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THE /E.IERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
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A CHANCE FOR THE PEOPLE.
This newspaper believes that the Republican party will honor i
itself and make the greatest possible contribution to the welfare of the
masses of the people of this country by nominating Herbert Hoover
for president. Such a nomination would go a long way toward re
establishing the party in the confidence of the country as a political
organization devoted to the public welfare instead of to the private.
interests of a group of financial and industrial exploiters of the people.;
Then if the party at its Chicago convention will adopt a forward
looking platform, dealing with the many international and domestic ,
problems that are fast pressing for solution, in away that appeals to ,
the sense of justice of the average man and woman of the nation, it i
will have the satisfying sense of duty performed, whatever the result,
of the election in November.
It may well be that the Democratic convention, which meets at
San Francisco some three weeks later, will nominate a candidate and;
adopt a platform equally or more compelling from the standpoint of
the desires of the average voter.
So much the better.
We cannot imagine a situation that would better indicate the
political health of this nation than that both great parties at this time
of doubt, unrest and uncertainty, would shake off all of the sinister |
influences which are ever striving to control and direct them.
What a magnificent opportunity for public service of the high
est order, is presented to the men and women who are to meet in con
vention at Chicago and San Francisco, to nominate the man who is
to be charged with the tremendous responsibility of national leader
ship during the next four years and to declare the principles and poli
cies upon which that leadership is to be based!
It is our deliberate judgment that the financial, industrial, eco
nomic and social conditions which this republic is facing are of such
gravity that it is of vital importance to every individual whatever his
or her status may be, that our national government be directed dur
ing the next four years by men of the highest order of ability and
patriotism irrespective of whether they belong to this party or that.
And also that the man who is to be elevated to the highest position
of all. at least begins his difficult task with the confidence of the great
mass of toiling men and women, because he has been CHOSEN BY
THEM AND NOT THRUST UPON THEM.
We center our attention upon the Republican party at this time
because its convention will be held first and the contest for the nomi
nation will very soon reach the final stage.
And we express our preference for Herbert Hoover and urge
that he be nominated because we believe that more than any other
Republican who has a possible chance of being nominated he is the
popular choice of the rank and file of the party and possesses in
greater degree than any other candidate the qualities which are call
ed for by the crisis in the affairs of the nation.
Aside from the question of Hoover's abilities, which have been
proven so many times during the past six years, of his unselfish public
services, his great appeal to us and we believe his great appeal to the
millions who want a chance to vote for him, is his political independ
ence.
We believe that the professional partisan politician is at about
the lowest ebb in popular esteem in the history of political parties,
that there is an insistent demand that will not be denied, on the pai j
of the great mass of the voters of both parties, that the nominees for'
president this year be men as far removed as possible from the class
of partisan politicians.
Certainly among all of the candidates for the Republican nomi
nation, the charge of partisanship can be made with least truth against
Hoover.
Equally certain it is that among all of the Republican candidates,
Hoover is the only man who has fired the imagination of the people, I
or for whom there is any great popular sentiment.
His nomination, in our judgment, would be a splendid victory for
the great body of Republican voters over the desires of a small group
of men who have set themselves up as party dictators. I
It would also be a splendid demonstration of the ability of the
people to govern themselves by the machinery of political parties
and a vindication of the two-party system, which sadly needs vindi-1
cation. r
Incidentally the nominaion of Hoover by the Republicans at
Chicago and the adoption of the only kind of a platform upon which
he would accept tfie nomination, would set a pace for the Democrats,
who meet a few weeks later, to which they would react in the public
interest, by offering the country the best they have in candidate and
platform.
JAP AN'S BAD MOVE.
Japan’s forcible seizure of Vladivostok has followed immed
iately upon France’s occupation of Germany’s trans-Rhme cities. So
quickly does one act of imperialism breed another.
Russia has dpne nothing to warrant Japan’s action. The ex
planation issued at Tokio that danger to Manchuria and Korea neces
sitate the occupation of Vladivostok cannot stand examination. Man
churia does not belong to Japan. And a Japanese army in Vladivos
tok cannot possibly influence events in Korea. Japan has consistently
shown an ability to deal with Korean affairs in Korea itself.
The truth is, in such matters as these, Japan's civilian statesmen
must give way to the militarists. The Japanese war department has a
status of its own, beyond the control of the prime minister. Behind
the war department, in the present instance, are Japanese militarists,
as a matter of logical necessity.
The common people of Japan have begun to fight for their pol
itical rights. Japan’s inevitable social revolution is now in the mak
ing. It may be a peaceful revolution, or a bloody one. Militarists
in every country think they can overawe petitions for charters of lib
erty and freedom by a display of the power of the military machine.
By seizing Vladivostok, the Japanese (militarists) hope to dis
tract popular atttention from social and political reform. It is an old
game. But it cannot succeed. The military party at Tokio has seiz
ed a moment for its plan when France’s trans-Rhine adventure makes
a peremptory protest from France and her European allies difficult.
But in this matter America’s hands are free. Vladivostok, Russia’s
only valuable Pacific port, will not become a Japanese possessoin.
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BACK TO THE BATTLEFIELD
A New White Cross Has Been Added to the Long Rows At
Argonne Cemeery.
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Lieutenant Thomas D. Amory, super-hero, and the cross that
marks his grave.
