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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-02-27

The editor has received many COM
plants on his boost article published
a few days ago, showing up the many
good things in Valley City and the fine
town we have, and we have also been
cited for contempt for emitting sew
eral important enterprises we have.
The fact of the matter is that when
you start in to write about all the
good things we have in this town
there are so many of them that we ma
turally have to omit a few because
there are so many of them. For in
stance, we omitted mentioning that
we have one of the best equipped mo-
rorized fire departments in the state,
and outside of Grand Forks, Bismarck
and Fargo, there are none better and
we have just as good equipment as
these towns. We have with this
equipment one of the best volunteer
fire departments in the state and the
boys headed by Chief w. T. Craswell,
have a great record to their credit.
Then we omitted to mention that we
have fine floral and greenhouse bus
mess here, conducted by Friend C. E.
Moore. A mighty good institution,
too. We have one of the best sewer
age systems here, too-these are the
things that make a town worth the
living in. We have frst-class laun-
dry, bakery, two or three of the fin
dry, bakery, four or five of the finest
garages in the state, and oh, piffle, we
will have to stop, there are so many
good things here he have not the time
to enumerate them.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-02-27

BUY W. S.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1919-05-27

Since he was appointed 10 Annapo-
ago. Observation-Disclosures A.. G.
Read has done much to help naval
aviation. He had served as com
mander OF nearly every naval air sta
tiUn on the Atlantic coast before he
was called 10 Washington during the
a and put in charge of supplying
all the air stations with material
HIS friends In IN enavy say he ia a
born nier and were not surprised
when they read that the NC-4 had
made a nonstop flight from New
foundland 20 the Azores.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1919-05-27
RAIN NEEDED At MEREtIL.

Eugene Hammond. "A prominent
stOckman Of the Merrill district, a
~ the county seat yesterday o. ma
tcrs Of business. He reports that IN
T. very badly needed by the farmers
Of that district.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1919-05-27
f,ItfE ER ~ VISITING
RDGtE RIVER VALLEY,

VIZ and Nra. Fred Carich ar"
spending several days in Medford.
Ashland. Talent and other points Ia
Rogue River Valley. where Mr. Car
ich is making arrangements Cor he
SIMMER supply OF Guita
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1919-05-27
NOTICE.

Their" vll be- Il band rehearsal o.
: = VI E"r" lhiu evening AZ the Ellis
Temple =" prepare for Memorial day
"N"rrIa"a Al mrmberR are urEcu -
be- ou uau,
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1919-05-27
Return FROM FISHING Jitr.

Jim DrlscolI and ". 6 Van Emon
returned from a fishing trIr
TO C%hIlOquin.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1919-05-27

80 water in America equal TO that
At tn" Hot Spring Bath house. 12-l
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1919-05-27

puNhak and Kampit-Outing wear
or men and women. *. X. X. Store.
.6-6
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1919-05-27

Some classy Panama and Straw
Hats ut Is X X. store. EOS
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

slightest offences, and often for no
offence at all. For instance, one
evening a German officer who had
been dining at Belgian restaurant
offered five-mark piece in pay
ment, saying, "That is the image
of our Emperor"
Emperor or no Emperor" re-
piled the patronne, "it is worth six
francs and nothing more" She was
fined heavily.
The Germans on the
10th of April posted an o6iche stat
ing that the French were employ
ing new kind of bomb containing
an asphyxiating gas which rendered
its victims insensible. The Ger
mans were panied and surprised,
even horrified; they said that it was
barbarous for the French to do such
a thing. Then, three weeks later,
on the 2Sth of April, we read in
the newspapers that came in from
the outside the accounts of the
asphyxiating bombs used by the
Germans at Hill 60, near Ypres-
for the first time, l believe, in hu-
man history. Not only was there
the constant outrage of that sense
of justice which lives in most men
who have known liberty, but there
was every day some new and con-
crete instance of injustice, or, if
not always that, of indelicacy,
which, according to Talleyrand, is
worse than crime.
"Nothing was too small, too
petty, for the official notice Of the
government of occupation. 1t had
the notion, everywhere the mark
of immature development, that
every ineXact statement, no matter
how trivial, must be pursued and
hunted down. 1t spent much time
in denials and explanations; long,
elaborate, puerile discussions were
posted on the walls and published
in the censored press. Qui s'encuse,
s'accuse. When the American
newspapers published story to the
effect that a German officer in a
Brussels restaurant had objected to
my speaking English, and that I had
risen and with bow and a flourish
handed him my card, precisely, of
course, as it would have been done
in the cinema, the authorities asked
me to issue a formal denial, and
were nonplussed when I declined
to do SO; having read Treitschke
more deeply than Emerson, they
could not understand the attitude.
Freedom! said Count H
one day, with sneer at the word.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

