Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1919 — Page 2
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and knocked out most all the twenty buildings that we occupy in that clearing. My quarters were hit but once, a shell passing through the roof, but doing no great damage. I have been back at headquarters for four days and will be here for about ten days more before going on the 1 line again. The French major and Major Nichols 'have a combined staff \mess' with French cooks and wond&pfijl food. I have joined that mess since counting back from Archangel, so it is very pleasant to be here. In what was a sidetrack in the marshes when we took this place October 14th, we now have electric lights* moving picture shows and wonderful food, also a skating rink. The Y. M. C. A. have a car and a canteen here, and the men. are quartered in warm cars and block houses, so discomfort is reduced to a minimuimi. The front lines are, of course, not so comfortable. They were until the other day when the Bolsheviki shot up the houses. Now we have to resort to dug outs, but we will soon make them comfortable. Since starting this letter I have
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been ordered back to the front with the next relief. It has become perfectly quiet there again, and my quarters, which are perfectly comfortable, are still Inhabitable—so I look for no trouble or even discomfort this hitch. However, one thing that will make this winter pass quickly is the fact that you never can tell a day ahead what you will be doing ot what conditions will be. So far this climate is wonderful. It is comfortably cool with a temperature that varies slightly, and little or no wind in the, woods. Spanish influenza ceased very suddenly with us, as soon the frost came. Even before the frost the men who came to the front seemed im/mvune, but It was serious in Archangel. The American medical corps has done some good work checking its spread in the civil population, and the Russian papers are Binging their praises. I suppose Edna is at Daytona Beach by this time, where the boy is enjoying himself in the sand. I think it good for them to go. They will have much to interest them ahd will have as many novel experiences to relate as I.
Woodhull has had rather a cosmopolitan experience in his short life, living under varied conditions and in different places. However, [ think he is quick enough to get the advantages of each, and the experiences ought to help his understanding and become a part of his character. He seems awfully young for me to be considering such things, but his character, whatever it proves to be, is pretty definitely formed already. I am anxiously awaiting a mail, expected in on tonight’s train. There has been very little news from home lately, and I wonder .how you are. * * * * I am very much interested in all of you there. This doesn’t mean that you are to write less about the grandchildren, merely write more about the rest of the folks. From some of the miis-statements in articles appearing in American publications, I take it you, in the States, are subject to almost as much misinformation about Russia as we„ are here. I saw the .first article of a series by Frazier Hunt, to appear (or, perhaps, by the you get this, will have appeared) in the Chicago Tribune. It told the truth about this particular expedition, and you might do well to read it. Of course I saw it in abbreviated form for the telegraph, and it may appear in complete form in the paper so filled up with “buimk” to be valueless, but as it left here, it stated the facts as they are. Needless to say, this is not so much of a war as it is a political situation and a difficult one, upon which ultimate peace depends. Of course, I am not oni the “inside” so far as exact information is concerned, and couldn’t write it if 1 were.
