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Newspaper Page Text8 M I H II von'K x 1 ? || |j| n 1 1 iSt wi l»ii TRENCH & CAMP ”F' Published weekly at the National Camps and Cantonments for the soldiers of the United States. National Readquarters Room 504, Pnlltxer BoUdtnc Now York City JOHN STEWART BRYAN Chairman of Advisory Board of Co-operating Publishers Camp and Location Newspaper Publisher Camp Beauregard, Alexandria, La New Orleans Times Picayune., D. D. Moore Camp Bowie, Fort Worth, Texas Fort Worth Star Telegram Amon C. Carter Carlstrom Aviation Field, Arcadia, Fla. Tampa Times D. B. MeKay Camp Cody, Deming, N. Mex El I’aso Herald H. D Slater Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich Battle Croek Enquirer-News. ...’. A. L Miller Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass Boston Globe Charles H. Taylor, Jr. Camp Dlx. Wrightstown, N. J Trenton Times James Korney Camp Doniphan, Fort BUI, 0k1a.......0k1ah0ma City Oklahoman E. K. Gaylord Camp Forrest. Chickamauga. Ga Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times H. C. Adler Camp Fremont, Palo Alto. Col San Francisco Bulletin B. A Crothers Camp Funston, Fort Riley, Kan.. Topeka State Journal Frank P. MacLennan Camp Gordon, Atlanta. Ga Atlanta Constitution Clark Howell Camp Grant, Rockford, Hl ....The Chicago Dally News Victor F. Lawson Camp Greene, Charlotte. N. C Charlotte Observer W. P. Sullivan Camp Hancock, Augusta, da Augusta Herald .Bowdre Phlnlxy Camp Jackson. Columbia, B. C Columbia State W. W. Ball Camp Johnston, Jacksonville, Fla -Jacksonville Times-Union ,‘ W. A. Elliott Camp Kearny, Linda Vista, Ca1....... .Los Angeles Times .....Harry Chandler Camp Lee. Petersburg, Vs ....Richmond News Leader ..John Stdwart Bryan Camp Lewis, Tacoma, Wash ...Taeoma Tribune / F. S. Baker Camp Logan, Houston. Texas Houston Post ~ Gough J. Palrrier Camp McArthur, Waco, Texas Waco Morning News .Charles R Marsh Camp McClellan. Anniston. Ala Birmingham (Ala.) News Victor H. Hanson Camp Meade, Admiral, Md .....Wash., D. C.. Evening Star Fleming Newbold Camp Pike, Little Rock. Ark Arkansas Democrat Elmer E. Clarke Camp Bevier, Greenville, B. C Greenville Dally News B. H. Peace Camp Bhelby, Hattiesburg, Mias New Orleans Item .James M Thomson Camp Sheridan. Montgomery. Ala Montgomery Advertiser....,,, 0. H. Allen Camp Eachary Taylor, Louisville, Ky.-Louisville Courier Journalßruce Haldeman Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas....)- m o r,< Kelly Field and Camp Stanley J Ran Antonio Light Charles B. Diehl Camp Upton. Yaphank, L. L, N. Y.... Macon Telegraph..... W. T. Anderson Camp Whonlnr, Macon. Ga., ....New York World ......Don C. Salta Charleston Naval Station Charleston News and Courier ,R. C. Siegllng Pubtlshed under the au*ptce« of the National War Work Council, Y. M. C. A- of the United State*, with the co-operation ol*the above named publisher* and papers. BOY—MAN—SOLDIER By GOUGH J. PALMER Publisher of the Houston Poet, Houston, Texas "1 am so thankful that I can fight, knowing my loved ones are across the seas, far from danger, though my every effort is for their safety. An expression of a soldier about to start for overseas. Only yesterday he was a boy, with a boy's love of pleasure, a boy’s care free disregard for obligations to any one or anything even fairly remote from the object of his immediate pleasure or happiness. This morning he heard his coun try’s call and became a man, dropping reluctantly in many instances the pleasures and anticipations of youth to assume the burdens of a man. To become a part of a big organization to prepare for war. To lose his ideality, to do drudgery, to chafe under the monotony of camp life, to serve a gov ernment to him impersonal to fight an enemy to him unknown and uninter esting. To take this step required every element of manhood—much that is lacking in many men more mature in years. To say that the American flag means more to the American people today than it lias ever meant before Is no reflection upon their patriotism. It is a simple statement of fact. It follows, therefore, that Flag Day, iane 14, will mean more this year than : has meant since the observance of the anniversary was instituted. For the fi,'«t time in American history. Old Glory is waving on Eu ropean battlefields. It follows, there fore, that the American flag means more to Europe than it has ever meant before. To the Teutonic hosts, and particu larly to the Teutonic rulers, the Stars and Stripes have a new meaning. Be fore the war the flag symbolized a free people, with immense natural re sources, great wealth and certain, mis understood ideals of government. To the Teutonic mind it was inconceiv able that forty-eight commonwealths, federated as the United States, could ever be a powerful nation, ac power, wes reckoned by European rulers.’ Kaiser Wilhelm is credited with thei statement that America’s power was negligible because America was a real democracy. This same view had been taught by Prussian propagandists. Their teach ings had reached the ears of President Wilson and, months before war was declared by the United States, he said: “Men are saying that if we should go to war upon either side there would be a divided America—an abominable libel of ignorance F* Forty-eight stars in the flag did mean forty-eight commonwealths. Yet there was but one flag! And It was the significance of that which escaped the minds of the Kaiser and his coun sellors. They knew that the forty ?