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War Must Go On Until Liberties
of the Future Are Guaranteed
By Senator P. J. McCumber of North Dakota
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lannot, we must not, emerge from this conflict
until the great nations of the earth have entered into
binding and solemn international obligation, signed
and sealed by each of them, defining and proclaiming
the inherent and inalienable rights of every nation,
great and small—the right of each to live and work
out its own destiny, free from the shadow of impend
ing war or the danger of annihilation by some mighty
military neighbor; and that no nation shall rob a"
weakt r nation of its territory; that it shall not murden
its peuple; that it shall not deprive another of its inde
'pendeme or infringe upon its sovereign rights. We must provide foi
a court in which every international dispute must be settled and obliging
the world-family of nations to jointly enforce the decrees of such a court,
und thereby forever prevent the recurrence of such a holacaust of blood
*s new inearmines Europe.
Unless this war is fought to such a finish, this conflict will have been
•worse than in vain. Unless we are prepared to fight it to this finish,
we have committed a grievous crime against humanity and our own people
in ever entering it. We are battling for the liberty and happiness of
future generations. This generation is suffering that the next may live
■under the rpign of peace and justice.
If we allow this war to close leaving the situation just as it was
before the war, then we can rest assured that the same causes will bring
about the same result, and that our children must meet that which we
were unable, through inability or lack of courage, to settle. That wo
must not do.
Military Training Benefit to Youth
in Time of Peace as Well as in War
By Wiffiam Wrigley, jr., of Chicago
As the world is constituted, and has been through thousands of years
of strife, there is only one safe plan, and that is to follow the advice of
Washington—in time of peace prepare for war. If we had done this
a few years ago, we would have saved billions of dollars and tens of thou
sands of lives. It is common knowledge in military circles that trained
men, by knowing how to take care of themselves in camp and in the
Held, reduce the mortality and casualties at least two-thirds, and, what
is even more vital, men of special training only can be used in modern
warfare.
Nationally we need a little foresight, a keener appreciation of the
necessity for providing for future contingencies. We cut ice in the coldest
sort of weather when nobody wants ice, for we know it will be demanded
a few months later; so we prepare in midwinter for our comforts during
the heated period of summer.
The plan of universal military training as outlined in the Cham
berlain bill would make available at all times millions of young men
who have'had sufficient military training to enable them to become excel
lent soldiers with a few weeks of additional training. This would safe
guard the nation and prepare it against any contingency that would prob
ably arise, and if one should never arise, the training and discipline would
be the very best experience that any young man could have. It would
make him stronger physically, more alert mentally, quicker to see and to
act. Also, it would increase his earning capacity and give him a better
chance to win success in his life work. Our boys appreciate this. I think
the majority of them would be glad to take the training.
Since the boys may at any time be called upon to defend our country
and our flag, we owe it to them to provide them with a careful pre
training so that they may perform this important national function both
efficiently and as safely as possible.
All the Burden of Food Conservation
Should Not Rest Upon the Housewife
By Esther Moran, Supervisor of Domestic Science, St. Paul Public School*
The average American man can do much toward stopping food
waste and irrational eating. All the burden and blame does not rest
on the housewife. Many wives are willing to make or buy conservation
bread, but the husbands laugh and refuse to eat it. Many wives try to
substitute vegetable protein for animal protein, but the husband demands
meat. He likes to see plenty of food on the table and then to heap up
the, plates, expand his chest and say, "What a good fellow am I."'
Wouldn't it be better to ask for a second helping rather than have any
waste at all? Does the average man know what he should eat? What is
a balanced ration? Does he eat soup, roast, gravy, potatoes, beans maca
roni, bread, butter, pie, cheese, crackers and coffee? Alan must be edu
cated on the food subject, but oftentimes his habits are ingrained and
so the best the intelligent housewife can do is to begin with the children
and teach them to eat just enough good, plain, wholesome food, to eat
the right combinations and to refrain from spoiling good food so that it
must be thrown away.
"Business as Usual" Not Good Slogan
for United States in This Great War
By Frank A. Vandeifip, Pretident National City Bank of New York
The sooner the public gets over the idea that we want "business as
usual," or can have "business as usual'' during this great war, the better
for all.
W r e want to stop all unnecessary work and unnecessary expenditures
«hört off, and concentrate on the immense volume of work which has
rto be done. Business men should get rid of any foolish fears that economy
Will bring on a general paralysis of industry or trade.
The country should immediately awake to the fact that it has a
weat task in hand, and that it cannot carry on a war like this with one
tond and continue to do all the business it did befere with the other
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Elementary Mentality of the
Masses Demonstrated by
Amusing Examples.
