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The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1919-11-01
DEATH HANGS OVER
STRICKEN VERDUN
SECTOR
Silence and Dissolution Reigns
Where American Cannon
Served a Year Ago

Verdun, France, Sept. Ga year
ago the wet blackness of midnight
was broken by thousand and one
spurts of flame as many cannon
swelled out a mighty roar along a
line from the Argonne forest over
east of the Meuse river. 1t was the
First American army introducing IT.
self to the Germans. On that rainy
and cold September morning a hun
dred thousand fighting men from
across the sea-many of them strang-
ers to battle-waited in the mud or
deep-cut trenches for the word to go
forward against the Hindenburg line,
called by it's makers impregnable, and
having proved that reputation against
more than one bitter assault of the
troops of France and Britain. In the
sickly light of the dawn of an ugly
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1919-11-01

That is why it is so important
tients be sent to the home Is so
the existence of the disease &
covered.
"The idea that leprosy j. Ell
ly contagious is false--it il niue
so than tuberculosis. The hons
had only a few cases where nis
of the same family were inject
though at one time there were
brothers and sisters whe had
cause few Of them became ini
and allowed the disease to make
ress.
Persons cured Of leprosy
show no disfiguratiOn when iAa
ease has left them. Cases q .
able disfiguration are generally
which have advanced too fer iss s.
'False ideas about leprosy
conception of the home IS
place and materially in the spE
the disease. In many cases p
infected and who could easily
ed are kept at home BY Their is
until their case has advanced 90
"The home in reality is 2 cog
able, sanitary place, with ssea
good food and excellent astsn
where the patients oan q
while they are being treated.
Leprosy is cured with emu
gra oil from seeds of the tarzs
kurzil. It's value has been Enosa
this country for about fifty
but it was discovered in lndn
ands of years ago. It is used
vile in conjunction with hes
and a strychnine treatmen%
method is one which was PEI.
by DR.. Isadore Dyar. a eea
cure requires on an average
years, although the length @
varies with the stage Of the &
There are eighty-six men,
and children patients at the hens
majority being men.-NeW
Times-Picayune.
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have come back to many of the wrec-
ed villages of other parts of France
and children play amid the wreck and
ruin while their parents patch up
shelled houses. But not so in the
Meuse-Argonne. No one has been so
hardy and so brave as to try to re-
store that barren stretch. The tren-
ches are there yet and the wire en-
tanglements, and the old dugouts,
and the spots of ground stained yell
low by hateful mustard gas. 1t is
there as war left is. No trees grow
and no flowers bloom. Stand atop
Dead Mans Hill and look as far as
eye can see and there is nothing liv-
ing. No human being moves in sight.
The countryside has died and its re-
surrection is not yet.
There is no scene so dismal. Pic
ture if you. can the view. Hill after
rolling hill stretch away in all direc-
tions from this highest of them all.
Innumerable brown traces of trench
es wiggle across them in thousand
twists. Rows of tree stumps tell
where a road once wound its way.
Rusty wire in symmetrical lines runs
in all directions. The one-time fields
are pitted, as if by smallpox, like the
face of a man who has died from the
disease. Millions on millions of shells
did that. Down there in valley is a
sort Of white smudge. 1t was once
the village of Malancourt. It's stones
now make the road / just came up.
Here and there sticks the head of a
German pillbox, more than one of
them torn by big shell which left
the iron skeleton sticking up in rusty
ugliness. The debris of war lies about.
Here an abandoned wagon; there an
old overturned water cart. There lies
broken rifle; here denied helmet
whose wearer paid the price.
Ruins of Montfaucon
Over atop another hill rise the
ruins of Montfaucon2 from which the
crown prince watched his costly and
vain effort to take Verdun. 1t cost
many good American lives to drive
the Germans from that stronghold.
Every foot of the land is historic. Ev-
cry foot is filled with tragic stories.
Here dugout has eaved in and from
the ground sticks the thighbone, the
armbone and three crazy skeleton
fingers of a disinterred soldier man.
In spots weeds grow, but not many.
Mostly the terrain unfolds brown and
barren and dead. Everything is
dead. The impression is the impress
sion of death, it wasn't the same feel
ing when one saw that land filled
with life, with soldiers going ahead
and coming back, with conveys on all
the miserable roads, with the air fill
ed with screaming shells and air
planes. It seemed a fitting arena for
the mighty struggle. But now they
are all gone. Everything that lived
has gone. Everything is left dead.
Over to the west one sees the wood
ed side of the Argonne and involun-
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tarily one listens for the rat-tat-tat of
the machine guns heard so often in
the dreary weeks it took the Ameri-
cans to clean out the Germans. One
wonders how goes it in the elaborate
and fanciful German dugouts built
on the northern slopes of those wood
ed hills. What ghosts play in the old
motion picture theatre over there,
north OF the Four de Paris. Is the
yellow old sheet hanging crafty from
the stage wire as it was twelve
months ago? Is the stream still bub-
bling where the members of the 'Lost
Battalion" braved death to quench
their thirst? Is it still muddy over
there?
Thinking about that and almost
starting that way, one sees in the dis
lance the Stars and Stripes at the
top of white pole and remembers
that is the great American cemetery
at Romagne and one decides to go
that way.
Up the road the Yankee engineers
built from ruined villages across what
for almost four years had been No
Mans Land. 1t is bumpy and full of
holes. No one has paid any attention
to it since the Americans finished
using it. The chalky stones make it
lie white and crooked in the sunshine.
ammunition dump, just this side of
the hill, where so many traffic jams
formed, and where one time Ameri-
can wounded lay for fifty hours in
trucks, while many died, / shoot up
on the hill where lies the bones of the
town. There on the north side is the
house which shielded the entrance to
the crown princes dugout and where
the third division once placed its
headquarters. 1 had TO spend three
hours once there because so many
shells were falling atop the hill it
would have been madness to try to
get away. One remembers how the
walls of that dugout rang when Ger
man heavies lit near by.
Down the north side of the hill,
scarcely a trace is left of the road,
down which so many American supply
trucks rolled in view Of the enemy,
and one sees pieces of them still ly-
/ ing there. In Nantillois there was one
old Frenchman pottering about ip q
manner which seemed to say that he
found his job scarcely worth while.
Up another hill to Cunel and one
finds few French soldiers. A kilo-
meter eastward and there are street
ches over twenty acres what looks
like white blanket. Closer one sees
the whiteness is the whiteness of
thousands and thousands of white
crosses. Line afer line they stretch
away to the crest of the hill. In neat
rows with greenswarG top the graves
lie some $4,000 American fighting
men, while the purls of Old Glory
wave in protecting arc over them.
Theirs is fitting resting place-on
the German side of the Hindenburg
line.
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ArnaudvilIe, -
Practice limited to the rec
ing Of Teeth.
augsO-sm
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4 Per Cent. Paid on Savings DsD.s
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-01-11

