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The Springdale news., 1918-08-09
THE GERMAN OFFENSIVE OF 1918.

The 1918 offensive of the German ar my, carefully planned at Berlin was in- tended to overcome the Allies before America could bring over any effective number of her troops. The successive German drives, which began March 21st, have now become history We cannot think of them without seeing the German divisions sent forward, close-packed, wave succeeding wave, upon the allied po-. sitions. In these drives, we know, the Germans were utterly regardless of life, and as their men fell others were advanc- ed to take their places.
 To meet these various drives the Allies under General Foch adopted the tactics of slow and cautious retreat giving up one position after another to the German assaults with as much conservation of men and supplies as possible. The period has been one of intense anxiety for all the allied countries. From day to day there was no certainty that the allied line would hold.
 General Foch was playing waiting game realizing that every day that pass ed without absolute defeat tended to strengthen the allied cause. America was enlarging her transportation facili- ties and increasing the troops she poured across the Atlantic 244,000 men cross ed ln May, 250, ,0OO in June, each unit bol- stering up the allied reserves.
 At last in the July drive General Foch felt himself strong enough to inaugurate policy of counter-attack. The German crown prince threw his forces forward in salient across the Marne Successive Ffench-American attacks imperiled the position of the German army and brought about its retreat.
 We now have the picture of the tables turned-the Germans in full retreat with tremendous losses of men and artillery. the French and Americans in pursuit The French though war-worn have not lost an iota of their spirit, and their cour age IS buoyed up by our fine American troops pouring in
 The balance Is again swinging toward the Allies. On the one side is a preat army advancing full of hope, with the certainty of a constant addition of fresh enthusiastic troops. The harvests of America guarantee an abundant food supply. On the other side is retreat, dis couragement in the field, a hungry and dissatisfied population at home. Our hopes are rightfully high. We look upon the present situation as the beginning of the end, and trust that this forward movement of the Allies will be halted on- ly when It has swept through the last line of German defenses.
 Canara1 Eoob,c nol;ox, of ,>a.:o.- -
The Springdale news., 1918-08-09
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY National Officials

fresioent Wood,.- Vice President ------ Tb .oW Wls Secretary of Treasury -- W;n \. aafl Secretary of State ---- D., u' AAa Secretary of War ------ Nos Lsrss Attorney General --------- Thsr Bas Postmaster General -- An VI. Grsgn Secretary of Navy ---- 1 6ulsa Secretary of Interior ------ Fr.I,tpA uaas Secretary of Agriculture - ls Secretary of Commerce -- w. aoass Secretary of Labor ----- u, V. Sedas U. s. Senators --------- Joe T Robinso, u I HA congressman rA aT
 State Officials '4aa Secretary of State -- IL 6o:s State Auditor r------------- len State Treasurer ------ saa ea otF Attorney General ------- Inc n slsG Superintendent of Public Instruction ,foHa Commissioner of Agriculture I.s. Ss Circuit Judge Jos c IT Chancellor Nor.p Prosecuting Attorney y------ Iro saaa state senator ----------------B H. Greasa.
 County Officials Representatives. Wilson Cardwe, Ray Bucb,,,.
 M. M. Collier ''Aa
 
 Sheriff M ufT C1a.'. na.. ce c1al,. --------- Jeff L Dsu County Clerk Clem p.- Assessor Lu.~ Treasurer ------------------ Jas h. coroner -..----,--.----T. B. Chds
 Township and City Officials
 Justices of the Pc ce-----R L. Atwood and r IT n, Constable R0. Mayor ------------=-------C. L Sup Counci-First Ward, J. M Hewitt, Frank p.rn
 Second Ward, J. Seely, Jess Horne. E.
 Ward, W. c. Banks, W. G. ThompsOn F1s
 Ward J. E. Martin, W A. Claypool City Marshall -------- .Jss flee is not for naught. Suffering has a ready made a different world. and Ouf the reddened fields will arise a spirit d unity and cooperation among men tv would have been impossible of creatiQh the slow and individual processes peace. We are paying great price N | we shall not lose.-Globe-De A service to distribute neighborhM news to the American fighting fors abroad has been organized. When meI three thousand miles away from home would be interesting to know even Wl | has happened to Neighbor Jones ye1a | dog.
The Springdale news., 1918-08-09
PUNCHY PARAGRAPHS.

