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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-05-27

Dance at Enthusiastically, May
2Sth, in NV, A. hall. Music by
Teorey's orchestra Of Fargo.-Adv.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-05-27

Fraternity Banquct-The Alpha
Lamba Rhoe fraternity held a banquet
at the Frederick hotel Saturday even
ing at which about 80 attended. Toasts
at the banquet yer given by A. Aas;
A. Siebert and Franco Crawford. Tho
banquet was followed by q theatre
party.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-05-27

Business For SAl-Confectionery,
lunch counter and rooming combined.
Good location in Grand Forks. "A
good money maker. Reasonable
price and terms. e. J. Lander & Co.,
Grand Forks-Ady.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-11-21
BUY HOME FLOUR

ST is OFTEN the that the fellow with the loudest
complaint the slightest grievance the smallest cause
conan so happens that the who have
made about the shortage OF mill feed are
the fellows every of flour but Kennewick flour
DONE doubt in thoughtlessness but means that
every time of foreign flour he is helping
pigs chickens of Prescott some Ritz
vile or farmer when he might buy homemade
flour and help feed his stock
1t is certain that unless the local mill find market
keep grinding This has not been
any orders and its largest ouofown
refuse place orders for flour unless they also
be supplied other words the local mill cannot
flour outside buyers and keep its mill feed at home
local trade is not sufficient to keep running Every
flour that bought here at home just that much
m feed for the home cows and hogs.
is prepared to the
paratve of the Kennewk flour and the foreign makes
but if the foreign trade willing and
ready Kennewck flour certainly should be good enough
for Kennewick folk
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-11-21
NO SOFT PEACE

~REMIER CLEMANCEAU of France has right well salo
~ that Allied nations have not been warning against
humanity humanity In dealing with the wrongs WHICH
Germany has upon the world cannot ignore the rgns
of German humanity s@ =.
While as not turn deaf ear TO cries Oh
hungry Germany not be turned aside by them from
determination full of justice from the de-
foe The diplomacy of Dr. Sof should not De per
mitted to bring Germany soft Germanys munger nou
be fed insofar as possible feed it, but Germany hungry
or otherwise be made for Germanys crimes nso
far as is humanity possible for payment to be made
The plant German should but keep 1resh III
our ears the cries of suffering ana
misery in France Belgium Serbia, in Russia IN Ruan
Italy We observation-disclosures that the women OIL
Germany mothers and wives our own women are
and wives neither forget that the the mothers ana
wives of those beastty knew limits IN dealng Win
orphans and widows hapess France and outraged Belgium
cannot forget that those who appeal to us IN the name
of suffering and innocent childhood short Whe
ago condonng encouraging the most damnape
the world known against suffering Woanhood ana
nocen childhood Germany it seems has become
suddenly seshy tender toward suffering humanity out
have no evidence the heart of Germany showed any
toward suffering humanity when it cried aloud In the
world but outside the boundary lines of Germany
In dealing with the Germans is enough to ask tnat we
remember they but to ask to forget that tney
are Germans is too much We should show mercy but no
leniency.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-11-21

HE DIED more than decade before the great world
war Bret Hart had CLEANED from the legendary histor
of pretty clear insight into German character as
been revealed the world the last four years German
record has fully justified American poets Interpretation
German legends when he wrote:
~ Maledictions whispered e
Underneath the Linden boughs; .
= Murder bgamy and theft, As
T.: Travellers of goods bereft;
. Rapine, pillage, arson, spoil
Everything but honest TOLL ii
Are the deeds that best define .'!" +
Every legend of the Rhine
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13
From The Columbus Dispatch

Of Bolshevik government at the same time
that statement of Allied policy of dem
ccratic character was to be sent to Ger
many. Within a week Lloyd Georges
speech, and more notably President Will
sons unexpected address to Congress,
partly carried out this prediction. At the
same time the American press has begun
to find many kinder words for Lenine,
Trotzky and the Bolshevilii in general.
adverse opinion concerning the SIM
certify of the Russian Bolshevik leaders
may have to be revised" says 1.-The ST..
Louis Post Dispatch" Already the world
is BEGINNING Il revise its opinion Of the
Bolsheviki" says "The Cleveland Plain
Dealer" 1.-The test may prove them better
than their earned notoriety.' Indeed, The
New York World' insists that one must
remember that "Whatever may be said of
the Boshevilii they helped lead on the i'm
perial German government TO blunder the
effects of which in Germany have only be
gun to be apparent Perhaps the most in
renuous evidence of the friendier feeling
IN this country toward the Bolshevi.i I:
that shown in the comment Of "The Mont
gomery Advertiser" which speaks of 9TH
intelligent Bolshevik."
At the same time, however, the press i
by no means unanimous in welcoming tn
Bolsheviki. Like "Yhe New York Times,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13