made to wish for peace and determine to secure it. it could be achieved, rather it would actually have been achieved.
 It is the skepticism of mankind, the unquenchable of their souls that is the obstacle against which our President and all the great idealiss who are working with him have to struggle.
 ''The French" writes Gertrude Atherton from Par s "are far too intelligent people to believe in any such illusion eternal peace.
 We doubt her judgment of them. We believe that their enthusiastic welcome to President Wilson grows out of their faith in his power to form League Of Nations put end to war forever and forever more Her very calling the hope of such peace an illusion shows plainly where she stands her self and lays her to the charge of infdety to the genius of humanity for self-development
 We are disposed to arraign this infdelity as i'm moral Not that consider all unbclef immoral. There are claims upon creduty, the acceptance or rejection which matters of intellectual ra- tiocination only. But there others which de termined largely by our spiritual and moral states Our hopes fears prejudces our passions par tially and sometimes wholly account for our decis- ions of them.
 To their category, believe, belongs this question of the possibility of a perpetual peace. Its solu- tion is not a matter of scientific reasoning lndu- bitabe evidence for acceptance or repecton cannot be furnished. Our judgments are traceable to the states of emotions far more than 10 the pro cesses of our reasons.
 If therefore, cannot prove perpetual peace to be impossible, and if nothing but the indisposi- tion of people to believe in it and their lack of the
 will to receive it, stands in the way of it's achieve ment it would unjust and evil not to cherish this beautiful faith and this heroic purpose.
 Has it not always been because people believed in possibility of the overthrow of such evils idol atry poygamy slavery and autocracy, and because hey wiled their destruction, that they have been overthrown? And could they otherwise have been eliminated in the life of man?
 We consider faith in the power of humanity to itself from the ncubi that terrify and destroy it moral obligation We believe that individuals who doubt the reality suffciency of this power are enemies of the Profoundly admire the talents of Gertrude Atherton charge her and others like her with being obstacles to the prog of humanity, because they do not believe it capable of achieving its redemption from the curse of
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Books as Barometers.
Cincinnati Enquirer )

