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The By-Products of the War
' By DR. FRANK CRANE
War 1s bad. But out of bad comes good, in the processes of destiny.
Sickness is bad, and financial loss, and fires, and famine: but often men
tome out of these trials better, truer men, purged of dross. As the lily
bulb in its strange alembic transmutes the dung of the garden into white
and fragrant flowers, so the soul of man can change outward disaster to in
ward triumph. Some of the good by-products of this war are:
i u;rnnm We have been a spendthrift people, wasters all, from mil
cl? re to shop girl. Says Johm Muir: “Overnight, almost, came a
n‘"l&- The first Liberty Loan gave the American people the incentive.
6y waunted to be patriotic. They wanted a good investment. The partial
?:mflt plan of subscribing made it easy and interesting for them to pay
lO bonds—made it easy and interesting for them to save. Four million
Deople subseribed to three bfllion dollars of the first Liberty Loan. It was
the birth O.%Amerlm thrift.” -
£ < ECONOMY. Literaily, housekeeping. We were as wasteful in our
Hoomv: as oh our automobile rides. The vast eampaign directed by Mr.
8 and aided by every newspaper and magasine in the country, is
§ MWI& the American housewife into a thoughtfui, careful, intelligent
;{' v pert. This will be of inestimable benefit to us long after the war
A THE SENSE OF THE COMMON GOOD. Every man, woman, and
hild is r:lag made to feel that there is something bigger and more im
: .fllfl‘v life than one’s self. Our fantastic individualism is passing.
g4O are becoming a real commonwealth, The social nerve is being de
o oped. The civic iouclence is being strengthened.
8 DISOIPLINE, million men are in military training. To
i of them is lflfltu{m
A a8 They are learning self-control,
‘ "0::.&‘ n. They are getting physical hardness and fitness.
,{:flh‘ of the government, conditions in the camps are
volng so ordered we need no imore fear that to join the army means
6NITY. Our le are suddenly forced by the fires of danger into
; splendid oneness. gomlal parties have abated. North and south have
Wiwth the hatchet. Labor and capital have forgotten their quarrel and vie
s each other in paglotip service. The great mass of foreigners are
be i made American {n the melting pot of the cantonment.
th DEALS. Never was the nation so idealistic, less sordid. The beauty,
th: unselfishness, the righteousness of democracy is coming out, “‘fair as
116 moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners.”
s '.lll WORLD gITY And rrhapc the best of all of the results that
will certainly aécrue from this world conflict is the “parliament of man,
,fll:l{edmtion of the world.” What talk and reason could not do a world
: is doing. What Fresident Wilson has repeatedly urged, the premier
f England has emphasized in his speech stating the terms of the allies—
hat this war will have been in vain unless the nations shall at its close
fdevise some plan of internatiomal co-operation whereby such wars can
hever more take place, and the intolerable burden of military preparedness
be lifted from the shoulders of the workers of mankind.
Lixe tgtnntr:t the ruck and muck of these filthy times shall grow the lily of
* (Copyight, 1918, by Frank Crane)
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g Jim Gets “Importentest Detale
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well al i of ben wandering offen why it is that
they allweighs put me on the most importent detales
e, gutch as i of ben on a no. of times & just this wk.
; 5 the importentest of them all coal detale. they is no
e ust of me telling even to a sivillain why coal detaile‘
1 _—N is the importentest in the hole armie becaus
: \ ' ’ sivillains know sumthing about coal these days only
¥ f not a grate deal about it from Ist hand evadunce
4 but a grate deal from heresay sents a lot is printit
N about it in news pappers & other pappers. the only
: ) (' weigh you can reely know about anything is to
] 5v Y see it &of coarse you & other sivillains dont never
b 2 ‘ ‘ see mutch coal.
: 7 fi \ thats the reezun why my bean on coal detale
" \ J (I\ } is a sine that i am pickt out for the {mportentest
, ' detale becaus it'is sum onor to be thé coal man these
! days when evan the pres. of the U of S is thinking
’-‘-v.’. about coal. you know me al. four this detale al
, .‘YI" you dont wear the nifty soldger close that you come
I; fl\ . into the sity in but in the stead a pare of blue
o\, A colored gumpers witch hide everything about the
% m A yAA soldger unniform but the end of the legings & thel
oy TEJM % soldger shoes you wood hardly be known from a
: meechanick or any other sivillain workingmen who
- '§s respectable. eggzept for the end of the legings stiking out from in
; pnder the blue pants witch is 14 of the gumpers the other 3 bean a blows
. pr what mite be calld a coat only its not fully a coat but is headit that way.
