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Baxter Springs news., 1918-03-22

There is n medley Of patriotic
songs in all the bands books and in
these days of war every band and or
chestra which gives a concert plays
it, says the lola Register. The med
ley starts out with "The Red, White
and Blue" follows it with March
ing Thru Georgia" and that with
Maryland, My Maryland" and that
with "The Girl ! Left Behind Me-"
and that with "Dixie," and that with
something else, and finally winds up
with "The Star Spangled Banner"
It happens in nearly every audience
that there are some who either do
not know "The Red. White and
Blue" from "The Star Spangled Ban
ner," or who labor under the error
that it is the proper thing to stand
up when any patriotic air is played.
And so it nearly always happens that
somebody rises to his feet as soon
rs the band strikes up "The Red,
White and Blue" The rest of the
audience hasn't the moral courage
10 remain seated, and so everybody
gets up. And then pretty soon they
ind themselves reverently standing
Ehile the band rollicks off into "The
Girl l Left Behind Me"-and they
'eel foolish. They feel still more
foolish when they find themselves
honoring "DiXie,". the battle hymn
Of the Southern Confederacy, and
hey usually sit down with a good
leal of thud. Then few minutes
later when "The Star Spangled Ban
ner" really begins they do not know
whether to get up or not. Of course
here is no law against an audience
rising when any tune is played. But
The United States army regulations
require a soldier to stand at atten-
lion only when "The Star Spangled
Banner" is being played, and these
regulations especially set forth that it
5 not necessary to do this if the
anthem is played merely as part Of
a medley. And that is a pretty
good rule for all the rest Of US to
follow. We have a lot of patriotic
.unes, but we have only one nation
al anthem. Let US try to learn to
distinguish it from other tunes, and
then let US wait for it before coming
to attention. 1t will save a lot
of embarrassment.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-03-22
SPADE YOUR GARDENS
Turn Grass and Weeds Under to Help
Enrich the Soil

Spade your garden now. You will
lose if you do not. The conditions of
the ground and weather makes it pos
sible and the advantage you will gain
makes it profitable. 1t will require
no more labor now than later. Ground
plowed last fall need not be spaded
until you are ready to plant.
Spade eiSrt to fifteen inches deep,
unless the l:,tter depth turns up poor
soil. Pulverize the dirt deeply with
the hoe, spade and rake; breaking all
clods on the surface. A lawn roller,
Il available, Is useful in crushing hard
clods.
All vegetable growth on the sur
face, such as grass, weeds and vines,
should be turned under to rot and en-
rich the soil
Baxter Springs news., 1918-03-22

What if the members of the Baxter
Springs Chamber of Commerce were
to apply the same business methods
the city administration did in letting
the city printing, and take their
printing and publishing patronage
entirely away from the paper that
opposed the Commission-manager
plan of government, endorsed unani-
mously by the Chamber of Com
merce? If that were to happen there
would have to be q change in the
ownership of the Broad-AX or it
would be compelled to move out OF
town from lack of patronage. The
Baxter News has twice or thrice the
circulation the Herald has, and by
reason Of that fact is entitled to the
city printing at the rate established
by law, but simply and entirely as n
matter of spite work the city council,
without notice, deprived the News of
its rights and gave the printing to a
paper with no circulation to speak Of,
let alone emitting it to the contract
The Broad-Ax claims to have saved
the city $500 on the work it has al
ready done, but if it were paid on a
circulation basis the Broad-AX would
have received less than half it was
paid. These are facts the News is
ready to back up with actual figures,
so come on P. Keener and bring the
city council with you if you want the
figures.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-03-22

Activity at the Baxter Springs Red
Cross rooms is now we'll organized,
and the units are composed of loyal
patriotic workers who are into the
work heart and soul. To visit their
rooms and see them cutting and sew
ng and knitting leads us to pause
and wonder as men If we are doing all
in our power to aid in this wonderful
work.
Your boy-my boy is "over There"
,r soon will be, he is wounded, sick
and dying; we would certainly fly to
his relief If we could and tenderly
care for him, bathe his painful in
juries, clothe him in clean, soft gar
.nents, and place cool, soft pillow
meath his throbbing head, but the Red
Cross does all these things and even
more; they can place the Red Cross
emblem over his heart and Oh! the
sight of 1t must give him hope, and
bring him back across the dark seas,
home again. 1t is comforting to
many that the Baxter Springs chapter
and the units all over our fair coun-
Try are doing this noble work for our
BOYS who must of necessity undergo
suffering and possible death, hundreds
of miles from home, relatives and
friends.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-03-22

