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ROOSEVELT ATTACKS THE
GOVERNMENT IN SPEECH
Colonel, Addressing Republican Convention in
Maine, Makes Management of the War a Po
litical Issue in Keynote Talk.
(By International News Service.)
PORTLAND, MAINE, March 80—
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt sounded
the keynote of the great Republican
drive for congressional representatives
in the fall election In an address de
livered before the Maine Republican
Btate convention, which opened fil-|
day. He attacked the admlnlntmtmn‘
vigorously and made it plain that all!
g.cpubum political lissues would
enceforth be based on “a war is
sue.,” He sald, in part:
“We are in this war because of spe
m intolerable grievance against
¥; because in addition to
many other misdeeds she for two}
Years followed a course of delberate
murder of our unarmed and unoffend
ing citizens, msn, women and chil
dren; decause her continuance and
contemptuous maltrearment of our
cpuntry rendeerd it imperative for us
%0 go to war In order to insure our|
future safety agatnst such maltreat- |
mant by any foreign nation. Our first
duty is to beat down Germany in or
der to save ourselves and our belong
x-. in order to save our women and |
children and our homes. We!
fight for the future of our own dear |
land, but we are also in the war be- |
omuse in common with all civilized |
ankind we have been outraged by
&nfl callons and eynical brutal- |
{tfes againts well-behaved weaker na- |
tions. This is a war on behalf of
treaties m:m scraps of paper; |
for the om of the sea against|
world enslavement (for Germany has |
been the real foe of fresdom of the|
#eas); it 1s & war on behalf of small|
‘yrell-behaved nations against thel
dominesring and infinitely cruel arro
ganoce of the brutal and sclentific Ger
man militarism; a war for helpless
women and children ageinst murder
ers; a war for eclvilization against
darbarism, honer against infamy,
Tight against wrong; a war against
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- EFORE my baby came, the trained
nurse had cautioned me: 'Have‘all
the tiny garments of the best quai
ity and have only as many of each as you
really need to keep your baby fresh and
sweet. That is the actually important thing.
Launder his things constantly. Never let
one little garment stay soiled from one
day to the next.’
““From the very first I used Lux for them. It
was 50 casy to whip the pure delicate Lux flakes
into rich suds — sé simple to squeeze the suds
through the little gannents—then take them out
absolutely sweet and clean and fresh.
““The little woolens never shrunk a thread—
never stiffened or grew thick—not after repeated
auashings. And his precious little dresses were
always as dainty and fresh as new."”
See for bzmmelf how the Lux way of washi
auithout rubbing keeps your baby's woolens soft a:g
unshrunken. Your grocer, druggist or department
store has Lux—Lever Bros, Co,, Cambridge, Mase.
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the powers of darkness, of death and
of hell,
Greatest Grievance.
“As for our own speclal grievance
it 1s far more serious than any
grievance for which ever before we
had to fight a foreign foe. Germany
|hu wronged us far more seriously
than Great Britaln wronged us dur-
Ing the years that led up to our Dec
laration of Independence. No man
can advocate submission to Germany
row without proving falss to the spir
it of the men of 1776. Germany has
waged war with utter faithlessness
and with inhuman cruelty, The black
I infamy of her conduct toward Belgium
has no parallel in clvilized history,
since the close of the dreadful wars
of religion in the seventeenth century,
Austria, Hulgaria and Turkey have
been her vassal states. Turkey has
behaved toward the Armenian and
Syrian Christians and toward the
Jews {n her dominions and toward the
Arabs with an even more revolting
cruejty than Germany herself has.
shown. Unless we war on Turkey
precisely as we war on Germany, we
’nhow that we are insincere when we
‘say that we wish to make the world
safe for democracy. Nor can we keep
our promise to make the world safe
for democracy unless the subject
races In Austria are given a real
and not a nominal freedom. We must
face the fact of our shameful unpre
paredness before this war, and of the
inefficiency with which for the first
year and two months this war has
been waged b“ us.
Sees ismanagement.