FiSH MADE FREE BY TROOPS
How Pretty Woman. With Dogs and
Red Ribbon. Turned Hostility to
Enthusiasm —Man With Red
Umbrella Becomes Per
sonage.
Paris.—Political happenings have
succeeded one another so rapidly in
Russia that French correspondents
there have had little time to do more
than occupy themselves with them, and
descriptive articles from those jour
nalists have been few regarding the
j efft •ct of the revolution on the mass
of the people and it-; n -lilts in the
! provinces and among the peasants.
J One or two articles, however, have ap
peared which throw some light on the
mentality of tin* Russians, regarded as
so different front that of other Euro
peans.
Robert de Fiers, associate editor of
the Figaro and now atta< Ued h the
headquarter- staff of the Roumanian
army, has had months of study of the
Russian troops serving in conjunction
with those of Roumania. Here art*
some anecdote- from ids latest article:
There is a fine lake somewhere in
the south of Russia w hirl! t- connected
by a channel with a smaller lake.
Where huge cart» are raised. The chan
nel was barred by nets to prevent the
carp» from passing into the larger lake,
and, as food does not reach tin* troops
in the district too plentifully nor in
great variety, the officers were glad
to vary their mess with the fish.
One day some hundreds of soldiers
were gathered in a meeting—one
those meetings which have become a
regular institution in the Russian army
this year—plunged in deep discussion.
Suddenly—there was a rush toward
the lakes and, w ith cries of ''Slobodu !"
"Sloboda !" ("Liberty!" "Liberty!"),
the men began to pull out the barriers
and nets and destroy them. The offi
cers wished to prevent the destruction,
but the soldiers took little notice of
their reprimands beyond crying "Slo
boda ! Sloboda for the fish!"
A noncommissioned officer explained
the matter. "Fish are Cod's creatures
as men are. Like them, they have the
right to liberty. Rut men can talk and
so have made the revolution, while
fish are dumb and can never make
theirs. It is. therefore, mir duty to aid
them because it is contrary to nature
to pen them up in order to capture
them and easily kill them."
A Personage and Didn't Know It.
A middle class functionary, a man
who occupied a modest position in one
of the tax-collecting offices and who
was imbued with the narrow, bureau
cratic. reactionary spirit generally
found in that class, chance«! to g«> out
one day with a red umbrella under his
arm. A group of manifestants going to
a meeting begged him to open his um
brella. He willingly complied, ami at
MRS. WM. ASTOR CHANLER
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One of the American women who
have kept green the memory of the
Marquis of Lafayette and the great
service he rendered this country in
Its eariy struggle ror fife is Mrs. Wil
liam Astor Chanler« who has devoted
much of her time and energy since
the war began to aiding the French
in their great struggle.
Mrs. Chanler has been interested In
hospital and relief work In Paris, but
her especial charities have been the
Lafayette fund, which provides com
fort kits to French soldiers, and the j
French heroes' fund. It was the lat
ter fund, of which Mrs. Chanler was !
president, that purchased the birth- !
place of Lafayette in France to be pre- [
served as a museum.
d that his bright umlircMn—
the revolution's color —iiiade
rsomtge. Women threw him
■liihh'. Ti were lifted up for
s- :c11< 1 lie was at mice inade
of the ni I'I'riiit;.
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a banquet,
eloquent spe.
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ing discovered himself an orator with
out having t*vi*r suspected it. Finally
he was oindurted tu his hume at a
late hour by several thousands of his
fr**e if not enlightened fellow-citiz« ns.
From that day. after inscribing Ids
name on the revolutionary committee,
he has never gone out without his red
umbrella, always open.
For months every material, from silk
I to the commonest cloth, colored red,
! has been sought for ami made into
! cockades, flags, streamers, etc. The
smallest fragment of red serves as un
j excuse for a manifestation. Here is a
j story of a squad of Russian soldiers, a
: pretty woman, a pet dog, ami a bow
j knot of red ribbon,
j The pretty woman was walking up
; and down the platform of a little sta
| ;i<m crowded with soldiers. The men,
I whose opportunities of seeing a pretty
' woman had been limited for many a
j month, gazed in admiration and were
prepared to make a manifestation in
; her honor. Rut suddenly their feelings
j showed a change and cries of discon
; tent began to be heard. A group of sol
di* rs went up to the woman and se
verely upbraided her because a bow of
red ribbon was fastened over the ear
of her Pomeranian dog. Such a use of
the symbol of revolution was shocking,
they said, ns it showed a wish to ridi
cule the great movement. The soldiers
j shouted, shrieked, and jumped about
| excitedly, to the utter astonishment of
: the pretty woman and of the Pom.
I Rut the* woman extricated herself
j from an embarrassing position with
! the guile of a true daughter of Eve.
j She took the ribbon from her dog's
head and placed it in her own hair.
