Lebanon Daily Reporter, Volume 25, Number 221, Lebanon, Boone County, 14 June 1917 — Page 1

PRESIDEIITTELLSVHYWE

LIAD MUSES STIRRING FLAG DAY TM Srwaks of the Events That Forced United States to Take l'p Arms. WORLD DOMINATION GERMANY'S DREAM America's Duty and Hh Pur poses Are Clear and Can Not Ite Avoided. BY JOHN EDWIN KEVIN'. ill) lilt llt,,,.l,,;Kl W WASHINGTON', June, i4. America ha but one choice, to fight and win, for if the military rulers of Germany suct-rod. Germany and the wild are undone, President Wowln-w Wilson declared in a flag day address, delivered at the shadow of Wushington monument this afternoon. "If they fail Germany is saved and the world ill be at peace," the president added. "If they succeed. America will fall withia the menace. We and nil the rent of the world must remain armi-d, as they will remain. and must make ready or the next, step or uggrt -ssion. ' The address breathed war and victory. It net forth in clear and eolorlul liiijcuHieo the aims and objects of the prnt war. It Bounded a strong note of -warning against "Gorman peace plotting." Suggestions ulong that li.-wr, tiw president pointed out. are merely "minister intrigue. The military masters of Germany," the president declared, "wished to close ita bargain before it 'is too lat.". r.! It ha little left to offer for the pound 01 I lean it will oemann. "For us there is but one choice." aid the pi esiilent. "We have made it. Woe be the man or group of men that sceka to stand in our way in this day of high resolution when ever)' principle we hold dearest is to be vindicated and made secure for the salvation of the natioas. We are ready to plead at the, bar of hirtory and our flag hall wear a rew lustre. Once more we shall make good with our lives and fortunes the great faith to which we were born ami a new glory shall shine in the face of our people." The netting for the cirnionstrntion was most picturesque. A stand had been erected in the hollow north of the Washington monument and ' the faced the "gi.int marble needle" as he talked Hi thousands of hearers sat :n rows on the grass covered hillock. The raya of the hot June sun were tempered by the breeze from the far off Virginia hills and the tree of Washington's most beautiful nark furnished welcome shade to all. Mrs. Wilson and all the members of the cabinet and their wives bad seats in the grandstand which was elaborately decorated with the national coiors. The president said: President's Address. "My fellow citizens: We meet to celebrate Klag day because this flag which we honor and un.ler which we nerve is the emblem of our unity. 0111 power, our thought and purpose as a nation. It has no other character thn that which we give it from generation to feneration. The choices are ours. H floats in majestic silence above the hosts that execute those choices, whether in peace or in war. And yet, though silent, it pcaka to us,--speaks to us of the past, of the men und women who went before us and of the records they wrote upon it We celebrate the day of its birth; and from its birth until now it has witnessed a great vic-toi-y, has floated on high the symbol of great events, of a great plan of life worked out by a greav people. Wa are about to bid thousands, hundreds of thousands, it may be millions, of our men, the young, the stn;ng, the capable men of the nation, to go forth and die beneath it on fields of blord far away.--for what? For some unaccustomed thing? For something for which it has never sought th- fire ls-for? American armies were r-'r l-fore sent ers,, H e w s. ' they sent .w ? . f r a-- -- -

