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LEAGUE OF NATIONS MUST BE BASED
ON FORCE; WE MUST FURNISH FORCE
II IS pretty well accepted that a league of nations will i trained, perfectly equipped army always available; with a
follow the war, a league to guarantee against war by en- J wealth of money and supplies to maintain it under any
forcing peace. It is linked with the idea of an interna- circumstances, and with a vast fleet at hand to transport
tional court to arbitrate disputes between nations. Presi- it anywhere, the United States could lend enormous j
dent Wilson is thoroughly committed to the idea; has ex- strength to a league of nations a strength which would!
pounded it at every opportunity. Following his example, fit in perfectly
most other responsible leaders in allied countries have en-1 Italy.
dorsed toe proposal, iven Germany
it "in principle." So we may take
after the peace protocol is signed, the president of the
delegates at the round table will say: "Gentlemen, next in
the order of business is the formation of a league of na
tion." Perhaps this delegation may not carry through the for
mation of the league. Perhaps some other international
body may do it Doubtless extended discussions will be
necessary. But, unless there is a very marked change
from the present offficial feeling, such a league will be
formed.
The plan may work well. Xo work well it must be
based on force. A league of nations idea runs counter to
all national aspiration, all national jealousy, all racial dif
ferences and animosities. In short, it runs contrary to
human nature, human nature being to want thines and
to try to get them, peaceably if possible; otherwise by
force. So a greater force mu.t be set
-11 r 3 a :i : i t ..
ewer igite anu icmurr it impotent, ll
inadequate, nations will remain in the league of nations
just so long as it is to their interest to do so. When the
moment comes that a nation sees an advantage which ap
peals to national desires, that nation will seek to gratify
the desire either with or without the consent of the
league. And if the league dissents, then the nation will
try to satisfy its ambition anyhow. Perhaps it will seek
allies within the league, the idea being to break and over
power the league.
It is plain, therefore, that not only must such a league
have great strength as a whole, but also it must have
very much centraKied strength so as to prevent disruptive
alliances within the league.
Such centralized strength can be established by makine
the Anglo-Saxon nations the foundation of the league. Ger
many say success of the entente allies in the war means
Anglo-Saxon world domination, and there may be a modi
cum of truth in it. If it is a domination aiming at peace,
liberty, individual and national prosperity and the reign
of world wide justice, it can only be considered a benevo
lent domination.
There is no question that when the war Is over, the
Anglo-Saxon nations will have the preponderant strength
in men, rasaey and materials. With the two Latins,
France and Italy, they can form a wonderfully strong core
for a world league. The four nations should be bound to
gether militarily and economically as well as sentimentally.
They can hold a league together and enforce a league's will
upon the world.
The United States and Great Britain would hold the sea
power, with Britain strong as always in that arm and the
United States a great, new giant on the ocean.
The United States can and must hold dominance in man
power. Our army must always be so strong as to be the
greatest force in a world league. With a great, well
I Just a Glimpse Into What It Is to Be II
! In the Hellishnfw ni 'Owr Thar !l
Viiiiiiiimhiim m By i. c. n. , .m....
Either In Hell or Hear It, Sept 25.
DEAE K. C B. Through the kindnes of a friend I receive occasionally a few
copies of your dippings, which I appreciate, not only because of the fact
that your insight into human nature never fails, but because they come from
that wonderful place, "HOME."
Tour article on the father who stands at salute at 10 p. m. has just reached
me. If you only knew how often we over here stand at salute, mentally facing
the dear ones at home; if yon only knew how often we figure the time and
wonder what they are doing back there in God' country!
You, who are thinking of us over here in the furnace, please remember
that our thoughts are ever of you; that no matter what you think of your
boy or your husband, he is thinking of you, and longing, oh, so deeply, for a
chance to correct the mistakes, wipe out the harsh words or dry the tears he
has caused.
Out here in the melting pot, where life is cheap and death comes from
above and below and around you, one sees life through a different glass. They
are doing noble work, those boys of yours, not only as soldiers, but as men.
