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v TRUTH, JUSTICE
The Roll of Our Preci ‘
There they stand! Columms of hem in ghastly significance—the long
list of our dead and wounded fallen in our effort—a slender one, it’s true—
to aid our allies in beating back the Hun on the fields of Flanders.
The first list of casualties of commanding proportions—if we except the
roster of the poor fellows who went down with the Tuscania—to be pub
lished for the sorrow of America in this war! The first partial measure of
the sacrifices we shall have to endure before the world can be made safe for
its people.
Four hundred and forty-seven of them in the first list published Tues
day; 283 in the second—the dead, the wounded, the missing, perhaps worse
than dead in the hands of the Huns, As the records of this war have gone,
it {8 g trivial number.
Multiply it by thousands and you will scarce exceed the losses of our
allies—the men who fought for us before we made up our minds to fight for
ourselves.
Multiply it by thousands and you will scarce exceed the probable sac
rifice we shall ourselves be called upon to make before the murderous raid
of German militarism upon the peaceful peoples of the world shall have
been fully curbed and the Hun ground under the heel of civilization.
But in the presence of this early record of self-surrender offered by our
boys in active service it is surely the part of those of ns who stay at home to
consecrate to the cause for which they suffered and died our best efforts and
all our powers of usefulness.
The immediate concrete service at hand is the Third Liberty Loan. To -
that let us pay and pay and pay until it rolls far over the top.
The Secretary of the Treasury has said that he would like to see the
Joan subscribed for to the extent of five billions, instead of the three offered,
and that he wishes the rolls of the subscribers might number not less than
twenty million.
The Secretary is right. By such a showing of widespread public inter
est in the loan, coupled with ths liberal pledging of private and individual
dollars, will best be indicated American determination to win this war.
We are investing in it the lives of our fellow Americans. We are in
vesting our capital to the extent of billions of dollars.
The one phenomenon or the other will convince sneering Germany that
we shall never abandon the struggle without victory.
Germany has already tried to sow the seeds of distrust and discontent
in our ranks and those of our Allies abroad.
Her propagandists are telling the soldiers in the trenches that our peo
ple at home are tired already; that our workingmen are refusing to co-oper
ate in rushing war work; that our capitalists are niggardly about subscrib
ing to our war funds; that the Congress is fighting the President and bring
ing his war measures to naught; that our training camps are hotbeds of se
dition and seethe with impending mutiny.
In the territory, the camps and the trenches of our Allies they whisper
that the American contribution to the war is ridjculouslx petty and shows
no sign of increase; m declare that our troops in the field are but a few
thousand engineers, have no stomach for fighting; that our generals
are without military education or experience, and our soldiers without mili
tary training, zeal or enthusiasm.
Our soldiers can be trusted to look after their own reputations in the
field, but the people of the nation must see to it that its record on all matters
bearing on the prosecution of the war shall be.as bright and illuminating as
star-shells over no man's land on a moonless night.
Everything that is asked of us—money, work, personal sacrifice—must
be cheerfully given.
We must work and save to beat the Hun. And as our boys on the front
must fight to beat back his charges covered with poisoned gas, we must repel
his insidious propaganda of dissension and sedition, backed as it is by poi
soned rumors.
We must be awake to our dangers if we are to demolish them.
Let us recognize that danger and meet it without flinching and without
fear. Our forces and those of our Allies are sufficient to meet the impending
Today’s great drive is no more terrifying than the German rush which
was checked at the Marne, )
It is planned no more shrewdly and is being executed with no more
bloofiv determination than the attack on Verdun, which ended in Germany’s
complete defeat.
And in opposition to it is engaged one force wholly missing from the
two earlier German failures.
The United States with its 110,000,000 people and its wholly boundless
resources is enlisted in this defense.
Our men are breasting the on-rushing tide of Germans—'‘mowing them
down in swaths ten rows deep,’’ as the dispatches have it.
Our boys are dying on that battle front in Picardy and Flanders. They
are sealing with their blood our compact with humanity and civilization to
defend both.
Shall we at home, who can not fight, fail in any thought or deed needful
to make that compact effective?
Can we unmoved look upon that outpouring of American blood, that
mc; of American life and not highly resolve that it shall not have been
He is grossly ignorant of the American character who can think it,
Watch the recruiting. Watch the subscriptions to the Third Liberty Loan.