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iLillllfllll 0 old, familiar, heroic purpose for which it has seen men, its own men, die on every battlefield upon which Americans have borne ai ms since the KeySolution? "There are questions which must be answered. We are Americans. We in our turn serve America, and can serve her with no private purpose. We must use her flag as she has always used it. We are accountable at the liar of history and must pleijd in utter frankness what purpose it is we seek to serve. Forced Into War. "It is plain eroui'h how w forced ii.to the war. The oxtiaordin j aiy insults :,nd atreivssions of the' Iniieriul Germ in government left Us ; no self-respecting choice but to take! up arms in defense of our rights as a free people and of our honor as a. sovereign government. The military ; ma.-ters of Germany denied us the right to be neutral. They filled our unsuspecting communities with vie . less spies and rnnspiiat.il-- and sought to corrupt the opinion of our jieopii in their own behalf. Wh.-n they found that thev could nt do that,; their agents diligently spread s. -II , tiin amongst us and sought to iltaw ' wir own ritisrn.i from their alleg-i-1 aiue,--and some of those agents were men connected with the official emt-as- I sy of the Herman government ilwlf hole in our own capital. Th'-y- sought 1 by violence to destroy our industries ; and arrest our commercp. They tried to incite Mexico to take up itrmi t ngam.-t us and to ilia Jaoan into a hostile alliance with her and that,; not by indirection, hut by direct sugge.tion from the foreign ofhee in BerThey impudentiy dollied us the j u.- of the high was and rcpeatedl; executed their threat that they would send to their death any of our people who ventured to approach the coasU of Kuroiie. Anil many of our own peopip were eorruptis-1. Men Is-iran to look upon their own neighbors with -suspicion and to wonder in their hot resentment and surprise w hether tli'-re was any community in which bostil? intrigue did not lurk. What gi-ea' nation in such circumstances would not have taken up arms? Much as we had desired pence. denied us, and not of our own choice. This flag under which we serve would have been dishonored had we withheld our hand. "Hut t'.:r-t r'y jrt of the story. We know now as clearly as we knew before we were ourselves engag-.! that we are rot the enemies of the Herman people and that they are not eur enemies. They did not originator desire 'his hideous war or wish that we should be diawn into it; and we are vaguely conscious that we are fighting their cause, as they will some day see it. as wll as oar own. They r.re themselves in the gi ip of the sumr sinister power that has now at last stretched its ugly talons out and drawn blood from us. The whole world is at war because the whale world is in the grip of that power anil is trying out the great battle shi.il de- j termine whether it is to lie biouylit under its mastery or fling itself free. Work of War l-nrds. "The war was Iiegun by the military masters of Germany, who proved to be also the masters of AustriaHungary. These men have never re--arded nations as M-opies-, men, wo i(n-n, and children of like blood and frame as themselves, f.r whom government existed and in whom governments had their life. They huve regarded them mcr!y us serviceable organizations which they could by force or intrigue bend or corrupt to their own purpose. They ha reirarded the smaiier states, in (ii'tu:ular, and ths people who could he over-: whelmed by force, as their n.-itnr:tl , tools ami in.-truments of domination, i Their purjiose has long been avrnred. The statesmen of other nations, to whom that purpose was incredible,! paid, little attention; regarded what j German professors expounded in their classrooms and German writers set i forth to the world as the goal of (ier-! man policy as rather the dream of ; minds dcfcicfied from practical alfairs. I as preposterous private conceptions of j German destiny, than as the actual plans of responsible rulers; but the pjlers of Germany themselves knew all the while what concrete, plana, what well advanced intrigues lay back of what the professors and the writers were raying, and were glnd to go forward unmolested, filling the thrones of Iittlkan suites with German princes, putting German officers at the service of Turkey to drill her armies and make interest with her government, developing plans of sedi tion and rebellion in India und Fgypt, setting their fires in Persia. The deinund- jfisde by Austria upon Servia j mere single step in a plan j -i,.a,:sed i.'urone and Asia. j n to P igdad. They hoped - itwls might not aiit4 Ktt-I v-y jue.it t ii vs.! tliei.i