<ght states were not vassal states and they could not understand the strength of the tie that bound them, for the Prussian mind had been nur tured upon the doctrine of force. To the Prussian mind the forty eight stars meant experimental de mocracy. Each state wanted to be represented in the national emblem; each state asserted its autonomy. Therefore there could be no com posite whole. The experiment in de mocracy was idealistic, Utopian, and the symbolism was proper because a federation so loosely conceived was Page 6 At noon today he is a “SOLDIER,” ready to fight, happy in his knowledge that his loved ones are safe across the seas. He no longer is working for his government—but fighting for his loved ones—for his home and his country with a new knowledge of the meaning of freedom. He no longer looks upon the enemy as unknown, but as a liv ing, breathing menace to all that he holds dear in life. He is a soldier with a purpose, a soldier with knowledge of methods and causes of war—a vital part of an inspired force that cannot be defeated. There is left but the night of sus pense while he is battling over there, and then the glorious dawn of tomor row with victory for a free World. The fame of those who return and the glory of those who give up their lives will live through the ages. Just now, however, we can but gaze in wonder and pride at the wonderful transition of the boy, the man and the soldier. FLAG DAY unquestionably the product of minds so impracticable that they were soar ing towards the stars! The American ideal was high—as high as the stars, if you will—but no ideal is to be condemned because of its great reaches. The day of testing came. Democ racy was at the cross roads. And again the Kaiser was sitown to have made a miscalculation. Some years before he had calculated on the disin tegration of the British Empire be cause it had bound its dominions only by cords of loyalty. Yet when Britain in her distress called to tbe dominions in the uttermost parts of the earth, the flower of the manhood of those colonics came forward eagerly, joy ously. And what a record they have writtear! So with America! Ten millions of her men went to the booths and reg istered for service, for the ultimate sacrifice if necessary. They went with no other compulsion than the ex pressed will of the Federal Govern ment. Today no home in the land has es caped the claims of war. No home in the land is without its share, in the sacrifices. Old Glory floats to the breeze and with it a companion flag, the service symbol. Is it any wonder that the national flag means more to day than in the days of ease and care free prosperity? Never was there ench a united America. Today there b no North and no Sooth. It is one nation, indi visible, with a flag whose forty-eight stars must preach their true symbol even to those in the palace at Posdam. The flag floats in the breezes of the battlefield, proclaiming to our strug gling Allies that all the resources of America, in materials, money and men, are pledged to victory. The red stripes tell the extent of America’s preparedness to sacrifice, the blood of her finest sons shall be shed. The white stripes tell the world, Allies and enemies as well, of the purity of Amer ica’s motives, that ene battles for righteousness, and with no thought of erifish gain but only that the world may be made safe for democracy in which she experimented and of which she is the chief exponent. "Then conquer we must, when our cause it u just, and this be our motto, ‘Ln God b our trust.’ ** TRENCH AND CAMP. Two German Writers Prove Kaiser Started World War People of the Teutonic powers are gradually being undeceived. Right on the heels of the “Dear Sixtus” letter of Emperor Charles of Austria-Hungary, came the revelations by Prince Lichnowsky l who was the German ambassador in England at the outbreak ot the war. / These revelations werj? written for a family record so that when the judgment of another generation had determined ths guilt in the present war, Prince Lichnowsky would be seen to have been the helpless tool of a grasping bureaucracy. But the private papers came to public notice. The people learned the truth. After the publication of his confessions, W. Miihlon, formerly a Krupp director, but now a resident of Switzerland, published some further facts of the German policy. The so-called Potsdam conference did take place. As early aS July 5, 1914, Germany had decided upon war. Yet the German people were told Britain was the aggressor and that Germany did not take the sword, it was thrust upon her ! Later Former Foreign Minister von Jagow confirmed the Lichnowsky statement and practically exculpated England. In view of all this, what is going on in the German mind ? For nearly four years he has been deceived. Now he knows he was de* ceived and that his government lied, the clergy lied and the Pecksniffian Emperor was the father of lies. Miles behind the battle lines, in as great safety as he demands for his six sons, the Emperor viewed the great panorama of the Western drive —using, oi course, the most powerful telescope h< could steal—for it probably was one of the glasses taken durind the Chinese