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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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Tarit! Preparedness
Is as Necessary as
War Preparedness
The great European war is bound to come to an end and
each day brings the end twenty-four hours nearer. That is about
all that one can say with certainty about the war itself.
But it is emphatically high time that we Americans beéan
to prepare for the trade warfare which the Allies and the Cen
tral Empires are planning to wage upon each other and upon us
as soon as the armies quit fighting.
It is just as well to discount a great deal of the belligerent
talk as well as a great deal of the so-called news coming from
Europe. Most of the fiery threats are pure bluff and half the
war reports, at least, are false.
Speaking in a broad sense, the military situation is practi
cally what it was last October, and will be the same this October.
Neither side is beaten or being beaten. All that is happening is
alternate losingnand regaining of small pieces of ground, with
very great loss of life and waste of material.
There is no reason to believe that the end of the war will see
any great difference in the situation. The only result of each
successive month is more dead men, more wounded men, more
life-long cripples and more millions of debt upon which interest
must be paid.
In order to pay that interest the contending Governments
have already planned a trade war to follow hard on the heels of
the military struggle. And just as neither side has paid the
slightest respect to the rights of neutral nations during their mil
itary struggle, so neither side will show the slightest respect for
the natural rights of neutrals when they have started their mu
tual trade war upon themselves and upon every other people in
the world.
8o far as we Americans are concerned we shall be as badly
off whether the Central Empires or the Allies win, or whether
they fight to a draw, UNLESS WE PREPARE IN A BUSINESS
WAY to meet the trade war that Gemiany and England will
both make upon us, and ALSO PREPARE IN A NAVAL AND
MILITARY WAY to back up our trade rights and the freedom
of the seas against the future aggressions of England or Ger.
many, separately or together.
We say ‘‘together’’ deliberately, for we are willing to go on
record with the prediction that Germany and England will be
in alliance within ten years—and we suspect that five years
would be the better estimate.
The alliance between Japan and Russia threatens England
in China and India exactly as it threatens Germany's ambitions
and plans in Asia Minor and the Balkans, and the force of mu.-
tual dangers will drive Germany and England into a defensive
alliance against Japan and Russia just as surely as water in the
brook will run down hill.
In the meantime both England and Germany will continue
to strive for trade and do their level best to take away the mar.
kets of the world from American business men. They will also
do their level best to TAKE OUR HOME MARKETS away from
American manufacturers.
Moreover, if we do not make much more careful and efficient
ORGANIZED PREPARATION to defend our markets and to
hold our own abroad, we shall certainly be beaten all along the
line, with the result of falling prices, curtailed production, idle
mills and financial and business prostration.
The very first thing that American business men should do
is to go to work vigorously and determinedly to raise a strong
wall of tariff protection against the cheap English and German
manufactured goods which are ready to be dumped upon Amer.
jcan markets the moment peace negotiations begin.
Both Germany and England are full of such goodl‘, piled up
against the day of peace. .
The German organization was prepared to wage war with.
out interrupting manufacturing. And England has permitted
France and Russia to bear practically the whole brunt of fighting
on the continent of Europe, while running her own factories and
_shipyards at top speed.
~ The result is that there are, in England and in Germany,
- manufactured goods lying ready for shipment to America, to the
walue of over two thousand millions of dollars.
The Germans have been unable to ship at all to our markets,
and the English have been hindered by the excessive freight
costs, due to war use of so much shipping, from sending us more
than a fraction of their cheap labor goods.
: But sea freight will be as cheap as dirt as soon as war makes
| uwm for shipping, and the cheap freights and
- cheap labor stocks of goods on hand in Germany and England
_will ruin our own home manufacturers unless Congress builds a
tariff protection dyke against the foreign flood BEFORE it be.
gins to flow to our shores.
Don’t you business men think it is high time to quit agitating
m over Europe's war and to begin to agitate yourselves
~ Over the results of Burope's peace and the trade war that Eng.
- land and Germany will both launch aguinst you and our coun.
iflhmhflutnhu is declared?
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Why the Guardsmen Are at the Border
NE HUNDRED AND SIX-
O TY-FOUR THOUSAND
National Guardsmen were
included in the President's call
for mobilization, issued on June
19, six weeks ago. On July 26,
more than flve weeks after the
call, there were of this 164,000
men 105,158 at the border on duty
and 59,204 waiting in their State
camps for equipment so they
would be prepared for actual
service. That is, more than one
third of the guardsmen called to
the colors were unable to respond
beca®e they were not fitted out
for duty—and the National Guard
is supposed to be the nation's
second line of defense, organized
under the active supervision of
officers of the regular army.
