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The L'Anse sentinel., 1919-01-10
CAPTURED HUN BAND
PLAYS OUR ANTHEM

Pittsburgh, Pain France re-
Gently German reglmental band
Of 60 pieces, whose members had
been taken prisoner, played "The
Star-Spangled' Banner" accord
Ing to letter from Corporal
EVAN w. Allan of the Three
Hundred anu Ninetieth Infantry.
to his dad. The band was taken
during surprise attack which
was made without a barrage pre-
liminary. The German $ nusi-
clans played the air In a very
creditable manner. according to
Allan.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1919-01-10
MAY START THE WOLF cyss.

The Boy Scouts Of America have
taken over the rights to control the
copyright privileges Of the Wolf Cub
literature in this country. and with the
approval of Sir Robert Bafen, Powell,
small edition Of this handbook has
been printed in order, that the scheme
might be carefully studied In accord
ance with Sir Robert Baden-P -Powefrs
RECOMMENDATION
The Wolf Cub program Il for devels
oping the organization Of boys between
the ages of nine and twelve.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1919-01-10

Feather turbans make delightful
hats for this time Of year and the va
riety in shape aud coioring Is an Offset
to their undue popularity. The pleas
ant feather toques are smart and an
extreme model Is Of orange-hued feath'
ers with o touch of black
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the Bolsheviki, the I. w. w. and the

the Bolshevilxi, the I. w. w. and the
radical socialists they would content
themselves with becoming laborers of
the lowest class. According to the
predictions of the malcontents, the
man who works only with his hands
Is to have the highest pay, the fellow
who works with head and hands will
get less, and the brain worker will be
reduced to penury.
If the time ever came-and IL would
be here now IL the Reds had their
way-when the organization of man
ual labor could arbitrarily determine
the limits Of human success in life
the colleges and universities to which
these $500 youths are eager to go
would become extinct. Courses In
reading might be continued for the
pleasure of knowing what was writ
ten in the dead past. Who would set
out to be a novelist when the pickaxe
paid better than the penn
That the neat little programme of
the Bolsheviki for the destruction of
all ambition will not go through is
evidently the belief of the 2,300 SOL
diers who want to go to college and
amount to something.
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What pleasant "reminiscences are in
store for the pedestrian whose mem
DRY can bridge the gap of year this
morning. Can he not remember him
self strolling along city streets I'M
troubled by startling honks and an
noying toots? Can he not recall the
freshness of the atmosphere free from
the vaporous odors OF gasolene? Can
he not visualize the desertlike calm and
restful quiet that pervaded the city's
usually noisy thoroughfares and the
rapturous nonchalance with which he
crossed traffic free avenues? But II
he is walking along the avenue this
morning, while he is thus summon
ing these recollections of pedestrian
ism triumphant. 1t will not be long
before a screeching siren. unmistaka-
BILE volleys Of chug-chugs and police
mems whistles will awaken him to the
realization that 1t is not now a gas
less" Sunday.
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Government by Law.

We wonder whether a certain un-
certain person, in the course Of his
historical erudition, could ever have
pondered JOHN FoRsTER's life of Sir
JOHN ELIOT, noting how the peoples
House withstood the insolent en-
croachments of CHARLES I. who, Gin
tellectually dishonest" had come to
think himself the whole thing!
The outspoken champion of Parlia-
mentary privilege well brought to book
that pigheaded egotist. Rare read
ing, that book-no apologize, but a
veritable view of history in the max
ing. In all the story boils the passion
for the liberties of free government,
for the rights of the people asserted
by their chosen representatives
1t carries stern lesson to all men
who are not unable to comprehend that
delegated authority is responsible and
that defined powers are not to be en-
croached upon or with impunity
flouted.
1t were well If such a one, who
ever he be, not attempting to lecture
or to sugmatize the high councillors
OF the nation, but knowing himself to
be only the instrument and agent Of
their decisions, would recall the rule
Of a game of his chaste youth
"Shinny on your own side"i
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LONG ISLAND ADVENTURE
me he'ivalist and the lf;Deter.
mining Young Man,

