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-wallowing In illegitimate profits
which In the last analysis resolve
themselves into the blood Of brave
men and the lives Of little children.
And even in this deviltry there are
grades. The man who EFFORTS for his
boarded food-or his boarded Goals
low enough, in all conscience, but he
may only be creature without a soul,
so that the vast agony has not touched
him. Not being victim, he cannot
realize there was such a thing as war.
His penalty should be merely conf1s-
cation and Punishment.
No Punishment Too Severe.
But for the debased scoundrel, who
brides some other loathsome creature
to help him foist counterfeit clothing
or ammunition-or poisonous food, on
the army-on the very men who fought
for him-there is no punishment out
side the ultimate depths of the seventh
hell.
We could stand them up against q
wall and shoot them-but it would be
shame to desecrate a decent wall
we have a myriad lamp-posts, but why
shame honest rope? Just as we lack
words to describe them-we lack pun
ishment to inflict. We can only recall
with regret the passing Of the rack
and the wheel.
What would happen to a cook who
fed his company poisonous food?
What would happen TO an officer who
sent his men forward to meet the
enemy-equipped with blank car
tridges or to quartermaster who for
his own profit dealt out shoes with
paper soles? Is the crime less, because
1t is committed 5000 niles away?
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have outlets at all convenient pOints.
Cross drains or culverts should be
constructed wherever 1t Is desirable
to transfer drairags water across the
road. and they should usually be pro-
vided with end or wing walls for pro-
tecting the slopes Of the embankment
When the material composing the
roadbed is likely to be springy. a sys-
tenn Of longitudinal underdrainage
may be found necessary to secure
proper drainage. In constructing a
road. OF any type whatever, it should
be constantly borne in mind that ade.
Quate and continually effective drain
age is absolutely necessary II the road
is to be maintained in good condition.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1919-01-18
Wipe Out the
PrOfiteer
r.
BY MARK SWAN
Of The Vgil0ntes

From the lowest, to the super-low-
est, we loathe the obscene Beast who
drowned women and children on I'M
warned vessels-whO burned villages,
destroyed orchards-Outraged women
and bombed hospitals. We ransack the
dictionary and exhaust the vocabulary,
endeavoring to select adjectives which
will fifty describe him, and his works
and finally we sum everything up in
the descriptive word-"Hun."
Now what shameful word is left us
to apply to the men-whO are among
US yet are not of us-who used the
war as a means OF extorting bloated
profits from those whose brothers they
pretend to be?
The Prussian, at least, is an open
enemy. He warned us for 40 years
that he would do what he has done
he has never tried to conceal his bes-
TALLY, in fact seems rather proud OF
it.
The spy, the propagandist-the dy-
namiter who blows up munition works
for all Of these there can be found
some shred Of excuse; being Prussian
It was their business to do what fright,
full thing they could-and ours to hang
them If we caught them doing 1t.
No Excuse for Profiteers.
But for the profteer, the briber, the
apostle Of the filthy creed, "Get it-no
matter how-just get it'-the men OF
our own nation, Of our own blood-pre-
tending to be our own kind-hypo'
critically calling US fellow citizens
while they pick our pockets-there is
no excuse-and there is no appropri-
ate adjective-to call them Huns
would be complimentary.
Here we are, hundred million OF
us-who were drawn into a world
nightmare, trying to do our best, to
help: Boosting the Red Cross-plug
ging for the Y. M. G. A-and what Is
lfe-the proflteer doing?
Why just lining his greedy pockets
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1919-01-18
P0LAND'S FIRST PRESIDENT-IF

If out Of the great war comes the
republic Of Poland and Jan Ignace
Paderewski is made its first president,
the new republic will not have to tell
the world who its chief executive Is.
For all the world knows that he Is the
foremost pianist Of his day and gener-
alton and among the greatest perform
ers the world has seen.
Born in 1859 in Podolia. which was
rtaken from Poland by Russia in 1893.
he was a professor Of music In the
Warsaw conservatory at eighteen. His
debut took place in Vienna In 1887.
Since 1892 he has been familiar
figure In the United States. He has
been at the head of the work OF form
ing the Polish legion here and Of rails
ing funds for the Polish cause.
Polish troops have taken posses
sion Of P6sen, capital Of German Pc
land. The Galician socialist leader,
Daszynski, has been appointed premier
- Dolond opd cho rood with tho f0rmQ>
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ALBERT |, HERO OF HEROES

