Monroe City Democrat., September 13, 1918, Image 3

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Man-Power.
We rend much of man power
these day?; human-power is a bet
ter term, btceuse it erophaizes
the fact that the women and chil
dren also constitute a great factor
in ibis war In the final victory
every man, woman and child in
Am erica tan end should have a
part.
In comparing the man power of
Germany with that of the United
States it must be borne in mind
that a much larger proportion of
the manual labor of the man power
of the nation as performed, is ex
erted by the German women than
by the women of America. It is
said that in peace times the women
ctnttitute 42 per cent of the agri
cultural and industrial labor of
Germany. They work in the fields,
in the factories, in the mines, at the
-very hardest and most laborious
tasks, doing the work only done by
men in this country. With a great
proportion of the German men in
the army, it is not improbable that
-women now consitute by far the
larger half of ' German manual
labor.
The women of the United States
are nobly, unselfishly, manfully,
one may say, bearing their shaie of
the burdens of war. By the grace
of God and the power and courage
of America the fate cf the German
women is not end will never be
theirs.
Commission Suggested.
The creation of a "Missouri After
the War" Commission by the Mis
souri Council of Defense has been
suggested and a plan for adopting
the suggestion is now being worked
out. The 6cope of such a Commrs
eion would embrance not only the
rehabilitation of the returned soldier
but would prepare for his re-entrance
into the social and industrial life of
the state. Those who are working
on the plan believe that the return
of these men will furnish an unparal
leled manpower in type ; nd numbers
for the exploitation of Missouri's
great industrial resources.
SUMMER
TO
Colorodo, the Rocky
Mountain ' National.
Estes Park, ellow
' stone National Park
Glazier ; Nijt?l j; Park
National Parks and
Monuments . in the
West, Black Hills,
Buffalo Bill Country,
Big Horn Mountains,
North Pacific Coast
and California, now
on sale. Liberal
stop-overs and long
limits.
S. B. THIEHOFF, Tkt.
Agent.
Now (or Supreme Effort.
We may hipe to see a very con
siderable retirement of the Germans
toward the Belgian line before
winter, but all military authorities
on the Allied side warn u? not to
expert too much. America entered
the war to help the right bide win,
and to establish peece on sound
principles at the earliest possible
moment. In order to end the war
decisively in the year 1919, ever
one of the Allied powers must exert
the greatest possible energy. When
you make war ou must concentrate.
and your (fleet must be supreme.
Otbeiwise you prolong the war.
sacrifice life in greater measure, and
multiply every kind of misery and
oisorder. What we propose to do.
therefore, is to meet Germany's
military challenge and to crush
Teutonic force by the sheer pre-
rocderance of Allied force. There
is not the faintest present indication
of any other decent alternative
Never at any moment since she
began the war, more than four years
ego, has Germany been more fully
committed to policies of conquest
than during the past few weeks.
Never at any time in all the cen
turies, if we read history aright, has
it been more necessary than at this
time to meet military aggression in
the name of liberty and human
rights. It is proposed, therefore,
by the Allies, not to compromise
iih German militarism but to de
feat it thoroughly; and this can be
done only by .organizing forces so
powerful that it would be useless
for Germany to make a prolonged
resistance.
State Funds.
7 he balance rf approximately
$1,000,000 of the State loan of
S2.000.000 will be paid to St. Louis
banks inJanuary.it was Warned at
the office of -State Auditor Hack-
man
The loan of $2,000,000 was exe
cuted by Governor Gardner at the
incoming of his administration to
take care of the State debts. The
Sl.OCO.OOO already paid on the
debt accumulated from new meas
ures recommended by the Gov
ernor.
The new measures passed by the
last Legislature had netted a total
of $1,709,849.93 to August 2a Of
the amount $1,096,94593 was de
rived from the corporation fran
cbise tax and $342,47988 from the
general inheritance tax.
A balance of $957,874 43 is in the
State revenue fund, according to
the report of State Treasurer Mid
delkamp.