shevik insisted upon seeing the German pro-
posals before they appealed to the Allied
public. In this situation, the Germans were
compelled to disclose "A portion Of their real
designs They were obliged to uncover the
fact that they intended to steal all Russia's
Baltic scacoast and make Poland Il slave OF
the 1lapsburgs.
"Oncc their mask Off, the Germans had |
lost their game, The Bolshevl FASTENED |
back to Pctrograd and exposed to the whole
world the fact contrastcd with tho
phrase of German peace proposals, and tho
whole world was informed that tho Germans
were seeking territorial and economic ag-
gran0izcmcnts surprising any single Napole-
onic demand.
"And with the exposure the German case
With tho Allied publics collapscs."
1t was the Ukrainians, not the Bolshc-
Wiki, who saved Russia from a separate
peace with Germany, according to "Thc
New York Times" which takes the stand
that the Bolsheviki were prevented from
that pro-German end rather than that
they willingly avoided the German trap.
Thus:
until the Ukrainians arrived Mt Brest-
Litovsk and told The German negotators that
they would accept no peace arranged at
conference where they not represented,
rotzky and his Bolshcviki were walking
trustfully and with smiles straight into the
German trap
There was not hint of objection to the
German terms, which had been dcftly pre-
, scntcd in a way to facilitate the execution
Of the Bolsheviki plan of a separate peace"
What happened when the Bolsheviki left
the conference, as told in dispatches from
Petrograd and London, savors of the melo-
r. OF ArcCrCirr 10 OOcch
F'leurot writing to "The New York
World" Trotzky spoke before six hundred
delegates of the Soviets in Petrograd, re-
ceiving "the most enthusiastic and convinc-
1 ing applause. No war speech by Kerensky
: ever won applause so earnest.
: The rousing scene attained its most inspr-
o ing height when the Baltic delegates cried
S '''The Baltic flag will be the last to come
i down.
0 "My feeling" adds this correspondent
g. as that this enthusiasm is preparing tire
. mendous surprise for Germany. Fourteen o
the fifteen armies at the fronts were repre-
d scented at to-night's meeting. OF these thir
n teen reported that the soldiers are ready t.
h return to the tight.
81 have asked delegates to the Soviets an
other leaders Of many types what part Amer
~ lea could play in the new situation. The III
u cvitablc answer has been:
l. "'li you want to fight with us for The free
=. dom OF the world. state your peace terms an
slow that YOU are with us
The scene at the conference when tn
sc Russians withdrew is also typical of tn
a. expected to be expected Of the Russians
70 According to dispatch to The TRIBUNE
he the Russians. when asked how they prt
ne posed 10 make good their demands, II
turned an answer "characterstically Bo
Il ' 49,
r. shevst."
II "The Russian delegates jecrcd at the &c
nd mans and asked them what they proposed
&c do. They asked whether they proposed
,le take Pctrograd and feed 100000 starvir
people and dsarm revolutionary COUNT
d. where every workman had rifle. Th'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13

cialists had held meetings which "yors
warts" called perhaps the most Ssnos
mentous" since August, 1914. The key
to the temple Of peace, Macmillan Harden
was credited as saying, lies in the Capatoi
al Washington
In conclusion, one finds al sorts OF in'
cidental comment attaching Itself to the
uoheaval centring around Brest-litovsk.
According to "The New Yor.. Tines, "the
motive and mystery Of Germany's CAM
paign against Riga in October are out
now. Germany made the Riga
campaign in anticipation Of the peace ne
gotiations that have followed and for the
purpose Of the demand which she has just
made and which has Just resulted III so
much anger in Petrograa She intended
to take from Russia the whole Baltic sea-
coast"
Nor can The New YORK Tribune help
phlosophizing thus on the worlds need OF
fresh and repeated proof Of the Germans
wicked purposes and the Germans in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13

