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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1918
Page
4
An appeal urges sending Sunday roasts to Europe allied in democracy, listing foods like chicken and nuts for sustenance. Nicholas Longworth calls a plan to tax congressional salaries an atrocity, while sarcasm and harsh rhetoric target political figures.
Colonel Lewis denounces ordinance equipment as a disgrace and urges accountability. He warns against personal feelings affecting war policy and calls for the guilty to be punished, placing them in the back ranks of private life or a more secluded fate.
Washington January 22 Life is full of half done things and missed starts. The speaker warns against compromising on vision for God and insists religion is for life and death, urging steadfastness to the path God lays out to avoid apostasy.
A British airplane sentry on a trench line guards the battery with keen eyes and quick signals. The article details how camouflage, discipline, and careful observation deter enemy aircraft as German planes circled above, testing the unit’s vigilance and readiness.
A combat scene unfolds as a plane dodges incoming shrapnel and bursts, then tumbles from the sky. The aircraft dives, crashes near a battery, and is met with mixed reactions of elation and respect from the observers who witness the event.
In Paris the American Y M C A provided refreshments and amusements for first American troops training in the trenches. Ira D Shaw, ex Columbia football player, directed efforts from a cow shed behind the front. What began as chocolate and matches grew into a large room with a fireplace and ample reading material. Y M C A secretaries delivered papers and supplies to trenches along with tobacco.
Dayton Ohio forms the American Protective League to cooperate with federal authorities in hunting sinclkeers and sedition. Nearly every factory and business in the city joins the league with the postmaster as the key link receiving daily citizen messages about seditious remarks and draft evasion.
Kansas City couple Mr and Mrs Charles Miller quarreled within 48 hours of their marriage after her slipping on ice on a downtown corner. Judge Joe Kellman admonished them and offered advice as police intervened. Mrs Miller retorted with a sharp remark about her husband’s feet in a moment of embarrassment.
In Bartlesville Oklahoma twenty year old Gray from Choctaw sought a marriage license. The district court clerk refused due to age. A man posing as Gray’s father but his claim turned problematic after the license was granted and the deception surfaced.
Dr Arthur Lynch discusses German espionage in France as revealed by Paris gossip. He cites Meg the guardian angel, Mata Hari, and Old Adolph to illustrate a pervasive, carefully organized spy network. The piece notes Germans have long cultivated a sophisticated, state function spy apparatus influencing wartime events.
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