g e aftel you get drest up in these hear gumpers your reddy to join in with
the other bloaks who have coal detale as well as you four their a few
Other soldgers in this division who some times get onored beside me
_becaus they happen to be ackwaintit with sum muyels.
well al i never was mutch at getting friendly with no annimals but
n the armie you dont have no choist & it is often to your add vantidge
to have as wide ackwaintance as possibel. thats why these other ginks
pickd up for the coal detale becaus they b2ppint to know a cuppel
f muyels & its nestesary for the cap ten to keep in rite with any 1 who
las sutch inflewenshall friends as a muyel or 2so the cap ten tells the
. fluty sarjint to give them coal detale witch they of got the saim as me
: gnue ime not to have anything to do with no muyels not even to speak to
em or maik a remark about the whether to them.
: the corprall witch was in the chardge of the detale ced to me you
wont have to do nothing but sit in the back of the waggin & when we
et to the coal yard just taik the shovul & shovul untill the waggin is
{ull but you must do it so as that you wont disturb us becaus we will have
dbur bandsful with thesehear annimals keeping them in good humor so
theyll pull the coal back to our company. well al that was fare enuf i
thot becaus what is the honor of shovulen a wagginfull of coal to the
disterase bean pals with 4 muyels you are wellcum to the muyels cumpny J
sed 1-to the corprall lead me to the coal pile &{n the stead of leadin me
te;lo.d to the coal pile down to the r.r. sideing wear the coal cums in.
ell al ime allweighs rite their when it comes to getting as mutch onor
za possibel 80 { ljt into that coal pile with the shovul & pretty soon the
waggin witch is a gray 1 like you have probly never seen was full & the
s who had ben haveh:i there trubbels with the 4 muyels ced you weight
5‘3, till we drive on & they is a gpthefi waggin to load.
& belcev me al § had sum onor that day i loadit up 4 coal waggins
finely_went back to the sirjint & reportit & as usual he was jellus &
&d you boob wear have you ben ive ben doing the bigest job in this can
Tonement shovulling cval i ead. dont you know ced the sarjint they was
only 1 load for us you have ben working all a.m. for sum other cumpnies
svell whats the diffronts 1 ced they of gave me the importentest job in
the can Tonement shovulling coal witech is like working in a dimund
minre & why shoodent i work at it for everybuddy. ‘well al he hasent
ansered my question yet maybe mister mackadoo will nead me in Wash
gnten hay al you know me. your OLD PAL JIM ‘
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THEY'LL ENJOY IT
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Trench and Camp as much as you
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CANNON MADE OF ICE
Some ingenius workmen in Petro
grad more than 1756 years ago carved
six large cannon out of blocks of
ice, turned them in lathes and bored
them for six-inch shells, And they
actually fired salutes from them. The
fce cannon were sufficiently strong
to withstand the .explosion of nearly
2,000 grains of real gunpowder. All
of which goes to prove that improvis
ing is not entirely new. Whether
the use of the expression ‘“cold steel”
can be traced back to these ice can
non is another matter.
SHRAPNEL HELMETS NEEDED
Air raids by German aviators fly
ing over the part of France in which
the American headquarters are lo
cated have become so frequent that
shrapnel helmets have been issued
to all the clerks and other employees‘
for their protection.
Flanders Veteran Warns Against
- Peace Before Germany Is Beaten
“Beware of German peace offers!
Beware Of this trumped-up talk of
German strikes! Don’t think it's
true. Remember Kipling’s warning,
‘Make ye rno peace with Adam-Zad,
the bear that walks like a man.’”
This was the message brought
straight from the French front to
America by James McCulloch, a min
ing engineer of Butte, Montana, who
went over to Europe to fight as soon{
after the Germans had marched mto‘
Belgium as he could get there. He
safled from New York on August 13,
1914, nine days after England de
clared war. He has fought ever since
then, éxcept when he lay wounded
in the hospital. 1
Only Survivor of Fourteen
Fourteen Americans went over
with him to take a hand in things.
Eleven of them lie dead in Flanders.
One of them was sent home disabled
months ago, and one, between life
and death, is in a hospitel in Alder
shot. James McCulloch is the last
&t that little group of offhand ideal
ts.
“About thirty-four years old,” the
passport ha. took to England read.
The James McCulloch who returned
to the United States is an old man.
His hair, which the passport de
scribes as dark brown, {s gray. He
has been twice badly wounded, and
he has suffered most of all from gas
shock, But he has never been afraid,
except of one thing.