him on a rail- an old-fashioned punishment,
would not be too severe penalty in this
case if it were legal. Since It is illegal,
THE Courant must strongly advise against
it's use but The Courant' could not find it
in its heart to grieve if by chance his neigh
Dor decided to nfict it,"
"The New Haven Register" spoke, in it's
news headline, of "Prominent Citizens in
Well Planned Rebuke."
Speaking Of the Audubon case "The
Milwaukee Journal" seeing in it grave
warming" and admitting that such "con-
duct is reprehensible," nevertheless added
that if anti-war advocates should be more
seriously injured "they may have them
selves to blame"
Said "The Hot Springs (Ark.) Senti-
nel":
"When German agents think they can ter
rify the American people they have another
think coming. On the other hand, some
German agents are going to be handled
roughly before long"
THE Impression That Americans
/ Are Too Easy Going
"The Christian Science Monitor" issued
this warning:
at does not stand to reason that the
American people will put up indefinitely and
patiently with plots and conspiracies and
their results. An impression seems to have
taken root in the pro-German consciousness
that Americans are too easy going to defend
themselves or to rise up and effectually
sweep conspiracy, spying, sedition and trea-
son from the land. 1t cannot be said that
there is no ground for the formation or the
entertainment of this impression The nation
has, it must be confessed, thus far been la,
enough in the assertion Of its authority t.
warrant it. But alien enemies who imagine
that this state Of things is to continue arr
making q sad mistake"
"The Lincoln Nebraska State Journal
called for ''scrupulous obedience to Law
and strict adherence to legal methods,
but foresaw trouble. "The Dayton (Ohio
Journal" quoted former Ambassador Ger
ards speech wherein he said: "We shout
hog-tie every disloyal German-Americar
feed every pacifst raw meat and han
every traitor to lamp post to insure sue
cess in this war; But this journal cor
demned it, thinking that the claw is adt
quate."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13
" hat Happened When the Lamb Turned Gu

For the fraud was too palpable for even
the idealistic Bolsheviki to overlook In
stead of standing for "no annexations and
no indemnities," says "The Chicago Her
aid" Germany really lifted "the covering
from just one little corner Of her ambitious
programme of conquest, spoliation and
subsection of foreign people" BY peace,
says The New York Tribune, Germany
meant "smply to take 900 square miles
of Russian territory, including all the Bal
tic seacoast and upward of 25,0C0,Ooo Of
people, all but minor fraction Slav. and
place them under Hohenzollcrn and Haps-
burg rule.
This is what the Germans have meant by
their formula Of anncXatons and no in
IDENTITIES. In fact, this formula does not
even mean that the German will not demand
the right to annex anything he has not con-
Quered, because from the Russians he asks
provinces he has not even invaded"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13

mously sees in the breaking off of pour
parlors at Brest-Litovsll the same thing
which a group Of apparently astonished
BolsheNilsi did-the complete unmasking
Of wholly insincere German peace Offer.
The headlines alone Of number of edi-
-orial articles indicate the views Of various
commentators: German Overreach.'
Trap Sprung at Brest-Litovsk, y ''The
Dislllusioned Russians.' German Diplo-
macy Bungling in Russia THE Same Old
Gang and the Same Old Came German
Peace Tel1ns-A Colossal Fraud Light
Among the Tovarishi,' Tearing Off the
Mas" "Ge1nany's Proposed Land Grab, y
The Babes in the Bolshevik Wood, and
similar titles.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13
\ lied Morale Is Bound to
~ Benefit Greatly

