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The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-12-04
"THE ONLY GIRL" MONDAY
NIGHT AT THE MAJESTIC
"The Biggest Play That Ever Came
to Liberal" Will Entertain
Good Crowd.

Tickets for "The Only Grip were
placed on sale last Monday morning
and the seat sales have exceeded all
expectations. While there are still
desirable seats left the number is
growing less all the while.
This company is being toured by
Harry Horner of the Redpath-Horner
Chautauquas, and is guaranteed by
The business men and others of Lib.
eral. 1t is a real New York produc.
tion, with several of the cast which
produced it in that city. In another
place in this issue will be found list
of the principals, and in this will be
found many stage people of prom
inence.
The company carries cracking
good orchestra and the cost and or
chestra includes thirty people.
The play will be we'll worth the
price asked and those who miss it
are going to be mighty sorry when
they hear what is said of it when it
is over.
Better get those tickets right away
and be on the safe side. When an
attraction of this magnitude comes to
a town the size of Liberal it should
be given good support. That is the
way in which to influence a higher
class of entertainments to come
here.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-12-04
SOUTHWESTERN MOTOR SALES
COMPANY SECURE LOCATION
Will Have Temporary Headquarters
in Southwestern Hardware
Building.

The Southwestern Motor Sales
Company have secured a part of the
west room Of the Southwestern Hard
ware Company and will open up for
business until their new garage on
Washington avenue can be complet-
ed.
They are handling the Maxwell
and expect to secure the agency for
another car as soon as they get things
Strengthened around.
Messrs. Hays and Lyman are at
the head of the company and are 60
ing ahead with plans for an extern
sive business.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-12-04
LIBERAL BATTERY STATION
CLOSED FOR LACK OF HELP

Manager Trindle of the Liberal
Battery Station, handling Willard
Batteries, asks us to announce that
the station is closed and will be until
the coal strike is called off.
The man in charge went with the
National Guards and there is no one
here who can handle the work, so
all that remained was to close the
station until his return.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-12-04
CITY OFFICIALS TAKE CHARGE
OF FUEL SITUATION HERE
Members of Cooncil, Chamber of
Commerce and Coal Dealers CO.
Operate to Prevent Suffering.

Prompt action on the part of May
or Griffith and the members of the
city council has so far prevented an
actual suffering here as a result OF
the coal shortage. At a meeting held
the last of the week a committee was
appointed to make survey of the
coal in private hands in the city, and
plans mapped out whereby private
stocks might be taken over to pre-
vent suffering.
This committee consisted of men,
bers of the city council, members of
the Chamber of Commerce and one
representative of each consern in the
city handling coal.
Secretary Ray Millman of the Lib
eral Chamber of Commerce, who was
county fuel director during the war,
was named as fuel director and the
apportioning of coal is being handled
thru his office.
Two or three cars of coal have
been received in Liberal and these
are being parceled out in 50O-pound
lots to those who have no coal on
hand? To secure this allotment one
must call on Mr.. Millman and make
affidavit that he is out, or practically
out of coal. AS long as there is coal
in the hands of the dealers they will
supply the demand. When they run
out private stocks will be distributed.
At noon yesterday Mr.. Millman
had on file something like 376 appli-
cations for coal, and he explained
that most of them specified that the
applicant was out of coal, and all are
on the 500-pound basis.
Strict economy is being urged in
the consumption of coal. Where pos
sible only one stove should be fired,
and every effort made to conserve the
scanty supply.
Persons having quantity of coal
on hand have been very generous in
offering to help supply the demand
and the local authorities expect no
trouble from this source.
Tuesday car for the Equity Ex-
change arrived. This car was found
by Mr.. Magruder, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, at Dalhart
and it was thru his efforts that the
car was released and was brought to
the town and it came at the time
when it was much needed. There
were hundreds of people served coal
and much suffering was averted.
There has been good cooperation of
the business men in this crisis in that
all appear to be anxious to help.
When the car came for the P. W.
Light Lumber Company the Star
Lumber Company sent its delivery
wagons into the work of helping to
make deliveries of coal, and when the
car for the Equity arrived the de-
livery wagons of the Star and Light
coal companies sent their wagons to
the aid of the Equity.
Another feature of this coal situa-
tion is that the Rock Island railroad,
insofar as this division is concerned,
has not confiscated a single car of
coal intended for Liberal. Superin-
tendent Greenough has been apprised
of the situation and is doing all in
his power to help the people secure
coal.
Business houses which are out of
coal will not be supplied until all
families in need are supplied.
All stores remain open until 9
o'clock on Saturday nights only.
Families of National Guardsmen
have first preference if they notify
Mr.. Griffith or Mr.. Millman.
@NIr
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-12-04
AMERICAN LEGION HERE
OFFERED TEN VOLUNTEERS
Local American Legion Assisting in
Coal Situation.

