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3. L Boeehans, Circulation Manager of The
Montgomery Advertiser, being duly sworn.
says:
The foregoing statement of The Adver
tiser's circulation for the Month of May.
101T, Is true and correct and compiled after
returns and spoiled copies have been de
ducted,
THE ADVERTISER CO..
J. L. BOESHANS.
Circulation Manager.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
Second day of June, 1917.
(SEAL.) W. P. LEE.
Notary Public, Montgomery County, Alabama.
THE EXAMPLE OF BOBEBT BACON
In the dispatches from London recounting
the arrival of General Pershing and his mill
'' tary staff, a list of the officers who had been
sent to Europe was published for the first
time. Far down the list appeared the ntme
of Major Robert Bacon, an American who
has had his full share of fame In the past,
and who Is serving In an humble capacity,
where he oan best help hts country. Until
this dlspatoh appeared the dally newspapers
and none out of Washington knew that
Robert Baeon had taken active service In'
the army of his country and In a minor
capacity.
Who Is Robert Bacon? He Is a millionaire,
but that Is the slightest of his distinctions.
He ie one of the successful financiers of
. New Vork and In the past twenty years has
had all that monej^could buy. He served as
assistant Secretary of State and for a time
as Secretary of State In the administration
of President Roosevelt. He represented
Amerjfa as Ambassador to France when the
foundation of the present friendship between
■ the great Republics was laid. Now a mil
lionaire, a successful financier, an ex
Secretary of State, an ex-Ambassador to
France, he put aside all the distinction of
publlo life and the comforts of wealth to
serve A the humble capacity of a llason of
ficer with the rank of Major. A llason Is
not an officer, but a high olass Interpreter
who serves as a connecting link In the allied
armies which speak different languages
Robert Bacon's knowledge of the French
language, his thorough knowledge of French
life and French conditions, equip hlpt In a
remarkable degrea for the service which he
has volunteered to rends? to his country.
Hundreds of young men of the South will
recall him as a student officer at the Officers'
Reserve Training School at Ft. Oglethorpe,
Ga. He had before that assumed a place In
American life as one of the leaders In the
great American campaign under General
Wood to awake the country to the necessity
t of military preparations. His presence at Ft.
Oglethorpe, Ga.. was a stimulation to the
young men of the school and an Inspiration'
to the spirit of preparedness.
He has given now the crowning proof of a
self-sacrificing patriot and he has set an
example which will stimulate American cltl
sens of all classes to patriotic service.
Another St. Louis pilot, “an associate of
Mark Twain," passes over the river to rest
,'neath the shade of the trees provided the
forests have not been pre-empted by Mark's
fellow pilots.
Nicholas's vast hunting preserves have been
taken over by the peasants. Formerly It was
a perilous thing for a peasant to bunt on
those preserves. Now It Is a perilous thing
for the former Czar to hunt there.
Emperor Charles of Austria reiterates his
desire for an early peace and suffrage reform
—especially peace.
The Kaiser once expressed (treat admira
tion for General Wood. Before long Wood
may have an opportunity to make the Kaiser
alter his sentiments.
General Wood was on the point of quitting
the army and moving to New Mexico to en
gage in sheep raising when the Spanish war
broke out. If the General Is still Interested
In livestock we Invite h'.in to Inspect thli
territory while hers with an eye to settling
among us after Armageddon.
General Pershing picked up a llt'le French
while hurrying over on a steamer. French
will not only become a popular study In thh
’ country as a consequence or the war, but wi
expect soon to sea American oops shrugglnc
their Shoulders whenever they fall to over
take the machine whose rear light Is out.
Another good reason for killing Er.gllsl
school children from the air is that the chll
dren are learning how to read eo that In *h<
years to coma they may correctly inforn
themselvee on ths Issues and lnotdents of thi,
war, a fact which would embarrass' Prune!’
before posterity.
