Baxter Daily Citizen from Baxter Springs, Kansas • 2

BAXTER DAILY CITIZEN WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1919 J. 4. 4. J. j.

-J. I GIVE THY BOY BaxterDailyCitizen STATE NEWS ITEMS The victory liberty loan to be floated in April is expected to be five billion dollars, according to the house ways and means committee. So get out your dough. lisp -V i i 1 i Published every afternoon except Sunday at Baxter Springs, Kansas. THE BAXTER PRINTING CO.

A. E. PFREMMER, Editor and Mgr "Entered as second class matter December 12, 1917, at the post office at Baxter Springs, Kansas, under act of March 3, 187D." Rates of Supscription Delivered by Carrier, per .10 By Mail, inside county 3.00 By Mail, outside county 4.00 PRESIDENT'S BOSTON ADDRESS President Wilson delivered a masterful speech at Boston. All fair minded men must concede that fact, regardless whether they believe that the world constitution will prevent war or not. No doubt the president was fully aware of the bitter opposition of the United States Senate to the League of Nations constitution, and therefore he threw down the gauntlet in his speech and challenged any man to answer him.

That position of the speech which most concerns America is given below: "Suppose we sign the treaty of 'I the most ii that the ekxa.Ls of the modern world ill airord and go home and think about our labors; we will know that we have left written upon the historic tablet at Versailles, upon which Ver-gennes and Benjamin Franklin wrote their names, nothing but a modern scrap of paper; no nations united to defend it, no great forces combined to make it good, no assurance given to the downtrodden and fearful people of the world that they shall be safe. Any man who thinks that America will take part in giving the world any such rebuff and disappointment as that does not know America. "We Will Make Men Free" "I invite him to test the sentiments of the nation. We set this up to make men free and we did not confine our conception and purpose to America and now we will make men free. If we did not do that the fame of America would be gone and all her powers would be dissipated.

She then would have to keep hrr power for those narrow, se'lish provincial purposes which seem so dear to some minds that have no sweep beyond the nearest horizon. 1 should welcome no sweeter challenge than that. I have fighting blood in me and it is sometimes a delight to let it have scope, but if it is a challenge on SOLDIER LETTER a Mr. and Mrs. F.

E. Estes have received the following letter from their son, Private Warren C. Estes: Somewhere in France, Jan. 2, 1919. Dear Folks at Home: I must say that I am very happy today.

I have just received the Xmas package you sent to me. You cannot realize how proud it made me feel to receive it. I am really prouder of the pictures than anything else. They made me feel like I was at home. Everything looked so natural to me.

My boy friends enjoyed looking at them too. Papa, your's and sister's pictures are fine. I felt like talking to you. They admire your pictures, especially papa's, I have all the pictures spread before me and I look at them awhile, smoke my cigar and eat candy. Tell Mrs.

Hopkins I highly appreciate what she sent. To my dear little sister: Npw that you are growing so fast I know that you are lots of help to mamma, You must study your lessons well'so you can soon get in the high school. Mamma, we have a good place to stay and plenty of fire, so our houses are very warm. They are made of stone. I can tell you lots about this country when I come home, and 1 hope that will not be long.

You all take good care of yourself and remember me in your prayers. Write every week it will give you something to do. Ha, ha. I am talking awful smart but I am so far away you cannot get me. That is why, I guess.

By, by, your loving son, Priv. Warren C. Estes, 805 Co. L. Pian Inft.

A. E. F. via N. Y.

Hemstitching. 1133 Military Ave. NOTICE Inasmuch as I am moving the stock out of town and closing the business I desire that all parties knowing themselves indebted to the Globe Clothing Company, call and settle their accounts this week. C. E.

PHILLIPS, Prop. A case of spectacles stolen from the entrance of the stairway to Dr. Cannon's office. Please inform Dr. Cannon of any information, concerning same.

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C. Shoemaker, Baxter Flesh of my flesh I give, I give you my boy with his fair young life, I bid him go forth to the bloody strife. My heart it is torn with a two-edged knife-Life is so sweet to live. I give you my boy oh, the gracious Christ, Pardon these burning tears, I give you my boy in his princely power, My laddie but come to his manhood flower With love; with ideals of a golden hour Greeting the dawn of years. I give you my boy, will you give him back, Clean as the lad I knew, Or will he return, if this thing should be, Coarse fashioned and brutal, estranged from me, Forgotten the dreams and the beast set free He whom I gave to you? I give you my boy should the Reaper call Truce on an alien sod, My strength it will come for the great dark way, But where is the strength will ever stay That bitterest grief when men will slay The love that has walked with God? Need a painter or paper hanger? Drop Jones a card.

