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The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-07-03
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WantCOlunan

LOST-Between Liberal and Rol-
la, Sunday morning, June Goth. one
81 a dark and one 32 X light col
ored auto tires. Finder will be re-
warded for return to Overland Gar
age, Liberal, Kansas. E. BYLAND
Tiff
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The Busy Wife.

81 see by the paper that your wife
is going to preside at the Womans
club meeting tomorrow night"
"Indeedl 1t doesn't say what she's
doing tonight, does itf"-Life.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-07-03

FOR SALE-One good light Buick
Six, all in good shape, paint is in
excellent condition, new top, good
rubber all the way round. This is
one of the best Buick touring cars
for sale in town. Will consider a
trade, or will make some terms
Griffith & Baughman. Phone 121.
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FOR SALE-Close-in residence; 9
rooms, 2 lots, 2 blocks from post
office One of the best locations in
town. Terms on part See j. H.
Fizer at ice plant 4tfc
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WANTED-Fifty head of cattle,
horses or mules to pasture. Plenty
of grass and water. John Lusk, Jr,,
Ri. A, Liberal, Kansas. Phone, Floris
No. 80. 50tfc
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USED CASINOS FOR SALE
have several good used castings for
sale at prices you can afford to pay.
Southwestern Tire Works, near
Equity Exchange, South Liberal. 51tf
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MOORE d. FRANKLIN are offer
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hen house, trees, two east-front lots,
well located. $1250.00 3tf
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FOR SALE OR TRADE-An al
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lots, east front. Inquire at Red Ball
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FOR SALE-One % h. p. Rumley
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Separator in running order-Call at
this Office. soft
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SOME GOOD FRESH MILK COWS
to trade for stock cattle.-O. W.
SPRADLING. 40tfc
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FOR SALE-Titan 1870 kero-
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WANTED-Stock to pasture.-F.
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WANTED-An elderly lady to cook
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WANTED-A few good houses to
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FOR garden grown Tomato Plants
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FOR SALE, TRADE OR SERVICE
Two jacks. $500 to insure. Other
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FOR SALE new billiard table,
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$4,000 REWARD

] will pay $4,000 Dollars per quart
er section to anyone sending me buy
ers for land, as soon as the deal is
closed. Send letter of Introduction
with buyer. Can sell on any terms.
JOHN PLUMMER. Owner,
johnson, Stanton County, Kansas. TIFF
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
From Ra70 Recruits i'm Camp
TO Finished Fighters i'm France

AS the book of divisional history
soon to be issued by the 77th re-
marks:
POLITICALLY, the battle of decision
in the great European war is known
as the Argonne- -Meuse operation.
Popularity it is known as the Battle
of the Argonne. To the 77th Divi-
sion was assigned the task of direct
attack through the forest. After
the first day the division operated
alone within the confines of this
forest and fought its way through
the entire length. When the divi-
sion emerged, eighteen days later,
it completed its record by crossing
the Aire and capturing st. Juvin
and Grand Pre-, two positions con-
trolling the northern limits of the
Argonne and that sector of the Aire
valley"
The attack started September
26, 1918, after several days of
preparation, in which all the divi-
sional artillery was brought up and
reinforced from the 1st Army
Corps artillery park and six-inchers
from the French army. In all, the
division had 200 guns of all calibres,
including .1O5-m howitzers captured
from the Germans and turned over
to the 302d Trench Mortar Battery.
Although every precaution was
taken to prevent disclosure of
preparations for the supreme blow,
the Germans exhibited great ner-
vousness.
The infantry moved into position
the night Of September rs. The at
tacking line was seven and a half
kilometres wide from a point west
of La Hauzee to Taillee de Rance
on the right. Sixteen avenues
through the enemy wire were to be
cut by the artillery. The attack
was designated for H hour. H hour
was 5 80 a. m. September 26. The
2Sth American Division was on the
right of the 77th and the 1st French
on the left.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
The First
"M0pping Up"

