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The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-01-09
THE SCANDAL MONGER

Next to the Stool Pigeon, if not equal to it, the
most dread and contemplate creature in any decent
community is the Scandal Monger or Social Scaven-
ger 1t generate and circulate more unadul-
terated hell in five minutes than all the host of
angels quench in eternity.
The Scandal Monger is the highest most finished
and at the same time the lowest and most shame
less type of gossip purveyOr of vicious PERSONAL
ties 1t is to the common backyard garden variety
Of gossip what the highly trained musical artist is
to the mere beginner. To produce it, requires not
only native aptitude, but long training supple
mented by suitably vicious environment Like the
oadstool or fungus it thrives and reaches it's high
est stage of development in damp measmic and
noisome atmosphere. Neither plant nor animal it
is thing" of uncertain origin and miserable fin
sh
The natural prey Of this foul caterer to human
weaknesses are young girls just budding into wo-
manhood and others who have before them a life
of promise. Yet men and women of maturer years.
even gray haired grandfathers and grandmothers
are not wholly immune Of their vile attacks From
the cradle to the grave like a vuture it camps
upon the trail of the human family To it, a sus-
pcIon against one Of good repue, is proof as strong
as holy writ; mere suggestion, verifcation beyond
all question of doubt. Upon its long Shiny tongue
tbt of evil report is rolled like bon-bon until
IT loses its ,savor by constant repeatngs Unclean
itself it supposes the entire world is uncIean In
brief this is picture of the Scandal Monger Shm
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-01-09
RECOGNIZING AMERICANS

Americans are going to do many things differently
from now on. We going to come to a full reali-
zaion of the fact that an American is an American
regardless of race or religion
And we going to treat him as man should
treat man.
The deciding factor in persuadng nativeborn
Americans to this opinion came in the loyal manner
with which our foregn-born citizens and our Negro
citizens helped us win the They did hep-on
Farm, III mines, factories, mills shpyards as we'll
as i'll navy and army uniforms
Some of us (thoughtlessy. possibly were given
to calling these men of foreign birth and of other
colors, by ncknames. Those who did this knew
they were hurting the sef-respect of the stranger
Such nicllnamcS as "Wop," tDago" "Nigger -
and numerous others the tip of many an
American tongue. and every such nickname carried
It's sting to the very soul of the man thus msnamed
Now however, the United States Bureau Of Edu
cation launches campaign among school schildreu
of the nation against this nickname evil Our young
people are asked to pledge themselves not to call a
Negro, niger" nor Mexican, 'grcaser." nor
any forcgn-bon among us by any nickname often
sive to hm-qnd nearly every nickname is offensive
to the person at whom it is thrown.
All Boy Scouts are asked to eliminate from THEN
talk all these niclnames. Many Boy Scouts camps
already have given their word and they will do this
Hopes entertained that when the time comes
when all our boys and girls have discontinued thi,
bad habit grownups viii place closer guard or
our tongues. and then will be niger
a "wop, grcaser" or quincy
! They Il all be men and women standing on AZ
equal footing in this respect at least be they ditch
diggers, serubwomen. bankers or wives Of million
aires.Wis State journal
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-01-09
JUDGE JOHN BARNES

Judge John Barnes is dead. We regret his pass
ing would that Of one with whom we were
more closely related. lie a kindly genial gen
tleman as much admired and honored for his learn
ing for his afability and wholesome regard for
the rights of others In his death Wisconsin sus-
tains loss she i'll afford at this time. May
he receive the reward Of well spent life.
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-01-09
THAT FLU STUFF

II Won have timmv-ache.
ans tho E'lu'''
MS tbe Fin !"
l. vopr memory off tbo tracl,q
10 vour I;vor ont Of wbackq
Aro tboro n;,onlo. nm ,opr hack
as tbo FIpro
Arc tbore snots before vom evcsa
nTt,y +ho FInlv
Aro Won fatta. than somo ouvsq
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-01-09
j. B ROBINSON BECOMES EDITOR OF THE
CHATTANOOGA DEFENDER

The Blade wishes to congratulate The Defender
in securing the services Of Mr.. J. G. Robinson He
is writer Of national reputation forcble, clear,
pointed, and intense race man and champion
for the cause Of his people. The Defenders edi-
torial page viii be scrutnized by the reading pub
lie to obtain the views Of this scholory editor.
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-01-09
OUR LETTER FILE

Letters not exceeding 200 words
are solicited. They must contain
no personal attacks and must be
signed. On request the name will
not be publiShed.-Edit
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-01-09
Chaumont, France.
Dec. 3, 1918.


