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Efit cra=1taber. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Mrs. J. VOL BROCK, Editor. Entered as second class matter April 5, 1910 at the, postomce at Franklinton, La., under be Act of Congress of March 3.1879. Advertising Rates on Application Address all Communications to The Era-Leader, Franklinton, La. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year............$1.50 in advance. Six Months................. 75 Cents. Three Months..... ....40 Cents. Franklinton, La., Dec. 13, 1917 "My Country 'Tie of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty." General Kaledines, Cossack FrE leader with Generals Korniloff } and Dutoff started civil war in fro Russia in opposition to the Bol- but sheviki. ti( rin The British armies surround- ive ed Jerusalem, the Holy City, and compelled its surrender by the wb Turks, under whose control it Su had been for more than 1200 9e years. ste Thirteen negro soldiers con- 00 victed of sharing in the riot in Houston, Tex,. August 23, were hanged at Fort Sam Hous ton, forty-one were given life sentences and others receiv- gr ed minor punishments. t ery postal employee in the United States has been instruct- K ~ed to take an active part in the an campaign for the sale of war- tri savings stamps. In order to reach the desired sales mark of or $2,000,000,000 , by January 1, 1919, it will be necessary to sell sufficient stamps to aver- 8a age $16,50 for each man, woman B and child in the country. Germany's Loss. bl de With the declaration of Brazil K of a state of war between that G cuntry and Germany, the latter oU can now count eighteen enemy nations arraigned against her. pi Germany's losses in men and w money, while they must be enor- tr moos,are in reality the' least of tt the disasters that have befallen d her. The one great disaster that m misguided country has brought a upon herself, and which will have bi most far-reaching effect, is jr the loss of her standing with the di nations of the world.With the ex caption of the countries leagued o with her in this unholy war, f Germany is an outcast among o the nations of the earth. a Germany is not feeling the 1 ; blighting effects of. this ostrac- a -:' ism now as she will feel it in v years to come. She claims that; .:: hey policy of frightfulness is a SMilgeaesry measure of selfdefense this same policy has alien numbers of nations that i.r that inbhuman course wo t say be, if not her avowed , at least strictly neutral. will come after a while bthe reckoning Germany's Swill be la~id bare before a d discriminating world. 'jUast and discriminating' we believe, despite Ger. : frightful defection from humanity and honor, majority of the peoples earth are at beart hu AIhonorable. And the lat l of bhumanity and underlieand form the -fLoundations of civilised hare revolted and will :to revolt against the displayed by that font, of 'koltur." Spathy will take form Iicu aist not only aSalnian bus against l$ood. all the }btbe ment from the impulses of the Am German people. drei It is a common thing to hear, Tex ven in charity-loving America, wa, *ferences to'German brutality' selv .id German savagery.", It is of Am , avail to tell the people that fror 'is brutality and savagery is II ie resultof a "system: and that mui in reality the German people as ThE a whole do niot countenance it, moi Human nature is prone to believe ThE that actions speak louder than I words and Germany's actions will 1 form the complainants' evidence when Germany comes to trial be fore the people of the earth. The Getman bed will be a bed I of thorns for generations to the come. me the If Germany Won. gil her Do you realize what would wit happen to us in America if Ger- I many defeated Great Britain and ish France? 191 You think of us as separated from her by 3000 miles of water, but oceans in these days of elec tricity and air-ships and subma rines, are barriers no more effect- of ive than mountain brooks. As You recall the German U.boat of which suddenly appeared last ini summer at our very door to sink 9, ) several cargo and passenger au steamers off our New England Di coast? an Within six months after a vic- ne tory of Germany in Europe, Ger man warships would be on their way to our ports to levy the great tribute upon this great country which is part and parcel of the German war plan. VI That's what the triumph of the N Kaiser would mean, to America 1l and to you-billions of dollars of p tribut3 to which you would have to pay your share through op pressive taxation. It is on the Pan-Germanic program. If Officers, merchants. educators w said as much to we in Germany, ct Belgium, Poland during my year' behind the German lines on re lief work. And you have proba- tt bly read the corroborative ,vi- tt dence of their purpose in the sE I Kaiscr's th teat to Ambassador S it Gerard, 'America had better