PUNCHY PARAGRAPHS.
 All praise to the man who harvests and the woman who cans.
 The kaiser didn't raise his eldest boy to be soldier-only to command an ar my. There is difference.
 The occurrence which gives most joy to a man in an American cantonment is the issuing of his overseas equipment.
 The name of the river Ourcq Is sug- gestive of seasckness It is hoped that both name and river are making the Ger mans sick.
 Perhaps the Germans may some day give up their desire to try Paris cookery. The desire appears to be persistent and unfortunate one.
 U s. troops have appeared on the Ital- ian front They have undergone special training which renders them completely immune to garlic.
 America is pouring out her money and her blood like water, to the end that there shall never another Hohenzollern sit on the throne of the German empire
 Do not fail to put in your coal. If you wait until you need 1t next winter, you are likely to find black diamonds as scarce and hard to get as the blue-White ones
 How proud we are to have saved some wheat in our household now that we realize that our saving is part of the mag nificent total that has fed our army and saved the allies morale. Let the good work go on.
 Carl Sandburg says: "The kaiser and the czar will be thrown out on Gods great dustpan.' The allied army sweeping the Huns back at the Ourcq must be Gods great broom
 While cotton is growing up the price is going down. It is to be hoped that next year plain gingham gown will be within the reach of the ordinary American wo- man.
 Affairs in Russia seem to us like play P1 VeCeNHlS pC-llllu d IedNN CuTldlIl- sound and noi.e but no clear informa- tlon. If President Wilson sends his con- mission of inquiry there, we shall have some knowledge of the plot and acts.
 Don't rage at the German-American who throws monkey wrench into the machinery in our munition factories. if you throw bread crusts and the 'heels" into the garbage can. You may not have realized it, but such an act puts you in the same class. THINK
 Three men have just been arrested in New Jersey for trying to blow up muni- tion plants. Two of them were caught red-handed, yet all three have been grant ed bail. The bail is, of course, heavy, but when miscreant is caught in the act it seems hardly logical to grant bail at all. There Is always unlimited pro- German money ready to guarantee the re-appear- ance Of the accused, and those who fur nlsh 1t consider the offer an act of patri- otlc sacrifice. There is possibility that lnJudlcious leniency might tend to encour age further acts of sabotage.
The Springdale news., 1918-08-09

General Foch's policy of patience and waiting has been rewarded.
The Springdale news., 1918-08-09

All praise to the man who harvests and the woman who cans
The Washington times., 1918-09-04

Just what a wonderful work is
going on in the process OF refttins
these men for the greater national
life which will follow the war is moi
my story.
What 1 want to tell you is simply
an episode in the days work Of Gen
eral Gorgas.
The Washington times., 1918-09-04
Who Stands Between You
and Danger?
The Policeman. of Course Then Read This ~Kiek In
By EARL GOODWIN.


Whenever sit down to think about the police force
OF Washington have string of thoughts which weave
and out among all the others and makes take hat
off to the men who guard our lives and homes.
That thought Is simply this: That every day each
policeman goes out to risk his life to yours from
harm.
There day that he is not standing the chance
OF facing the blazing gun of the yeggman murderer
There has never been to my knowledge any time that
Washington policeman has not FACED blazing gun
with anything but the utmost courage.
In this day when people giving more serious at
enon than to the courage of the who risk their
lives, it is possible that interest Washington
than In the uniform bravery of the Washington police
want to do to call attention to the fact that there
police relief fund which is depleted and needs reng
That fund established in 1869 and is the oldest
in the world 1t is entirely for the benefit of the widows
and orphans of policemen who die At present the wild
ows and orphans the roll getting very little comfort
from the fund there big deficit and $4,000 of much
needed pension money is overdue
Therefore the business of the city are arranging
a baseball game-Poce Home Defense-to be played
at the bal yard out Seventh street way September
T. 1t Will be good baseball game ESQ ODELL SMITH
PROMISES and every in this city who has the slight
est conception of the VALUE of policeman to life and
property should dig down and buy at least FIVE tickets
when the policeman offers you handful
The Washington times., 1918-09-04