Dee. 3, 1918.
Dear Mr. De Reef:
thought | would drop you a
few lines that | am still alive and
feeling fine.
The war is over now and / ex-
poet to go sailing home soon. The
.92nd Division has already EN-
barked and is on its way home
and | expect to follow them.
The last drive of the war our
outfit went over the top the morn
ing Of September 2Sth on the
Champagne front and took a hill
the French have been trying to
take for years. Right after the
drive Cur regiment was decorated
for its work.
Well, how is everything in Mil
waukee? Don't fail to keep the
home fires burning till the boys
come home. Give any regards to
Mr. Palmer and all other friends.
Yours,
Hughes Cant.
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-01-09

Col. Roscoe Simmons that distinguished Ken
tucbian, suggests as fit punishment for the kaiser
that he be brought to the United States branded a
Negro and given the freedom p Of the country.
Wouldn t that be He'll,
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Learn to Grow Hair and make Money

COMPLETE COURSE BY MAIL OR BY PERSONAL
INSTRUCTION AND AGENTS OUTFIT FOR $25
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St Louis, Mo.
Dec. %, 1918.
Messrs. Josey and DeReef,
Editors, Wis. Blade.
Dear Sirs i am writing to
congratulate you on your very
splendid Christmas number. It
was a credit to your efforts and
ought to prove an assurance to
your subscribers and advertisers
of its permanency. You are now
past the experimental stage and
have become fixture.
Continue to furnish us the eX-
cellently prepared paper with its
live thoughts on all subjects and
the Blade s future is assured.
Yours truly,
John j. Carter.
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-01-09

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j. ANTHONY JOSEY
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The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-01-09

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The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-01-09

There is little of evil in the career of the kaiser
that cannot be duplicated in the history of Alabama
Georgia and Mississippi
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-01-29
Preparing for
the BoIsheyikii

Berlin, Friday, Jan. "a (By the AS
soc;ated Press The New Berhner
Zeitung says it learns that the gov
ernnent is actively occupied with
military preparations for an expected
Bolshevik invasion early in -" spring,
and that it expects to the
necessary added authority from the
national assembly to mobilize two ell
fective armies. which are to be sent
20 East Prussia and Silesia.
The present preparations are con-
eaed to the reorganization Of volun-
teer battalions. some of which are
financed privately owing to the flnan-
cial straits Of the government. The
German army viii also he called on to
protect troops returning rom the near
East by way Of the Ukraine.
One of the chief difficulties belns
encountered IS the disinclination OF
officers to reen!!st because of the
treatment they received ir the. early
days of the revolution.
The newspaper says the campaign
to protect the eastern border from
Russian invasion viii be under the
genera, direction Of F:eiG 3Iarshal Won
E:ndenbura. whose headquarters has
NOT vet bean moved from Cassel on
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-01-29
PUTTING THE GIRLS IN THEIR
PLACES.

They are havirfs strenuous times IN
England dep, ailizing their 100000
or so fer ale munition workers, and
Sn because the girls who have been
working for from SIS to $50 week IN
the factories do not take kindly to the
suggestion that they return to their
c1G ncs:ticns as domestic servants Ut
Sc or $3.50 per week. They do not
1;ke the prospect even though their
Governments reminds them that times
are trying, and urges them to show
tho same noble spirit Of sacrific now
that they did in war time.
It is very true that wherever the
n,oh1e9n Of enobilization looms large
the labor situation is extremely dlfl-
cult. and every one viii have to do
his share of sacrificing. But for any
government or private individual to-
urge that any girl work as domes-
| TIC servant at Z WdS0 VI % " go" ~
week is all wrong. That is not
living wage in England or in any 9TH
er civilized country, even II the maids
do "get their board and room, too
The value represented by that same
room and board in the average house
hold does not equal by a good deal
what the girl would earn in overtime
in any factory II she were on duty as
many hours as she is when employed
in the household. and any girl would
( nrefer any Gay Il Job with hours ana
wages permitting her to live ana
play among her own kind.
Conditions being Just what they
are. undoubtedly it is desirable for
womcn everywhere to turn as far as
is possible to those Kinds of employ
mont which VIII interfere the least
with the employment Of men. House
work belongs in this class and offers
a large field. Nevcrthe!eSs it is Shame
ru to ASK: the girl TO take any job 1T
starvation wages. She viii not do It:
or if forced into it by want she will
become q dissatisfied. ugly, mcnacinG
member Of society. bitter with sense
Of wrong
This is not the way to solve the
problem The way to serve it is BY
} raising domestic service and other
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-01-29
LOCATING CN~FILLED JOBS.