On August 27 the division car
ried out its first hopping up opera
tion. Bazoches, on the north side
Of the Vesle River, was in German
hands, and elements of the 154th
Brigade were sent out to take it
that night. A heavy barrage was
laid down, and when Company G
of the 3O6th, with detachment
from the 30Sth Infantry, went for
ward with chaucats, as the French
automatic rifles are called, the Ger
mans sent over a counter barrage.
The Germans were driven out,
but counter attacked. American
soldiers were cut off, but managed
after heavy losses to make their way
back to their own lines.
On September 2 the 77th outposts
reported the retirement of the Ger
mans toward the Aisne. On the
morning of the 4th the division
started in pursuit. In their re-
treat the Germans burned or blew
up everything they could. They
resorted to the pleasant device also
of leaving trophies behind-loaded.
When an American picked up
fountain pen lying on a dugout
table, it exploded. In one instance
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

four days and divisional headouar
ters were advanced to Cbsu,
Mahaut, October ?. The weather
now was cold and rainy. The me,
had thrown away overcoats. nacls
and slickers. They shivered ..
night, in downpours of rain. A.
they penetrated farther and farther
into the forest, roads became patches
and paths mere suggestions of wavs
through the dense brush. Wbe.,
transport was out of the question
Food and ammunition had to h.
brought up to the lines on the backs
of men. Fighting all day, the reg;-
ments had to dig in at night and tha
men spending their few hours of
supposed rest in waterflled fov
holes, became utterly exhausted hut
following their officers, they con-
tinued on indomitably.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
By Douglas Fairbanks

II n OW many people have said
to you to-day, 81 am not
a "A going to buy any Victory
notes." and then have
started in to give you their reasons?
They complain about taxes and say
that the war is over, and that the
country is no good, anyway, and
that the Democrats are wrong and
the Republicans are wrong In fact,
reasons are the one thing they are
generous with.
Where do you suppose they get
them? From Knockers!
Well, knock the knockers!
Every reason we ever had for buy
ing Liberty bonds still holds good.
From every angle you can think of
Investment, patriotism, backing up
the boys - everything - still holds
good, and, in addition:
Keep your patriotic slate cleanl
The only thing that ever put over
the first four loans was the fact that
they were backed by the peoples
patriotic support and enthusiasm.
Without these they would not have
stood any chance of going over, and
without the peoples support and en-
thusiasm this coming loan may fail.
They are the key to the success of
the loan.
A lot Of knockers are trying to
steal that key. They represent
mixture Of ignorance, dissension and
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
Who Fought
Hardest and
Longest?
Continued from page one

count of the failure of the air SER
vice administration in this country.
While the "experts" at Washington
were evolving the superlative mar
vel of the air, the Germans kept on
building Fokkers. The French and
the British could spare but few of
their machines, and the consequence
was that the Germans easily main
tanned superiority in the air on all
American sectors. The 77th be-
came intimately acquainted with
the warning order "Under cover"
During this period hardly a man
could move by daylight Whenever
there was a concentration, or a
grouping of men, a German air
plane, impudently sailing low,
would dash still lower and pour
bursts Of machine gun fire into
them. There were nightly air
raids.
The 77th, throughout it's career
in France, had hardly a day of
rest. On the Vesle it was con-
stantly on its toes. The Germans
tried on the men everything they
had. The communicates of that
period usually read artillery ac-
tivity," but that covered flame
throwing, grenade attacks and
shelling with everything from
shrapnel to "whiz-bangs." The en-
tire area was constantly under the
eyes Of German observers in sausage
balloons, which f1oated undisturbed
along the whole length of the
American sector.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
The Struggling
Line

