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IT COST ONE DpjUKTO SAW THIS LIFE
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Dollar That Gave This
Perhaps It Was Your Red Cross
Broken Flier His Cjhance to Live.
' From the ground they could see that
llicro was FOinotlilng the mutter with
Ills mnclilnc. Ami oven AVlillo they
vntclied through their hisses he ho
pan to fnll.
A minute Inter the little I'ord ambu
lance wns pulling Its way ucross the
fivo mllea o shell-strlchon road that
lay between them and him.
They found him hesldo the mnchlne.
Jle wub uncniiMclouB, hut a tree had
broken his fall.
"Just in the nick of time," Bald the
'doctor crisply. "He'll lie a pretty slek
lioy for a few weeks, hut we'll have
Mm all right again and hack with his
French comrades."
. So they put him Into the little Ford
By BRUCE BARTON
Of the Vlfllltjntcs.
ambulance, and less than an hour
after they saw him famue was safe in
a clean while bed. 3
"That's what it meads to have plen
ty of equipment, plcntjj? of ambulances
nnd doctors and bandtfees and every
thing," said tho Itcd fiiross man who
told me. "It means tt?o difference In
gottlng there on tlmo ar getting there
Just a minute too late,'
"Wonderful I" I an'&werod. "And
how much did it cost xbu to make that
trip to save that DJJg) French boy's
life?" j
He Hushed n little. lWo don't meas
ure. It In terms of motftty."
"I know It. Hut wlitjt do you think
It cost," I persisted $c gasoline and
the trip and the bandages nnd all?"
"Perhaps a dollar, miiyhu two. Hut
why do you ask?"
"A dollnr!" I answered. "A dollar
to save a boy's life! To send him
home again from the war to the moth
er ami father who have scanned every,
headline and waited breathlessly for
every visit of the letter carrier 1 Can
a dollar do a miracle like that?"
"It can," said the lied Cross man.
And then the thought occurred to me
that perhaps It might have been one of
my dollars.
It was somebody's dollar that did It
It might have been mine or one of
yours.
Who knows?
RED CROSS SPECIAL
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Three Thousand Mile Dash Across $iussia to
Succor Roumania Heroic Work Required.
Poor little Itoumanla, once so happy
and so beautiful I Robbed of Its rich
lands by Gorman hordes, Its people
driven back upon themselves, tho once
picturesque city of Jnssy Is now
crowded beyond Its limits with the
country's destitute and stnrvlng.
Nothing but tho most heroic efforts
of the American lied Cross has kept
Jtoumunla from actually disappearing
from among tho nations of the earth,
When all those who could leave tho
country bad Hod Henry W. Ander
son, American Ited Cross commis
sioner to thnt outraged country, stuck
to his post. Dlfieased, stnrvlng and
ragged pcoplo wo; o all about him. The
cause seemed hopeless. Kvcn Itcd
Cross money could buy nothing In
Itoumanla, for tho country was strip
ped. So Anderson nppnled to our Tied
Cross In liussln. Thero wero sup
plies there, but bow could they he
carried tho :i,000 nillcsjlJMt separated
Potrograd from Jnssy, Itnssla was
struggling against Internal disorder,
which In tho Ukralnlaci territory was
civil wax-. Even with, tho authority
and protection of tho 'Bolshevik gov
ernment the case eccmed hopeless.
Yet help enme n whole train load
under the charge of Lieutenant Ia
gunson of tho American Itcd Cross In
Itnssla. And Anderson sent this ca
ble:
"Wo are today distributing food and
clothing to morn than 10,000 people
and Increasing numbers every week.
Expecting shipment of four more cars
of food from Odessa this week. My
extraordinary effort wo believe we can
continue purchaso of sufficient supplies
to carry on work."
And so our Ited Cross is showing all
the world that not only aro our men
ready to light for tho right, but are
ready to help nil those others who
uro In this battlo for freedom
A GRUELLING NIGHT
FOR THE CANTEEN MAN
A Hod Cross Canteen mnti wearily
banked the llres under tho kettles.
Their billet Is In iui old house near
by. My the light of a candle tho Itcd
Cross convoyer undresses and rolls
Into his blankets. Suddenly thero
conies a hharp, cracking sound, nnd a
red Hiiro lights up the room. The con
voyer rolls quickly out of bis bunk,
catches up his blankets nnd runs
down tho rickety stairs to tho cellar.
There he finds his French assistant
and a lot of soldiers. They exchange
nods nnd then scat themselves on
hoses. Four more sharp, cracking
noises follow In rapid succession, and
a mournful roar. This Is only tho be
ginning of an artillery duel which
lasts all night.
At brenk of day the Ited Cross man
bestirs himself, shakes bis assistant
and tumbles up the stairway out Into
the yard. It Is strewn with debris. A
shell struck the next house In the night
and hlw out tho wall. Tho convoyer
and his man set to work gingerly, for
the nlr Is chill. They poke the fires
and throw on fresh wood and then set
to work to prepare the food. Within
an hour the canteen Is ready for busi
ness. This Is a sample night or n Ited
Cross Canteen man nt the front.
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FOLLOWING
FALSE GODS
G. Stanwood
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Dy G. STANWOOD MENKEN,
President of the National Security
League.
.Tust as the test of the individual Is
lt t found under the stress of great
trull or play ofx passion, so nations
puc themselves In time of war aud
aro able to Judge,
not ulonc of the
qualities of which
their peoples are
composed, but al
so tho measure of
confidence which
should be placed
in their leaders.