“The fellows who are fighting at
the grqnt have just ope big fear
now,”” he said. ‘“They are afraid
that an easy peace will be I>nt,c:hedi
ap with Germany, and that this
w%ole thing will have to be gone
through with again a dozen jyears
from now.
“All that we’ve done lgowuted if
the next generation has do it all
over. We've paid the pricé once, snd
once is enough. We fought think
fng that we were making tHe world
safé for the kids, and if the politi
cians and those who don’t know
what they’re doing make peace be
fore there can be any peace, we
haven’t gained a thing.”
An Heroic Highlander
“] saw something over there on
the battlefield that Kipling would
have loved to write a poem about, I'll
bet. It tickles me yet whenever I
think of it. It was after the battle,
and a little Highlander, four feet
nothing or so, had got hung up on
the barb wire entrenchments. All of'
a sudden a big German saw him and
}Nums OF TROOP SHIPS
AND DEPARTURE DATES
MUST BE KEPT SECRET
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Every soldier in training in this
country today would do well to re
member that ‘“‘Secrecy Means Safety,”
i'l.‘sd that upon receiving notice that
command is dbout to sail for
France he should keep &mfl upper
lip and maintain silence in every lan
guage he knows.
The arrest of a young officer who
divulged to a member of his family
the name of the vessel on which he
was about to sail and the date of its
departure, shows 30! the War De
partment intends rigidly emnforce
the order forbidding the disclosing
of such information.
* Concerning the arrest of the officer
the War Department issued the fol
lowing statement:
“The War Department authorizes
the anpouncement that a young offi
cer is held in arrest because he di
vulged to a relative the name of the
vessel upon which he was about to
stu} ov:‘rseu aid' the uhodul: me
of departure. regult o 8
prohibited lntorm&u the relative
of the young officer, & %llenten
ant, sent a telegram fto at the
port of embarkation, This telegram,
which was not in cipher, furnished
information which, in the hands of
the enemy, might have endangered
the vessel anhd all aboard.
“The disclosure of such informa
tion by officers and men about to
sail is strictly forbidden in general
orders No. 94, War Department,
1917; and warning is again issued
that officers and men must not ac
quaint relatives or friends with de
tails of arrangements for departure.
Disciplinary action faces offenders.
“The case of the young officer in
arrest in this instance is before the
War Department for action, follow
ing an investigation at the port of
embarkation. =
“There is also to be further in
quiry to ascertain whether the im
mediate superior of the officer held
in arrest properly instructed this of
ficer as to the requirement of secrecy
concerning the names of vessels and
sailing dates.” .
rushed back to get him, his ugly
face a-grin. And just as I thought
the little chap was dome for, one of
the huskiest Highlanders 1 ever saw
caught on to what was happening,
let out a bellow, and started back.
It was a race for the little fellow’s
life, and the devil take him if the
Scotty was the hindmost! But he
wasn't. He got there in time to run
his bayonet clear through the Ger
man. ] was wounded but I laughed
when 1 saw that, Then the High
lader just yanked the little fellow
off the\barb wire, and they strolled
off, saying nothing, being Scotchmen,
and acting as calm as if they had
been to the corner for a morning
paper. :
Germans’' Souls Poisoned
“I've seen a lot of the Germans be
fore this. Wherever my work has
taken me, and that’s pretty much all
over the world, they all had the
same notion—nothing but relentless
expansion, . I've watched them in
Mexico, in South America, in Aus
tralia, the South Sea Islands, and
half a dozen other mes, and they’re
all the same. r souls are
poisoned with their desire for world
possession.
“How do men feel as they go over
the top? They (lon".i much, till
afterwards—or maybe I hadn’t any
imagination. But you don’t need
imagination much in war-time. Go
ing over the top, when all is said, is
just one foot after another, and there
you are, with something worth while
to see through and glad to do it.
You may wish it well over but you
never wish yourself out of it.”
“I'm tarnation glad I went,’”’ he
said. ‘““‘But I thank my stars that
when I get all well enough to be of
some use again ] can go with the
American army, m;hh. but I was
getting tired of be an English
man!” :
A I MBSt
WATER WAGONS FOR SOLDIERS
Soldiers in khaki can go on the
water wagon literally as well as fig
uratively speaking. The Quarter
master General’s office is going to
provide Several thousand - water
wagons, in addition to 17,912 escort
wagons, 1,208 limbered combat
wagons, 887 ambulances, 545 sprink
lers, 500 mountain wagons, 160
buckboards, 740 ration carts, 446
dump carts, 234 sanitary carts, 206
medical carts and many other types
of vehicles.
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