelected
president Of the Fargo board of edu-
cation, and z. George Guthrie has
1t ia said that Townley will put 4
state ticket In the field in Wisconsin.
It could hardly be expected that he
would pass that state up after it wa
found that Berger, socialist and trail
tor. received $4,000 votes At the re-
cent, senatorial election. Mandan
Pioneer.
crookston, is dead at 81: paul. where
he has made his home for several
years.
A fellow by the name Of Guy Will
liams. supposed to hail from Grand
Forks. has spent some time at Calvin
interesting the farmers In q ToWnley
store there. II. p. Coder Of Calvin. Il
supposed to be his right hand man In
this philanthropic work.
The Calvin Times il Registering .
kick I'VE allowing cattle to run ~
large in the village streets.
1t u planned to hold = great Red
Croas demonstration at et. Thomas
on July 4, and the whole country has
been invited to attend. All branches
Of the Pembina county Red Cross or
~ganizations are expected. to partici-
I, pate.
Engineers and dremen On the Nor.
thern Pacific are wondering today
how long hence It will be before they
will be reauired to run trains without
fuel. oil or other eupplisa. new
economy rule has zone into effect be.
tween Dickinson and 0iendive and
the results are being watched with
tntsrest on other Afyi0t6n1 0f lfhi
road. Employees profess TO 9 Z
Efadual change In the train cr3WS
Especially among the hFeInsn.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-05-03
By BRIGGS.

in depressing the peoples of the oc-
cupied Russian territories, and as a
result there is grave uneasiness in
Germany. The Ukrainian govern
ment has been overthrown by the
Germans and it is reported that a
new government, presumably favor
able to the central empires. has TAX
on the .reins Of power. Berlin reports
the occupation Of sebastopol, the
great Russian fortress and naval base
in the Crimea but gives no details.
The strike in the important DOM
browa, coal mining district of west
ern Russia. is reported to have got
beyond control Of the Austrian au-
thorities, who have adopted stringent
restrictive In the Ukraine
the invaders are being opposed by
armed peasants, and it is reported
the peasants have ruined the crops
rather than let the Germans get pos
session.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-05-03
envy artillery is bombarding violent
lv the Niflnrs- region.

envy artillery is bombarding violent
.ly the Villers- Bretonneux region.
French troops have driven back
the Germans in local attacks in Han
gard wood and southwest of Mailly-
Raineval, south of Hangard; they
have captured Baune wood. Berlin
reports the situation as unchanged
and records only artillery duels on
the various fronts.
Elsewhere on the western front. in
northern Italy and in Macedonia
there has been little activity. In Italy
the rains have ceased and the wealth
er has improved but the fighting OPP
erations still are confined to patrol
engagements. In Palestine the Brit
ish have reoccupied Es-Salt. east of
the Jordan, and northeast of Jericho.
More than three hundred prisoners
were taken and the advance contin-
ues.
Germany and Austria-H Hungary ap-
parently are meeting with difficulties
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-05-03
LONG LIFE TO THE KAISER!

Occasionally ZONE enthusiastic American recruit an
nounces that he is off for Berlin to bring back the kaiser's
head. Let US hope that no soldier will be so inconsidcr-
ate as to make any effort in that direction. We have no
use here for the kaiser's head, or for any other part of
his anatomy. On the contrary, if we cannot say, in the
words Of the Immortal Rip Van Wrinkle, MAY he live
long and prosper" we can at least say, May he live
long" anyway.
Why should we wish for the kaisers death? As a
ricted on the world? What a pitifully inadequate bal
ancinE Of accounts that would be. Think of the nations
thrown into the %seething cauldron of war; of the homes
devastated; Of the women ravished: Of the little children
starved or brutally murdered; Of the sorrow that has
been brought into millions Of hearts; Of the blood that
has been shed: Of the lives that have been offered up.
In what way can the cutting of Of a few years from the
life of one man. even though he be the chief transsres-
scr, avail to effect a recompense for this?
Hereafter? Listen to Parhassius pausing with poised
brush to reason with the slave whose dying agonies he
IL about to transfer to canvas:
to his track.
What gave death ever from his kingdom back
To check the skpetic's laughter?
Come from the grave tomorrow with that story
And I mas take some softher path to glory.
No. no. old man. We die. even as the flowers,
And We shall breathe away our life upon the chance wind
even as they.
strain we'll thy faintins eye. for when its bloodshot quiz
ering Is DER
The light OF heaven shall never reach thee more,
We may not share the skepticism Of the pasan
painter. but at any rate, the hereafter is shut from III
with a veil which we are unable to penetrate, and in what
B manner, II any, payment will be exacted from US for the
deeds committed in this life we do not know. Let us
hope that the kaiser will not soon be removed from
among US to a place and a state concerning which W
have no knowledge. Some measure Of suffering should
be his here and now, among and before the observation
Sof the people who have known Of his onenses. and who
have suffered from them.
Let US hope that the kaiser win be given long year,
upon this earth, with the full possession Of his faeultie,
@And full. capacity to understand. Let 1t be his fate to be
aacontined In no solitary prison. remote from the hauntl
sasf men, but, after his Ereat war has been lost, lot him
aallixss cn among men. with senses keen ana alert, and
Snsrvss tuned tosrespond to every pulsation Of the erea,
aNefld democracy which he tried IN vain 10 destroy. Lei
a2hhnn fasts ii the full mo bitterness 81 thwlrted ambition
blasssl hopes. ~ ths CONSCIOUSNESS. 81 the world,
aS1pesnDt ~ dissertation srew upon him day ~ day
SakeeAsSif " acan imastne thspshell ofs his esotism 40 shat.
8NtSlne1 ~ ~ Admit the penetration sof y thought not Of
4EMAeslf 1T Us hops that II times thsrs VII rins In Hi
S&gNEi65s slrieks "a ~ innocent Who haye besn sacrifices
4s9lss61lA sasbaes, an4 @that ~ nia1 vi eon3ur.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-05-03

over which his fancy wandsrs. A long life and q full one.
to his IMPERIAL majesty. the kaiser!
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-05-03

Townley's organizers are surely up
against it. II they are not chased out
OF town, tarred and feathered, or arr
rested and convicted and otherwise
hampered in their work of making
Boss Townley emperor of this great
country. the citizens organize rope
parties.
Potato" Brown Of Elk River,
MIMI, a potato grower of national
renown, addressed a potato growers
meeting at Oklee last evening at
Plummer Friday afternoon. at
Brooks Friday evening and at Red
Lake Falls Saturday evening. The
matter of building potato warehouses
is to be discussed at these meetings.
Word has been received in Neche
to the effect that Clayton Pennebaker
has been gassed. He is the first Neohe
boy to appear in the casualty list.
Penny" left with Company OF
Grafton.
Senator A. +. Buckler iled for re-
nomination at crookston yesterday
for the. seth senatorial district.
The thirty-fourth annual meeting
Of the Woman's Missionary society of
the Pembina Presbytery will be held
at Lansdon on Tuesday and Wednes-
day, May II and is. The speaker,
secured for this meeting are Miss
Helen streeter Of New York, and
Mtss Roberta Barr of Philadelphia.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-05-03

Senator A. +. Buckler filed for re-
nomination at Crookston yesterday
for the. .66th senatorial district.