And, above all, watch the treatment accorded by American citizens to the
insidious disseminators of German poison, sedition and treason in this coun.
try henceforth.
SR
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Give Your Old Opera Glasses
.
And Help Win the Great War
The navy is in need of ‘‘eyes.”” All the binoculars available in retail
and wholesale optical establishments are not sufficient to supply the demand.
But scattered throughout the nation in private hands are thousands of
excellent glasses, for the most part not in use. Indeed, most of these were
purchased for but occasional use, on trips in the country, perhaps, or sea
voyages. Even some of the better opera glasses used at the theater are of
sufficient strength to meet the purpose for which the navy needs them.
The marines and the navy authorities are making a strenuous effort to
get as many of these as possible.
‘“There is urgent need for more than have been donated so far,”” says
the marine recruiting officer stationed here, who has charge of the collection.
Just that simple statement ought to be incentive to hundreds of other
folk, who still have binoculars stowed away in some far corners about the
house, to come to the aid of the men who are searching the seas for enemy
submarines. )
Have YOU a pair? The glasses may be sent to the navy recruiting of
fice in the Postoffice Building, or to the marine corps station at No. 291,
Marietta street. :
For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.—MATTHEW, Xl, 37.
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More Truth Than Poetry
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE.
The Army Cook
H E never gets medals pinned on him:;
He never is given a chance
To stand up and sheot at the oncoming Teut,
When the Kaiser begins to advance.
The shrapnel may whistle around him, 3
The hand grenades fall at his feet, ’
But he and his crew must keep mixing the stew
For those lads in the khaki WILL eat!
THE peasant girls smile on the soldiers,
But they never give even a look
At his gravy-stained map or his soot-covered cap,
Or murmur: “Mon Dieu! ze sweet cook!”
He sticks to his stove while his comrades
Are busily blowing their pay,
For the fellows that fight are in fine appetite,
And they’ve got to have three meals a day.
H E never is named in dispatches
For gallantry, courage or skill,
He never has time to attempt the sublime,
He has too many bellies to fill.
But when the whole business is over,
And the Kaiser is handed the hook,
We’re hoping that fame will find room for the name
Of that workaday hero, the cook!
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TOO EXPENSIVE.
The Kaiser must be pretty sore on
Horace Greeley. In taking that ad
vice about “Go West, young man!" he
has already lost neariy half a million
perfectly useful fighting men.
SPRING iS REALLY HERE.
Fislierman off the Canaries reports
catching the first sea-robin.
Monday, April 15, 1918
NO DIFFERENCE IN THE
CLOTHES, ANYWAY.
Seventeen society men in Balti
more broke a waiters' strike the other
day, and we wonder if the customers
noticed the difference?
IT WILL HELP, ANYWAY.
Saving the dQylight may save the
day.
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SBENATOR BACON’S PROTEST.
(Augusta Chronicle.)
Everyone is familiar, perhaps, with
the efforts that have very recently
been made to have the statue of Fred--
erick the Great—which was presented
to this country by Kaiser Wilhelm
some years ago—removed from the
grounds of the War College at Wash
ington; how a protest has gone up
from all over the country against al
lowing this “symbol of Prussian au
tocracy” to remain conspicuously in
evidence at the Capital of this liberty
loving nation.
Well, this fight on the Frederick the
Great statue has called to mind a pro
test made by the late Senator A. O.
Bacon, of Georgia—who, by the way,
was succeeded in the Senate by Sen
ator Thomas W. Hardwick-—against
the acceptance of this statue; a bit of
cangressional history that will be
read with no little interest through
out the country, but particularly here
in Georgia. Referring to this incident,
The Christian Science Monitor, of
Boston, says:
“When it was proposed, in 1904, to
accept a statue of Frederick the
Great to be erected in Washington,
cne of the few voices raised against
it was that of Senator A. O. Bacon,
of Georgia. His associates had beewn
speaking of the proffered gift as an
act of international courtesy, some
thing that would cement the ties be
tween the nations, and so on, when
the Georgia Senator declared that, if
the statue should be accepted, the
day would come when the United
States would have occasioa to regret
that it had planted a symbol of Prus
sian autocracy in the Capital of what
claimed to be the greatest democracy
in the world. His protest availed
nothing. The other day Senator
Charles 8. Thomas, of Colorado, of
fered a resolution to the effect that
the statue be taken down. There is
every prospect now that it will, at
least, be removed from the War Col
lege, where, because of what it rep
resents, it is an offense to the eye of
every patriotic citizen who beholds
"
QUITE SO!