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Phone 1861 Joplin, Mo. at the Job Printing the "Daily Citizen" Closing Oof Birdssla "Wagons- Occurrences During Past Week Gathered From All Parts of Kansas. FAVOR BANK OF KANSAS PLAN State Association Adopts Resolution Indorsing Measure to Aid State Banks Commend Fowler Brothers. Unqualified indorsement of tHe pro posed "bank of Kansas" bill, which Is now before the state legislature, was voted by members of the Kansas State Bankers' Association, at its annual convention at Topeka. The resolution That we monf) the bank of Kan.

sas bm as a meaaure based on sound and long tried banking principles; that will, if passed, eliminate float, give better rediscount privileges, protect and preserve the state bank system, put tne mil resources oi tne state uanK stem hlnd deral system and be an additional source of income to it. viiv oiuiv. Satisfaction was expressed in the ff ver fhe fact that mre Tne re80iutions also extolled J. T. Bnd Nt Fowler of Arcadia, brothers, "who on the night of September 13 last met face to face within forty feet, three bank burglars, robbing their DanK- ln gnn ngni Kinea iwo 01 tllm" Thft honl; nro itanmmanrlaH that tho pasg a law qualitying Btate banks to act as executors and admin istrators of estates.

National banks have such power, it was stated it i fr David Bradley, 35 years old, of Bon-nor Springs, was killed on the Union Pacific tracks near Loring early the otller He left a widow and two children. fr To have operated a farm and reared a family of nine children without the aid of a woman is the feat of Frank Trautloff, who has sold his farm and is retiring to a home in Atchison, which he recently purchased. The older five of the nine children are boys and Mr. Trautloff, after the death of his wife, fifteen years ago, did all their mending as well as the housework and cooking in addition to having success- iU fullv managed the tarm. He retired (rom Uie farm tQ younger fr.

4. 4. 4. An investigation has been ordered hi- 1 .11. io moi-m.

nf AtOli- li'gher than those fur the corresponding period last year. The company alleges this condition is due to incorrect meter reading, dec'aring the company canni.l secure experienced readers. 4 "in recent motion pictures there is (00 much exploitation of white slave traffic and oth.v moral problems." I. Ii. Short of the Kansas State Board of Review said recently.

A winch uepenued on extravagant cauarei scenes, struggles ami moral v. eighted subtitles, with little attempt at art in plot or acting was summarily reiected bv the board over the protest of the producer, who appeared in per- son to defend an explain it. Mrs. Short expressed the opinion that in the future there would be very little ot' this questionable education tor Kansas. Influenza is still epidemic at Water-ville.

Schools imd churches are closed for the third time since last fall and it is estimated that there are about 100 caes in and near Waterville. Live stock in Southwestern Kansas is suffering as a result of the recent snow, according to a report received from Lakin. It was stated that there is a shortage of feed in the district and the ground is covered with snow. When Mrs. Lucile Wingebach Miller ot Pittsburg wrote a poem her husband, Curtis Miller, instead of showing pride in his wife's literary work, struck her.

Mrs. Miller was given a divorce, after teling the judge about it. The Carrie Nation hall has been opened in Kansas City, as a home for aged women by the. organization of the Women's Christian Temperance union. The home was established in 1903 for the widows of drunkards.

Two years later it was closed lollow- ing the prohibition wave. For the last ten years it has been a tenement house. 4-4-4 Mrs. Grant Stigenwalt, wife of a larmer near Cherryvale, burned to death early the other day when her home was destroyed by fire. She was 49 years old.

4-4 4 An attempt to rob the First National Bank at Herington resulted in a re- volver battle through the back streets between the robber and a number of citizens, the capture of the holdup in a cemetery, and ended in bis being bound over to the district court on a charge of robbery. The 1.361 taken from the bank was recovered. A proposal fpr a referendum vote of the, people of the United States on the proposed League of Nations is nii.de in a bill introduced in the national congress by Representative Lundeen. The coal miners of Great Britian threaten a strike by March 15 unless concessions are made them in the wage scale. Premier Lloyd-George fears a civil revolution, for he says the increase in wages would throw the burden on the people and deprive thorn of an already seant substance.

Nearly all of the conscientious ob jeetors recently released by army of- ncials at Fort Leavenworth have re- turned the money paid them on dis- charge, holding that the scruples which prevented them from fighting also forbade the acceptance of pay for non-combatant service. About $5,000 already has been returned and remittances still going m. A farawav item from Alaska states that Arctic Explorer Storkenson reached the north coast of Alaska November last and supposing the currents ran westward he chartered an ice cake across the Polar basin to reach the coast of Siberia, but instead the discovery was made that the cur- rent went round in a circle. This up- i sets the theory of geographers that the currents ran westward. OUR SOLDIERS IN COBLENZ The Stars and Stripes: At Neuenaur, famous German wat erincr place on the banks of the brawl ing Ahr, the 105th Artillery and the 117th Sanitary Train are living, to put it mildly, on top of the world.

Asphalted streets to lull the sound of traffic, sumptuous hotels with oak- en beds and covers of eider-down, thick, heavy carpets and rugs, deep, cushioned chairs, deferential service by German waiters, sulphur baths prepared beforehand by German wo- men and paid for bv the German gov- eminent, health-giving water to drink, 1-14. i a great theater in which to sit and watch the motion pictures, glass-en- closed shelters wherein to picket horses and mules and park guns all these, paid for by Germany under the terms of the armistice, are some of lions. The officers live upstars, having taken over seme of the finest rooms and suites. The enlisted personnel on cots in what was formerly one of the cabarets of the hotel. Mag-' nificient chandeliers swav back and forth in this cabaret, still bearing hure sprays of holly, and across one end of the room runs a stage, flanked on either side by two heroic statues nf women, liirhtlv one miuht almost say diaphanously draped, and bearing in their hands the cup that cheers, aiis! the grape, the product of which goes into the cup that cheers.

