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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1919
Page
2
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President Wilson says the plain man in the street can judge whether peace at Versailles will shield future generations from war. The public expects honest, wise statesmanship to translate wartime gains into a practical peace and warns of a hard reckoning if leaders deceive the plain people.
The Omaha Bee notes famous wartime lines from Wilson Pershing Foch and Grant, singling out Let us have peace and the Christmas call for peace on earth and good will to men. It argues peace will come but good will must be realized.
The Dutch minister at Petrograd who arrived in Holland via Germany spoke on Bolshevism in Russia and urged workers of all nations to oppose Bolshevik tendencies. He called Bolshevism the end of civilization and translated the concept into practice as he described it.
A minister denounces high wages for no work and taking of property without punishment. He reports terrible unemployment in Petrograd and fears utter ruin if Russia remains as is, calling for change to restore freedom and prevent collapse.
The article describes Siberia as enormous and sparsely populated, with hundreds of thousands of square miles uninhabited. It notes mighty rivers are often icebound, many steppes remain underused, and the Trans Siberian railroad opened a development path halted by the war.
Rev. Oliver Keve, Methodist pastor in Kearney, received a Lusitanian medal presented by English poet Alfred Noyes. Keve, who spent six months in France as a Y M C A war worker, spoke of battlefields from the Vosges to Verdun and mentioned serving at Mellincourt’s dry brewery canteen and visiting the Argonne chateau where the former German crown prince stayed.
England plans a broad industrial shift with about 5000 munitions firms ready to move to peacetime production. The Ministry of Reconstruction has guided manufacturers, surveying sectors and preparing conversions of government plants to needed materials. Twenty subcommittees mapped changes across regions to facilitate the transition.
The final report on demobilization outlines banding by needs rather than units and early release for large families. It notes reconstruction ministry focus on developing domestic industries to replace German imports, including electrical apparatus and hardware. Britain plans to increase domestic production after the war.
Article argues postwar recovery will demand vast labor and materials from the United States to rebuild devastated Europe and restore industry. It cites estimates of killed workers, damaged coal mines, ruined factories, lost machinery, and the need to finance and supply reconstruction. It notes Belgium’s losses and predicts U S wealth may rise postwar with industrial and agricultural advances enabling continued business.
In Topeka Kansas the industrial advisory board of the First district considers whether a mule driver at a local mine is essential to war efforts. The case marks the board’s first proceeding as it weighs the worker’s claim and broader mine operations.
British airmen in France used airplanes to capture German infantry. Flying low they attacked a sunken road, killed four Germans, and forced surrender. Lacking nearby British infantry they directed a large group to descend to 50 feet and ordered 85 men out. The prisoners were then escorted to British lines and placed in a cage.
Photo shows Titus a West Highlander terrier described as a real dog of war. The dog has ridden to an airplane and tank and seen service along the western front. Titus has been gassed and wounded. Guardian Mr. E A Stark of the M C A accompanies him during his voyage.
Mrs Ernest Byfield and Miss Elaine V Rosenthal embroyo motor mechanics facing a tank leak use chewing gum to seal it. They chewed 110 sticks bought locally to fix the leak and continued their drive despite stiff jaws and remaining able to talk.
Scout Edward Hammer writes from Italy Texas a 2000 population town with a cotton compress and water plant a cotton seed and oil mill four gins and a grist mill. The settlement sits on Houston's creek named for General Sam Houston's retreat before Santa Anna.
London notes report Doedelzakspeel rising in The Hague as Dutch enjoy bagpipes and highland dance. British released prisoners bring pipes and cats to Holland as cabaret culture blends with tango and jazz, creating a festive, if garbled, scene.
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