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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1918
Page
12
A wartime editorial denounces Berlin and Vienna peace proposals after grim losses aboard the Tiscania. It urges Americans to abandon petty politics and fight on, praising soldiers for facing death and demanding a relentless effort to defeat the Hun and free humanity.
Representative Mondell of Wyoming challenges delay on a $50 million housing appropriation for shipyard workers, arguing swift passage is vital to the wartime ship program. He warns that every delay aids the enemy as cables relay grim wartime losses and troop deployments accelerate to Europe.
The Western statesman opposes quick funding for housing to speed shipyard work, arguing against a $190,000 Wind River drainage project and a $100,000 Indian program. Critics say ships are essential for war effort while housing delays cripple production. The debate centers on housing, manpower, and national shipbuilding needs.
An ARTHUR TRAIN contributed warning frames the German victory as a global conquest by Kultur and a betrayal of Christian ideals. It cites Kaiser Wilhelm II and German officers praising cruelty, arguing that victory would enslave the United States to the Kaiser and erase truth and justice.
The record reports on VIERECK and associates, linked to Kaiser Germany, spreading propaganda in the United States. It notes collaboration with German agents to influence public opinion, citing NY World August 15 1915 as evidence and detailing the defamid allegations and claimed publicity aims.
A historical piece recounts Vitrevcek and German propaganda efforts during World War I. It details Viereck's schemes to draft anti U S legislation and claim authorship, his boastful claims, and the perception of his influence at the White House. The narrative includes Lusitania disaster foreshadowing and calls out German sympathizers within American civic life.
A kansas city star item jokes about a camp wag at Camp Funston who assigns endless drills to new recruits. He sends rookies to fetch skirmish line and then to retrieve aabre points, all in a humorous army-mongering patrol of duties.
Margie Waverly and Jim visit a lobster palace in Chicago where she orders bread and milk, provoking astonishment from the waiter and social scrutiny about class and caste. Margie contemplates a quieter life and productive work after the meal.
In a Scribner excerpt Maxwell Struthers relates a narrator revisiting her childhood home and garden where memories of her father linger. A scene of dancing with Jim reveals youthful joy, while the corner and shadowed room hold aching recollections and the insinuation that others misread their performance as professional.
A passing show quip recalls meeting an old waiter named Frity during a cavalry charge. The retort lands the punchline IT cut him dead. The exchange preserves a sharp stage-time humor from an era.
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