“Many of our State governments
have done extraordinarily good work;
but the mismanagement at Washing
ton has been such as to cause all good
patriots grave concern. The policy
of unpreparedness, of watchful wait
ing, has borne most evil fruit. For
two and & half years before we drifted
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Women Asked |
Now to Make the
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PITTSBURG, March 30.—~Wom
en of this district have been ask
ed to make the “supreme sacrifice’” §
~-to talk less, A movement ini
tiated by society leaders Is under ;
way to conserve tho telephone,
and women are urged to eliminate
all unnecessary dlscussions over
the wire,
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stern foremost into the war we were
glven such warning as never before
in history was grven a great nation,
Yet we failed In the smallest degree
to profit by the warning, and we
drifted into war unarmed and help
less, without having taken the small
est step to harden our huge but soft
and lazy strength. In consequence,
although over a year has passed, we
are still, In a military sense, impotent
to render real aid to the Allles or be
a real menace to Germany. Had we
done our plain duty and prepared in
advance, we probably would not have
had to go to war at all, and certainly |
would have ended the war almost as
soon as we entered it. If we had‘
even begun seriously to fight last Sep
tember, Russia would probably not‘
have broken, and victory would now
be In sight. Von Hindenburg andl
Von Tirpitz were reported as saying
when we went to war that we wouldl
be a negligible factor in the military
situation for elghteen months, Four-‘
teen months have since gone by and
for these fourteen mmonths the
facts have borne out their proph
ecy. We utterly falled In our duty
to bulld without an hour's de
lay a great fleet of cargo ships.
“Very Small Army.”
“We have put a gallant little army
on the other side, but it was a very
small army and entirely nnequipped
for modern war, After fourteen
months this great and wealthy na
tion has only been able to put in the
fleld an army less numerous than
poor, wrecked Belgium or ruined Ser
bla has in the field, an army but little
more numerous than Portugal has
sent to the front. Nor is this all—
we had to send that army abroad ab
solutely unequipped with the speclal
weapons of modern warfare., No
army can take the fleld nowadays
'without abundance of field artillery,
of auto-rifies and of airplanes. Yet
we have not as yet been able to put
any fleld guns, but & negligible num
ber of auto rifles, not any airplanes
of our own into action, and we had
only an insufficlent numberof rifles
and of heavy siege or fortress gus.
We have had to get from our hard
pressed Allles, from the war-torn na
tions, to whose help we nominally
came, weapons with which we c\c;uld
fight our own battles. We have been
abel to prepare, at all during the year
and a quarter that has passed only
because England and Franece protect
ed us with their ships and with the
bodies of their brave sons, Even yet
our men at the front form but a tiny
fraction of the Allles’ army; and even
this tiny fraction can serve at the
front at all only because our hard
pressed Allies gave us the weapons of
war wAthout which we could not
wage war at all. With our immense
wealth and Individaul energy I be
leve that in 'fi“e of governmental
blundering we shall soon get into bet
ter position. But hitherto, for nearly
a year and a quarter, this has been
our position, It is an ignoble posi
tion,
“Grave Incompetence,”
- "Our failure has been due in part to
grave lincompetence since Germany
forced us Into war. But primarily it
is due to our utter folly in falling to
prepars during the preceding two and
a helf years, when the warning was
written across the whole horizon in
letters of blood and of fire, Our first
business now is to put through the
‘war, and therefore to speed up the
war, Make our effort in ships, men,
guns, airplanes felt abroad at the
earllest possible momeant. Let us re
alize the grim truth that unles our
men now fight trimphantly beside
our Allies, some day or other we shall
have to fight at homé, despairingly
and without Allles. Our resources are
s 0 Immense that In the end we shall
begin to count in epite of all our gov
ernmental short-comings; but as lonz
as we think of the war as 3,000 miles
C7{owl L\eep his
little woolens soft
and siweet
How to Wash Babies”
Woolens
Use two tablespoonfuls of Lux to =
gallon of water. Dissolve the Lux flakes
in boiling or wery Aot water, and whisk:
into a thick lather., Put the little gar~
ments in and let them soak until the water
has cooled enough for the hands ty bear
with comfort. Squeeze the suds through
the garments. Do mot rub, Rinse thre
times in clear water, hot as the water you
wash:d the garments in; dissolve a little
Lux in the last rinsing water, but do not
beat into a lather. .
