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SEGEL APPEALS TO OERA
FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF 0
II PEOPLE
MODRAGY
By Franz Slgel)
Bulgaria's surrender breaks the line
of the Central Powers and converts
our unshakable faith' in final victory
for democracy Into a "certainty of its
early attainment.
At this fateful moment In the his
tory of the German people, I. as an
American citizen of German race, feel
Impelled to raise1 my voice and ap
peal to the democratic and llberty
. loving elements of the German people
to make a determined effort to rid
themselves of the ruler who have
enslaved them, and who are torment
ing the rest of the world.
The masses in Germany should lis
ten eagerly to a voice which comes
from among the ranks, of German
Americans. In the past we have, de
fended what was good in the Oar
man people at the risk of our repu
tation for loyalty to our own Repub
lic, the United States of America. We
could take this risk because by word
and deed we have been faithful to
the ideals of the American people.
We have always felt sure that the
love of liberty and Justice has not died
out of the hearts of Germans and
that when the time oomes we can
rely upon this sentiment in their
breasts to exert Itself. While parti
cularly condemning the Hohenzol
lerns as the authors of the world
crime we did not lose faith in the
7
men of German blood nor did our
President, however much the Junker
newspapers and statesmen have mis
represented him. I
Wo know that the Junker leaders
and press have persistently describ
ed President Wilson as a hypocrite.
That false cry has totally deceived
many Germans. Is it not time they
should open their ears to better and
wiser councils? Many of them
know In their hearts that President
Wilson has an irreproachable record
In the annals of democracy. He is
our voice, the voice of the common
people of our Republic, Including
those of German extraction.
Our people desire a just anc. demo
cratic peace, not a compromise with
Prussian militarism. If the German
people will listen to our President
they will be listening to us, if they
trust him, they will be trusting us.
We do not desire the annihilation of
Germany. What we do desire is that
the German masses shall take poli-
A Safe and Speedy
Rheumatism Remedy
That Offers Two Weeks Treatment
To Any Sufferer On Money
Back Plan
Be fair to yourself, ypu sufferer
from rheumatism, no matter what
form. Go to Hartigan's Drug Stores
or any good druggist and get a pack
age of Rheuma, the guaranteed pre
scription. ITE th entire bottle, and
if von don't think it has given you
quick and sure relief, say so, and you
can have your money back.
Isn't that a fair offer? Can you s63
any deceit or red tape about it? What
chance do you take? Absolutely none.
Then get a bottle of Rheuma today.
It's a reputable physician's prscrip
tion, altogether different from reme
dies usually prescribed, free from nar.
cotics, and perfectly harmless.
Rheuma acts on the kidneys and helps
to force the uric acid from the swollen
joints and other lodging places. It
pleases you in a day; it makes you
hopeful and! happy in a week. It
has released from bondage rheumatic
.,fo arhr, thought nothine would
It should do as mucu j."
TRUE CHARACTER OF THE BLOND
BEAST REVEALED BY ONE WHO HAS
HAD OPPORTUNITY TO KNOW HIM
'eive relief.
tical power Into their own hands and ; you seiaum i"- .. ofer.
Knittlo sufficient lor iwu
establish a government which shall be
responsible only to themselves. Only
with such a German government cap
the United States deal, and thus pave
the way for an early, honorable and
lasting peace.
If the Germans do not wish to
meet the fate of an utterly defeat
ed and discredited people, this is the
A large
weeks' treatment,
Adv.
is inexpensive.
The
Puritan Standard
Nature cannot be standardized and
so harris and bacon differ. But by
setting our own standard and care
fully selecting from our
output the hams and
bacon which measure
up to that standard we
can assure yon of the
best always if you will
demand Puritan Hams
and Bacon.
The Taste Tells."
THE CUDAHY PACKING COMPANY
C. X. SiiCJt, Mr, 508-510
IF your dealer doesn't Water St., Bridgeport, Conn.
hndle Puriian, telephone Phone Bar. 5436-5426-5427.
. Purttan Hum and Bncon are
smoked daily in our Brtdg-poTt
Branch House, Insuring fresh.
ptllilHIftltniHIlliW
Vfao-a-dags, Its Golden's Smart Shoes'
a
In coco, brown and mahogany gAA
calf, patent leather and gun calf O
TO men who buy with discretion, our
motto: "Better Shoes at Reasonable
Prices," comes now with an important
recognition. Not one of our prices has had
to be changed to comply with the War
Board's Regulations against profiteering.
