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HOME-READING COURSE
tor CITIZEN - SOLDIERS
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THE SPIRIT OF THE SERVICE.
The spirit that dominated the Amer
ican armies at? Bunker Hill, New Or
leans, Buena Vista, Gettysburg and
Santiago will just as surely dominate
the National army on the battlefields
of Europe,
This spirit is a compound. It is
made up in part of democratic feeling,
in part of respect and love for the na
tion, and in part of Americanism.
The United States army has always
been and will always remain a demo
cratic army. Every man in the army
is made to feel that his brains and his
individuality count for something. It
is not merely ti big, soulless machine
that moves with mechanical precision.
It is a “team.” Each man in the team
is presumed to be intelligent and self
reliant.
Os course there can be no teamwork
without regularity and strict discipline.
This is equally true of a football or
baseball team. There must also be
various ranks and degrees of authority.
And sometimes this necessary organi
zation and close regulation creates an
impression that the army is not demo
cratic.
But the fact of the ease is that
American soldiers accept the reason
able discipline of the army readily be
cause they have the good sense to
realize that these things arc necessary.
They accept them without losing in the
least their real independence as free
citizens.
Furthermore, American armies are
democratic because the path of promo
tion is wide open.
In a special sense the National army
is democratic. A great democracy must
always carry on its affairs through
chosen representatives. You are doubt
less familiar with this principle as it
is applied in time of peace. Now it is
applied in time of war. Through a
process of fair selection the National
army has been picked to represent all
parts of the country and all groups of
the people. Never has America sent
forth an army so truly representative
of the nation. •
There are always pessimists in every
generation who insist that patriotism
is dead or at least decaying. They
have not been lacking in recent years.
There comes a crisis such as now con
fronts us. And always the question of
patriotism is answered by a free out
pouring of effort, money and blood on
the part of citizens of all types in
every section of the country.
Every citizen of the United States
now has or will have certain duties to
perform, certain sacrifices to make.
Tile burden does not rest wholly upon
you and other men who take up arms.
It rests in part also upon the men and
women who stay behind. For modern
war on a big scale demands that the
whole nation, in a sense, should go to
war. The tasks required of some may
be harder than the tasks required of
others, but all of them are necessary
in order to make sure of the result.
Many manufacturers and workers —
often women as well as men —must
give up their own work and plans in
order to produce war supplies. Those
who remain where they now are—be
cause they are engaged in some occupa
tion just as necessary in war as in
peace, such as fanning, mining, run
ning railroads, and the like —must go
at their work with redoubled energy
and without expecting profits for
themselves; it would be a great mis
take if everyone were taken away from
these necessary lines of effort in order
to join the colors as a soldier.
Certain men—among whom you are
One—have been or will be chosen as
representatives of the nation to defend
our righty and safety on the battlefield.
You and' your fellow soldiers are se
lected from the young men of the coun
try who are best fitted for military ser
vice.
This process of organizing the'whole
nation for war cannot, of course, be
completed in a day. But it is steadily
going on. It will necessarily go on un
til the end of the war. You will have
back of’you and supporting you the
whole country—all its people and all
its wealth. Congress spoke the will of
the nation in the declaration of war:
“To bring the conflict to a successful
termination all the resources of the
country are hereby pledged.”
The patriotic spirit which moves the
whole country will find its- highest ex
pression in its soldiers—‘the men who
are assigned to the post of danger and
of honor. They will go all the more
willingly since they know that behind
them the whole nation is organizing
for the national service. Their spirit
will be one patriotic devotion fully
as intense as ,that of American armies
in previous wgrg.
The spirit of democracy and of pa
triotism is to be found also in the
armies of other nations fighting
against German aggression. In addi
tion the National army will have its
own spirit of ^merieunlsm. It will
have American enthusiasm, good hu
mor, fairness even to the enemy, and
self-confidence, ,Bj will go at its work
not half-heartedly but with a vim. If
there are tomjxupny setbacks It will
accept them and keep on “plugging.”
Fighting in that spirit and with the
full strength of the country to back it
un, the United States arhiy cannot fail
to achieve its objects, "bnce more we
shall make good with our Ilves and for
tunes the great faith to which we were
horn, and a new glo^y shall shine in
। the face of our people.”
WHY WE FIGHT.