That is the situation with the
Mexican border call still urging
toward the front. Had the call |
been to meet a forelgn foe assail- |
ing our inadequately defended
coasts with invasion there could
have happened no miracle that
would have supplied the equip
ment which was not available for
the National Guard when the
border call came.
In view of the condition of the
National Guard and of the im
portance of that body, the fol
lowing article by Brigadier Gen
eral J. Parker, U. 8 A, com
manding the Brownsville (Texas)
military district, written for “The
First Nlinols Cavalryman,” the
official weekly paper of that regi
ment, Is “unusually interesting.
The article follows:
By GENERAL J. PARKER, U. 8. A,
T HE question is now being
asked by many men of the
State troops here in camp “what
Are we here for?™ It Is well that
An answer be made to this ques
"Hon and it be kept In mind by
all, The Government and the
people of the United States cer
tainly appreciate the sacrifices
that are being made by the oM.
cers and men of the State troops
in performing this service
They have left their homes and
families, they have left important
positions. They have come to a
hot and somewhat disagrecable
climate. But they should feel that
what they are doing is not being
done in valn, that they are ren
dering to this country a wonder
ful service, that they should be
thanked by the people of the
United States for patriotic service
done for the country. What s
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this service? In the first place,
this country was and s still
threatened by war. The condi
tions on the other side of the Rio
Grande are worse than they have
ever been before. Villa is still at
large. He is likely to make an
other rald. The temper of the
American people becomes more
and more impatient.
The people are realizing that
the prestige of the country is suf
fering. Unforeseen situations are
constantly recurring and some of
Best Stories of the Week “
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Had Nothing on Him.
AN anaemic elderly woman, who looked as if she might have as much
maternal affection as an incubator, sized up a broadshouldered
Cockney who was idly looking Into a window on the Strand, and in
Fasping voice sald to him:
“My good man, why aren’'t you in the trenches? Aren't you willing
to do anything for your country?’
Turning around slowly, bhe looked at her a second and replied cone
temptuously: ‘““Move on, you slacker! Where's your war baby!”
The Retort Courteous.
AN old darky in Richmond was desirous of Joining a fashionabdle eity
church, and the minister, knowing it was hardly the thing to do and
Bot wanting to hurt the old chap's feelings, told him to go home and
Ppray over it
, In a few days the darky came back.
“Waell, what do you think of it by this time? asked the preacher,
“Well, sub,” replied the darky, “I prayed an' prayed an' de good
Lawd, He says to me, ‘Richard, | wouldn't bother mah head about dat no
mo’. I've been tryin' to git into dat church mahse'f for de las’ twenty
yeahs an’ I ain't had no luck at all'"
Caught at Last.
OSI Winter evening in Dublin, when a water inspector was going round,
he stopped at one of the mains in A busy street to turn off the water
during some repalrs. He had Just applied the handle to the tap and
begun turning when a somewhat unsteady hand was placed on his shoul
der, and he was cosfronted by a man in evening clothes,. who, judging by
his tone and manner, had been imbidbing much too freely.
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the situations may demand ac
tion,
It is, therefore, apparent that
this force should become pre
pared, that the officers and men
should be fully trained. This can
only be accomplished by long
hours of drill each day and by
enthusiastic work.
Second-—lt is desired to exercise
diplomatic pressure and the ex
istence of a large armed force is
necessary. It goes without say
ing that this armed force should
be well trained and fit for fight
ing.
The very fact that the weather
is hot or wet, that the camps are
dusty or muddy, prepares the
troops for the inevitable condi
tions of a campalgn and the
hardships that the troops may
have to undergo,
Third—We are here because
this is the greatest step toward
preparedness the United States
has ever taken. We are training
men, and especially officers, for
future wars. In case of any great
war we will need an immense
army of millions of fighting men,
and to train them we will peed
tens of thousands of officers and
noncommissioned officers as drill
masters,
The National Guard is a school
for officers of volunteers or of our
conscript army. It is to the Na
tional Guard largely that we
must look for the men with mili
tary training who are to whip
our millions of conscripts into
shape.
This concentration on the Mex
fcan border, therefore, is a great
school of military training.
The young men that we see here
in the ranks are to be future
generals of the army. It is easy
to find men to work In factories
or on rallroads or on automo
biles in time of war, but dificult
to ind men who will go on the
firing lines. This is the stuff that
we are developing here, .
We hear much about “military
training camps” for students, for
business men, etc. It should be
impressed upon you all that this
is far better than any such train
ing camp and it should be the aim
of every officer to use his efforts
to make the method of training
quite as good or better than those
exercised in the short period of
training camps.
