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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-01-03
GERMANY MUST PAY
Nation viii Never Be Able to
Make Amends for Damage.
FERTILE SOIL is DESTROYED
innumerable unexpIoded Shells VIII
Make Cultivation Precarious--
Doubtful II Land Can Be
Reclaimed.


What must Germany pay for?
That question can be adequately an
swered only when 1t is remembered
that Germany started the terrible con-
flict in Europe for no reason other
than that of conquest and loot; start
ed it only to satisfy the selfish ambi-
tons of selfish people for world
domination. That is being admitted
today by what is left of the German
nation; 1t is admitted by those who
were directly responsible for the war.
And it is because Germany started
this conflict for no reason other than
that Of conquest and loot that Ger
many owes to the world full payment
for all the devastation which the war
has brought, not only in so far as she
can pay now, but in so far as she can
pay for generations yet to come.
. Among the many, many sections Of
Belgium and northern France that
personally covered, following closely
on the heels of the retreating Hun
army was that which lies between
what were the cities of Ypres and
Menin, approximately 20 miles apart.
Here, before the coming of the invad-
ing Boche, was what was considered
the most productive soil of the world,
and the most intensely cultivated.
Here in number Of farm villages
lived the Belgian peasant families,
happy, thrifty people, each family cul-
tivating the small fields which it
owned. No fences separated these
fields, no hedges cut them off from the
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-01-03
SHERIFF'S SALE UNDER
DEED OF TRUST

Whereas, w. D. Druse and Minnie
Druse, his wife, by their certain deed
of trust, dated the 4th day of Novem-
Der, 1916, and recorded in the Office of
the Recorder of Deeds cf st. Francois
County, Missouri, in Book 109, at
Page 484, conveying to Oscar L.
Halle, as trustee, the following real
estate, situate, lying and being in
tie County of st. Francois and State
of Missouri, to-wit:
A part of survey No. 349 in Town
ship sc North, Range East, within
the corporate limits of the City of
Pennington, described as follows: Be-
ginning at tie intersection of the
North line Of maple" street with the
East line of &C" street and being the
Southwest corner CT the lot herein
described, running thence North de-
grees East 125 feet, thence South "a
degrees East 181 feet to an alley 16
feet wide, thence South degrees
West 1875 feet to the North line of
maple" street, thence North 81 de-
grees West 1791a feet to the begin
ming, containing 51-100 of an acre.
Which said conveyance was made
in trust to secure the payment of a
certain promissory note in said deed
of trust described;
And whereas, default he's been made
in the payment of said promissory
note and said note has become due
and remains unpaid and Oscar L.
Halle, the legal Truotce, refusing to
act, now therefore, /, Chas. H. Adams,
Sheriff of st. Francois County, at the
request of the legal holder of said
note, and-in conformity with the pro-
visions of said deed of trust, will, on
Saturday, January II, 1919,
between the hours of nine o'clock in
the forenoon and five o'clock in the af-
ternoon of said day, at the south
front door of the Court House in the
City of Pennington, st. Francois
County, Missouri, proceed to sell the
above described real estate, subject to
former Deed of Trust Of record in
Book 104, Page Isl, of said records Of
ST. Francois county, Mo-, for $500, at
public vendue to the highest bidder,
for cash for the purpose of satisfying
said indebtedness and the cost of ex-
ecuting this trust.
CHAS. H. ADAMS, 81
Sheriff of st. Francois County.
Dec. 20, II, Jan. 3 and 10.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-01-03
GERMANY MUST PAY
Kaiser's Men Responsible for
Millions OF Murders.
CANNOT PAY FOR LIVES LOST
Nation Must Be Forced to Pay and
Pay and Pay, Until II Has
Learned That Might 10
Not Right.
BY WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.

