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MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1918.
j ASLEEP AT THE SWITCH
The bright young man who has
charge of censoring the war news
must have been spending the evening
away from his desk on the night of:
the Tuscania disaster. If not, then I
why was it that thousands of anxious j
hearts were permitted to be torn with'
false information that was flashed
over the wires. What suffering might i
have been saved to thousands of anx
ious home folks throughout the land j
if these earlier dispatches had been
suppressed until something approxi-'
mating the truth—bad as it turned out |
to be—could be ascertained.
It was the first big disaster of the
war, so far as Americans were indivi
dually concerned, and / it is to be re- ]
gretted that the startling reports cir
culated found the oficial censor asleep
at the switch. But perhaps we do that
enterprising young man an injustice;
he may have been somewhere on the
job, at that. For all we know, he may
have hurried immediately to the thea
tre to see that the President was not
disturbed by bad news. This thought j
is suggested by reading the following
news dispatch printed throughout the
country on the morning following the
disaster:
“President Wilson was in the thea
tre when the news of the disaster [
reached Washington. No word of the 1
tragedy was allowed to reached the i
President. The secret service guard
saw to it that no one was allowed to !
approach the President and it was not
until the return to the White House
that he learned of the loss of the Tus
cania’’.
No one will find fault with the ex
treme consideration shown for the
President's feelings by those in pos
sesion of the disconcerting news, but
many will wonder why the mothers of
the men on board, and all their folks
and friends, were not accorded the
same consideration. That the horrible
untruth of the disaster, as first re
ported, was recklessly released on the
wires, heralded broadcast by the
screaming headlines of the sensational
press, and bellowed by millions of
newsboys in the stillness of the night,
was something more than a blunder—
it was cruelty. The administration
will do well to see that such a glaring
misrepresentation will never occur
again
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MAN IS NOT ALL ANIMAL
Some people get it into their heads
that men are more than animals.
The advocates of eugenics are in
that class.
It is important that man should be
a good animal first of all. Therefore
the eugenics are right.
But the spirit of man is in the end
his most valuable possession. There- i
fore the eugenists are wrong.
The human race might be advanced
to physical perfection as are cattle, ;
dogs, and horses.
But who wants to wear a blue rib
bon won at a human stock show'?
The noblest character of man is
love. The souls of a man and a wo
man must unite if marriage is to be
happy.
What would it avail to breed a su
perior race of physical beings if man
thereby lost his own soul?
Other means will be found to im
prove the human frame without eugen
ics. Advocates of that theory should
remember that a war is being fought
for human freedom. They should for
get their nonsense and deal with man
as a rational animal—instead of a
mere being—that has within him the
power to love—the spark of the Divine.
THEORY VERSUS PRACTICE
General SyHn, a soldier who ha
done much fighting for Russia, in
j recent Interview said:
I "As for Lenine and Trotzky, l lik
them personally. It is very interestin'
to falk with them shout hig work
, problems in front of a cozy fire, bu
j vou cannot do anything with them ii
; the practical affairs of life."
Every nation has many of those wh
can spin fine theories "in front of
cozy fire.” These geneYally meet dis
aster when they try to deal with han
facts.
I In times past we have read some o
the works of Prince Kropatkin. thi
Russian anarchist. He helieved tha
( society was near that ideal state whei
man was so perfect that he no longe
I needed the restraint of government
He expected to see the time comi
when courts of justice would he closer
because justice would be ruling ir
every heart, when police officers
would not be needed because therr
would be none to commit crimes, when
courts in equity would shut their door?
because no man would commit a wrong
that he would not be willing to re
dross, when there would be no poot
because the people of the world would
see to it that every man had a seat at
the table that contained the richess of
the world.
Kropatkin conceived an m Ah I anOlrt
ty. much nobler than the ideal of the
socialists. Between socilism where
the individual is submerged in the
state and anarchy where the indivi
dual is free with out any semblance of
government, the latter has the advan
tage.
Kropatkin may or may not be dead.
If he is living he has many books to
revise, for certain things have ocurred
in Russia that would lead him to be
lieve that his ideal state of society,
made so because man has made en
tirely good, is a few thousands years
in the future.
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A NEW KIND OF OFFICER.
If we lived in China we would vote
for the re-election of Feng Wo Chang
to the presidency.
This man is one of the most remark
able officials that has ever occupied
a public post.
He recently issued a mandate in
which he asserted that he was too
weak for the burden of governing
China. He said that he would prob
ably retire from the presidency and
let a stronger man take the job.
He then told how he had misjudged
conditions in China and how the re
bellion against the republic had suc
ceeded largely because he did not heed
advice and use force to suppress the
rebels when they started their revolt.
Feng Wo Chang makes a strong
case against himself, but any man who
will come out in public and announce
tiis weaknesses from the house tops
must be, in reality, wonderfully strong
ind capable.
The Chinese had best keep Feng Wo
'hang in the president’s chair. If they
let him quit they will get a man who
will probably make as many mistakes
*nd who will be full of lengthy ex
cuses.
And the mandates giving these ex
cuses at great length will not be half
so readable and half so true as the
confessions of the only office holder
that we ever heard of who was willing
to reproach himself for the instruc
tion of his fellow citizens.