Before buying your seed potatoes,
see us.-New System Grocery.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-03-22
GET RICH CATCHING FLIES
Tinsley Hardware Co, Will Buy All
Flies This Summer at Ten
Cents the Quart

o. B. Tinsley has hit upon unique
plan to assist in saving the babies Of
this town by offering to buy all dead
flies brought to his store this summer
at 10c the quart. Mr.. Tinsley is also
offering, through the Ladies Auxil-
iary to the Chamber of Commerce,
prizes of $1,000, $3.50 and $500, for
the best kept lawns and yards in the
city this summer, including back and
front. He will also give the same
amounts for the best gardens in the
city-these prizes to be awarded by
the Ladies of the Auxiliary, under ar
rangements and rulings formulated
by the Auxiliary. Get in touch with
the ladies', get the plans and go after
these prizes. You can win the first
prize in each class, and $4,000 is not
picked up every season while you are
working to your own advantage and
interest.
Mr.. Tinsley is wide-awake town
builder, with a boosting spirit that in
cludes putting up his coin, and he
wants every property owner in Bax-
ter Springs to get into the town
beautifying proposition and the in
tensive gardening effort as well as
dispensing with the measley pests of
flies, and is going about it in busi-
ness way; so get busy and get his
coin which will be bestowed just as
freely as the air you breathe.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-03-22
"FOR THE MEN AT THE FRONT"
John Oxenham

Lord God of Hosts, whose mighty
hand
Dominion holds on sea and land,
In Peace and War Thy Will we see
Shaping the larger liberty.
Nations may rise and nations may
fall,
Thy Changeless Purpose rules them
all.
When Death flies swift on wave OF
field,
Be thou a sure defence and and shield
Console and succor those who fall,
And help and hearten each and all!
o, hear a peoples prayers for those
Who fearless face their cOuntry's
foes!
For those who weak and broken lie,
In weariness and agony
Great Healer, to their beds Of pain
Come, touch, and make them whole
again!
o, hear a peoples prayers, and bless
Thy servants in their hour Of stress.
For those to whom the call shall come
We pray Thy tender welcome home.
The toll, the bitterness, all past,
We trust them to their love at last.
o, hear q peoples prayers for all
Who, nobly striving, nObly fall!
To every stricken heart and home,
o, cOmel in tenderest pity, come!
To anxious souls who wait in fear,
Be thou most wonderfully near!
And hear q peoples prayers for
faith
To quicken life and conquer death!
For those who minister and heal,
And spend themselves, their skill,
their zeal
Renew their hearts with Christ-like
faith,
And guard them from disease and
death.
And in thine own good time, Lord,
send
Thy peace on earth till time shall
end.
The above beautiful hymn is being
sung in many of the Washington, d.
c., churches, nearly all of which are
doing special work for the soldiers
who spend their week-ends in the
Capital City. Entertainments, re-
suppers and places for rest,
,r where a soldier can meet a comrade
DR. sit down and read or write, are
provided by many patriotic congre-
cations, and many of the churches
display service flags showing that
arge numbers of their members are
inder the flag. The hymn is sung
% the tune of 'Melita" and is a per-
iect prayer for all those who are do
ng their part in active service.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-03-22

Baxter Springs was full to running
over with people Saturday and Sat
urday evening, and the merchants
were all busy to capacity. The Lead
ar store reports the biggest days bus
mess in it's history and the o. B. Tins
ley Hardware Co., the next best. The
Citizen takes great pride in relating
The above facts and is going joyfully
on its way to assist in building o
Bigger and Better Baxter Springs.
Do your bit and help the good work
along.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-03-22

