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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22
WILSON PLANS
TOUR OF u. S.
President Seeks Public View on
World League, Says Paris
Dispatch.
MAY MAKE TRIP IN MARCH
Plans to Return to Peace Conference
After Learning country's Opinion
Gives Dinner to Members of
American Commission.

Paris. Jan 16.-President Wilson is
considering speaking tour Of the
United States when he returns home
1t is said that this trip will take him
into many of the principal cities ana
ii is possible that he may touch the
Pacific coast. His plans are not as
yet matured, but il is believed that he
has discussed the plan with his adj
viSeFs
With congress out of the way early
in March Mr.. Wilson would have an
opportunity for such tour before re-
turning to Europe should he follow his
original plan and If his return should
he necessary. He would also have
time for his proposed trip before the
converting of an extraordinary session
Of congress should he decide TO call
one
so far as known, Mr.. Wilson has no
plans for an extra session, but he still
holds 10 his idea OF returning to the
peace congress. if it is felt his pres
ence is necessary to the success OF
tn" league of nations
The object Of his proposed speaking
tour would be to inform the country
by personal contact Of the proceedings
at Paris and at the same time sound
oct and encourage public sentiment in
support of the peace principles he has
enumerated and which he feels have
been acclaimed by the masses In Eu-
rape
There are as yet no official announce
nputs Of the presidents purpose. but
some of those close 10 him suggest
such trip is feasible In view of the
fact That il Is now certain that the
peace congress will still be working
on its problems during the summer.
Mr. Wilson's friends believe that pop
ular expressions ia the United States
might support those of England,
France and Italy and have great in
iluence ON European statesmen.
The president has told his friends
that he considers the receptions given
him by the people Of Europe, not as n
personal Endorsement but an approval
of his peace principles. lie is being
urged therefore, to make II speaking
tour 10 give opportunity for popular
manifestations OF public opinion in his
own country.
President Wilson gave dinner to
members of the American peace com
mission and its technical advisers, IN
Guiding e. y. Hurley -. y. Baruch
Herbert c. Hoover and Vance McCor-
mick f. NJ House was the only ah.
sentee, being still too III to leave his
home.
The first question to come up be-
fore the actual peace conference next
Saturday will be that of the proposed
league of nations, and IL was made
known today That II had been planned
for the conferences to devote II hours
daily 10 this work If necessary, until
II * an tho way IN CotnnlpfiOn
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22
INDIANA ILLINOIS, N. CAROLINA
AND KANSAS ADDED.
Senate If Nebraska Passes the Reso-
Iution-36 Are Necessary for
Ratification.

Springfield, H., Jan. 15.-By vote
sentatiyes ratified the federal prOhibi-
ton amendment. The senate passed
the resolution last week.
Little Rock, Ark. Jan. 15.-By vote
of 30 to 0 the senate of the Arkansas
legislature adopted the resolution rati-
flying the federal prohibition amend
ment. The resolution passed the
house Monday.
indianapolis, Ind, Jan. 15.-Indiana
has ratified the prohibition amendment
to the federal constitution. Follow
ing the action of the state senate Mon
day the house took similar action by
vote of 81 TO IL.
Lincoln, Neb., Ian. ia joint res
olution providing for ratification of the
national prohibition amendment was
passed by the Nebraska senate, with
only one vote against it. The house
is expected to take final action within
u few days.
The following states have ratified
the national prohibition amendment:
Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia, Oklahoma,
Mississippi, Tennessee, South Carolina,
Idaho. North Dakota, Maine, Maryland,
West Virginia. Montana, Washington,
Arizona, California. Delaware, Illinois,
Texas. Indiana, South Dakota, Arkan-
sas. Massachusetts, Kansas, Georgia,
North Carolina, Louisiana, Alabama.
Florida. Colorado, Michigan.
Total, 81. Necessary for ratifica-
tion re-
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22