I Every American knows the causes
of our war with the German govern
ment. Yet this course would be in
complete if it did not contain a brief
review of the events that finally forced
us into war, when there remained “no
other means of defending our rights.”
The soldier of an autocratic kaiser
may fight best when he understands
least of the true meaning of the war.
To tell him the facts would be to chill
his enthusiasm. But the citizen sol
dier’ of a democracy is entitled to
know for what purposes he enters the
struggle. He fights best when he secs
most clearly why he fights.
The resolution of congress declaring
a state of war (April. 6, 1917) ex
presses the immediate cause in these
few words:
“The imperial German government
has committed repeated acts of war
against the government and the people
of the United States of America.”
Chief among the acts of war were
attacks by German submarines on
American ships and on unarmed mer
chant ships of other nations carrying
(American passengers. “Vessels of
; every kind,” said the president in his
address to congress on April 2, 1917.
“whatever their flag, their character,
their cargo, their destination, their er
rand, have been ruthlessly sent to the
bottom without warning and -without
thought of help or mercy for those or,
board, the vessels of friendly neutrals
along with those of belligerents.”
There were other acts of hostility in
addition to the submarine warfare. In
his Flag day address delivered at
Washington on June 14. 1917, the pres
ident summed up the events that
brought on war as follows:
“It is plain enough how we were
forced ,into the war. The extraor
dinary insults and aggressions of the
imperial German government left us
no self-respecting choice but to take
up arms in defense of our rights as a
free people and of our honor as a sov
ereign government. The military
masters of Germany denied us the
right to be neutral. They filled our
unsuspecting comnnftitfes with vicious
spies and conspirators and sought to
corrupt the opinion of our people in
their own behalf. When they found
that they could not do that, their
agents diligently spread sedition
amongst us and sought to draw our
own citizens from their allegiance—
and some of those agents were men
connected with the official embassy of
the German government itself here in
our capital. They sought by violence
to destroy our industries and arrest
our commerce. They tried to incite
Mexico to take up arms against us
and to draw Japan Into a hostile alli
ance with her —and that, not by indi
rection, but by suggestion from the
foreign office in Berlin. They impu
dently denied us the use of the high
seas and wmeatedly executed their
threat thatViey would send to their
death any ol* our people who ventured
to approach the coasts of Europe.”'
The record out of which grows our
deep conviction that it is necessary at
once to put a curb on so powerful and
unscrupulous an enemy is set forth in
an official publication “How the War
Came so America.”
“Judging the German government
now in the. light of our honest attempt
to keep the pence, we could see the
great autocracy and read her record
through the war. And we found that
record damnable. . . . With a fa
natical faith in the destiny of German
kultur as the system that must rule
the world, the imperial government's
actions have through years of boast
ing, double dealing, and deceit tended
toward aggression upon the rights of
others. And if there still be any doubt
as to which nation began this war,
there can be no uncertainty as to
which one was most prepared, most
exultant at the chance, and ready in
stantly to march upon other nations—
even those who had given no offense.
The wholesale depredations and hide
ous atrocities in Belgium and in Ser
bia were doubtless part and parcel
with the imperial government's pur
pose to terrorize small nations into
abject submission for generations to
come. But in this autocracy has been
blind. For its record in those coun
tries, and in Poland and in northern
France, has given not only to the allies
but to liberal peoples throughout the
world the conviction that this menace
to human liberties must be utterly
shorn of its power for harm.
“For the evil it has effected has
ranged far out of Europe— out upon
the open seas, where its submarines
in defiance of law and the concepts of
humanity have blown up neutral ves
sels and covered the waves with the
dead and the dying, men and women
and children alike.
“All this we know from our own ex
perience with the imperial govern
ment. As they nave dealt witli Eu
rope, so have they dealt with us and
with all mankind. And so out of
these years the conviction hns grown
that until the German nation is divest
ed of such, democracy cannot be safe.”
Every American soldier in this war
' fights for objects dearer to al) of us
than life itself—for freedom and de
mocracy, for the safety of our own
homes and families, for the honor of
our country.
i “The world must be made safe for
I democracy.”
IRWINTON BULLETIN, IRWINTON, GEORGIA.