They do it gamely and when it is time to die they are game to the end.
I have seen a lot of them "go west" as it is called out here, but I have
never heard a whimper or a regret, except that it meant they were out of the
game. The little plots in cemeteries marked "Reserved for American Troops"
are filling up rapidly, but let me tell yen that the sacred ground of France
holds no greater heroes than those boys of yours who 18 months ago were at
their desks and today are dying for a great ideal.
Not knowing but that a shell may strike then, they drive food up a shell
swept road with a song on their Hps, for are they not bringing food to their
mates up the line? And what American would leave bis brother man in the
lurch? One falls, and six are there to pick him up, attend to his wound and
help him to a place of safety. Of such stuff is your boy, my dear friend, and
you do well to praise bin.
Very truly yours, CHARLES D. BLES,
Captain H. C-102 U. S. Engineers, A. E. P.
READ IT again.
m
AD CLOSE your eyes.
SO THAT your mental vision.
MAT LOOK out
ASD SEE.
. .
SOMEWHERE EJ France.
some nor.
weox TOO have knows back here.
AXD LOOK at him,
THROUGH ALL the grim a.
OF DATS and nights.
.
AND DEATH.
AND NBAK to death.
m m
AXD ASK yourself.
IP YOU were there.
AND HE were here.
"WHAT MESSAGE.
m
YOU WOULD have him send.
AXD JtXSWBR true.
THAT TOU would know.
THAT HERB at BOtBfc.
A. NATION'S heart
AND JfATION'S SOUL
AXD XATIOX'S purse.
Uncle Wall's Denatured Poem.
The War Machine
THE mighty German war machine is busted in the road; the greatest engine
ever seen broke down beneath its load. The wise mechanics flock around
and try to make repairs; old Hindenbnrg, he paws the ground, and Chaffer1
"Wilhelm swears. Says Ludendorff, "This blamed old boat will never run again;
it's lost its everlasting goat, and we are hoodooed men." The kronprinz,
smeared with mud and grease, crawls from beneath the car and says, "Per
haps a plea for peace, just now, would travel far. While this old ark could
hit the plain at 50 miles an hour, all talk of peace gave me a pain I gloried
in its power: But while we pushed it we forgot, methinks, to knock on wood;
our Jonah's got us now, I wot, and peace looks pretty good." And then exclaims
his haughty sire, "The blame must go your way; you would put on that worn
out tire, that blew out every day. If me end gott had run this boat, with none
to interfere, I would not moum my royal goat, which you made disappear."
Says Hindenbnrg, "The motor's works ki;k up an awful din; well have to tele
phone the Turks to come and haul us in." The war machine is in the ditch, a
lad and ghastly wreck, and Wilhelm mourns, in doleful pitch, the windshield
round his neck. I
Copyright by George Mattxtew A Cams. WALT MASOS. I
long ago assented to j All other nations would contribute their strength also,
it for granted that ! But the arrangement would be such that no one of them,
nor any combination
Dig
in a sneeial order
up 'to nullify this every f" frcm p.?,vat,e t0 Een.eralnst consider himself
r . .3 . Tiersonailv res-oonsible for stoonmp- the enemv's assault.
personally responsible for stopping the enemy's assault
tne cohesive force is
at hand and that, if
WERE HIS.
UNTO THE end.
THAT TICTORT.
SHOULD SEXD him home.
I THAXK you.
STARVATION NOW CLAIMS
THOUSANDS IN PETROGRAD
Stockholm. Sweden. Oct IS. In
fant mortality In Petrograd has In
creased to 50 per cent School sta
tistics show from 57 to 87 per cent
of the enroled children are absent on
account of sickness. The situation Is
growing worse daily and the Infant
population of Petrograd will prac
tically be wioea out tnis winter, un
less food Is provided by foreign coun
tries.
Figures on sdult mortality are not
available, but. according to Capt.
