Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-07-02

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States.
Hun Propaganda Aided Anarchist.
When the United States entered into
the war with Germany government Of
icials found there were In existence
in the United States all kinds Of organ
| izations, formed for purposes which
could not fail in their effect TO help
the cause of the Huns. These organ
| fzatiOns were not anarchistic in their
nature, but that they helped anarchy
no one can doubt.
There were associations formed for
the purpose 81 keeping young Amer
leans out of the army through the ex-
tending of aid TO men who pretended
that they were conscientious DIRECTORS.
There were organizations which
preached the doctrine of Lying down"
and that the way to overcome the
German was to kiss him on both
cheeks and pat his back.
When the government began to get
after these associations which, while
professedly loyal and professedly sim
ply human in their endeavOrs, In real
ity were helping the Germans, they dis
covered that 1t was an exceedingly diff
ficult thing to differentiate between this
society and that society. One organ
iZatiOn might well be within the law
while another was outside of the law,
but the difficulty which the govern
ment officials met was to define accu-
f-afa1v tho 6nl1G ~ IarraIffv and ill.,
gality The natural result followed.
Liberty Plea Shielded License.
Many lawbreakers who were helping
the Germans Indirectly escaped the
lash of the law. The plea of infringe
ment of the right Of free speech was
used constantly to enable men to es-
cape the penalties which they should
have suffered. 1t followed naturally
from the escape of men and organiza-
lions of this type that men and or
CARNATIONS of other types took courage
and believed that under the plea of the
right to talk as they wished in a free
country they could escape justice.
Anarchy was emboldened. 1t mas
queraded under all sorts of guises. 1t
became difficult to tell just what was
an anarchistic society and just what
was some other kind of a society. The
result was that the government prose
cutions frequently did not reach their
goal. Leniency was charged against
the government officials when in truth
perhaps their only crime Was their in
ability to get the required proof.
White House Virtually Closed.
The White House for some time has
stood lonely and aloof. Seemingly
the old place must miss the hurry
burly which 1t has housed through
the years, or at least which one
OF It's wings has sheltered, for the
westernmost part of the old mansion
has been the scene of cabinet meetings,
of the rabble of beseeching politicians,
of open and of closed conferences, and
of general political and legislative plan
ming activities through the four admin
istratiOns during which this adjunct of
the White House has had its builded
existence.
During all the time of the presidents
absence in Europe, and during all the
time of the actual warfare, the White
House proper was closed to visitors.
Today few fortunate ones under prop
er guidance are admitted to the low
er rooms, but for the main part its
isolation is complete.
The White House itself is beauti-
full structure, but It's beauty is as moth
ing to the cOlorful glow of its environ
ment. The few fortunate ones who
today are allowed TO enter the mansion
occasionally are led thither from the
office wing through the wonderful gar
den planted and tended through three
seasons by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. This
garden is a hedged-in place, hedged in
by the most wonderful hedge product
ever seen even in this country of
hedges. The green wall which encloseS
three sides of this garden spot of the
great White House grounds is six feet
high and three feet in depth. 1t -four
ishes literally like the green bay tree.
Its only rival in the Potomac country
is the fine box hedge planted at Mount
Vernon by the hands of George Wash
ington.
Garden Planted by Mrs. Roosevelt.
This White House garden, which
forms of course only small part of
the White House grounds, has been an
institution of three administrations.
When Mrs. Roosevelt lived in the
White House she planned an old-fash-
toned garden, and she put her plan In
TO effect. From the windows of the
White House one looked down on a
garden In which bloomed geraniums,
pansies. nasturtiums, hollyhocks, for
getmenots, roses, bachelor buttons.
fuehsias, sweet williams, and all the
rest of the old time favorites.
1t was Mrs. Roosevelt's custom to
invite her intimate friends to afternoon
tea In the old-fashloned garden. There
in the late afternoon the garden lay
under the shadows of the great trees
which have stood as sentinels In the
| White House grounds for many years.
| The place was quaint, old-fashioned
and fragrant and the elders of Wash
| ington life renewed the days of their
youth before the plain flowers had
been supplanted by the exotics which
modern gardeners insist must have the
place Of prominence in sun and In
| shade
Mrs. Taft continued the old-fashion-
ed garden, and so did the first Mrs.