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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16
HOW THE WAR WILL BE
WON

They can push it, sure. They can
bend it-bend it farther than they've
bent it now. But, by heaven, they
can never break that British 1ine!"
So declared Sergeant L. Shannon
Carmack, member of the Canadian
field artillery, who has been on the
French fighting front almost ever
since the war started.
"The Germans" he added, "are gain
ing ground, but they are losing more
men than the British. The British are
losing ground, but they are killing
more Germans than the Germans are
killing British. And that's the way
the British generals have fought in
all of the big battles. That's the way
the war is going to be won-by killing
Germans, not by starving 'em out or
having a revolution in Germany or by
political propaganda"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16

at is our duty to make it. We,
too, were among those who laid the
blame for the world war at the
doors of English statesmen. We,
too, have time and again repeated
the assertion to our readers that
these English statesmen, Jealous
of Germany's success in the world
markets, attempted to 'encircie'
it. We, too, have repeatedly stated
that Germany is entitled to a
place in the sun. We did SO in
GOOD faith. For we then believed
what the organs of the German
government proclaimed and we
believed at the beginning Of the
war land thereafter what most of
the other German papers repeated.
"The pan-Germans in their meg
aInonai are the ones who brought
about this calamity upon the Ger
man people,"
Besides the startling memorandum
written by the prince the following
also have weight against Germany as
the author of the war:
Extraordinary preparations for wal
by Germany.
The hint of the kaiser to the king
of Belgium there would soon be war
Hurried completion of the Kiel ca
nal.
Effort on the part of Germany to stil
up a revolt in India and Cape Town.
Secret coaling orders to ships abroad
before war was declared.
Accumulation of war material il
Germany.
Transfer Of bank balances on the
part of Germany.
All mobilization envelopes ordered
opened June 8, 1914.
The Potsdam secret conference.
When the correspondence between
Germany and Austria just before Au
gust, 1914, has been made public, the
truth that Germany caused the wal
will be overwhelming.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16
WHAT WE OWE RUSSIAN
SOCIALISM

The faith some people seem to fee
in the Lenine-Trotzky Socialist ire
public" would be pathetic if it were
not tragic They talk Of the reorgan
ization of the Russian army, under the
leadership of officers who left it tc
escape from being shot in the back
and who are to return subject to the
recall and referendum; reorganization
of this army to war upon Germany al
a time when Germany has Russia at
her mercy, and would, of course. be
prompt to strangle any action OF the
new government her rulers might
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Thursday, May 10, 1918
ABOUT HIS SIZE

The German crown prince, accord
ing to dispatch from Cologne, has
proved his valor by firing one Of the
eighty-mile guns which are being used
to lombard Paris.
The job is about the crown princes
size. All he had to do was stand be-
hind his armies and fire a shot that
might destroy a church or kill help
less women and children in distant
Paris. The least the kaiser can do, in
recognition of the princeling's bravery,
is to bestow upon him another iron
cross Milwaukee Journal.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16

the grain or the vegetables may fail
to terminate the weeds make no such
mistake. They are the first things
out of the ground in the spring and
the last to ripen their crop in the fall
and they outlast generation after gen
Grafton of farmers.
The farmer today fights them after
they have terminated, just as did the
Indians, and as in their time enough
produce seed in spite of him to keep
the land filled. No one has as yet de-
vised a method by which the entire
growth of weeds may be rendered ster-
lie nor by which the seed once in the
ground may be kept from terminating.
Limited spaces, such as tobacco beds,
have been rendered NEEDLESS through
baking or steaming the soil, but this
has been done only on small areas. A
tremendous expense is incurred each
year in this country alone through
the fight against weeds, comparable
to the expense Of the war upon which
the country has entered, but in this
war against weeds there is no dis
charge or putting off of armor and yet
human ingenuity has been unable to
make any great Roadway in the fight.
1t is uraging.-Hartford Courant
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16
Our Boys in france
and Home Protection

