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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-09-13
II you DON'T

II you don't"
I waited no longer. Standing upon
the bench as II to put the bag on the
rack and taking hold Of the rack with
any left hand and q strap that hung
from the top Of the car with my right,
! pulled myself up. showed my feet and
legs out Of the window and let 90.
There was a prayer on my lips rs !
went out, and ] expected a bullet be-
tween my shoulders. but II was al
over In an instant.
! landed on my left side and face.
burying my face In the rock ballast.
cutting II open and closing my left
eye, skinning my hands and shins and
straining my ankle. For a few mo-
meRts ! was completely knocked out.
and n they shot at me through the
window, in the first moments after my
escape. ! had no way Of knowing.
OF course, II they could have stopped
the train right then. they could easily
have recaptured me. but at the speed It
was going and in the confusion which
must have followed my escape. they
probably didn't stop within half Of q
mile from the spot where lay.
came to within q few minutes and
when examined myself and found no
bones broken. / didn't stop to worry
about my cuts and bruises, but jumped
up with the idea Of putting as great a
distance between me and that track as
possible before daylight came. Still be-
ing dazed, forgot oil about the barbed
wire fence along the right Of way and
ran full tilt into 1t. Right there ! lost
one Of my two precious pieces Of bread,
which fell out Of my knapsack, but I
could not stop to look for It then.
The one thing that was uppermost In
my mind was that for the moment I
was free. and 1t was up to me now to
make the most Of my liberty.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-09-13

land. he lost interest In the argument.
Some days before, had made up my
mind that II would be very good
thing to get hold Of map Of Germany,
which knew was In the possession OF
one Of the German interpreters, be-
cause realized that II ever the OPP
portunlty came to make my escape,
such a map might be Of the greatest
assistance TO me.
With the idea Of stealing this map
accordingly. a lieutenant and ! got In
front OF this interpreters window one
day and engaged in a very hot arEu'
ment US to whether Heidelberg was on
the Rhine or not, and We argued back
and forth so vigorously that the Ger
man came out OF his room, map In
hand, TO settle II. After the matter
was entirely settled to our satisfac'
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-09-13
CHAPTER VI.
A Lean for Liberty.

I had been in prison at Courtral
nearly three weeks when, on the morn
ing Of September 9th, i and six other
officers were told that we were to be
transferred to a prison camp In Ger
many.
One Of the guards told me during the
day that we were destined for a re-
prisal camp in StrassburgA They were
sending Us there to keep our airmen
from bombing the place.
he explained that the English car
ried German officers on hospital ships
for q similar purpose and he excused
the German practice Of torpedoing
these vessels on the score that they
also carried munidonsl When !
pointed out to him that FRpce would
hardly Be- asndlnE mgninonl 70 AE-
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-09-13

four miles, sat down to rest for q
moment on a shock Of brush which
was sheltered from the drizzle some
what by other shocks which were
stacked there. It was daylight when
I awoke, and I found myself night In
q German backyard. You can imagine
that / lost no time IN getting out Of
that heIghbOrhood and I made up my
mind right there and then that would
never give away to that stirred feeling
again.
In the daytime, In my hiding plaza
wherever It happened to be, had
plenty Of opportunity to study my map
and before very long I knew It almost
BY heart. Unfortunately, howUTor, e
did not show all the rivers aud canals
which I encountered, and sometimes e
fooled me completely:
(Cou6uuOd n naxt weeks NSWS)
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-09-13

Pascal PYDlswen ia now a. d.
EA WRfS sWS AWNA
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-09-13

(COranud n mart weeks RSWs)
New-York tribune., 1918-07-10

American farm machinery has come in
to break up the old habits and introduce
some modern methods in farming.
Picture nation probably three-quar-
ters of which still lives on these farms,
and YOU will see the real difficulty in at
tempting to deal with the present situa-
tion in Russia. The simple truth is that
Russia is not modern state intensively
organized like highly developed animal
organism. with veins and arteries, and
BRAIN and lungs, and hands and feet. 1t
is more like vast jellyfsh than an in
tegrated human being. At present each
little village and mir" is largely ruling
itself in utter indifference to the outside
world, with little sense Of national life
or a patriotic pride in seeing Russia a
great nation. 1t is this which makes
clear how handful Of visionarics and
mercenaries should gain control over the
largest and most populous of Occidental
nations and hold that control in the face
of famine and the utter prostration of
business, commerce and national life
New-York tribune., 1918-07-10
Have You Your Tricolor?

