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Attacks We're Violent

have written in previous articles
OF the wave of criminality that is
sweeping over Germany. Well, the
attacks upon the government were,
IN way, an expression of that Grim
inality. They were of most VIC
lent, venomous character. There
was mean hitting below the belt;
there was the most palpable denia-
gogism from left and right. And
the poor government went down IN
the general hurry burly Of political
passion. -
But this election bodies no good
for Germany; let Americans make
no mistake about that. 1t denotes
further long step in the direction
of war-to-the-knife fight between
ultra radical socialism and all other
classes of society. The radical IN
dependents are now trying their u1-
most to compel the bourgeois parties
to organize government without
the participation of any Socialist ele-
ments, with the declared purpose Of
forcing all the proletariat to line up
in a common battle front against
"Kapitalismus." Social unrest ana
turmoil-not improbably civil war
seems to be the correct reading OF
the German political weathervaaes'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18
Sar@

two hostile camps" At the bottom
OF the page is list of the candi-
dates who promise to accomplish
such miracles - five nonentities
whose names probably never ap-
peared in print before. On the re-
verse side are a dozen crude carica-
lures of Jews who have been prom
inent in revolutionary politics of
Germany and Hungary. And this
wonderful party that dawned so
suddenly upon my ignorance actual
ly succeeded in getting 1926 votes in
Berlin. The tables do not record
what it got in the country at large;
it was evidently mot placed"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18
IHIS one asserts that
Courage and hope make
tree cote for the German
Peoples Party"

name. Decidedly they are. When the
revolution came the word Volks
partel became wonderfully popular;
parties ran for it which had been
furthest removed from popular
movements and even despised popu-
lar government. The old Conserya-
tive party, the organization Ct the
Junker and big land-owning inter-
ests, quickly discarded it's old letter.
heads and called itself the German
Nationalist Volkspartei, and under
that seductive name it has gone
forth to do battle for the restora-
ton Of the monarchy and to crv
down popular government as a
failure.
Then the remnant of the old Ma
tional Liberals-left over after
Stresemann failed to get a promi
nent berth in the new Democratic
party-rechristene itself the Ger
man Volkspartei. 1t was evidently
trying to get away from it's unpleas-
ing record. Moreover, the old
Centrum" or Catholic party,
donned new robe and called itself
the Christian Volkspartei.
One More Peoples Party
thought that ended the list of
Volksparteis till / was undeceived a
few days before the election, when |
found a placard on a wall proclaim
ing the supernal excellencies of the
National Democratic Volkspartei
(not the German Democratic partyl.
have a handbill of that party on
my desk which affords me much
amusement by its unconscious hu-
NOR. 1t solemnly assures the Ber-
liners that the only way to got
cheaper bread, plentiful and cheap
potatoes, to eat meat and drink milk
and to take a deep JOY in life again
is to vote for the National Demo-
cratic volkspartei. 1t claims in
heavy type to be "the only party of
he center and Of reconstruction that
eeks to bring together and recon-
tic The German people, divided into
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A Red Fist

The Independent Socialists got orr
some small posters, with an evident
urpose to save money on paper bills.
Their posters were brutality frank.
One represented a huge red fist
founding the bourgeois parties and
the majority Socialists numerically.
Another showed gigantic workman
stridlng among factory chimneys and
streets crowded with workmen. and
scattering red ballots from his
pouch. This party carried on one
form of agitation that had not see,
in Germany before. 1t had its in
itials u. S. P. painted in red on the
pavement at many street crossings.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18
nan Election Seemed Tame Affair to Americans
Campaign Methods Such as Are
Used in the United States Did
i Not Come Into Play

bit of white paper pasted ON it in
forming the visitor in writing that
this was the volkspartei's headquar-
tiers.
Well, went in and found just as
little inside as outside to suggest
the national headquarters of great
political party just before election
day. This was typical case. The
headquarters were, all but one, in
unimportant side streets, and they
were mostly up two, three or even
four flights Of narrow stairs. And
that one, while in main business
street, took good care to conceal the
fact of it's existence there. It had
also bit Of a sign down at the
street door, but it was hung on the
side-facing of the door, so that
passersby would never see it. And
this was the headquarters of Strese-
mann's Volkspartei, which is the
party of big business par excellence.
The reader has just heard of two
Volksparteis, which he understands,
of course, to mean peoples parties,
and the doubt perhaps arises in his
mind whether the Germans are not
overworking that excellent party
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18
Americans new to the German
scene were hardly able to take this
German campaign seriously.
Serious to Germans
RsAaNex a-sn sgsun ca,