The men on the firing line represent
the pick of our American youth. One
in four of our boys at home was sick,
rejected because of physical deficiency.
Many times the kidneys were to blame.
If we wish to prevent old age coming
on too soon, or if we want to increase
our chances for long lie, DR.. Pierce
Of the Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y,
says that we should drink plenty of
water daily between meals. Then pro-
cure at the nearest drug store, Anuric
double strength). The cost is 60 cts.
This e An-u-ric" drives the uric acid out
and cures backache and rheumatism.
If we wish to keep our kidneys in
the best condition diet of milk and
vegetables, with only little meat once
a day, is the most suitable. Drink
plenty of pure water, take Anuric three
times day for month.
Send DR.. Pierce ten cents for trial
package.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16
WEEDS SAME AS IN INDIAN
DAYS

When Samuel Chaplain earned the
gratitude of succeeding generations
by keeping a journal as he sailed
along the coast from the mouth of the
ST. Lawrence to Cape Ann, he record
ed, among other things, the appear
ance of the fields which the Indian
women cultivated not far from the
site of the present town of Gloucester
Mass. He described the hoes used
by them, made from the shells Of the
horseshoe crab, a creature which in
terested him greatly, and he also told
of the weeds which these women
grubbed up with the primitive hoes,
thus saving their corn, beans and
squashes.
Among the weeds he mentioned es-
pecially the purslane of which he saw
enough, and, if he could come back
today and inspect the gardens along
the Massachusetts, shore he would find
the same weeds fiourishing in the
same old way and holding their own
against the most modern of farm i'm
plements. More than that, it would
not be surprising if he found weeds
in which the weeds had gained the
upper hand and had smothered the
planted crop, whether Of beans, squash
or corn, and he could we'll be pardoned
if he wondered that agriculture, after
more than 800 years, was still help
less against the weeds which he had
fought in his day.
1t is a fact that, with all the prog
ress along many lines, the agriculture
list has made precious little Roadway
against the vegetable trespassers in
his fields. Various tools have been
invented which excel the primitive
hoes used by the Indian women as
they pottered about their little fields,
but the weeds have increased with
the spreading of the cultivated areas
and are as much of a menace to the
farmers of today as they were to the
Indians of Champlain's time. They
are intensely virile, else they would
not be weeds; floods fail to drown
them and drouths cannot prevent
them from producing seeds, and while
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16
AM | MY BROTHERS KEEPER?

That is an old question which
comes up every so often in the history
of the world, says Charles F. Jones
in The Milwaukee Journal. Do | have
to look after my brother and see that
he is as we'll off as myself? Shall l,
an American citizen, feel that the sol
diers who are fighting the battles of
freedom in France are my brothers;
that by every law of right and reason
| am bound to support them, even as
I would want to be supported by them
if our places were reversed? There
can be but one answer The boys in
Europe, whether they are called
French or English or Italian or Amer
lean, are not fighting for themselves
any more than they are fighting for
you. They are risking a great deal
more than you are. They are suffer
ing privation and wounds that you
know nothing about They are risk
ing their all, that you may keep your
all. They are your brothers, they are
your keepers, for without them you
would lose all that life holds near and
dear.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16
ION WHICH SIDE ARE YOU"

What American of German stock
who left his old home to escape a vic,
ious militarism become unbearable
even in the past, and who has found
democracy in the United States, can
hesitate in taking the side of his
adopted land in the cause of justice
and right? What descendant of those
'4Sers who brayely fought against
military domination can find it in his
heart to betray the spirit of those no.
bic men by not arraying himself sol
idly in this struggle on the side of
America and the allies? Nothing bet
ter sums up the reason why Germany
forced the war on the other nations of
the world than phrase of Bernhar-
dis: World power or downfall, will
be our rallying cry"
On which side are German
Democracy Bulletin.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16
HONEY CREEK AND
SUMPTER

