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The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-02
Notice to Registrars

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E: l.. Philip,
Governor.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-02
SCOUTS FIND WHISKY CACHE.

A party of boy scouts on hike near
hartford, Wash, discovered cache
Of whisky and telephoned the police
station for instructions. Capt. George
Miles of Spokane directed the boys
to remain there and he would send
officers for the liquor.
The police greyhound went out with
detectives and picked up the boys and
proceeded to the cache, where they
found more than 100 bottles of liquor
in seven sacks, which was takss. to
the station
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-02
ONE BOY SCOUTS "PRAYER."

Scout A. Page of Chicago, wrote this
letter to the Chicago Herald:
To the Editor: The prayer learned
at kindergarten runs through my heat
every morning before I'm fairly awake
The first line goes all right, but wha
do you think of the others? They've
bothered me a lot.
Now before we work today,
We must not forget to pray
To God, who kept US through the night
And brought us to the morning light.
Help US, Lord, to lick the Kaiser,
And make him see he had been wiser
Not to wait till he was curled up
To learn he couldn't eat the world up.
'Tain't made to eat he can't digest 1t
CTS nasty, too, where Huns infest IT'D
So help US, Lord, to whack it to him,
And never stop until we "do" him.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-02
SCOUTS ALWAYS MAKE GOOD.

"Since the Boy Scouts of America
have taken over the responsibility of
distributing the food conservation
cards, believe it's success is assured
said a prominent citizen of Birming-
ham, Ala. Everything that boy scouts
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-02
Not a Chance in the World,

"a good husband ought to tell his
wife all his faults is the advice given
husbands of more or less doubtful
status by a Milwaukee authority on
domesticity. But the average husband
will have to be very, very quick about
it or the average wife will tell him
f1rst.-Pennsylvania Grit.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-02
RAILROAD TINE TABLES.
CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN
South.


Chicago senger-------- 6:17 a. m.
Chicago passenger-------11 :07 a. m.
Chicago passenger-------- 1870 p. N.
GAINESVILLE passenger------- 7:15 p. M.
$40 a. N. train makes close con-
nections for the west at Jefferson
Junction and also for Milwaukee
Both 11:07 a. m. and Tbs p. m.
trains make close connections at JEFF
ierson Junction for Madison and all
points west.
North.
Screen Bay passenger------7:55 a. M.
Green Bay, Sundays only----S:1O a. m.
Screen Bay passenger------2:40 p. m.
sNorthern higan---------S:25 p. N.
Rockford passenger arrives at Wa
tertown at $40 a. m. and goes no
farther.
The 1856 a. m. train makes connec-
ton at Clyman Junction for trains
east.
The 1870 train south makes connec-
tons at Jefferson Junction for points
east.
A TRAN goes west from Clyman
Junction at 4:45 p. m.
@These trains leave daily except
Sunday.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-02

To Prevent Thumb Sucking.
A cardboard cuff around the upper
i'm will often prevent a child from
sucking its thumb a habit that is IL
able to cause serious deformity OF the
mouth, nose and teeth.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-02

Wangs-What are Browns chances
in the coming election?
Bangs-Very slight He hasn't any
thing back of him.
Wangs -He's got family tree.
Bangs-Yes, but his opposition has
the plum tree.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-02

CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE, & ST. PAUL
East
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-31
Lumbering De Luxe in the North Woods To-day

dreadful suspicion had become a Ger
'ainty.
"Nare of lc bon Dicu!" exclaimed
Joe Bouvicr in awcstruck whisper.
Name Of lc bon Dieu and tout 10
saints! Dees plac' she's head ot1ic' for
all de bccg l1ans dat run de hole she.
bang, for sure! Not scengl' dam one
lect' bug!"
Wien tho eighty-fvc lumbcrjacks
who composed the camp tramped in
from their work to supper that night
Joe Bouvicr got many more surprises.
Every man jack Of them washed his
face and cor1bed his hair before sitting
down to such meal as Joe BouvfcS.
had never heard Of There were SOUP
and fish IL YOU wanted it, roast Of
IiS, cold corncd beef, beans and side
dishes Of vegetables, cake, pie and
pudding, and walters to serve it all,
and you could send back your plate for
more just as often as you liked. Joe
Bouvicr remembered when you sent out
your one tin plate and one tin cup, re-
Giving from the cook one portion of
either beans or meat (never both). a
ladlcful Of muddy coffee and quarter
loaf Of stale bread, which you were
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-31

