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Marines, Oldest Branch of Our Military Service W ASHINGTON’—The Fourtb Amrrican brtpide was eked the other flay. This brlptde comprises the Fifth and Sixth regiments of marines end the Sixth machlne-gnn battalion. These are the •marines who Immortalircd

themselves at Bonrescher village and Bois ile Betleau. cow officially the Wood of the American Marines—the marines themselves call It Hell wood. All the world knows about those 12 days at Chateau Thierry—how they blocked the German advance that was rolling on toward Paris sir or seven miles a day; how they threw back the crack guaro divisions of the Hun; how they drove them backward Into the retreat that ended only with surrender. "Soldiers and sailors, too;”

"leathernecks," always ready; picked men. physically perfect; sharpshooters and expert riflemen; the first to land, and the first to light—the marines! "What we have, we hold." their motto. Their stereotyped report; "The marines have landed and hold the situation well in hand." Their battle

cry: “E-«-e*-e y-n-a-h-h-h yip 1"

The marines constitute the oldest branch of the military sendee of the Called States. They are even older than the nation Itself, having been established by the Continental congress In November, 177B. Pretty modi ail the world has seen them since; in their 148 years they have made history from Tripoli ro China, from the Philippines to Mexico. In •1818 an attempt was made to abolish the marines as no longer a serviceable branch of the navy. But the people would not have It Congress tot* measures to strengthen the corps Instead of disbanding It When we entered the war the marines were recruited np to SO.OdO and sent to the

front as land troops. You know the rest

GERMH1 PH Natim Will Never Be »Me to Make Amends for Damage.

FERTILE SOIL IS DESTROYED

Innumerable Unaxploded Shells Will Make Cultivation Precartoue— Doubtful If Land Con Be

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By WRIGHT A. PATTERSON. What must Germany pay fori

i That ooesdon can be adequately an-

tv. ered only when It U remembered that Germany started the terrible conflict In Europe- for no reason other than that of conquest and loot; started It only to aattafy the selfish ambitions of a selfish people for world domination. That la being admitted today by what is left of the German nation; It la admitted by those who were directly responsible for the war. And It Is because Germany started this conflict for no reason other than that of conquest and loot that Germany owes to the world full payment for all the devastation which the war has brought, not only in so for as she can pay now, but In so far as she can pay for generations yet to come. Among the many, vwawy sections of Belgium and northern France that I

personally covered, following closely

on the heels of the retrqpUng Hun army, was that which lies between what were the cities of Tpres and Menin. approximate!} 20 miles opart

straight road. I am sure I Old

one square foot fit soO that m>% s part of a sl afi crater. What had

been the richest aod of fee

9 is today b*t a waste, mads so by the shells that fall upon it because Germany sought world domination. This son has been destroyed by countless thousands of ahem falUni actually one upon another, roch digging deeper into the earth until the very subsoil has been turned over and the land made worthtaas for ruKirati on for year* to come. If Indeed U can

ever be reclaimed.

Unexploded Shells Buried Is Soil There lie todav on the surface of this land many thousands of unexploded shells, and there are buried In the sol! many, many thousands more, each one of them a menace to any farmer who attempts to put e plow to the aoU In an effort to reclaim 1L And this land is destroyed, sa the unes were destroyed, because of German ambition, of German cruelty, German lost, of German

and German brutality.

Who Is to pay for It? Who Is to risk destruction that It may again be put Into cocdltloc for culUvatlon. that It may serve the purposes of the human race? Shall the peaceful Belgian peasants, who had no part In the starting of this conflict suffer their kxs

taw»iT*;,r adv. used. >0 at euee dr*. ^^-^*artfa»r5Sn!Jm to® A mad***! pevparatios that ks* wsl

lived the Belgian peasant families, happy, thrifty people, each family culdvating the small Adds which It owned. No fences separated these fields, no hedges cut them off from th

Here, before the coming of the luvadWhat Is a Bolshevik? And What Is Bolshevism? and the moat infn—w 441VHAT ts a bolshevik?" “Wl it Is bolshevismT These rre questions — Tf which many Americans are asking these days. Probssly. the word bolshevik was first used In Russia la 1900 after the splitting of the socialist party. It was applied to the majority faction, “bolsha" meaning “majority." The socialists split over the “funda- ™' r>~r& mental law" deem;. The minority, the mensherlkl, was composed of the conservatives who did not favor violence ns a method of obtaining reform. The bolshevik! were the radicals who favor bombing, sabotage and terrorism i.a the means to their end. Whatever bolshevism origin-Uy meant, today It means something about like this: Bolshevism proclaims that socialism as tnogbt by Marx la the panacea for ell social and economic Ills. Therefore establish at once a socialist republic. Abolish nationalism for interna-

tionalism.