This leaves the woolens softer and
fluffier. Squeeze the water out. Do mot
twist. Dry in the shade, and press with a
warm iron, mewer a hot one. A damp piece
of cheese-cloth will prevent the iron frow
scorching or yellowing the garments,
Wash colored avoolems in lukeawarm
E suds, and do not soak. 4
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Sudden Stopping of Train Bad
for Passenger With Eggs
-~ in Blouse.
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, March 80.—A tragic tale
of hoarded egrs and Nemesis s related
by the Niederrheinische Volksstimme, of
Duisberg:
The travelers in a third-class com
partment on the train running betw?n
Storkow and Cummersdorf had almost
|recovered from the efrects of ithe some
what too violent activities of the In
spectors of luggnge when a lady gas
senger remarked: ‘I have two baskets
of eggs with me which the brute never
discovered.”
General astonishment followed, and
the question was raf)ented all around:
‘““Where have you hidden them?” Un
der my blouse.”
The next moment, two other women,
tempted by the proximity of such rare
and rich food, made a simulianeous but
cautious assault on the efi nest.
The sharp jolt with which the traln
was bmug& to a standstill at Cum
mersdorf, however, imparted an indls
creet violence to tfxeu encirzling move
ment, and, simultaneously with a heart
rending ory of "My eggs!” the attack
ing partles found themselves flung in
the lap of their Intended victim,
Wltg a sickening crash the hidden
treasure flowed forth In a nauseating
Iyellow and white stream, with pleces
of shell bobbing on the surface llke
fragments of wreckage on a heaving‘
sea. 3
The sequel was a disgraceful free
fight among the passengers, who had
been freely bespattered with the liquid,
and the battle raged until the next sta- |
tion was reached, when the weeping
and cursing egg hoarder was taken
into custody, in eompany with four of
the more violent combatants.
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Not a Zeppelin, but
Bursting Tomato Can
DALLAS TEX. March 30.—Mesquite
Blx miles southeast of here, thoug:é the
;G{‘rman “baby killers” had arrived to
night
| /g\ f.ove Field aviator was out for a
ride. The noise from his engine was
at its %reatest when a wag In Mes
gulte's one restaurant yelled: ‘The
iermans are coming.”
A can of tomatoes on a shelf in front
of a counter lined with lunches burst
three seconds later.,
Figure out the resulting confusion for
yourself.
“DON’T PEEP,” SAYS SIGN.
BHEBOYGAN, WIS, March 80.—
“‘Garden of Eden. For Men Only. Don’t
Peep. By Order of Chief Clerk.”
This is the sign on the door of the
elreuirt court room in which registered
men are undergoing physical examina
tions. .
away, and as long as some of the most
important divisions of the executive
branch of the Government continue
almost chemically pure of efficlent
organization, our strength will be!
exerted at a terrible disadvantage.
War is won by brains and steel, nat.
by kid gloves and fine phrases,
Let us begin to do our immediate
duty by both speeding up the war
and making ready the ships and the
men necessary to win no matter how
long the war takes. Let the ships be
bullt by working night and day,
three shifts in the 24 hours, Let us
prepare for & three years' war and
begin now to make ready an army of
five million men,
Our hext duty, a duty the perform
ances of which should begin at this
moment, 18 to introduce tha policy of
permanent preparedness. Never again
must we be caught so utterly unpre
aared as we have been caught this
me.
Tried Sorry Experiment.
“For nearly two and half years
before this war came the professional
pacifists, and every politiclan who
wished to cater to the pacifist vote
and to get the support of easy-going,
plaasure-loving materialists, and of
sorded money-getting materlalists.
kept assuring us that If we would
only keep unprepared we would keep
out of the war, Well, we tried the
experiment. We kept unprepared. And
we got into war. The pacifists did
not keep us out of the war. They got
us Into war. They merely kept us
unprepared to do our instant duty in
the war.
“In this war no profiteering should
be allowed. It should not be stopped,
however, by hampering production.