The train clicked over the new spur
into the heart of the camp. The anti
quated engine gasped to standstill.
An engineer running a stationary en-
gine near the end of the tracks-there
was no terminal-tooted his whistle.
1t was the first contingent's welcome to
the camp. Antony was made a wob-
bling part of struggling line that
was formed on the gravel at the side
of the car. The second lieutenant
barked fright face!" and Antony and
three quarters of the increment faced
and started back along the railroad
tracks, which glimmere out of sight
to the left. They were corrected and
started on their march for army train
ing, France, the Argonne, death, fame
and now:
The gigantic Aquitania nosed her
way from Quarantine toward the Statue
of Liberty. Solid masses of brown
covered the sweeping decks of the ves-
sci. Every man was in his place,
though those on the port side Of the
boat were out Of luck as far as
glimpsing Miss Liberty was concerned.
But orders had been that men were to
hold their places; that frequent and
concerted shiftings would cause the
boat to list and sway drunkenly. No
one complained.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
"The Wilderness"
Intensified

1t was "The Wilderness" of Civil
War days with all its ferocity,
horror and losses intensified.
Sedan, where France lost to the
Prussians fifty years ago, was the
objective Of the new French-Ameri-
can campaign. The Argonne, which
had foiled every effort of the
French for four years, was the
barrier that must first be opened
before France could wipe out that
old memory with the recapture of
the city where Napoleon III sur
rendered.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

men were discouYaging. They alighted
and stood in perfect formation. The
sergeant said something which caused
the men to melt physically, like iron
plunged into burning heat. The
relatives, thus encouraged, made their
assault and added their weight to the
mans pack as they hung like neck
laces around necks. Another order
and the relatives were gently guided
out of the formation and rhythmically
stepping, broad chested, clear eyed
body of men swung down to their bill
lets-veterans, heroes, men.
The Pizottis are of all nationalities
by the hundreds. Corporal An
tony's name alone is used because he
gave The Tribune exclusive permis-
sion.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

! by telling somebody else what you
have just heard from one of these
knockers.
Don't knock your own country
Remember every time you knock the
government of your country you
knock your country.
If the U. S. A. is worth living in
it is worth supporting, and that
means you have got to support it
by buying Victory notes, which are
Victory bonds.
Unlock your patriotic support and
enthusiasm!
Knock the knockers!
Buy Victory notes!
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
First Fond
Farewell

Finally the train pulled out, stirring
an atmosphere rich in parting bless
ings and mothers tears. All the wom-
cnfolk thought they were looking upon
their loved ones for the last time.
Not one, an unofficial canvass would
undoubtedly show, looked ahead to the
weekly passes into the city.
At Jamaica the assorted human cargo
was ousted from the steel, straw seated
cara and bundled into old fashioned
wooden, plush-seated coaches. A band
on the Jamaica Station played "Over
There" three or four times handrun-
ming, and then paused for rest Then
it began playing "Over There" some
more. A contingent Of Jamaica and
Queens men, all with their comfort
kits and Encouraging rclativcs-the
Spartan mothers were few, as the pro-
portion OF Greeks was very small
Joined the first contribution Of the
greatest city to the greatest army. A
shower Of cakes, candies. cigarettes
and peanuts fairly inundated the men.
On the way to Camp Mills last ws@.L
they called this shower "barrage. "
This latter was garage" misspeled,
as far as they knew, back in Sep
teraber, 1917.
At Medford, ten miles from Camp
UPTON, somebody pulled lever and
FIVE cars were left behind when the
train started on. Second lieutenants
fresh and competent from plattsburg
had boarded the train at that station
and asked II there were any questions
they could answer.
"When do ne eat? and "Where do
:ss 20 from ereT were in tho van
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
Knocking the Knockers

seditious propaganda, and they have
done their knocking so successfully
that they have got a lot of people
who ought to know better talking
their way.
Let's stop them right now!
The next time they try to steal
your support and your patriotism
come right back at 'em and show
'em up! Turn the tables on them!
Give them some of the same medicine
the doughboys gave the Huns!
Throw their own arguments back
at them and you can blow them up
with their own stuff.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
Advance Under
Heavy Shelling