they can be made 10 pay for tnen 80
far as dollars can pay.
And with the passing of this city
there passed away many thousand
lives of British soldiers who today lie
buried around the place they so brave
iy defended. One possibly better re.
allies here the terrors of this war than
at any other one spot. Here the Ger
mans held the hills to the east OF the
city, and the British defenders occu-
pied the low-lying fields between the
hills and the city. For them dugouts
or deep trenches were out of the ques-
ton as the land is but little above
sea level. And here, in what is almost
marsh, the British Tommies lay
month after month, through winter and
summer, fair target for the Boche
guns on the nearby hills.
When / was in Ypres late in Octo-
Der, many of the people to whom it
had been home, were there digging
hopelessly in the rubbish in a vain eff
fort to find some small thing that could
be associated with the homes that the
Germans had destroyed in their effort
TO secure world domination by a war
of conquest.
City of Walls Only.
The city of Menin in Belgium, was
not shelled by either army, and yet it
is a city that Germany should pay for.
The walls of Menin are standing, but
it is city of walls only. The floors,
the roofs, the joists. the doors and win
dows and the door and window castings
are gone, all torn out by the invading
Boche, with the result that the people
of Menin are as homeless as the peo-
pie of Lens and Ypres and hundreds of
other cities and towns in the invaded
countries.
] rode through devastated Armen-
there's, Bailleul, La Bassee, Douai,
Cambria, Roisel, Peronne, Albert, Ar
ras. st. Quentin, Guiscard, Noyon,
Chauny, Thiaucourt, Visneulles and
hundreds of smaller towns, and the
story of devastation was always the
same, with but little variation, devas-
tation caused by the Boche, and for
which the Boche should pay, and for
which the price assessed will never be
high enough.
In many ways the hellishness of the
Boche has been demonstrated. The
city of Arras has not suffered such
complete destruction as has fallen
upon many other cities. Here the Ger
man gunners conferred their fire upon
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22

the cathedral and day after day, week
after week and month after month
they continued to pour rain of metal
upon this beautiful old church until
today it is nothing but mass of pow
dered stone. Germany cannot give
back that cathedral of Arras, but she
can pay and should pay for the need
less, senseless destruction.
And the fair cities and towns that
have been so ruthlessly destroyed are
by this war, and for all of which Ger
many and her allies, and they alone,
are responsible, and for all of which
they should pay.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22
UNITED STATES
TO FEED EUROPE
House Votes S10O,0oO,00o Asked
for by the President
for Food.
FEAR OF THE BOLSHEVlkI
Henry Whites Request for Action
Follows That of the Executive
Senate Probably Will Act
at once.

Washington, Jan. -. - B esident
Wilson's appeal for an appropriation
of 100000 900 for the purchase of
food for the starving liberated peoples
of central Europe. which was APP
proved by the house of representatives
by a vote of 242 to 70, has brought
the problem of bOlsheyism forcibly TO
| the attention Of congress.
In a message solemnly urging con-
gress to appropriate the $1OO.0O0,OOO
requested for European food relief,
| President Wilson said bOlshevism,
steadily advancing westward, could
not be stopped by force, but could be
stopped by food. Food relief. he said,
was the key to the whole European
situation and to the solutions of peace.
A message from Henry White, mem
| Der Of the American peace delegation.
to the state department said that the
startling westward advance of boil
shevism" dominated the entire Euro
pean situation above all else, and that
ii was of the utmost importance that
the presidents request be granted at
once.
Following is the presidents mes
sage:
Il cannot too earnestly or solemnly
urge upon the congress the appropria-
ton for which Mr.. Hoover has asked
for the administration of food relief.
Food relief is now the key TO the whole
European situation and to the sou-
tons of peace. Bolshevism is steadily
advancing westward, is poisoning Ger
many. It cannot be stopped by force,
but 1t can be stopped by food, and all
the leaders with whom | am in confer
ence agree that concerted action in
this matter is of immediate and vital
importance.
1.-THE money will not be spent for
food for Germany itself, because Ger
many can buy it's food. but it will he
spent for financing the movement of
food TO our real friends in Poland and
to the people Of the liberated units of
the AustrO Hungarian empire, and TO
our associates in the Balkans. beg
that you will present this matter with
all possible urgency and force to the
congress.
II do not see how we can find delin'
ite powers with whom to conclude
peace unless this means of stemming
the tide of anarchism be employed"
The presidents message, addressed
to Senator Martin of Virginia and Rep
reSentative Sherley of Kentucky, chair
men Of the congressional appropria-
lions committees, and that of Mr..
White were read on the floor of the
house by Mr. Sherley during debate on
special rule TO give immediate CON
sideration to the appropriation bill.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22