(C1nclnnat1 Enqulrer.)
 If the mobilization army is difficult it's de- mobilization is dangerous and everybody is little nervous about what the millions of returning soldiers are going to do with themselves and with when they return from their camps at home and abroad The thought of those hordes of penniless and hungry soldiers rolling like flood European countries. devourng the substance of the people grasshoppers do, committing deeds of violence and threatening the destruction of existing institutions is not pleasant 
 While nobody dreads tragedy so dark and des- perate here in America, there possible and probable evils of which have a reasonable fear. We told for example, that soldiers discharged in Baltimore in very considerable numbers, after having recklessly spent their pay and their railroad fare we'll begging upon the streets both such ''easy money" to turn sef-respecting into paupers, and nothing could be frightful than to think of such fate being common among our soldier boys.
 In addition to such pers we must consider those of the demoralization of the wounded through pen sions and the lack of labor for those who sound but jobless.
 These thoughts are very disturbing, but they have their offsets, and here which looms up large and bright full moon.
 Camp librarians from all the country assure us that almost upon the instant when of the signing of the armstice arrived in the reading habits of the soldiers changed. The very men who had been ponderng treatieses upon military science threw them down upon the counter and began call ing for those which discussed the arts and sciences of peace. They fairly tumbled each other, we told, to get possession of manuals and books upon such subjects automobile and aircraft structlOn, business administration, advertising salesmanship. Most hopeful sign of al they clam ored for books agriculture, showing that their outdoor life had turned their thoughts to farming the calling likeliest satisfy their newly acquired love for nature
 And, besides, the shelves of the library were sud denly swept clean of books embodyng the worlds best literaurepoetry essays, histories and novels
 Here, then is something to allay our fears It is evidence first, that these glorious young men have not been bitten by the military bug.
 It is evidence, second of the adapability of their minds to the swiftly changing conditions of the life man in this modern world
 It is evidence third, that they not waiting for the Government to play the part of wet nurses to them, but propose to find their places in the world by the exercise of their unaded powers
 American young manhood! Unconquerable in war sublime in peace!
 Books barometers and weather yanes-straws which show the way the wind is blowing
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BERGER'S CONVICTION.

The conviction of Victor Berger and of the other German made Bosheviki at Chicago ought to be lesson to some people who this country from European monarchies and immediately begin preaching that the United States is the country they left It ought to teach them that if they believe he doctrine they preach they ought to go back to the country they from. The United States is democracy and her people and their an- cestors have paid too much for their liberties per init Victor Berger any of the other teachers of Bolshevsm to introduce a the classes such as that which prevails in Germany and Russia here The United States must be ruled by patriots and on and not by traitors and class hatred.
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Luke McLuke Says

The reason why we knock the Mormon is because we are jealous of a man who can manage four wives when we can't manage one wife.
 This is a funny world. When a skinny girl drinks bottle of beer she loses five ounces, but when a Corn Fed drinks bottle of beer she gains five pounds.
 Fools are so plentiful that every time you say anything about fools you make eight or ten enemies.
 If Santa Claus joined the Spugs and handed out only useful Christ mas presents, many girl would find a safety razor in her stocking.
 And what has become of the old fashioned man who used to sing :: My Mother Was A Lady?"
 Six years ago Luke maintained that the See-Everything gowns the girls were wearing then kept them healthy because they had to take bath every day to expose so much peidermis. And the other day Dr. Fife Lobdell, of Chicago, backs us up with the statement that: Women are cleaner now because they have to wear these thin clothes"
 In the case of the man who was drafted and went to the front, the war is over But in tho case of the fellow who married to keep from go ing to the front, the war has just begun.
 It kinds of jars newly married man to discover that the Lingerie he has heard ho much about is nothing but doggone union suit.
 Why is it that the girl who looks like she is the proprietor of the Ma tional Bone Exposition imagines that she should wear a low-cut waist just because other girls wear them?
 The man who has small feet and a small head is always calling your attention to his small feet.
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Await All Testimony.
Cincinnati Enquirer ]

NSiHclHHdt Enquirer) With the return of men from overseas many un- favorable criticisms of the work of the Young Men Christian Association reaching the ears of home folk who subscribed generously this great organi- zation Exorbtant prices were charged and lax methods were the rule. say hundreds of returning soldiers Having supported the Young Mems Chris tian Association from the time America entered the truth regarding these charges and the basis of crit icsm.
 However in fairness to all concerned, Judgment of the work of the Young Mems Christian Association should be withheld until all the testimony is in This case is too important to be judged on other than its merits-all of it's merits
 One of the great problems of the war was providing American soldiers with good influences to take the place of the home atmosphere in camp barracks and at the front.
 That much accomplished in this direction. even the severest critics of the Young Mems Christian Association admit.
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Then 1t Happened

men t UdpPcUcu
 "T wonder if you could?" unused the Rummy, as he wiped his mouth You wonder if you could what?' demanded the Barkeep, as he reached for an empty beer bottle.
 "I wonder if you could refer to train announcer as man of many callings?" replied the Rummy, as he headed for the door
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THE WILL TO WIN PEACE.