There are in France and Belgium
today very close to 100000 soldier
graves that would not have been there
had Germany not started war of con-
quest to crafty the selfish ambitions Of
a selfish people for world domination.
In these graves are buried the
heroes of America, of England, Of
France, Of Belgium, Of Italy, of Can
ada, of Australia, of South Africa, Of
India, of Portugal, Of Morocco, of
China and other parts Of the world.
These heroes gave their lives that the
cruelty selfish plans of the Boche
might be defeated; that the world
might be dwelling place for freemen
and not for the slaves of autocracy.
And the war in which they made
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-01-03

treatment for the German dead only
emphasizes the need that Germany
pay for the Dissertation of the graves
of the allied soldiers committed by her
troops in France.
Further Display Of Impudence.
Just at the edge of the little French
city of st. Mlhiel, held by the Ger
mans for four years and retaken by
the American troops late last summer,
is German cemetery that stands as
an insult to the French people. Here
are buried large number of German
officers. In this cemetery the German
government erected magnificent
marble shaft concentrating the valor
of these German officers, and over the
graves stand elaborate marble and
granite monuments erected to the
memory of these German officers
These monuments have been erected
on what has always been French soil,
and they stand there as one of the
greatest pieces of impudence commit
ted by the German nation In this war.
This is but another of the many,
many incidents that add to the seri-
BUSINESS of the crimes committed by
the Boche, and for which he should
pay.
A very considerable portion of the
soil Of Belgium and northern France
is today given over to the graves of
soldiers of the allies, and these SOL
der boys would not be dead, these
graves would not be there, millions of
homes would not today be in mourn
ing, had not selfish people started a
war for the purposes of conquest and
loot; war conducted with all the
wantonness and cruelty of savages.
Why should they not pay, and pay,
and pay, until they find that an I'M
holy war, such as they waged. is the
most Improbable business in which
man can engage?
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-01-03

along this long, straight road between
Ypres and Menin, they would say, as
! say, it is the German who must pay
it is the German who must risk de-
struction in, the effort to put this land
again into Condition for cultivation.
] believe that one condition of the
peace treaty should be that Germany,
either as one nation,sor proportionately
from the several small nations that
may be formed out of the German en-
pire, should call its military classes to
the colors each year as 1t has done in
the past; but in place of putting guns
into the hands Of these men, and train
ing them for the purposes of war-a
war of compassionate 1t should put
these men into the territories she has
devastated, to reclaim the soil and to
rebuild the villages, the towns and
cities the Huns have destroyed. Let
these Germans, under guard of Bel
| gian troops, take the risk of destruc-
ton; let them guide the pillow that may
strike the unexploded shell, and let
Germany pay them the meager wagon
of the German soldier while they are
doing this.
Should Pay and Pay and Pay.
That would be the nearest thing to
an accounting that Germany can rem
der to the world, but she should pay
all that it is humanity possible for
people to pay who have so ruthlessly
despoiled the world. Her people should
pay, and pay, and pay, until they have
learned beyond the shadow of doubt
that war for the purpose of conquest,
for the purpose of loot, for the graft
fication Of selfish ambitions, is the
most Improbable business they could
possibly engage in.
And remember that the devastation
to be seen along the road from Ypres
to Menin is but an example of all the
terrible destruction to be found
throughout Belgium and northern
France and Serbia and other countries
that have been overrun by the con.
quest-seeking armies of the Boche.
And remember, too that it is not alone
the devastation that is to be paid for,
but 1t is the work and the tears and
the economic loss of every nation that
was called into the struggle to defeat
the selfish purposes of selfish peo-
pie, that the world might be a decent
place In which free men might live.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-01-03
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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-01-03

waited the fields lived not on the little
farms but in closely built villages Of
from 100 to 500 people each.
Devastation 10 Complete.
1t is hard to realize today that these
villages ever existed, that the land
along this long, straight road was ever
cultivated, ever produced foodstuffs
for a people. In fact, it is hard to
realize today that this was ever an in
habited country.
OF these peaceful villages, the living
places Of these farm people, there is
no trace left. There are not even piles
of debris, of broken brick and stone
and lumber, to mark the spots where
they stood. There is no single thing
by which the returning peasants, wear.
lily dragging themselves back to that
spot which had been home to them and
to their ancestors for almost countless
generations, can mark the place where
not only their home but their village
had stood.
l have seen old men and women,
wearied by four long years of exile,
stand beside this road and gaze long
ingly over the devastated landscape,
In an effort to locate some familiar OBJ
ject that would remind them of the
spot they had known all their lives,
and then turn away with tears on their
cheeks because they could not find
even one small object that would tell
them Of the homes, the only homes,
they had known.
1t was German ambition, German
cruelty, German lust, German wanton-
ness, German brutality, that were the
cause of the destruction of these
homes, Of the agonics of a peaceful,
thrifty people.
What can possibly compensate these
people for their loss, for the misery
they have suffered and must still suf-
fer, for the homes and the associations
that are gone forever? No, Germany
can never pay in full, but she can con-
tinue to pay and pay and pay until
there has been bred out of the German
people that desire for war, that love
of conquest, that brutality. that 1t has
taken centuries, almost, to breed into
them, and which has resulted in laying
D whole world waste.
In all that 20 miles between Ypres
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-01-03