This isn't a sob story, tho there
may be a sob or two in 1t, says the
Parsons Sun. II is just q plain tale
Of q boy-somewhere around twelve
who was sent to the state hospit-
al here for the treatment Of epilepsy.
He wasn't dangerous and was not
placed under restraint. He lived in
one of the outside cottages and had
the privilege of the grounds. But he
wasn't such a big boy, and despite
the fact that the hospital offered
more comfort than the home he left
near Kansas City he got to thinking
now nice it was up there. Home
that means q lot even to q boy that
must be treated for an affliction;
perhaps more to him than to boys
who are wholly normal. And so the
other day he couldn't stand it any
longer and he started for home. Not
on the cars or by automobile--not
even by wagon. We wanted to go
home so badly that he walked. lie
got as far as Chanute before he tired
out. The officers there cared for
him until the hospital officials could
send for him. And he is back now
in the cottage. Doubtless he still
thinks of home, and how nice it
would be there. For the thoughts
of youth-even those of an afflicted
boy-are long, long thoughts.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-03-22

"A new religion is going to come
out of the trenches" says writer
to the American Magazine. 81 call
it q 'shirt-sleeve religion because il
is going to be practical, s,raightiOr-
ward and honest. Men who used to
laugh at preachers and call them
sanctimonious hypocrites have learn
ed to understand and to reverence
their sky pilots on the battlefield.
And maybe the chaplains themselves
have learned q thing or two about
the great mass of men,"
Baxter Springs news., 1918-03-22

The father and mother of every boy
and girl in our schools should be ire
mendiously interested in the report of
a committee which has been making
a study of the physical and mental
diagnosis of school children. Helen
T. Wooley, director of the vocation
bureau of public schools in Cincinnati,
is the chairman Of this committee
which will report at the National Con-
ference of Social Work, in Kansas
City, May 1922. At present as nev-
er before it is understood how much
il may mean in the life of the child
to have his physical and mental ills
corrected while in the formative per-
iod. Helen T. WoOley is a wonder
fully trained woman and what will be
brought out in the report and its dis
cussion will be of benefit not only to
all parents but to all teachers in BaX-
ter Springs and Cherokee county. II
would be necessary to travel many
niles and spend many dollars to OBJ
tain the information which viii be m
Baxter Springs news., 1918-03-22
NJ logs and ca\p Found re
lat Large ordered XII
lsA>N Food dminis-
- tratOF

tuhuc pihinp DuI - suC 1ONCAAAhShI No
ally finds q means of enforcing the
rulings Of its administrators, it will
be we'll for people owning pets with
hair and tails to keep them secreted
in the garret or cellar.
Mr.. Hoover explains that one Of
the greatest factors toward winning
the war is food. II we are to have
plenty of food we must have success
full gardens. Every obstacle in the
way Of war gardens must be removed
Mr.. Hoover has also instructed the
state and county administrators.
Mayors in several towns have taken
the matter up and instructed the city
police to kill all cats and dogs found
running loose, regardless Of whether
they have tax tags or not.
The war gardens must be protect.
ed. Successful gardens cannot be had
if dogs and cats are allowed to rur
over them.
During the past two weeks twenty
dogs and several cats have been killed
by the police at Galena.
The people have answered readil!
to the call of the government tt
raise gardens this spring and every
measure possible will be taken tt
protect these gardens and make
them a success.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-03-22

Mrs. Frank A. Beebe of the Liber-
ty rooming house, has recently re-
turned from Rogers, Ark, whittier
she went to attend the funeral Of her
mother. She was accompanied upon
her return by her father, ]. F. Nit
chell, who will remain the guest Of
Mrs. Beebe and family some weeks.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-03-22
tside County, s1.5O a year
Editor and Publisher

this last up-to-the-minute reiou
which will be heard in Kansas City at
the Conference. 1t is as much q civic
and patriotic duty to inform oneself
on the newest methods by which we
can improve the bodies and minds Of
our growing citizens as to do Red
Cross work or buy Liberty Bonds, and
is n pleasant task in the doing.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-03-22
TRY THIS FOR SOUR STOMACH

Eat slowly, masticate your food
thoroughly. Eat but little meat and
none at all for supper. II you are
still troubled with sour stomach take
one Of Chamberlain'a Tablsts before
going 70 BED. 4 -
Baxter Springs news., 1918-03-22

A prominent Kansan says: TITS a
toss-up whether LaFollette should be
hanged as n traitor OF confined in u
iunatic asylum" Why not muzzle him
and not let him make a speech for
ten years? If you are going to pun
ish him, punish him a plenty.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-03-22
FOR A BAD COLD

Take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.
Il has stood the test Of time and can
be depended upon.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-21
Famine i'm Vienna