The Bureau for Returnings Soldiers
and Sailors is instituting a block by
block canvass of the whole city OF
Boston and its environs For the pur-
pos of finding every possible chance
cf employment for discharged service
men. This measure has been resort
ed to as result Of the steadily in
creasing numbers of unemployed men
recently returned to civilian life.
One official Of the bureau said that
IN Boston 500 positions a day We're
needed to meet the requests for Jobs
from these men, Although federal
employment bureaus and other organ
izations are working at the same
problem still more general effort is
needed. There are plenty Of open
ings, plenty Of immediate needs for
!ator. But unless the service men
themselves or the organizations work
ing 20 place them. know OF these op-
portun.t;es the labor readjustment
s:tua,icn is going to grow moro and
mere serious. It should be the first
concern Of every community to see to
It that its own man are told OF the
opportunities to work which arc open
to them in their own localities.
These returning soldiers and sail
ors 90 not want to be idle, but their
courage and eagerness to be reinstat-
ed in independent positions will be
greatly harmed if they have to hunt
too long for work. 1t is to the inter
est Of the community as we'll as Of the
soldier or sailor that every kind OF
lob that needs filing is fully adver-
tiscd or put in the hands of the agen-
cies seeking to facilitate the restora-
ton of normal industry and prosper
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-01-29
The League OF Nations

Berlin. Thursday, Jan. % (By The
associated Press. )-The foreign Office
IS greatly interested in press dis
. tches from Paris today saying that
C ..many and Russia are only to be
admitted to the league Of netion
when their political situation has
reached stability.
Count Won Bernstorff today inform
cd the correspondent that foreign
officials and other high personages
are unanimously Of the opinion that
this situation if it has not already
been attained. would be completely
solved with the meeting Of the as
scmhly.
..It IS true that there is much eco
inomic disorganization in Germany to-
day" said Count Won Bernstorff, but
the orderliness OF the elections last
Sunday affords evidence of stability
in political conditions which is high
ly gratifying to US. It is too early to
say that communism or RolsheVlsm is
quite killed, but undoubtedly the de-
termined measures taken against 1t
by the provisional government have
rendered it practically powerless.
Significant in this connection IS
the fact that the new Democratic
party which I joined ct its foundation
secured no less than seventy-seven
seats. thus '>olding the balance Of
power between the Socialists and the
more conservative parties, preventing
a purely Socialist government.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-01-29
MAJORITY RULE.

These democratic governments OF
central and eastern Europe would be
much more convincing if they re-
vealed. in their spirit and organiza-
ton. the primary requisite Of denacc-
racy. which is the rule Of the ma
jority
1t is well known that the Bclshee-
visit party which his ruled Russia
with brutal and bloody hand constl-
tutes very small part Of the Rus
san people. Lenine and Trotzky~haVe
succeeded not BY virtue Of general
public support, but by personal aud
acity and armed force.
Liebknecht tried to put over the
same trick in Germany. The German
Bolshevist faction has been admitted
" one Of the ST st Of Germany
many political p,.ies. It's strength,
too, was confined mostly to Berlin.
The more rational group Of Socialists
controlled by Ebert has been iaI
stronger numerically all along. Yet
Lieb,necht for months kept the gov
ernnlent and country in terror and al
most succeeded in making himself
nominal master of Germany and com
mitting the country to regime OF
| Russian terrorism.
In bavaria, the second-largest State
in Germany, there has been Still
more absurd case of the same KIND
Eisner and his party, though polling
only 5000 votes out of 2,750,000, less
than 8 per cent of the whole, had the
nerve to claim the leadership Of the
rev government, though the ma
jority Socialists had elected 1O2 ou
Of the 1856 members Of the new as
jsembly And incredible as it seems
he succeeded.
The rule Of the minority i!
tyranny no less than was the rule O
car and kaiser. 1t is the substitute,
Of a new type of autocracy. no les
: intolerable than the old. 1t will pre-
vail until the masses in Germany, Rus
5 sfa and elsewhere stop acting lik
sheer, and demand q genuinely repre-
sentative government. in which tn
VIII of the majority is the law of tn
, land
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-01-29
POTASH.