$500 $500 $JQ0
17 AND 19 FAIRFIELD AVEKUF.
BRIDGEPORT
Eighteen Now York Shops
Complete Lint of Women's Shoes atall Shops
time for them to awake and seize the
opportunity given to them. This is
the critical hour of German liberty.
The Hohenzollerns and Hapsburgs
must pass into history; they and their
Junkers must have no part in the
free Germany of the future. The days
following 1815 and 1848, days of
promises unfulfilled and hopes of
popular free government killed and
crushed under the heel of militarism
and Kaiserism must not be repeated.
In appealing to the German people,
we German-Americans act irom mo
tives of self-interest as well as out
of sympathy for our racial brothers,
for if the German government re
mains autocratic, militarism and com
pulsion will endanger tree institu
tions throughout the world. The mo
ment the common people rise and
seize the reina of government, they
will have laid a secure foundation
for neace and rehabilitation of their
own honor and good name.
CARRIER PIGEON
BRINGS MESSAGE
London, Oct. 2 5 Wounded and
with blood streaming from one of its
eves, a carrier pieeon, fluttered to
the jrround in a British aerodrome,
almost exhausted. The message it
carried was the one word "Attack
ed."
The bird was one of four which
had been taken out in two eap:ane
on -patrol duty in the North sea. It
was known that a German patrol of
at least six machines was in the vi
cinity. These had swooped down on
the British flyers and before help
summoned by the pigeon could arrive,
had quit the fight and flown away, in
accordance with the usual German air
tactics of not risking an engagement
with equal forces.
The pigeon, which has recovered
from its wound, has been "pensioned
for" war service.
There : are numerous canes where
messages carried by pigeons have re
sulted in the rescue of occupants or
wrecked aeroplanes. In one, a bird,
at the cost of its life brought a mes
sage that saved six British airmen
adrift in the North Sea. After deliv
ering its message, the pjgeon fell
dead from exhaustion. The wrecked
airmen -were on the point of death
when rescued- having had no food
and little water for days.
A letter from 'William M. Grosve
nor. Consulting Chemist and Factory
Engineer, of New Tork City: ,;
A year in a German factory follow
ed by eight years of almost constant
business and social contact with the
German in various parts of Germany,
Austria and the United States has
taught me these truths, as four years
n Germany taught Gerard, and three
years in Belgium taught Whitlock.
IT the Blond Beast that personi
fies . modern Germany, the .terrible
soulless half blind THING, mad with
hallucinations of world dominion IT
cannot comprehend. 'Forty years It
has been systematically trained to be
blind to every duty except It's selfish
gain (the survival of the most ruth
less), to every virtue except it's pride,
to every right except it's might. Bred
in the bone, suckled at the breast,
taught In the schools, preached in the
pulpits and venerated "at the graves
of the German people for two genera
tions, it has entered into the modern
German in place of a soul, and you
cannot hope to oast it out in a few
years, or by a change in form of gov
ernment. The meaning of a nation
is not its political system, but the
ideal of its people.
No permanent peace can be hoped
for, that is not founded squarely on
the absolute destruction of it's god,
Might. Also the ways of peace must
provide for the re-education of every
individual German by some form of
personal restitution until the worship
of the Blond Beast is purged from
his creed. The individual German
(not merely the rulers) must learn
that might does not make right, that
the war lords cannot order God about
or suspend the Ten Commandments,
that being a decent member of the
human race is paramount to being
loyal to any government, that culture
involves a gentleness which is not
weakness but is diametrically oppos
ed to Kultur, that a scrap of paper is
well worth dying for if it represents
honor, and thousands of other like
things down to the everyday code that
a good sport is no squealing welcher
and surrender is not a legitimate
means to knife your enemy in the
ba"ck. Today the German mind the
mind of the ordinary German indi
vidual has no comprehension of these
things. His answer is "Germany over
all," or "Military necessity," or "The
Fatherland can do no wrong," or "The.
spread of Kultur," or "It is beat for
me, myself," or "My religion is made
in Berlin." Among other things, he
must be painstakingly, siowly, thor
oughly taught that religion is no more
made Jri Berlin than the white flame
of heroism is manufactured in a drug
factory, but descends upon the hum
ble worshipper at the altar of self
sacrifice. The race of Huns must be
re-educated from the cradle up.
Failing that, you may be sure civ
ilization will have to fight it again,
for if the Blond Beast, however
whipped, can slink away to the lair
he has today In the mind of the Ger
man people, he will come back and
next, time will make no mistake in the
manner of his coming.