colombier. He was then cordau
to pay a fine-because it was ~
bidden by the law to allow pipeo..
to fly. eN0As
Edith Cavell wrote several la+4o
before she was murdered. amoass
them one to her mother in EnylsnS
The letters were taken by the Css
mans and never delivered. NJ
Whitlock says: again and aya;n
asked for them, begging to he :,
lowed to send them to England :.
comfort the aged and sorrou,;ns
mother, but they refused to o;rs
them over. They said that if wo,s
to send them to EMgland sbor
would be published abroad and .n
other sensation created that wouls
react against the German cause
was able later to give them nv word
that they would not be published
that they would remain the sacros
secret of the mother for whom thew
were intended; but no, they would
not give them up-the militarv
would not consent. But the Office,
IN whose keeping they were did bave
the grace to say to me fnallv q
wish l might give them to you; thew
are very sad and uncomfortabls
charge for me to keep"
Baucq, the Brussels architect WIN
was shot with Miss Cavell, was mur.
dered, according to Mr.. Whitlock
simply because it would have been
too bald and too patent, even from
the Prussian point of view, to hurry
out a woman all alone and kin her
One evening the German polize;
descended upon the banking Office
of Baron Lambert and accused him
of having telephone line which
enabled him to talk to Paris. '1What
they found was only the telephone
oooth, relic of old and happier days.
which, with It's private wire connect
ing the baron's establishment with
the Rothschild bank in Paris. was
plainly marked on the outside with
the name of that gay city. Some
Teutonic detective had seen the
booth standing there in its place in
the orderly row of telephone booths
and reading the word Paris on its
door, had made the Illuminating de.
duction, quite in Sherlock Holmes
manner, that the baron had a secret
wire to the French capital, and
imagined daily confabulations and
dark and mysterious conspiratiohs.u
The Belgians panied their invad.
ers by pretending to be surprised
that the Germans had allowed Spring
to come without posting any a6iche
to regulate its coming. At last, how.
ever, an a6Sche appeared with the
decree that all dogs be muzzled lest
they bite somebody
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
A Question of
Hens and Eggs

The Countess K. de R-- was or
dered by the kommandant in her re-
gion to furnish his men with GER
tain number Of eggs every day. She
complied with the order. Not long
after she was ordered to dispose Of
her chickens to save food. But
how" she asked, "ean then
supply the eggs?'' They had not
thought of that. 1t was wholly char
acteristic of the German mind,
which, so exceedingly keen in many
ways, cannot always put two and
two together. They would have a
commission of thirty-six herr profes-
sors, and they would make an in
tricate study, and another commits
sion of herr doktors, on hens, and
all sorts of statistics, but they would
fail to note the relation between
hens and eggs.
"Going down the rue de la Made
leine those summer afternoons we
used to smile as we passed a cafe
with this sign:
Cafe des
and then blank. It had been the
Cafe des Allies in the early days of
the war, but the Germans ordered
the proprietor to change the name
the proprietor, with Belgian clever
ness, simply erased the word Allies
and left blank, and thereupon his
cafe had an extraordinary adver-
tisement and such a vogue as he
had never dreamed of when at first
he had thus Haunted his colors. II
was but another instance of that in
comparable inability to understand
all things that have to do with the
mystery of human nature; they were
myopic Of soul as OF vision, seeing
nothing beyond their purblind eyes
and they could not understand
why the Belgians did not like them.
and actually complained that they
were not cordially received"
Some Of the blunders of the Ger
mans in their judiciary were almost
farcical. An officer of the Garde
Civique was found to have some
blank cartridges in his possession
He explained that they had been
used before the war for exercises
and were valueless for anything
else, but he was sent to jail. While
in jail fire broke out in his house
and his pigeons flew away from his
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
rs Brand Whtlock Pllories the German i'm Belgium