Once more the crowd changed its tone,
and it was amid enthusiastic cheering
that she, and the dog. took the train a
little later.
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A certain general was suspected by
his men of being only lukewarm to
ward the new movement, so a delega
tion of soldiers waited on him to ask
him his real opinions.
"I'll tell you just what I am," he said
to them, "and you can tell it to every
one. I look upon my men as my chil
dren and so have no reason not to tell
them the whole truth. 1 am a Maximal
ist anarchist. After that I am sure
you won't want any further details."
The men went away delighted. They
declared to the regiment that had sent
them : "The general is absolutely all
right. He is -•* tremendously revolu
tionary that we couldn't even remem
ber the name that he said."
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Logic of Freedom.
Two soldier- had happened to speak
to a general and one had used the
i term, "your excellency." as was the
; custom before the revolution. The
j other soldier afterward rebuked his
I companion for such a lapse from new
principles.
"Y'ou said 'excellency'!"
"Well, of course I said 'excellency.' "
"But don't you know that now you
musn't say 'excellency?' "
"And why musn't we say 'excellency'
and more?"
"What? Why? Because wo have
made the revolution, and now we are
all free."
The first soldier was silent for a
minutes, and then remarked:
"But since we are nil free, we arc
free to say 'excellency' if we like to."
The other soldier, in turn, reflected
for a minute, and then declared:
"That's true, after all. The moment
we are free we can do what we like.
It's that, you see that's so difficult to
j understand. But as that's really so, !
i am going to say 'excellency' myself."
! Then he added :
"But. all the same. It won't be the
I same thing as before."
Ludovic Nadeau has found time to
send to the Temps some anecdotes
about events in Petrograd after the
great revolution :
In the early days of the revolution a
sfrange-looking street-sell made his
appearance on the Nevsky Prospect.
As he wore a scarlet cap. a crowd soon
gathered. H«> was «»ffering pamphlets
at 50 kopecks apiece, and could hardly
hand them out quick enough. The nnt
| tirai inference would be that the work
j treated of the revolution, but, as a
! matter of fact, it was a "History of
: Buddhism," bought, doubtless, for a
i nominal sum ns a publisher's remaind
! er. One soldier, as he carried away
! his bargain, was heard to say: "I can't
j read, but lots of comrades in the bu'
! racks can."
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Before the revolution, people bathed
naked in the Neva, hot outside the
town. Now they are bathing, entirely
stripped, within the town, and walk
about on the bridges and quays be
tween the French and British embas
sies. The men of 1703 were christened
"sans culotte," (without trousers), the
men of 1917 are "sans calecon," (with
out drawers).
The Petrograd soldiers, anxious to
instruct themselves and occupy the
leisure that the revolution has given
them, are great visitors to the mu
seums. Their anxiety to investigate
everything leads them to pass their
hands over the pictures and caress the
statuary, (often marking it with their
nails). Notices have been put up beg
J ping comrades to touch nothing.
Tin* founder and curator <>f the "Eth
nographic' Museum recounts that his
siuiT. (caretaker- cleaners, etc.), has
petitioned tin* gov. rament for tin* sup
pression of hi-, utliee. on the ground
that a curator i- useless in a mus» urn,
■ that he does nothing, costs mom «, and
j is of no service, a- they who carry
the keys, wieci the feather brooms,
ami dean tie : nor.- an* tin* real cura
tors.
How to Be a Civil Engineer.
In a manufactory the workmen in a
i body waited on tin civil engineer- to
j tell them that, "tile old order having
; passed away, there must be no more
slavery. Everyone must work 1n turn.
So you will kindly some of you go
down into the mines, and others tire
i the engines."
. "And who will do our work?" asked
; tlo* engineers.
j "Son*** of us will take turns in your
offices."
"Rut what will you uo there?"
"The same as you- sit around,
sharpen pencils, ami smoke <*iga
rettes."
On Sunday, July N, M. Naudeau saw
a crowd moving along tin* Nevsky
Prospect, carrying banners, half blue,
half yellow. ''That's all right," said a
middle-class citizen to him. "Revolu
tionary red seems to be going out of
date." When the column had ap
proached. it proved til be composed al
most entirely of soldiers, enough to
form two or three regiments. Their
banners for the inscription ' Long Live
the Government !" w hich seemed to
show that it was rt patriotic manifesta
tion, hut others had "Long Live tla*
I kraitu* !" "Long Live Independent
Little Russia."' "Long Live the Inde
pendent Ukraine!"
The soldiers belonged to the Petro
grad garrison and were natives of Lit
tle Russia, manifesting their desire to
in* enrolled as soon as possible In the
purely Ukrainian army that is being
formed in the south. No one Interfered
with their separatist demonstration.