Increased pay for the hard-work
ing local draft boards has been
authorized by Provoel . Marshal
General Crowder. Under an order
announced last Thursday members
c-T. the board will receive from $50
to $2C0a month, the amount vary
ing with the number of registrants.
Fifty dollars will be the minimum
for members of-boards with 1,000
registrants or less. Heretofore the
compensation has been 10 cents
for each registrant, which in many
cases was a mere pittance and not
in keeping with the time devoted to
the task.
The official reports from German
headquarters read like the old lady's
explanations in regard to a broken
chum (tie bed borrowed. In the
first place, she said, I did not bor
row the cbun at- all, and in the
second place it was already broken
when I borrowed it. In the first
place the German army has not re
treated, and in the 6econd place it
retreated in order to get more
room to matuever.
German Loses.
Between July 18 and Augut 15
the Germans had lost nearly 75,000
prisoners, more than 1500 guns.!
They had been driven mt of n
thousand square rrrtles of conquered :
territory. They had lost two great j
battles one. a battle which dtroy- j
ed their own great strategic venture,
the other a battle In which, at hst,;
Foch, taking the offensive, had won j
one of the most brilliant and com-1
plete successes of military history, i
On the material side the case1
was even worse. At trie outset of
the campaign the Germans possess
ed a superiority of not less than
thirty divisions on the West Front.
This superiority had been sufficient
to give them a decisive advantage
at the critical time and place in
three momeutous engagements
Five great battles bad, however, de
prived them of the best of their
picked troops, five months of delay
bad enabled the Allies to bring
back troops from all the "side
shows," from Italy and from Pales
tine and Salonica. Britain had
drawn upon her metropolitan garri
sons, America had put in Europe
not less than 1,000,000 fighting
troops, the eqivalent of eighty Ger
man divisions, at- least half a mil
lion of which were beginning to
play a part, and of the latter an
equivalent of fifteen German divis
ions had been used at. the Marne.
.Numerically the tide had turned;
the Germans were outnumbered.
Materially they were at a disad
vantage because they had milked
their divisions to construct a cer
tain number -of storm disvisions
composed cf the best of all divisions,
and precisely these divisions had
borne " the burden of five terrific
struggles and were now called upon
to limit the extent of a defeat which
bad just come in the sixth major en
gagement of the campaign. If their
numbers were still great, as was
manifestly true, the Germans were
now practically without fresh di
visions. Their storm troops were
decimated and there had come to
their army the same dangerous
spirit of depression unmistakable
in the French Army after the fail
ure at the Aisne and in the British
Army after the bloody shambles of
Flanders last autumn.
All of these factors were present
in the Napoleonic era after the
great Emperor had met defeat at
Leipzig. The Marne and Somme
together might well suggest com
parison with this other Battle of tne
Nations, which was. the beginning
of the end in the case of the last
soldier to seek to impose a single
will upon Europe and the world.
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MONROE CITY, MO.
M. M. COX & CO.,
HUNNEWELL, MO.
PROTECT HOME
A bank account not only protects your money
against theft and loss, but also protects it against
temptation to spend. Every man owes himself and
his family the protection of a savings account in a
good substantial bank like this one. Why not start
in a small way and save something every week?
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $100,000.00
OFFICERS
J. S. Scott, President M. B. Proctor, Cashier
J. J. Brown, Vice President . J. S. Rutledge, Asst. Cashier
DIRECTORS
J. S. Scott, Wm. Buckman, P. W. Huston, R. S. McClintic, J.
J. Brown, J. V. Proctor, Leo. Bell, D. R. Davenport, M. B.
Proctor.
MONROE CITY BANK.
and cannot return unless France or
Britain, like Russia, makes a separ
ate peace with the common enemy
a thing unthinkable, as unthinka
ble as that we shouiii abandon the
task to which we have all set our
selves, bt-fore the work was done
In the history of the World War,
July and August must hereafter be
memorable. In them .we met a peril
as great as the peril of September.