Being a digest of Mr.. Whitlock's
nelo book on has experiences and OBJ
serUGtlons as Minister to Belgium,
during the German occupation.
~ ERTAINLY no man has been
u in better position to judge
the Germans and their
methods than Brand Whit
lock, our minister to Belgium, who,
until we declared war, was at the
very centre of the cyclone that
swept over Europe. In the sinister
days that followed the first occupa-
ton of Belgium he was witness to
German ways and methods that
made him ponder, and that could not
be made to fit into any code of ac-
tions known to civilization. He
finally adopted the Belgian method
of accounting for these inexplicable
things-a shrug, a sigh and the
phrase, "La mentalite allemande.
Throughout the course of his book
Belgium" soon to appear, he gives
examples of this paradox Of mental
ity. After the fall of Liege he was
requested to present on behalf of
the German government q message
to the Belgian government suggest
ing that the heroic defence of Liege
had been a sufficient gesture to
maintain the self-respect of the
country and that it should not put
up any further resistance. Of that
incident Mr.. Whitlock says: "De
Leval finished his translation and
handed me the text, standing there
with an inquiry in his brown eyes as
| read it. / was standing there by
Gibson's desk in the room of the
secretaries. l read the dispatch over
and over; looked at Gibson, looked
at De Leval, looked at Miss Larner,
amazed beyond words. | stood there
with the telegram in my hands,
looked at the English and then at
the German words. What hand had
written them? What mentality had
conceived them? Were there, after
all, in this world no such things as
honor and faith? l let the dispatch
fall to the table, one thing at least
decided-namely, that no such offer
should soil my hands,"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

fixing the status of all nations and
regulating the affairs of the world
for all time; it must be that way
and no other, because that was or
ganization, and it was doctrinaI that
everything must be organized. We
discussed it learnedly and solemnly
for days on end, and the marvellous
and unprecedented phenomenon of
organization was at last evolved.
Then, one afternoon, by an innocent
question of one of us, it was sud-
denly discovered that none of the
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

subscriptions; they went to every
door behind which they suspected
the presence of some one knowing
about the paper and asked for odd
numbers to complete their files, but
all to no avail; neither editor nor
printer was ever discovered.
Of the business of feeding Bel
gium Mr.. Whitlock says: eve sup
posed that the military authorities
would prefer not to be troubled with
this constant shifting Of goods. But
no, that was not the German way
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

"For the love of God, give me
enough to get me to Antwerp"
She was touched by pity and gave
him two francs. The next day she
was arrested for assisting soldiers
to escape.
The remarkable German mind
seized upon and circulated the story
that came from Sweden to the effect
that the passengers on the Lusi-
tania had been induced to make the
passage by the captain Of the ship,
who gave them a refund Of $40 of
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

IT'S not our way; and as for de-
mocracy-we want none of it,"
Against German boorishness and
brute force the Belgians cast their
wit and cleverness. When the Ger
mans posted an odiche prohibiting
the singing of the Belgian national
anthem the Belgians whistled it;
when the Germans forbade the clos
ing of the shops in celebration of the
national fete the shops remained
open and no one made purchase,
and the little children Knocked the
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

herr doktors or herr professors, or
/ know not what gowned and hooded
experts, had ever once thought of
such questions as insurance,
transportation, demurrage, freight
charges, and, above all, the fluctua-
tions of the wheat market and the
desirability Of buying as cheaply as
possible. None Of these things had
entered into their consideration.
They looked up in amazement and
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
They Never
Understood