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir. In
the winter OF 1861 a great Religions re-
vval took place In this part of Long
Island. 1t affected all classes OF neonle
and the whole community was under its
spell. When IL was at it's height the
leader OF the meetings was called 10 the
eastern part OF the island. He went 70
livery and hired a horse and buggy
and a young man to drive him to Mod
ford station. four miles through the
woods north from Patchogue. The re-
vivalist' man of solemn and severe
Nsage. sat erect with arms folded until
they were we'll up among the thick
woods and then, suddenly turning on
the young man beside him and gazing
into his face with his piercing eyes. said
In sepulchral voice:
Young man, are you prepared to die p"
The young man gave one look at that
solemn face, dropped the reins and leaned
out OF the buggy and ran for his life
through the woods and never stopped
or looked back, but kept on running
until he got back to that livery stable.
where he reported that he had, left the
man to drive the rest of the way him
self. as he thought he was going 10 kill
him No telling what excitement will do
sometimes. ARLINGTON II. CARMAN.
PArcHoduE. September 20.
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them as q basis for peace or league
is nonsense, and II the talker In
intelligent 1t is insincere nonsense to
Let each nation reserve to itself
and for it's own decision and lot IL
clearly set forth questions which are
non-justiclable. Let nothing be done
that will interfere with our prepar-
Ing for our own defence by introduce
ing a system OF universal obligatory
military training modelled on the
Swiss plan. Finally make It per-
fectly clear that we do not intend
to take a position Of an international
meddlesome party. The American
people do not wish to go into an
overseas war unless for a very great
cause and when the issue is abso-
lutely plain. Therefore we do not
wish to undertake the responsibility
OF sending our gallant young men to
die In obscure fights in the Balkans
or in central Europe or in a war we
do not approve Of
Moreover, the American people
do not intend to give up the Monroe
Doctrine. Let civilized Europe and
Asia introduce some kind of police
system In the weak and disorderly
countries at their thresholds, but let
the United States treat Mexico as our
Balkan peninsula and refuse to allow
European or Asiatic Powers to inter-
fere in this continent in any way
that implies permanent or semi-per-
manent possession"
If President WILSON had quoted
this final expression Of Colonel RoosE
vELT's views and discussed 1t in rela
ton to his own ideas and purposes
the proceeding would have been en-
hrely respectable. We cannot appl,
that adjective to the San Diego per
formance, which absolutely ignored
he later specific opinion and wen,
back to the earlier generality Of five
Years ago, dating from the very time
when Mr.. WILSON himself was saying
70 Colonel ROOSEVELT and all Ameri
,ans like him: "The United States
must be neutral in fact as well ae
name during these days that are to
try mems souls. We must be impair.
ial in thought as well as action, must
put a curb upon our sentiments as
we'll as upon every transaction that
night be construed as a preference OF
me party to the struggle before an.
,ther."
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POEMS WORTH READING.
The LIlx Of Corruption.

(Amorphophallus Riviert.)
heard n dogmatizing teacher say.
Mature makes only what Is beautiful g
Fair-soundlng generality. but false.
For Nature must form symbols for all
truth.
And she is faithful to the direst fact.
Let him have seen what 1 saw yesterday,
Yes, saw and emelled---he wero wiser
man.
For in q greenhouse, stark amid sweet
blooms,
A florist showed lily, purplish-red,
Huge, mottled, beaded with a fetid sweat.
Above the swollen calyx shamelessly
A monstrous spike protruded, lfvid, gaunt
Like some vile stiffened serpent from its
egg.
And all the CHASTITY growth gave forth
such stencil
From bromidrosis Of its loathsome flesh,
As tainted the sweet, humid, greenhouse
air.
From Cochin China came the poisoned
bulb
That gave the foul exotic arum birth,
Drawing from earth that nourishes the
rose,
That yields the fragrant heliotrope its
grace,
And decks the orchids with their rain
bow hues,
Only corruption and the blast of death
Words cannot tell the adherence that
felt
In presence OF this flower of decay,
Enormous. red with smoldering blood,
malformed.
As though the very seed Of sin had
bloomed
And born q lily for the plats Of Hell.
The mystery of evil given shape
And as in mockery of all things pure,
Permitted to assume the outward form
See, Of this Gala, in a nearby bed,
Whose creamy spathe is chastity. agleam
In splendor undefiled, immaculate
with slender spadix in that shining
cirque
ALI golden with the pollen's tender drift,
That falls in lovely ardor on that
So one must challenge what the teacher
said,
Beholding symbols eloquent as these
Whereby a lavish Nature flames her
truth
The lilies twain. within the same rich
earth,
And quickened by the same benignant
sun,
Yet growing diverse as Is blasphemy
From holy converse of the seraphim-
and Lover ELIOT WHITE.
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Is Grape Juice Wicked ?