~r~OENZRAL LEONARD WOOD. v*'-:
Montgomery today greets Leonard Wood, not only aa tha first American aoldler of
hia day, nor aa the' rankln* Major-General of tha American army, aa that army la
eallad to faea^ffST'moat difficult taak In tho history of tho Republic, but If rejoices in
hla coming, andvlt la atlmulatad by hla praaanca aa tha head of tho military and nat
ur*1 raaourcea of tho Southeast. aa they aro being aaaemblod for tho crucial hour of the
atruggles between the natlona In the world war. . ,;f *'
Montgomery looka upon him, not aa a guaat, not aa an Individual on' a courtesy
vlalt, but aa the leader of our auction of the common country—the head of the 'endeavor*
which the South muat aummon heraelf to make for the defence' of American .traditions
American Inatltutlona and for the perpetuity of demoeracy.
It la permlaalble to remind our rea&era that at the time General Wood waa deslg
nated to command the Southeaatern Division, The Advertiaer rejoiced In tho announce
ment, aa being the greateat benefaction which could come to the South at thla time, and
aa a promise, not only of benefits of a material nature, but of a spiritually patrlotio
character, by which thla section would be Inspired to do its full share of the work of
, sustaining the American army and the American government In the republic hour's trial.
It Is permissible to say now that the predictions made, when General Wood was sent to
Charleston, have become actualities
•i ne southeastern Division became the center or American military activltlea. Im
mediate announcement was made that twelve of the thirty-two divisional training camps
Of the entire country had been assigned to the Southeastern Division. Not only did
army preparation* aoon have their center of activity in the Southern State* east of the
Mississippi, but the almost equally important problem of growing and conserving food
erop* and assembling our commercial and Industrial resources for the struggle was
brought to its nearest solution In these same States. An era of rapid military prepara
tions and a surge of American patriotism followed the establishment by Oeneral Wood
of his headquarters at Charleston.
It is forunats.' not so much for the South, as it is for the common country, that a
leader of the capacity, the vision and the statesmanship of Oeneral Wood has taken his
place at tbe(head ot Southern patriotism and Southern endeavor. For the Confederacy,
the South suffered and endured, in a spirit of lofty patriotism, such sacrifices, that it
never recovered for a full fifty years from its exhaustion. If the new crisis calls for
suoh another sacrifice, we can look to General Wood as a leader to stimulate our peo
ple to bear the burdens and to give all that they have to tlie cause. Our men went will
ingly and eagerly to the battlefields of Virginia and to the West—they went in such
numbers that we are saddened to this day to think of th* loss. The same spirit is in the
descendants of those men, whose bare feet pattered down the valley of death to undying
fame* and It can b* stirred to action in the hour of danger to the American Republic.
We can look upon General Wood and rejoice in the knowledge that he is the in
strumentality by which the American Hepubllo can avail itself of the vast national as
set lying dormant in Southern resources and In a citizenship ninety-six per cent Amer
ican, and with magnificent military traditions.
He takes his place as leader today, equipped and approved by experience and
events. The hard way has been his—the way in which men find and prove themselves.
The unknown army doctor, proved a fighting man, a leader in his natural gifts In the
difficult and danger* us Indian warfare of the West. A ready man and an equipped man,
though unknown to national fame, he went forth and took his place in the first rank of
the soldiers on the field, when America sought to free Cuba from Spanish rule. The
fame won fairly by th* Colonel ef the Rough Riders, made him a hero te the American
peepie, and, it was largely because of popular demand that President McKinley sought
him cut, studied him quietly and made him a General in the American army.
Perhaps, when his career is done, hs will be awarded his highest' honor as a
statesman-like leader, In the army and in American thought. He smoothed out the dif
ficulties and made the way easy tor permanent American rule of the Philippines. He
took up the long and difficult task of re-organlzing and making medtrn the American
army. And, above all else, he assumed the leadership of that once small and misunder
stood band of Americans, who protested against the unthinking visions of purblind
pacifism. It was h*> who preached preparedness, American virility and American mili
tary energy, when *ur people, as a whole, still listened to the words of the dreamer, who
preached that there would never be another war.
