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THE BANNER, SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 9, 1918.
FAGE THREE
WHAT WE ARE FIGHTING FOR
(By Edward Mott Woolley.) |us If sho ever got into this great
I have just made a journey that In- land of ours? Jost suppose she
eluded the far comers of the United gained a foothold In New York state
■States and gave me a new conception 1 and this contiguous manufacturing
of what we are fighting tor in this J territory 1 have cited;
war against Germany. Never was I From New York state I came on
the real meaning of democracy I west through Ohio and Michigan,
brought home to me in such a big and wonderful state is Ohio. It abounds
graphlo way—and it is for the pres-1 in people and Industrial enterprise,
erratloa of democracy and our great Here opportunity stands open for
<ountry that we fight.
My recent travels really began In
the regions about Lake Champlain
and Lake George, and took me partly
through the Adlrondacks and over
men in a most extraordinary way. in
the vast rubber factories at Akron,
tor Instance, I saw thousands of
young men earning $5 a day and
more, too, without any special train-
into Vermont. The wildness and ing or mental equipment. Great num-
freedom up there brought to me mem- bers of them were fresh from the
ories of Ethan Allen; and, indeed, I ^ farm or rural community, but were
passed through the very gate at Fort able to step into the factories, and,
Tlconderoga that let Allen and his ( after a few weeks, could draw wages
intrepid Green Mountain boys into such as the workman in Europe
the fort. 1 never dreamed about. Such earnings
Then I came west, through the over there would be inconceivable for
wonderful state of New York, teem- the factory hand. In the offices of
mg with its millions of people and these plants I saw swarms of keen-
dotted the whole length of it with looking, well-dressed young chaps
factories. Here is the dominant state
of the nation, in population and man
ufactures, in wealth, influence, exam
ple, and perhaps education. New
York state is always in the flood
light. It is the show state of the
nion. Superb automobile roads cross
and criss-cross it, and here you find
cars from the whole continent. In
nick succession I saw automobiles
from Oregon, Arkansas, Kentucky.
Maine and Florida. Thousands of
motorists whizzed along these mag
nifleent highways; hundreds of thous
ands of people sped to and fro on tho
railfoad trains; millions of persons
In this empire state went about
their varied affairs. Everywhere
were multitudes of people—and all of
them free! They were all free to go
and come, to engage In their own
pursuits of work or pleasure. So
long as they did not Interfere with
the democratic rights of others, no
body questioned or hindered them.
They accounted to nobody. They did
uot have to register at the pollco
stations. In America we do not tol
erate government by the soldier and
police. We do not tolerate govern
mental tyranny of any sort, but wa
ourselves rule. We seek our own op
port unities—and we find them, In
deed. As 1 went through New York
state, partly by automobile and part
ly on the railroads, I saw all around
me the evidences of opportunities
that had been accomplished because
of oar democratic institutions.
And then It was borne In upon me
that this freedom was threatened:
that the Iron hand of autocracy ac
tually had been raised against us;
that our very opportunities were at
stake. The thought was Intolerable.
My Imagination could not formulate
the thought of a military govern
ment usurping the functions of polit
ical control there in New York state.
Yet 1 could not get away from the
sinister possibilities. What would
happen If we should be defeated In
this war?
We are rot blind. We know that
spies have been taking account of
as. We know that the enemy has
'all knowledge of our strengths and
our weakness, of our resources, of
our whole land, district by district.
We have seen ample evidence of the
enemy'* world ambitions, and we
know what he will do to accom
pllsh them. We can see, too. that tt
would mean the end of our Ameri
can opportunity and freedom. Our
institutions would bo swept away, and
a handful of autocrats would have
the power to starve and butcher at
will. We remember too well the Lus
itania, the Sussex, and all tho ships
on which our own people have gone
to watery graves. We remember
Belgium.
It is shown by the last census that
New York, New Jersey, Connecltcut,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and
Delaware combined have about two
and a quarter million factory hands.
The last census figures I find availa
ble Indicate that the number of fac
tory workers In the United States Is,-
or was, about six and threequarter
millions, so that practically onethlrd
of the factory population lives in the
tlx states mentioned, Moreover, a
large proportion of them live In the
coast cities or near the coast, and
hence would be the first affected by
a great naval or military movement
on tho part of the enemy against us.