If the world were asked to choose
the hero of heroes of the greatest war
Of all history, on whom would the
choice fall? The list Of popular heroes
is long-Wilson, Pershing, Lloyd
George, Haig, Beatty, Sims, Clemen-
ceau, Petain, Joffre, Foch, Diaz, LUZ
berry, Guynemer, and so on.
Each Of these popular heroes
would undoubtedly have his adher-
ents. But many people in all the ma
tons of earth would choose as the
hero Of heroes:
Albert I, king of Belgium.
They would not claim that Albert
was the superior Of these men In the
qualities that make them great. Iney
would simply say in his behalf:
"Here is q man who instantly saw
his duty and did it forthwith because
it was his duty. When Germany de-
manded passage for her troops ne re.
piled, Belgium is a nation, not q road.
When Germany tore up the 'scrap-o.-
resisted to the limit OF the nations
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1919-01-18
GOOD
ROADS
PROPER DRAINAGE FOR ROAD
Side bitches Should Be Amply Largo
With Sufficient Fall to Carry
OF Water Rapidly.

prepared by the United States DepaSt-
ment of Agriculture.)
The only reason for crowning foad
surface Is to enable 1t to shed water,
and unless effective means are pro-
vided for disposing Of the water after
1t. is drained of the surface crown-
ing will be Of very little, If any. adj
vantage. The side bitches should be
amply large and should have sufficient
fall to carry the water away as rap
idly as 1t enters them, and they should
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1919-01-18
IN JIM lr1lELIdnr
LENROOT AND CHILD LABOR

1.-The employment of children in
premature labor is an assault on the
foundations of society,"" say the sociol-
pgists. They point out that wartime
conditions have enormously increased
Juvenile delinquency through violations
Df child labor and compulsory educa-
Hon laws. They say:
ut is difficult to measure the sac
Effice that the relaxing Of child well
care regulations has already meant
In terms of human welfare and happi-
ness. We can only guess as yet what
khe price may be that we shall have
TO pay. But certain facts make 1T
quite clear that if we wish to preserve
Our national treasure-the children
I'VE must increase rather than lower
Jour regulations; give greater protec-
ttion instead of less; take more chill
Idren out of industry rather than put
more children in"
Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin,
with Senators Kenyon and POmerene,
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A
World Crime
r.
By BLISS CARMAN
of The VQiLdnfeS

Only q remnant of the ancient Ar
menian race remains, mostly old men
and children. The rest of 1t has been
wiped out by the Turk and the leu
ton. Turkish racial animosity directed
by cOld-blOOded TeutOn efficiency and
brutishness. We are asked In the
name Of humanity to save the remain
Ing sufferers from starvation, and
their race from obliteratiOn..
The tale of this episode Of the great
war is narrowing one, and it will last
until all history fades out forever, and
this is a good time to recall it-good
for us who have lived for four years
and had ms real sense of war, while
millions We're living in hell.
The story cannot be told fully vet.
but there are incidents, pages in the
horrible chapter, which should fill us
with implacable horror of the Teuton-
Turk and a moving, active pity for his
viaSms.
The Armenian atrocity had one con-
ception and one purpose, but it was
carried out in various ways. The first
portion Of the Armenian race to feel
tbe blow was not the native population
of Armenia proper, but the scattered
Armenian communities in various
Turkish towns and cities. The pro-
cedure in over fifty places through
AnatOlia was identical. The same d.
rections from Constantinople were ex-
actly carried out in each case by the
local authorities, and In one or two in
stances where these authorities were
too humane to fulfill their monstrous
orders they were removed and more
rigorous officers put In their places.
Usually the procedure was In this
wise. ..~..
The First crueIties.
ION q given day the streets OF what
ever town 1t might be were occupied
BY the local gendarmerie with fixed
bayonets. and the governor summoned
all able-bodied men of Armenian race
that had been exempted from military
draft to present themselves now on
pain Of death. 'Able-bodied' included
any male between fifteen and seventy
years Of age, and these were all
marched out Of the town by the
gendarmes. They had not far to go.
for the gendarmerie had been re-en-
forced for the purpose from the gaols,
and the brigands and Kurds were
waiting in the hills. They were wait
Ing to murder the prisoners. The first
secluded valley witnessed their whole
sale massacre, and acquitted of their
task the gendarmes marched leisurely
into town.
"This was the first act. 1t preceded
the pitiful possibility OF resistance to
the second, which was more ingenious
and farlreaching. The women. old men
and children, who made up the re-
mainder of the Armenian population,
were not given notice Of deportation
within a fixed term-a week or ten
days. Whole households were uproot-
ed and driven Off to an unknown desti-
nation, while their homes and property
were transferred to Moslems."
To read Of such things Is to imagine
that these victims must have been saw
ages, some bands Of half-civilized pitt
able creatures, the lowest grade Of hu-
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JAMES R, MANN-NEXT SPEAKER?