W. B. King received message
Wednesday asking that the local post
American Legion seek volunteers to
dig coal. Mr.. King got busy and
rounded up ten men, but later re-
ceived word that enough had been
secured for immediate use, but asked
that cards be filled out and sent in
that they may be called for future
service.
Mr.. King has the cards and anyone
wishing to enroll should call on him
and sign up.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-12-04
WHITE WAY PROMISED
WITHIN SIXTY DAYS

After several months delay Liber-
al is promised White way within the
next sixty days, according to men,
bers of the city council.
Sins The 5ua.Sc1s houses are clos
ing and shutting off their window
lights the streets are mighty dark and
the white way will be greatly well
coined.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-12-04
DEATHS

Jack Fuld Griffith, infant son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Vern Griffith, died
Monday, December /. Services were
held at the home by the Rev. Bolton
of the Christian Church, and the lit
tie body was laid to rest in the Lib
eral cemetery.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-12-04

W. j. Holman, who has been in
the Liberal hospital for the past
week for an operation, is getting
along fine and expects to get out and
around in short time.-Hugoton
Hermes.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-12-04

Lena G. Hern passed away at her
home December 2, 1919. Services
were held at the Happy school house,
December 3, by the Rev. Atherton,
and interment was made in the APP
pleton cemetery.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-12-04
MARRIAGES

Mr.. James A. Carlile and Miss
Mary Critics were united in marriage
by the probate judge in Liberal,
Kansas, Monday, November oath,
1919.
The bride is the only daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Critics formerly
of the Prairie View neighborhood.
She came to Tyrone recently to keep
house for her brothers.
The groom is a returned soldier,
having served about twelve months
over seas. He resided in this part
of the state short time before the
war.
They expect to make their home in
Tyrone.
Their friends wish them a happy,
prosperous life together.-Tyrone
Observer.
w HlldlH nays anu DeSs wash, DOIi
of Forgan, were united in marriage
at Liberal, November %, at the court
house by the Probate Judge.
Thomas A. Piper and Mary A. Ir-
win, both of Hooker, were married
at the court house November 29 by
the Probate Judge.
Charles B. Contrell of Tyrone and
Naomi Gum, formerly of Tyrone
but now of Liberal, were married at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. C. B. Jen-
sen, Wednesday, December 3. Mr..
Contrell is a returned soldier. Mrs.
Contrell has worked for some time
at the Liberal Equity Creamery.
They will make their home here for
the present. Their friends extend
congratulations.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-12-04

Mrs. Viltha Westmoreland of Guy.
mon died at her home Sunday, No
vember 30. Mrs. Westmoreland Is a
grandmother of Mrs. B. E. Heating
and Mrs. Ernest Evans of this City
Services were held at Guymon Wed.
nesday and interment made in the
Guymon cemetery.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-12-04

Thomas A. Piper and Mary A. Ir.
win, both of Hooker, were married
at the court house November 29 by
the Probate Judge.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-12-04