The whole country is rising to cheer
France on Sunday next, July ID, Bastille
Day Cities by the score from coast to
coast will parade and decorate and fore
gather. Congress and the President are
to add their voice. Here in New York a
town meeting that promises to be his
toric will fill Madison Square Garden
with speeches, singing and military
pageant. The success Of the tribute is
assured.
What we would again especially urge
upon our readers is the securing of 4
tricolor against that day and all the days
thereafter when the colors of France
will fly above us. This Fourteenth of
July is but the first of many Bastille
Days. And there will be-not less i'm
portant--days Of glorious victory, when
French soil is cleared of the invaders,
when French and American troops to-
gether enter Strasbourg and Metz and
the lost provinces are redeemed.
Let Bastillc Day be Tricolor Day up
and down our Streets
New-York tribune., 1918-07-10
The Right Memorial

1t is altogether fitting that there should
be peoples monulnert raised in honor
of John Purroy Nit, hel, and we ask the
support of every Tribune reader to "The
Worlds admirable fund for this pur-
pose. The occasion is not to be met by Of
icial hoNOrS or a governmental memorial.
Here was a glorious, singlc-hearted
frel,>; o5 right, the servant of every citi-
zen, rish or poor in the city. The loss
falls upon avery man, woman and child
alike. The example and the inspiration
arc for all Let each give in token of
gratitude and an appreciation beyond
words ~ express. The size of the contri-
button natters least. The numbers of
those Tho thus unite to praise gallant
soul. giving large or giving small, as
their means make possible, will be the
test of our city's heart and understand
ing.
Contributions should be addressed to
the Mitchell Memorial Fund, N"Thc
World No. GO Park Row, New York
City
New-York tribune., 1918-07-10
Needed: DR.. Schwab's Favorite
Prescription

Those who have been following the ar
ticles of our special correspondent Mr.
Theodore M. Knappen on the coal sit
uation must have felt q very agreeable
sense of reinsurance. 1t seems evident
that the mistakes of last winter have
really been taken to heart, that there IS
now spirit of cooperation at Wash
ington which was then lacking, and that
thanks to this cooperation the situation
is in far better shape than it was. We
need little Of this kind of reinsurance
as relief from the feeling Of apprehen-
sion to which the inevitable complexity
of the wars problems gives rise. We
shall not so much mind high taxes and
high food if we are sure Of the food
and the coal.
Mr.. Knappen says that the transpor-
tation administration has been very ac-
tive in its efforts to give the coal opera
tors an adequate supply of cars; and so
successful has this been that it is now
no longer a question of getting the ccal
to market, but of getting the coal from
the ground into the cars. This is a
great advance. We tried repeatedly last
winter, and since, to show from in
dubitable figures that there never was any
serious shortage of cars that is. in actual
numbers, but IN their distribution.
The coal administration now seems CO.
operating in a friendly spirit with the
coal operators, realizing at last that,
after all, the men who own the coal mines
have very vital interest in producing
coal and selling it. There seemed sus-
picion last winter that they had not All
that seems lacking now is the high CO.
operation of the miners themselves. And
this is curiously difficult problem. Per-
faps a little Of Mr.. Charles NJ Schwabs
favorite remedy of "enthusiasm and
rivalry" might be here applied with large
success
New-York tribune., 1918-07-10
Mrs. Hearst
Appeals to Enright

Referring again to the work the Comm.
tee has done of particular value TO wor.,
Miss Loeb said that the suggestion and
main support for the employment NJ -.
licewomen came from the committee s,,
that Mrs. Hearst had made a personal an
peal 20 Commissioner Enright for tbis A..
tension of women's field of usefulness Ne.
Loeb herself also went to Albany as ren,..
sentative of the committee 10 appeal to the
Legislature for minimum wage for wor,.
ell.
An interesting phase of the work Of ~.
women's committee was the standard;v;,.
of the comfort kits which are gathered -
tbs country and sent to the men in Franc.
The committee was apprehensive that !,
their zeal to knit many women would M,
know the right sizes or the proper ON,
ments to make for the men. Mrs. Hears,
wired to General Pershing asking thu, \.
give the oalc;al description Of the kit and
its contents
New-York tribune., 1918-07-10