William B. Wooster, of the American
Red Cross, who has just arrived here
from Petrograd, starvation Is claim
ing thousands, especially aged and
infirm persons. ,
BURGLAR SCARED A WAT,
Police officer J. A. Block, at 1
oelock Saturday morning, responding
to a burglary call from the Freeman
bicycle shop, 401 Myrtle avenue, ar
riving there found a barrel against
one of the doors and the transom
broken. Apparently the burgular
had entered but was scared away
without getting any loot
The over 11.009 women workers in
the munition plants at Bridgeport.
Conn, will vote with the men In an
industrial election to be held there.
with that of Great Britain, France and
of them, could draw out and frustrate
the league. To bring that into being, we must drop the
bolshevik talk of universal disarmament afte- the war and
we must work for a big, permanent military policy based
on universal service for every physically fit yotng man in
this country.
Down And Buy
UT CALL upon every man to conduct himself as though
1 the result of this battle depended on his personal ef
forts alone."
to the British armv on the eve or J!: i
great German offensive of last March 21. They meant that
In the same way, every American must consider him
self and herself, of whatever age or financial condition, per
sonally responsible for the fourth Liberty loan. There
must be no feeling that it doesn't matter if one doesn't
buy; others arill make up the right amount Everyone
must feel that the loan is going to be a failure unless he
digs down and buys to the limit
The loan is lagging now. No one knows just why. Per
haps the German peace offer has caused enough uncer
tainty to slow it up, making people feel that peace may be
so, they do not want their money tied !
up in war loans.
There is nothing whatever to indicate that peace is near.
The Germans have put out another feeler; that is alL So
far as the allied governments are informed, there is no
disposition in Germany to make the surrender which alone
could be acceptable to the allied powers. Peace discussion
"on the basis" of president Wilson's 12 formulated princi
ples probably means in the wily Teuton mind, a surrender
of seized territories in the west and the retention of
everything gained through the Brest-Litovsk treaty. We
can never make peace that way.
There is just a suspicion that this German offer wa
timed partly to frustrate our Liberty loan. Will it suc
ceed? One may rest assured that nothing is being allowed
to interfere with the rapid piling up of the German war
loan, which is being floated at the same time as our own.
If the Germans are putting through their war loan, all the
more reason why ours should go with a bang.
It is up to everybody to take a fresh grip and put this
loan over big. The money will be needed. So far as any
body knows, there is more fighting in store for America
many more months of the hardest, bloodiest kind of fight
ing. Are we going to disarm our army by failing to furnish
it guns and bullets? Get busy and help buy them.
The Young Lady I
Across The Way f
rTHE young lady across the way says j
x mat tne ueman-Amencans are now
loyal to the last man and she verily
believes the semicolon has disappeared
from our national life.
This Is Our Day
This Is Liberty Day: Buy A
sftv lSAUNUAVVUHniVlMHl,,1HM'tMJili t'1'1 .' til!' II tf.i lUlMii A' iHVft 'J- TtMllli ' I I 1 ir'llllllli'liJI'Untll lit IHIWIl'll WW, III flUII.H' n
Liille Interviews
Few Young Men Left For Draft Since
Time to Buy Thrift Stamps With the
THERE wiH not be many men
i sent in the drafts from El Paso,
In my opinion.' said J. H. McKee. "In
the call of men up to 36, comparative
ly few will remain after exemptions
ars allowed and aliens discarded.
Even then, those who would go are
volunteering in the motor transport
units' students' army training schools
or other volunteer organizations. Of
course, the local boards will receive
credit for men so volunteering."
The quarantine on pool halls,
moving picture shows and similar
places will afford many El Pasoans a
financial opportunity to increase
their Investments In thrift stamps."
said E. H. Tale. 1 desire to suggest
earnestly that those who have beon
spending their amusement allow
ances in pool halls, movies and the
like take the money they are savin?
this week and buy war stamps. This
would help both them and our cjtr
"We must redouble our efforts now m
order that the full quota of stamps is
sold in El Paso."