Production should be encouraged in
every way. But the excess profits
should be taxed on a heavily increas
ing scale.
“The Government at Washington
has wholly falled to do its duty in
connection with labor, and it is to this
failure that a large part of the calam
ftous breakdowns in the shipping pro
gram is due. To say that we are be
hind in the ship program is to de
scribe dl!saster in the terms of an ac
cident. It is now apparent that the
promise made a year ago as to the
shipbuilding program will not be more
than a third fulfilled.
| Urges Big Scale Plans.
“The men under Pershing refiect
honor on this republic precisely be
cause they have those qualities of
courage, hardihood, resourcefulness
and energy which were possessed by
the men who followed Sherldan and
‘Stonewall Jackson, by the men who
followed Mad Anthony Wayne and
iLight Horse Harry Lee. Bo it {s with
the great and complex machinery of
our industrial and social life. The
simple governmental processes which
sufficed in the days of Washington,
and even in the days of Lincoln, are
as utterly inadequate today in 'reace
as the flint-lock of Bunker Hlll and
the smooth-bore muskets of Bull Run
wouid be In war, We can not afford
to tolerate flint-lock methods of war
fare in time of war, or flint-lock
methods of government for meeting
the problems of industry in time of
peace. We need new weapons. But
we need the old spirit back of the
new weapons. We need to show the
same combination of idealism and of
hard-headed common sense, of indig
ration against wrong and sober cau
tion, against being misled into foolish
action against wrong that our fore
fathers have shown in both the great
national crises of the past. We need
to show generosity of heart and also
soundness of head. We need courage
—we need common sense—for with
out courage and common sense we
shall not work out our salvation. But
even more we need to show in our re
lations with one another here within
our own boundaries and in our rela
tions with the rest of the nations of
menkind, that quality for the lack of
which no other qualities atone, that
quality—itself the sum of many qual
{ties—lacking which no nation cax
ever attain to true greatness; the
quality of character—charic:er, which
neither does wrong nor suffe s wrong:
character, which wiil rather do right
to its own hurt than profit by evil
done others,
lHe Believes 2,000 Fighting Ma
chines Could Be Made
in One Day.
Continued From Page 1.
farm. With the ald of tractors a
reduced number of farm laborers can
still produce a full crop.
“One tractor sent to France or Eng
land now will produce fifty times its
weight and bulk in wheat and food
this year. One shilp c#rrying trac
tors now is as good as fifty ships car
rying fcod next fall.
“In a properly organized factory
)runnlng on one model an ordinary
i workman can build a tractor in fifteen
‘days and each tractor will add the
working power of two or three men
to a farm during the whole year. Fit-\
teen thousand men can produce 1,000
tractors a day, or 800,000 tractors a
year,
How to Get More Food.
“We shall get more food not by
bookkeeping and clerical regulation in
the cities, but by the use of more and
better machinery on the land.
“Success in producing great quanti
ties of industrial output from our fac
tories depends upon two things—lead
ership and labor. These must work
in confildence and harmony with each
other., Absentee control can never
get the best out of the factory. The
heads of industry must live close to
their work; they must know metals
and machines and be ready to give 1
every man a square deal.
“Men don't work for money alone.
Ten dollars a day will not hold men
in some places. The things of life
that are worth while make the strong
est appeal to the worktmn. Above
all, he must have something to hope
for in the future. There must be
something In the plant, in the busi
ness, that he can tie to and look for
ward to. Many war plants are hav
ing labor troubles because the men
know tbhat the business is bui'® « |
speculation for quick profit and will
be dropped. Such plants offer their
workers no hope.
“The ease with which we have been
able to increase production at the
Ford plant was due largely to the
willing co-operation of a vast army
of workers. We have had no strikes,
no wage discussions. Our men have
willingly, eagerly turned to every
task that has been set for them. They
deserve credit for most of the prog
ress that we have made in the pro
duction e¢f ships, tractors, aeroplane
rparts. They know that the company
is not seeking profit from war work.
