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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-04-05
4oTH DIVISION MEN.
Arrived at New York To-day, They
Numbering 2,1s2.

New York, April Bringing 2,ls2
troops of the 40th division, the steam
ship Edgar A. Luckenbach arrived here
to-day from Bordeaux. A company Of
80 casuals of Virginia also returned
The steamship El Oriente, from Bor-
deauX brought GO casuals, 20 comprising
company of New York men and the
others scattered.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-04-05
POTTER Is HELD ON
DOUBLE CHARGE
Cambridge, Mass, Man, Accused of Muir
der and Attempted Murder, APP
peared in Court on Clutches.

Palmer, Mass, April 5.--Frank w.
Potter of Cambridge, who month ago
killed Deputy Sheriff G. A. Bills, and
shot Patrolman Charles Thomas of this
town while they were arresting him in a
Boston and Albany train for shooting
Police Lieutenant j. NJ. DAILY Of Spring
field, was held for superior court after a
hearing in district court here to-day on
charges of murder and attempted murder.
Potter came into court on crutches from
the effect of wound received in his
fight with the Palmer officers.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-04-05
TWO CLAIMANTS FOR INSURANCE.
And National Life Insurance Co. Asks
for Court Instructions.

The National Life Insurance company
has brought suit in chancery against
Dromund and Foster, the case being an
interpleader asking the court to decide
to whom the company shall pay $4,000
life insurance on the life of +. A. Dro-
mund. There is another claimant for
the money in the person of Bulah Franch.
Judge Fish has issued an injunction, re
straining the company from paying the
money until such time as the court shall
decide
The divorce suit of Ward Knapp
against Clyde Knapp has been entered in
county court.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-04-05
NO "RAINB0W" PARADE.
1t Has Been Found Impracticable, Gen,
March Announces.

Washington, D. G., April 5--The war
department has decided definitely that
it viii be impracticable to parade the
AID (Rainbow) division in Washington
as complete organization, Gen. March
announced to-day. General Pershing has
been so advised
The division will be brought back to
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-04-05

Sunday school a. she Hedding NJ. 4.
church tomorrow as usual, at ll:45,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-04-05

{ Continued on eighth page.)
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-01
THE THREE HUNDRED THOUS-
SAND

The right to citizenship in this great
country has been conferred on over
800. 600 soldiers and sailors Of Ameri-
ca s army and navy III the past eight
months. America has many tasks and
missions TO perform, but none more
important than the transformation OF
every permanent citizen Of the United
States in spirit, thought and in life,
whether he be born in the land of the
free or under the domination OF a
monarch. And her foregn-born sol
diers now in the army of occupation
must not be overlooked; they will
speak and be heard. 1t behooves
America, which means us, one and all,
to make them feel, with all our words
and actions, that this is, for them, for
you. their own, their native land. -
Henry Sellers Musser in The Phila-
delphia Record.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-01
AMERICA WORLD LEADER

Americas experience as world
power has demonstrated that Europe
is more keenly alive to material adj
vantages than the United States ever
was. The exhaustion Of the European
countries accounts for much, but by
no means for all of their efforts to get
all they can out of the peace treaty.
The old diplomacy of loot is far from
dead. This means that events Of. the
last two years. and especially the most
recent months, have proved that the
leadership of the world. if there is to
be a new civilization, must pass to
America. The European diplomats adj
nit as much when they confess that
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-01

there can be no league of nations with
out the United States. Europe is still
the home of quarreling statesmen and
of international rivalries. The United
States has none of the ferocious in
centives to future disputes which are
not stilled in Europe For two years,
Americas prestige has constantly
risen abroad largely for this reason.
It is impossible to avoid the conclu-
sion that, hereafter, Europe must turn
more and more to America for inspirss
fion and direction in the remaking Of
the world City Star.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-01
BASEMENT BELOW

