Monroe City Democrat., August 16, 1918, Image 2

About Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919

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"A huddled group of half-delirious and wholly sod
den, stupid, staring men, who clutched feebly at their
rifles and cried loudly in the name of God for rest.
i "And each night at each fresh alarm, that gallant
gentleman of the strained and haggard face came among
his men to inspire them with the freshness of his own
high courage.
"Like all others he had aged years in weeks. His
ever ready smile bespoke the girl heart, which thrived
despite a lifetime of soldier training. At the worst mo
ments he came the quickest at an orderly's appeal,
crashing through the gap, half blinded from old wounds
to fling his slender length among his men, radiating a
store of good cheer and tender solicitude as to uplift the
dullest of them and feed anew the fire of each.
"Each wound tore freshly at the raw wound in his
own heart. At each bursting blast that tore its way
through flesh and blood, he muttered: "the swine." And
so he stayed until perhaps some other breathless runner
stormed in with a tale worse than this befalling down
the line somewhere.
Good Night, My Children!" and he would fade off
amid the graves and mist.
Hear the Wonderful Story of
George Eustace Pearson
"The History and Adventures of the Princess
Pats." of which regiment Mr. Pearson is one of the few
survivors. Of late months Mr. Pearson's writings on
the war have been published in numerous books and
leading magazines.
IHi: Momoe (ity Cbautauqua
Friday, August 30, 8 P. M.
EGGS ARE GOING UP
ARE YOUR HENS ON A
STRIKE?
EGG-MAKER
WILL MAKE THEM LAY
It will tone them up-lt will get them laying quicker. WOLF'S EGG-MAKER ha an In
vlcorating effect on the Inactive egg organs. It's easy to feed put a little In the morning
mash as directed. It contains no filler lc worth daily Is enough for thirty fowl. You
can't lose no eegs, no pay, OUR GUARANTEE. So sura are we thafWOLFS ECG
MAKER will make your hens lay; that It will keep them strong aad vigorous; that we will
supply you with enough for your flock, and If It doesn't do as we claim, return the empty
packace and get back your money. A TRIAL WILU CONVINCE YOU.
Put up In 25c and 50c packages. 50c package contains three times more
TrialPackatef Ifyourd"wlI,notnotuPty V'125or 50c for Port Paid
WOLF CHEMICAL CO, Quituy, 111.
FOB SALE BY ' C
L. M. WOOD, Druggist
MONROE CITY, MO.
M. M. COX & CO.,
.HUNNEWELL, MO.
Doing Things. Democracy's War. Pretty Goad GiJ Gauntry.
The best way to measure the! Tomorrow when the Army and! This is an old story of an Ame r-
strength of political parties in cam- Navy come home again, an ava-jican traveler who boasted abroad
paigns is by their issues. lanche of heroes, brave, brawn, that his country was bounded on
Issues should likewise be and as brawny men, with eyes that see the east by the rising sun. on the
south by the procession of the
a rule are the producers or votes. ; far beyond the walls of the narrow
That the vote in future campaigns lives they used to know: with sonls
will be influenced to greater degree, which scorn the pettiness and folly
by clear cut issues and less by
claims or the influence of astute
politicians is one of the beneficial
consequences of the war.
In the political skirmishes which
have so far preceded the fall cam
paigns, especially for office in the
United States Senate and House of
Representatives, no difficulty was
encountered on the part of the
Demnctat8 t Mate their issues in
precise, strictly confined and clear
cut terms
"Win the war" is a national task
not a political issue. It is the most
mportant business in which We as
Nation are now engaged. It mi st
and does take precedence before
anything else, but as already stated
this is not a political issue.
The banner of performing this
task, however, the conducting and
managing of this foremost business
of ours is an issue partisan critics
seek to raise.
Tremendous though this task is.
it can rightfully be claimed that
the present administration has more
than come up to expectations. In
numerable obstacles encountered in
the gigantic development of this
business of "winning the war" have
been overcome in the past, are
daily being surmounted and will
not block the achievement of ulti
mate victory.