Joel B. Holmes died December 8
at his home in the northeast part of
town. Mr.. Holmes is well known
around here, having lived here for
several years. Four children-Mrs.
B. ]. Farney of Abeyville, Kansas
Oral, Orville and Nellie of Liberal
survive him. Services were held at
the Methodist Church Monday, De-
cember /, and interment was made
in the Liberal Cemetery.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-12-04

Sarah Huffman, aged 80 years,
passed away December 3. The body
will be shipped to Haviland for buri-
al.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-12-04

William Hays and Bess Nash, both
of Forgan, were united in marriage
at Liberal, November %, at the court
house by the Probate Judge.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-01-23
BRITISH HONDURAS HOT SPOT
'steam-Heatino Plants and Heavy
overeoats Never In Demand In
That Part Of the Earth.

British Honduras keeps its Christ
mas in the shade. From its position,
pretty near to the equator. and wedged
in between Yucatan and Guatemala, It
1t is always hot in that country, and
especially so when 1t is midwinter
with us. It is land of costly woods,
innumerable semivarieties Of them, and
Of lovely flowers. 1t Is one of the ma
tive homes of hummingbirds and gor-
geous butterflies. In fact, nature IL
rather more gaudy than neat In that
part Of the world. English people
settled there from Jamaica as long
ago as in 1857, but it was not until
over century later that treaty ar
engagements with Spain made their no
sition secure as still Inhabitants of the
British empire. A good deal of the
country is marshland but the Cocks
comb mountains which run into Hon.
duras from Guatemala are in places
1900 feet high. and wherever really
dry land is found the ground is won.
derfully fertile. Mahogany grows
there to perfection; so does the log.
wood used for dyeing, also bananas,
plantains and coconuts. The capital.
Belize, is the chief port of entry. and
the center Of the rubber industry,
which depends upon regularly tended
plantations. =
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-01-23
British Official Photograph
Linen Mill That Was Completely Wrecked the

time. They told me of another time
when more than 10000 boys Of from
fourteen to twenty years Of age had
been carried away to Germany. When
I was in Lille on October % 1t had
very few inhabitants except old peo-
pie ,or very young children. Among
the few exceptions were girls Of from
seventeen to twenty years of age nurs-
ing babies, which they told me were
the offspring Of German fathers, and
the pathos of the situation of those
young girls is something shall never
forget. y
And this condition at Lille is the re-
suit Of German ambition for world
domination, an ambition fostered
among the German people through
years of training, the ambition of a
people whose boast has been that
might makes right"
am sorry to say have heard peo-
pie attempt to excuse this looting Of
Lille on the ground that 1t could be
shown to be war meAsure-the need
Of Germany for this machinery and
for the labor Of the people deported
to Germany. But these people cannot
find any reasonable excuse for the war
itself, a war that was started only for
the selfish purpose of a selfish peo.
pie.
Shall Germany not pay for this con-
dition at Lille? Shall she not pay for
the machinery that was carted away
or destroyed, for the people that were
deported? Shall she not pay for the
years of idleness of these factories,
for the years Of idleness Of the en-
ployees denied the opportunity Of prof
table employment? Shall she not pay
for the markets that have been de-
stroyed and which 1t will take years
to re-establish IL 1t can ever be done7
No. Germany. will never be able to
pay for all of it. She will never be
able to pay. and no sum Of money
could pay for the anguish of those
mothers who were forced to stand
aside and watch their sons and daugli
ters carried away into virtual slavery.
She will never be able to pay for the
anguish, the wrecked lives. Of those
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-01-23