AS they retreated the Germans
left heavy rear guards behind, con.
sisting mostly of machine gunners
who were instructed to hold back
the American advance at any cost
to themselves. Their artillery also
was active, and the 77th proceeded
toward the Aisne, constantly under
heavy shelling. The destruction OF
the river bridges also retarded the
American artillery, which had te
wait until the 3O2d Engineers, tc
whose skill monuments in the shape
of roads at Upton still exist, could
throw pontoons across.
Everybody during this period
from general to cooks, worked
twenty-four hours daily. The Ger
man aerial squadrons became still
more active, and sent over flying
circuses of four to a dozen planes.
The rapid advance beyond
Fismes had somewhat disarranged
transport. Major General Robert
Alexander, who had succeeded
Major General George B. Duncan
as commander, directed that every
effort be made to bring up hot meals
for the toiling troops, which had
fought their way through the vi
comte woods and past Revillon to
a position fronting the enemy two
kilometres south Of the Aisne.
American observers posted on an
eminence of the Vesle-Aisne pla-
teau could watch the Germans
moving northward, beyond the
range of the American .155s. The
coast artillery long range guns, pre-
viously in this sector, had been re-
moved to another point on the ad-
vancing lines and the divisional
artillery could only sit and fume
because they could not reach the
tempting enemy artillery parks just
beyond the reach of their guns.
In the midst of this advance it
was determined to relieve the weary
division, and General Garibaldi, with
division of Italians, came up,
every man of the command wear
ing a silk bandanna presented by
an American woman.
The 77th welcomed the relief,
for it had had more than month
of continuous fighting, into which it
had entered practically recruit
outfit, but from which it had
emerged with commentator from
it's commander for valiant service
worthy Of a tried veteran legion.
The relief was made September
13. There followed week Of rest
and next the Argonne. Wherever
men Of the 77th gather hereafter,
in the S5,000,000 clubhouse which
it is planned to erect here or at
coming reunions of the new Grand
Army of the Republic, there will be
tales to tell of that forest of
France.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
America
RediSCOvered

On the left sleeve of these men at
the shoulder was this same Miss Lib
erty looming on field of blue. The
craft of the harbor espied the boat, as
did the factories along the shore.
Silence fed, as did the Heinies, be-
fore these valiant ment on the boat.
Whistles, shrieks of hundreds of thou
sands of exultant countrymcn pierced
out into the Bay and settled on the
boat.
Corporal Pizotti, 3o5th Infantry, 77th
Division, "discovered" America almost
as completely as had Columbus, who
also might have lived in Mulberry
Bend if he had landed in New York
instead of some Caspian Islands and in
1915 instead of 1892.
These people were wasting hundreds
of dollars worth of steam coal for him.
Corporal Pizotti was pleased. His
chest expanded to it's full forty-two
inches. Thirty-seven was the pre-war
maximum. He had weighed 1877 pounds
on September 10, 1919; now ne weighed
l73. He couldn't lick anybody on Sep
tember 1919; now he wanted to fight
them by the dozen, if only to make it
interesting.
He swung his seventy-four- pound
pack lightly to his shoulders when the
boat docked at Hoboken and marched
down the gangplank in the orderly
ranks Of his company. They boarded a
ferryboat-and soon were in the rail
road yards at Long Island City. Out
side of the iron railing relatives were
surging. Through the bars lips met
in dreamed-of caresses. Hands clasped,
brown, firm hands, in nervous, white
ones. Corporal Pizotti saw his sister
and new niece and tweaked her nobby
nose with his thick fingers.
major in boots and spurs, gold
leaves and riding crop, strobe by. He
was the second lieutenant of the Hud-
son Duster special. He spoke to the
captain. Finally the order reached the
sergeant and he said something which
only the soldiers understood. They
left their relatives and lined up. Then
they climbed into cars and slowly rohcd
out amid shrill cresccndos which arise
from pleased women.
At Jamaica they changed cars. Pea
nuts, encomiums, eulogies, cigarettes
and candy rained from hundreds of per-
sons gathered at the station. Corporal
Pizotti smiled, partially to assure the
dainty miss whose half-pound box of
candy had struck him in the nose that
his feelings were not hurt. He was
also smiling at memories. Herman
Finkenberg had supported him when
they had changed cars eighteen months
before. Herman was under an r. l. p.
-a wooden cross, come place in the
Argonne. And the quiet looking youth
he was more quiet than ever. lie had
died at the Vesle. Oh, yes, the Hudson
Duster with the bottle--he had crawlcd
out to No Mans Land and given a
wounded comrade drink Of water,
when Heinie got him. He wasn't dead
but his right arm was. They had
buried 1t with pomp and ceremony
grim humor Of men engaged in grim
| business
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