Potash? Who said potash? OF
course the farmers need it, but the
blockade does not have to be raised
to enable them to get it. Utah and
wyoming capitalists are going to get
It for them.
Near Green River, Wyoming, their
plant is located. An article in the
Salt Lake Tribune says, "a combina-
ton OF brains, money, material and
the spirit OF enterprise cannot be
beaten, and if we are not mistaken
the United States will not longer be
under the necessity Of buying potash
in Germany Or any other country
Here is good news indeed. and II
looking over the qualifications for sue,
cess mentioned in the above list, il
seems as if nothing was lacking.
The shortage of firm labor viii
make small and intensive farming
most important for some time t
come, and this must depend for it
success upon an ample supply of fer
tilizer. Here at our door is the sup
ply.
If the war had lasted just littl
longer. our industries would have bee
developed to point where German
could have beer completly forgotten
The rise Of the American potas
aristocracy is one more result of tn
downfall of German autocracy.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-01-29

and others Of whom insist that the
country is about 70 be deluged and
ruined by a great immigrant we've.
unless remedial legislation is quickly
adopted There are those who want
to keep some imn.e ,nts out, and
those who want to keep them all
out, and those who want to deport
all resident aliens who have not ap-
Piled for citizenship, and many other
shades and varieties of antis. AS
for friends of the immigrant, they are
few and comparatively silent.
The one sure thing is that out OF
all this discussion and emphatic in
sistence there is going to come a more
drastic regulation of immigration than
we have had heretofore.
That is the only natural, logical
thing. The United States cannot af-
ford to be made dumping ground
for Europe's human wreckage, when
the war is over. 1t cannot afford to
welcome the social and political dis
turbers to ply their menacing trade
here. It does not want men and wo-
men from enemy countries who ought
to be staying at home and working
out their share Of national retribu-
ton. But it is hard to know where
to draw the line.
We can hardly bar everybody, even
lest we offend all other
nations and invite industrial stagna-
ton through lack of labor. 1t is
delicate business, worthy of the best
thought that congress and public can
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-01-29
THE FLU SQUAD.

The .sfu'' is more battling than ev-
er, as a result Of experiments made
on a certain "f1u squad Naval sur
geons, in their guest for q remedy for
the epidemic, asked for volunteers
to expose themselves under medical
SUPERVISION. One hundred sailors re-
sponded. Then the experiments be-
gar.
Those "gobs" were made to inhale
lue germs. They were given flu germs
to eat ard drink. They had flu germs
injected into their veins. And to the
stupefaetion of the doctors. not one
man SO exposed in any Of the various
was developed any Of the symptoms
of the disease. They didn't even
catch cod
# there is any scientific conclusion
to be drawn. it is probably this;
The flu will have none but unwilling
victims If this is true, the way to
dodge the flu is to Try to catch it, But
the naval doctors do not. recommend
any such practice.
AS for the hundred foiled hu-seek-
CTS. they deserve distinguished ser
vice medals just the same. Il takes a
fine sort of unselhsh heroism to do
what they did, knowing that thou
sands of comrades had died of the
disease.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-01-29
Great Britain, when he said:

1T IS or III" firm rock of friend
ship and understanding between the
English speaking peoples that the
foundations CT Il League of Nations
must be laid
With all due hunor and respect
! for the other nations with which VIC
have been associated in this war, ev-
cry ir eiligent and honest-minded
American knows that at its close the
United States and Great Britain stand
as the two most powerful nations in
the world, and that their joint power
either military or morals so
greta that no other conceivable
group of nations today would think
CT opposing anything on which they
were completely agreed.
That being the case, if we may as
sumo that Britain and America are
really agree on a League Of Nations,
as they appear to be, the conclusion
is plain.
The English-speahing nations are
on top, not by selfish intent so much
as by inescapable fate-possihly by
divine ordinance. They are going to
use their might openly and fairly to
establish right on its throne.
The figure Of speech used by Am
bassador Davis is richly suggestive. 1t
recalls the famous words of Jesus to
Peter We might paraphrase those
words. without any irreverence, and
say, Thou art Anglo-SaXon, and up
on this rock I will found world
peace
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-01-29
IMMIGRATION.

The immigration committee OF the
house Of representatives is undertaH-
ing to work out a new policy. It's
present hearings have 10 do partic0-
larry with Chairman Burnett's bill TO
nrohibit immigration for q period OF
four years after the signing OF the
peace treaty The discussion will no'
be confined to that measure, howcN-
er. The whole subject is TO be
thrown wide open.
And a complex, difficult subject it
is. The committee apparently does
not know where it stands Neither
does congress as a whole. Ne;thef
does the nation.
The country is full of experts, >
Afenof whom insist that there is nc
r whatever from immigration