In an effort to rescue from it some one
thing, some memento of that home they
had loved as much, or even more than
we Americans love our homes. saw
the tears on the cheeks of many as
they toiled. l saw an old woman car
rying away, as the only thing she
could find, piece of broken chair,
and 1 thought, who shall pay for this
devastation, this misery?
There Is But One Answer.
Are the broken, homeless people OF
Lens to pay? Are the people of France
to pay? Are the people of England or
America or Belgium to pay? Or are
the Germans to pay?
To be sure, the city of Lens was de-
stroyed by shells fired largely from
British guns. But they were fired into
the city because the invading Ger
mans in the city must be driven
out that not only France, but the
world, might be freed of the menace
of German domination; and the debris
that once was Lens stands today as
a striking monument to German greed
and to the accuracy and efficiency of
British artillery.
Could the people of America have
seen the people searching those ruins
as / saw them; could they have seen
the tears as 1 saw them they would
have said, as said, Germany must
pay, and she must continue to pay
until this fair city and many, many
others like it, have been restored
until these people and their descend
ants are again the happy, prosperous,
contented people they were before the
hell of German wantonness and selfish
ness was let loose in 1914.
What happened in Lens has hap
pened in many other cities and towns
In France, in Belgium, in Italy, in
Serbia, in Roumania, in Poland, and
for all of them Germany and her al
lies should pay, and pay, and pay.
Cruel Fate of Ypres.
Another example of the hellishness
Of this German war of conquest is seen
In what was once the beautiful and
historic city of Ypres, in Belgium.
This town is today but one mass of
ruins. Its wonderful Cloth Hall and
st. Martins church, both considered
among the marvels of Europe and both
dating back to the thirteenth century,
are gone, never TO be restored. There
Is no way by which the Germans can
give back to the world these beauti-
tul monuments of past centuries, but
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22
U. s. TO AID FOREIGN TRADE
New Legislation and judicial Budget
ls SOC, s,0oo--$9o5, 500 Goes
to Business,

Washington, Jan. 13.-Aid in the
extension of American foreign trade
is provided in the annual legislative.
executive and judicial appropriation
hhl for 1920. reported TO the house.
The measure carries appropriations
totaling $96&lS,000, approximately ST.
100000 more than the 1919 bill, and
provides for t9.435 salaries. Il decrease
of IT'S.
For the expansion of Americas for
cign trade an appropriation of $685..
Geo would be given the bureau OF for
clgn and domestic commerce of the
department IF commerce.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22
GERMANY MUST PAY
Important Commercial Centers
Destroyed Beyond Repair.
PEOPLE ARE LEFT HOMELESS
Country Should Be Forced to Pay for
Ruthless Destruction as Far as
Within the Power of Its
People.
BY WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.