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Gunny sacks are Scarce, we learn.
\nd just when they are in most de
mand Right now they are wanting
them in the east to tie around their
’eet as they go out to do the chores.
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THE WAR SITUATION TODAY
Hindenburg has not started on his
rip to Paris, where he promised the
jermans he would be by April. In
stead he has decided that a Jaunt to
Petrograd will be easier traveling and
nore to his liking.
The Austrians had counted strongly
>n the German general being in Paris
is he had promised. They have been
lisappointed so many times that they
ire taking the^Russian excursion quite
;o heart. Some of them are in the no
Jon of refusing to play with Hinden
iurg and the kaiser any longer, as too
many mean tricks have been done to
hem lately.
The bolsheviki in Russia, unable to
make a peace with Germany with fast
alking and impractical ideals, have de
serted their frontiers and are offering
10 resistance to the invading Germans.
The Russians are keeping in trim,
However, and are getting valuable
raining in a half dozen revolutions in
;heir own land. They are said yet to
lave five million men under arms, but
*ive them time and a few more re vol
itions and they will not have any.
The Italians are more than holding
their own in the Alps, and their mor
ale has greatly Improved since French
and English troops have been sent
among them.
And on the western front the French
English and Americans are massing
men and munitions. The Yankees are
tuning up on the Huns and discovering
' that they need not fear the enemy.
^! All the way around it looks like a
most unpleasant summer for the kuiser
’ and his Huns, and one they will wish
! to get over quickly.
’| The imports of gold into the United
1 States fell in 1917. The reason was
that this nation already had in its
, borders nearly all the gold on earth.
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v THE SICK MAN
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, I Colonel Roosevelt lies confined to
. his couch in a hospital, yet the dem
[ ocratic press of the country still con
, tinues its merciless attacks upon him.
How they hate this man! What singu
lar ingratitude they manifest towards
him who did more to establish the
Democratic party in power than any
one man or group of men in the na
tion! Had it not been for the Colonel's
defection from the G. O. P. fn 1972, the
Denvtcracy might still be cooling its*
heels in the outer conrfdors of the rap
1 itol.
We rear that our Democratie friends!
are losing altogether too much sleep1
over Roosevelt's ambitions. We doubt j
that he is serf on.sly setting his stakes'
for the Presidency. Opportunity as aj
rule does not knock twice on the door j
of any man; the strenuous ex-president'
has had his great opportunity amf who
is there to say that be <fi<f not make
j the most of ft7 Although it is a Umg.
look ahead, we venture the prediction
that history will repeat itself in 1920; j
that, providing the war is over, the
I
American people will look to some rnif
itarv hero for leadership, and1 wttenj
j such a man is found they will! send!
I him to the White House vritto a whoop j *
| This too, irrespective of the political!
faith of the new-found' hero.
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Viscount fsiSdi is to be- the Japanese j
j ambassador to the United: Stales. He'!
recently came' here on a special mis-1
sion, found out that the United States j
and Japan have nothing to quarrel
about, went home and told the mikado I
as much, and landed a steady, job by
showing he has good sense.
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The Bolsheviki put childrfike faith
in the Hun, Ibid down his arms, and I
will now take the terms offered
BELGIAN WOMEN F0»
TO tABOR FOR GERMAN!
The correspondent of the Times at
Amsterdam writes-: j
“At Blankenberghe, the Germans ^
forced a. great number of servants to
leave their situations and tried- tmcom
pet them to take up the work, of un
loading, docking; apd traaportatiDU for
the army. The young g-iris refused J
and were shut up iiii the- Hotel1 Belve-,
dere, which serve* as a prison. Most
pfi them persisted in- their refusal and
w^re liberated; they were requisition- .
ed again and sent to different places,
even to the Vail of the port of Zee
brugge in order to> work there for the-1
Germans. Daughters of fanners and
the bourgeoisie from the surrounding
country have also been requisitioned.
“The military authority does not
spare even the disabled and ill. The
Telegraaf correspondent qa the fron
tier reports that a disabled man who.
happened to remark that he had only
one leg was told that there was work
that he eouDd do with his hat^ds. A
one-armed man was told: will
give you a one-armed comrade and
iho ♦ lifrt of AOn /lew ono urA> Ir *
“The communal school at Dudzeele
has been transformed into a penal
colony. The building is surrounded
with barbed wire, like a prisoner’s
camp. The chateau near Bruges is
also employed as a penal colony.”
The Rheinische Westalische Zeitung
recently contained a communication
emanating from the Labor Exchange
of Cologne, which said in part:
“Industry meets with more and
more difficulty in procuring artisans,
difficulties that can be remedied only
in so far as the supply of labor per- *
mits. The central intelligence office
for manual labor asked at once that
foreign artisans should be called on
for aid. These artisans will not be
able to replace entirely the German
workmen, to say nothing of their de
mands in respect to wages, which are
very often in inverse ratio to their
capacities. Experience, moreover, has
still to teach us whether the employ
ment of women from the occupied ter
ritories will be of advantage for the
munition industries. The demand for
women workers in the metallurgy in
dustry, as well as in chemical and ex
plosive industries, is very great, and
the supply, according to the figures,
is still diminished.’’
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