It is difficult for us to visualise
such a thing, yet It Is the very ca
tastrophe we are fighting to avert.
Unspeakable as It Is, we must faci
!t. This war of ours is not one of
aggression. A nation that fights for
conquest can withdraw If It chooses
and call the war off. We are fighting
for defense, and we can not quit un
til we have averted the peril that
threatens ns. Germany has attacked
us. She has struck heavy and ruth-
lesa blows at this freedom I have
spoken of. J do not need to recite
the long list of brutal crimes she has
perpetrated against our peoole and
»ho were In direct line for promotion
to responsible executive positions,
and I saw many men still in their
twenties and thirties who were get
ting salaries well up in tile thous
ands.
This. I reflected, was only another
evidence of our Americanism—the
thing we must fight for. Is there any
ether land in the world wberj young
men—or all men, for that matter—
have such opportunities? Do we halt
appreciate what we have?
Then I saw the same thing again
In Detroit, only here I went through
automobile factories chiefly. An au
tomobile plant is a demonstration of
the amazing opportunities men have I
In this land of ours. Here you find
Industrial management organized
along tho lines of the most modern
thought, so that in practically all the
great plants intensive study is given
to the development of men's earning
In \eOJde Dayes
fblkes Knew Goode Coffee
W HEN good fallow* of long ago gathered about
ya feativa board for a snack and a smack, they
demanded that coffee ba ya very bast In ya land.
That’* the kind you get today whan you drink
Luzianne. Just try It. If it doesn’t Uste better than
any othtr coffee, you'va got a real "kick" coming to you,
and your grocer will refund every penny you paid for it.
Gat in Una with the thousands of good people who
drink Luzianne regularly. Buy some today, in the
air-tight, sanitary can.
(the machines. To me, it stood for
another vast opportunity. Few of us
have any conception of our Ameri
can food possibilities. I wondered, as
I contemplated a 1,000,000-bushel ele
vator how many people there are
j who ever tried to picture in their
I minds 1,000,000 bushels—or 10,000,-
000. Yet In 1916 North Dakota alone
produced almost 40,000,000 bushels.
In 1915 she produced nearly four
times that much.
I For hundreds of miles I rode
through the wheat country. Most of
the harvesting was over, and the
grain was being thrashed. Monster
straw stacks dotted the landscape,
and the golden stubble reached away
„ .. in undulating waves until it met the
capacity, and to all the contributing ,. , _
. . .... . . , | horizon. Prosperity stod out all over
factors of their progress and happi-1 . . . ' . , ,
.... „ ,iin, _Z.' ‘hat country. The trains were crowd
ed with local travelers as well as
ness. Tills is a distinct reflection of
our Americanism.
1'wish young men would appre
ciate more than they do the causes
'that underlie their extraordinary op
portunities in the United States. I
should like to see them possess a I
realization of the fact that these
chances do not come to them by luck, ,
but are the result of our free form of
government, our boundless opportu
nities for enterprise, and our indi
vidual freedom. I
And these are the things we are
going to maintain in this war to the
death. This is why we are fighting.
W. must never let the young men of
this land struggle under the rigidly ,
constricted opportunities of a form I
of government such as Germany
would thrust upon us, if she could
In Chicago X saw still more swarm
ing millions of people—all enjoying
the same boundless fretdom of enter
prise which I fear most of us, all
over the country, fall to understand, f
On La Salle street I met a young fel-1
low whom I had not seen for live
>ears, and in that period he had de
veloped from an office boy at $6 a
week to an executive drawing $2,500
a year. He told me that he contem- I
plated going to New York, where, as I
he put It. his opportunities would uot
bo so limited. Why, the very bigness
of a man's opportunities in this,
country blinds him to the wonder of
the thing. This nation of ours Is so
transcontinental ones, and money and
comfort were in evidence.
fn America tire farmer Is far re
moved from the serf of Europe. We
have cut loose from feudalism and
the rule of barons. Not for a minute
would we stand for a system that
compelled us to rent our wheat fields
from a group of aristocrats and syco
phants of royalty.
