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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1917
Page
8
A strongly patriotic war chant urges readers to sacrifice sugar and coal, buy thrift stamps, and support Allied leaders General Allenby and General Pershing. It calls for diligence against Kaiser Bill, celebrates Allied victories, and imagines pushing from Jerusalem to Berlin. The piece mixes praise for Allied commanders with hostile lines toward German rulers.
Washington testimony reveals the army lacks rifles machine guns and ordnance after nine months of war. Gen Crozier says 34 000 guns needed and none ready before April with 40 000 machines could have been in service. Louis Stoddard recounts wartime refusals and efforts by Marlin to supply weapons without contracts.
Miss Kate T Cooke writes that American hospital supplies bring great joy to French soldiers and surgeons. Nurses, doctors and staff praised shirts, pajamas, handkerchiefs, post cards and chocolates found in the garment boxes. They celebrated new boxes for sterilizing and awaited more surgical blouses and warm clothing.
A poetic reminiscence on a nation’s flag marching past a line of soldiers. The verses praise color, drum and bugle salutes, and the flag as a symbol of pride, unity, and national strength amid foreign wrong.
In a wartime New York dispatch dated December 24, the piece urges keeping up cheerful, normal life at home to support troops in the trenches. It emphasizes brave, steady morale and practical service to ease postwar readjustment for veterans.
Verona Clarke urges practical thrift to ease wartime expenditures. She notes waste reduction, reuse of leftovers, and clever sewing to stretch budgets. She promotes a Woman's Exchange for helpful hints and highlights simple tips like using turnip to grease a griddle, ending with Christmas wishes.
Dealers report a shift in farming equipment with all plows to be sold as right handed next year. This region previously used left handed plows. Also a note adds a humorous aside about foods doctors ban.
A Minneapolis Journal column argues that American disrespect for law stems from frontier heritage and rapid immigration. It praises wartime law enforcement efforts by citizens, fathers, Boy Scouts, and patriotic groups shaping boys into loyal, lawabiding citizens for a stronger nation amid a long war.
North Dakota reports two Indian Red Cross chapters led by Sioux and Winnebago chiefs who have warlike relations with whites. In contrast, Germans refuse to honor the Red Cross flag and bomb Red Cross hospitals.
BE Hinman of Paris writes from Joiner Arkansas that after leaving Terre Haute on a Wabash river trip to South America his crewmen left the boat to land and it was stolen or sunk before morning He says he has lost his entire outfit and must return home Also note Pope against Germany letter to bishops condemning any Christian state aiding Turks over Jerusalem sounding strong Catholic influence in Germany.
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