Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-07-25

take their money and go to such
stores as sell a portion of white
flour with the necessary accompany
ing cereals, give away or throw away
the substitutes, use the white flour,
and buy more. And then when you
go to them for a Liberty Bond or a
Red Cross subscription they give you
the smallest possible amount they
dare get off with or none at all. It
makes you hot and ashamed to own
such American citizens-and they're
not necessarily of German extraction
either They are of our own blood
often, and they are selfish beyond
word and thought Are such as they
worth the shedding of your boys
blood for?
Over in Germany they are rarading
fifteen American sOldiers-prison-
ers--about from town to town, starv-
ed, just to show the German people
that the American soldier is nothing
to be afraid of. These boys were
captured in a trench raid last October
and they have not been allowed to
communicate with anyone. The re-
port says, "They had had no chance
to wash or get clean clothes and had
been marched for miles over hard
roads to the towns and villages where
they were exhibited to the German
people by non-commissioned officers
to demonstrate that the American
Army could not stand against German
trained soldiers. The Americans were
then, weak, and dazed mentally as the
result of their treatment. Their
daily fare consisted of a breakfast of
acorn coffee, two slices of bread made
OF rye, sawdust, and potato flour;
dinner of soup with a small piece of
tough beef, turnips ordinarily fed to
cattle, and no potatoes: supper of
soup again, with two slices of bread.
They had not received any parcels of
food. like other prisoners.
Do you suppose they like it?
That is what the American soldier
is up against The Germans have
crucified the French and English and
enthusiastically crucified them
with bayonets pierced through their
bodies. They have cut off the hands
their feet, their ears and have mutilat
ed both soldier and civilian. But
they intend to punish the American
even worse when they get hold of
him.
Are you going to prolong the posi-
bility by sticking to your "likes?" Or
are you going to sacrifice every last
penny in your pocket to get ships and
ammunitions and men over there to
RACES?
This was cannot be fought or fin
ished by soldiers-and soldiers alone.
The soldier in the front ranks de-
ponds upon your pOcketbook for his
life. The poor old women and the
little children of France depend upon
your pocketbook for food to keep the
breath of life in them. They would
be thankful beyond words for the
bread you despise.
We are living like kings-yet, in
spite of our little restrictions on
bread and sugar and meat. We have
not learned the meaning of sacrifice.
Can't we wake up before the boys
have to lose their lives to teach us?
For PHYS sake, let's cut out this
talk about what we like" or don't
like, and let's get down to brass tacks
and help push this thing through to a
finish Eat black bread if that's what
we get. Go without sugar if there
isn't plenty Drink milk, and eat veg
etables and forget cake and cookies
and doughnuts.
The kind of patriotism that sheds
copious tears before war play or at
a Red Cross speech and then goes
home to full meal and hollers be-
cause the bread is black, is patriotism
not worth the powder to blow it to
thunder.
There are not many such poor eX-
cuses of American citizenship in any
one community to be sure, but there
are enough so that we must make an
effort to shame them out of their sell
fishness and sloth, and there are
enough, also so that the majority who
are willing to sacrifice to the last cent
and the last crust, must work enough
harder to cover up the DEFICIENCIES of
the few slackers
Look we'll to see where you stand,
l. L L. T.
lings and make them get busy-or get
out-at least out Of the respect Of a
community.