LONDON, Dec. 2o.-Serious condi-
tions in Vienna because of the lack of
food and textiles there are reported by
the chief of the British mission to pris-
oners of war in Austria, now in the
Austrian capital, according to Vienna
dispatch.
Starving mothers in the Austrian
capital are unable to obtain milk for
their children and the babies are dying
by hundreds, the message states. The
mothers are also without swaddling
clothes for their infants and are
newspapers.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-21
Berlin Again Appeals to
u. S. and Ignores Allies
Asks Food and Armist;ce Mod;
hcations Despite Lansing's
Admonition

WASHINGTON. Dec. 20.-In spite of
Secretary Lansing's emphatic admoni-
ton that such communications must
not be addressed to the United States
alone, the German government has sent
another appeal to the American gov
ernment for modification of the admis-
tice terms and for food
The receipt of the note was an
nounced at the State Department to-
day with the explanation that it would
not be made public because it did not
differ from previous appeals and was in
violation of the decision that commu-
nications must be adressed to all the
governments associated with the United d
States in the war.
While it is realized that the situa-
tion in Germany is far from good, the
persistent appeals are regarded here
as part of propaganda by which the
authorities at Berlin hope to escape
some Of the results of defeat
New-York tribune., 1918-12-21
1--WE Want to Bear
Part Blame, % Says
Bavarian Official
Open Letter to Mr.. Wilson
Declares Eyes of Germany
Are on the President and
Look to Him for Justice

MUNICH, Dec. 10 (By The Associated
Press).-Ceneral Count Max Montgelas,
who was recalled from Switzerland to
enter the Bavarian Cabinet November 81
and who has been referred to by French
newspapers as the Second Lichnow-
sky because of his revelations of con-
dltlons prevailing in Germany early in
the war. has published an open letter
to President Wilson. 1t follows:
In these decisive weeks the ewes of
all the world are upon you. Above all,
the eyes of the German people, in the
present difficult crisis, are watching
you. We do not beg. we do not want
forgiveness, but want Justice We do
not say Enthusiastically that one of us is
gulltler than the other. We do not sep
arate ourselves in these days of suffer
ing from any of our countrymen, high
or low. We want to bear in common
a portion of the blame devolving upon
our people in this world catastrophe.
Each of us who knows your country
knows we'll that proud, conscious Amer
lean nation beneath the Star Spangled
Banner and honors it. We disdain to
blame others, but we expect, Mr.. Presi-
dent, that you will, despite all oppo-
sltion, achieve success with the prin-
cipes you laid down.
eve are building upon the words you
spoke at Washington's grave, when you
said that every arbitrary power, re-
gardless of what side it appears upon,
must be destroyed or condemned to i'm
potency. We are building upon the
word of impartial justice, which knows
no difference as to those to be judged.
We are confident that you want to
create a league of equality between
nations, in which each people may
freely breathe and work and prosper
spiritually
"You know better than ] what the
German spirit has given your great
people. You know the world can do
without this spirit less than ever after
it has been freed from the bonds of
mlitarism. If our expectations are de-
ceived, we shall not cease fighting on
for the attainments of better days
Your message is hopeful, but we must
be afraid that not all the Allies will
listen to your words. You have power
and you have a duty to perform"
New-York tribune., 1918-12-21
w estminster to Unveil .
Saint-Caudens's Lincoln
Controversy Over Statue Is
Ended; Barnard Work to Go
to Some Other CITY

LONDON, Dec. 2o.--The statue of
Lincoln by Augustus Saint-Gaudens
will be placed in the Canning inclosure
at Westminster, according to the deci
sion of the American commission ap-
pointed to decide whether Saint-Gau
denss work or the monument of Lin
coin by George Grey Barnard should
be selected for this honor. The Bar
nard statue will be offered to some
other prominent British city.
The Anglo-American Society has ar
ranged with committee of Americans,
headed by President Nicholas Murray
Butler of Columbus University and j.
P. Morgan, for the completion of qthe
Saint Gaudens Lincoln at an early date
and its shipment to London, where its
unveilng will be the occasion OF
great public demonstration.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-21
Prof. Lovett Testifies for
Defence at Berger Trial
Saws He Addressed Meeting;
Asserts Tucker Did Not
Talk About War