This is a training camp, but a
training camp that will accom
plish results. Men who graduate
from this training camp should
be soldiers, not amateurs,
It is not improbable that a
period will be designated by the
Government when this shall cease,
but until that time shall come it
is our duty to take full advan
tage of the wonderful oppor
tunity that we have here. It
thould be considered a special
privilege to serve in this camp,
to take part in this work of prep
aration. K
THE HOME FPAPER
Saturday Evening
A Week-End Clearing House for Notes of Men and Affairg,
CHEAP CRITICISM.
A contemporary—without say
ing which one of the three or four
throughout the State given to that
sort of thing—in an issue of a
day or so ago said this:
The Atlanta papers are happy
once more. They've got another
murder case to work on.
The statement was designed.to
be funny, of course. It was
thought to carry some sort of
point that might be urged to At
lanta's diecredit. It was calcu
lated to evidence keen intelli
gence anl smartness with respect
to Atlanta’s faults and short
comings.
As a matter of fact, it was
merely cheap, flippant and meanly
unkind.
It referred to one of the most
distressing and heartrending
tragedies Atlanta ever has known
—a, tragedy so sadly apd S 0 un
fortunately mixed with mystery
.~ that the newspapers of the city,
’ and scores of private citizens,
- have unstintedly put all their
~ forces at work, that they might
~ in any way help to solve the same.
It is inconceivable that any hu
man being in Atlanta or any
newspaper could find any meas
ure of happiness whatever in so
melancholy an occurrence—a
murder that removed from the
walks of everyday life hereabout
one of the brightest and most
promising lads ever born in the
city.
} Atlanta is a great yfunicipality.
Large events are ol evervday ogc
currence. Her papers are taxed
to carry in detail the record of so
much as one day's history—with
all of its sunshine and shadow, its
i joys and miseries, its successes
~ and disappointments, its bright
ners and gloom. Atlanta and her
newspapers are far happier in
considering the pleasant things
than they can be in considering
| the unpleasant.
| Atlanta prefers to rejoice with
~ the parents of a new born babe
~ rather than to sorrow with a
~ broken-hearted family beside the
bier of some loved one.
But Atlanta, like all communi
tics, great or small, must do both.
Why should any person think
or suggest that even ore Atlan
tan finds happiness or satisfacs
tion in the tragic taking away of
a youth so full of the joy of life
| and the worthiness of living as
.~ was yonng John Wurm?
' There is not a newspaper in
Atlanta that does not find infl
nitely more pleasure in chroni
cling the gladness of the day than
i the despair thereof.
THE SLIDE TROMBONE.
A writer in a newspaper up
East waxes happy In contempla-.
tion of “the passing of the slide
trombone.” He has kept accu
rate tab—so he says—on the
brass bands he has met of late,
and he states whereas the slide
trombone used to be an invariable
attachment thereof, that now
adays it is rare to see one.
Maybe this is so—but why
lhollld one wax giad because
it is?
For my part, T regard the pass
ing of the slide trombone as a dig
tinct evidence of brass band de
generacy and as further proof of
the fact that musicians, like other
folk. are given nowadays far too
much to cutting across lots to
save time than they are to hold
ing fast to the things that make
life picturesque.
Nothing in my boyhood days do
I recall with more pleasure than
the wonderful gyrations of the
slide trombone playvers in the
brass bands that used to come all
too infreqiiently my way.
The cornet was to my young
eyes a thing of beauty and a joy
forever, and the 'vastness and
huge possibilities of the mam
moth bass horn never falled both
to arrest my attention and stir
my imagination.
But these were small tatoes
indeed when set beside tm slide
trombone as something to interest
and mystify. :
The fact that this wonderful
instrument had no funny little
Jiggers to be pressed and joggled
up and down under the fingers
when sudden changes of note or
key-—or whatever it was—was de
sired, was most engagingly un
usual. The trombone manipulator
then had truly to move in mys
terlous ways his wonders to per.
form.
1 used to think that if I might
become an expert slide trombone
player there still might be other
worlds to conquer, but they also
might be of a kind that didn't
amount to much,
The trombone still cuts much
fce in the band. I am Informed,
but it is of the valve persuasion-—
whatever that is—and not the
slide variety. It gets results, but
not in the old and fascinating
way. It is easier on the opera
tor, but not one-half so enter
taining to the bystander. It sac
rifices to expediency the an
clent and amazing acrobatic agil
ity required to get away with the
Job. It saves time—but It smoth.
ers joy.