And so it went, day after day.
Sometimes the Germans mastered
the situations that confronted them
cleverly, but more often they eff
fected their desires by brute force
or pigheadedness. For the latter
quality the boche is supreme. An
excellent example of that was Of
fered when, after the slaughter
that took place at Louvain, the
Germans held an inquiry at which
various members of the Ameri-
lean staff were requested to testify.
The American government did not
wish to have them appear as wit
nesses and the board Of inquiry was
notified to that effect. However,
zone morning, during the progress
of the hearing, German officer ap-
peared at the legation. He was
large, portly, dressed in the gray
green uniform, wore a heavy sword
and thick PROFESSIONAL spectacles.
Under his arm he bore an enormous
portfolio that might have contained,
could he have found it, enough evil
dence to convict seven million Bel
gians. He entered, clicked his heels,
placed his hand at his helmet, bowed
stiftly, and without more ado seated
himself at my desk, opened his port
folio, spread it out before him, and,
in short, told US to begin testifying.
/ looked at the man in amazement.
do not know just what confused
notions Of his power and authority
were ebullient in his skull. But I
finally convinced him that he was
laboring under some misapprehen-
sion, and ultimately he went awav.
pausing only for rather petulant
salute"
Mr.. Whitlock once asked a Ger
man officer why it was that some
Of his fellow officers insisted on
making beasts of themselves. The
reply came promptly, "Sont les
Prussiens'-(They are prussians)
and then he checked himself, add
ing that Mr.. Whitlock had better
not repeat his remark. However,
it was an illuminating admission.
Mr.. Whitlock gives the devil his
due. There was one German officer
who had lived long years in London
and could not be considered typi-
caily German, and who, one evening
In Dir. Whitlock's house, made the
remark, "This business of standing
old peasants up against the wall
well, it's no business for a gentle
man"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
The Cream
OF Gcrn1ania

1t Was in their judiciary that the
Germans showed the maximum Of
uniformed imagination and the
minimum Of good sense. Belgians
were fne( and Imprisoned for the
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
he Everlasting
AMche

The d6jches appeared constantly,
sometimes with some cruel decree,
sometimes to announce the slaughter
Of some Belgian patriots and some.
times to make preposterods an.
nouncements. Regarding them Mr|
Whitlock says: whenever they
adopted the pious tone it was an in.
fallible sign that some new deviltry|
was brewing; whenever they an.
nounced in horror and surprise that
the English or French had per.
formed some ugly and unheard Of
deed it meant that they were about
to perpetrate that deed them.
selves.
Your democracy-your idea of
liberty-bahl' said a German off
Ger to me one day; and another re.
marked, with more mildness:
1T doesn't suit us; we have an.
other way of looking at things
"The one thing that affected the
Germans, the one thing they re-.
spected, was force, power in some
form, military power first of all, but
power, whether of wealth, station
or rank, a name, a position, perhaps
even a frockcoat-for they were
tremendous snobs. They were much
impressed by Villalobar's servants
when they had on their royal liveries
and powdered wigs; l used to wish
that he would have them dressed
that way always, and 20 about
with us.
The Germans were always re-
porting to us that the Mlitaires in
sisted that the diplomats were send
ing letters. l had not sent any, or
delivered any, but new exactions
were constantly being made.
But what proof have we that
you do rot send them?' a German
official bluntly asked me one day.
II looked at him in amazement an
instant, and then:
"'The best proof in the world /
replied. Because l tell you So
He stared at me, uncomprehend-
ing and incapable of comprehend
ing. The Belgians called it la mem
tailt6 dQemaRde, and the mentality
was the result of the German sys-
TEN, which, holding all men venal,
ard moved only by selfish and mean
motives, and convinced that nonof
and good will do not exist and sway
the majority of men, put its relf
ance on force instead of on reason
1t was precisely that fact that made
dealing with them so difficult; it was
that which poisoned the very at
mosphere we breathed. In it men
became suspicious and distrustful, IN
spite Of their better selves, and SIT
through that summer we had petty
difficulties that were even mort
wearying than the great ones" s
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

revered goosestep. Certainly Gott
frowned on such a wicked, wilful
people. And Gott punished them,
too, by sending the spies and sneaks
Of his favorite race among them
Mr.. Whitlock tells of a woman who,
one morning, had a call from mis-
erably dressed fellow who asked her
aid in getting away to join the army.
She refused and he went away, but
he came back the next day, saying:
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

a German organization must be Gre
ated and everything squeezed into
it, everything poured into the Ger
man mould or hammered on their
anvil.
"They would elaborate it's bewil-
dering and complex organism day
after day. The Herr Doktor who
had the details in hand, or in head,
might have been a plenipotentiary
at peace conference charged with
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

their fare. In fact, they were grieved
and offended when the Americans
laughed at the story.
Probably nothing the Belgians did
irritated the Germans more than
that clandestinely published paper,
LA Libre Belgique." They tried
every means in their power to sup
press it; bullying, bribery and spies
were all used. Women spies, dressed
as nuns, were sent about soliciting
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

put on their glasses, as they always
did when they did not wish to see
anything.'
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