CHICAGO. Dec. 20.-Professor Rob
ert s. Lovett. dean of the Junior Col
lege of the University of Chicago, tes-
tilted for the defence to-day at the
trial of five Socialist leaders charged
with conspiracy to violate the espion-
age law. He told of mass meeting at
the Auditorium, Chicago, May 27, 1917,
which he was invited to address by
the Rev. Irwin St. John Tucker, one of
the defendants. Professor Lovett said
he was told the meeting was called to
urge the government to state its war
aims, and that Mr.. Tucker did not speak
New-York tribune., 1918-12-21
Y. M. c. A. Inquiry Starts
One Plan to Send Newspaper
Man Abroad to Investigate

Captain Percy T. Edrop, who has been
appointed by DR.. John R. Mott, chief
executive Of the National War Council
of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
tion, to sift the many complaints that
have been made by returning soldiers
of the service given by the Y. M. c. A.
in France, said yesterday that the
Y. M. c. A. officials are determined to
get at the bottom of all these charges.
1t is understood that, as far as the
service of the Y. NJ. C. A. abroad is con-
cerned, it has been recommended to
the National War Council that a news
paper corresp spondent in Washington,
whose name is not disclosed, be sent
abroad to discover the truth as to the
charges. 1t is felt that man who is
not connected with the Y. M. C. A.
should make an investigation.
The local situation, it is understood,
will be dealt with by talking to the
various soldiers who have just re-
turned from the front. to obtain from
them exact details 80 particulars of
the charges thew make
New-York tribune., 1918-12-21
League Wants
Beaten Legislators
Kept From Seats
Col. Lydecker, National Sc
cmrity President, Tells the
House Committee of Or
ganization's Programme

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2O.-Coloncl
Charles E. Lydecker, president of the
National Security League, to-day told
the House committee investigating
that organization's activities in the last
Congressional campaign, that the
leagues expenses from December ID,
1914, when it was formed, until last
September 30, were $521,678. The total
receipts were given as $619,165, this in
Guiding membership fees and contribu
tions.
Colonel Lydecker told the committee
that the activities of the league will
not cease with the ending of the war.
and he outlined a pretentious educa
tlonal programme, which, he said, is
now under consideration.
The Leagues Programme
The Congressional Committee, which
carried on the campaign last fall to re-
turn 100 per cent Americans to Con.
gress, will continue it's work." said the
witness, "and will endeavor to accom-
pllsh the following things:
Estaollsh national budget system
anollsh the rule of seniority in deter
mlnlng chairmanships of committees
OF Congress, abolish inactive commit.
tees, pass constitutional amendment
which will make it impossible for de-
feated candidates to sit in that bodv
aoollsh inactive committees, bring
about reform of franking abuses and
TO have Cabinet officers sit in Con
gress." 00'''
During a discussion of the history
Oh 'he organlzatlon, Colonel Lydeckel
was was asked why S. Stanwood Menker
had resigned as president Of the league
last June. Colonel Lydecker repiiec
that after Mr.. Menken had refused r.
creprobate William Randolph Hearst
tor opposing certain national prepared
ness measures" both Mr.. Menken ano
members of the executive committae
had decided it would be better for hin
to resign.
What MeRken Said
Mr.. Menken gave an interview to re-
porters of The New York American
when Mr. Hearst complained it wasn'
ialr for the league to abuse him afte,
he had rendered such aid to it in the
early days of its organization" Colone
Lydecker said. 'In his interview Mr.
Menken told how much the Hearst pub
llcatlons had aided the league, ant
added that the public's opposition tow
ard Hearst was due more to the wa,
they looked at his articles than to tn,
facts the articles contained.
That statement burned it's way int,
the minds. of the people, as Hearst wa.
being seriously criticised at that tim,
Tor his 1.titude toward the war, and a
any one who stood by him came unde
the most severe condemnation of tn,
National Security League, it was be
lleved new league president shoul,
be chosen"
Record of Expenses
Presenting to the committee record
showing the leagues expenditures sine
its organization, Colonel Lydecke
stated the largest disbursement ha
been $471, ,15347 for general expenses
and that S13,19S.06 had been spent fo
publications and $37,32657 had bee
placed in six special accounts for con
ducting campaigns, paying speakers
purchasing French books for soldiers
and the like.