Somebody wrote to the Attorney
General asking whether it was lega
to run a wine mill used for pressing
grapes brought to the mill. The eau.
tious reply received by the inquirer
was as follows:
While the Attorney General is not
allowed to render opinions to private
parties, I may say that the war pro-
hibition act specifically prohibits the
manufacture of wine for beverage
purposes. The fact that the wine is
to be used for home consumption and
not to be sold will have no effect
upon the legality of the manufacture
OF such beverage"
Does this mean that the proprietor
of a Nebraska wine press cannot
squeeze the juice out Of the grapes
brought to him by WILLIAM JENNINGS
BRYAN? BY denatured BAccHUs, No
The Attorney-Ge Generals Office is sim
ply becoming so cautious that If IL
were asked whether n goat, the en-
blem of book beer signs, may be
legally kept until demobiliza ton it
would demand to know the length of
the goats beard.
When grape juice comes from the
press 1t is no more wine, so far as
the law is concerned, than Croton
water Is. The owner of the press.
handing the juice back to the owner
OF the grapes before it ferments, is
no more criminal than a saint. AS
with grapes, so with apples. We shall
see cider mills all over the land crush
ing the greening with the russell and
the Spltzenberg and pouring the in
nocent effiuent into the waiting jug.
The cider mill man assumes, If he as
sumes anything, that the man with
the Jug will hasten to consume its
contents before that old chemical
devil fermentation arrives.
What the Attorney. Generals Office
should do to be popular is not to sug-
gest to the people in a roundabout
way that they might be guilty. Let
Mr.. Attorney General PALMER issue a
entitled "How TO Be limo
cent But Happy"
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The western sky was like ross
When out wheeled my plane
And scared Iabove Long Islands hills
And fields OF waving grain.
The Sound impaired with moving craft,
The city with its crowds
Dropped from me in the void and thu,
l found the cave Of clouds
Into a vapory mass / spun
Like gray rocks to the eye.
And there were hesped the treasure trove,
or centuries gone by;
The pearl that Cleopatra drank,
gem OF rosy sheen,
And all the emeralds and gold
OF Sheba's Haunting queen.
Ingots and bars and shining plate
The loot OF merchant ships
And goblets trimmed with rubies red,
And cups with jeweiled lips,
Blue sapphires tawny topszes.
And amethysts were there,
And coral pink as beauty's cheek.
And amber for her hair.
Tho old historians were wrong
All wrong where Captain Kidd
And Harry Morgan long ago
Their pirate riches hid
Go up with me when sunset paints
Manhattan's towers tall,
And In the wondrous cave OF clouds
10. ysF' II md then ALI
N-.~A T--f.~
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In the Moonlight Woods.

From the POrtldnd 0re0onidH.
I walked in the woods by moonlight where
the wander winds delayed.
The wander winds in the moonlight that
crept through the haunted shade;
And the woods were still in the moonlight
all but the night harp's tone
OF faint and fairylike music,
Wild and weird wood music,
At random stirring the silence as / walked
to the woods alone.
How strange It is in the moonlight, walled
In by the leaves and grass,
When things 20 stalking the shadows and
you think you hear them pass.
Alone in the woods in the moonlight WALLED
in by hill and hedge.
Ana my thoughts go UP to the treetops,
To the heavens above the treetops,
Wingtng through space to the edge of the
world-and there is no edge
Space somewhere in the distance must end
but 1t cannot end;
And my thoughts, all crushed and be-
wildered, that cannot comprehend,
For the real of the great Lost Spaces come
back to the moonlight here
While through the woods in the moon
light
A presence moves in the darkness,
As OF one who walks in the shadows So
close that do not fear.
It Is good TO walk In the moonlight in
the wonder woods alone
When the cares OF the day are vanished
and worldly thoughts are Town,
when you feel the weight OF the stiffness
and start at a sound that Is made,
And list TO the nightly music
And the sound OF the wind in the tree
tops,
And sense in the darkness saying: at
is l. he not afraid"
SERGEANT CLAUDE WIENER
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AMES ASKS POWER
TO REDUCE PROFITS
Wants House to Hurry Legis-
latiOn to Curb Shoe and
Apparel Merchants.


WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.--The Depart
ment of Justice is receiving frequent re-
ports of pro6teering in shoes and wear
ing apparel, but is powerless TO dea
with these cases unless the Legislation
asked for by Attorney General Palmer
is passed by Congress, This was the
gist of letter sent to-day by Assistant
Attorney-General Ames to Representa-
tive Haugen Uowa). chairman OF ne
House Committee ON Agriculture, vnsre
the amendments are reposing.
A tangle in the Ball amendment for
control OF rents in the District OF Co
lumbia tied up the whole legislation ana
Judge Ames makes plea that the rem
provision be separated from the general
bill. that the Department of Justice may
get at the profiteers.
The amendments when enacted will
not operate To punish those who are
boldly profiteoTing at this time, II Is
understood
A big California sugar company ne
increased the price OF sugar for the new
beet crop more than 25 per cent, Ato.'
ney- General Ames said.
There are scores OF Instances reported
each day TO the Department Of Justice
of deliberate boosting of the cost OF
living. In practically every instance the
food amendments pending will be nece'
sary, 1t is declared, to bring effective
action against unfair charges.
Judge Ames's letter was as follows!
DEAR Mr.. HAUGEN: VIII you pardoh
mo for calling your attention 10 mo NJ,
portance of early action on the amena
ments to the food control act. II Ue
matter of rents in the District OF CO
lumbia Is likely TO cause material 'e'Sl
is there not some way by which u can
be separated from tho other antnu-
ments SO that earlier action upon the"
may be taken.
Reports continue coming 10 tAis oe
partment indicating prohteeriug In sAoe'
and other articles OF wearing appArE
Pending the passage OF the an ena'lsH
the Department Is powerless to deal g.
fectively with these reports.
I'VE are also just advised thar the
Holly Sugar Corporation Of CHli'rna
Ia placing the new crop OF beet sugar on
the market at $l1.5U per hunnrel'
against 50 which Is the prevai'7E PRIV
for the old crop This being a case u.
individual action and the new cry
not being controlled by the sugar t4la.
ization Board, the Departmer' .ann"IS
take effective action In the matter JIM
the amendments are passed.
The matters mentioned IN th'7 ''e
are mere Instance in illustration ~ w
general argument made 10 your comm.
tee by the Acknowledgement and i'N'
trate the importance OF acton g. sou
as the committee can tind II sossl7e W
act"
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Straight Americanlsm From Gem
eraI Pershing.

The peromtion of General PERISH.
mos address delivered before the Con
gress of the United States assembled
In joint session to confer upon him
the formal thanks of the Republic fol
his services as Commander in Chief OF
the American Expeditionary Forces in
France deserves rereading:
'The glorious record made in the
night for our treasured ideals will be
a precious heritage to posterity.
1T has welded together our people
nationality.
The solldity of the Republic and
its institutions in the test of world
war should fill with pride every man
and woman living under its flag.
THE great achievements, the high
ideals, the sacrifices of our army
and our people belong to no party
and to no creed.
They are the Republics legacy to
be sacredly guarded and carefully
transmitted to future generations"
In these sentences, vibrant with the
faith of the man who In the face of
almost insuperable obstacles insisted
that the United States should not be
a mere reservoir of replacement
troops for the armies of the Allies.
but should create and use in the field
an army of its own, there Is no sug-
gestion that their author believes in
the subordination of his country to
the sovereignty of superstate. In
stead General PERsHING dwells III
these passages on the welding to-
gether" Of our people and the quick
ening of our sense of nationality"
In his measured judgment the solid
ity Of the Republic and its institu-
tions" as proved in the war SHOULD
fill with pride every man and woman
living under its flag" Our achieve
ments are the Republics legacy" and
General PERsHINo said not word
about their constituting contribu-
ton to nebulous scheme of world
reformation at our expense.
Stalwart, unadulterated, true blue
Americanism was the keynote of Gen
cral PERsHING's address on the his
toric occasion when he stood before
the lawmakers of his country to re-
ceive his count-ys thanks, and the
words he uttered we're good to hear.
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The Sun Calendar
THE WEATHER.