girls with German babies Money viii
not pny for these things, but money
and work can In some small degree
pay for the wrecked factories and ru-
ined business Of the city of Lille, and
through the payment of this money
and labor the people Of Germany will
learn that might is not right, and that
war for the purpose Of gratifying q
selfish ambition Is not profitable.
Why Lille Was Not Destroyed.
The German retreat from Lille came
near the close Of the war when the
Germans knew they were beaten and
they would have to pay. and for that
reason the city itself was not de-
stroyed. But the fact that 1t was not
destroyed is but another evidence Of
German selfishness rather than Of viz.
tue.
There are hundreds Of cities and
towns that have been destroyed after
being looted as Lille was looted: hum
dreds of towns where even the mate
rial Of which they were built has been
carried away that 1t might be used In
the construction Of Notifications be-
hind which the German army might
defend itself and its ill.gotten gains.
For all of these Germany should pay
now, and for generations to come.
No sympathetic pardon board should
sit on Germany's case. No sentiment
alist should have voice in deciding
her punishment. There IL no more
II as much, reason for leniency in FIX
ing the punishment of Germany than
there would be for leniency in fixing the
punishment of the ruthless slayer Of
your son or your daughter. Germany
must pay all that the present and ftl-
ture generations can pay, and she will
even then have expiated her crime only
in small degree.
Any Demand Not Too Great.
I am sure know the desire Of the
American people for fair play In all
things. including the settlement with
Germany. They would not wish to do
the German people an injustice In the
demand for reparation. AS rode mile
after mile over the devastated fields
Of Belgium and northern France, as
passed through town after town that
had been destroyed because Of mad
craze for loot and world domination.
I felt that could the American people
but see the things I was seeing. they
would feel, as 1 felt, that any demand
that might be made could not be un-
fair: Could they have seen the ruins
Of the beautiful cities of Ypres, Ar
mentieres. La Bassee, Peronne, st.
Quentin. Noyon, Lens and many hum
dreds of others, they, too, would
say with one voice: Germany must
pay"
The boche will appeal, and in fact
is appealing, for the sympathy of the
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-01-23

world, but the boche is entitled to
just the same degree of sympathy that
the world accords to any other GRIM
inal. We feed and clothe the GRIM
inal that he may live to expiate his
crime, and we will feed and clothe the
German people that they may live to
expiate their crime, and that after
they have done that they may again
be entitled to the place in the worlds
civilization that only those who are
cleansed may occupy. Germany is en-
titled to nothing more than this, and
this is fair play.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-01-23
GERMANY MUST PAY
Boche Entitled to No More Sym.
pathy Than Any Criminal.
WRECKED CITIES AND LIVES
Many >olris In lille Ar Mother, a.
Babes Whose Fathers Are Ger.
mans-Punishment Cannot
Be Too Severe.
By WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.

BY WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
When a robber breaks into your
house and steals that which he can
carry away and then destroys that
which he cannot steal, you expect that
when caught he will be punished both
for what he stole and for what he de-
stroyed.
So 1t is with Germany.
The German army, acting under the
orders Of the German government,
stole everything It could carry away in
the invaded sections of Belgium and
France. and what It could not carry
away II destroyed.
I was in the city Of Lille very short
~ after the retreating Germans had
evacuated 1t. Before the war Lille
had been one Of the busiest and most
prosperous manufacturing towns In all
Of Europe. Its great factories, pro-
duclng linens, cottons. velvets, ribbons
and wooden goods, had patrons all over
the world, and its sugar and chemical
plants supplied much of France with
these products.
For four years. during the German
occupation, the factories of Lille had
been idle. They are idle today, and
they will be idle for many months to
come. The reason is that Germany
stole the machinery from all Of these
factories, or in the very few cases
where actual theft was not possible or
profitable, they destroyed the machin-
cry. The people of Lille told me that
this theft Of machinery had been car
ried to such lengths that the Huns
even invaded the homes of the people
and took from them their sewing ma
chimes.
Germans Fathers Of Their Babes,
The German army looted this beau
tiful French city of more than 2OO..
600 population. It stole not alone the
machinery from its factories and its
homes, but even its people. French
mothers told me Of how 5000 young
girls Of twenty-five years of age and
under had been carried away at one
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-01-23
CHAPTER XIII.