No; but we need to guard against
all possibility of reversion to such
conditions. Two or three years ago
w e would have laughed at the mere
suggestion, but today we do not
laugh. We fight, instead, to keep the
freedom we bought so dearly. You
need to see our country as I saw it
so recently to feel the priceless value
of the things we are fighting for.
On toward the west lay the tre-
r endous expanse of Montana, with
its copper hills and Its cattle lands
j.asslng In panorama hour after hour
until darkness hid them, and far and
rear I saw the herds scattered over
. those lonely regions. Even in the
j night, as my train passed some of
those isolated sidings, the disturbed
lowing of cattle told the story of the
ceaseless movement of live-stock
trains to the great food centers of
St. Paul and Chicago. What
amazing country this land of Amer
ica Is, with Its seemingly Inexhausti
ble resources! We can feed the
world, Indeed. But these treasures
will come much of the sturdy stock
necessary for the frames of our
great aircraft fleet, and from here
originates such enormouB quantities
of lumber for all purposes that we
are dazed in contemplating it.
We wouldn't like Germany to say
to us: “Washington and Oregon
hereafter must be a German posses
sion! This timber is just what we
need.”
Stranger things than this have
come out of wars. We can not af- j
ford to be too skeptical, for If Ger
many should win in this titanic
struggle she would not pick out the
deserts for her American domain.
Next I went southward to the
Golden State—Uie land of fruit and
perpetual summer. Do you Imagine
that Germany would overlook so fine
a prize as this, if she has the choos
ing? We are conceding, remember,
that Germany stands a chance of
achieving victory in this frightful
«ar. We can make such a contin
gency impossible only by fighting the
war for ourselves—remembering al
ways that this is our war Just as
much as it is the war of France and
of England. Once we realize that
we are waging the terrific struggle
In defense of our own great land, we
will show a new spirit. We will put |
every ounce of our strength Into It. i
California, I say, is one of the
ATTHE STRAND AND ELITE
EARL WILLIAMS STRAND ros, where Ryan, as one of the out-
THEATRE FEATURE TODAY law leaders In the picture, has hid-
A man's hatred of a faithless wife den Duncan'B bride, Carol Holloway,
vv reaked on hla son. Is the theme of | “Never fake,” Is a maxim of Dun-
“A Mother's Sin,’’, the ..Vitagraph Blue can’s and Ryan wouldn't fake if yon
Ribbon Feature, which will be the ' doubled his salary. The result Is
attraction in the Strand theatre to- that they present the most thrilling
day. In this powerful drama writ
ten by Hilda Sharpe, the father per
mits the son to go the pace and then
when he is hopelessly In debt, disin
herits him in the hope of gloating
ever his disgrace. But the son
thwarts him to the extent of leaving
the country and the father dying
realizes the great Injustice he has
hand-to-hand fight ever
screen. /
put on the
COMING ATTRACTIONS.
Monday the Strand presents Wil
liam S. Hart In his latest feature,
“Wblves of the Rail,” also the latest
News Events. The first perform
ance starts at the Strand and Elite
theatres at 10 a. m. Mondays. Wed
nesday the Elite will present the spe
cial selected feature, “Redemption,”
v/ith Evelyn Nesblt and her son. Rus
sell Thaw. This Is an extraordinary
attraction for the Elite Bpectal Wed
nesday.
Acids In Stomach
Sour the Food And
Cause Indigestion
PAPE'S DIAPEPSIN” FIXES SOUR,
GASSY, UPSET 8TOMACHS IN
FIVE MINUTES.
0 ” EARLE
II wiuIam
Garl Williams Strand Feature Today,
done. He makes a new will wiilcb
does not come to light for several
years.
I Meanwhile a profligate nephew gets
, the estate and almost gets the girl
the son loves, but finally the will Is
.'discovered and all turns out happily
The picture Is replete with strong
situations which are well taken care
of by Earle Williams, the star, and
by Miriam Miles.
ELITE TODAY. •
Sensational scenes and exciting
episodes set In nature’s beautiful and
rugged surroundings will feature
“The Raggedy Queen" to be present'
od at the Elite theatre today with
Violet Mercereau In the title role.