You ask agaiai about warm clothes. I have more than I can use, in fact I sold two suits of that heavy underwear I bought before leaving the States. It was too good to be worn up here. I paid $9 a suit for it and sold it for $35 a suit. I wish I had a ship load of It to sell. - I still have plenty, and if anything should happen to that I can buy good underwear cheaply frotml the quartermaster. When we sail for home I’ll sell anything I have, as long as the prices hold up. I hope to receive several letters from you tonight, if the mail gets in. If you are all as well and happy as I, I congratulate you. My love to all the folks and much to you and father. Your loving son, — WOOD. Lt. W. I. Saltier, 339th Inf., American North Russian Expeditionary Forces. A deathhouso for women has just been completed In Sing Sing prison. _ ’ „ »——!-■
THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT
VICTORY LOAN AN APPEAL TO OUR BUSINESS SENSE
As a Business Proposition No Man Can Afford Not to Suboartbo to Pull Limit of Hl# Ability. By KDQAR RICE BURROUGHS, Author of "Tarxen of tho Apoo." Tbero aro an Inflnlta number of excellent reasons why we should support the Victory Liberty Loan. The finest sentiments we possess must prompt us to subscribe to this loan even more freely than we did to the others. The government must get money or it would not ask us for It. The man who was prompted to lend In the past through fear that If he did not the Germans might get over here and make It unpleasant for him Is mighty “yellow” if he will not subscribe, now that the danger is past. Our responss to previous loans indicated that we were thoroughly in accord with the principles for which we were fighting, and by our response woauthorized the expenditure of the sums necessary properly to prosecute the war. These enormous expenses must continue for some time. The obligations involved must not be repudiated. They are our obligations as individuals and w# must look upon them as such. It Is not only a matter of necessity! it is a matter of personal honor for us to meet these obligations promptly and gladly. On the other hand, there Is in the Victory loan an appeal to our business sense as well as to our patriotism. There Is the appeal to self-interest, for the loan Is not to be without profit to us. We are given an opportunity to Invest in an absolutely safe security, and we will receive a good rate of interest. As a business proposition no man can afford not to subscribe to the full limit of his ability.
And there is another reason why we should subscribe every cent that we can rake and scrape together. It is this: If the government cannot raise the necessary funds by the sale of Liberty bonds, It must do it by direct taxation. The government has the power to tax us to meet these obligations, we are taxed we not only will get mo Interest but we will never get the principal back again. £ It seems to me that both the wisdom and necessity for and immediately subscribing this Fifth Liberty Loan must be obvious to anyone whose mentality is greater than that of a ehild % of ten. We are supposed to be an Intelligent people, capable of governing ourselves and others. We pride ourselves upon our business acumen, upon our energy and ufron our patriotism. In the Victory Liberty Loan we shall hnve an opportunity tcf*prove to the world that we are better than vain boasters, and that we are fully deserving of the estimate which have placed upon ourselves as a people. The time is here. The opportunity is here. The eyes of the world are upon u> — upon you. What the wor’d shall think of us depends not upon the action of others but upon what you do—YOU.
HELP “FINISH THE JOB."
To Bring Soldiers Back.
Part of the proceeds of the Victory Liberty Loan are to be used to bring our soldiers and back and restore them to the useful occupations of peace. Every true-blue 100 per cent American should have a part in this work.
HELP “FINISH THE JOB."
It's Not Time to Quit.
The Germans, not the Americans, were the quitters, but our work is not finished until we have brought the victors home. Let’s finish the job by oversubscribing the Victory Liberty Loan aa we did all its predecessor*.
Every farmer who owns his farm ought to have printed, stationer; with his name and the name of hi* postofflce properly given. The prln f ed heading might also give the names of whatever crops h 6 special lzes in or his specialties in stock Neatly printed stationery gives you personality and a standing with an; person or firm to whom you writ* P-Ud Insures the proper reading el your name and address. A new corporation plans to maintain more than 15,000 stands of bees In California, and make It the leading honey producing state.
Notice * I have the Agency for the Saxon Six Automobile. All desiring a Light Six and quality, are invited to call and look this oar over. Kuboske’s Garage
Leopard Has Not Changed His Spots; Hun Quit, but Waits His Chance
By GENERAL GOURAUD.
from these beautiful hills came the band of brigands and robbers who tried to ruin civilization. It is now an open secret that on November 14 the allies were to have launched an attack on Lorraine which would have brought disaster to the German army. The Germans knew that, and so they surrendered. Did they in their hearts surrender? Their army has been received not as a conquered army. I ask if anyone has heard the Germans express any real repentance for waging history’s most brutal war? Now, when peace is signed, the Americans are going home across the seas. The English are going home, too. But France stays where she is. Marshal Foch has said that France is a barrier protecting civilization, and so France and civilization must be protected. We know the character of the Germans along the Rhine. We know there is no democracy in their hearts. We know their feeling attitude is as false as it can be. France wants no such people in her republic. We do not want to annex Germany up to the Rhine, but we do intend to see that the. German military machine stays behind the river. That is what Marshal Foch meant. If we don’t have that protection France must maintain always an enormous army to guard civilization. With our great loss of life in the war that would be a terrible burden for France. We must have a natural barrier or else it would be madness to demobilize our armies. I hope the Americans will see it the same way. I hope the soft words of the Germans will not convince the Americans that -the leopard has changed his Bpots. - , , , , So far I am not convinced that the Germans of today are not the Genpans of yesterday, the foes of the ideals of America, the ideals of France, the ideals of civilization, the foes of all that is desired in t e hearts of mankind.