and Menin, on both sides of that long,
straight road, / am sure did not see
one square foot of soil that was not
a part of shell crater. What had
once been the richest soil Of the
world Is today but waste, made so
by the shells that fell upon 1t be-
cause Germany sought world DONNA
ton. This soil has been destroyed by
couatless thousands of shells falling
actually one upon another, each dig
cling deeper into the earth until the
very subsoil has been turned over and
the land made worthless for cultiva-
ton for years to come, If indeed 1t can
ever be reclaimed.
Unexploded Shells Buried In Soil.
There lie today on the surface OF
this land many thousands of unex-
ploded shells, and there are buried In
the soil many, many thousands more,
each one of them q menace to any
farmer who attempts to put pillow
into the soil in an effort to reclaim 1t.
And this land is destroyed, as the
homes were destroyed, because of Ger
man ambition, of German cruelty, of
German lust, Of German wantonness
and German brutality.
Who is to pay for 1t? Who is to
risk destruction that 1t may again be
put into condition for cultivation, that
1t may serve the purposes Of the hui
man race? Shall the peaceful Belgian
peasants, who had no part In the start
ing Of this conflict, suffer their loss
without compensation? Shall these
peasants who have endured more than
four long years of homeless agOnies,
who have suffered not alone the loss
of homes and land but the loss of
relatives and friends as well, be the
ones to risk destruction in the effort
to again bring these lands back to a
condition where cultivation is posi-
BILE? Shall they be blown to bits by
the bursting of these shells, hidden as
they are beneath the surface Of the
ground, when the pillow strikes and ex-
plodes them? If undisturbed, those
shells continue to be a menace for
years to come, but who are to risk
their lives in removing them?
Could the American people gener-
ally, and especially the American farm
ers, have seen the sights l have seen
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-01-03
PAGE THREE

N~-s . - -. 4s d . = ~ y =
punish the nations that have commit
ted the most terrible crimes known to
modern times, at least, by making the
people of these nations work only that
they may pay.
Among the saddest sights to be
found in the battle areas of Europe
today Is the lonely grave, the little
cross that stands by itself and marks
the spot where a soldier met death by
a stray shell. There were many, many
thousands of these seen along the
sides of the thousand miles Of road
ways / covered In Belgium and north
ern France, and In very many cases
they marked the spot where German
shell had caught transport driver as
he guided his truck to or from the
front The boys who lie In these lone
ly graves were heroic American boys,
heroic French boys, heroic British
boys, and they have paid the great
price that the Boche might not de-
stroy the freedom of the world. They
gave their all, and whatever the Boche
may be made to pay will be small in
comparison with this sacrifice.
Near what was the city Of Noyon
one may see striking comparison be-
tween the methods Of the Boche and
those of the nations that have been
fighting the Germans. Here lie buried
side by side both French and German
soldiers. Around each cemetery the
French have built fence. Over each
French grave flies French flag, and
on each German grave green boughs
have been placed by the French. Such,
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-01-03
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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-01-03