But it was most serious, as the
Germans saw it. Meetings were
held in enormous numbers all over
the country. Here in Berlin every
party-and there are many of these
Advertised numerous meetings
every night; the assembly rooms of
schoolhouses and the dance halls of
beer gardens were filed night after
night, first by one party and then
by another. And these meetings
were unanimously serious. In many
of them opposition partisans were
present to harry the speakers; many
speakers, some of national reputa-
ton, were howled down, and not a
few meetings ended in riotous dem
onstrations, with casualties printed
later in the newspapers. 1t is an
other manifestation of the Wild
West behavior that Germany has
developed since the revolution. For.
In spite Of all the doubts raised in
the foreign press, the revolution has
made changes in Germany.
A few days before the election I
sailed forth to visit the various
party headquarters-I should rather
say, to search for them. 1t did re-
qulre search, for their locations
are known to exceedingly few per-
sons. had to inquire of political
acquaintance or 60 to newspaper
Offices and ask. In one case politi-
cal placard gave me the desired in
formation. This was the German
Nationalist volkspartei. When I
arrived at the house indicated l
walked into courtyard and looked
around, with the feeling that I had
missed my number.
HAS the Nationalist Volkspartei
its headquarters l1erc?" asked of
man who seemed to Belong to the
premises.
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vacant walls were pretty we'll plas-
tered with them. The Nationalist
Volkspartei was more active than
the others in making such pictorial
appeals to the people. When I aske
for posters at the Democratic head
quarters | expressed surprise when
emily two insignificant things were
shown me, and / remarked that ths,
Nationalists had out a great variety
Of posters.
EYES," remarked the young man
in charge, they have the"-- an6
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18

were not less thar seventeen nation
al lists in competition for the bal
lots of the men and women of Ger
many. But / shall not weary che
reader by carrying him further
through the maze of their names.
Most of them are not worth men
tioning, in any case.
I said above that there was little
use made Of electioneering placards,
but that needs some modification. for
toward the end Of the campa,c-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18
However, There Were an Enormous
Number Of Meetings Which Were
Attended by Big Crowds

with the first name on it's nar+,,,.
ticket.
One of the Socialist parties mad.
malicious use Of htsle red pos.ex
which was pasted on the poster. -
other parties. It bore the word.
Whoever believes that twaddle ,,,,,ss.
Rave very empty noddle,o and :
curved arrow pointed to the offend
ing opposition matter.
But the parties did not dene,s
Upon such inoffensive means alon.
for combating the posters of tho on
position; they were mostly tn
through or otherwise disfgured h.
fore they had been day on tbe
walls.
A strong. outbreak of anti-Senit
ism marked the campaign. It ~.
caused by the Nationalist Volkspar
tel with its watchword of "ysca
purity" The wave of Jew-bsitin,
ran high in that party, and Jew,
were seriously molested who ven.
tured too near the halls where Ma
tionalist speeches were being made.
The party leaders were themselye,
so swayed by the anti-Semitism Of
the rank and file that they refused
to renominate the ablest woman thew
had in the National Assembly, Frau.
iein Won Gierke, because her mother
was of Jewish descent. Thereupon
she and her father, distinguished
professor of law at Berlin Uniyer-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18
BY William c. Dreher
Pes~ ~ rsss~~s's H~vvssos ssreoa
Berlin, Jane 20.