Mr. and Mrs. Julius Alvin, Sr., Mr.
and Mrs. John Mueller and daughters,
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Giese and family,
Mr.. and Mrs Phil Rogers and family,
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Kowalke, Mr. and
Mrs. julius Alvin, Jr., Mr.. and Mrs.
August Alvin and Mr.. and Mrs. Mar
tin Alvin and family all visited at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Alvin on
Sunday.
Mrs. Rooney of Baraboo visited at
the Henry Pickar home Saturday and
Sunday.
Henry Hanusa, Louis and Bernice
Lapple, Gertrure Konop visited friends
at Middleton and Madison Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Buelow had their
baby christened Sunday the child re-
ceiving the name Nordan. Mrs. Min
ME Buelow and son Gustave, Mr.. and
Mrs. Richard Mielke and family OF Lee
land. Mr.. and Mrs. Peter kaufman
and Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Buelow all
were entertained at the Fred Buelow
home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Deiler and fam
lily visited relatives at Madison on
Sunday.
Ethel Mallon, Olive Michael, Eddie,
Willie and Laura Wenzel, Henry Han
usa, Mr. and Mrs. Herman BuelOw,
Mrs. John Huber and son Henry all
visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
julius Alvin, Jr, Tuesday evening. A
midnight supper was served and
good time is reported.
About 60 relatives and friends gath
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16

deem menacing. They speak of Rus
STA as "sister republic" although it
is nothing but a broken military des-
potism. They rejoice because the
men who plotted the betrayal of the
cause of the nations now at war with
Germany, and thus made necessary
vast sacrifices of American blood and
treasure on the western front, now
indicate a willingness to accept finan-
ciaI assistance from the United States.
They object to the occupation of ST.
IBERIA by Japanese armies, because
Russia is a democracy" and Japan an
autocratic government, although the
failure of japanese action exposes Ash
attic Russia to the perils of Teutonic
seizure, and brings the European war
home to us by the possibility that
Vladivostok may become German
naval base, and Japan denied the right
to enter Siberia by the allies, may be
given territory she covets elsewhere
in Asia, in exchange for a change Of
allegiance. Writing in the North
American Review on what We Owe
Socialist Russia" Charles Johnston
thus summarizes what the bolsheviki
have handed to the kaiser:
1. Germany now controls both
the oil fields, in Roumana and at
Baku, which seriously competed
with American oil, together with
the finest deposits of manganese
in the world.
2. Germany now controls wheat
lands among the richest on earth,
wheat lands which, including
southern Siberia, vie even in area
with our own Wheat-groWing zone. =
3. Germany now controls the
one great untouched timber zone
remaining in the world, stretch
ing right across Siberia.
q. Germany controls the vast
Ieather-producing area which runs
across central Russia and Siberia.
5. Germany now controls i'm
menseIy valuable mining zones,
containing everything from iron
to gold, running from the Don val
ley to Ussuria.
6. Germany now controls, in
the UraIs, practically the whole
worlds supply of platinum, quite
indispensable to our electrical in
dustries.
This is about where we stand,
thanks to ocialism.-National Repub-
lican.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16
THE TRUTH WILL COME OUT

At last the truth is beginning to
come out-Germany is to blame for
the war For long time the imperial
government has been hoOdwinking her
people, not only in Germany, but
throughout the world, by means of the
German press and propaganda. Eng
land was blamed for the war, but the
cat has jumped out of the bag as
result of the publication of the memo
randum written by Prince Lichnowsky,
imperial German ambassador to Eng
land. AS soon as the memorandum
became public it was clear that Ger
many, headed by the kaiser was the
sole begetter of the world being on
fire. The German papers in Germany
now admit that their country is to
blame, and the German papers of this
country are slowly admitting the
truth. In a long editorial, among other
things. the Germania-Herold of Mil
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16
HIGH OPINION OF SON-IN-LAW