He spoke tut fearlessly on true American needs and true American patriotism,
when he knew he was speaking to his own personal annoyance and to his own personal
detriment. If the country had listened to him three years ago, we would not now be en
gaged In frantic efforts to assemble a great army and tb repair our’ past mistakes. The
Kaiser would not have contemptuously, ruthlessly Invaded every American right and
when a threat of American intervention was mentioned he would not have said: “Ths
American army Is a wooden sword." If we had been prepared, we weuld not have been
forced Into the war, or we would have entered it two years ago, and by this time, we
would have brought It to a close.
Montgomery greets General Wood, not only as a leader, but as part and parcel of
tba life and tbeught of the city, for he commands our troops and Montgomery Is as much
his territory and as much his field of action as Is Charleston.
TOLSTOI’S PROPHECY.
There were not a few European* of vision
and understanding who foresaw this war
year* In advance of its actual breaking.
Germany of coursa knew it was coming, for
Germany intended for it to come, and pre
pared. A number of French leaders foresaw
and feared it. but France as a whole did not,
and France was not adequately prepared for
The Day. A few long-headed Englishmen
like I-ord Roberts. Editor Maxse and others
foresaw It and warned their countrymen to
be ready, but their countrymen, listening to
their dreaming, scoffing statesmen who then
were in control, pooh-poohed the scare.
Wasn’t the fleet ready for any emergency?
It was. But it was clear to Roberts and
Maxse that the fleet would need support from'
land. England would need an army, for the
war would be fought on land as well as
sea—and battleships cannot Invade a coun
try alone and unassisted. Englishmen con
tinued to drink tea, play tennis and rejoice
in "social” uplift legislation such as mothers'
pensions and old age pensions. The tornado
swooped down. We know the rest.
But Russia, a factor In all the scheming
and planning of diplomats, had thinkers who
knew what was due to happen. Boms of her
rnen gave voice to their forebodings; others
remained silent. One of those who spoke out
was the late Leo Tolstoi, who, though fore
seeing the Inevitable, was yet a fanatical
pacifist.
The Pensacola Journal looks into one of
the Toltoi books only to find the following
rather remarkable prohecy:
The great conflagration will start
about 1*12, set by the torch of the first
arm in the countries of southeastern
Europe. It will develop into a destruc
tion and calamity In 1914. In that year
I shall see all Europe in flames and
bleeding. I hear the lamentations of
huge battlefields.
But In the year 19ir> the strange figure
' from the north—a new Napoleon—enters
the stage ft the bloody drama. He is
a man of little militaristic training, a
writer or a. Journalist, but In his grip
most of Europe will remain until 1»25.
Is W ilson the "strange figure?” The Pen
sacola paper thinks so, as It Is a better
description of the President than prophecies
as a rule give. The Russian writer con
tinues:
The end of the great calamity will
mark a new political era for the old
world. There will lie left no empires
or kingdoms, but the word Will form a
federation of the United States of Na
tions. There will remain onl\ four great
giants—the Anglo-Saxons, the Latins, the
Slavs and the Mongolians.
The cynical Tolstoi's vision reached fur
ther still, as the following paragraph shows:
"And 1 see the nations growing larger and
realizing that the alluring woman of their
destiny Is, after all, nothing but an illusion.
There will be time when the world will have
no use for armies, hypocritical religions and
degenerate art. Life is evolution and evolu
tion la development from the simple to the
more complicated .forms of mind and body.”
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ONE MOBS CROWNLESS KINO.
King Constantins of Greece had the mis
fortune to marry Into the Hohenzollern
family. Constantine, largely because of the
unfortunate fact that he married the sister
of the Kaiser, Is made a King without a
sceptre and a monarch without a throne.
His own sorely tried country has but little
jfrospect of being repaid for her troubles of
the past three years. The larger element
of the Greek army and the Greek people
, were enthusiastic supporters of the allies.
They knew that Greece had nothing to ex
pect from Germany and that when Germany
tied up with Turkey, Greece was left out of
all future calculations In the Balkan regions.
The Greek people understood fully that in
the event of an allied victory, If Greece
entered the war with the allies she would
sit at the peace table and draw her share.