which feat comes pretty near being
the piece de resistance of lumberjack
t,om. lie had known the North Woods,
her moods, her ways and the methods
Of her exploitation as a good house
wife knows her kitchen Or keen law
yer the contents of his brief. And he
had returned to the camp now because
the lure of the woods had drawn him
irrcsistibly, just as it draws all others
Of his breed.
Yet his heart sank and he could
on his snow slippered crutch and
looked about him. What used to be
the long, unpecled log clubhouse in
Joe Bouvier's time was only the wing
of the clubhouse now, the main part
of which rose two stories high, with
twenty real glass windows in two tiers
along the length of it, real clapboards
on the sides and real shingles on the
roof, and an imposing brass rallied,
plate glassed structure at one end with
huge sign in gilt letters reading
"officc."
Joe Bowler knew it for messroom
table because of the many plates,
bowls, cups and saucers, knives and
forks. but he could not understand how
they came to be so neatly arranged or
why the top of the table should be-
covered with oilcloth, spotiessly white.
At the end of the long room a door
opened into another wing, and Joe
Bouvier poked his head inside A gi-
gantlc range stove" with a. yawninp
oven and thirty griddle lids, threw out
an appetizingly blended warmth, In
ono mammoth pan half pig roasted,
almost bushcl of beans baked in an
other; the whole top of the stove was
crowded with other pans, pots and ket-
ties in which carrots, turnips, bects,
onions and potatoes boiled mcrrily.
The old lumberjack hobblcd back
INTO the messroom and sank heavily
into chair. A dreadful suspicion was
creeping into his fuddlcd senses. Was
the wound in his side broken out
afresh? Had he gone off his head
again? Or. bah Gar! could it be =?
Joe Bowler thumpcd up the banis-
tered stairway to the room above.
What he saw stunned him. and La
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-31
Copyright 1918, by The Tribune Association

unrestrained from without and
lacking all self-control, they took
what they wanted, and spreading
through Russia they gathered to
them all the elements of disorder
and crime; like swarms of locusts--
armed and deadly locusts-they in
tested the cities and flooded the
countryside, and they added new
meaning to the word terror.
Authenticated Horde
Let Loose Upon Russia
About five million men, disorgan-
lied, demoralized as soldiers and as
men, brutalized beyond Occidental
notions of brutality, have been let
loose like flood upon the Russian
cities and villages; these in addition
to three and half million that had
deserted the fighting lines since the
overthrow Of the provisional gov
eminent set up by Kerensky. They
are inundating the land, undermine
ing the ediice of civilized life and
blotting out civil, social and ethical
landmarks. They are to be found
everywhere, along the railways
stopping trains and robbing passen-
gers, in the cities melting pogroms.
committing burglaries and assaults.
destroying property.
These men have lost everything;
material possessions and even the
sense of human values. There is no
law in their lives, no beacon of hope
on their horizon, no God in their
sky. The thing that was their
souls is now the chaos Of the dregs
Of war, brutality, humiliation and
the shadow of defeat that goes be-
You'd any hitherto realized antithe-
sis of victory; children crying in the
night and crying the jungle cry of
revenge. They have left to them
one unfortunate attribute of man:
the power and desire to kill, and
they kill indiscriminately. They
appease their hunger that way;
that is their only JOY.
Let us start at the beginning, in
the trenches. AS soon as the revo-
luton had become established all
officers were shorn of power. Dis
cipline was supposed to be main
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-31

mighty glad to eat standing or sitting
on stool.
That evening the mess small talk
centred about the Klowtowski who was
leaving camp tomorrow for another
outfit down the river, because he could
get $SS L month and found" for lum-
bcrJacking there, while Gould's was
paying, then, only $50. Joe Bowler
recalled how glad he had been to get
s22 month and any old kind of
"chuck" when he had worked that same
Logging camp six years ago and he had
ncen one of the best axemen in the
Adirondacks, while these lumberjacks
ut the table were saying Klowtowski
could not tell whether tree he was
telling was going to fall north or
south.
Altogether it was too much for Joc
bouVlcr. He had seen strange. un-
Helicvablc things while fighting the
Germans in France - things that he
never could have dreamed of, that
dnzed him and left him without power
to think. Blu. never had he seen things
as strange as these-this awful change
right in Gould's old Adirondack log
glng camps, where lumberjacks washed
their hands and faces, ate two kinds of
meat and vegetables off a table with
an oilcloth cover and slept in hunks
with actual quilts, sheets and pillows
and not another living creature in
the beds.
The change in the wages, the habits
and the care of lumbcrjacks amounts
to metamorphosis. Even the working
methods have undergone transforms.
ton to a great extent. And it is un-
Questionably true that an old lumber
man. brought up in the ways of The
woods of twenty, fifteen or even ten
years ago, would rub his eyes in
amazement if he were to return to
them now. Also, the old landmarks,
famous Or notorious of yore, have al
most entirely disappeared, and scoro
of towns on the edge Of tho forest tina,
used to be Meccas for tho hundreds of
lacks who swarmed upon them in sa-
12n'c carousals when they had accumu-
lated their "stakes" in the woods have
sunk into innocuous desuetude.
Tho time is not so long since when
women Of unarmed men dared not A.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-31
tanned by committees made up of
the soldiers themselves. Every order