whether they did or not, for the

! thought themselves ready (or the f inrI a) issue of amis. P- hf mrn of Germany. "Their plan to throw a broad belt of German military power ami political control across the very cn ter of Kuron! und beyond the Meili terranean intc the heart of Asia; and I Austria-Hungary was, to be as mud ! their tool and pawn as Hervia or Buii garia or Turkey or the ponderous states of the east. Austria-Hungary I indent, was to become part of the I central Gorman empire, absorbed and , dominated bv the same force ami m i fluences that had originally cementel I the German states themselves. The ! dream had its heart at Berlin. It j could have had a heart nowhere else! j It rejected the idea of solidarity of i race entirely. The choice of peoples played no part in it at all. It contemplated binding together rariul and political units which could be kept j together only by force. Czechs, MagKars. Croats. Serbs, Itoumanians. I Turks, Armenians. the proud states ! of Itoln-niia and Hungary, the stout 'little commonwealths of the l'alkans. ; the indomitable Turks, the subtile ! peoples of the Fast. These peoples i did not w ish to lie united. They ar- . dently ties-red to direct their own ! affairs, would be satisfied only by undipiited indeiH-ndence. They could be k"pt oil let only by the presence or , the constant threat of armed men. They wouid live under a common power only b sheer compulsion and await the day of revolution. Hut the ! tie; man military statesmen had reck- , i ned with all that and were ready to deal with it in their own wav. j ;;And they have actually carried the greater pait of that amazing plan ini to execution! Look how things stand, i Austria is at their merry. It has 1 acted, not upon its own initiative or upon the choice of its own people, but at H'-rlin's dictation ever since the war boKun. Its people now desire peju-e. but ennnot have it until leave is grunted from Berlin. The so-called Central Powers are in fact but a single power. Servia is at its mercy, shou'd ils hands be but for a moment freed, lhilarta has consented to its will, ami Iioumama is overrun. The Turkish armies, which Germans trained, are serving Germany, certainly not themselves, ami the guns of Gorman warships lying in the harbor at Constantinople remind Turkish statesmen every day that they have no choice but to tnke their orders from Ker;ir. From Hnmbnrg to the Persian gulf, the net is spread. "Is it not easy to under.-tand the eagerness for iieace tint has been manT'sted from Berlin ever since the snare was set and sprung? Peace peace, peace has been the talk of her Koreigi Office for now a year and more; n it peace upon her own initiative, hut up-m the initiative of the nations ove- which she now deems herself to hold the advanti.ge. A little . f the talk has lien public, lait most "cONTIKiJeD OtTFAGrT FOURr" MANY BELIEVED KILLED At Least Fifty Injured When Suitar Refinery Company's I'lant Was Wrecked. , Ihr lvf n;tti,nl W,r. jlr. I XF.W YORK, June H. Searchers nmong the ruins of the American Sugnr Uefinery company plant in Williamsburg after an explosion anil fire had wrecked the big eleven story stnicture along the waterfront, had rily body early, today. y more lost their im-ry on the fourth c.iirh the other floors m which 600 men lives when floor crusp.c. to the ts , were at woik. At least f fiv v ere injured, according to the estimate . f Coroner Wagner. They were rushed to hospitals. Five of them are dying. Thirty-four workmen are missing. The property ios is estimated at about t,0"0.(XW, The fire began at 1 1 :20 o'clock la t night when an explosion occurred. Opinions as to the cause of the explosion are that either an electric spaik ignited the sugar dust or that a pipe in the condensor exploded. Company officials scout the theory that the explosion may have resulted from a plot. The plant ban been run day and night since soon after the war began. Five hundred men were nt work v.hen the crash occurred The entire building was enveloped in flames a few seconds after the explosion anil the flamea ahot up to turn a height that they could be. seen for mil. Avenue, of kpe to those Working on lh m,rr flmmi ! ml off vlu.

the fourth floor collapsed under thelftciala t'slav were practically certain concent rated weight of machinery j that a full nubwription and poihly hurled to one iwction of the floor by a heavy over-nuhscripf.lon will be the force of the explosion. uhown. Scores of men then trtrueirleii blind- J, fhHeinU tmlny wtre busy with arly through smoke end flume to the . rangpiu.-nts fr lh elomp of thi roof nnd niu. la their escapes to tha b-'ok of the sf,he federal rewrv.' roof of dJoHrim; biuldtngm. , Itisrjus. .:

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THEIR ADVANCE ON BELGIUM SOIL fiermang Compelled to Give Up First Line Positions. BRITISH ADVANCE EAST OF MESSINES Germans Attack French at Two Points, Bnt Assault j Are Repulxed. J Uli III InUmaltftmm S'eirn ??,r.-leC. LONDON, June 14. The Britisji j have renewed their advance in Bel gium, i The Germans were compelled to; give up important t ir.-t line positions luring the nis;lii anil these were oc- i cupied by the British forces, the war (lice announced today. The chief advance of Field .Marsha) Haig's armies were made east of Mess, between the I.ys anil Styves rivers, at the I'loegstaert wood and in the sector of Ga-paid. All of these plsee lie between Ypres nnd the Franco-Belgian border where the British launched their big drive u' eek ago today. As the Germans fell back, the omul statement says, the British . pressed forward riijht upon tl heels. Germans Attack French. The Germans attacked at. two points on the western front during the night, hut were tvpulsi d at both. he French ar oftVe announced, to day. - -The ns.iri'W HTre made along the Alsiie river in tlx" sectors of Braye. Ninth of Craonne and north of filieims and also on the Verdun front. The Germans bombarded the French pnsinons vigorous )- hornre the - tacks were launched, but despite the artillery preparation and the strength with the assaults were driven him all were aumplete failures, the official statement said. Last of Narvarin farm, in Champagne, French raiding froops entered a German trench capturing sonre prisMarching A I he Iieinf mts of entente troops led at Piraeus and are i Aihens. it was said in a are being h nardiing Hi' di- patch from the Greek capital today The shores of I'haeleron Hay, also an iK-ing occupied by the allies. MORE SUBMARINES. Are Being used by Germany lis Ruthles Warfare. IB.., Il,r l,it;;i:,nil , H. , LONDON, June 11.- Naval men to day interpreted the increase in ship ping losses as showing that Germanyis using mtn-e submarines i red rone waters. According to the official statement. .'18 vessels were the bar - hniraltv ' ink during the week; ending June II). as compared with the preceding week. The aggregate for the week just passed T2 over 1(100 tons, ten under 1WK) tons and six fishing boats---is the largest for a month. Will BE SUBSCRIBED lant Day of Campaign Findu ; OIHcials ConHdent of Itcsult. I III tht tHIrrnoiifmtl ,rB Hfrrif:) Washington, Juno H.-The last day of the liberty loan fodnd ofllnals here confident that the 2,0t)0,0o0,0(Hi be oversubscribed. Returns iom hundreds of eitiea and, town are yet to be received and with thos. figures in hand, together with ! 'the ton.tanllv Increasina- totals for the! riti.. k' .t I J I,. . j j j

Help Your Country and Make Money for Yourself

Uncle Sam must have the money QUICKLY to build thousands of ftxxl and munition-carrying; ships,' to raise, equip and maintain an army of 1,(100,000 men; to give us a smashing big navy in short, to enable our country to carry on its share of the ftreat war for the FREEDOM OF TIIE WORLD. YOU can do YOUR part by lending the Government some of your savings. Invest now in one or more of the Liberty Ixian Bonds. You will be helping yourself while you help your country. The bonds pay 3i!' ; interest and are as good as gold. There is an easy payment plan. For example, if you want to buy one of the ?."() bonds, you can make your payments at either of the following bunks, as follows: 2'! when you buv I he bond $ 1.00 18'. on June 2S, I till tt.liO 2(1-! on July 30, 1)117 Itt.iMI 30'; on August 15, 117 t.'i.Otl 30 i on August 311, 1917 13.00 $:o.oo The bonds will be dated June 15, 1!)17, and will run for Jit) years, when the Government will repay the principal. Twice yi"ir the ovrnor will receive interest at the rate of 3'2', a year. Come in and lot us help you to help , yourself, your country and humanity. FIRST NATIONAL HANK FARMERS STATE HANK ISOONE COUNTY STATE HANK UNION TRUST COMPANY CITIZENS LOAN & TRUST CO.