But Constantine was reared In Germany and**
his queen was a Hohenzollern princess.
German diplomacy for twenty-five years
has dominated the Balkans. Its methods
were quite simple; the German Empire ter
rified all opposition. It was the diplomacy
of the rattling sabre. Other nations having
Interests In the Balkans preferred to sacri
fice these Interests after a protest, rather
than arouse and antagonize the powerful
German army. Part of the work of Ger
man diplomacy has been the official domina
tion of the Greek government.. It was
achieved through the German born queen
and the German trained king and through
the Germans bribing government officials.
The wish and the Interest of Greece lies
with the allies but her government stood
with Germany. Greece has been a suffering
neutral in such a condition. Without taking
part In the war. her ports have been block
aded and her territory has been made a bat
tlefield. The dissatisfaction of the Greek
people with their government was manifest
Jn an unsuccessful attempt to establish a
republic. A certain form of republican gov
ernment has been established at Salonika,
but it seems to have made no Impression
on the southern part of Greece.
The allies, their patience having been worn;'
threadbare, united In a demand on King
Constantine that he abdicate and take with
' him out of Greece the Crown prince. This
Constantine haa done and the crown has
Personally Conducted
i
been, awarded to hla aecond aon. Prince Alex
ander.
Perhapa we are to have some more
dramatic and Interesting news out of Greece
The German press criticises unfavorably
and sharply the Wilson address to the Rus
sians, but the matter does not threaten a
diplomatic breach.
Montgomery surrenders. General!
Another air raid over London. The dead:
No leas than thirty school children. Still,
If these children had lived they would have
been ready to fight for Britain In the "next
war" which Germany Is doting on, so why
not Kill them now while It la convenient?
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If you didn’t buy yesterday, buy today.
There are a few left.
There is one unvarying rule regarding the
United States flag: It may not be trailed In
the dust,
If you don't want te see a welnerwurst
necklace ornamenting the Goddess ef Liberty,
buy a bend.
| THE AMERICAN
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(BY TOM DAVIS.)
The truest salutation now
Is. “Comrades.’ or "My Countrymen.’
Our hearts may bleed but cannot bow;
We’ll die or be what we have been.
The soul of sovereignty on earth;
The pride of freedom and of power;
And. born of all that's human worth.
Trust of mankind in peril's hour.
If we are worthy of the boon
Of liberty which we enjoy
We'll neither bolt nor fly nor swoon.
But meet the means our foes employ.
Stand man to man and gun to gun.
As long as Monarchy survives.
Until Democracy has won.
Most glorious cause of human lives!
Who would dissolve our sacred state,
So consecrated to the free,—
May God direct the hand of fate.
Nor spare the vile what is to be!
Shall Monarchy subdue mankind.
Land of my birth, my hope, my pride?
Yes, all that’s human good combined.
Ideals and principles allied.
Friendships of prospect and of peace;
The right of virtue unrestrained;
What'er may human Joy increase;
What love has won, industry gained;
nThe deed of worth, and honor's cause;
The sacrifice to human woe;
The unbroken faith, what’er it was;
The rash Insult's avenging blow;
Whatever moves a freeman's heart.
Affection's sweetest sense of home;
The. tie. but death itself can part •
Presently o'er my being come;
They pray protection of my hands!
May I be worthy of their prayer,
A soul that feels and understands
T' importance of his country's care!
If desperate ambition rise,
Demand the worthy be subdued;
Proclaim the conquest of the skies.
And on the furtherest seas obtrude,'
Shall science then, and loye, bow down?
Must honor, faith, industry quail?
Itetlred age. shall that too frown, ,
And in humiliation fail?
Still on such horrors we may brood,
A master's orders must obey?
And, see our conquerors bear the good
Productions of our land away?
United, Arm of heart and soul.
We feel we're equal to our task.
It is to die or to control,
God give us strength! Is all we ask,
Despise us! We! who are the pride of men
They! whose conniving purpose gripes
The blood of every race within
The compass of the Stars and Stripes!