The cheerful hops that railway in
come has reached an irreducible mir.
mum and railway expenditure has at
tanned a non-extendabIe maximum re-
ceives rude blow from the interstate
commerce commissions figures for
February. Below neither depths other
deeps yawn. Beneath the ground floor
is a basement, with sub-cellar fur
Their down. The mild February this
year was as favorable to raiIroading as
cold and coalless last February was
unfavorable, Yet railway net income
this year decreased Ia per cent, com
pared with the same month last year.
Rates are up Is per cent and the serv-
ice is slower and poorer, yet the net
operating income for the month was
but $10,015,00 as against an average
of $47,000,000 for the three-year test
period, under private management, on
which the government rental is based
It is time to give sober attention to the
railway problem. If sober attention
is given rejection of a large number
of half-baked compromises is poss. bic
plans which hobble private manage
ment by taking away the attributes of
private ownership, while pretending to
re-establish it.-New York Tribune.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-01
OUR NEGLECT OF THE INDIAN

Western people naturally are more
interested in the Indian than theil
brethren in the eastern states, but if
we are to perpetuate the native Ameri-
can, it is high time that the people
everywhere in the United States
should take deep interest in the
race" remarked DR.. A. T. Schiller,
an educator who has been deeply in
terested in Indians. "The last report
of the Indian commissioner gives the
total population Of Indians, exclusive
of the five civilized tribes, at 237,737,
and Of this number nearly 100000 can
not speak English, sad commentary
on the stewardship of the white man.
Less than one-third San read and
write. 1t would seem from these fig
ures that the Indian educational prob
lem is far from being solved. Arizona
has a greater number of Indians in
percentage to its population than any
other state, there being nearly $4,000
in that state, and of this number a
military escort will bring her body
from Belgium and at Westminster the
British people will do honor TO her
unfaltering spirit.
But for the dastarGly deed of the
German militarists> that brought her
low, Edith Cavell would never have
been known, but God often selects
humble persons to illustrate nations
wrongs. The martyrdom of noble
and defenseless woman stung the
world to fury against the authors OF
her execution. Her German execu-
TONERS unwittingly revealed to the
world the kind of brutes it had to deal
with. Edith Cavell typified in her
character, by contrast, the best and
noblest traditions of her people.
1t is well that the body of Edith
Cavel1 is to repose in Westminster
Abbey. The world needs such re-
minders as she that it may not forget
what it was for which she died and
what it is that must be torn up root
and branch if she shall not have died
in vain Milwaukee Journal.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-01
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PEOPLE ARE. IMPROVING

A gentleman writes me: "All my
life / have been distrustful of hen
and women. At the age of 81 I see no
signs of increasing confidence in
either sex. try to be charitable in
all things, but it is discoursging, to
say the least. The world is principal.
ly composed Of malcontents, ingrates
and Inconsistencies, people without re
gard for anyone but themselves
Every man who abuses the people
abuses himself, for he is just like
them. Besides, we nave no reason to
expect that the people should be bet
ter than they are; they were created
in a certain way; they have always
been the same. To expect them to
change is foolish
The people are not as bad as gen
orally represented. | have been near
~ everywhere, and everywhere | re
mark that met nice men and women
who are everywhere better behaved
than the children, showing that we
all improve as a result of training
Ed Howe's Monthly.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-01
BOLSHEVISM MENTAL DISEASE

J. Ogden Armour says of Bolshev-
ism that it is mental disease. The
agitator, he says, gives weight to his
sophistry by great show of enthusi-
asm and earnestness. These men al
ways, he declares, are men of serious
mind, who believe in their preach
ments, but their fault is they lack a
grasp of fundamentals. "The trouble
with their IDEAS" says Mr.. Armour,
sis that they won't work. They re-
mind me Of remarkable set of plans
| saw some years ago. The inventor
worked out on paper the principle of
a boat that generated its own power
direct from the stream. First the
boat was anchored and the current
started some small paddles, which
were to generate electric power
enough to send the boat on it's way
Nothing but practical demonstration
convinced the inventor that his plan
would not Nations Business.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-01
NOT A HERMIT NATION