Some soldiers whose bearing was
anything but martial, were taking up
too much room in a tramway to please
the female conductor, who rated them
vigorously with till the extraordinary
authoritativeness which women In Rus
sia always display toward men. "You.
soldiers! Go on! You only have sol
diers' clothes, that's all !"
"It's a shame to treat a poor wound
ed man like this," murmured one of
them.
"You wounded?" retortefl the con
ductor. "If you are wounded it must
i he in the left nostril and by a cork
from a bottle!"
These illustrations of Russian tem
perament are declared to indicate the
difficult task Kerensky confronts, to
direct such a people and to keep them
I steadily in the path that he would
have them follow.
COW GETS ARMY RECOGNITION
Soldiers Permitted to Own Animal,
Paying Upkeep From Ration
Savings.
Washington.—Soldiers In the army
not only may keep a cow, but they
can feed it at government expense,
provided they consume the milk, says
a ruling of the judge advocate general.
The decision was rendered on the
question of whether feed for a cow
kept by a detachment of soldiers for
the production of milk for the detach
ment mess could legally be purchased
from the ration savings, in view of the
regulation that "such savings shall he
used solely for the purchases of arti
cles of food."
ACTIVE RED ÇR0SS WORKER
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Mrs Funston. widow of the late
General Frederick Funston, is one of
.the leading workers in Red Cross
work.
The widow of one of the country's
greatest soldiers is doing more than
her share in urging practical aid for
the soldiers and sailors.
59 YEARS OLD,
And Praises Cardui, Which üi.?
Says Pulled Her Through a
Most Dangerous Period.
Mercer, Ky.—"About 1~> years ugo,"
writes .Mr-. W. T. Ball, of this place,
"l began suffering with change of life,
and was suffering very much. . . 1
began taking (.'urdul after having suf
fered for .'5 years, and I was dread
fully nervous. Hardly felt like doing
my work. Couldn't sleep well at nights.
However, after several doses of Cardui
1 saw au Improvement and in a f**\v
days 1 could do my work with case
and in .wo weeks I was able to walk
six miles and went to the street fair
at Central City and enjoyed myself.
After using two bottles. I got my
natural health and strength and It
pulled me through that most danger
ous of periods in u woman's life with
no trouble or suffering.
I am now hale and hearty, and was
Of) years old the 11th of this mouth.
I will never cease praising Cardui,
which did me so much good. It also
saved my daughter's life when she had
such a dreadful spell. . . "
Over 40 years in use. Cardui has
proven Its efficacy as "the woman's
tonic." If you are weak, and run
down. and suffer from symptoms of
troubles peculiar to women, give
Card til a trial.— Adv.
WORDS LOST THEIR FORCE
Schwab Should Have Spoken Into
Phonograph, He la Told, When
Discussing His Speech.
A banker who was told that Charles
M. Schwab, the president of the Beth
lehem Steel works, was one of th©
most forceful speakers over heard at a
banquet table, said he believed It, and
then told this story :
About the time that Schwab was
buying Bethlehem Steel, and had made
arrangements with I'liny Fisk of New
York, to handle the bonds, he went
over to Nev, York, and, of course, was
entertained at a dinner. There he
made one of his most forceful utter
ances. Mr. Fisk was moved to such
un extent that he said to Mr. Schwab:
"That will sell the bonds. Only, you
should write It out for me when you
retint, so I shall make an accurate
statement."
Mr. Schwab wrote out his remarks
as soon a- he got buck to his home and
s«nt them to Mr. Fisk.
Mr. Fisk saw him soon afterward,
and said: "Why didn't you write me
what you said?"
"I did," responded the steel master.
"I wrote the exact words."
"Well," answered Mr. Fisk, much
disconcerted, "you should have spokeD
them into a phonograph."
Wireless Air Raid Warning.
Tin* London Daily Chronicle reports
that Mr. Thorp HIncks has devised ap
paratus for giving warnings of impend
ing air raids. It Is claimed to be es
pecially applicable to factories and
public buildings. An electric resona
tor is placed on the roof, and on the
sound of a given pitch being produced,
the resonator causes a bell to ring In
the building until It is stopped. It )b
said that large areas, such for Instance
as the whole of a city, can he simulta
neously and instantaneously wmrnecl.
—Scientific American.
Ducks Poisoned.
The biological survey has found that
a number <»f duck- around Great Salt
Lake. Frith, were suffering from lead
poisoning as a result of swallowing
the shut present in large quantities
about tin- shunting stations and blinds.
The kiss one woman bestows on an
other i- afii'.o-t as meaningless us the
handshak«* of a hotel clerk.
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