It is not claimed that tnis is a
'Democratic war" though it is a
"war for democracy." However,, it
is a Democratic Administration
which, being in office and power, is
managing the business, and manag
ing it well
Party lines have been obliterated
for the sake' of efficiency wherever
necessary or advisable. "Politics
has been adjourned" in word and
fact.
Ever foremost in mind was "to do
things'' not merely "to say them."
which tended to produce result
The political issue is: Help win
the war by supporting the Presi
dent by giving him as counselors
and advisors, the men he desires
prefers; the men in whose judgment
he has confidence, men who will
help by co-relation and if need be
co ordination of effort and ability
that men of nis own party are
more apt to do this is sound logic.
Every up-to-date business organi
zation has its own stationery. At
the top of each letter head is the
came of the company, its address
and other information. On the
envelope is. printed the return ad
dress. Many up-to-date farmers
Dow have 6uch business stationery.
There is no class of business men
wfao will profit more from this than
will farmers. Come in and let us
fix you up with suitable letter
heads, envelopes and business
cards.
Thousands of cars are being as
sembled over the winter-wheat
states to move the great crop being
harvested. It is not the least of the
bright' war news of the day.
Now that the primary election is
over, perhaps you may regret some
of the mean things you said about
the other fcJljw.
V
T a . . . .
inecnesty individual who used
to nrace up to the grocery counter
and in a loud and raucous voice
demand, Send me a hundred
pounds of sugar,' now sneaks up to
the same counter and in a weak
small voice murmurs, "Have I ex
hausted my allotment for this
month?" Then he looks like
criminal while the groceryman gets
out his little book i.i which are reg
istered sugar-buyers and jots down
another two-pound sale.
Hunting U bouts is now a side is
sue with the American navy, the
main business being to get troops
and munitions to , France. How
ever, both are being taken care of.
There, will probably be an at
tempt to cross the Atlantic by
aeroplane before the end' of the
present year, for men of science
are studying the problem with
especially keen interest just now
But it is disconcerting to those of
us whose ideas about geography
are hazy to learn that Newfound
land the Azores ana Portugal are
the proposed "stations" on the route
That course would make the longest
continuous flight only a little more
than a thousands miies.
of their old ways; men who have be
come super-men through the Great
Adventure, and through man's best
friends, pain and danger; men who
have learned to laugh in d irk hour?;
to do without things which they
used to think were necessities; to
look back with contempt upon the
lives they lived before they went
forth to bivouac under the starry
; skies; and mireh with man nnd
Shi with men. before they knew
valor and sacrifice which cauterize
brain and body and soul forever
gainst the wastrel inclinations
which easy money and spendthrift
abits spread over vigor and man
hood.
Tomorrow - when they come back
home, they will come back to
women who, too, have found them
selves; who have waked to the
glory of being a woman; who did
not know the splendid stuff they
were made of until war swept away
the meringue of indulgence which
covered the bravery and unselfish
and common sense which is born in
every woman's soul,
Men and women are going to
scrap their old ideas and old ways
living. The old standards of
comfort are being kicked aside, and
human surroundings will be saner,
simpler and nobler. Men coming
from a life in the open air, from
rubbing elbows with a million men,
where possessions count for nothing
at all, and all (hat one's comrades
know or care is what kind of a man
you are; these men have discovered
that display has nothing to do with
happiness; they will no longer toler
ate the false ideals which formerly
led their families to spend more
than they could offord in order to
keep up the neighbors.
And the wives and daughters and
sweethearts at home who have
gone without new shoes in order
that the leather could be used to
make shoes for the father or broth
er or lover gone to war; the women
at home who have denied them
selves beef and bacon because they
knew if they ate it there would be
just that much less of the food the
soldiers need these women who
have come through the sacrificia
fires of self-denial have learned that
need the thousand
they once thought
America is one 'sea of senti
uunt, says an editor. In the busi
ness of war sentiment plays an im
portant part.
The farmer who houses bis bind
er and mower under a walnut tree
is soon compelled to buy new ma
chinery, and a county which per
mits its road machinery to remain
out in the weather throughout the
year is soon called upon to replace
its eauinment. There has been a
material in the cost of road ma
chinery, and the County Court
should see that the equipment
owned bv this county is kept in
proper repair.
