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WAR SAVINGS STAMPS AND
BABIES
Brand Whitlock, our minister to Bel
gium when the German hordes first
entered that martyred country and for
three long years thereafter, is now
telling us of some of the things that
happened during that orgie of Ger
man lust. He writes in Everybody’s
as follows:
"It was on that Sunday morning of
the 23rd; the Germans that swarmed
down the Priedran road, entered the
quarter of Penant, arrested the inhabi
tants and took them to the Rocher
Bayard. The people were held there,
evidently as a screen, while the Ger
mans began to construct a temporary
bridge Over the river. The French
were on the other side, and now and
then they shot at the soldiers* work
ing there. The Germans, annoyed by
the spitting, irregular fire, sent a citi
zen of Dinant, one of the prisoners,
in a boat across the river to inform
the French that unless they ceased
firing the civilians would be shot.
M. —— made his dangerous voyage,
accomplished his mission, and re
turned to take his place among his
fellows. But a few stray bullets still
sped across the river.
“Then was committed the atrocious
crime. The prisoners were massed to
gether, nearly ninety of them, old men
and young, women, girls and boys,
' little children, and babies in their
mothers’ arms. A platoon was called
up: the colonel in command gave the
word to fire, and the gray soldiers, in
cold blood, shot down those ninety
persons as they stood huddled there
together. Among them were twelve
children under the age of 6 years, six
of whom were little babies, whose
mothers, as they stood up to face
their pitiless murderers, held them in
their arms.
“The six babies were the child Fle
vet., 3 weeks old; Nellie Pollet, 11
months old; Maurice Betemps, 11
months old; Gilda Gene, 18 months
old; Gilda Marchot, 2 years old, and
Clara Struvav, 2 years old.
"Evening came; the soldiys were
fumbling among the mass of dead.
Some wye still living; some, by a
miracle, were uninjured. And these
were dragged from the pile of bodies
and made to dig a pit and to tumble
into it the bodies of the victims of the
tragedy, their relatives, their neigh
bors and their friends.”
There are 2,000,000 reasons why
every American should buy War Sav
ings Stamps.
There are 2,000,000 American babies
under 2 years of age.
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BUSINESS MORTALITY
High prices make for a low business
mortality. This fact has again been
demonstrated by the report on com
mercial failures for the year 1918.
The number of failures for the year
was actually one of the smallest on
record and relatively—the growth in
the number of business houses being
taken into consideration—perhaps the
smallest. The total number of fail
ures for the year, according to Dun’s,
was 9,982, as compared with 13,855
for 1917, 16,933 for 1916 and 22,156 for
1915. To And a year with so few busi
ness fatalities one must go back to
1899, when the total was 9,337.
If rising prices are the safety of the
business man, descending prices are
regarded as his greatest danger. But,
though the price index descended sev
eral points in January, the number oi
failures continues to be exceptionally
small. For the whole month there
were but 673 fatalities as compared
with 1,178 in January, 1918, 1,540 In
1917 and 2,009 in 1916. But this free
dom from failure may be accounted
for by the fact that the declining
prices so far have touched the manu
facturers and producers only and have
not reached as yet in any large extent
tp the army of small retailers who are
dcing business on small capital and
furnish the bulk of the commercial
casualties.
The failure list should begin to
grow rapidly within the next six
months and financial first aid will
have to be administered to hundreds
of short-sighted merchants.
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RED RULE’S RESULTS
What would be your thoughts,
gentle reader, if you should see the
following' dispatch from New York
city some day in the near future:
“New York, etc.—In the streets
tragic and terrifying scenes are enact
ed. A horse falls exhausted with hun
ger and is immediately attacked by a
score of famished dogs, who begin
tearing it. Red Guards with loaded
revolvers keep off the crowd which
soon assembles, watching the horrible
sight with ferocious looks of envy,
But sometimes the guards do not ar
rive in time and then men and women
cast themselves upon the carcasses,
slashing with their knives and fight
ing with the snarling dogs for the
bleeding strips of flesh, which they
devour on the spot, not having suf
ficient will power left to carry their
booty home to cook.
“Such is the communist paradise
which the Bolshevik promised their
miserable dupes. Fear and famine
have engendered a veritable epidemic
of insanity.
“The asylums are overcrowded and
for the last two months have been un
able to accept new patients. Lunatics
and maniacs of all kinds stalk raving
through the streets. The prisons are
full of madmen. In the maternity
hospitals the death rate is incredit
ably high. According to the manag
ing physician of one of these estab
lishments 90 per cent of the mothers
die after childbirth, and infant mor
tality is scarcely lower.
“Funerals, like everything else, are
‘nationalized,’ that is to say, the dead
are carried away in carts and dumped
into a vast common grave at the cost
of the state. No religious ceremony
is performed, and no crosses may be
erected over this gruesome pit.’’
That is the story told of conditions
in Moscow by Russian refugees who
have arrived in Switzerland. It is a
baleful, soul-chilling story of a city
under a socialistic regime.
You say that nothing of the kind
can occur in the United States be
cause the American people are experi
enced in self-government, understand
the real meaning of liberty and are
devoted to democracy as distinguished
from socialism. Let us hope that you
are right. Indeed, we believe that
you are, but let us all keep our eyes
fixed constantly on that old maxi
mum: “Vigilance is the price of lib
erty.”
solicitor Lamar oi tne posiomce ue
partment has filed with the propa
ganda comittee of the senate a memo
randum in which he states that mail
matter seized since the signing of the
armistice reveals a movement to “per
fect an amalgamation” of anarchists,
radical socialists and others which
shall have for its object the overthrow
or the American government through
a "bloody revolution.” The memor
andum was hardly necessary for in
telligent observers of conditions. The
I. W. W. organization has been preach
ing that doctrine “for twenty years,”
as Raymond Robins assured us in his
testimony before the senate commit
tee the other day.