In August, 1914, the city of Lens in
northern France was a prosperous
community of close to $1,000 people. IT
was known as the Pittsburgh of
France, and its coal fields were the
one great source of supply of fuel for
the nation. Its steel and iron mills
supplied much of the material for
French railroads, shipbuilding and
other industries. It's people were in
dustrious and thrifty, living in COM
Portable homes, surrounded by the
modest luxuries of an industrial COM
nunity.
All that is left of Lens today is a
crumbling pile of debris. No single
wall of the city is still standing, and
hardly piece of a wall as much as
ten feet square can be seen amid the
terrible ruins. Both the buildings
and the machinery Of its factories are
gone completely. Its coal mines are
flooded and the machinery with which
hey were operated has been destroyed
And all this because Germany start
ed a war for the purpose of conquest (;
a war in which no principle other than
that of selfishness was involved. To
lay Germany is a crushed nation. Her
plans for world domination miscarried,
1er armies have been defeated, but
before these things happened the city
Of Lens had been destroyed.
/ stood amid the ruins of what had
once been the attractive ana prosper
ous industrial community of Lens and
watched hundreds of her people who
had returned after the Germans had
been driven back, as they searched for
the spots on which their homes had
once stood, as they dug into the debris
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22
Maxine Americans.

If we viii plant the children of our
immigrants in American soil. give them
American companions, teach them IN
the American language, let them
breathe American literature. discipline
them in the American art of self-gov-
eminent. warm their hearts in the SUI
shine of American tenderness, s-mpa-
thy and good fellowship, and always
respect the nature which God has
given them however 1t may differ from
ours, they viii grow up loyal, patriotic
devoted Americans.-Lyman Abbott.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22
1000 KILLED AT PRZEMYSL
Been 5ombarding City Sew
eral Days.

Geneva. Jan. l6.--Two thousand per-
sons have been hiiied .; Przemysl, Ga.
lica, 10y the Ukrainians. according to
ii dispatch to the Neue Freie Presse of
Vienna,
The UkrainianS have been lombard
ing Przcmysl for several days past by
land and 10y al, and conditions in the
town are described as terrible.
The gas and electric plants have
been destroyed and there is no light
in The town. Water and food also are
lackLng
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22
FLOUTS WAR LABOR BOARD
Bethlehem Steel Company Declares
Governments Authority Is
Ended.

Washington. Jan. 16.-The authority
Of the national war labor board to en-
force its DEGREES now that hostilities
have ceased wns challenged by coun-
sci for the bethlehem Steel company.
who had beer asked to appear to an
swer COMPLAINTS that awards made by
the board during the war lad not been
carried out.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22
BILL IN TO DEPORT ALIENS
Measure to Authorize Secretary Of La
Dor to Ship Out Enemies of
United States.

Washington. Jan. 13.-Legislation
authorizing deportation of Germans
and other aliens. interned during the
war, was requested by Attorney Gen
eral Gregory. He sent the draft of a
bin to Representative Burnett of Ala
babma. chairman of the immigration
committee. who ut once introduced it
In the house, Deportation,. by the
terms of the bill, would be on he war
rant of the secretary Of labor.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22
IreIand,s Food Production.

Ireland grows more food for Great
Britain than for home consumption,
even proportionately to the popula.
ton, and is an essential base for the
British food supply. Although having
only 10 per cent of the population. &c
per cent of the cattle and 20 per cent
of the pigs of the United Kingdom are
nrnduced here.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22
Fault Finding.

Why should we denounce fault-f1nd-
ing because it is no. constructive? All
of as are continuously finding fault.
more or less, and on our success in
finding the fault and destroying it de-
ponds mostly our successful develop
ment. So in the end it appears that
fault-fnding is essentially one of our
most constructive activities. One of
our worst faults is the hypocritical
practice Of finding fault with fault
finding.-F. II. Young in Providence
Journal
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22
Food for France.

Washington, Jan. 15.-Three cargo
ships loaded with 46.906,0O0 pounds of
flour and other foOdstuffS. are en- route
to Gibraltar, where they will be I'M
loaded and the cargoes sent into
France for sale 10 the people at cost
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22

Washington. Jan. l6.-Secretary Ba-
ker submitted 10 Chairman Dent Of
the house military committee bin to
authorize purchase of land In France
for II military cemetery, to be desig.
mated The American Field Of Honor. -
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22
300 strikers Arrested.