"The department of labor, through
the United States employment ser
vice, is seeking to make a complete
survey of the unemployed labor." said
Henry M. Walker, of the local bureau,
with offices in the basement of the
city hall, "and in order to do this in
a practical and efficient manner,
must have the cooperation of both
employers and employes. That em
ployer who hires help other than
through the United States emDlov-!
litem, scivico is preventing such help
from registering, and that agency
that furnishes help outside of the
Un.ted States employment service is
nullifjing the efforts of the govern
mentin endeavoring to solve the
labor supply problems, for the reason
that such idle labor does not register
with oar office. Hence the govern
ment all along, through official chan
nels, has urged time and again all
employers and employes to make
their wants known to the United
States employment service and not to
patronize any other agc-cy.
"It was this practical solution of
the labor supply problem that caused
the government on August 1 to Issue
orders that all employers of labor en
gaged in war essential industries, em
ploying 160 or more persons, must
secure their additional help through
the United States employment ser
vice. The local bureau of the United,
States employment -service Is a free
service to all parties concerned, and
the wishes of the government applies
with equal force to employers In
every class of labor, including do
mestics and help for household pur
poses." The civilized nations of the world
should denounce the kaiser and his I
cohorts as International
ontlaws " f
said O. P. Brown.
"No more consid- !
eration should be shown them thani"ew Ior or -nlca0 in a na
would be shown to savage, wild ani-j uniform and with a red brassard on
mala There can be no security of: his arm as the badge of his au
peace until these outlaws are dis- thorlty.
P of." It Is a motley pageant that he
i marshals. There are big closed cars
I have been asked by the state I
food administrator E. A. Peden to1
see that the advertising cards with,
see that the advertising cards with
the caption, "Corn Is the fighting ra-
tlmi " - -w I w.
flasr shonld he romnvert ,-
they are in street cars and stores and
destroyed," said Charles X. Bassett.
'This is In view of the act of con
gress of February 8. 1917. which, in
substance, forbids the placing of ant
word, figure, mark, picture, design
Bond
j
So Many Volunteer
Amusement Money
or drawing or any advertising of any
nature upon any flag;, standard, col
ors or ensign of the United States of
America."
"If this Liberty loan fails." said R.
M. Dudley, "won't the German gov
ernment have something to talk
about; won't the kaiser print circu
lars, red lettering 'Failure;' woa't
there be a general rejoicing In Ber
lin? The appeal of the great Ameri
can power is. Don't let it falL And
American people, like true Americans,
will not let Americanism perish from:
the earth."
x
Military Policeman, Coc
Of The Roads In France
With the Americans on British
Front in France, Oct 12 (Corre
spondence of The Associated Press).
One of the Interesting characters
seen on the roads behind the line is
the military policeman. He Is sta
tioned at every crossroads, regulat-
,neT trarric with all the gestures of a
P'oiessionai
traffic
policeman in
containing generals: there are great
fn r ''" V0""8
''"7. ' iLJ"1!?"' "i".
moving ambulances with the doctor B"- G"- G- H- Burton. In his an
sitting calm beside the driver. There reo" to the secretary of war.
are huge lorries, long columns of j n the enlargementof canteen
The queen of Holland supplies from ;
her dairy considerable proportion of
tne mi iK consumed by buyers la tne
city of Amsterdam.
By Tad
By 0. P. Williams
3 i
Years Ago Today
From The Herald at I
This Date. ISM.
14
A DISPATCH from Odessa says they
may be trapping the Russians, ac
cording to opinion of military experts.
The Japanese are deliberately Invit
ing the Russians general attack, plan
ning to fall back, on new fortifica
tions and after, inducing the Russians
to exhaust themselves, deliver a conn
ter attack and crush them.
The gunboat Paducah was success
fully launched today at the shipyards
on the Harlem river near New York
City. At the same time the battle
ship Georgia was launched at Batii.
Maine.
Investigation shows that the South
ern Pacific wreck that occurred near
Warrensburg, Mo., a few days ago. In
which many lives were lost, was due
to sleeping trainmen.
