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Page 14
WHY WE ARE AT WAR
Trench and Camp is glad to be
permitted to present to its readers
what we consider the most con
vincing indictment against the
Germans we have ever read. It
was prepared by the Training
Section of the General Staff Corps
and is known officially as Train
ing Memorandum No. 6. Major
Stephen O. Fuqua, Assistant Chief
of Staff, is the author of the mem
orandum. It sets forth in a won
derfully concise manner an array
of evidence against the German
nation that should be memorized
h>' every man in the Twenty
ir 4-^p r p t-ppn
Camp Hancock soldiers as to why
we are preparing to fight Ger
bring sure conviction as to the
many, the following simple and
concise, statement of facts will
"bring sure conviction as to the
justice of our cause. —Editor.
Headquarters Twenty-Eighth Division
Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga.
December 13ih, 1317.
TRAINING 'MEMORANDUM No. 6.
To be read by all organization com
manders to the enlisted personnel of
their units, and later posted on all or
ganization bulletin boards.
WHY WE AREAT WAR.
You are now undergoing the train
ing essential to prepare you for the
final test of arms—to strengthen you
as individuals, and to develop you in
“team work” so that you may go for
ward to‘ the supreme test with the
same spirit that has always actuated
the American soldier in his battles for
freedom. As an army not crushed un
der the heel of a cruel despot, nor
guided by the imperial whip of a mas
ter, you are made mindful of some of
these many causes rendering your sac
rifices needed.
It is well to remember that this
great Republic did not declare war
upon the Hohenzollern government,
but by'solemn act of its peoples' rep
resentatives, recognized that the Ger
man emperor and his war party, in'
violation of our treaty rights, had
made war upon us. Before this sol
emn situation was met and sacred
duty performed, our legislative and
executive representatives gave
thought to the offenses committed by
the German government against the
laws of nations and against our na
tional sovereignty. An enumeration
of these acts of this war-mad party
of Germany is given below and is a
full reply to “why we are at war.”
(a.) It violated the principles of
neutrality as applied to land warfare,
to which it had pledged its national
honor by coin ns 3 and 5 of The
Hague of 1907, invasion of Bel
gium, and repudiated it? solemn un
dertakings respecting the neutrality of
that nation.
(b) It levied huge monetary penal
ties upon occupied cities for its own
war purposes, in violation of the laws
of nations.
(c) It wantonly destroyed works of
art and arcitecture -which it could
not steal; and razed historical monu
ments and edifices of worship, mercy,
and charity for which no military ne
cessity existed.
(d) It deliberately, and as a fixed
and settled policy, practiced rapine,
arson, and murder, against helpless
and non-combatant populace.
(e) It wantonly bombarded from
the land, sea, and sky, non-fortified
and unprotected cities and towns, in
dulging in indiscriminate slaughter of
women and < hildren.
(f) It tore young girls from theii
homes to labor in the fields of Ger
many, and drove many to suicide to
escape the white slavery denounced
by the laws of nations.
(gj It destroyed convents and rav
ished nuns, and violated the principles
of the Christian religion.
(h> It violated international law by
the murder of a nurse and sea captain'
who had committed ho capital offense
under the laws of war.
(i> It violated the rules o< morf.
time warfare by murder of o citi
zens, the citizens of other neutrals,
and the non-combatant citizens of our
allies, while engaged in peaceful trav
el cn the high seas; and more than
this, it authorized the firing on life
boat? rescuing non-combatants from
the perils of the sea.
(i) It openlv practiceed piracy on
the high seas by' its methods of sub
marine warfare.
(k) It violated our neutrality by en
deaver’na to incite strikes and indus
trial disturbances within our bor
der-.
(l) It -"iolated the laws of nations by
using its con-ular and diplomatic
agents accredited to us in ways de
nounced by its own treaties.
(m) It endeavored to incite nations
with which we were at peace to make
war against us.
(n> “it violated the principle of
constitutional law and affronted oir
national sovereignty by its treatment
of our accredited diplomatic and con
sular representatives.
(o) It violated international law and
the accepted comity of nations when
it used its diplomatic and consular
services in a gigantic propaganda
backed by German gold to combine
neutral nations against America, to
propagate an army of spies in our
midst, and by dread of bomb and
torch, attempted to spread fear in our
neutral and peace loving country.
AENCH AND CAMP
I (p) It engaged in a long and pre-
I meditated course of action intended to
i secure domination over the peoples of
[ the earth, the destruction of the bal
ance of power, and the violation of the
Monroe Doctrine.
(q) It adopted a policy of crime in
carrying out its unlawful purposes in
and by which it contemptuously vio
lated all the laws of nations, and the
rights of the individual, sacrificing all
to its ruthless ends.
In the words of our president, we
know that for us this is a war of high
principle, debased by no selfish am
bition of conquest or spoliation; be
cause we know, and all the world
knows that we have been forced into
it to save the very institutions we live
under from corruption and destruc
tion. The purposes of the central
powers strike straight at the very
heart of everything we believe in;
their methods of warfare outrage ev
ery principle of humanity and of
knightly honor; their sinister and
■ecret diplomacy has sought to take
our very territory away from us and
disrupt the union of the states. Our
safety would be at an end, our honor
forever sullied and brought into con
tempt were-, we to permit their
triumph. They are striking at the
very existence of democracy and' lib
erty.
No such indictment has ever yet
been brought against any government,
aheient or modern, savage or civilized;
and in the aggregate constitutes it an
outlaw among nations.
THERE’S A SPOT IN LUZERNE CO.
There’s a spot in Duzerne County,
A spot I love so well-;
They call it dear old Wilkes-Barre,
The place I love so well.
There is no place so dear to me,
With all that I have seen.
For Wilkes-Barre is all in all,
Its memory’s ever green.
There’s nothing slow in that old town,
It’s full of life and vim;
If you ever go to Wilkes-Barre,
Just take the Poli in.
I love its parks and river view.
My heart longs to be there —
To walk the broad and well known
streets,
And rest upon the square.
ROBERT D. PRICE,
Battery C, 109th Field Artillery.
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(Ki-ro-prak-tik)
It Is Not Medicine j Not Surgery j
Not Osteopathy.
It is a scientific method of adjusting the
cause of disease without drugs or instruments,
based on a correct knowledge of anatomy, and
especially the nervous system. The Chiro
practic idea is that the cause of disease is in
the person afflicted, and the adjustment in
correcting the wrong that is producing it.
The function of every organ in the body is con
trolled by mental impulses from the brain,
which it transmits through the nerves. Any
impingement of these nerves interfering with
the transmission of mental impulses results in
an abnormal function called disease. This in
terference is produced by subluxated verte
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from the spinal cord. The trained Adjuster is
able to locate the point of obstruction or in
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mal conditions, or health, is the result.
Investigation costs nothing, and means
health and happiness.
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CHIROPRACTOR
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Dec. 24, 1917.
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