tanned by committees made up of
the soldiers themselves. Every order
given by an officer, even the officers
appointed by the committee, could
be made the subject of an appeal
from the soldier to the committee,
and of political campaign in the
company. Politics ran rife through
the army. Men became generals be-
cause they were orators. Officers
of training and strength were fortu-
nate if they escaped death at the
hands either of some rebellious or
revengeful soldier or at the decree
of some revolutionary tribunal. The
new illiterate generals forced many
to do mental work in and around the
barracks. Within a few weeks the
number of officers-real officers
who could not stand the disgrace
and committed suicide either at the
front or in the Petrograd hotels
ran into hundreds.
Thus within few weeks the army
lost all power inside itself, as it was
already powerless in the field. Each
soldier did as he pleased. If he
stayed with the colors it was be-
cause he there had food and lodging
If the spirit called him elsewhere
he went, and there was none to him
der. In the first eight months, SO
far as facts could be discovered IN
this confused mass, three and half
million men deserted. The final
DISARMAMENT Of the armies did not
let loose SO great horde upon
Russia.
Under the Cars regime the Rus
sian soldier in the presence of an
officer could use only two words Of
the Russian language. They were
"Tak tochno" for yes, and "nikak
MET" for no. He had no right to
ask questions, to dispute, to reason.
"Obey" was the one rule Of the army
and the iron discipline in addition
to the natural bravery of the Rus
sian soldier had made the Russian
army one of the finest in the world.
Now, since Kerensky issued the
famous "Order No. /" giving the
soldiers full civil and political rights
and also the right of self-govern-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-31

Kerensky was brave enough to go
personally to the front for the pur-
pose of restoring discipline in parts
of the army. For a time a success
full, but short lived, offensive fol-
lowed, and Russia was overwhelmed
with joy at the thought that free
soldiers would fight better than
slaves of the Gar. Kerensky was
hailed as the hero of the day, his
portrait being carried in public dem
onstration all over Russia.
But, alas the work of the Bolshe-
Wiki and German spies on the Rus
sian front was deadly.
Disquieting cables one after an
other were received from the COM
mander in chief.
Army completely demoralized.
Revolt growing on the whole 'front.'"
was their general tone.
The first Russian army retreated
before the Germans without showing
the slightest resistance.
Talking Takes
Place of Fighting
Even the strong man, Korniloff,
could not restore discipline. He be-
ing a Cossack, the army thought him
too brutal for democratic chief, and
being connected with the high mill
tary officers of the old regime, New
Russia was afraid of his ultimate
dictatorship and the return of the
reactionary regime.
The last hope for the restoration of
the Russian army as fighting unit
was gone long before the peace dele
gates met at Brest-Litovsk, and the
Germans knew it.
Soldiers on the front were no long
err busy with fighting, but with DO
litical discussions and strikes. All
authority was in the hands of the
soldiers committee and they had to
decide on every movement of the
army and on each appointment of Of
ficers.
The whole army was turned into
political bodies, and the lower ele-
ments in the army took advantage of
the situation and deserted. Accord
ing to trustworthy statistics, over
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-31
He Gave the Beds
A Close Inspection

Joe Bowler was past gasping. Yet
there was final, infallible test. Limp
ing cautiously over to the side Of
one Of the beds, he whisked off the pill
low and pulled down the covers with
one swift motion of his hands, bent
close to the tick and peered at it
anxiously, the whole soul, of him in his
eyes. Gulping hoarsely for breath. he
whlrlcd upon another bed and repeated
the, rapid operation. Then he sank limp
~ back against the wall, drawing one
forearm dazcdly across his. eyes. The
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-31
Then the Whole
Old Order Vanished

Then came the revolution. There
was little disturbance at first. But
slowly and then with increasing
speed the whole of the old order
vanished. The policemen went, the
courts collapsed, the banks closed,
the food stores put up their shut
tiers, the streets filled with rowdies
and robbers, and we lived in terror
of our lives, kept half-starved in
side our freezing homes, trembled
for the safety of any man and more
for the safety Of any woman forced
to go out, waiting helplessly for the
raid of the bandits against which
we had no other protection than
prayer. Death walked at large
among US.
The real centre Of disorganization
was the army. In this first article
l wish to tell you Of that-to show
how the theories of brotherliness
and equality in which most of us
believed when the revolution broke
worked out when applied to the
fighting forces, how the canker
spread and how it overfowed the
nation. 1t was when the Bolshe.
vik ascendancy broke the last OF
the dam of discipline that, even
under Kerensky, had somewhat held
the army in check that the wors,
came. Discipline became matter
Of politics, and the soldiers left their
camps with no more fear than an
American workman quits his job
Ignorant, but seldom vicious, armed
and uncontrolled, Ivan began to
foci homeward.
armies returned from the
-seacnes as no other army in the
world has come home, whether
elated by victory or demoralized by
defeat. Childish and fierce. hungry,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-31