Mr. Robins is himself a radical. He
was head of the Red Cross in Russia
and became the friend and confident
of Uenine and Trotzky. He says with
a mildness characteristic of “high
brows” that he thinks Bolshevism is
unsuited to the United States, but he
takes care to testify that the Bolshe
viki are not as bad as they have been
painted—by Ambassador Francis, for
example. The ambassador did not
hesitate to declare that Lenine and
Trotzky were and are agents of the
German government, that they still
are serving the Germans while trying
to create world-wide revolution.
Men of the, Raymond Robins type do
incalculable harm. Instead of ac
quainting their countrymen with the
real conditions resulting from radical
ism they seek to excuse and extenu
ate. The picture they draw is filled
with high lights and shadows which
conceal the wretchedness, horror and
bestiality of a regime founded on e
theory which they would like to set
work. Their tenderness for the theory
induces them to become apologists
for the fanatics and zealots who try
to put the theory into effect.
While human beings fight like wolves
among themselves and with dogs it
the streets pf Moscow over the torn
bleeding carcasses of horses, the Ray
mond Robinses assure us sweetly
that, all things considered, the klnt
of government which produces sucl
scenes is not quite suited to America
SHORT-ARM JOLT8
The line that stood at Chateau
Thierry must not become a bread line.
—Detroit News.
—
When national prohibition goes into
effect even Maine will be dry-*-Arkan
sas Gazette.
‘‘One thousand innocent bystanders
killed in Berlin.” That’s frank exag
geration. There arent’t 1000 innocent
persons in all Germany.—\Vashington
Herald.
It seems that the only use of the
consumer is to be consumed.—Florida
Timer,-Union.
Money still talks, but contact with
the high cost of living seems to have
given it throat trouble.—Arkansas
Gazette.
The horrendous thought occurs that
Russia was the first nation to adopt
prohibition. And now look at that
darned thing.—New York Tribune.
The shipwrecked sailor of the future
may not be so keen about reaching
dry land.—Brooklyn Eagle.
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The Russians are allowing their
professors to die of starvation. Life
is hard and death yearns for the Rus
sian who shows any signs of intelli
gence nowadays.
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German war profiteers are eluding
the authorities by taking securities to
Switzerland by aeroplane. High
finance.
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French shoe manufacturers are try
ing to make shoes from rabbit skins.
If the left hind foot is used the shoes
ought to be popular in Dixie.
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Germany created Bolshevism and
may be destroyed by it.
FAMOUS SOCIALIST
HAS ESCHEWED POLITICS
LONDON. March 29— Prince Peter
Kropotkin, Socialist leader, despite
various reports to the contrary, is
alive and well at Dmitrovs'*, near Mos
cow, according to Alexander Uerken
heim, vice president of a Russian so
ciety here. He says he saw the prince
recently and has received letters from
him.
“Now as always,” Berkenhei.n said,
"he remains far from the seat of gpy
political activity, and is occupied with
literary work. He enjoys the greatest
esteem and consideration of all cir
cles in Russia, without exception.”
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SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
No. C-150
In the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division.—Celia
( Graves, Plaintiff, vs. William H.
Graves, Defendant.
The President of the United States of
America to the above-named defend
ant, William H. Graves, greeting:
You are hereby required and sum
moned to appear in the district court
for the territory of Alaska, Third divi
sion, within thirty days after the ter
mination of the required six weeks’
period of publication of this summons
and answer the complaint of the
above-named, plaintiff, the original of
which complaint is on file with the
clerk of the above-entitled court, and
unless you so appear and answer said
complaint judgment will be rendered
against you for want thereof, and
plaintiff will apply to the court for
the relief demanded in said complaint,
to wit, for a decree of absolute di
vorce dissolving the bonds of matri
mony now existing between said
plaintiff and defendant upon the
ground of desertion and non-support.
This summons is served upon you
by publication thereof in accordance
with an order of the above-entitled
court made and entered on the 24th
day of March, 1919.
First date of publication, March 28,
1919.
Last date of publication, May 9,
1919.
Witness the Honorable Fred M.
Brown, judge of said court, this 24th
day of March, 1918.
(Seal) ARTHUR DANG, Clerk.
F. H. Foster, Attorney for Plaintiff,
Cordova, Alaska.
COAL AND FISH A-PLENTY
BUT NO TRANSPORTATION
VLADIVOSTOK, Feb. 15 (by mail).
—Immense resources in fisheries, lum
bering and coal mining await develop
ment in the Sea of Okhotsk and the
island of Saghalien. Golos Primorya,
in an article pointing out the need for
improved shipping and transportation
facilities in that northern region, says
that with only nine sea-going steamers
available, with an aggregate capacity
of 527 tons, Nikolaevsk, the center of
distribution, exported 36,000 tons of
fish last year. The crying need of
the industry is more ships, according
to the newspaper in question.
“The commercial fleet,” continues
the paper, "must be made ten or
twenty times larger. The coast line
of Kamchatka, with its rich fisheries,
the Sea of Okhotsk, as well as the
coal-producing regions of Saghalien,
use Nikolaevsk as a center for distri
bution. To meet the requirements a
commercial fleet of 20,000 tons is nec
essary. There is enough timber avail
able to supply all Europe, and there
is enough iron to supply local needs.”
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