SURGEON GENERAL GoRGAs.
the greatest sanitarian in the world
as have had occasion to say pub
licly on one or two occasions, is
heart and soul interested in the re-
building Of the men who have sac
riflced themselves to the cause Of lib
erty-and who have returned
wounded.
The Washington times., 1918-09-04
"Who Only Stand and Wait
LIEUT.. J. TEMPLE GRAVES, JR.,
Fort Washington, Md.

"They also serve"-
But we have stood these many months,
Taut and set
To spur our small wits and high resolves
Across the burning plains of France,
And filled our souls with cannonadeS,
And come to dream in stuff of fire and death,
Beating our sharp fancies til they bled
Dry of fear or brooding or the secret hope
To hold some corner of ourselves intact
From all the catacysm asked;
Long since we dipped our souls in such brine
That now we Shiver here outside the fires
In France, and all the deaths we know
Is commonplace and waiting, and the beat
Of eager pulses in an ordered place
Far from France;
Til we have come to think it cowardice
To anywhere be safe or look upon a woman's face
o. walk to earth outside of France;
We "also serve" but God
See how this waiting renders us apart,
See all our hearts and dream and soul
Is leaping, fighting, dying, winning,
Tossing over there
The Washington times., 1918-09-04
TODAYS TOPIC
WOMAN'S GREATEST ALLY.

cave-man's male descendants and
works her magic-black or white
accordingly. And sometimes she
applies the tailsman to her fellow
woman, only she, too. has the intui-
tive method to fall back on, and it
becomes a case Of diamond cut
diamond with the ladies, and is not
to be depended upon as a case Of
a poor, defenseless male.
Back in the good old cave days
the caveman was so busy hunting
for food and furs that he had no
time to cultivate his masculine in
tuitions, which accounts for the
fact that he hasn't any worth
mentioning today. So he must de-
pend on a bleak process called
reasoning, for getting himself out
of his scraps, and staving off "fem-
mine intuitions" from various
quarters.
So when people say a woman is
"utterly blind" to her husband it
does not mean that she loves him
more deeply than the wife who
sees. Only that nature has passed
The Washington times., 1918-09-04
the War Workers
Especially for Washington Women

ture, is apt to expect too much of
her Prince Charming.
The young girls intuitions also
are less well developed than those
Of the older woman; she has not
yet acquired that exquisite fine
ness in anticipating what we may
call "barometrical conditions"
otherwise, she has not become the
skilled domestic weather prophet
that the older woman is likely to
be.
The fair young creature, unless
she be wise beyond her years, will
disregard many intimations of
fatigue on the part of her hus-
band and suggest an evening at
the movies" or some other out
ing, demanding more driving
power from the already "tired
business man."
The older woman, with more
tact, is apt to bring the head Of
the house his slippers and house
coat, with the suggestion that she
read to him from an amusing book
she has just picked up at the Ii
brary.
So face showing wrinkles may
have moments of rare charm, and
seem more valuable as a house
hold possession than one having a
complexion of peaches and cream
and with it the heedlessness and
want of thought that frequently
goes with youth.
Now that the war has speeded
up the evolution of women so tre-
mendously, and she is daily re-
garded as more of a responsible
person, she will require the legacy
of intuition from her cave great
great-grandmother less than for
merly.
And in the course of time-if
she continues to exercise her new
found reasoning faculties-she is
apt to lose it altogether. No longer
will she have to gauge the mood
of the cave mans great-grandson
many times removed, for the pur-
pose Of wheedling from him a blue
hat, a pair of high heeled shoes,
or limousine. Perhaps there will
be no limousine in those days, as
wealth will, undoubtedly, be pref
ty equally divided.
Instead Of wheedling, this wo-
man of the future will take coun-
sci with her own logical faculties
in regard to the-then equivalent
of the blue hat, high heeled
shoes, or the limousine. And she
will decide in her own court of
final appeal, whether or not she
will take unto herself these vani-
ties.
There will, undoubtedly, be more
real love matches in those future
days, and fewer of what we now
call marriages of convenience"
Men and women will be on an en-
tirely equal footing-and the well
fare Of the children will be the
greatest concern Of eEery one
The Washington times., 1918-09-04
wv HENEVER I get a letter
w from Washington wom-
w an hepinninp. GMv hus-