It has been said
that Americans
d 0 n't h a'v e to
prove that they
nro the "greatest
people on earth"
for they admit it;
and yet, when we
look back over
our history and
consider bow we
have met great problems such as
slavery, by a great war; tariff, by
fourteen bills and a like number of
panics; conservation, currency, bank
ing, anti-trust and railroad questions,
by making the same matters of poll
tics It may ho doubted whether we
are quite as great as we think we are.
In considering how we exercise our
Judgment, we should remember he
extent to which wo have devoted our
selves to the education of tho young
and the largo sums we have spent at
all times for public schools nnd for
colleges. When wo look back and see
the mistakes we have made, It would
almost appear as if wo had failed to
apply much that had been taught us In
school and college, or thnt perhaps the
school and college had not taught us
how to solve great political measures.
Then, again, the thought comes to us
of whether or not we have not bad
false leaders, and have not clung to
false gods.
Corporation "Wrongs.
We all remember the outcry against
vested Interests of the capitalists.
There have been great wrongs done
by many corporations some of their
franchises have been obtnlned by cor
ruption and theft nnd great Injuries
have often been done to the rights of
the people; and so, when we found
times Jinrd, and things going wrong,
we have vented our anger upon cor
porations nnd upon tho capitalists who
controlled them. In many cases wo
allowed ourselves to become angry
with a class or with certain Individ
uals and expended our strength on
our temper, rather than upon a study
of the cure of the conditions about
which we complained; and in many
instances we punished corporations
for the wrongs of their predecessors
In ownership, much as sins of parents
are visited upon their children.
Demagogues, knowing the public ,
mood, appealed to prejudice and Ig
noranco In discussing public matters
and made Issues like currency, anti
trust laws and the railroads political
footballs, Just as if the question of
whether money could bo saved by
joining together companies nnd pro
viding for economy In purchases and
sales was political. Of course it was
a matter of economics (which Is the
science of commerce). Such matters
call for a conference between repre
sentatives of farmers, laborers, sci
entific students of world conditions,
and manufacturers nnd purchasers of
goods, to consider nnd determine how
goods enn be produced with a fair
wage to the employee, a fair profit to
the employer nnd the maximum bene
fit to tho public.
Future Problems.
In Europe they hnvo taken these
questions up In this careful way and
the result has been of great benefit.
Now, and in the future, America will
have to deal with countries that aro
short of resources through the exhaus
tion of war and hnve, of necessity, to
get down to rock-bottom. The thrifty,
Intelligent, Industrious European Is
npt to be a good merchant, and we aro
going to have a hard time competing
with liltn fyr commerce and for world
position, so wo must consider all of
our problems more carefully tjian ever
before and cast aside thoso nfen who
attempt to lead us away from n
thoughtful, dispassionate view of great
questions.
Graft and neglect In local communi
ties of political duties by the averago
citizen nro responsible for the mlsgov
ernment that breeds disrespect, where
we should have pride because of tho
elllcleney of our people. The first con
cern of tho citizen In every community
intuit ho to fcco thnt It Is governed In
n way that will assure the approval
of clean thinking men and women.
Tlu mechanics governing a oily re
quire the same kind of clear thought
and careful work ss that given to
shop work or farm planning, and every
good American must feel that at this
time there Is nothing more worth
while.
If we do these things well, we will
not Vtave to worry nbout tho foreign
born loving America, because living
conditions here will he no excollont
that they Mmply cannot help it, ospa
chilly when rtioy nro given not alone
good government and healthy condi
tions surrounding home and work
shop, but also education, opportunity
and a charter of HbortloH which will
mean happiness to thorn, If we per
form our duties as citizens.
Triggs' New Restaurant and
Poo! HalS
I have re-arrmigj'd my Rstatuaut building and
Will install pool tables in the front part ol' building.
All uiy tcstaitrant patrons will be cared for at. be
fore. Meals and lunches served at all tta-onble hotus.
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Ever thing New, Clean
and Up-toBate
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THE NATIONAL PARKS
OPEN SEASON 1918
Special "-ummer Touist rates to all the l'atiswi.l soon be
announced. All facilities for the Summet volume of travel will
be ample and as comfortable a tibuul.
YELLOWSTOX13 XATIOA'AL I'ARC ' . f n tK , h
to .September 15th; circuit tours pmhir.iv . . a.c.w.yt,, including tb.
Cody scenic entrance and the Bin lm ton's uiuiirIo circuit mountain U, r
from Eastern Nebraska via Denver in one direction, through-Yellowstono
or Glacier National Parks, with Rocky Mountain Nalional-Esles Park en
route three Parks on one grand circuit.
CLAf'IKH NATIONAL IAltK is open from June 15th to Sep
tember 15th. The same general variety of Burlington circuit routes may
be used that include the entire east slope of the Rockies from the British
boundary to Colorado.
KOCKY MOUNTA1X JJATlOXAL-n.STKK 1AKK w open from
May 1st to November 1st. No National pari; has, in the past two years, en
joyed such a wonderful increase of patronage as this Park, located just north
of Denver on tho Builington's Denver-Casper-Yellowstone-Glacier line.
Ask the undersigned for Summer fares, publication; let him describe
the circuit routes available that will permit you to make a most compre
hensive scenic Rocky Mountain tour during the 1918 season.
W. J. ViMi ugliby, A t-., Dakota City, Nebr.
L. W WAKELY, Gen- Pu&Aenger Agent
ioo.j l-.iiciam St., Omaha, Nebraska
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A 310,000 Surety Bond Guarantees the accuracy 1
!of every Abstract I make.
J. J. Si I M IE R, Sf Bonded Abstractor.
Successor to the DAKOTA COUNTY ABSTRACT CO. 1
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