A Republican discussing the league
of nations in hotel lobby said, What
interest have we in the far east, espe-
cially in Russia, in the Black sea, the
Baltic and half a dozen other seas?
The thing for the United States to do
is to get out of all that country, let
the Bolsheviki take it and all of them
go to perdition together if they insist
upon it. It will not affect u.s. If all
that part OF the world turned back to
barbarism and primitive methods we
would soon learn how it would affect
us. The consular reports show that Is
per cent of the total trade of the
United States, including exports and
imports, during 1918 was done with
the far east. The imports from the
far east amounted to s1,041, 8S9, 402
and exceeded those of any other grand
division, representing "a per cent of
the total imports into the United
States, while the exports to the far
east totaled $603,O63,S77. If that trade
were cut off how many American work
men would be thrown out of employ
ment in the United States? If this is
to become hermit nation, it will go
back to the conditions OF 100 years
ago, and what would become of the
1O0,O00,O00 population? Talking non
sense is sometimes dangerous -oma-
ha World Herald.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-01
EDITH CAVELL

No nation has shrine which guards
so many memories as Eng1and,s West.
minister Abbey. There the British
people can wander among the burial
places of their illustrious dead and
bring to mind the whole history Of
their island home.
Another memory is to be added, a
poignant because a recent memory.
Westminster Abbey is to receive tie
earthly remains Of the nurse, Faith
cavell A British warship WITH a
little more than 1000 can speak Enc
lish, and few more than $500 ca
read and write. And Arizona boasts
Of having more college graduates than
any other state in the union in pro-
portion to its population. We have
got to take care Of the Indian. He
was a good fighter what few thee
were of him in the world war, anl
America cannot afford to haze tn
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-01
LOSS OF VALUABLE SEED
WORRIED EIKHnRN FARMERS

Walworth county farmers around
Elkhorn were waiting this spring for
$4,000 worth Of seeds which had been
ordered The car was lost somewhere
on the railroad, finally going back to
Chicago.
.sAs a last resort, says the buyer.
II called up the county agent and
stated the facts to him. In less than
twenty-fogr hours the car was located
and on the way back
The result Of the county agents ac-
tfyity was not only that the farmers
got the seed they wanted, but that the
scotsman and his farmer patrons have
a new idea Of the purpose. and value
of the county agents office.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-01
red man pass. Washington Post
THE PUBLIC BE :

A good many years ago one of the
vanderbilts was accused of saying.
"The public be damned He never
said it, but how Vanderbilt was abused
because of the rumor that he did say
it!
It is charged that he said it in con-
nection with the railroad business.
But now that the government has
charge Of the railroads, how perfectly
it carries out policy OF '"The public
be damned A gentleman tells me
that in New orleans he wanted to buy
a railroad ticket. He took his place
in a line and waited ffty-fve minutes
before he could transact his business
And when he finally reached>a clerk,
he was told he was lucky to be waited
on in fifty-five minutes.
This is the railroad reform" we
have accomplished after years Of eff
fort. And rates are % per cent higher
than under private ownership, with a
tremendout deficit looming up. Some
of our wisest men say the proposed
league of nations is similar reform
That is the trouble with US fool
Americans; we scream and agitate for
a certain thing, claiming it will solve
our problems; and then discover it
isn't what we needed-that all our
work for reform has been wasted.
Ed Howe's Monthly.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-01

Under bolshevist rule those ''bul-
warks of democracy free speech, a
free press and majority rule. are alb
solutely prohibited, as the bolshevist
leaders themselves proudly boast.
This makes it difficult to understand
how there could be any pro-bolsheyists
in the ranks of American labor-Chi-
cago News.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-01
cago News,

A method of utilizing poison gas in
the destruction of tree pests is an
nounced by member of the Pasteur
institute at Paris Swords into plow-
shares, spears into pruning hooks, hell
fumes into insectides! remarks an
editor.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-01
9s,,a2C1 WEEKLY NEWS
4. E. COLE COLE Editor and Propriet0rs
SUBSCRIPTION RATES

If it is really found there is no way
to enforce prohibition next July, per
haps existing conditions may be en-
dured until next January, when the
real water wagon arrives.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-01
Rents ARE ADVANCED
I'M CITY OF MADISON