~ ~ xvsoteeeS hNvVPe0N bNredu
Berlin, Jane 20.
~ ERMANY has just gone
n through q political cam
paign and held It's first ma
tional election under it's
new constitution. Americans who
saw German campaign for the
first time did not know this one
when they saw it.
And yet it was a pretty hot fight,
as German campaigns go. But it
was in outward appearance so calm
and untroubled. there was such an
absence of the spectacular features
that Americans are familiar with
no banners flying, no streamers
across the streets, no conspicuous
announcement Of candidates which
he who runs may read, no recog-
nizable party headquarters, little use
Of electioneering placards, no pa
Tades and, above all, no torchlight
professions, and certainly nothing
fesenlbling most remotely an old
fashioned American barbecue, with
multifarious oratory in a grove
so calm and untroubled. l say, that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18

This poster, which was pasted in
long rows on many walls, was GER
talnly curious appeal to make tc
the people by party that condemns
popular government. The Junker
party heaps insult upon flag tina,
symbolizes the republican principle
and it asks the people to take par.
in overthrowing popular govern
ment. And what is still more won
derful to tell-the German people
meekly take its advice. Large num-
hers of them did at this election: the
Nationalist party increased it's vote
by $4,000, although the general
vote dropped nearly 16 per cent.
The few posters of the German
Volkspartei were rather pointless.
One, however, was better-a pair OF
strong hands breaking red chain
(Socialisn), with the legend, "Ths
German Volkspartei alone can free
us from the red chains" But Herr
Stresemann is now inviting the So
ciallsts to form an alliance with him
and says he regards their coopera-
ton as necessary for the welfare Of
the country. So it is difficult to I'M
derstand his broken red chain.
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A Monstrous Poster

But the Nationalists produced one
poster that struck me, though for
eigner, as particularly monstrous.
The reader must be reminded that
the new German flag consists of
three stripes, black, red and gold,
the colors that were vainly proposed
for the new German state that the
revolutionists of 1848 tried to estab-
lish. This new flag last year dis
placed the ack-white-red flag of
the Hohenzollesns, but the old Con-
servatives refuse to recognize the
new flag and continue to hang out
their black-white-red flags on all
possible occasions. Knapp ran it up
over the government buildings as
soon as he took possession of Berlin.
Well, the poster referred to is
such rank insult to the German
Republic that l must describe it.
1t consisted of the new flag, the
stripes printed vertically. At the
top of the black stripe was a skele-
ton representing Death, carrying in
one hand a scythe, in the other hold
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18

ing up glass of wine. Under it
was the word Strike" On the
red stripe was workman, with the
word Terror and on the gold
stripe fat Jew, with the word
"Schieber" (grafter). The whole
inscription ran thus:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18
No Big Banners

vYcs; over there" and he pointed
to a door leading into one of the
v.ass. Ir~e enough! There was :.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18

sity, announced their withdrawal
from the party.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18

he rubbed thumb and foreinger rap
idly together, initiating the act Of
counting Out rnnreu
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18

toons. When the Junkers thus
pander to the republican feeling of
the German people it must mean
something.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18

HOF Red chains aUe are de-
" hoered By the German
Peoples Party," proclal,ps
this poster, the chain BEING
printed IN UiUid red ink
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18

- ''..'.. ...,......
Strike Terror Schieber
Ripe for Death and Devil.
. Germans! Vote black white-red
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1920-12-17

only daughter of Mr. and Mrs Bernard
days. She had always been a per-
fectly healthy child until Friday
evening, when she was taken with
what seemed like an attack OF in
digestion. She was not considered
dangerous until convulsions set in
about seven o'clock Saturday even
ing, and she passed away in few
hours. Merle was ray of sunshine
in her home, and a pet for all who
knew her. Her death has cast a
gloom over the whole community
and left a vacant place in her home
that can never more be filled. All
that love and medical skill could
do, was done, but of no avail, for
God was calling her home, and the
smile on her face tells the sorrowing
ones she is happy with the angels,
guarded by Gods wonderful love.
She leaves to mourn her loss, her
father, mother, one brother Kenneth,
aged s years, and her grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs George Simpson of East
Orange and Mr. and Mrs Daniel Gil
ley of West Topsham, also a host of
relatives and friends. Funeral ser
vices were held at her late home
Monday p. m. at 2 O'clock, Rev.
George Morris of Bradford spoke
words Of comfort to the bereaved
family and friends. Interment was
in the family lot in East Orange
cemetery. Fremont Welch, Arthur
Prescott, Glen Hutchinson and Har-
old Richardson acted as bearers. The
floral tributes were beautiful, as fol-
lows: Pillow from family and rela-
tives. carnations, Mrs Mary Dickey,
cut flowers. Mrs A M Colby and Mrs
Daniel Cilley.
God bless the little feet that now will
never go astray,
For the little Shoes are empty in our
closet laid away.
Oftimes we take them in our hand
forgetting. till we see
It is little half worn shoe. not large |
enough for me.
And all at once we feel a sense of
bitter loss and pain
As sharp as when week ago. it cut
our hearts in twain.
Oh the bitterness of parting cannot be
done away
But the little feet in the golden street
can never go astray.
Card Of Thanks.
We wish most sincerely to thank
ZACH and everyone for their many
Icts of kindness shown us during
he sickness and death Ct our darling.
Mr. and Mrs Bernard Simpson,
Master Kenreth Simpson.
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Bradford.