NJ between 1nen ana NOW. In
- that time these men, who were
called from the pants making
shop, the soda water counter, the legal
and liquor bars, the street cor
ners, the colleges, the trolley cars,
have weathered and matured un-
der six months of intensive training
at Camp Upton. three more months
overseas under the echoes of the guns,
five months in the feriest hell Of his
tory's warfare and four months in al
legged rest camps, where the drills were
long synd tedious and the waiting longer
and more tedious.
Then they were part of a Great Ex-
pertinent Now they are part of Vic
torious HosS A-~e and dead. Then
they were wisps in the citys broom
which sweeps to and fro from business
to homes day by day. They sat beside
you in the subway or fought for the
same seat. They made the Coney Island
cars more crowded; possibly read the
sub-titles at the movies and annoyed
off the stand just before you reached it,
But now-they are something to make
room for, to cheer for, to give up
things for. They are ruddy flashed,
iron-muscled gods, treading paths
among their humble worshippers.
They didn't know Squads right"
from "a. W. U. L." They had seen
soldiers on Decoration Day, in comic
operas and on Sunday excursions up to
West Point. Now they know Colonel
Moss's manual of Arms" as the mill
tary primer, something learned in their
military infancy. The technical oper-
ations of brigade under five or sixty
conditions are quite elementary to them
now.
Then they were civilians in khaki.
Soon they will be soldiers in mufti
Some of them had "seen life" then.
All of them have exchanged greetings
with Death now. They were part of US
then. Now they are part of the world.
Their descent on Camp Upton on Sep
tember 10, 1917, and their arrival at
Camp Mills on April &c, 1919, were diff
ferent. So are the punches of your
baby nephew and Jack Dempsey. Take
the case of Antony Pizotti, of Null
berry Bend, twenty-eight years old,
five years in this country and only on
suffering terms with English.
Befo~e Antony left - on the very
morning, in fact-they gave a little
chianti party for him at the Villa
Penza, in not SO Little Italy. He was
escorted and supported to Board 94,
Joined his contingent there and some
how got over to Long Island City,
where the first train LETT for Camp Up
ton. He helped afix g gigantic sign to
the train which read:
"Kaiser Bill, you son of gun,
You've raised lots Of hell but now
you're done.
The devil has got the soul of you,
And we're going to bust your neck
in two"
THE HUDSON BUSTERS.
Antony duly watched the waves of
fearful womenfolk surge against the
iron ratings inclosing the station.
Then he entered the car. He saw Itai-
ians, Jews, Irish, fremen, typical
Yanks, policemen, truck drivers and
chorus men. Somebody was passing
around q quart bottle Of already mixed
and was berating a quietly clad youth
who refused to accept the are-drown-
ing token.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

Don't let anybody get away with
this underhand criticism that has
been so skilfully spread. And, if you
can't do anything else, for heavens
sake don't help these people along
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

gassed. The mattress had been
treated with mustard, which was
rendered volatile by the heat of the
colonel's body as he snatched a nap.
Brigadier General Evan NJ. John
son was gassed in the same way,
only his mattress was not mustard
lied. The poison was left in a shell
under the bed.