GOVERNMENT TO
IMPROVE ROMS
ENGINEERS TO RUSH WORK ON
HIGHWAY PROJECTS FOR
STATE DEPARTMENT
WORK HAS BEEN APPROVED
Work On Peachtree And Candler Roads
Will Be Done Entirely
By Sections
Engineers of the state highway de
partments are now at work on the
final engineering details of the sev
eral highway projects which have
been approved by the United States
department of agriculture'for improve--
ment with .the aid of federal appropri
ations.
When the engineers have'completed
this work they will draw up the con
tracts for the counties through which
the proposed highway projects pass,
and when the contracts have been
properly approved by these counties
the federal money, amounting to a to
tal of $136,000, will be available.
Maj. J. N. Pease, constructing quar
termaster at Camp Gordon, advertised
for bids for the improvement of Peach
tree and Candler roads, from the Ful
ton county line, through DeKalb to the
camp.
The roads are to be improved in sec
tions. The first section to be improved
will be Peachtree road from the Fulton
county line to the junction of Candier
road. The next section will be Candler
road from Peachtree road to Jackson
avenue, which is the pr'^Cipal street of
Camp Gordon. The third and last sec
tion will be Peachtree road from the
junction of Candler road through
Camp Gordon to Chamblee.
Committee To Pass On Appropriations
The special committee created by the
last session of the legislature to look
into the legality of all appropriations
of the general appropriations bill held
its first meeting in the office of Gov.
Hugh M. Dorsey. The committee con
sisted of Governor Dorsey, Representa
tives Joe Hill Hall, chairman of the
appropriations committee of the
house; Senator George Carswell. At
torney General Clifford Walker and
State Superintendent of Schools M. L.
Brittain.
The following subcommittee was
named to take up the question of legal
ity of appropriations:
Mr. Hall, chairman: Attorney Gene
ral Walker and Senators Carswell.
Mr. Brittain was named as a com
mittee of one to outline a schedule of
work.
Pershing Endorses Army Y. M. C. A.
C. K. Calhoun, campaign manager of
the drive to raise $1,500,000 in the
southeastern military department be
tween November 11 and 19 for the
War Work of the Y. M. C. A. announc
ed the receipt of a cablegram from
General J. Pershing in France endors
ing the army service of the Associa
tion. •
The message was sent to Dr. John
R. Mott, international general secre
tary of the Y. M. C. A. at New York
and forwarded here.
It reads:
“The work now being done by the
Y. M. C. A. for the comfort and en
tertainment of our soldiers in France
is very important. Its moral influ
ence is highly beneficial. It performs
a real service that makes for con
tentment. The Y. M. C. A. has won its
place by unselfish personal devotion to
the soldiers’ welfare and deserves
staunch support by our people at
home.”
The funds which are being sought
over the entire country are necessary
to carry on the. work in America and
overseas until July 1, 1918. The goal
for the nation is $35,000,000.
3 Governors Invited To Macon Fair
Governor’s Day and Military Day at
the Georgia State Fair, this year, on
Wednesday, November 7, are to be
combined, and the affair made one
of the biggest of the entire fair. Three
governors are expected to be in attend
ance on that day, they being Governor
Dorsey of Georgia, Governor Hender
son of Alabama and Governor Catts
of Florida. As the National Guards
men of the three states represented by
the governors are encamped here, it is
expected that a great many persons
from the three states will take ad
antage of the opportunity to see the
oldiers and attend the fair.
New War Tax Os Vital Interest
The new war tax. passed by congress
October 3 is of vital interest to every
one. At the state library at the Capi
tol a copy of the act may be seen
and a number of excellent and authori
tative works summarizing and explain
ing same may be consulted. Since the
new law touches every one. it be
hooves every one to become acquaint
ed with its requirements.
Dorsey Declares For Woman Suffrage
Governor Dorsey told a committee
representing the woman suffrage party
of Georgia that he is emphatically in
favor of extending suffrage to the
women and that he hopes to be the
governor to sign the bill giving them
the right to vote in Georgia.
The occasion was when Mrs. How
ard Gould, Miss Maude Younger, Mrs.
Beatrice Castleton and Miss Marion
May called on the governor and his
staff at the executive mansion. They
were cordially received by the gover
nor.