Nh Henry L. Stodlard, who now re-
sumes control and direction Of "The Even
ing Mail" has secured from Mr.. Roose
velt, Nathan Straus, Governor Whitman
and others friendly assurances, for the
public, of his loyal Americanism and his;
unequivocal support Of the Allied cause.
TO those who know Mr.. Stoddard anl.
have been readers of "The Mail" in for
mer days, all this was quite unnecessary.
But his sale of "The Mail" to--as is nov,
revealed-German influences might well
create a suspicion in the minds Of a more
thoughtless public that he had somehow
philandered with German money. 1t is
highly significant that the line should
now be so sharply drawn that even in a
retrospective sense we should wish all of
cur public journals to have been ALWAYS
free from the slightest suspicion of Ger
man sympathies. 1t is gratifying to know
that "The Mall is now to be restored TO
what We may call the standard brand of
Americanism, free from any faint of the
shiny Hun
New-York tribune., 1918-07-10
Mrs. William Randolph Hearst
FROM Herr D, Rumely's Evenng Null, Jume 19, 1918

What the Mayors Committee OF Women
on National Defence, Of which Mrs. w. r.
Hearst is chairman, has accomplished and
is doing is shown in review of the organi-
zation's activities which has just become
available.
The committee works through fourteen
regular sub committees, at the head Of
which are some Of the best known women
of the city, including, in Manhattan, the
following:
Mrs. Lewis Nixon. chairman Of Manhat-
tan; DR.. S. Josephine Baker chairman
health committee; Mrs, Wendell Baker,
chairman coordination committee; Mrs. o.
II. p. Belmont, chairman public affairs COM
mttec; Mrs. ". Bourke Cochran, chairman
national work committee; Mrs. Olive Stott
Gabriel. chairman employment committees;
Mrs. George Jay Could chairman entertain
ment committee; Mrs. Oliver Hartman,
chairman food committee; Miss Amy Hill
lard. chairman nurses committee; Mrs. l..
&. Kaufman, chairman finance committee
Sophie Irene Loeb, chairman legislation
committee; Mrs. Philip Lydg, chairman So
cial welfare committed; Miss Elisabeth
Marbury, chairman publicity committee, and
Mrs. Henry Zuckcrman, chairman fuel COM
nittoo
New-York tribune., 1918-07-10
The Bungler Gets His

Herr DR.. Rumely was bungler. He
ably crude And he permitted the Ger
mans, who trust nobody in these mat
ters, to make a record of the transac-
ton. No finished vender of the i'm
ponderable merchandise would be so vul
gar or SO stupid. The buyer who in
sists upon record of his right to O. X.
a newspapers editorials is too suspi-
cious, and the editor should say to him:
''Sir, my word or nothing Besides, it's
very dangerous"
And then, also, Herr DR.. Rumely was
unprogressive. He failed to keep up
with science. For example, he should
have known that in the latest camou-
flage practice nobody relies any more
upon invisibility. 1t is attainable only
within a very small area and cannot be
altogether trusted under even the most
favorable conditions What the bold and
scientific camoufeur now strives for is
distortion of perspective, which makes
you look like something else. You may
have the bow of a German scow, but by
proper camouf1age you can make your
self look like a fine American Liberty
ship, coming instead of going.
There is really no excuse for Herr DR..
Rumely. He had only to observe the
work of notorious camoufeur around
the corner.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-10
Mrs. Hearst
At the Canteens

1.-TWO blocks away, at Fortieth Street. we
have opened the first of a chain of can
teens where soldiers and sailors and their
friends welcomed and provided with
food and refreshments at cost. The second
canteen to be established is at the Maine
Monument, and there will also be one at
City Hall and another possibly at Twenty
third Street AS many as four hundred
men in uniform have been cared for at tho
Fortieth Street canteen in one day
Owe have also taken up the important
problem Of dehydrating fruits and vegeta-
bles AT our food kitchen two days week
are given over to this work In our effort
20 forward the governments conservation
programme "e have arranged to dehydrate
fruit and vegetables taken from the docks
before they spoil and be thrown away
as waste.
We also devote two days at the food
kitchen to the subject of substitutes, so
that, in obedience to the governments
wishes and DEGREES, the exports for the
forces and our allies may be increased
There are practical demonstrations for
housewives every afternoon and every eff
Tort is made to do away with waste
We also distribute bulletins on these
subjects at milk stations and settlement
houses, and we are preparing now for a
New-York tribune., 1918-07-10
Mrs. Hearst
At Liberty Bell

ain the Red Cross drive more than $60,OOO
was collected at Liberty Bell in City Hall
Park. At the same place the committee
disposed Of bonds in the last Liberty Loan
campaign to the value OF $2,8O0000, and in
addition to this we sold 1920, 900 worth of
this issue at the Strand Theatre.
"In promoting the sale Of thrift stamps,
too, have met with gratifying success.
Stamps to the value of over 1853, 800 70 have
been sold within two months at the com
mittees booth, Fifth Avenue and Forty
second Street. Prizes for postmen selling
the most stamps is a feature Of the com
mttees work in this line.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-10
Mrs. Hearst's
Pageantries