A. general rise in rents is taking
place at Madison. Prices Of heated
apartments are going up from SIS to
g15 a month. There is a shortage OF
houses and flats. Owners give as
reason for raising rents the increased
cost of maintenance, operation, sup
plies and taxes.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-01

81 have in this bundle, Mr. Pry"
said J. Fuller Gloom to an inquisitive
neighbor, "a neat little invention or
my own, squirt gun by means OF
which when / meet an acquaintance
can shower compliments practically
all over him at one squirt. can then
go right along about my business, and
no time is wasted in polite persihage.
"But-ah!--you cannot load compli-
ments into squirt gun you know. So
that is, of course, an imaginary squirt
gum"
Exactly The only kind of compli-
ments I bestow are imaginary compli-
ments"
William Allen White made himself
nationally known when he was n
years old by writing an editorial in
the Emporia Gazette entitled What's
the Matter with Kansas"
That was the editorial on Populism
which Mr.. White, after discussing the
case of Kansas in vivid words, arrived
at the famous conclusion: Kansas
started out to raise hell and has had
an overproduction. There are a good
many people attending the peace con-
ference who have an M taat Russia
is suffering from the sama complaint.
The President has gone to Paris,
and the vice-president to Phoenix,
Ariz. When you mentally review the
exigencies of the present critical
period, you will find much to COM.
mend in the action of both of them.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-01

ator. AT the time the house was built
all the land between Center street and
the river to the west was very much
as nature had made it. Since then
many fine homes have been erected in
the addition.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-01

The womans party organized in
Argentina by Sonora Julieta Lanteri
de Renshaw has published it's plat
form, demanding equality with men
in national and provincial govern
mental offices as well as voting. Argen.
tine women are enrolling in the party
under the slogan Universal Suffrage
for Women.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-04-25
The Victory Special Visits Cresee.

As announced in last weeks Plain
Dealer, the victory special afFived u
Cresco on Tuesday afternoon on sched ;
ule time and was greeted by most Of
our people and q large number from
the country as well. A parade con-
sisting Of the Dubuque College Band,
a squad of wounded veterans from over.
seas and the Boys and Girls Infantry
Companies led the crowd to the Court
House where IN open air meeting was
held, and addresses were made by
Capt. Dan Newquist, of Des Moines, .
veteran wounded at Chateau Thierry,
and Frank O'Connor, District Attorney
from Dubuque, both of whom were
eloquent and forceful. giving reasons
why no one should fail to purchase his
share of Victory Bonds.
The writer was informed by friend,
who accompanied the special that the
Cresco audience was the largest they
had had except At m evening meeting
It Oelwein and that nowhere had they
met With the organized reception given
them here and with such fine display
as that made by Colonel Howe's
Troops"
The Cresco band also participated
and furnished some good music.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-04-25
Creseo Asks for Better Train Service.


Soma time ago, the Commercial Club
appointed q committee to secure if pos
sible better train service for Cresco,
including restoration of the morning
accommodation from the west, daily
delivery of local freight, and also the
discontinusnce of the present practice
of sending freight from the east via.
La Crosse and Austin and its delivery
from tLs west.
On Monday, State Railroad Commits
sioner C. w. Webster, and Judge Hen
derson, counsel for the commission, met
with the committee. F. B. Lomas and
F. A. Huber, Division Supt. Thiel, of
the Milwaukee road, also being present.
The committee placed upon the wit
ness stand to substantiate their charges.
Judge Reed, F. B. Lomss and o. j.
McHugh, representing the retailers,
and F. A. Huber, j. S. Swenson and
H. F. Barnes representing the nanufac-
turers and shippers. Witnesses were
also present from Chester. Lime
Springs. Bonair and Ridgewsy. all Of
which towns are affected by the same
things Of which Cresco complains. A
petition for better train service on this
division, signed by over 100 travelling
men making this territory, was also
presented. Judge Reed voiced the SEN
timents of the community by stating
that the towns between Calmar and
Austin are now being and always have
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-04-25

at cost of l,oop. 900. passed the house
with little opposition. The vote was
q to 20.
The new building to be built in the
capitol extension will house the state
department of justice and the Supreme
court also the law and general library.
The money for the erection of the tenn
pie will be raised by taking the remain
der of the war fund amounting to more
than $500. 900 and the rest will be paid
by the capitol extension tax.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-04-25
Soldiers Reception and Banquet.