the last great sacrifice was started by
Germany only to crafty the selfish
greed of people who had been taught
that might is right.
l realized the tragic interest of
America in these graves as walked
over the hilltop at Guillimont farm,
near the village Of Bony, and found
there two large cemeteries in which
American dead lie buried. l realized
it anew as Gen. Henry Rawlinson,
commanding the Fourth British army,
recounted to me the incidents of that
battle in which American troops made
the first break in the Hindenburg line,
and when he told me Of the wonderful
gallantry of those American boys, "the
most gallant troops that ever fought
on battlefield"
Today more than 1000 of those gal
liant American boys are buried in sol
der graves on that battlefield, and lit
tie wooden crosses mark their resting
places.
Severe Lesson for Germany.
German money cannot pay for those
lives, but that spirit of greed, of wan
tonness, of selfish ambition, that pro-
duced the senseless, needless war in
which they died, must be crushed, and
1t can be crushed only by making the
German pay, and pay, and pay, until
he has learned that might is not right
and that war for the purposes of con-
quest and domination is not profitable.
An American regiment, to which I
had belonged some years ago, and in
which were enrolled many personal
friends, had fought on that field. AS
I walked beside the long rows of
wooden crosses, and knew that some
of them marked the resting places of
my friends, felt, as any other Ameri-
can would have felt under the same
conditions, that Germany must pay in
order that Germany should learn that
might Is not right.
I am sure that every father, every
mother every brother, every sister,
every relative and friend of those
American boys who are buried on Eu-
ropean battlefelds will feel that Ger
many must pay and pay heavily for
the desolation she has caused through
out the world.
There is on the Somme battlefields,
not far from what once was the beau
tiful little city Of Peronne, soldiers
cemetery In which British troops are
buried. On each little wooden cross
had been painted the name of the SOL
der buried beneath 1t, as well as the
letter of his company and the number
of his battalion. In the onrush of the
Huns last March this cemetery was
taken, and the warton cruelty of the
Boche is nowise better illustrated than
by the fact that he went through that
cemetery and painted out the names
of these British dead.
Should Pay to the Limit.
Should the Boche not pay for such
dastardly work as that? Should he
not pay for attempting to deprive the
relatives and friends of those British
soldiers Of knowing their final resting
place, even though, thanks to the Brit
ish graves commission, the attempt
will not be successful? He must pay
the penalty just as any other criminal
must pay the penalty for his crimes.
The world cannot send an entire ma
tion to Jail, but the world can today
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-01-03

Joseph A. Reyborn, ex-County
Clerk of Iron county, was here this
week. He had the influenza, not so
very bad, but he said he somehow
could not feel as we'll as had been in
the habit of feeling, probably because
of the attack. He says that there is
plenty of work to be done, and that
he has been kept busy-Ironton En-
terprise.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-01-03
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The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-11-06

iabor and capital forget tsesr e q
anees and join with the farmer Ar
trying Id produce more instead ~
spending valuable time and cutting
down production W SQUAD bling Iss
Americ is being attacked md
patEintissias put 10 thevtestS III the iI.-
|dustriai war ythst u being waged. AZ
Ecording8 to the vicwS-of the Kansas
farmer. The conditions which haYe
been brought about by capital anA
labor are working hardships o. ths
farmers. Nj, NJ v 5,s n \ II NJ a u I
The American farmer numbers
more than thirty millions and con-
stithtes the isrgeat business element
III the country, they warned in a
paragraph incorporated in resolu-
tions adopted vt the Topeka meeting.
And they continued, He is the pro-
Queer upon whom all depend -.for
food and should he be 50 unpatriotic
as to follow the advice Of the agitat-
or he would limit production 50 as 70
increase prices and ali Glasses would
pays an exorbitant amount for food.
The farmers closed the resolutions
they adopted at Topeka BY indors-
ing the attitude Of the president with
respect to the threatened srike OF
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-11-06

SKIRTS
looks though it will be wonderful skirt from the
buying them The Plaid Skirts selling
rapid All the styles shownn the pretes
colors and fabrics. $3.50 to- sas. t&
GLOVES
satisfaction Gloves for practically every need
qualities abundance who
plan give Christmas viii find advantages
with choosing 81 to $3.5c.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-11-06
The Farmers View.

Through their state board Of agri-
culture the Kansas farmers have
made a proposition to the rest Of
the country that should be given
consideration. They propose that
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-11-06

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The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-11-06
THIRTY YEARS AGO
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Z ' . = - . - - =
Fine large hickory nuts arr selling
on the market at 50 cents per buslfcl.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-11-06

j. b, Fier,iiag, of N aIsiaiI, No, q
II the hons III His nephew,
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-11-06
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The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-01-16

in the community who go on their
last long vacation right from the
midst of work just as indispensable
as yours. A few days after they are
borne to Walnut Hill everything
moves along just as before; men
work, and worry, and love, and hate,
and wonder what the world will do
without them, just as they always did.
So it will be when you have passed.
Outside the little circle of those who
have loved you and needed you, few
people will miss you greatly. The
world has to move forward. 1t can
not stop to look back over its Shout
der and keep thinking of its dead, or
it wouldn't move. So if ever you have
a notion of your own indispensability,
outside the family circle, think of
others you have seen go before and
figure up little.-Kingman Journal.