This world's now brooded 'neath the wings
Of the Kagle on our mountain’s brow;
Her young shall feed on German kings,
Their crown be wrought a freeman's plow
BELL ON INVENTORS
Washington Special to Courier-Journal.
Washington—In a communication to th«
National Geographic Society, Ur. Alexander
Graham Bell, Inventor of the. telephone,
points out some of the problems awaiting
solution at the hands of scientific men and
technical experts of the future. The society
Issues a part of Ur. Bell's communication
as a bulletin from Its Washington headquar
ters.
"It Is Interesting and Instructive to look
back over the various changes that have oc
curred and trace the evolution of ths present
from the past," writes Ur. Bell. “By project
ing these lines of advance Into the future,
you can forecast the future, to a certain
extent, and recognize some of the Helds of
usefulness that are opening up for the
young men of today. • ! ,
"We have one line of advance from candles
and oil lamps to gas, and from gas to elec
tricity! and we can recognize many other
threads of advance all converging upon elec
tricity. We produce heat and light by elec
tricity. We transmit intelligence by the tele
graph and telephone, and we use electricity
as a motive power. In fact, we have fairly
entered upon an electrical age, and it Is ob
vious that the electrical engineer will be
much In demand In the future.
“On every hand we see the substitution
of machinery and artificial motive power for
animal and man power. There will, there
fore, be plenty of openings In the future for
young, bright mechanical engineers working
in this direction.
inure is, now ever, one ousiacie iu runner
advance. In the increasing price of the fuel
necessary to. work machinery. Coal and oil
are going up and are strictly limited in
quantity. We can take coal out of a mine,
but we can never put it back. We can draws
oil from subterranean reservoirs, but we
can never refill them again. We are spend
thrifts in the matter of fuel, and are using
our capital for our running expenses.
"In relation to coal and oil, the world's an
nual consumption has become so enormous
that we are now actually within measurable
distance of the end of the supply. What
shall we do when we have no more coal or
oil I
"Apart from water power (which is strict,
ly limited) and tidal and wave power (which
we have not yet learned to utilize), and the
employment of the sun’s rays directly as a
source of power, we have little left, except
ing wood, and it takes at least twenty-five
years to grow a crop of trees.
“There is, however, one other source of
fuel supply which may perhaps solve this
problem for the future. Alcohol makes a
beautiful, clean and efficient fuel, and, where
not Intended for consumption by human be
ings, can be manufactured very cheaply in an
Indigestible or even poisonous form. Wood
alcohol, for example, can be employed as a
fuel, and we can make aldohol from sawdust,
a waste product of our mills.
"Alcohol can also be manufactured from
corn stalks, and In fact from almost any
vegetable matter capable of fermentation.
Our growing crops and even weeds can be
used. The waste products of our farms are
available for this purpose, and even the
garbage from our cities. We need never
fear the exhaustion of our present fuel sup
plies so long sb we can produce an annual
crop of alcohol to any extent desired.
"The world will probably depend upon al
cohol more and more as time goes on, and
a great field of usefulness is opening up for
the engineer who will modify our machinery
to enable alcohol to be used as the source of
power.
"Developments of wireless telegraphy are
proceedings with great rapidity, and no man
can predict what startling discoveries and
applications may appear in the near future.
1 know of no more promising field of ex
ploration.
"Already privacy of communication has
been secured by wireless transmitters and
receivers 'tuned, so to speak, to respond to
electrical vibrations of certain frequencies
alone. They are sensitive only to electrical
impulses of definite wave length. The princi
ple of sympathetic vibration operating tuned
w'reless receivers has also been applied to
the control of machinery from a distance and
the steering of boats without a man aboard.
The possibilities of development In this di
rection are practically illimitable, and we
shall probably be able to perform at a dis
tance by wireless almost any mechanical
operation that can be done at hand.
"Still more recently wireless telegraphy
has given birth to another art, and wire
less telephony has appeared. Only, a short
t*me ago a man in Arlington, Va„ at the
wireless station there, talked by word of
mouth to a man on the Eiffel Tower in Farii
France. Not only that, but a man in Hono
lulu overheard the conversation! The dis
tance from Honolulu to the Eiffel Tower must
be S,000 miles at least—one-third the dis
tance around the globe—and this achieve
ment surely foreshadows the time when we
may be able to talk with a man in any part
of the world by telephone and without
wire#.”