The election Of November 8
changed the political complexion Of
congress. When the members-elect
take their seats March next the Re-
publicans will control both houses.
When the Republicans organize
the house, who will be elected speaker
to succeed Champ Clark? The West
thinks James r. Mann Of Illinois is the
man. The East picks Frederick II.
Gillett of Massachusetts. Nicholas
Longworth Of Ohio is considered the
dark horse.
Mann represents one Of the most
important districts In the whole cOun-
try-several South side wards Of Chi
cago. He Is an Old-timer, having served
ten successive terms. Gillett Is even
more of an old-timer, having served
II terms.
In picking Glllett the East elimi-
mates Mann after this fashion: 1T is
now generally accepted that Mann, the
nominal Republican floor leader and
reason Of his long illness. be passed
&ho 0fhor dov docIarod no 1eaa At and
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Dependence on Good Roads.

Every farmer should feel his de-
pendence upon good roads. Whether
or not one lives on a public highway
he should take an interest In the
nearest one to his farm or the road
he must use to market his farm, or.
ctard and garden products.
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A Diplomat.

Miss StrOngarm-I'll show you you
can't fire me that way even II I do
spell few words wrong an get ba.led
up In my notes sometimes.
Mr.. Littleneck-My dear lady, you
have the wrong idea. I am releasing
you merely because have q very jeal-
GUS wife and she won't allow me to
have a beautiful stenographer In my
Office.
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He Cats Il.

"Whale meatr I can't eat whale
meat"
"And took so much trouble. If you
don't eat 1t I'll cry my eyes out"
"All right Whatever l do, can't
escape blubber."
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1919-01-18
THE FLAG
BY AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR
Of the ViQilantes.

Last year it was our heritage. the red
and white and blue;
Our grandsires died to raise It and our
sires to keep 1t true.
We prayed we might be worthy of their
memory as we cast
In shimmering beauty to the wind the
banner Of our past
But now-O God, our hearts are with our
living and our dead!
Bone of our bone the white has grown.
flesh Of our flesh the red.
Our substance and our souls are pledged
to keep 1t undeflled
Last year 1t was our heritage-today Il
q our child
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1919-01-18
Roads Not Properlv Built

To say that the roads are bad bs.
cause motortrucks have been passing
over them Is simply confession that
the roads are not properly built and
maintained.
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A Drawback

Dusty-Let's go to South America.
over tn place for nothin'.
Musty-Do yuh have tub pick 'en7
Dusty-Sure.
Musty-Huh! I knew thered be
some catch In it.
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svesa Ieavea-

Yet Eve was not. we'll take our oaths,
A wholly happy kid
The moths could never eat her clothes
But. oh! the cutworms did!
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started through the limit OF the
He France French time to entencn anu ~
British time to get the fighting line"
Belgium won Dy ner
been a king worthy Of his
king without has come back into MS own
Of heroes a prop0rtionats reward
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which defeated the
proposing pohbtVe
all to be additional to all other
since 1909 UP to last summer
in elected special
election vacancy
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council
the formation a national
is
latter 26O0OOO in
Little Rus
siah O sef-detemnaion.
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After the Battle.