BOONE COUNTY IS CALLED UPON FOR

RED CROSS GIFT Thp Sum of S12.;i00 Must be I Raiscd Here Within the Next Week. GREAT CAMPAIGN BEGINS MONDAY More I.ilteral Giving Than Ever Refore is Asked of Hoone County I'eople. Every dollar contributed to the Red j Cross fund of $100,000,000 will lie a blow at Germany, and a help to our Allies. The ieople of Lebanon and Boone county have a great opportunity to strike a blow for liberty, by giving to the Ked Cro.i more liberally ,,,:m ev,'r before to any. cause." This st-itiment was made today by Vue:.t Hun' in, n 'y d'apte retarv of the Hoone Connor the American Red Cross. tie said lurtiier: "ve can make our lied C'ro.s felt on every battle front. We must go over to our friends and 'back them up' as our British Allies Aould fcay; give thern good cheer and sympathy as well as medicine and nurses nnd doctors and money and bread and meat. "And I want to say right here, an:l with all possible emphasis, that this is no work of ennritv, in the accepted sense, that w" nre taking up. At the bottom it is shi er duty. At the ,t. torn we are bound to pay some at least of the tremendous debt of security and protis-tion we have conus pend some of our dolhrs." "Hoone county is called upon ti raire $12,000 during the week of June 18 to 2t inclusive, so let's take oui coat off and go to it with a will. Ouboys walked up and registered Now let's walk right up with our dollar! nnd not be rilled slackers for n fev dollars." Organize For Drive. , , ... .. . , Z - cnapl" ni,''. mwlm' art "eM'n r"wrd ,t, th'1" F, r"u",y of J lUOISW,VmU Wllicn IS l2.ini. Jjr Coombs, the chairman of the Boone county chapter toiluy began the work of nclirting the rapuina for the various parta of the county and othei committees will l,e announced withit the next few daya, Tim work rhop In the Red Crow "cCVIlYt KO rKOM lAGE TWO?

GERMANS ARRESTED.

Two Hundred Alien Kncmics of I', Sent In Detention Camps. Ih, ln':m,llli,nM Kmlrr l WASHINGTON, June 14, -Two hundred alien enehiies ef the United .Stales Germans have beeo arrested :-,ce the declaration of war, the de- , , partment of justice announced today. The arrests were made and Die aliens conveyed to detention place with little ostentation as possible. Most of those arrested were aliens, the department; had been watching for some time and other were j taken in the various census inestiga-l turns made immediately lifter the j presidents proclamation. j Already a number of harmless aliens 1 have been paroled by the govern- : vnent. They are permitted to live at their homes and go about their busi-1 ness as usual but the government is ; keeping an eye upon them. i The department public the ftctiiils ai ted in vara cities or sect of the country. liiDlANA GAS COMPANIES ! HAVE FILED A PEIIOfL " Ask Public Service Commission to Lower Heating Requirements. I fl II the lH, nrtfini,4l Vir r,-i J, INDIANA I '01.18, Iml., June Nearly every community in Indiana in i which artificial gas is consumed

affi.vtod by a petition filed today with , ( ut,rmfMl Xert rv(e.) the Luhlic Service Commission by the ! LONBON, June 14. At least Indiana Gas Association asking that j four of 4M9 jiersons wounded during the commission lower the heating re-! lh" German aid raid over Eaet U- . , . .. .. . !don yesterdiy have since dieil, bringouirement, from f,00 to b'M British , ,,,.,," ljjit ,-, thlin lfK). thermal mjits. Search in the wreckage of defolishThe petition sets forth that on nc-'od dwelling is still e-oing on and it count of the scarcity and high price . is possible that more bodie will be of gas making materials, it is practi-1 found.