FIGHTING KAISER WITH BUGS.
Atlanta Constitution. •
Let a man start to do anything—build S'
motor boat, aet a fence post, plant a roae
bush, prepare a sermon or write a book, it
(natters little what—and nine out of every
en of his friends who happen by and see
him at work cah tell him Juet how it should
be done; and, of course, their advice comes
gratis out of the goodness of their hearts.
It la largely ao with the government in
whatever it essays to do, from the setting
of a geodetic survey marker to the chastise
ment of the Hohenzollern dynasty. There
are approximately one hundred million dif
ferent ways that it should be done, provid
ing, of course, that the enterprise Is of such
Importance as to attract the attention of
the entire population.
I Thus, according to' a Washington dis
| patch, "every senator and representative ta
receiving daily in his mall," multifarious
suggestions as to the best method of waging
the war against Germany.
These vary in accordance with the indi
vidual pursuit, whim, mood or geographical
location of the patriotic suggester, and they
would form an interesting subject for study
of character were they to be assembled and
classified and properly segregated in "ready
reference” fashion.
But one of the most characteristic and
original, not to say novel, of all suggestions
that have been brought to light is one re
ceived a few days ago by Senator Poindexter
from a loyal constituent In a rural section
"Gather up a lot of potato bugs," runs ths
suggestion, evidently the fruit of experience,
“starve ’em for a week ro so, and then have
the airmen drop ’em over Germany. What
they will do will be a-plenty."
The suggestion found favor on the senate
floor, and Senator Curtis, of Kansas, supple
mented It with one of his own: that a few
bushels of grasshoppers be Included with the
bugs: and John Sharp Williams would add to
the Invading Insect hordes a bristling pha
lanx of lusty boll weevil. Then, while re
cruiting this pestiferous army, why not In
clude a division of New Jersey mosquitoes, a
regiment or two of Texas cattle ticks and
perhaps a few platoons of roaches?
Undoubtedly, considering the fecundity of
these predatory little warriors Of the Insect
world, were such a campaign to be launched
It would not be long until the U-boat would
look like a tyro as a food-supply curtaller;
the locust invasion of Egypt would fade to
the relative significance of a bee-keepers*
convention, and the kalssr would brand Job
as a cynical whiner wholly wanting in rea
sonable cause for complaint.
But while discussion of such plans Is un
der way, It will be well for our red-blooded
young Americans to keep right on with the
good work of enlisting, and the rest of us
buying Liberty Bonds!
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23,000 FILIPINOS HEADY. ft'
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Interview between Manuel Quezon,
President of the Filipino Senate, and Presi
dent Wilson, In which the former announced
that a volunteer army of 25,000 natives was
i ready for drilling and could be made ready
for the field In ten months, must have been
grateful to both men. Quezon knows Wash
ington, having been long a delegate In Con
gress. He opposed government of the Philip
pines from Washington. He approved the
changes President Wilson has brought about.
He Is now satisfied that the granting of
home rule Imposes the obligation on the
Filipinos to fight for America, whenever and
wherever they may be needed.
The Little Brown Brother isn't a bad sol
dier. To that proposition plenty of American
officers who met him when he was Ip rebel
l'on will testify. He's a little wild in his use
of ammunition, perhaps, like the Mexican or
the Colombian. But he can bear hardships
with philosophy, he can obey, orders, and no
country Is too rough for him to campaign In.
And. after all, the present loyalty of the
Filipinos Is a pretty good evidence that there
was some rhetorical exaggeration in even
Quezon's earlier painting of the oppression
under Roosevelt and Taft. In the view of
history that subordination of the natives
may seem the most wholesome sort of edu
cation for them. It is possible for the thlnk
or to believe a^the same time that Roosevelt
was right, that Taft was right, and the
President Wilson is right now.