This story picture*'life In a small
mining camp where a little girl has
been brought by a half-demented
maid to live In one of the scores of
dilapidated shacks that furnish hab
itations for the miners and their
families. Trouble breaks out among
the miners; there Is the old contest
between capital and labor to be set
choicest of war prizes for the vie , tled ,n the 8ame oId way-strikes,
tor. should we be conquered. What , violence, hardships and final adjust-
an astounding region it Is! I do not n,ent ' But moro appealtng t0 tbe
like statistics. They don't mean average theatregoer than aU this
much to most of us. But picture In w,n be the unfoldln * love - Btor5 ' that
>our mind the hundreds of train loads
lends heart interest to the exciting
of fruit that roll eastward every year Bcenes and sensational incidents.
from this heaven-favored country.
Miss Mersereau as the ragged, littie
Just imagine the oranges and lemons, heroine, has the best opportunity she
the cherries and peaches, the apri- , haa ever had display her versa-
marvelous in every way that we grow ^ mean tQ keep _ we lntend t0 ad .
accustomed to seeing the gr.atness |nIgter them ourBe , V es and not per-
o! It. and think it commonplace. Bft them ^ 8elzed by an on9my
Surely it must not take defeat in on earth Th(g natIon has been our9
this war to wake us up. He win not s(J , ong thgt we are ln dangel . of
watt for the military rule of Germany th|nk| , t w ,„ remaln our9 by mere
before we realize that thegs golden r(ght „ f po88e99lon , wUh , tB recur-
material opportunities come
basic underlying freedom
from
iring riches. We forget that the en-
Ivlous eyes of others have long been
I wish you could study, as 1 have ppon u8 and that wIth our pr08ent
done to quite an extent, this subject enemy mlgM , g rlght and the en 4 jus-
of individual opportunity In some of tjfleg any ac , of p]under and raurder .
tbe countries of Europe as compared You may thl|)k that thl9 l8 far .
with our opportunities here. It would ' fptched> but 9Urely we can not fall
amaze you to know how small were
men's earnings over there—before
the war. of course—and how hopeless
were the chances the great majority
or them had to rise above tho dead
levol of lifetime poverty and medioc
rity.
Chicago, I say, la another manifes
tation of freedom and opportunity—
to see that a victory for Germany
would mean the seizure of our land
products, If not the land Itself.
Farther along toward the Pacific
lay Idaho, and here I began to tee
sawmills and great areas of piled
lumber, and we met and passed train
alter train laden heavily with the
products of the foresta. There were
yet ln Chicago I heard men say that_ any traln loads ot mas ,lve sawed
the war was a mistake. They thought timber*—perhape fir for our new
we should have kept out of It. One merc hant fleet—and other dozens of
man-asked me why we should go over traln loadg of miscellaneous lumber
to France and fight that country’s
battles. The very meaning of our
part In the war was lost on him, just
as tbe meaning of Chicago was lost.
We are lighting our own battles—
and still others of shingles. There
seemed to be no end to them.
But I was Just getting into the
fringes, so far as lumber was con
cerned. (Passing through the gate-
New York's and Chicago’s, and the way to tbe 8tate ot Washington—the
whole country’s. We are fighting to pretentious city of Spokane—we
keep our opportunities. jeame at length to the mighty forests
At Minneapolis I stood in awe and of tbe p ac tfl c slope. Even If noth-
rontemplated the Immense wheat ele- J j nje cIge were worth fighting for,
valors—those glagntlc concrete piles t be9e immense areas of noble trees
that dlatlngutah this flour center of certainly are. Up here along the
the nation. I went through one of pacific, ln Washington and Oregon
the greatest of the flour mills and end jj, the regions adjacent, stands
ssw the never-ending ribbon of yet- probably two-thirds of the good tlm-
our property. What would the do to ' low wheat that -runs from the bins to ber 0 ( the United State*. From here
cots, prunes, olives, figs, grapes, I Ullty and talents
pears and raisins. Then conjure up quote production
lu your mind the tons of berries, and i screen,
the nuts. g
But these make up only a part ot
sunny California. After all this im
mense product has been shipped
away, we have left the country Itself
—the June time in January. We have
the wealth of flowers, the semltropt-
cal verdure in the months of Ice and
snow elsewhere. We have this Mec-
ca of the traveler. Would Germany
want It? Will we fight for It?