FOOD CAMPAIGN
IS INAUGURATED
A Great Food Conservation Rally Held
At Billy Sunday’s Huge
Tabernacle
Atlanta —
Following special sermons in At
lanta churches a great food conserva
tion rally was held in connection with
the dedication of the Billy Sunday tab
ernacle, Atlanta’s campaign for food
pledge cards was launched by one of
the most complete and enthusiastic
organizations of volunteer workers
that was ever fromed for a public
movement in the city’s history.
Pastors of Atlanta churches, both
white and colored, called upon their
congregations to help the nation win
the war by conserving the food supply
and read to them the proclamation is
sued by Gov. Hugh M. Dorsey appeal
ing for co-operation of all the people
in the government’s great and vital
undertaking along this line..
At the Billy. Sunday tabernacle on
the circus grounds,- the closing fea
ture of the dedication exercises was
an address on the subject of food con
servation by Rev. M. Ashby Jones,
the new pastor of Ponce de Leon Ave
nue Baptist church, and one of the
most eloquent orators of the South.
Food conservation workers and BiUy
Sunday workers joined in making the
dedication a great revival of patriot
ism, as w ell as religion, and there is
every indication that the tabernacle
will be packed to capacity.
The volunteer workers perfectly or
ganized in every ward called on At
lanta housewives and asked them to
sign the food pledge card of the gov
ernment, which is nothing more than
a promise to use the practical means
at their disposal to aid in conserving
the nation's food supply.
Risk Os Loss In Shipping Green Corn
Dr. A. M. Soule, federal food admin
istrator for Georgia, calls attention to
the shippers, sellers, handlers of Geor
gia corn to the sact —called to his urg
ent. attention by Mr. Hoover —that
there is considerable corn being ship
ped from Georgia in a green state.
This produced discoloration, heat and
mould and renders the grain bad for
human consumption and dangerous for
stock. The deterioration reduces the
value of the grain and the farmer or
shipper loses part of what he should
receive for his product. Corn is worth
money and the administration is de
sirous that through no fault of the
producer or shipper should a fair mar
ket price be obtained. The state col
lege or the. food administrator will
cheerfully and promptly give advice
as to methods to avoid this damage
to corn.
1,009 New Yorkers Reach Camp Gordon
Fifteen hundred men from Camp De
vens and Camp Upton were added to
the eighty-second army division at
Camp Gordon, coming into camp on
special troop trains during Sunday.
The first train arrived in the early
morning, bringing 500 men from Qamp
Devens; the second at. noon, with a
similar number of men from Camp
Upton, Yaphank, N. Y.. and the third
train pulled in at about six o’clock in
the afternoon from the same group.
Practically all of the men from Camp
Upton come from the state, of New
York.
Cheaper Coal Is Promised
Cheaper, coal immediately was prom
ised Atlanta by Dr. L. G. Hardman of
Commerce, the state fuel administra
tor, who came here to confer with a
representative of the local coal deal
ers, the city fuel administrator, the
county administrator and a representa
tive of the Atlanta chamber of com
merce. ,
Doctor Hardman announces that the
price regulations that have just be
come effective will mean a substantial
reduction in the price of coal.
Urged Not To Sell Cotton Out Os State
While the state market bureau is re
ceiving inquiries for corn from vari
ous parts of the country, the bureau
advises against Georgia farmers sell
ing their corn outside the state for the
reason that it appears That, if Geor
gia corn is sent out of the state now
it will be necessary later on to buy
corn outside the state and bring it in
to supply the Georgia demand.
Will Raise Fund For Camp Activities
The entire nation is actively engaged
in promoting war camp activities of a
nature to help and inspire the. men of
the. new national army, according to
Victor H. Kriegshaber. chairman of the
Atlanta division on training camp ac
tivities. who returned from the nation
al conference on community service
held at Washington.
Decline To Grant Petition
The state railroad commission de
clined to grant the petition of the Ma
con, Dublin and Savannah railway for
an immediate hearing of its petition
for a revision of rates. Attorney Min
ter Wimberly appeared for the road.
Committee Has No Jurisdiction
The special commitee appointed by
the last legislature to investigate the
printing hills of the state is without
jurisdiction to correct matters under
the ruling of Clifford Walker, attor
ney general of Georgia, according to a
report of the committee
“Although we find many items charg
ed in the state printer's bill to be
high and unreasonable” the report
says, “under the ruling of Hon. Clif
ford Walker, attorney general for the
state of Georgia, we are without juris
diction to correct this matter."
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