lines of the German trenches have
changed. The place of German SOL
ciers is occupied by German spies.
Fraternizing goes on on the whole
line. The German spies have en-
couraged the new Russian line of
thought. "Why fight? Are we not
comrades?"
The soldiers were busy with poll
tics. They were organizing their
own committees, condemning their
officers as "bourgeoisie" and remov-
ing them from their posts. In many
instances officers were killed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-31
Labor Shortage
Basis of the Chance

dozen causes have combined to
cnange all this. Pulp wood and con-
structlon lumber are now so scarce
ana so high in price that the Adiron
dacK companies have been forced to
more than treble the wages they paid
ten years ago to the men who cut
and haul their logs. To-day the aver
age !umberJack receives between SIS
ana $50 month, besides wholesome.
substantial food, far better in both
quantity and quality than the average
boarding house serves, and lodging in
warm, clean, we'll equipped bunk rooms.
Inc scarcity of labor forced the com.
panles to this last reform. They had
20 compete for workmen with the fac
torres employing skilled labor. They
must not only pay a competing wage,
but they must feed and lodge their
employees as we'll as they would be fed
and lodged in town.
But more than any other thing re-
sponslble for the regions .tral sforma-
t!on IS the prohibition ballot. In Frank
I'm county, where almost half the logs
IN New York State are turned into pulp
or Lumber, only three towns allow the
s selling or even the possession of liquor
within their limits. AS a result loss
than onefourth the camps lie within
days journey of saloon. Dcreft Of
easy access to his "budgc" the lumber
jack becomes changed be nr, or else
nc becomes no lumbcrjack at ali. To
the oid-time lumberjack whiskey was
moro in his life than his food. III there
mad existed no other cause the success
OF no-licensc campaigns in the Adiron-
dncks would have changed the whole
complexion Of lumberjackdom.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-31

rcclcd. For there, stretching the full
length of the 150-foot-long room, stood
row after row of clean quilted, white
pillowed, caster legged bcds-.bcds that
looked as neat and sweet and comfort
able as the rows in the hospital near
Montreal. Besides, there were big
washstand and looking glasses sans
cracks, towels cleaner than tAe faces
they were made to wipe and moro
pictures on the walls
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-31

trophe which has over
whelmed Russia comes as a
tremendous picture of destruction
a vast and inchoate upheaval-in-
comprehensive in it's parts and in
conceivable in it's details. You see
the crash of governments, the de-
struction of armies, but in the dis
tant and lurid picture you forget, if
you ever knew, that it's colors are
made up Of myriad minor tragedies,
you overlook the immense mass OF
private and personal drama of
which it is compounded.
1t is my purpose in these articles
to show you not Russia, but Rus
SLAMS. hope to give you glimpse
behind the doors of the homes of the
inhabitants of Petrograd, to take
you into the soldiers barracks and
the great factories, to go with you
among the peasantry. / should like
to make you see the picture as if il
were in your own homes-as if, in
dead, it were America and New
York that had fallen to bits, though
/ know you can never follow so wild
a supposition.
Yet to US it has been the same.
We were living in a well ordered
metropolis, supplied from a fertile
country, defended by vast armies,
(, regulated by a firm government.
!! There were grave faults to be found
with each of these agencies; there
were many minor differences be-
tween your country and ours. Yet
in essentials life was the same with
US as with you. We worked, ate,
slept and went about our business
and our pleasures as you do. Trans
and autos ran in our streets, our
corner stores provided our neces
saries, our theatres and cinemas ran
to full houses, the policeman pa
trolled our sidewalks. We were suf-
fering the effects of a long war
food was short, fuel was scarce,
prices were high. We complained
and there was unrest. But, all in
all, we were not greatly different
from yourselves.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-31

TWO American correspondents recemtly
Haparanda, the little Suedsh Russian bor-
DER OUTWARD bound from Perogyud and the Bosheviki
Neither had knocm the other leavig and the first
to speaL asked the other the of his Departure
Same you left, the ansUer. "Got tired OF
falling doWn ny belly every time motor bachfred"
That, dozen aUords, picture of life der the
Bosheuik. Many stories of that life hare out
tradctoyy confused and confusing Here at last
of vUid pictures By ho lived through all those days.
The acter Russian journalist soldier qvho has Just
to this country for rest. The he his
oU he going back and does not cish feel the heavy
hand of the Red Guard his shoulders. He vriter
uder the old regime, officer IN the Kerensky a1my aUhe
1t lasted and fugitive from the Boheviki He hno1us Rus
and tells of its condition to-day vh first hand noavl
edge and q vlvid pen.