How can thi regeneration be ac
complished? Mere money indemnities
only foster bitterness for .years by
their blind burden of taxation. The
countries that have been devastated
have a right to such poor restitution
as can now be made and America
has the power and the duty of seeing
that it is made. Let the work oC
compensation be personal and indi
vidually instructive to the German
and let it be carried out in all possi
ble kindness under the direction of an
International Allied Board as an edu
cational program, not as a revenge.
To secure this Germany must be
taken under Allied military control
for at least a year, and all the ma
chinery, farm equipment, household
utensils and works of art looted from
the other countries should be search
ed out and returned, and all the de
stroyed works of art and learning
should be as far as possible replaced
from the German store. Certainly
the greatest step toward true repent
ance is to make good the theft. Mean
while every member of the German
military machine from the private up
should be compelled under military
guard to give his own service in the
devastated cuntries, for a term in
creasing progressively with his mili
tary rank, to the work of reconstruc
tion and every German male there
after be compelled to give a portion
of his time each year for 20 years
to completing as far as possible the
restoration until the cost of Ger
manys war lust has been repaid to
the world. Finally, and most import
ant, every German child from 6 to
15 years should be educated abroad
out of the atmosphere of Kultur,
away from the lair of the Beast, so
that he may have a chance to grow
up human. The cost of doing it
would be far less than the cost of
another wa"r, or the price exacted by
the fostered hate of a growing nation
, The only possible prelude to such a
program is that the Allies insist on
the absolute and unconditional sur
render, the complete dlsarmmament
of Germany. To the . assurance of
such a program with its lesson to the
world we would - gladly, give our
money, our service and our lives.
With any make-shift .peaeo at present,
our Liberty Bonds are likely to be
repudiated 'by our Hun conquerors
before they mature and fortunate
shall we be If we die first and die
childless. We must finish, the fight
and keep the faith now, or God help
the coining generation.
Think of the collossal theft of all
private property even the carting
away of the fertile top soil to leave
the very land worthless. Think of
the rellberate, the wanton destruction
of All private and public property
Which the Beast could not steal. Think
of the painstakingly planned acd offi
cially authorized wholesale brutality,
kidnaping into slavery, torture, star
vation, maiming; of children, idle
murder and rape of women, in Bel
gium, France, Italy, Serbia, Rumania,
Poland and Russia. And then, as you
love your country, your children, your
mother, your wife and your God con
sider no make-shift peace.
Chairman Baruch of the "War In
dustries Board announced that pro
gress was being oaaej m securing
wooden ships to bring wool from
South America.
LIFT OFF CORNS!
Freezone is magic! Corns lift
right off with fingers
without pain
Hurt? No, not one bit! Just drop
a little Freezone on that touchy corn,
instantly it stops aching then you lift
that bothersome corn right off. Tes,
magic! Costs only a few cents.
Try Freezone! Your duggists sella
a tiny bottle.sufficient to rid your feet
of every hard corn, soft corn, or corn
between the toes, and calluses, with
out one particle of pain, soreness or
irritation. Freezone is the mysterious
ether discovery of a Cincinnati genius.
CAMOUFLAGE SUIT
FOR U, S. SNIPERS
ON WEST FRONT
Behind the American Lines in '
France, Oct 25 (Correspondence of
the Associated Press) The American
sniper wears a fantastic suit of gnen
burlap with fufts of rafda or Mada
gascar grass, sewed thictfy on over
the coats and trousers. The coat has
a headpiece with eyeholes so that the
sniper's head is completely enveloped.
American troops in the Vosres have
used these camouflage suits with
great effect. The grass-covered bur
lap in merged into the grass through
which the sniper crawls and even
when only 25 feet distant his pres
ence cannot be detected.
These suits are made by French
women in the American camouflage
station behind the lines.
The "disappearing-butlding" 1s on
of the curious contrivances of the
camouflage artists here. The building
is the size of a two-story frame cot-
tage. Viewed close at hand It stands
out plainly enough, and even at 1(K
feet the cottage is quite clear. But,
at the distance from the enemy ob
servations would be made, or from an
airplane at 8,000 feet, the building
does- in fact "disappear." This is done
by the painting in great wavy lines
of green and brown which, at ,3. &is-
tanoe, obliterates the straight lines of
roof, gamble, windows and doors, and.;
transform the whole structure Into a1
blur of green-brown color which
blends Into the grass and ground.