Wife: "Archie's been gambling
again, mother, I think he has lost his
senses"
Mother: Indeed! l had no idea
they played for such small stakes. -
Boston Transcript.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16

am not telling any Ile-the pain IN my
back was something terrible. AS soon
as l would bend over, to get something
from the floor l thought my whole back
would burst.
I'll would advise sufferers to try Anuric
and they will find results; they need not
take my word for it."-WALTER CARLSON,
HOO Sedgwick Street.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16
Otis Is 30

"There are kindly hearts,
There are helping hands
AS thick as blooming seashore
sands"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16

THE MOST widely usetn house.
! hold medicine that we know of is
Hoods Sarsaparilla. It reaches many
different ailments Of the BLOOD.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16

every thing there
was ont but they
all failed to help me.
| even went to d
doctor and he could
not cure my back
ache. A friend of
mine advised me to
try a packag e of
DR.. Pierce'S Anuric
Tablets, and SO L
did; | used tw O
, packages and the
pains were gone. L
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16

cred at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Her
man Mueller at Sumpter on Saturday
evening. They came as a surprise to
Mrs. Mueller, it being her birthday.
Games were played and midnight
supper was served and the evening
was enjoyed by all.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16
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SuDuuIHS Lu0 uSulIHS SplIII VI tHS
Germans across the water.
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Irvine L. Lenroot Of Wisconsin,
while in the house, voted for woman
suffrage. Now he is promoted to the
senate and he expects to cast another
vote for it in the senate. 1t isn't
the same thing in congress.-Path-
finder.
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Eclipse of sun which is soon to Oc-
cur will perform a paradoxical feat:
namely it will begin June 8 and will
end June 8. No joke about this, but
an actual fact 1t will begin near ia
pan, after the day of June 8 has be-
gun there-Japan being west of the
international date line-and when it
arrives in the United States it will be
the day before.
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By her recent admission, we in
what Germany would do to us if sue
cessful in this war, but Uncle Sam
doesn't propose to give her a chance
to get anything but what's coming-a
good licking, and rubbed in at that
Former Governor w. D. Hoard in the
Fort Atkinson Union.
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The coming of the mail man is
eagerly awaits by friends and rela-
tives of the boys cover there and it
is a joyous day when the mail carrier
brings a message from the front.
/ i / +
The New York Times says: 1t is
the destruction Of armies, not the
loss of territory, that is vital in war.
With the United States sending troops
at the rate of 10000 every month to
France and with Germany losing an
immense number of men every week,
the time cannot be far distant when
the scales will turn in favor Of the
allies.
+ / + +
Chicago's oldest saloon went out of
business April 80, its owner, Frederick
Eich, announces. Sympathy for the
prohibition movement is his reason.
The saloon was established on West
Madison street in 1916. Eichs grand
father dispensed "lickers" to OK driv-
ers over the same bar from which
Eich has served high balls to auto
lists. Chicago had about 60,500 sa-
looms and about 1000 quit April 30,
the city losing $1,OOO,OOO in revenue.
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The removal Of one-half of the tall
barberry bushes in Wisconsin is al
ready promised for this spring, in an
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16
O0Imdgundi

The $4,000 subscribed by the Island
Wooden Mill company for third liberty
loan bonds will go a long way toward
subduing the fighting spirit of the
Germans across the water.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16

CHICAGO, Ill. VI suffered for four
years with pain in my back. | tried
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-17
OFFERING PEACE 10 BELGIUM.

Without waiting to hear what Bel gium Is going to say in reply to the peace offer which is made to it by the German government. there is every reason to believe that that little na- ton, torn and bleeding but still fight ing for its existence. will answer with the same firmness which has charac- terized previous efforts in that direc- tion, and that is by a positive and emphatic "No!"
 Belgium is as determined as the na- tions which are fighting for it, that Ger many must not only be forced to with draw it's armies from It's soil but that it must be made to pay for the dam age which it has done and to restore the country to i.sp former condition as far as possible. It will require some time maybe but it must be done. The despoiler must be made to settle for his denredations. There can be no oversight of the havoc and horrors which that country is responsible for.
 Germany makes no mention in its peace offer of such restoration, but it cannot be forgotten and the Belgians
 