BY CHARLES W. O'CONNOR,
Former Sergeant Co. D, 26th
Infantry.
AT noon we started from the Ar
gonne cemetery at Romagne to
seek a distant hillside on which I
hoped to find a little cleft stake, a
small pile of stones.
This was the mission that had tak
en me back, after 15 months, to the
battlefields in northern France over
which my company had advanced in
the last great drive of the war.
At midnight, Oct. 4, 1918, we had
placed the stake—the only mark we
could find in the darkness —at the
grave of Lieut. Thomas D. Amory, of
Wilmington, Del.
Now I was returning, for the first
time, to try to find that modest monu
ment, for which many had searched
vainly.
Close by the ruins of the church
in the village of Gesnes we found a
post, marked with the red insignia of
the Amercan Fifth division. A
bronze tablet told how the 362 d In
fantry regiment had taken the town
Sept. 29, 1918.
As we stood there silent, picturing
to ourselves that September day,
thoughts of my own comrades came.
Down the road there somewhere thej’
had fought and died, too.
I remembered the sentence in the
First division order which sent Lieut.
Amory out on his patrol—to find the
enemy—that gray morning of Oct. 2.
“This patrol will be commanded by
a particularly faithful and courage
ous officer.’’
Then the memory of how this young
officer, just returned to the fighting
after being seriously wounded at
Montdidier, looked back as he started
and grinned, and said:
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“This is all in the game, old boy.”
i Os that patrol of 75 men, about 30
came back in the next two days to
tell how they advanced until machine
. guns opened fire all about, killing
Lieut. Amory, and Sheppard and
Clater, and Zak, and the rest in
stantly.
“Man, there was as fine an officer
as God ever made,” big Sergeant
Yarboro had told me, tears in his
eyes. He had come back with one
arm swinging loose. He had tried to
[ carry his lieutenant out of the fire.
• But halfway along the road from
! Gegnes to Exermont I caught sight
of a ridge that seemed familiar. I
'jumped from the car, looked about —
Then once more for me, I was back
•i in it back without the crash of
I i shells, and the whistle of machine gun
\ bullets, and the sight of running
i : men—
i' There was the wrecked stable at
’ the crossroads, the red-roofed farrn
, house from which that murderous fire
- had come, the little stream—the very
i planks—we had dashed across.
I And there on the ridge were the
; {shelter holes where my company had
, I dug in at night, the tree that marked
. I Co. P. C., the ravine where battalion
;! headquarters had been, and the
dressing station—
?; Straight to the end of the row of
. trees we went —
• i There in the weeds with thumping
. j heart I saw a little cleft stake, and
,■ the silver identification tag, and the
- , pile of stones.
r j A new white cross has been added
r to the long rows at Argonne ceme
t tery. It is marked “Thomas D. Am
j ory, Lieut., 26th U. S. Inf.”
(The End.)
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IN youth we long to roam afar and go where great adventures are, we .
have but sneers and scorn for vine-clad cot or village street or country
store where wise men meet; we’d sail around the Horn. We d traffic in the
golden East, and make a million bucks at least, we d bring the bacon in,
we’d cut a swath with either hand on India s well-known coral strand, where
e’er we went we’d win. No chances here about us lurk; what is the use to
go to work or strive with might and vim, while there aie gold and precious
stones worth forty-seven kinds of bones, beyond the sky-line’s rim? Thus
do we’reason, while the boys, without imagination’s joys, are piling up the
scads* they do the work that’s there to do, nor pause until that work is
through, these hornv-handed lads. And when our dream has faded out,
I we don’t know how it came about, but we are on the rocks, while those who
! did the nearest thing may snap their fingers, dance and sing, and wear two
I dollar socks.
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Biggest Problem: Production,’
I Says Earnest Poole, Economist
BY ERNEST POOLE,
Noted Economist and Author.
WHAT is the most important prob
lem to come up during this cam
paign? There is just one —produc-
tion. Both in this country and
abroad, how to get industry, trade
and finance so working as to head off
the crash which is likely to come all
over the world if the politicians in
other lands go on as blindly as ours
have done over here ever since the
president made his fatal partisan ap
peal at that time, it seems to me that
party politics of the very pettiest
kind have prevented all work og real
reconstruction.
Though any man who is not blind
can see that our national welfare—
in future wars, in future peace—is
all bound up with that of the world,
no headway whatever has yet been
made either toward preventing wars
or so arranging our peace relations
that our trade with Europe can go
on freely as before, and our vast in
fluence be made to count in heading
off calamity there by a practical sane
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MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1920.
| reconstruction along broad human
liberal lines of give and take and mu
tual help.
And as abroad, so here at home.
We are living in a fool’s paradise
of high wages, prices and over-spend
ing. Nothing whatever has been
done to solves the one problem con
fronting then ation. It is thus: How
to make men work? It cannot be
done by injunctions nor by all this
waving of hands and shouting about
the Red Peril. It can be done only
by working out some plan or plans
whereby the worker is made to feel
I himself a real partner in the plant at
• which he is employed.
i And because of all possible leaders
, in this country at this time there is
i only one I have seen so far who
i seems able to cope with this problem,
i Production, both at home and in our
> relations abroad—l hope that Her
bert Hoover will be one of the can
: didates. If he is, this will be a real
i campaign. ’