(DeKalb New Era.)
Talk will not win this war. The
only thing that will win it is killing
Germans. When enough of them are
dead the war will end, and it will not
~ end before,
Timely Topics
of Today
By Arthur Brisbane.
ON'T overlook one fact, when
D hunting around for explana
tions of German achievement.
Why did Germans have such mag
nificent passenger steamers, why did
they build up German shipping mar
velously in so short a time?
Because the German GOVERN
MENT encouraged shipbuilding, real
izing that if a nation needs ships, it is
the GOVERNMENT'S duty to see
that the nation gets them.
Even after war broke out, Con
gress, corporations and. financiers in
the United States were fighting every
effort at national shipbuilding, put
ting everything in the way of the
President and McAdoo, his Secretary,
who were striving to organize a Gov
ernment shipbuilding program.
Why do you read that Germany has
developed and is using on Paris a gun
that fires nearly a hundred miles?
The answer is that when a German
approaches his Government with the
idea that he can make a gun to fire a
hundred miles the GOVERNMENT
SHOWS AN INTEREST IN HIM.
« He is not told by an office boy to
see another office boy.
In Germany the man came along—
as probably twenty men have come
along in the United States-—suggested
a plan for building a new kind of can
non. The GOVERNMENT tried it,
and Paris unfortunately sees the ree
sult., .
You will say that this is the great
est country for inventions and new
ideas. Quite true.
It is also the greatest country for
GOVERNMENT indifference towara
inventions and new ideas.
The submarine was invented here,
not with the help or encouragement of
the Government.
Where was it PERFECTED? In
Germany, where” they built the sub
marine that crossed the ocean—in
Germany, where they are building
submarines now that can rise to the
surface and launch flying machines
from their decks for attack on land.
The flying machine started in Amer
ica, True. But the Wright brothers
had to fight it out for themselves, and
fly for themselves. Government did
not help them.
And when they really wanted to
realize something on their work, and
some encouragement, they had to go
to France. ;
One trouble is this: The man too
long in uniform is apt to stop think
ing and to dislike having thought in
truded upon him. (There are excep
tions, of course.)
A soldier is apt to think that it is
almost presumptuous for anybody but
a soldier to invent something useful
to the army. And so it is with the
navy officer, and the navy.
Yet, as a matter of fact, inventions
usually come from minds quite for
eign to the field in which the inven
tion works.
The man that invented the sewing
machine could not sew. It wasn't a
seamstress that invented it.
Somehow in Germany they manage
to do this thing differently, appar
ently.
When France and England were
making aniline dyes, for instance, and
on the high road to fortune, some
body in Germany discovered that
aniline dyes were needed, and that
by-products of the anmiline industry
are useful in making high explosives.
Within a few months Germany was
the center of the aniline business of
the world.
Somebody in the German Govern
ment seems to know that there is
nothing real in the world except AN
IDEA.
Men, animals and plants are prod
ucts of the creative idea.
The steam engine is a product of
the idea born in the brain of Watt, or
Papin.
The German Government pays at
tention to ideas, as we in this country
pay attention to manufactured arti
cles.
That gives them the best flying ma
chines—invented in this country; the
best submarines—invented in this
country—and the gun that shoots a
hundred miles.
Proud officlals resenting the pre
sumption of little men who think they
have an idea should remember the
often cited case of Napoleon sitting
cn the edge of the English Channel
wishing the wind would change so
that he could cross and invade Eng
land with his sailing vessels.
He sent word to an American who
wanted to see him: “Tell him I can
give him just three minutes.”
Napoleon gave the American three
minutes, didn't listen, and the Ameri
can went away without having inter
ested Napoleon.
That particular American was Ful
ton, who invented the steam engine,
and only wanted a chance to tell Na
poleon how he could cross the Chan
nel without, paying any attention to
the wind.
PUBLIC SERVICE %
By Winifred Black.