The brazen daring of the German de-
mand, indeed, proves such a fine bit Of AL
lied propaganda to strengthen Allied
morale that some Characterization of the
fraud by the American press are classic.
'The professional housebreaker," says
"The Philadelphia Public Ledger" Islands
with pointed revolver in the porch Of the
distracted and disarmed householder And
further:
householder with all my heart replies the
houscbreaker My terms are give the
key to your front door, These virtually
the terms offered the helpless Bolshevik gov
eminent Of Russia by the German army Of
occuDation."
"The BolsheviI<," says "The Cleveland
Plain Dealer" "see the grin of contempt re-
placing the smile of benignity" "The Ger
man programme" says "The Chicago
News" "is so raw that Bolshevik agents
reject it with scorn. Even the in
fatuated Bolsheviki cannot be fooled by SO
glaring a piece Of deception According
to "The Topeka Capital "it is no longer
necessary to scatter Ally propaganda
throughout Russia in reply to the German
peace propaganda 1t has taken enough
rope and hanged itself"
What has really happened, according t.
Frank H. Simonds, the military critic Of
The New York Tribune, is simply that an
other German peace kite has fallen. Mr.
Simonds writes:
The peace proposal was intended TO maxi
Use { the Bolshevihi as German agents. am
through them to tampe- with Labor and Rad
ical elements in beligcrcnt countries. T.
) obtain the assistance OF the Bolshevlki tn
Germans adopted the principles and even tn
language of the Trotzky-Lenine group.
Having adopted this language. the Gen
J mans hoped and expected that, without fu1
t her discussion, the Bolsheviki would under
7ake an assault upon the Allied countries an
endeavor to bring them to a general peac
Conference, at which Germany would be abb
to throw off the mask
unfortunately for the Germans, the 30
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13
PERUSAL Of the weeks news
y from Russia presents picture
n something like this:

y from Eussia presents picture
X "A something like this:
The German volt Went TO Brest-L itovsl<
:, the guise Of a lamb seeking to devour
tho "crazy BolShevil,' only to be trapped
and again exposed to the world as the
.ruel pan-German imrerialst. Thereupon
Russia threatens again to take up arms
AGAINST Germany. Allied journals begin
- speak Of recognition Of some sort for
tbe BolsheviNi. a tremendous family row is
rploosed in Germany between the mod
crates and the Pan-Germans. and the
World rubs its eyes, hardly able as yet to
oecide whether it had really been trcading
,hc preciplcc of a separate peace between
Germany and the Bo,sheviki or whether,
after aN the Bosheviki have not rendered
;hc Russian masses and the Allied cause
:; great service.
Possibly the renewal of negotiations
NAY change the face Of things. but for
the present The American press unani-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13

"The Denver Rocky Mountain News" be-
lieves that "the Bolshevik peace pro-
gramme was inspired and prearranged by
Germany for German ends" Similar views
are held by "The New York Herald" and
other skeptical journals. There is also
much dis agreement rs to whether the Rus
slams will come back and fight. Speaking
of heading saying that the BolshevlNl
were rushing generals to the front, The
New York. Herald" remarks that to por-
tray Bolshevik general calls for large
supply of imagination. "The Kansas City
Times" thinks that "the Allies can look
for no further help from Russia" 1.-The
New York World believes the Allies will
not be deluded by the statement of some
of the Bolshevik peace delegates: Our
strength lies in our weakness. The weak
err we are the stronger we are"
n Tow the Russians May Again
IN Fight the Germans
But ''Thc Birmingham Age-Herald"
thinks that "snce anything may happen in
the topsy-turvy world, we may soon hear
mans and supported by the Bolsheviki gov
ernment" Even if they do not fight again
'Tha Indianapolis News" believes that the
Russian break with Germany will make it
necessary for the Germans to retain con-
siderable army on the Russian front
Another interesting result of the Brest-
Litovsk break was the appeal Of several
journals, such as "The New York Evening
Post" ''The New York Evening Sun, -
"The Charleston News and Courier" and
"The ST. Louis Post Dispatch" for some
word from the Allies to Russia state
ment of war aims or diplomatic often
sive"-to swing the Russians back into
) line with the Entente. Some observers
see in President Wilson's speech force
full fulfilment of that plea
: When all is considered, however, thu
stir caused in Germany by the break a
Brest- Litovsk is perhaps the most signifi
cant Of the many echoes from the parley
= In the ranks of the Pan-Germans some
8 thing akin to cry of despair apparently
. went up. 1--WE have lost the first rubbe
d against England said George Bernhard
e writing in the "Vossische Zeitung." conc
n again Germany's best intentions hav
Il been frustrated through overclever meth
@ DDS A situation has been created a
Il most as bad as in the Bethmann- Hollwe
# days and worse than in the Mexico affair.
l. At the same time there were report
e that Ludendortf had threatened to resign
q that Won Kiihlnann and the war part
T. were at outs; that Chancellor Won Hertlin
g was ill--the first notice usually given {
Is the approaching retirement Of Germa
t. Chancellor; that the Reichstag liberia
re had demanded a sincere Interpretation
the rights of self-determination of pc
is Piles; that the Socialists had condemn
he the German annexationist plans, as d
s." closed at Brest-Litovsk. and that the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13