What won the war?
 There is but single answer-"the will to win the war!"
 Why. should the will to win lasting peace be Iess eRective? permanent peace is neither a phy- efcal nor psychical impossibity The only obsta- eIe to ts achievement is mental state of ncredulity or [ 11Iptual indspositon. If all could be
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Huh! Your wife will say she has impilcit trust In you, that's why you tnlnk IL mighty strange That when her for a dollar bill you bust, How carefully she stops to count the change.
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Fooeyl

The man wore a sign: Deaf and
 Dumb" f, Gi 'a But I thought he was faking, the
 Bumm.
 SaidI: Have a drink?" And, quick as a wink, He replied: Well, l would like
 some rumb!"
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Cruel and Unusual

The man from Kokomo came to town yesterday to inform us that he had devised a fitting punishment for the Kaiser
 "Tie him in a chair and let some woman talk him to death," advised the Man from Ko.iOno.
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The Soldier

His uniform is soiled. for he Helped lick old Kaiser Bill; Yet. by his uniform, see.
 That he is dressed to kill.
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The National League will open its 1919 season on April 23. Unfortunately the schedule of the League of Nations cannot be so easily prepared-(New York World)
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Another A. E. F. Decoration
lPOulirY Press ]

tPOuItry PreSS) A dime was all that was asked by the solicitors in exchange for a button with the inscription: "I have a chicken in France"
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We suppose the women folks will snort. But it is a fact that kimonas cause more divorces than pajamas.
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Another thing that worries us at times is what has become of the old-fashioned man who used to color a meerschaum pipe?
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Paw knokS Everything

Willie-Paw, what is the difference between capital and labor?
 Paw-Well, the money you lend represents capital, and getting 1t Lack represents labor, my son.
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There will soon be plenty of su- gar, but they will keep on making us pay a sweet price for It.
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PRESIDENT WILSON'S FOOD CARD.

The fact that King George had to send the
 master of the household to get President
 Wilson's emergency ration card filled with
 the necessary butter jam, sugar and other
 supplies helps to explain why the President was able truthfully to greet the King as
 head of the democracy of Great Britain"
 The strength of Great Britain lies partly
 in the fact that when law is passed it is
 enforced upon high and low alike. Whatever
 bunders the Food Administration may have
 made, it was democratic in its operation.
 Rich and poor fared alike as to all the more
 essential food supplies It would not have
 been possible for King George, as it was
 possible for the German Kaiser, to carry with
 him into the flight of defeat rich supply
 of table luxuries.
 Ration cards go with the golden plate sal
 yaged from the Spanish Armada and other
 costly tableware accumulated in the royal
 palaces through centuries of rule strict
 ly as they do in the intuition makers tenn
 porary lodging. That is one reason why the
 British people have accepted their war pri-
 vations phosophcally. (New York
 World)
 An that illustrates reason why Great Brit ain has grown great and endured through the cen turies. The British people not anarchists The progressed orderly and according to law. There fore when the have gained liberties the have held them. No country except that it have reverence for the law-particuarly when the law i majority made law-could have developed the grea Common Law scheme of regulating the affairs o society governing peoples and protecting the right of high and low. Great Britain has been develope by r son and self-control and not by force She ha worh&d out enduring democracy because she ha not Shly recognized the liberty of the people to ait in mixing laws, but because she has developed tn logicM democratic concenton that the law and no the Individual is supreme.
 This would be impossible in any country where class is supreme. whether that class be "dvinely annointed royalty mtaristc oligarchy, Bol sheviki or class-conscious socalistc information asm.
 The spectacle of the King of England's going to food administrator appointed by county lawyer of a formist Welch preacher educate, by uncle who the shoe cobbler in litt Welch village, to get food card for his interna tional guest the head of great nation, the timel. aid of which saved the day for Great Britain in tn, greatest of all history, just the humblest in the Kingdom would have to do for vsitin, cousin illustrates the development of England iron Runnymede to Maubeuge.
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The Liars

The Liars
 How women lie when on the street Another dame they chance to meet! In parting each throws this harpoon' Be sure to come to see us soon.
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As a bone of contention, the Kaiser is pretty poor picking, even to be fin the soup"
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What Did She Mean2

"Gosh!" exclaimed Mir Gabb. Just look at the face on MT. Naybor! Did you ever see such a homely man III your life?'
 Hush, my dear smiled MrS Gabb, you forget yourself
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Speaking of still life, the livliest illicit whiskey still is all on the quiet.
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Wheat is the staff of lfe." the price at which it is selling makes it take on the precious dignity of gold-headed cane.-(Boston TranscriptJ
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Even a homely man may have handsome mugg in the barber shop.
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Such a Lanawidae!"

"It gets my goat" said MT. Torr,
 ''It often worries me! We call a boat a man-o-war. Yet speak of it as 'she."
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Hooray

While the war has ended. 1t is just as well 10 know that we can feel secure because R. Tillery is To- cated at 110 North F. Street, Hamil- ton, Ohio
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Very

Isn't it very appropriate that the Chief Clerk of the Department of Public Instruction of the State of Ohio should be c. H. Teach?