German Coal Will Help Pay Huge War Indemnity Demanded by Allies
Germany can probably pay an indemnity of $3,500,000,000 -annually. But if the financial demands of the victors in the war are too heavy they will result in Germany’s ruin and the spread of anarchy throughout that country and eventually over a still greater part of Europe. In estimating Germany’s wealth I find that the question of her raw materials, with which she is abundantly supplied, is not taken into consideration by those who discuss this subject. Thef base their estimates all on the developed wealth of the country, which is far less than the value of its undeveloped resources. Let us take, for example, Germany s coa supplv. This is estimated to be around 409,000,000,000 tons, while France has only about 17,000,000,000 tons. Of this total Germany may lose 20 per cent through the taking of Alsace-Lorraine by France. She may lose some coal deposits on'the left bank of the Ehine also, but assume that she will have left 300,000,000,000 tons in her mines and place a conservative estimate of $1 a ton on this and you will begin to get some idea of the value of the country’s great natural resources. This one item ' amounts to $300,000,000,000. Suppose the allies should decide to take one-fourth of this coal supply of Germany and apply it on their bill for damages. This would reduce their claims by more than $72,000,000,000. The nation which has a big supply of coal is bound to be a great industrial nation, because coal is the basis of all industrial development. The biggest coal fields of Germany are in Westphalia. France and the rest of continental Europe would be much better off in the long run if Germany were called upon to give up a part of her Westphalian coal fields. And what applies to her coal supply applies as well to her potash industry.
Like Prohibition, Movement for Good Roads Now Sweeps the Country
By W.G. EDENS.
Just as prohibition, once started, spread so quickly over the nation that the states rushed to get on the "dry” bandwagon, so the good-roads movement is sweeping over the country. The vigorous manner in which the states have taken up the cry to pull themselves out of the mud indicates that at last the public has come to a realization of the sound economic basis of improved highways. Illinois, once the most backward of states, has come suddenly to the forefront. Illinois, in its $80,000,000 bond issue project, solved a question that has puzzled good-roads enthusiasts from the beginning of their propaganda for better highways. This was the question of a sound, economical and fair method of financing a state Bystem of main highways to which all other roads could be tributary. The taxation problem always is with us, and if an attempt were made right now to levy a general tax for good roads it would be met with very serious and powerful opposition. But Illinois got around this question through the expedient of the application of the automobile license, fees to the principal and interest olU# bond issue. Motorists generally co-operated in advocating this method of taxing themselves, realizing that the saving in depreciation and running expenses would more than meet the burden. Thus the "Illinois plan” was evolved and today we have dozens of sister states looking into it and preparing to adopt it all, or so much of it as their constitution or other local conditions will permit. There is-a general disposition to await price readjustment-before ambitious construction plans are put under way for 1919. , I believe that broad-visioned business men will go half way in meeting public officiala
In 1871 Bismarck said in the reichstag that the war just finished was child’s play compared with what the next would be. He was right. The war we have * passed through is but child’s play compared to the next if it comes. Therefore we have got to see to it that Germany does not start the next war. I know it is altogether natural for American soldiers to be impressed with the beauties of the Rhine. It is altogether natural for them to be impressed with I one of the garden spots of the world. But they must | not forget that out of these beautiful valleys and down
By JOHN J. ARNOLD.
Pres’t Illinois Highway Improvement Association
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Chicago Banker
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