I may be able to reconcile my
self 1o the ::“m' of the old slide
trombone, but 1 shall never find
in such a circumstance any de
gres of real happiness
A TEMPERANCE PROBLEM.
One of the significant results of
investigations by the Government
of late has been the discovery of
& marked decrease in beer con
sumption and & marked increase
of whisky econsum within
the nation, by and
This little article, be it said in
By James B. Nevin.
the beginning, is NOT designed
to be an argument, pro or con,
in re prohibition. It merely seeks
to set forth some things demon
strated in recent internal reve.
nue reports, which are giving
students of temperance some con
cern.
Personally, the writer believes
that eventually the-liquor prob
lem will be solved wisely—also he
belleves that a great net good
has come of prohibition mova.
ments to date, not unmixed of
‘evil, however.
Statistics gathered by the Gov
ernment show that the consump
tion of whisky for the year end
ing June 30 increased 10,000,000
gallons over the year before, but
that the consumption of beer fell
off 60,000,000 gallons. That is to
say, for every gallon or whisky
increase, there was a decrease of
six gallons of beer. Figured far
ther, it shows that for every bot
tle of beer decrease, there has
been an increase of about three
ounces of whisky. In other words,
for every eliminated bottle of
beer, there have been supplied to
take its place some three drinks
of whisky, allowing one ounce to
a drink.
Students of conditions believe
that this result has been brought
about in part because prohibition
laws invariably seem to decrease
beer consumption in the territory
affected—all things considered,
both its legal and illegal sale—
while they may or may not de
crease the sale of whisky, as
broadly considered.:
Beer is bulky and difficult for
“bootleggers” to handle—a half
pint of .whisky, however, can be
peddled from hip-pocket to hip
pocket, : o
Beer can not well be smuggled
in any appreciable quantity into
proscribed territory, whereas
whisky can. Every person who
comes into “dry” territory can, if
he be so minded, carry in his
valise from one to four quarts of
whisky, without fear of molesta
tion or discovery. He ecan not
bring more than half a dozen or
s 0 bottles of beer.
Temperance advocates will not
contend that their cause has
gained anything much, if it be
discovered that through prohi
bition laws the sale of beer has
been decreased only at the price
of an over-corresponding increas
ed sale of whisky.
The problem they now are
studying is how to bring the
whisky consumption down to
where they think it should be, as
a result of these laws, without at
the same time mflu back the
consumption of rto erstwhile
normal.
‘As between beer and whisky,
even though both may be voted
evil, there are few who will not
aAgree that a bottle of beer is a
less harmful thing to drink than
three one-ounce drinks of whisky.
THE DEUTSCHLAND.
The German merchant subma
rine Deutschland slipped qulietly
out of Chesapeake Bay a few
days ago, safely passed the
prowling and growling British
warships on the lookout for her—
and now so far as we know, is
happy on her way back home.
And, almost without exception,
the people of this land are glad
of it—which Is rather remarkable,
on the surface of thing, too, as
there admittedly is a preponder
ance of sympathy for the Allies
as against Germany, in the pres
ent terrible struggle for mastery
of Europe,
There is something about the
exploit of the Deutschland that
lifts it far out of the ordinary and
makes her an object of attention
well removed from partisan feel
e
ere was something -odpluck.v
and so game about the conduct of
her crew—and there WAaS some.-
thing 8o appealing in the modesty
of her captain after she had land -
ed, snug and secure from her
underseas voyage.
And so—instantly the greal
American glad hand went out 1:
her sailors in congratulation an
aApproval—and ungrudgingly was
sounded universal applause rn‘
the wonderful resourcefulness o
A& people that made such an ex
ploit posaible,
The reason why the penple of
this land were glad to see the
Deutschland get away on hes
Wk home, is becauss
mont ricans are good sports,
e o ot
or wever they may
Yecome n::ud temporarily this
that
'%o ning hand goes out more
and more generously in
‘l‘ old ':Jnuu} lulummu\ h‘l'
oen ere else in the wor
'flougow who stands the
Ereatest chance to lose—if he he
hiwd square and on the leve!
In Ba dealings—invariably is the
MAR we most Incline to hope wil!
"‘k‘ Big fellows
we leave t»
take ud themselves, but the
little we back with our
m-um‘z Always, .3 with our
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thing—a uay.““,‘ almost
mhc-muzo -y can not
cut much figure great war
~but she can doey (llustrate
the manliness, B courage and
the ingenuity & great peopla,
In & splendiq 1.!5.. way.
Everybody in s country
:um lhohlh“‘ to mh&. t:
ome, sa “ sound - not
it wil u'l:-fl difference in
the war, that it will round
out happity amazine and
- wholesome