tally impossible for the gas compan- i ies of Indiana to proiluce gas which j will come up to the heat unit standard of 600 British thermal units expt by imiierfor-t and wasteful carbonization of Jt is asserted that many gas companies have made an honest effort, to feet the heat unit standard, but have been unablo to do so. It aayii that here i possibility of the govern-

ment forbidding- the use of benzol orjtu CU(W0, overturne, today at Ludither valuable and expensive enrich-1 ,aw M miiph XAt of rjarHUiw. The log oils, necessary to mako the high en(rlnwr waS instantly kille.1. The heut atandnni , tiremul from injuries. Several Th petition also ask that the , ather n3 vm hurt minimum period for te-ting meters, -m fomplainta of consumers be ex-j AURES'fH AT CHICAGO, tcmied from ix monthi to twelve j months. j CHICAGO. Juiw 1 4. Seventy-f m Twenty-nine aitifiritU gt rompan-1 niep. all charged with avoiding mriie have petitioi.s on tile for ditVenfnt itntion on June 5, were arrested in ivintdulr. 1 .South Chicago today. 1

:M!IO I DO NOT TAKE FULL1 I QUOTA OF BONDS i " i Only Two in County That

Fail to Subscribe Full ' Allotment. THE COUNTY MAYBE i SHORT ABOUT $2o,000 Subscriptions in Thin County ! Will Close Tonight To be . Sent in Tomorrow. Tunight all banking institution in Lebanon will open at 7 o'clock anil will remain open until 9 o'clirk or later for the purpose of receiving bond subscriptions. The Liberty Loan enm..ti.o .!. tim;U and it, , IMUu,i mil t be in by that time in order that they may reach Chicago by noon tomorrow. Punin; 11. e past two days the people seemed to hove awakened to the situation lor the subscription have been coming in rnpidly. The church and school ' i lis in the city were toH'-d here hist night as well a in nil other cities in the United States, It ntw looks as if Hoone county ould tie shout J:tr,.(HI short of it h! lotinent. The two banks at Thiu-ntown h-ive refused to take J.heir full cpiota or hardly any part of it and for that reason tlie total subscription will 11 i short. The Home National Hank ami I the Stale Hnnk at that place each took ! .',.(KMI worth of the bonds. AH other ; hunks and Trust compunies have taken , ! their full rpiota. The Whilcstown ami Advance banks held meetings yesterday nfvernoon st which time the matter was derided. This moinnifr, thn president of the Zionsville bank called W. J. IWol stating that they would ake the full eight per cent and also ! thAt ornctically all that amount hint i '"V, "" "T i stands $3II,01 while Boon countv allotment is fcWiJMO. Unless th j Thorntown bnnkn decide to tuke their full allotment today it looks as if Himne county uill bo about 135,000 -hort. DOWN TO WORK, American Mission Kntera On Ita Task al f'clrograd. in,, ii. iii, ,,,,,! -ie Xrrrfc-e.t ri'TKOGRAO. June 14 1 he American mission, headed by Klihu Hoot, v hich came here to help the provisional government sohe the huge prob

;!ine to make j Inns confronting it. already linn onto the number I tried upon the tak. Members of the

mis.-ion tislay conferreil with representatives of the Lvoff cabinet although the discussions are nirw nt the very preliminary stage. There ate two American commissions in f'etrograd now. The aecond is dealing with transportation affairs and the lack of rail facilities. Thin railroad cominii.sion ia headesl by John K. Stevens, the famnua American engineer. i Mr. Root and others of the mission ! h fcad.-. wilt live in the winter balixe i vhilo here. This luxuricrut pulara n as fonnerly occupied by the Ouir. The commissioners will be formally presented to the whole provisional ' government tomorrow. FOUR DIE FROM WOUNDS, Heath I ist From German Air Raid Now Totals Over 100. TRAIN WRECKED. j Two Loee Uvea When Engine and Cars Go Into Oitrh. iff. He InlbrvulUiH't Xrva Ktrriri-.) 1-03 ANGELES; June 14 -Thrown into a ditch by a defective rail the, eveiM .nd thrw eart o( the KantJ1 Ke i i ,,,,... i.j rfh i

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