oespalr-and Freedom.
While I was working at the hos
pital conditions at mp old barracks
had been getting worse and worse.
Very few Of the men were absolutely
right in the head, I guess. and almost
all had given up hope Of ever getting
out alive. Though they put up good
front to the Huns, they really did not
care q great deal what happened to
them. The only thing to think about
was the minute they were living in.
The day I came back two English
men, who had suddenly gone mad,
commenced to fight each other. 1t was
the most terrible fight have ever
seen. It was some time before the
rest Of US could make them quit, be-
cause at first we did not know they
were crazy. When we he'd them down,
however, they were scratched and Bit
ten and pounded from head to foot.
Both Of them bled from the nose all
that night, and toward morning one
OF them became sane for few min
utes and then died. The other was
taken away by the Germans, still
crazy. ,..
Another time an Australian came
into our barracks and very seriously
told us that he had drag with the
German officers and that he had been
to dinner with them, and had had tur-
key. potatoes. coffee, butter.> eggs.
sugar in his coffee, and all the luxuries
you could think of. We just sat and
stared at him. 1t seemed impossible
that any Of our own men would have
the gall to torture us like that, and yet
we could not possibly believe that 1t
had really happened. Finally, one
fellow could not stand 1t any longer.
He was nothing but skin and bones,
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-01-23

Ono Man Would Trade HE Whole RI.
tion for the Next Day for HAN q Ra.
tion Today.
but he grabbed dividing board and
there were just two wallops: the
board hit the Australians head and
the head hit the floor. Then half q
dozen more pounced onto him and
gave him a real licking. When he
came to he had forgotten all about
! the wonderful dinner he did not have.
Not long after this the Russian doc
tors proved to the Germans that there
was no black typhus in our barracks
and we were allowed the freedom Of
the camp except that we could not
visit the Russian barracks. That was
no hardship to. me nor to the rest of
us. except one chap from the Car1brian
Range. who had special pal among
the Russians that he wanted to see.
And. Of course, when It was verboten,
he wanted to see him all the more.
A day or two after the order I was
standing outside the barracks door
when I saw this fellow come out with
q dividing board in his hand. I thought
he was going to smash somebody with
it. SO I stood by. But he stopped over
and jammed one end Of the bhard
against the threshold of the door,
scratched the ground with the farther
end Of the board and measured again.
He kept this up, length by length, in
the direction Of the Russian barracks.
The sentry in the yard stopped and
stared at him, but the fellow kept
right on, paying no attention to any
body. Pretty soon he was right by the
sentry's feet and I thought any minute
the sentry would give him the butt,
but he just stared while and let him
pass. That lad measured the. whole
distance to the Russian barracks, went
inside. stayed q while and calmly
strolled back with the board under his
arm. When he reached our barracks
again he told us he had found vino
mine. What he had found was some
thing not 20 unusual boneheaded
German.
There was a lot Of bamboo near the
Russian barracks and the Russians
made baskets out Of It and turned
them in to the Germans. For this they
got all the good Jobs in the kitchen
and had fne chance to get more to
eat. But they were treated like dogs "
chat IL, all except the few Cossacks
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-01-23

know. The sentries booted me all the
way back to my. old barracks.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-01-23

Optimistic Thought
Observe myself as thy greatest en-.
envy would do; 90 shalt thou DO thy
greatest friend
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-07-23
Shannon & Co.'s Letter

New York, July 22.-Although many OF
the local traders hold the opinion that
the top prices for cotton this season have
been seen or practically that they seem
by no means disposed to take the short
side aggressively as recoveries are too
quick and sharp owing to the small sup
ply of contracts.
IL the south showed a greater inclina-
ton to add to that supply by hedge sales
there would be more confidence on the
part of sellers, but so far offerings from
that source have been on small scale
as compared with what has usually been
the case in the past, though now and
then selling orders reach the market
| which are credited to that account.
During the later trading the market
showed generally steady tone on re-
newed demand from prominent trade in
terests and from old bulls while it was
also thought that recent sellers were
quietly covering upon the better rates
for exchange as we'll as advices that it
is, not probable there will be any strike
in the steel trade.
Exports were 400 bales The construc-
tive side on good dips looks the best
Post q 'Flagg.