 suffered in the way of fiendish treat ment at the hands Of the Huns. It is fully conscious of the fact that it's people have been wantonly murdered and mutilated, that it's homes have been despoiled that its villages. towns and cities have been wrecked that is people have been dragged into glavery, that its industries have been stripped~and its countryside laid bare ike a desert. It knows well enough how it's food and clothing have been taken for the benefit of the invaders how it has suffered from the looters and how it has been bled white in the shape of war taxes and contributions
 If Germany thinks that Belgium is coing to forget all these things it is greatly mistaken. Peace such as Ger many would give. such as it tried to give to Russia will not satisfy Ger many must nay for its work and pay dearly and such Belgium lacked up by it's friends will demand
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-17
EDITORIAL NOTES,

What Good Samaritan Germany Is to offer peace terms to suffering Belgium!
 In going after Metz the Americans are making the first drive for victory on German soil
 The man on the corner says: Those women who brag about cutting men would never do as lady barbers.
 # the central powers want peace all they need to do is to cry Enough" and accept the terms laid down by President Wilson.
 No wonder the people of St. MihieI were overjoyed at the coming of the Americans and French. Think of be- ing fed on German news for four yearsi
 Those Austro- Hungarian troops who assured the systematic retreat of the Germans from the St. Mihiel salient ought to be due for a carload of iron crosses.
 It might be interesting to get a heart to heart expression from the kaiser as to what he thinks of the fighting ability of the lightning train ed Yankees
 The presentation of proof that Le- nine and Trotzky were the hired tools of Germany creates no surprise. Ii is simply the confirmation of long standing belief
 With Bulgaria and Turkey having private fight. Germany recognizes how much dependence can be placed upon hired assassins who are dissat- isfied with their pay.
 The fact that the improvement ot West Thames street cannot be started should mean that just so much more 1 attention can be devoted to the i'm. | provement of other city streets. It may be rather rough on tht bride-to-be but judging from past ex periences the announcement that Ma Goodwin is to marry again simpl! means more business for the divorct mill.
 The time is now ripe for those as pirants for reelection to congress wh, have been defeated for nominations t, reflect upon the poor judgment whicl they have exercised in representa-; l their constituents,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-17

The institutions scattered throughout the country expect to train not less than 100000 or 150 600 in their fall enrolment of students under army control. All students over IS enter ing. the fall term at such accepted in stitutions become soldiers of the United States army by voluntary in duction. Men younger than Is will he admitted and given similar military instruction. gut it will be at their own expense instead of at the expense of the government. as is the case with the IS year old class. When they reach the age of IS and register they will be ihducted into the students training corps
 Secondary schools will not at pres ent be provided with similar military training but it is expected such a course will be taken up by them later on Men not fitted for entrance into educational institutions will be pre- pared for oantenn1ents but the details are not yet made known regarding them CT what will he done in the case of preparatory schools. Grammar school boys of IS will be entered in vocational schools through their local draft boards.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-17
OTHER VIEW POINTS

Following the recent refusal of the Railway Administration to tighten the burden of travelling salesman at this time by granting them special con- sessions over the pleasure traveller a movement is being set on foot to in crease the selling commissions receiv- ed by these men from which they have to pay their own expenses.
 One of the travelling mems aceeeia- tions already has sent out a letter showing the need of the increase, and it is intimated that other bodies will soon follow suit.
 The point has already been reached where salesmen are spending a very large part of their commissions for travelling expenses, and it is said that there is no reason to believe that the end is yet in sight. Railroad, hotel baggage transfer and other road ex- penses are all higher than they were six months ago.-New Haven Union
 There is still in Bridgeport a vexed problem of which no adequate solution has been reached. It is the problem of rent profiteering.
 The rent profiteer is still the canke1 at Bridgeport's heart. He must be re-