The fourth reception to our returned
soldier boys will be held Wednesday,
April 30th. If the weather permits
there will be parade in the afternoon.
The band boys expect to have their
new uniforms by that time and We ex--
pect that our initial parade will be an
interesting spectacle. After the par
ade our newly returned soldier boys
who have not heretofore been enter
tanned at banquet will be escorted to
the Modern Woodman hall, where the
Royal Neighbors will serve the ban
quet. If there is no parade come to
banquet hail without formality. All Of :
our soldier boys who have not attended
previous banquets are invited and ex-
pected to be present. Personal invita-
tions will be issued, but owing to the
difficulty of keeping track of the boys
as they return: some may fail to get
their invitations. If you receive no
invitation, and have not attended
previous banquet. Come just the
same. You will be expected. There
will be place for you at the banquet
table. If convenient kindly notify us
your are coming on the card inclosed
with your invitation. You are entitled
to bring your sweetheart or your wife
if you happen to be so happily blessed.
If you have no sweetheart or if it is
not convenient for her or the wife to
attend, then in that case you tmay
bring both your father and mother.
After the banquet, at o'clock in the
opera house, there will be the usual
program consisting of singing and
speaking by the soldier boys and 9th.
ers. If the attendance be very large
there possibly might be a program in
the afternoon. If so it will be an
nounced later. We have secured the
w. o. w. hall over Kellow's grocery
store for rest room for the soldier
boys and their families during the day
and evening. 1t will be lighted and
heated and ready to receive you any
time during the day and evening. sr 4
All the soldier boys previously enter.
tanned will have reserved seats in the
body Of the opera house. Our newly
returned boys will have places on the
stage. All families of the soldier boys
will have seats reserved for them in
the body ef the opera house. Uni
foEms viii l9dmil the soldier boys fress.
Of charge to the opera house and the
dance. The families of the same may
get their reserved seat tickets at the
w. o. w. hall. Be sure and get them
before going to the opera house. We
ask all soldier boys to wear their uni
form. Do not forget the dance in the
opera house hall after thesprogram. All
soldier boys in uniform are admitted
free. We quote Government time in
this announcement. Notice is given by
a special committee who will take
steps to have the soldier boys perfect q
temporary organization. A meeting
for this purpose will be held in the af-
ternoon. We would be pleased to have
all the soldier boys attend. Kindly
follow the above program and we feel
it will be IN enjoyable occasion.
E. A. Church,
Chairman Red Cross Community
Welcome Home Committee.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-04-25
Lieut.. Lowry in Cresca.

Lieut.Commander Frank j Lowry
arrived Wednesday morning for q
weeks visit at the home of his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. J. Lowry and with
the other Cresco relatives. He. is en-
joying the first furlough he ~ had in
five; years. For the past, eighteen
months or more he has been an officer,
the second in command, on the. U. S.
Cruiser, Pittsburg, doing patrol work
off South America. After returning to
his duties he will be assigned for a
time "a the bsttlsshipt Maine. y train.
ing ship for midshipmen.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-04-25
Several Meaths In Cssna. Prisea Cam

Several mssths in German Prison Canp
Priv. Frank A. Mitchell. of Co. K,
362nd Inft., 9lst Div. who spent seve-
raj months in the German prison camps
arrived in New York on April l4th,
and is now located At Camp Mills, Long
Island. In . letter to his sister, Mrs.
Hattie Warrington, he says that he is
in fine health and expects to be trans
ferred to Camp Dodge in a short time
where he will be mustered out, and
will then return to Cresco.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-04-25
c. D. Nichols & Son, Cresco, Iowa

been Disseminated against in the mat
ter of service and Recommendations.
While the case was atsken under
advisement by the representative of
the commission. it is thought certain
that he will recommend b9ter train
service so strongly that in 1.-The near
future Cresco and its neighboSmg towns
will enjoy more trains and different
routing of freight from the east.