campaign. Then he caused tears to fill his eyes an< cried out: “What have I not done to avoid all this!” The answer is nothing. For here is the record: / DR. MUHLON: “I knew Dr. Helfferich's par ticularly intimate relations with the personages who were Sure to be initiated, and I knew that his communication was trust worthy. After my return from Berlin I informed Dr. Krupp von Bohlen end Halbecb, one of whoso directors I than was at Essen. Dr. Helfferich'had given me permission, and at the time there was an intention of mak ing him a director of Kropps’. “Dr. von Bohlen seemed dis turbed that Dr. Helfferich was in possession of such informa tion, and he made the remark to the effect that Government people can never keep their mouths shut. The Kaiser had told him he would declare war immediately if Russia mobilized, and that this time people should see that he would not vacillate. The Kaiser's repeated inalstence that this time nobody would be able to accuse him of indecision had, he said, been almost comic in its effect. "Ou the very day indicated to mo by Helfferich, the Austrian ultimatum to Servia appeared. At this time I was again in Ber lin, and I told Helfferich that I regarded the tone and contents of the ultimatum as simply mon otrons. . . On this occa sion Helfferich also said to me that the Kaiser had goije on his northern cruise only as a blind. He had not arranged the cruise on the usual extensive scale, but was remaining close at hand and keeping in constant touch. The Austrians, who, of course, did not expect the ultimatum to be accepted, were really acting rap idly before the other Powers could find time to interfere. The Deutsche Rank had already made its arrangements so os to be pre pared for all eventualities “Since the first days of 1917 I have abandoned all hope as regards the present directors of Germany. Our offer of peace, without indicating our war-aims, the accentuation of the sub marine (far. the deportation of the Belgians, the systematic de stractions in France, and the torpedoing of English hoepital slifps, have so degraded the gov ernors of the German Empire that I am pro'oundly convinced they are dlsquctifiod forever for the elaboration ■nd conclusion of a sincere and jnst agreement. . . The German people will not be able to repair the grievous crimes committed against its own present and future, and against that of Europe and the whole human race, until it is repre sented by different men with a different mentality. ... As a nian and as « German who de sires nothing but the welfare of the deceived and tortured Ger man people, I turn away defi nitely from the present represen tatives of the German regime.’’ CONSCIENCE CONDEMNS THE LIAR, BUT KULTUR C 0& DEMNS ONLY THE LIAR WHO HEEDS HIS CON-* SCIENCE AND CONFESSES JUNE 12. , PRINCE LICHNOWSKY: “I learned that at the decisive conversation at Potsdam on July 5 the inquiry addressed to us Vienna found absolute assent among all the personages in au thority; indeed, they added that there would be no harm if a war with Russia were to result. So, at any rate, it is stated in the Austrian protocol, which Count Mensdorff (Austrian Ambassa dor) received in London. / “My London mission wax wrecked not by the perfidy of the British but by the perfidy of our own policy. ... I bad to support in London a policy \ which I knew to be fallacious. ■ I was paid out, tor It was a sin agaipst t)>e Holy Ghost. . . . i We pressed for war. We delib* I eratcly destroyed the possibility' of a peaceful settlement. . . \ Sir Edward Grey, throughout the whole of the negotiations, never took open sides with Rus- \ sia or France in order that ho / might not supply any pretext for a conflict. That pretext was sup* \ plied later by a dead Archduke. I “As appears from all official publications, without the facts being controverted by our own l White Book, which, owing to its poverty and gaps, constitutes a j grave self-accusation: / “1. We encourage Count Berchtold (the Austrian Foreign ; Minister) to attack Servia, al- ! though no German interest was involved, and the danger of a world-war must have been 1 known to us—whether we knew / the text of the ultimatum is a question of complete indiffer- I encc. I “2. In the days between July S 8 and July 30, 1014, when Mr. Sazonoff (the Russian Foreign / Minister) emphatically declared that Russia could not tolerate an attack upon Servia, we rejected j the British proposals of media- / tion although Servia, under Il'igsian and British pressure, had accepted almost the whole ) ultimatum, and although an agrecmenUabcut the two points in question could easily have 1 been reached, and Count Bench- I told (the Austrian Foreign Min- I istcr) was even ready to satisfy himself with the Servian reply. 1 “3. On July SO, when Count I Berchtold wanted to give way, we, without Austria having been . attacked, replied to Russia’s j mere mobilization by sending an ' ultimatum to St. Petersburg, and , on July 31 we declared war on the Russians, although the Czar had pledged his word tltat as ) long as negotiations continued / not a man should march—so that we deliberately destroyed the possibility of a peaceful settle ment. I “In view of these indisputable facts. It is not surprising that y the whole civilized world outside Germany attributes to us the sole guilt for the world-war.’’