an DeBlnnlng. my nus
band is the best man in the world,
but" then l know that the
wife of his bosom is going to clear
out the card index she has been
mentally keeping for years in re-
gard to him, and start all over
again with fresh reserves Of pa
tience, tenderness and affection.
For love may be blind, but the
most loving wife seldom is. And
the blind" wife never really holds
her husband like one who is in
full possession of all her faculties.
Her blindness" means she is de-
ficient in those womanly intuitions
that enable a little ninety-pound
wisp Of feminnity to twist a two
hundred pound husband around
her finger and have him rejoice in
his subjugation.
For because Of the long, black
night of medievalism from which
women are Just beginning TO
emerge, she is still a creature OF in
tuitive impulse-and her intui-
tions are invariably right.
Intuitions were originally the
method of protection supplied by
nature, during long cons OF time,
to defend her from creatures OF
greater physical strength. To en-
able her to secure greater toler-
ance for herself and her children,
the wife of the cave-man knew,
she must please. She knew that
she enjoyed the shelter Of the cave,
subject to the cave-man's whim.
And if he got mad" he would be
likely to cudgel her and her chill
dren out of doors to take their
chances with weather and wild
beasts.
She gauged her lord and masters
moods carefully, as it was a qnes-
ton of survival with her. So you
may be sure that sitting ia a dark
corner Of a cavern, patching with
her bone needle the cays-man's FUR
shoulder cape, or his MARY Gar
den throw" or whatever he may
have called his best fur set, that
she studied his mood thoroughly
and exhaustively before she made
any suggestions OF personal or
business nature.
From this intense study Of
symptoms, she evolved a magical
sense OF clairvoyance in regard TO
people which we call, at the pres
ent time, feminine intuitions"
And these same intuitions were the
weapons that stayed by and helped
to develop her, through the long
ages, from the uncouth, dirty,
grunting cave-woman, into the ex-
quisitely dressed, coifed, groomed,
manicured product we see today.
And the modern woman has still
kept cave great-great-great-and
some hundred times more great
grandmother's marvellous legacy
TO this day. With this talisman,
she sttll gauges the moods Of thu
The Washington times., 1918-09-04

her up," forgotten to endow her
with this very valuable inheritance.
But the triumph Of love is, when
a wife not only sees all the
strength and weakness, good and
bad, the scrap of divinity along
with the scrap of Satan, that goes
to make up her man, yet loves him
through thick and thin in spite of
everything.
This is the kind of love that. en-
dures, in spite of the ravages of
ill-fortune, through better or
worse, until death us do part I"
The married love that has a large
element of the maternal in its
makeup appears to have the most
enduring qualities. And maternal
love surely sees, even when it af-
fects to be "blind."
1t is for. this reason, in all prob
ability, that marriages between
older women and younger men are
so often conspicuously successful.
The older wife makes allowances,
where a girl, lacking in any ac-
quired knowledge of human ma
The Washington times., 1918-09-04
Complains of Careless Motornen

To the Editor OF The Times:
In the issue OF The Washington
Times OF August 27th. under Heard
and Seen, z. J. STEELE agrees with
you relative to certain conditions
which exist in the poor street car
service here in Washington.
On several occasions 1 have taken
my wife and son for q car ride to
Glen Echo. Now that front seat di-
rectly back OF the motorman should
be used for the public and not re-
'ssrVed for the motorman and at times
the conductor.
On all the trips we have made to
Glen Echo have seen the motorman
sit down in this front seat soon after
leaving the exchange station in
Georgetown. I stood up in the car
many times TO see IL his hands were
where they should be, and sure
.eDough It was just aS l thought, his
hapa4 yers sYeHWheEe except whera
The Washington times., 1918-09-04