NIIcT VU0 0dVIIc.
The Man Who Missed lt-"How many
seconds did the kid have 2"
The Man Who Saw It-"He started
with two and then. in the first round.
the referee gave him ten more and it
was all over"
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logical candidate speaker WILL by OF his long Illness be passed
declared at and
verdict Of his physicians
straight
EIopkins hospital
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HOLD NO INQUEST IN
STREET CAR ACCIDENT
Witnesses and Decided Inquest
Would be of no Value

District Attorney Peter Fischer and
Coroner E. T. Parker have decided that
it will not be necessary to hold any in
quest over the remains of little Lewis
McGonegle who died on Monday night
as result of injuries received when
run down by street car on Grand
avenue. The Coroner and District At
torney examined many witnesses in
connection with the accident and they
declared today that these witnesses
did: not place any blame on Peter Fred
rickson the man who was in charge of
the car when the little boy was in
jured. They held that the evidence
showed that the car was stopped with
in sixty feet of the place where the lit
tie boy was struck and that the motor
man had put on his brakes before the
car struck the child.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-06-05

Lavey of Bristol and brother, Harry,
Of Milwaukee, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Van Alstine had .
family reunion Sunday.
Mr.. Burton and friends who fshed
the week end at Paddocks Lake re-
turned to Chicago Sunday.
DIR. Chas Loescher of Chicago visit
ed his parents over Sunday.
Myra Cummings Of Kenosha visited
the week end with ner parents, Mr.
and Mrs Fl. McVicar.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Foster of Kenosha
visited relatives here over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Madden and Mrs. a.
Foster were Kneosha visitors Thurs
day.
| Miss Mary McVicar of Kenosha visit
ed relatives here Decoration Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Leister Of Chi
cago and E. Kennedy Of Trevor, visited
Mrs. A. Burdick Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Pease entertained
company from Kenosha Sunday.
| Mr.. Will Gallirt and Miss Florence
Shinsheck were married Wednesday
and motored to Iowa to visit relatives
! for two weeks on their honeymoon.
Their many friends wish them long
and happy welded life.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Paddock visited
| relatives in Paris Sunday.
/ Word has been received that Virgil
Smith is on his way home from France
and his brother Lester Smith is sick
in base hospital in France.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Grant MINIS enter
{ tanned company Sunday.
/ Mr. and Mrs. E. Hass and Mr.. and
Mrs. Nelson Of Lake Geneva visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas Deeper Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Wright Wis
tied his parents at Wilmot Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. Cundy entertained
their cousin of Chicago, Sunday.
Mrs. Googan had cement walk put
in the last Of the week.
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PAGE FIVE
BY Fred S. Ferguson.

United Press Stan Correspondent
Paris, June 4-Neutrals as well az
allies are making preparations to meet
the situation that would be created by
refusal of the Germans to sign the
peace treaty. Both Norway and switz-
erland have made known their inten-
tion to refuse to enter any blockade
agreement against Germany in the
event the armistice is ended. The de-
cisions of Holland, Sweden and Den.
mark are expected shortly. Interest is
now centering in the degree to which
the peace terms viii be modified, since
there appears to be an unamity of op.
Iinion that they will be modified. In
French circles it is autthoritatively
stated that they have received the def.
mite impression from the mericans that
there will be no fundamental changes
in the treaty. Premier Lloyd George
was expected to issue formal state
Iment today, outlining the contemplated
Ichanges in the text, as suggested by
British, French and American experts
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u. S. SELLS FOOD TO RUSS
Baker Says Some of Army Supplies
MIGHT Reach Reds.

Washington, June 4.-Secretary Ba-
ker told the house military committee
he had authorized the sale of $25, O0O,-
600 worth of surplus food stocks held
by the army to the Cooperative Pur-
chase society Of Russia, Mr. Baker
said in reply to questions that some of
the food probably would reach the boil
sheviki. The Cooperative society, he
said, was composed of 20,O00,000 fami-
lies and would pay in raw materials
needed here. Secretary Baker WIS
asked by Representative Anthony. Re
publican, of Kansas if the war depart
ment was holding huge quantities of
canned and cured meats, because the
packers had protested against dump
ing it on the market and causing meat
prices to fall"
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IS TAKEN
EsthonIans and Firms Capture It
From BoIsheMki.
Soviet Plot Is Discovered in Finland
and Numerous Arrests Ars
Made.