Corporate and business leadership
that measures its success by war
profits in the balance sheet can not
object if workmen take the samae
viewpolnt. Profiteering breeds dis
trust and antagonism. Yet today
smooth teamwork between labor and
leadership are needed for the very
life of our nation. Today every man
must lose himself in order to flnd,'
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War Zone Is Easier
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Than Seling Lots
(By International News Service.)
CHICAGO, March_'s_Q.—Strlns
ing barbed wire on your side of
No Man's Land is easler than
trying to sell lotg In a cemetery
alongside a roller rink, but it's
just a trifle more dangerous.
Such, at least, is the opinion of
Lieutenant Fred D. Macfie, late
of the Black Watch Regiment of
Highlanders, who 18 here in the
interests of the British Canadian
recruiting mission. All you have
to do in this wire business, says
Macfle, is to get a bunch of Tom
mies with steel *“bonnets” to
crawl along with you as far to
ward the enemy trench as possi
ble. The rest is easy—if the
boche doesn’'t hear you. But if
he does, wow!
“Then come the bullets,” says
Mackfie. “And the night is turned
into day by flares and rockets.
The best thing to do then is to
hug thé ground and begin in
specting real estate as® assidu
ously as possible.”
Macfie lost an arm at Vimy
Ridge, which, he says, was the
worst battle his regiment went
through. His wholé squadron
was neaply wiped out in two
hours. But they took 7,000 pris
onledrs, Macfle . concluded with
lll' e.
with his fellowmen, his soul anew
in the natlon.
Farms Drained of Men.
“In our food problems also we have
failed to realize that the golution lies
in the Increase of tool power on the
land. The farms of England, France
and America have been drained of
their men, first to fill the armies,
then to fill the munition factories; so
that today food production lags. For
three decades men have been leaving
the farm to get to the easier work
of the factoris and on railroads,
where engine power has removed the
drudgery of” heavy muscular labor.
The curse of Adam—to “abor in the
sweat of thy brow’'—still rests upon
farm workers. It remains for Amer
ica to carry engine power to agricul
ture. Until 1850 harvesting and
thrashing were done by human mus
cles using sickle, scythe and fail
Then America invented the binder and
harvesting machine and shifted these
two tasks to the animal. Today
America must substitute engine pow
er for human and animal muscles on
all kinds of farm work.
“Our democracy is on trial. Can
our institutions bring out the latent
energies of our Peopla, and the moral
forces of discipline and order? Can
we suhordinate individual selfishness
and porfiteering to the Welfarg of the
group? If so—and lam sure that we
can—we shall win the war. We
know that armed robbery, land grab
bing belong to the primitive ages; to
day civilized men take their cases to
court. In supporting President Wil
son’s national policles, we stand for a
reign of justice and right among na
tions., With him we are fighting for
the birth of a new world order based
upon the rights of the common peo
ple.” s
FIRESTONE TIRE. AND RUBBER COMPANY, AKRON, OHIO
JURORS OBSERVfi IWASH DAY.
SAN FRANCISCO, h 30.—There
were seven women jurors on a jury in
Superior Judge Thomas F. Graham's
Court recently, sworn to decide a suit
involving a SIOO,OOO estate. ¥For three
dag's they alternately listened and knit
ted. Then came Monday, and two of
them were misslni Baillffs were sent
out and when the hour of the afternoon
session arrived they were halled before
the bar.
“Where have you been?" inquired his
honor.
~ “Why, this is wash day,” responded
one of the fair Juron. whereupon the
{vdee surrendered.
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ADDS ANOTHER FLAQ, q
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, March 80.—An
other flag has been added to Illinois’
collection. It was made by the women
of Petershurg seventy years ago and ig
of silk. The flag was presented to
Illinois volunteers for bravery at Vera
Cruz and Cerro Gordo during the Mex!.
can War. It belonged to Mrs, Lucy
M. Bennett, aged 80, of Los Angeles,
Cal.,, who_ has given it to Governor
Frank O. Lowden. It is well preserveq
and bears the coat of arms on one side
and the inscription ‘‘Presented fiy the
Women of Petersburg to the enard
Volunteers in Honor of Their Bravery
at Cerro Gordo and Vera Cruz.”
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