! they should have been. There is a
sign which reads something like this:
The motorman can not talk with
you. his attention must be directed
to the operation OF the car" l be-
lieve his hands should remain on the
controller and air brake, and then
his attention would be on the opera
tion of the car. Fill the front seats
and the youngsters cannot sit down
and some conductors can not take
their coats OF and visit the motor
man during the running of the car.
On one of these trips the trolley
pole left the feed wire. Car in dark
ness how long II took the motorman
to get out OF seat, gather his wits
find levers and bring car to stop
cannot say, but several ladies and one
or two men remarked that the motor
man had better stand up and pay at
tention TO business
The Washington times., 1918-09-04
Now THAT'S Settled.

NOU A2AAL OCslAC4s
ED BRADY jumps on me personally
and J. SAALLWOOD by letter for
misquoting Old Hoss aoey's famous
song. Ed says that the chorus stated
the fact that the girls winked the
other eye, and Mr.. Smailvood AYERS
that the singer walked-not mere
ly along "the boulevarde" but along
the Bois de Boulogne."
And speaking Of songs Of q day
long dead, D. R. BURHANS comes mp
with an armful. Unload. Mr.. Bur
hans:
Do you remember the following
named popular songs that used to
be sung and whistled by the musical
swat Till the Clouds Roll By.
Jennie" Little Annie Rooney Is My
Sweetheart" School Days." "Com-
rades," "Harrigan, That's Me-" Hes
Afraid to Go Home in the Dark"
(originally sung by May Irwin
ats English, Quite English, Yer
Know" Originally sung by the late
Henry E. Dixie in "Adonis'D, Let
Her Go, Gallagher" Listen to My
Tale Of Woe," Swinging in the
Grape Vine Swing" at Used to Be
the Caper, But II Don't Go Now" "
Don't Say Goodbye, But Au Re
voir," "on the Wabash Far Away"
REPRESENTATIVE COX Of In
diana, who used to take pride in the
fact that he had never ridden in an
automobile, now declares that there
are more slackers in the District of
Columbia than anywhere on earth.
1t might be q good idea for Mr.. Cox
to start counting them in Indiana.
Anyhow, I'll match President Will
SON against Brother Cox. President
Wilson says he has not found any
Stacker evidence among the war
workers Of Washington.
wonder II the unthinking Con-
gresham who calls an officer in
Washington names ever stopped to
realize that the officer is here under
orders and CAN'T go anywhere
else? Gen. PEYTON MARCH isn't
much of a Stacker, for instance, and
he's here UNDER ORDERS.
Thousands of officers are here
UNDER ORDERS at material sac
rifces. So let's have done with this
inane, senseless, foolish, cruel, un-
just, ignorant blab about army Of
fcers in Washington; also about the
civilian war worker in Washington.
If Congressman Cox and his gang
will get little more money for the
underpaid Government clerk he will
be doing quite enough without
spreading slander:
Songs Of a Day Long Gone.
Oh, the moon is far tonight along the
Wdbosh;
From the fields there comes the scent
Of Heto motoH hoy;
Through the SycamOres the coHdls light
Ls cleaning,
On the banks Of the Wabash, far GtedV.
"WdSnt thers chance for barber
shop stuff.
SURGEON GENERAL GORGAs,
the greatest sanitarian in the world
as | have had occasion to say pub
licly on one or two occasions, is
heart and soul interested in the re-
building Of the men who have sac
rificed themselves to the cause Of lib
erty-and who have returned
wounded.
Just what a wonderful work is
going on in the process OF refttiug
these men for the greater national
life which will follow the war is not
my story.
What 1 want to tell you is simply
an episode in the days work Of Gen
eral Gorgas.
On an inspection trip to Walter
Reed Hospital, where so many
wounded men are conyalescent, the
general happened to see a private
who had lost his arm in France.
"Where did you come from?" he
asked.
From Michigan, sir. l Was q
farmer"