6 H,” said the Middle-aged
O Woman, rolling her large,
dark eyes, and giving us all
a sweet, tantalizing, secret Mona Lisa
- smile. “Oh, I just
4 .W’_E would be bored to
e eß] qeath without men
5 S —and love as-
Y Y i AR L
g 07 -’ffi.v L %,3 fairs.
4 e “I always keep
e "‘I ome or two on
.. 88l hand, don't you
B % YR kcnowr—like the
(RO 2 7
ey *«, %224 little bonbon box
-5\ :J m4| es full of choco
xß . . lates, or the de
oi M canter with the
v ’f”g“fiffig}‘%fi{ sherry in it, or a
Piowat 58l gold box of cig
;:r sl.‘ j arettes.
“-_{"v’f:’ o “Lite would get
Y on my nerves
awfully if I starved my emotions.
“I do hate to be bored, and there's
just one way to keep from being
bcred, and that is to be in love, or
to have someone in love with you.
“I think I'm getting elderly. I don’t
seem to care much for men of my
own age, Boys interest me tremen
dously, and that's always a sign, you
know.
“I suppose I ought to he more care
ful. Harry is drinking himself to
"death. they say, and Joe has enlisted,
and Jimmy has gone to sea. Their
people are awfully cut up about it.
“Bobby is here yet., He says he’ll
kill me first and then himeslf—if 1
don’t consent to marry him.
“Marriage? No, thank you.
“So far as I can see, marriage puts
your emotions in cold storage.”
Then the Middle-aged Woman lit
another cigarette, and leaned her el
bows on the table and did her ear
nest best to look like a vampire.
IS THIS FRIENDSHIP?
We all Bmiled and said, “Oh, of
cours2” and “Aren’t you dreadful?”
and “You're really too bad.” And we
stepped on each other’s toes under the
table, and avoided each other's eyes,
for we knew, all the time, that the
Middle-aliéd Woman was very lonely
and very discontented and most un
happy, and none of us had ever seen
her with any kind of a man of any
age whatsoever, at any time,
But I wonder if we did right—
wasn’t there one among us, a single
honest, friendly, sincere one, who
ought t 5 have made it her business to
say: ’
“Now, Mary, don't do the vampire
act with us. We all know you're as
good as gold and as harmless as a
homemade rice pudding; and as for
the love affairs, your time's gone by
for them long azo.”
Wouldn't it *.ave been kinder and
more honest to do this than it was to
agree with her, and then imitate her
and make fun of her afterward?
She says, for instance, that she
doesn't want to live when she gets to
the place where she can't be “vivia®
and “dyvnamic” any more. And she is
really just about as vivid as a rubber
overcoat and as dynamic as a dish of
prunes. ;
Is it the part of real friendship to
help one another to make fools of
ourselves, I wonder?
HER ONLY FAULT.
The Middle-aged Woman is an only
child, or was one, I mean, years and
years ago—you can tell that by hear
ing her talk for just five minutes.
No brother in the world and no sis
ter who ever lived would ever allow
her to make such a ridiculous image
of herself—not for a minute,
She has goßd points, a kind heart, a
broad and intelligent mind, decision of
character and a kind of intellectual
honesty that is refreshing.
Do we do right to sit around and let
her make a laughing stock of herself?
Every time I see her I wonder about
it.
Some, time, if some woman of her
own age, kindly and sensible, should
say to her:
“Come on, Mary Bell; let's leave the
young people to themselves and g 0
and talk philosophy somewhere Don't
you wish you could be desperately in
terested in the color of somebody’s
eyes again, as you were twenty years
ago? 1 do.” Perhaps she'd begin to
see, and not be hurt about it,
Do you suppose she wiuld?
Shafts of Sunshine
It's a hard blow at the Allies, but
we're not so much depressed asg if
we didn't know the blowhard who's
responsible.
* $ W
As soon as they get through prof
iteering in the substitutes for wheat
flour we’d like to l.)uy a little of few.
. .
Sculpture .is not extinct in Greece.
Look at how they carved the salaries
of ex-King Tino and the rest of the
royal family.
- . -
We need gardens—dig. We need
money—dig. If the Kaiser ever gets
us on the run we'll have no chance to
dig.
A Problem in
Friendship