Eastward I went toward home, and
the miles clicked away by the hun
dreds of thousands. For four days
and four nights I rode, and still I
was ln our United States of America.
Through unbelievable reaches of for
ests and prairies; through cornfields
that stretched away for hour after
hour; through meadows that were
sprinkled for days with haystacks;
through truck gardens that never
ended. And toward the south lay
tbe cotton lands that had given us
almost the monopoly of that mighty
product—and the' sugar cane and the
rice.
Finally came the colossal steel
mills of Pennsylvania, and all the
factories of an industrial region that
has no rival; and no matter what
hour of the night I roused myself to
look from the car window I saw the
flare In tbe sky.
It Is all ours—all America! No
other land on earth possesses such
r'ches, or such a variety of good
things that come from the soil and
tbe workshop. In no other land can
the common people get these things
as we get them. Nor doea any other
land offer its people such opportunity
to acquire Independence along with
the pleasures of life.
It is because w«, have these things
that we fight. It Is because we will
not let any nation Insolently destroy
our trade and our opportunity. We
will not stand meekly and see a
ruthless military power kill our peo
ple, sink our ehlpi. and get a grip
on our country itself. \
upon usual
bettered by
CHARLIE CHAPLIN AT STRAND.
Charlie Chaplin will be the comedy
feature at the Strand theatre today
ond present one ot hts very best
C( medics “Behind the Screen.” This
Is one of tbe funniest features this
star ever made and shows more fun
than any of his latest subjects. This
Is extra at the Strand theatre today.
THRILLING FIGHT STAGED
IN CABIN, ELITE TODAY
Unquestionably tbe most thrilling
and realistic physical battle between
two strong men ever put on the
screen Is that between William Dun
can and Joe Ryan, ln “The Fighting
Trail,” Greater Vltagraph's amazing
•trial of adventure, romance and In
trigue, the eleventh episode of which
will be the attraction In the Elite
theatre today.
Duncan la known as "the strong
man of photoplay,” trained athlete
and wrestler, and Joe Ryan, hardy
nwpuncher, Is a man to be avoided
In an argument where either pistol or
fists are to figure. These two meet
In a cabin ln the wilds of the Sler-
You don't know what upset your
stomach—which portion of the food
did the damage—do yon? Well, don’t
bother. It your stomach is ln a revolt.
If sick, gassy and npset, and what you
just ate has fermented and turned
sour; head dizzy and aches; belch
gases and acids and ernctate undigest
ed food; breath foul, tongue coated—
just take a little Pape’s Diapepsin to
neutralize acidity and ln five minutes
you wonder what became ot the Indi
gestion and distress.
Millions of men and women today
know that it is needless to have dys
pepsia. A little Diapepsin occasion
ally keeps the stomach sweetened,
and they eat their favorite foods with
out fear.
If your stomach doesn't take care
ot your liberal limit without rebellion;
if your food is a damage Instead of a
help; remember the quickest, surest,
most harmless antacid is Pape's Dia
pepsin, which costs only fifty cents
for a large case at drug stores. Jt’s
truly wonderful—It stops food soaring
and sets things straight, so gently
and easily that It is really astonishing.
Your stomach will digest your meals
If you keep acids neutralized.
About Constipation.
Certain articles of diet tend to
check movements of tbe bowels. The
most common of these are cheese,
tea and boiled milk. On the other
hand raw frulti, especially apples
and bananas, also graham bread and
whole wheat bread promote a move
ment of the bowels. When the bow
els are badly constipated, however,
the sure way Is to take one or two
ot Chamberlain's Tablet* Immediate
ly after supper.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
On and after February 1,
1918, my Service Station
will be run a strictly spot
cash basis to everybody. I
trust that each and every
one of my friends and cus
tomers will co-operate with
me and I will assure you
more prompt and efficient
service.
I have secured the services
of Mr. G. Cartey, who is well
known to the motoring pub
lic. He, with Mr. Wallace
Moore, will be able to han
dle our Service Station in a
satisfactory manner, giving
the very best attention to
Dodge, Nash and Hudson
cars.
MORRIS YOW,
tf Distributor.