A rumor ran broadcast today la
which Taqul Indians were said to he
on the warpath in the vicinity of Ne
gates, Ariz. It Is false, according to
later investigation.
RusseL the alleged bunco man, and
bis gang are In EI Paso seeking to
cheat and swindle as they did In St
Louis a few months ago. The police
are on tne lookout for them.
Governor Bailey, of Kansas- has
turned tne grait evidence or recent
crookedness of state officials over to
'attorney general Coleman, instructine
! to take legal action.
commission of uiUtftr? offences, dc-
section and other crimes.'
Will Cochrane, In Piano. .Texas, a
blind man, stabbed his wife and moth
erinly. yesterday afternoon, to death,
and then shot himself.
The Rio Grande, doe to heavy rates,
is reported rising again at Xeailla
Park today. Much uneasiness Is felt
there.
Women employed as machinists la
the Westlnghouse Electric Works at
Pittsburg, are paid as high as 17 a
day.
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POETRY!
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It's An IU Wind.
The print paper shortage embar
rasses some of ns. but at least .t
ought to prevent the further use of
paper pulp for wheatless pie crust
All Bound For Berlin, Too.
This Is a great seeing Europe year,
there being more than a million and
a half American tourists In France.
Flanders and Italy.
Make It Unanimous.
The Serbs have turned, and we hope
an opportunity will be given the Bel
gians to deliver the kaiser another
wallop before its Is all over.
The Only Way.
The kaiser might as well come In
and give himself up before Pershing
taps him on the shoulder and says,
"The chief wants to see you, BI1L"
BREAD Oy THE "WATERS.
Against the fleeintr Teutons
The allied wrath is loosed.
And soon they'll find that Sehrerk
Ilehhelt Is coming home to roost.
Do Him Justice.
Nero wasn't much as an example nf
domesticity, but be kept the Home
fires burning.
Too Scared.
Most of the Turkish army couldn't
think of the Turkish equivalent for
"Kamerad," so they broke and ran.
Ready for Anything.
There are a few of us who win snt
comply without a murmur to the re
quest not to bay any more platinum.
What's the UseT
"Be bard!" HInaenbnrg tells the
German people. And yet he's been as
hard as he eon Id be for four Tears
only to be walloped at the end or
them.
Too late Xott. nowever.
King of Bulgaria Confines His Son
in Prison. Cable dispatch.
There's an idea for the kaiser.
Hell Be Mad When He Finds It On ft
Every submarine the kaiser sen!s
over here helps to boost the nest Lib
erty, loan.
Prophetic.
Germans Making Their Women
Fight In the Trenches. Headline.
That's what the Russians did Just be
fore the finish.
Bnt It's Xo Good in War.
Hlndenburgs strategy seems to
consist chiefly of the hit and rim
play.
Compensation.
Mr. Hoover may soon ban all sugar,
but Mr. Shakspere tells us that "sweet
are the uses of adversity." se most of
us will have an excellent substitute.
DOXT FORGET.
The quarter that clinks
in your
pocket
The fiver yon fold in your pnrse.
Will help to btry guns for a soldier
Or send him a Red Cross nurse.
Bilked.
The Bulgarians went Into this war
with the distinct understanding that
they were to win. and now look what
Is happening to them.
VIA IiTBERTT I.OAX METHOD.
Whenever the vrorld seems in a Jam
And the future looks black and
bine.
Lend your money -to Unele Sam
And he'll stralchten things out for
you.
Just To Even Things Up.
We ought to let the Belgians help
smash those Metz forts.
Will Sot Be Disappointed.
Herr Scheldemann says he wants a
fight to the finish, and 1! looks very
much as If he were going to get It
What Do Ton Mean Power.
Von Hertllng Tired of Power. The
MaiL He aever had any
MISS TAWKEY APPLE has teen
arrested fer cleanin' her whita
gieves on Sanday. Tell Binkley mads
a reacis' speech last night an' referred
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owner, has directed The Herald for SO
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