1914. We met the enemy at that
Second Marne which the Russian
collapse had made po-sible for him,
and we defeated him even more
completely than in the First.
Thereby we liquidated the Russian
liabilities, and thereafter, thanks to
the supreme genius of Foch, we re
gained the offensive and began the
lnnd task of winning our decision
We shall do well not to exagger-' by one of the most briiar)t vict0.
ate the extent of the German defeat
or look for too speedy- a relief from
the terrible burden of the present
struggle. The road .' to Berlin is
long and aifficut. What is clear is
that it is no longer as impassable as
the far shorter "from Noyon to Paris.
We have escaped the deadly peril
which resulted from Russian defec
tion and collapse. We have regain
ed the moral and military ascendan
cy on the' West Front We have
in a single mouth regained all the
ground of real military importance
which the Germans took in four
months of 6avage fighting, and
there left to us the resources and
opportunity for - new blows before
the campaign ends
The extent of our victory depends
upon us still; it depends upon the
degree of unity which the Allied
nations maintain, upon the extent
to which we all of us stand firm
against the German peace offensive
which is bound to come next win
ter. We have not won the war,
because we shall only win the war
by breaking German resistance,
which is yet very far from ' being
broken, . but we have been in dan-
ries in the
struggle.
whole course of the
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end Black Minorica Ccckrells, early
batched choicebirds, $150 to $2.00 ger of losing the war, the European
each. Pine Grove Poultry Farm, phase of it, at leust, for five long
Monroe City, Mo. months, and that danger has passed
Suit has been filed against the
M. K. & T. railroad and the Hannjbal
Union Depot Company for the death
of John D. Walker. The suit was
bought by William T. Walker
administrator of the estate of the
deceased, through his attorneys, Eby
& Hulse. The plaintiff asks judg
ment from the railroad and depot
company in the sum of $10,000.
John D. Walker met his death the
first of last February when he was
struck by a Katy switch engine,
while his foot was caught in the
frog of the puzzle switch near the
Union Depot. The plaintiff alleges
in his petition that the defendants
failed to properly fill or block the
frog of said puzzle switch and had
permitted the blocking of said frog
to become rotten and defective
If Miss Marie Summers of Mc
Credie qualifies after the general
election for justice of the peace, she
will be the Crst woman in Callaway
county to hold a position of a
j udicial nature. Miss Summers who
is bookkeeper at the B M. Atkinson
store In McCredie, was nominated
at the primary, receiving four votes,
Poison Gases in Warfare.
Poison n sjases are produced by
some explosives which have been
commonly u-;ed in warfare. They
are the product? of the explosion.
Tne direct use of poison gases, how
ever, was specific illy inhibited by
fhe Hague Convention. Theywere
used delioeratelv for the first time
April 22. 1915. on piri of the
Ypres salient. A poison ga cloud
(chlorine) was there launched by
the Germans against the French
and British, where ttiey jjined, the
Turcos and Canadians receiving the
brunt.
Frustrated in the quick accom
plishment of their aims, the Ger
mans again threw all notur aside,
as they had done in Belgium, and
used poison gases. Iu this way
they proposed to end the war quick
ly. The immediately bitter purpose
was to kill and affect the morale of
the colonials. Written and spoken
narratives of the effect of. that great
greenish yellow cloud on the minds
of those soldiers, as it rose right out
of the ground, rolled toward and
enveloped them, the first whin's
choking, then producing spasms of
agony, are thrillingly terrible.
Many died a horrible death; many
who raced away ahead of the weird
waves got sufficient of the gas to af
fect their health seriously.
On the headquarters bulletin
board of a certain Allied army divi
sion, there recently appeared a notice
over its cm Herder's signature
that has greatly pleased American
officers. It calls attention to the
punctilious and smartness of the
American in saluting not only their
officers, but those of all the Allied
armies, and then directs bis own
officers to see that their men do the
same.
September 16th
Is the date the fall term begins
at the Hannibal Commercial Col
lege, Hannibal, Missouri Write
for particulars. . 4t