look s8 r out after this war!" s5 Y In Brazil, Chili, Venezuela, P prominent German merchants d whom 1 met in the course of my travels, frankly confided to me *the iutentiou of Germany "one n day" to make an "overseas Ger t many" of South America. And c It an elephant catcher from Ham- a e burg told me years ago in the s jungles of Lower Siam that "the Ie day was coming" when Germans - would not neel to ask "permits d of England or France or Siam" r, for a free hunting hand in Siam g or Malay. As a German officer at their great headquarters in he Northern France said to me once c- at the close of a discussion as to in where the war was leading the at principal belligerents-Great a Britian, France, Germany se "world power or complete defeat: n- Germany wants no half way re at sult!" o- A German victory .would at ed onode put in jeopardy all the prin. 'ai. oiples for which we ever fought. ile freedom on land in 1776. liberty y's at sea in 1812, the right of fron. a tier lines n 1847, the re.affima ld. tion of the freedom to the negro og' in 1861, and the rights of little er- nations in 1898. ow A fortnight ago, a German vic. or, tory seemed the wildest improba les bility. Since then the situation hu- has changed. The German at- armies are pouring into Northern ad Italy.. Italy may not be able to the stop them. Germany mty force zed her to imake peace. With will Russia and Italy both out of the the war, Germany and Austria would hat beable to send practically all their force against the Allies on rm the western front. nly The chances are that England int France and Belgium alone could ihe not hold them. The United the 8tates must leap to their side, iet .the Amerioan people must leap to t' tb tidq. Not American sold thjIiS 'anWA not American ships American men, women and chil dren from Maine to Texas, from Texas to Oregon, must in one way or another consider them selves fighters at the side of America's Allies on the battle front. If they cannot hold a gun, they M must support those who do. They must save food and save money. They must talk war. mi They must think war. W If they don't, Germany will win. fa And tnen- lo Cotton Report al Director, Sam L. Rogers, of G the Bureau of the Census, Depart- a ment of Commerce, announces tl the p;eliminary report of cotton c ginined in Louisiana up to Novem. tl her 14 th, and comparing 1917 a with that ginned in 1916. al In this report Washington Par ish is credited with 1064 bales in S 1916 and 4,459 for 1937 h Stockholders' Meeting. A meeting of the stockholders t of the Peoples Building & Loan r Association will be held at the I office of the Association in Cov ington, La., on Wednesday. the 9th day of January. 191~, for tlho purpose of electing a Ho1ard of Directors for the ensuing yefr and transacting any other busi ness that may come before the meeting. Thos. M. Buris, Secretary, t 1, the undersigned, con victed of Incest at the B November term of court, S'1915, am applying for a f parole. J. H. Freddy. All Dep.ndent on Will. P Nothing is impossible; there are ways which lead to everything; and if we had sufficient will we should al 8 ways have sufficient means.-La Ro chefoucauld. i. Others' "Best Selves." We all find a good deal of comfort in thinking of our best selves. If we thought very much about our worst e selves we should be pretty miserable. ir Such thinking as we do about "worst selves" is usually about the worst k selves of other people. And our con sciousness of the worst selves of other people usually corresponds with our ' power to bring out those worst selves, ts -John D. Barry. e Notice. .- The Tax Roll for 1917 has been Id completed and filed in my office 1- and taxes are now r ceivable. e' J. E. BATEMAN, S Sheriff and Tax ( ollLetor. See F. M. BROWN, Franklintor. For Coffins, Caskets and Undertakers' Supplies. A full line of Coffins, Caskets, Robee and Shrouds at prices to suit all. LOW RATES Between All Stations on New Orleans Great .Northern Railroad Account Christmas Holidays Tickets on Sale December 20, 21. 22, 23 24 and 25, 1917 0-- ----- Return Limit Tickets available for return passage up to and including January 10, 1917. One and One. Third Fare Plus 25 Cents For Round Trip. For further information apply to Ticket Agent, or. M. J. MoMahon, Traffcl Manager, New Qrleto, 14 - r J, A. IsooQ. 