Inasmuch as Mnrxlan socialism prescribes selxnre and nationalization of private capital, public utllltlv* nnd all means of production, everything in Eight is to he token.over by the socialist state. Theoretically, comperratiim may be made to escape disorder and vioK-nce. Bu: just now compercation Is sentimental and unnecessary, owing to conditions. Bolshevists bold that the upper nnd middle classes must •c.bmlt unconditionally or perish; they are excluded from participation In th" government, whldti must be entirely In the hands of the proletariat. If they resist, terrorism is as justifiable against them as ngnlnst u tyrannical exor. Opposition la treason to the socialist .suite. Bolshevist:: abhors genuinely democratic and free government. Its dictatorship supersedes The dictatorship of the autocrat or the military despot. Ms Itedera adtockte nnd practice to the extent of their power the merciless suppression of all civil and political rights.

uwi th* wapariiHnu, th* •ere**# of Dr : Kilmer*' Swap-Hoot 1, due to the tact that seaway paople data, h talfiEe der ‘•ilmsctr. correct* wr-' *nd MUtrslisw th* art*

peasant* who have endured mar* than four long year* of homeless agonies, who have suffered not alone the loss of homes and land but the low of relative* and friend* a* well, be the ones to risk destruction In the effort to again bring these lands beck to a condition where cultivation Is possible? Shall they be blown to bits by the bursting of these shells, hlddec as they are beneath the surface of the ground, when the plow strikes and explodes them? If undisturbed, those shells continue to be a menace for year* to come, but who are to risk

Could the American people get ally, and especially the American fa era, have seen the sights I have s

The terrace In fruot of a huge laundry plant has been beautified with a peculiarly beautiful rtgn which U tjn , combined product of an electrician'* sod a gardener** skill. Koch letter Is outlined In rtectrir bulb* art is a sheet metal frame wltlrh Is painted | while on the inside to reflect the

lipht.

In the area indtwrd by each metal letter geraniums hare been planted. The sign is very beautiful by day. and doubly »o at night when the tight* lliuuln^te- the flowers, recording to Popular Mechanics Msgaxln* The , electric Imllw ate coveted with onflnary Jelly riaiwes. tn protect ihc era from the beat and the bidhs from

Europe Discovers the American Superphysique E EBOPE has discovered from our armies In France that the Americsn physique Is superior to any of Iter own. American mouths show American dentistry—nnd good teeth mean much to a soldier. Americana, except the British, are the only soldiers accustomed to bathe—and medical science appreciates the bath. American soldiers are bigger, huskier and show

more “pep."

Dentistry and bathing are well In tbeh way. But On- real reason for the AmericAD physical superiority Is the plentlfalness of food in the United States. Europe In our tfcne never ha* had enough to eat. In America we waste enough to feed the French and Itallnns. In the reign of Henry VIU.

Fronde declared, every English family luni beef every day. Certainly never since then has every English family hrd beef once a week. And England

’has long been better fen than Europe ever was.

Just now we Americans arc rating l.wi ami compUluing of high prices. We do not know when we are well off. ThU country bus had more food and better distribution of supplies than Europe ever saw, noth withstanding oar

railroad congestion and faulty methods'of transportation.

^Moreover he-e are tetter rare for the body, more conveniences, more fomfort* and more mechanical appliances to make life easier. We are fertb-r along the rood lo material felldty than ever was any country lh any period of clvtllsatloo. The United Htutes is the nearest approach to Elytrium. As the result, the average American Is a better animal u better uiteiU-

ge&fie and prohrbly a lieitrr moral person than ‘be average.

From an entirely scientific viewpoint, the average American has ikmbtless a better endowment, a better chance, a bettci firing and a longer life than the

average • European.

Kurojv also discovered In the American a first -class fighting rm-p. WJien Johnny Comes Marching Home Again, Hurrah! ((WHEN Johnny Gomes Marching Home Again. Hurrah!"—there will be v* grist doings. Already the advance guard Is arriving and It Is easy to get an Idea << what wifi happen when the soldier and sailor boys return

In force. The welc-jiue will be warm. Nothing will be too good for them. But there Is more to the I -ime-com-Ing of three boys than a warm welcome. There are many serious problems to Is- met and solved. To take <wrr of these men. tn See that they are returned to useful positions in civil fife. Is primarily the duty of the ftxierul g-vemment. Uncle Kuni is a capable person when be gets started.

-*'** Nevertheless, be bes a big J.>l. on his

hand* end there wifi be plenty of

-not only th-ir nan. but the boy* who have

Dawn of a Orest Peace. When the lost draft age Unfit* * fixed an Emporia colored man who ■been la jail several times for failure t his family went to work In Halm dependency. Monday morning, when be heard the pesonews, he quit bis job.—Emporia Ga-

xette.

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TJie everUrtlii* gratitude

j «f ram ears of the Ataertc:» trooprldp ; Otranto, vrtfc' -h went down sfl the !«• j land as s remit «f • coilMsn. Dowamore is the roly vtfisca wltbto

i 20 miles of where the • jtewlcd. An Arm-rienn I

! made the trip

where Mrs. J. U j

! tress of the only s

Watch Cuticura Improve Your BWh. On rising and retiring gently smear the face with Cuticura Olnt.aenL We;h off Ointment In fire minutes with Cuticura Soap and hot'water. B 1* wonderfal aomettmes what Cntlcurs w ill do fer poor complexiocs, dardruff, Itching and red rough hand*.—Adr.