Cfiristiania, June 4.-Petrograd has
been captured by the Estnonlans and
the Firms, according to an unconfrm-
ed report received by the newspaper
Tidens Tegn from Vardoe.
It had previously been reported that
the Firms and Esthonians had driven
the bolshevik defenders from Petro-
grad, but the report proved premature.
London. June A Russian bolshe-
vik plot on a wide scale has been dis
covered in Finland according to an
Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Copenhagen. Many arrests have been
made in connection with the discovery.
Several million marks had been
struggled into Finland preparatory TO
contemplated revolution, the tele-
gram states, and bolshevik repre-
sentative at Helsingfors had distrib-
uted more than three million marks of
this. Quantities of weapons had been
given out among the unemployed
A Russian wireless message re
ceived here from Moscow says that
Kherson on the Dnieper, northeast of
Odessa, was occupied by the reds on
Friday after fierce fighting.
The bolsheviki have been faced with
an insurrection in the southern Tx
raine and the forces defeated at Kher-
son probably were Ukrainians who
had revolted against the soyiets. It
was reported last week that counter
revolt had been begun In the Odessa
region by Grigorieff, a former bolshe-
vik general.
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News OF Kenosha County

They have secured the same music for
this dance, Roamy ]. Meters, Jazz
-Four Of Chicago.
A number of Wilmot young people
attended Hearth Of the World at Genoa
Thursday night.
Heinie Christensen, a member Of the
Harley Davidson Motor Cycle Club, met
with bad accident Sunday when a
dog jumped directly in front of his
motor cycle, throwing him and his ma
chine twenty feet.
Clyde Button motored out from Re
nosha for Sunday.
George Winchell has been under DR.
Becker Is care this past week.
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WOODWORTH.

Rev. W A. Grifiths attended con-
vention at Duisman and also visited
his daughter who attends school at
Ripon College, the past week.
l Mrs. Yonk Of Waukegan, is visiting
at the home of her son, Clarence Yonk.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Castle and son
and Mr.. and Mrs. Pike of Chicago,
spent several days at Mr.. Castle s
farm last week.
Miss Alta Hartnell will close her
school in this district with a picnic on
next Friday.
Miss Helen Fowler Of Kenosha, spent
Sunday at the home Of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. L. E. Fowler.
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tRv IInited Pres..

Washington, June A "finish
fight with anarchy in the United
States was planned by government de.
partments and congress. Changers in
the justice department designed to
speed up the work of eombing the coun.
try for terrorists were announced by
Attorney General Palmer, with the ap.
pointment of William J. Flynn, former.
" chief of the United States secret
service, as head of the department bu.
reau of investigation Congress tomor.
row will start work ON legislation aim.
ed at deportation of undesirable aliens
and the establishment of strict immi.
grafton bars for the next two years.
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129TH IS UNDER QUARANTINE
Member of Illinois Regiment Dies Of
Spinal Meningitis.

Camp Grant, Rockford, H., June H.
The entire One Hundred and Twenty
ninth infantry, which reached cann
Grant for generalization. is under
quarantine as the result of the death
of Private Ed Johnson Of Belyidere
I'll, who died at Camp Merritt. N, Il.
from spinal meningitis. All Contacts
are being removed to the base hospital
for observation, and Col. Peter g.
Field camp surgeon, said he would
recommend release Of the rest of the
regiment as soon as all persons ex-
posed had been placed in the hospital
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(By Associated Pressl

Paris, June Paris walked to work
this morning, no subways, tram-cars or
taxi buses being in operation because
of the strike here. Reports early this
morning seemed to indicate that the
strike was showing tendency to gain
in all trades where there were out
standing differences between the en-
ployers and men even some times
against the Judgment of the strike lead
ers. Although there were some 35o, 900
on strike in the Paris district yester-
day it was said early today that the
number might be 100000 by night.