Clesson Staples of Springfield is
spending a few weeks in town.
H F Bartlett is confined to the
house with an attack of pleurisy.
Mrs Earl Esden is assisting in
Hunt & Jenkins during the holidays
Mrs N A Wilmot of Union Village
has been visiting her aunt Mrs G W
Carleton.
Arthur Cove of Bellows Falls visit.
ed his parents, Mr. and Mrs F C Cove
last week
Mrs P A Switzer of Woodsville
spent Thursday with her aunt Miss
Julia A Johnson.
Twenty-Five members of Moose
River Encampment of ST. Johnsbury
visited Trotter Encampment last
Saturday evening, and conferred the
r. P. degree on class of candidates
At close of the meeting an oyster
supper was served by Trotter En-
campment.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1920-12-17
BRADFORD ACADEMY NOTES.

The first issue of the "B. A. Re-
porter" came from the press the
first part of the week. Subscribers
copies will be mailed to them i'm
mediately.
The Seniors are reading in Eng
fish at the present time, Macbeth"
while the Juniors have recently com
pleted "As You Like It." The Sophie
mores are reading Dickens "a Tale
of Two Cities" and the Freshmen,
SCOTS 'Ivanhoe." The Second Year
Glass is finding Longfellow's EVAN
geine" very interesting.
b. A. 32-McIndOes 90.
Last FRIDAY evening, B. A. defeat
ed McIndoes Academy in a close
game of basket ball by score 32-
20. The visitors presented heavy
lineup and made the game interest
ing throughout. The shooting of
Currier, who Gagged eight baskets
from the floor. featured the game.
Before the game, homemade candy
was sold by the girls and a good
sum realized for their team. The
score:
B. A. McIndoes
Murphy, rf. rf:, Emery
Gale. If. IT,, Lang
Currier. C. C. Darling
Osgood, re-. re-, Bedell
Taylor, lg. lg., Ward
Ames, If.
Baskets from the floor: Murphy 3,
Gale 2, Ames l, Currier 8, Osgood 2,
Emery 5, Lang A. Fouls: Emery 2.
Referee: Subway
b. A. 2S-L0well Commercial %.
In one of the best games ever seen
in Bradford, the local team defeated
the Lowell Commercial College team
Wednesday night, % to %. The
first period ended IA to A in favor
of B. A. but in the second period
the visitors gained four points, the
score being Is to IL. The visitors
continued their attack in the final |
period and were leading by one
point, with only minute or two to
play, when two sensational baskets by |
Gale and one by Murphy saved the
game for the B. A. boys. The largest
crowd of the season was on hand to
witness the triumph of the b. A.
team. The score:
B. A. Lowell
Murphy, rf, rf., Reyes
Gale, If. IT,, Stokes
Currier, c. c., Paul
Osgood, rg. rg., Sanborn
'Tavlor, lg. lg., Smith
Baskets from the floor: Murphy a,
Gale 6, Currier 3, Stokes a, Keyes 2,
Paul 2, Sanborn 2. Smith j. Fouls
B. A. 2, Lowell l. Referee: Shumway.
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EAST ORANGE.