"That is the director of properties
for David Belasco," said the escort, as
we passed a soldier. This disclosed!
that, besides, the artists of this cam-:
ouflage coloring, there are well known
actors, stage managers, scene paint
ers, property directors and cinema'
artists. ' . i
The actors gave a show the other
night for the women workers. -TherS:
was a camouflage chariot race, cam,
ouflage gladiators, and camouflage,,
lions and tigers. Otis of the camout
flags tigers looked so real that i
nearly caused a panic when it
down among the women.
Colonel Bennion's camouflage force,
besides the 900 people here, has 250;
more along the fron j 16 men andVan
officer with each American division
erecting camouflage devices and puib :
ting into use dummies and decoys,
Two of the camouflage force at da,
front have been killed, Sergeant;
Ernest A. Herter, son of a -Welti
known interior decorator of Nefg
Tork, and Lieut. Harry Thrasheraai
American sculptor, who fell as tha
Americans were hammering theirwa3ri
Into Fismes.
MCST GUARD SHOES
Amsterdam, Oct 25 The European
habit of placing one's shoes outside
the bedroom door at night to find
them ready cleaned in the morning,
no longer obtains in Germany. Leath
er is so scarce nowadays that boots
and shoes have become "objects of
value" to be left in custody of the
hotel manager. A hotel guest at
Cologne, who brought suit against a
hotel proprietor to recover damages
for his shoes which had disappeared
overnight, lost his case and the judge
rated the traveller soundly for "not
protecting his property better in these
dreadful days when thieving is- ram
pant and hotel staffs reduced owing
to the war."
A PUNCH FESTIVAL
The largest punch howl ever used j
was tnat utilized, at a party given
at Alicant by Admiral Edward Rus
sell 224 years ago today, Oct 25,
1694, when a marble fountain was
converted for the occasion into a
punch bowL The ingredients used
in brewing the punch Included four
hogsheads of brandy, one "pipe" of
Malaga wine, twenty gallons of lime
juice, 3,600 lemons, 1,300 pounds of
white BUgar, five pounds of grated
nutmeg, 300 toasted biscuits and eight
hogsheads of water. A boy in a
boat filled the cups of the 600 per
sons who partook of the contents of
the mighty punch bowl.
THE FATHER OF TRUSTS
The great industrial combinations
which in America have come to De
known as "trusts" are the legitimate
descendants of the monopolies of Eli
zabethan and Stuart days in England
The principle of "trust" organization
bringing together or two or more
concerns enegaged in the same bus
iness, for the purpose of reducing ey.
penses, regulating production and re
stricting competition is as old ai
business. When the Rocketeiier in
terests were consolidated in the
Standard Oil . Co., In 1870, and the
Rtn.nriii.rd Oil Trust was launched In
1892, the organization assumed a
scope and power previously unknown.
It was a lawyer, however, who real-
Iv Invented the modern industrial
trust as it exists today Judge Wil
liam Henry Moore. '
Judge William H. Moore was born
seventy years ago today in utlca, w
Y and entered Amherst College in
1867, but, owing to ill health, did not
graduate. Later he studied law and
was admitted to the bar in Wisconsin
in 1872. He moved to Chicago, and
made corporation law a specialty. He
soon became recognized as an author
ity by American captains of indus
ty. With his brother, James Hobart
Moore, also a disciple of Blackstonei
Judge Moore promoted four giant
corporations known in industrial his
tory as the "Moore Greup" with a
capital of t)187,000,000, The Diamond
Match Co., the so-sailed "matoh
trust" was launched by the Moore
brothers in 1889, The National Bis
euit Co, and other great Industrial
combinations are also a monument
to the legal genius of the Moore
bf ethers, . .. '
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A.New York Town artist, of renown, whose
Wgarinerfrcmtper Jtaing top
notch' prices, "is the, creator of this fetching
Omcda. We spring it first thanks to our
effiderititaiTorplantat.New'York;
TStiargfaveKL ' Button DotIe-Breaster
with convertible jDuflex 'collar 'xxnd .Overseas
belted-back. Cjlimpse'- the high-chested effect f
weked Towncoat 'pKKetsmtheijaurjSwt
ofhMsweepiskirt
Dueltjoarsuririvaled volume of distribution,
tmx .Me, GoHE chain-ofstores, anc our
simplified.' selling system,' at cash picesr
minus aU,..jnTklcfem'en's profits GoldE Fifth
Avenue Clothes 'are; conceded to be in the
sameTclass witK 'those selling elsewhere .at
$10 more. Gold&x)nomize!
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