RuvnaS Aires, Jan. l5.-Three hun
,lred strikers and strike agitators were
arrested in Buenos Aires il II learned
from government source. This makes
the total of the last three DAYS $40.
50 per cent Of whom are Russians.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22

Washington, Jan. 16.--Navai demo
bilizatiuu plans are in allegiance. and
recruiting for the permanent service
is being pressed now SO that the navy
may be prepared 10 man big German
merchant ships.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22

Paris, Jan. ll.-The Interests Of the
Russian prisoners Of war still IN Ger.
many. - the number of about 1850
600 will be loolset after lay M,j Carl
Taylor OF the American Red Cross
who will proceed into Germany.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22
Hun Troops Join the Reds

Berne, Jan. 15.-The German garrf
son at Constance, Baden, has Joined
the Spartacans and obtained complete
control of the town. The soldiers
have occupied the town hall and dis
armed the population.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22
Mis-. Roosevelt llas Pension.

Washington. Jan. 16.-The senate
adopted resolution authorizing pay
ment of $4,000 year and extension
Of mail franking privileges to Mrs
Theodore Roosevelt. The resolution
now goes 10 the house.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22
u S. court Releases lnterned Man.

Atlanta. Ca, Jan. 15.-Release of
Charles F. Banning. wealthy Pitts
burgh manufactures. iuterned at Fort
oglethorpe rs an enemy alien, was
ordered by Federal Judge Newman.
who granted writ of haheaS corpus.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22

Washington. Jan. l6.-Bolsheviki ag-
itation in the United States shows no
promise of reaching a stage of open
disorder. according 20 department of
Justice officials who have been observ.
ing the movement.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22
leicle Breaks Neck.

Kansas City, Mo, Jan. 14.-Daniel
Mohler railroad engineer. was killed
when an icicle. weighing several hun
dred pounds. fell FIVE stories from the
cornice ot downtown building and
broke his neck.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22
RuIIet perils U. S. eeneral.

Amsterdam, Jan. 16.-A bullet mar
rowly missed General Harries, head of
the American mission, as he sat in
room Of the Hotel Adlon during Satur-
days street lighting in Berlin. ACCORD
ing to dispatch received here.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22
paderewski,s lnlury sIluht.

Geneva, Jan. 15.-lgnace Jan Pade-
rewski. the Polish leader. was only
slightly wounded in the attack made
upon him 10y a would-be assassin at
Warsaw. according TO telegram re
ceived by friends here
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22
Maude Adams. Actress. III.

Boston. Jan. i3.-Miss Maude
Adams, the actress, is in at the home
of Miss Phyllis Robbins of A Common
wealth avenue. where she is under the
care of specialist for nervous break
down.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22

Parts, Jan. T. Several of the news
papers announced that Joseph Call
laux. former premier, who has been in
prison for some time on a charge Of
treason. will announce his candidacy
for election to the chamber Of deputies
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22

Stamford, Conn Jan. I4.-Johu Ma.
son. the veteran actor. died here at
Saniuuium Of myocardltis. Mr.. Ma
son trokt down physically about q
eek aga at Providence. Il. I.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22

Stuttgart. Jan. l6--ln the elections
TO the Wuerttemburg diet the majority
socialists won - seats to IS for the
German democratic party. 81 for the
lerieals. IS for the conservative bloc
aud for the independent socialists.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22
Chances Belief Fund RnIe

Washington, Jan. 14.-Democratic
members of the house rules committee
reversed the committees previous ac-
tlon, and ordered consideration OF the
bin appropriating S1o0.O00.0o0 for Eu-
ropean famine relief.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22

Young pea pods are largely eaten in
Europe and are described as tender,
succulent and wholesome.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-22
oh, crieketsl

Said the facetious fcller: NO girl
would consent to wear jumpers at
leap year hop"