G Davis is gaining quite fast
the. past few days. Myra Eastman
is helping care for him.
Mrs Belle johnson was called to
East Barre last week to care for
her sister Mrs Addie Patterson, who
is quite i'll. Mrs Patterson is a very
little better at this writing.
Several from this place attended
the Drama at East Corinth Thursday
night and report a gcod time.
Mr. and Mrs Ora Hutchinson left
Wednesday for a months visit in
Fairlee, Hartford, Lowell and Bos-
ton.
Clyde Blake returned to Burling-
ton Sunday, aftef a weeks vacation
with the deer hunters.
Our community was greatly shock
ed and saddened on Sunday morning
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1920-12-17
MIR. p. LaDuke. FarmeI, Says, "YOu
Bet Rats Can Bite Through Metal"

"I had feed bins lined with zinc last
year; rats got through pretty soon.
Was out SIS. A s1.25 pkg. of RAT
SNAP killed so many rats that I've
never been without it since. Our collie
dog never touched RAT-SNAP." You
try it. Three sizes; 35c; Csc; s1.25.
Sold and guaranteed by Sisco's Phar-
macy.
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Our community was greatly shock
ed and saddened on Sunday morning
to learn cf the death Of Baby Merle,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10

the coming election, there is no such worri-
ment in Wyoming. Women have voted here
ever since Wyoming became Territory in
1869, and their participation in politics has
become such a matter of course that no
effort has been made to analyze their vote.
In past years the proportion has run sixty
males to forty females 1t will be approx
mately the same this year. The total vote in
1916 was 49,4OO. With the increase in popula-
tion this years probably will be about
$4,000
Wilson carried the State four years ago
by a little less than 1000. Success for the
Republican ticket this year is generally adj
mitted The Republican floor leader, Frank
W. MondeN, polled four times as many
votes as Wade H. Fowler, Democratic NOM
inee for Congress.
In johnson county half OF the vote was
cast by women, and in not a single county
did the proportion of womens votes fall be-
low one-third of the total. The proportion
Of men and women, if the men of Wyoming
were as devout in their duties as citizens as
were their wives and sisters, would force
the percentage of female votes below one
third of the total The figures are peculiarly
interesting, because they explode one of the
anti-suffrage arguments - the argument
that voting will be seized upon by women
as novelty, but that soon by neglect they
will permit the whole business of govern
ment to drift back again into the hands of
men.
In Utah. one of the older equal suffrage
States, where it Is certainly no novelty for
women to vote, the figures. show splendid
answer to the ANTI" declaration that where
women have voted longest they vote least.
Nine counties out of twenty-eight from
which figures are available show that 1854
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10
DR.. C. w. SALEEBY FIR e.
q BY UMosRNxooo z UMoERNNooo

cine at Edinburgh in 1901 and is a fellow of
the Obstetrical Society of Edinburgh, al
though his home is in London. no longer
practises his profession but gives his time
and strength to the prohibition movement.
He said he was first of all eugenist, and
his studies in that science first led him to
realize that alcohol is a racial poison"
His efforts against alcohol in any bever-
age form became then based on the propo-
sition that 1t must be large matter for
public health to prohibit the manufacture
and sale of poison. In fine, he was not con-
tent to relate the subject of intoxicants to
crime and police, and he opposes the plan
suggested to the British Government, which
Is one to deal with II by commission under
the Home Office and not under the Min
istry of Health, as he thinks 1t obviously
should be
In his capacity OF physician DR.. Saleeby
asserts that the consumption of alcohol is
everywhere leading cause Of i'll health and
disease of body and mind of the individual
and the race. Under the widespread in
juries to national health produced by the
consumption OF alcohol. degeneration of
bodily organs diminished resistance to in
fections Of all kinds, increased incidence of
cancer and tuberculosis are part Of the evils
he reported In his various books on the
subject.
THE prohibition amendment to the Con-
stitution of the United States will prove to
be the greatest health measure in history. I
am no. primarily moralist, but scientist
and the figures SO far as they have been
shown in vital statistics, bear out my scien-
tific belief Since the advent of prohibition
infant mortality In America has reached its
lowest figure to date. tuberculosis and
pneumonia, two OF the most dreaded diseases
that wait on alcohol, have been greatly re-
duced in violence; the statistics show that
they were best In the last half of 1919, and
for the first half of 1920 they are even
better. We are going to spread these figures
not only In Great Britain and all her possess
sions but throughout the countries of
Europe. have no doubt whatever but their
effect will be wonderful They ought to
stagger Europe.
"In my latest published book The Whole
Armor of Man. these figures arguments