"The New York Times" found "diffi-
Guilty in condemning these lawless acts as
far as their lawlessness probably de
serves" and added that
"nothng had been done to him won
Hagen) by the draft officials, and, so far as
was known, they did not intend to do any
thing Had those officials acted promptly and
sternly, as they should have done, there would
have been no violence, and the stupidity
vicious New Havener would not have been
turned into a martyr for himself and such
friends az he may have
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13

vE~jE, attack upon one Maximilian c.
4 Won HAGEN. at New Haven, Conn.,,
Il last week has called attention to
manv similar cases of violent action by
..vjrilante' mobs throughout the country,
and has occasioned considerable press
comment. most of it directed in criticism
of lax governmental methods as the I'M
deriving cause Of such outbreaks.
Won Hagen is a naturalized citizen Of
Plussian descent, lawyer, and has
figured heretofore in the news as an al
legged employee of Won Papen. He is within
the draft age In filing out his papers
he headed the document with 'Deutsch-
land iber allies and added other seditious
sentiments. The papers thus marked
we're sent to Washington by the local
board, but the Department Of Justice re-
piled that it was poweress to act IN the
matter Thereupon a band of armed and
masked men visited his house, dragged
him out and beat him severely. He was
also compelled to kiss the flag and retract
his statements.
Similar incidents have happened within
particularly in the Mississippi Valley; the
cases of the wholesale tarrng and feath-
ering of /. W. W. members in Oklahoma
and the horsewhipping of the Rev. Mr.
Bigclow, near Cincinnati, are still fairly
fresh in the public mind
To cite a few other recent cases:
Audubon, Iowa, irate citizens seized two
pro-Germans, the Rev. w. A. Starck anc
Fred Tcnekheig. for alleged unpatrlotlt
utterances, placed ropes around then
nechs and dragged one of them some dis
tancc, threatening to hang them. Starch
was finally released in response to hi
wlfc's pleading. and Tenekheig was al
lowed TO 20 when he signed check for ;
g. 900 Liberty bond Both, however
were compelled to leave town.
Not long ago citizens, Jed by tow
marshal at Lander, Wyo., rounded u
three pro-Germans, forced them to knee
in the town square, kiss the flag an
swear allegiance.
A Seattle dispatch recorded that O
January party Of twenty America
sailors, led by civilians, raided the oftic
of "The Daily Call" radical newspape
of Seattle, and almost wrecked the shoI
They held up the employees with their re
volvers, threw the type out of the wiz
COWS and smashed machinery and offic
u iiyiures No arrests were made.
At Osakis, Mimi, one +. W. Strat'
meyer was given a coat of tar and featf
i ers for disloyal remarks.
At Brennan, Tex, six farmers who r.
fused to join the Red Cross we're take
out and logged, in broad daylight, by
committee of citizens. The dispatch th'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13

action by news of such action in anothcr
and as long the causes of these outbursts
are not removed the danger Of greater vio-
lcnce will increase Local authorities will
move slowly, if at all, against their fellow
townsmen in cases of this kind, and the ulti-
mate outcome Of lawlessness is a condition
in which only the sternest measures will in
sure peace.
at is the plain and inescapablc duty Of
The government to go to the bottom OF this
matter, and to remove the underlying cause
for disgraccful occurrences like that at New
Haven"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13

"The New York Herald" admitting that
Railways the mob is to be deplored,'
thought there "are worse things than the
New Haven happenings" and that IF
there is not soon an end to all forms of
sedition in this land some sedtionists will
bite American dust"
THE Hartford Courant" said that the
victim "should be thankful to have
escaped so easily. Indeed
Earring and featherins a man and riding
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13
"Do not listen to alarmists or slackers.

ssDo not listen to alarmists or slackers
"Be moderate in your spending, neither
lavish in gifts nor sordid in your econ
omies.
encourage national industries, avoid
ing imported ones.
"Do not look upon the departure for
the front of those dear to you as an aban-
donment. Be with them constantly in
thought, as they are with you, particularly
in the hour of danger.
"Do not complain Of the difficulties, an