You Bet She DM! Mr*. Eannon—“Do you like movies with male leratar Mrs. Hen pec*— “No. I like tlien; where the niak la

Not Always Married. "Is Ik- always broker “Not always; he Is divorced at tluif*."—-Chicago rTUues. ,

are ye:a- wtlrt cotning to rtrti you? Becker—They Uduk I want te have tbtdr perwma! counsel-

A -•irried man sometimes -rders cold longue in e restaurant by way of variety.

Wrichra rsdias vrestsw* nro *■•*«*• agrasLrtSraSg"** 1 —***

otlveni to take advaatage cf. No man U a hopetaw f«ol who c

Ground Pulverized by Bureting of

>. when a pioneer's Km married, bis father gave . ,ur *c ur a |mir of oxen. The l.rWe'a lather gave her ■ ttolher* o utrtbuied pot*. pan> aafl krttle*. The i ■i lied a h‘»ii-i- raising. I-Tr»t they knew the youux

iln with nil the m- .-Mary tlxli,*.

"i*1 of thing .aa't Iw doae In (he Iwvntlelh eeutury In It seems or tf the same kind of spirit might prevaiJ now e..H,,«catlon are not lost rlrtovv. AjkJ with love and co-

jibing may be done.

roadways, and the families that cultivated the fields lived not on the little farms but In closely built Tillages of from 100 to 500 people each. Devastation Is Complete. It la bard to realize today that these villages ever existed, that the land along this long, straight road wax ever , cultivated, ever produced foodstuffs ' for a people. In fart. It Is hard to realize today that thu was ever an Inhabited country. i Of these peaceful vtUago*. the firing places of these farm people, lucre u no trace left There are not even pile* of debris, of broken brick end stou* end lumber, to mark the spots where they stood. There is no single thing by which the returning peasants, wearUy dragging themselves hack to that spot which had been borne to them and ' to their ancestors for almost countless generation*, can mark the place where not only their home but their village

Lad stood.

I have seen old men and women, wearied by four long year* of exile, •land beside this road and gasr longingly over the devastated landscape, lo in effort to locate some tamiiifr object that would remind them of th* spot they had known all their Urea, end then turn away with tear* on their cheeks because they could not hod even one small object that would trfi them of the horaea, the only bout*,

they had known.

It waa German ambition. German cruelly, German lust. German wantara new. German brutality, that were th* cause of (he destruction of th.-aa home*, of tin- agonies of a peace! uL

thrifty people.

What can (vosslbly compensate these people for their loss, for the oii'cry (hr) hare suffered and must atlfi , a p • tar. for the homes and th* UAuciatlang that are <ui»r forever? No, Germany * ran never pay la fall, hat she can cooHour to pay uud pay end pey until • there ha* been bred out of the (Jennas * prop-* that desire for war. that lots Of o>aqueet. that brutality, that it baa taken centurt-a. almost, to breed into then: and which has resulted In tajlaa

S Whole world waste.

la all that 20 miles between Tpres

along this long, straight road between Ypres and Menin, they would say, xa I say» it la the German who muxt*pay; It U the German who mutt risk dost ruction in the effort to put this land again Into condition for cultlration. I believe that one condition‘of the peace treaty should be that Germany, «*tber aa one nation^or proportionately from the several small nations «*■«» may be formed out of the German empire. should call Us military dsMey to the colors each year as It has done In the past; but in place of putting guns Into the bands of these men. and training them for the purposes of wap—a war or conquest—thnt It should put these men Into the territories she baa devastated, to reclaim the aoll and to rebuild the villages, the towns and dties the Huns have destroyed. Let these Germans, under guard of Belgian troops, take the rtak of destruction ; let them guide the plow that may strike the unexploded shell, and let Germany pay them the meager wages of the German soldier while they are doing this. «»®uld Pay and Pay and Pay. That would be the nearest thing to aa accounting that Germany ran render to th* world, but she should .pay all that it u humanly possible for a P*ople t“ pay who have so ruthlessly despoiled th* world. Her people should p*y. and P*J, and pay. until they have learwd beyow) th* shadow of a doubt ^ * ,r fuf «!*• I urpoae of conquest, for th* purpora of loot, for the grmtlflraUro of *Hfi«b emblilou. Is the ' noprodtaU* buaiurw* they could

•••••' •«****«*i**r that the devastation to b. *«m aloag th* road from Ypre* to Mroln I* but an example of an the tamUe destruction to be found throughout lialgtmn and northern Franc* and 8ert»U and other countries that have breu overrun by the con-quost-seeking armies Of the Roche. And remember, too. that It la not alona «h* devastation that la to be paid for but It Is the work and tMra ^ th* economic loss of every nation that was called into th* straggle to defeat the aeiflah purposes Of a selfish People. that the world might be a decent ptac* la which free men might five.

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