Being q digest of Mr.. Whitlock's
nelo book on his experiences and OBJ
seruGtions as Minister to Belgium
during the German occupation.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-08-22

which lay beneath the boys feet, and
was opened at a particularly lurid
scene, which the police think the boy
was trying to re-enact.
The title of the book was The
Young Wild West Holding the Hill f;
or the Fight for the Cave of Gold" In
the picture, which had evidently
struck the boys fancy, a boy dressed
in a scouts costume was being low
cred into an open grave by a band of
cowboys. The boy in the picture was
trussed up with ropes and was being
buried alive.
Beneath the picture vas printed !:
LET him go. boys. : shouted the leader
of the band. If the end of the plank
sticks out a little, II will mark the
spot where the champion death shot
was buried alive. Down with him ="
The accepted theory OF the cause of
the hanging is that young Shubert was
thrilled by the picture and by similar
scenes he had read ABOUT or seen in
the movies, and was trying TO stage a
''make-believe" hanging. II is thought
that after hanging" himself he In
tended to take the rope off his neck
and tie II around his arms and legs
in the same way 'the champion death
shot" was tied In the picture. and then
imagine himself being buried alive. II
he had carried out his plan, the grave
of the picture would probably have
been represented by the bathtub over
which the boy hanged himself.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-08-22
yanks Lick Jan Coolies.

San Francisco, Calif.-The lives OF
more than a score of passengers
aboard the Pacific mail ship Ecuador
were protected at Kobe, Japan, when
George OBrien. Nils Christensen and
a solon Waterman. Edward Daniel
O'Brien. fought 800 Japanese coolies
TO n standstIll and prevented the mob
from boarding the vessel and wreak-
ing their vengeance pom the men,
women and children who had been bat
thing the Orientals, who had been
peering through the portfolios at the
women.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-08-22
FLYERS ARE SET FREE
AvlAToRS HELD FOR RANSOM
ARE LIBERATED.

Maria, Texas. Aug. 19.-Lieut. n. q.
Peterson, one of the two American aVi-
ators held by Mexican bandits for
$4,000 ransom. crossed the border to
the American side early this morning.
shortly after Lieutenant Peterson
crossed The border Captain Matlack re-
turned bringing with him Lieutenant
Davis. The ransom money was tnken
across the border to the bandit rendez-
Nuus by Captain Matlack of the Eighth
cavalry. captain Matlack went alone.
awaiting q signal flashed from the
m"untalns by the bandits.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-08-22
To Salvage Gold.

London-To recover more than So
uo.Vu in gold. part Of the fortune of
ihel ate Dom Paul Kruger. once presi-
tent Of the Transvaal, which is he
lieved 10 be- cemenied in the hold Of
The bark Dorothea. sunk ON Tenedos
reef. off the coast IF Zululand, is one
If the projects which may be revived
as a result Of Improvement in the sci
nee Of S~alvaging sunken ships. II q,
believed that kruger's fortune still lies
in the bottom Of the Dorothea.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-08-22
Train Hits Automobile.

Denver.-Mrs. John Sanger, bride OF
a few weeks. was seriously injured.
Mai. J. Foster Symes was badly hurt
and Mrs. Sanger, Mrs. Symes. Mrs.
Frank II. Ashley and X. @. Bulkley
were bruised and shaken up when the
automobile in which they were riding
was struck by a freight train at Sc
dalia. twenty-five miles south of Den
yer. All Of the people are prominent
in Denver's social life. Mrs. Sanger
and Major Symes were rushed TO st.
Luke's hospital here.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-08-22

cleveland, Ohio.-A - TO ~ per
rent Increase in wages is demanded
fol ll1.Ou firemen and hostlers ON
railroads in the United States and
Canada in Il wage scale adopted be-
fore adjournment by :pU general chair
men of the brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen in session
here. Another demand to be- present
ed to the director general of railroads
j. that all coal burning locomotives in
road service weighing 2o1,OoO pounds
and over shall be equipped with me
chanical stoker> aud that two firemen
shall he employed on all such locomo-
tives until they are 80 equipped.