' An Audrain County farmer who
was found by the Food Adminis
trator to have twenty 50-pound
sacks of flour under his barn said
he did not know that it was against
the law to have so much flour.
He probably put the flour there
because the location was conspicu
ous and easy to find.
they do, not
trifles which
tbey must buy
They have learned that show
and gratification of whims and van
ities have nothing to do with their
happiness. Tbey have learned that
equinoxes, and on the west by the
judgement of God.
We have felt, these recent days.
something of that grandiloquent
gentleman's pride of birthplace.
We have indeed felt as if it were
the only speech which placed the
proper metes and bounds upon.
Americans right to be proud.
For this is the land that has
placed green troops into the field
who have trampled over the kaiser's
veterans as over so many grasshop
pers and tumble bugs who disputed '
the road. It is the land which," a
few months ago. didn't know a
howitzer from a hole in the ground
and yet has supplied our boys with
weapons of hign precision ammuni
tion that has fewer "duds" than any
other ammunition in the battle-
ine. It is the land that not long
since was pulling its hair over the
fact that it didn't have ships, and
s now launching ships so fast that
folk 8 have ceased to count them
We had a class of pampered
youngsters who seemed to have
been born and raised in a disinfect
ed atmosphere. In France to-day
they are hosts for cooties and make
no more about it than a circus
razorback. We had a class which
thought itself created of superior
clay and which now considers itself
elevated to the elect when some
hairy son of toil addresses it as
Mack" ob terms of brotherhood.
We bad a class of poolroom loaf
ers lor whom drowning appeared
too good, a class that in the army
has made good with a jump and
hurrah.
A pretty good old country!
What other one has produced
more Spartan mothers and fathers?
What other one has produced more
men and women who gritted their
teeth and held their heads high
when grief descended on them like
waters from a broken dam?
The world without used to sneer
at us as having more dollar chasers
to the square yard; than any other
nation on the globe Perhaps we
had. But these dollar chasers have
emptied their pockets for helping
on the war just as readily as any
other people. Our nagged and pur
ed and almost jailed captains of in
dustry have leaped to make indus
try the servaut of the country's
needs.
Up to the northwestern forests
and in the wheat fields beyond the
Missouri were groups of men who
seriously committed themselves to
a life work of sprinkling sand into
journals and setting" fire to the
1 property of citizens who did not
1 please them. Such of them as have
to snend all of one s income is as .
childish and trade as if a nation ate not one int0 the array r joined
all of its potatoes and saved none
for seed. Women have learned to
look upon waste and extravagance
as the mark of either dull wits or
profligacy, and unthinkable to her
whose eyes have opened to the
truth that her work is the grandest
and most important work in all the
world giving to the world the com
ing generation, and moulding the
ideals and characters of future men
into stalwart, dauntless souls, of the
kind who "died to make men free,'
loyal, thrifty, brave and strong.
Two great shell factories will be
erected in St- Louis at a cost of
$8,000,000. it was learned recently
after Dlaus for the plants were
officially approved by the ordi
nance division of the War Depart
ment at Washington. 'The plants
will be the largest their kind in the
Uuitd States end will employ from
6000 to 8000 persons.
i
It is perfectly clear, . from the
truthful and illuminative accounts
of 'returning travelers, that Ger
many either has plenty of food or
else is ton the point of starvation.
the foresters in Europe are working
for their country as if the devil
were after them making a mighty
fuss when the miniature American
flags on their shirtfronts have be
come unpinned and fallen off. A
Socialist leader rap for office on a
platform calling for immediate
peace. Not long after he asked
postponement of a case in which
be was attorney in order thac he
might join bis fellow party leaders
to revise the party policies in favor
of loyally.
Not a bad country to work such
changes, eh?
Some of the descendants of the
old colonial stock used to worry
lest, through immigration and in
dustrialism, and soft living and so
on. the spirit and hardihood and
courage of New Englanders and
southerners should go by the board.
How greatly tbey have been mis
taken. Not Bunker Hill or "the
Alamo or Cold Harbor 6aw men
more willing to dare and to do than
those boys of boys arouud Chateau
Thierry and Soissons.
Areu't you proud of them? And
aren't you proud of the soil out of
which tbey sprans? Toledo Blade.
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