Eastern New York ami so,,,h.
England, partly cloudy and warr,. New
Gay; showers tonight or to-noos..' eO'
cooler Tomorrow: moderate a. wv Wv
south and southwest winds becor, ,sn
northwest winds 'O'ruhs
new Jersey, fair TODAY. ,,.
lnterlor; showers tonight or 10 er u
soVier tomorrow; moderate 10 fresh low,
sa n1 southwest Winds, becoming nortS sOu.a
Northern New England, far
warner In interior; showers 70 ,w-oIi
mod.r,n New Hampshire and VeTmSrw,!
Western New York. sbowsr1st winda
49, anu Tonight In east portion; Ronass.,ml
TAR ana somewhat cooler to. morrow any
WARRINGTON. Sept. 2O-Tho o...-,
appeared to the northea stw. ieul mas dis.
rom the northwest extends tn.r another
.roush shape from Kansas ,o ht In
istter Win the principal centre ovsr ~ ~.
rtsinr sectlon, It II followed bv rs,, ms
ine although not high pressure rsspldE
ea s were quite general from IN. SNOW
thomrh ana md. the Ohio Valley eastward nS'
rhere were also showers in nc statss
west Georgia, Florida. the c.n,s nnssssss,
fair "1 H,n Elsewhere the weaths s'S a.'
SATURDAY over .e,bp " Prevailed durss
the Mississippi River, willis ~ e 81. east o.
westward they have fallen 10 .he north.
sloeraoly below the seasonal ayersp poini coz.
southwest southwest and extreme central Sa,, IN the
Be sbowsr were s nearly normal TSeto 's T1
SSnlo valley and the South s,oh, ths
Fn~isy night and Monday into tb the SiI
and eoo,,n and the middle Atlantic I st new
ffegion, the Ohio Valley ana rms the lake
he r weatner VIII prevail Monday IT1 4, s
EnSis apmer sunday In tho interior o, N Hll
and cooler S1 in IN, me middle Atlantic stats. tai"
me Ohio Valley and western e region,
oh,~ VIII De cooler Monday in tbe "n 'a.
mIdd,s a Gt1y; the lower lake region upper Si
England ana western New
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Celebrating an OIL strike.

fTOW INC huH6dS CIV Star.
They oiled Main street in Pruntytown.
W. Va, the other day. This was a lonE
step in the march Of progress for which
the editor of the Palladium had been night
ing and hollering almost since anybody
could remember. AS soon as they could
get to II after the oil was put on II
seemed as IL everybody in town walked
In the mess with both feet except poor
ED Hopper. who has only one leg. And a
wsg said that old Eli Feebles, who Is
psrslyzsd, sat in his chair and cried like
a child because he couldn't get out and
stroll around In the stun Anerward
everybody went home and tromped It all
over their front porches and on their par
Tor carpets, and hung their feet on the
rungs of the1chsirs
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successful French railroad strike of
1910. This is "the fine example-:

1910. This is the fine example,:
The workers worked, but only for
the purpose Of confusing the railroad
system. In the freight sheds ship
ments of glass were laid fiat and
heavy boxes piled upon them; this
side up with care shipments were
turned wrong side up; fragile and
valuable articles were accidentally
broken; perishable goods were buried
and lost or ruined by being placed
close to other shipments. such as
oils and acids, that spoiled them.
Also a complete confusion was caused
by the deliberate mixture and mis-
sending OF shipments. On the roads
engines broke down or died unac-
countably; wires were cut; engines
accidentally dumped into turntable
pits; passenger train schedules were
given up. trains arriving and depart
ing haphazard. But the worst con-
fusion came from the missending OF
cars. Thousands Of cars were hauled
all over France in haphazard man
ner. For instance, the billing of a
car OF perishable goods intended for
the north Of France would be so
manipulated that the car would be
sent to the south Of France and prob
ably lost At a place just outside of
Paris there were at one time 1900
Of such lost cars-many Of them
loaded with perishable freight, con-
signed to no one knew whom. The
most ridiculous accidents and mis-
takes continually occurred-for this
IL the humorous form Of sabotage.
To cite a typical instance: Army
officials in one town received notice
OF the arrival of carload of dyna-
mite for them. They sent a large de-
tachment Of soldiers to convoy It
through town. On arrival at its des-
tination the supposed carload of dy-
Mantle turned out to be a lost ship
ment of potatoes"
Further on we learn that there are
900 ways in which rebellious work
RS can spoil cloth without fear of
detection. Sabotage has it's artistic
is well as its humorous side.
Still less familiar is sabotage by
badigeonage," so spelled, and trans
ated as "stone colorage." The bar
'ers Of Paris practised it when they
hurled eggs filed with acid against
he painted fronts of the shops their
Employers occupied.
The sabotage of the open mouth,
la bouche ouverte," is less physi-
al. leaning rather to the diplomatic
ide; knocking the boss" seems n
impler American phrase: building
rades workers tell building inspec-
ors and architects of poor material
Ised, striking walters expose the filth
ness of the restaurants" &c.
One form of sabotage described as
effective though unnamed" has not
cen put in effect here: THE waiter
ives extra large portions of food to
lis customers and undercharges them
or it. The drug clerk gives gener-
usly Of pure drugs instead of adul-
Grated ones, as he is supposed to-"
The last named form might seem to
I'M counter to the declaration that
1t Is the first principle of working
lass sabotage that it be directed
gainst the masters pocketbooks.
'ractices tending to injure the public
r secure its i'll will are tabooed."