The committee viii have charge of the
evening exercises at the City Stadium,
which will form the climax Of the forth
coming Independence Day celebration
fageants and parades are being planned,
Doth to illustrate the history of New York
and to present the vital episodes in the his
tory OF the various nations whose people,
naturallzed, make up part of Americas
citizenship.
"The programme will be on gigantic
scale said Sophie Irene Loeb. vice chair
man of the committee, at the Times Square
headquarters to-day Navy and aynv
bands will provide music, and we'll known
New-York tribune., 1918-07-10
The German Quicksand

While the Kaiser is meditating whether
he should follow Napoleon's road to Mos
COW, Berlin is annoyed and rritated by
call for aid from the Ukraine.
The Ukrainian government recently set
up by the German military pro-consul.
General Won Eichhorn. finds doing Ger
many's bidding difficult. if not peyious.
The obstinate peasants will not en1pt;
their granaries to feed Austria Hungary
and Germany. They would rather burn
their stores of grain and let the fields lie
untitled than see the products of their
toll commandeered by the German mill
tary authorities.
There have been mutterings Of discon-
tent among the peasantry ever since the
mirage of Ukrainia for the Ukraini
ans, conjured up at Brest-Ltovsk, van
ished into nothngness. The illusions of
self determination" lasted only until a
German taskmaster could be installed in
klev and German food collectors could
get busy
The government which sold the Ukraine
into German servitude was overthrown.
1t had shown disposition to rue its bar
gain. A new and more plant govern
ment was established. proppel up by
German bayonets. Now this second
regime is faced by peasant revolt. and
hurry-up demand is made on Berlin for
almored cars and troops with which to
tranquillize agriculture and restore or
der after the German pattern.
The German East front disappeared
from view when the Russian armies dis
banded. Germany no longer had to fight
organized Russian troops, and she quick
ly shifted most of her eastern divisions
to France. But now she finds that she has
to fight chaos not only in the parts of
Russia which she appropriated, but in
the bulk of the old Romanoff empire
which she turned over to Lenine and
Trotzky.
The order which she has SCI up i,,
Poland, in the Ukraine and in the Black
Sea region cannot stand on its own feet
1t must be backed by military force.
And with the present demands for man
power in the West and on the Italian
front, every new division sent back into
Russia represents futile dispersion of
energy.
Ludendorff may have been thinking of
the ruin which already threatens the
German fabric of conquest in the East
when he spoke the other day of the in
efficiency of German diplomacy. At
Brest-Litovsk Kuhlmann overreached
himself. He created running sore in
Russia. He fomented reign of anarchy
which Germany cannot now safely flee
away from and which it will cost her a
New-York tribune., 1918-07-10
Hearst Was Nominated

In 1905 William Randolph Hearst had
himself nominated as a candidate for
Mayor of New York City by the indie
pendence League, political organization
largely financed and controlled by him
self. He made bitter campaign, CEN
tring his fire on Mayor Mcclellan, the
Tammany nominee.
Hearst lost. The Mcclellan plurality
was about 3,400.
Hearst thereupon demanded a recount,
alleging fraud and error in the count of
ballots. He persisted in his fight through
long legal proceedings, which included
the passage for his benefit of recount
bill by the Legislature at the recommen-
daton of Governor Hughes.
Hearst lost. The recount proceedings
were dismissed in 1908, Justice Lambert,
presiding, declaring that the evidence
presented showed no fraud.
In 1906 Hearst was nominated for
Governor by the Democrats at conven-
tion dominated by Tammany. The events
leading up to his nomination were
manipulated by the late Senator atom"
Grady, who later declared it was "the
dirtiest days work of my life and
Grady was no prude. Upstate Demo-
Gratis bolted Hearst and organized
movement for Charles Evans Hughes,
the Republican nominee. The eliminating
incident of the campaign was a speech
at Utica by Elihu Root, who, speaking
for President Roosevelt, reminded the
people of how Hearst's policy of shame
full character defamation had borne it's
fruit in the assassination of President
Mckinley.
Hearst lost. The vote polled by Mr..
Hughes topped his by more than $1,000.
In 1909 Hearst again ran as a candi-
date for Mayor of New York, against
Gaynor, Democrat, and Barnard. Repub-
lican
Hearst lost. The Gaynor vote was
about $4,000 more than his and the
Barnard vote was about "a 200 more.
In these campaigns there was no low
atty issue. Hearst newspapers had not
then been burned and boycotted for pro-
Germanism.
Hearst's fatal political error has been
to think of the people what he knows of
himself
That is why he will always lose.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-10
Mrs. William Randolph
Hearst's Advisers