They greet the boys every morning, smiling with Mona Lisan smiles. Used Piano and Phonograph, a bargain, at Grantham's Music Shop, See Spratt for Insurance. Creatures That Weep. Among the creatures that weep most easily are the ruminant. All hunters know that the stag weeps, and it is asserted that the bear sheda tears when severely wounded.

The giraffe is not less sensitive end regards with tearful eyes the hunter who has wounded it Retaining Youthfulness. A man who believes that environment saves thousands of lives said to me recently, "Oh, yes, every man is influenced by his environment. I al- ways associate with men who are young. full of enthusiasm, determined to succeed, and who feel that there Is no difficulty that is too great for them to surmount It keeps me youth- ful. It prolongs my life.

Whenever I am In their presence I feel a tremen dous amount of enthusiasm, a wonderful rest for living." Fern Howard. CLUB CALENDAR Thursday, February 27 Ladies Society of Presbyterian church with Mrs. John Garretson. Friday, Fabruary 28 Justamere Club Mrs. Robert Glas- g0W If You Need a Double Vision Lens You Should Wear the IfRYPTOIf 1 1 GLASSES The Invlsabie Bifocal They are the "Bifocal Beautiful," without seams or lines.

We grind them, and guarantee satisfaction. DR. E. G. WARD Optometrist WARD OPtlCAL Lens Grinders 530 Main Street Upstairs Joplin, Mo.

For Light and Heavy Hauling of all kinds see BAXTER SPRINGS Baggage Delivered, Household Goods, Heavy Teaming rif YiL mmm Your eyeglasses; let me make them to correct the defect of your sight. No other kind will give relief. Any style of lens or mounting. I do my own grinding. Thirteen years in Joplin.

DR. O. G. JONES Optometrist and Optician 511 MAIN STREET With Bernstein C. E.

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MJCKER immiimiiimiimiiiiiimiimi Phone 27 BAXTER SPRINGS, KANSAS SMITH PLUMPING AND HEATING Guaranteed Work Six Doors South of PostofTke Phene 196 BURTON-WEB HP this occasion it will be an indulgence. the things which the twisting threads of gas 7ml Mils for the 'i hmk of the picture, think of the ut- of fate wove into the destinies of three months, following a meet-ter blackness that would fall on the nearly 3,000 Americans stationed at ing of dissatisfied pas users. While world. America has failed! America the Coblenz bridgehead. the local distributing company furn-made a little essay at generosity and I Headquarters of the 150th Artillery h-hed plenty of gas in November, De-then withdrew! America said 'we are is in the Westend hotel.

The adminis. ct-mber and January, the bills for the iwnric Vvit wa nnlv fortn- r.iT; in f. were two to three times day, not for tomorrow. America said, crly the main offices of the hotel prop-'here is our power to vindicate and thoe are oaken tables and and then the next day 'let right take 1 chairs, and steel cabinets which, once care of itself and we will take care of i holding the bills and checks of some r- America said 'we set up 1 of Europe's and America's wealthiest -'-n along the paths of men, now contain such prosa'c docu-i i. It r.icnts as sirvice records and ret-uisi- Typewriter Papers err up a gn.al .4.1 of liberty an' then said 'liberty is a thing that you must win for yourself.

Do not call upon us' and think of the world that we would leave. Do you realize how-many nations are going to be set up in tho presence of old and powerful nations in Europe and left there, if left by us without a disinterested friend? "Do you believe in the Polish cause as I do Are you going to set up Poland, immature, inexperienced, as yet unorganized, and leave her, with a circle of armies around her? Do you believe in the aspirations of the Czeeho-Slovaks and the as I do Do you know how many pow'-crers would be quick to pounce upon them if there was not the guarantees of the world behind their liberty? "Have you thought of the suffering of Armenia? You poured out your money to help succor the Armenians after they suffered; now set your strength so that they shall never suffer again. "Must Furnish Guarantee" "The arrangements of the present pace cannot stand a generation unless they are guaranteed by the united forces of the civilized world. And if we do not guarantee them, cannot you see the picture? Your hearts have instructed you where the burden of this war fell. It did not fall upon the national treasuries, it did not fall upon the instruments of administration, it did not fall upon the resources of the nation.

It fell upon the victims' homes everywhere, where wo- men were toiling in hope that their men would come back. "WThen I think of the Vomes upon which dull despair would settle were this great hope disappointed, I should wish for my part never to have had America play any part whatever in this attempt to emancipate the A report from Washington states that the deaths from all causes in the United States army during the war reached a total of 107,444. miiimmiiiL FULL LINE Blue Jay Bond Mid-West Bond iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiininiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiimimmmmiiiiiiiiiiii In Various Weights and Sizes Also Carbon Paper iiiiiiitiiiniii Carried in Stock Department of.