404, . vcks .M WAR TALKS By UNCLE DAN Number Four Military Training Necessary for Safety and Defense. "Say, Uncle Dan," said Billie, "Jim mle and I have been looking up about war in the encyclopedia at school. We found that in the war between Ger many and France in 1870-71, Germany lost in killed and wounded 28,000 sol diers while France lost about six times as many, and besides that, she lost every battle. We asked Professor Slo cum why this was. He said that the German army was highly trained and ably commanded, while the French soldiers were poorly trained; and that their war department was honey combed with Jealousy and politics; that the officers were not much good, and that's why France lost the war and so many men. What do you think about it, Uncle Dan?" "Well," said Uncle Dan, "Professor Slocum is right. By ineffciency France lost that war, together with two of her best provinces-Alsace and Lor raine--and had to pay a billion dol lars indemnity money. France today learned her lesson by that sad expe rience, so she put in universal military training, and as a result, her soldiers now know how to fight and how to protect themselves. They are losing less men in the war than the Germans. France also put politics out of her war department, so that expert authority, instead of bureaucratic stupidity, now directs the army. The r ult is. France has one of the best add most I efficient armies every assembled, and this shows what thorough training and good leadership means in warfare. This saved France in this crisis, as well as the liberties of the world." "As war is now conducted, there is no place for an untrained man. A body of 10,000 well trained soldiers properly handled could defeat five times their number of raw recruits and do it every time with comparatively small loss to themselves. Proper train ing alone will reduce the death and I casualty rate one-third of what it oth erwise would be, and right here is an unanswerable argument for universal military training. "Our government has no moral right 9 to force her men into war service without properly training them for it. To do so is simply murder, hence the } frantic effort that is now being made to give her soldiers some training be fore they are sent to the front. If we are to win this war, it will take trained men to do it, and it will take trained n men to win any other war that may e come upon us in the tutuse. If we t must fight, let us fight to win and not 0. to lose!' It - "That's the stuff," said Billie. t Continuing, Uncle Dan said: "Our - government has expended about $300, 000,000 to put up cantonments and training stations in order to train the men called by the selective draft. When these men aie trained the train ing stations should be immediately filled with younger men, say those in their nineteenth year, to receive six months of intensive military train Ing along the lines of the Chamberlain e bill. This will be of immeasurable benefit to them individually. It will do them more good than any other two years of their whole life; it will make r them strong, manly, self-reliant, quick to see and quiek to act; it will equip them for a successful life. In short, it will rebuild American manhood and will also give the government a body of trained men to draw from in case it is necessary to defend our flag and country. We must settle this question of universal military training imme Sdiately, otherwise these trainingscamps ,may be demolished. The adoption of universal military training will be no tice to the world that from then on ,we will be prepared to defend our selves promptly and effitciently, and this will do more to keep us out of war in the future than anything else we could do." '"D)o you think, brother," said Mrs. Graham, "that there will ever be an other war?" "I have no doubt about it," said Uncle Dan. "So long as men are selfish, so long as nations are ambb tious to acquire territory, so long as population presses and demands more room, so long as there remains a scramble for world trade-so long wars will be. When the time comes that we reach the high plane for which we hope and dream, when dill will recog nize the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, then, and then only, will wars cease. When that day comes doors will need no locks, banks will need no vaults to protect their treasures, but that day is a long way "The only safe and sane plan is to 17 be able to defend ourselves at all times. Therefore, every citizen should insist that senators and congressmen shall provide for universal military training, so that never again shall the ge country be caught so completely un 17 ready as this war found us. For tunately, in this case, our enemy has been held back, so we have had a few re months in which to prepare. This ad. vantage probably will never come again. It is however our salvation today. .Because she was ready, Switzerland is an island of peace la a sea of to war. Safety frat is good, but saety always is better. In strength there is safety. You never saw a tin can t tte do ta th U oZ uIng' Tb? NlPpbr ·~~,~~rk .brl~C· GIVEN AWAY ABSOLUTELY FREE i Diamond Ring I Mission Clock Now on Dislay at Outr Store. Monday, December 24th, At :T-LOVE PCO. SCOTT-LOVE CO., Ltd. QUICK SERVICE AUTO CO, Agents PIEDMONT Cars. Expert Repairs On any make of Car. Complete Line of FORD Parts in Stock. Firestone and Fisk Tires and Accessories. 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