The advisory board is composed Of Mrs.
William Grant Brown, Mrs. Simon Barucl
Miss Sara A. Conboy Miss Margaret C.
Daley, Mrs William Einstein, Mrs. Henry
Clay Frick, Mrs Ebert II. Gary, Mrs. Albert
Gleaves, Mrs. Edward NJ. House, Mrs Al
fred j. Johnson, Miss Ruth Lawrence, Mrs
~iiiam A. Mann, Mrs. James A. O'Gorman.
Mrs. Ellen A. OGrady, Mrs hermann Oel-
r'chs, Mrs. Stephen Olin Mrs. Morton F.
Plant Mrs. Isaac T. Russell, Mrs. Charles
Schwab Mrs. Alfred L. Smith, Mrs Ernest
NJ. Stlres. Mrs. Nathan Straus, Mrs N. r..
Usher Mrs. Martin Vogel and Mrs Joseph
keska
New-York tribune., 1918-07-10

artists will sing the national anthems
Miss Loeb, VINO is an able Lieutenant OF
Mrs William Randolph Hearst chairman
Of the committee, outlined some Of the work
the organization has accomplished or has
in hand.
During the past winter, when the weather
was so severe said Mss Loeb, "our COM
mittce distributed more than 1000 tons OF
coal among the poor. Our records show
that 1874 families were benefited. In
hundreds of instances where a family could
not secure coal from dealer we provided
supply Our red tickets were a blessing
to these poor people.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-10
Fact and Fancy About the Land
Question in Russia

There is a rift in the Lutte The kind
ly disposed toward the Bolshevki and
their prototypes in the rest of the world
have, as many Of our readers are
aware, been telling us that the whole of
the Russian difficulty was the land ques-
ton. "There is little peasant proprietor
ship" "The most of the land is held
ir great estates.' "Russia is still
Geudal country" And SO on.
Count Ilya Tolstoi has been giving
this sort of talk a very rude jolt. At q
recent dinner of the single takers he
presented some particulars about the
Russian peasants and their land holdings
which will be sadly disturbing to some
of our "realpolitik" theorists. Count
amount of land in European Russia
available for distribution among the
peasants is not large. The great estates
that belonged to the Car and the gov
ernment are principally in the cold and
inhospitable north, and consist mainly
of forests.
The "great estates of the ''feudal
mobiles" are, as rule, of size which we
should consider rather small namely,
about 200 acres on the average. These
divided among many millions of peasants
will not go very far. And proof Of this is
apparent from recent advices that emigra-
ton from Russia to Siberia has set in OH
SO large a scale that the present govern
ment of the Bolsheviki has issued orders
for this eastward movement to cease.
Count Tolstoi observes that "the land
of Russia is very largely in the hands Of
the peasants, and has been so from time
:n'nemorial." That a peasant should be
provided with a small tract of land for
the use of himself and his family has al
ways been a matter of course in Russia
A serf was property; he could be bought
and sold. But, curiously enough, the land
then, comes it that with this ancient
system which the Russian peasants be-
lieve GOd-given there should still be so
much poverty and distress? Count Tol-
stoi attributes it very largely to the fact
that the peasants live in villages, mostly
VI 'Si y iiooSi"oS oiHS, pue ooIiiS W WHitu
contain as many as 900 houses. 1t is
easy to see that the lands owned by the
inhabitants must extend for great dis
tances in all directions from the villages
They are 80 remote that peasants time
is often largely taken up simply in jour
neying "to and fro" For the rest, pow
erty, superinduced by this inefficient sys-
tenn, prevents the peasants from owning
the needful horses and machinery to
overcome this wastefu arrangement
The larger fact is that the peasants are
for the most part iliterate. very ig-
norant, easy-going, and continue to till
the soil by methods that were in vogue
centuries ago. 1t is only recently that