THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1920
REPUBLICAN TICKET
For President—
WARREN G. HARDING.
For Vice President—
CALVIN COOLIDGE.
For Delegate to Congress—
DAN SUTHERLAND.
For Attorney General—
JOHN RUSTGARD
For Senator—
E. E. CHAMBERLAIN.
For Representatives—
A. E. LATHROP
JOS. H. MURPHY
R. E. ELSNER
A. H. FRAME.
For Road Commissioner—
GUST JOHNSON
WHAT AMERICANISM MEANS,—
THE GENERAL WELFARE
Americanism means serving,
through government, the general wel
fare, rather than the selfish aims and
ends of groups, classes, elements or
individuals.
The system of organizing groups
and crowds and gangs of people,
schemes hatched in the special inter
ests of some one particular element,
at the sacrifice of the general inter
ests, is a violation of the fundamental
principle of Americanism.
The man or woman to whom ‘he
general welfare is not more important
than the attainment of the immediate
selfish ends of the particular group
to which he or she belongs, is not a
good American, because not possessed
by the true spirit of Americanism.
Government by bullyragging, gov
ernment by threat, government by
fear, as against the common good, has
been the constantly increasing men
; ace by w'hich, now, the very life of
this republic is threatened.
Class loyalty, group loyalty, gang
loyalty, racial loyalty, loyalty to dy
nasties or persons rather than prin
ciples, as opposed to loyalty to gov
ciixiiiciiL uAiatmg iur Lilt? service oi
all, without regard to caste or class,
is the curse of European civilization.
A larger fealty to the common good
is what Americanism stands for. It
is what Republicanism stands for, if
this nation is to be saved from the
form of civil war which arises from
the continuous battle of classes, with
in and without the law, for advantage
attained at the sacrifice of the prin
. ciples of equity in human relation
ship fundamental in a real republic.
Europe is a crazy quilt of warring
tribes, races, tongues, each hating
and ready to fight the others. Its
age-old religious and racial antag
onisms, its class and caste divisions,
its commercial and dynastic jealous
ies and rivalries, are the things that
have kept it and will keep it at war
so long as they persist, regardless of
scraps of paper or leagues of nations
founded upon grandiloquent phrases.
Here in America we have a govern
ment whose national motto is “Out of
many, one.” Out of man races, re
ligions, classes, groups, one people;
one union, indivisible, now and for
ever.
To lose that ideal would be to lose
America. *
Yet many forces are at work seek
ing to destroy that for which this
republic was founded and has to this
time been maintained by the brave
and the great who have fought and
wrought that this nation might be
born and live in the fulfillment of its
mission.
There are those who would Euro
peanize America; They would involve
it in the tangled web of European in
trigue which we have had no part ip
weaving and which would enmesh us
only to our own destruction.
Then they would transplant here
the same system of caste and class
and warring groups that is keeping
Europe face to face with civil as well
as international war.
They are preaching here the gospel
that every element, every occupaton,
every “class,” should hate and fight
and opress the others; and that the
purpose of every such class should
be to seize the government and use it
as a means of oppressing, undoing and
even exterminating the others.
Those who preach, and those who
accept, such a gospel, are traitors to
a representative Republic in the true
sense of that term, little understood
anywhere in the world beyond the
borders of the United States.
Now is a time for standing true to
the real, underlying, fundamental and
eternal truths of American Republi
canism and Republican Americanism.
The Republican party must stand
forth as the apostle of this historic
conception of Americanism.
It must boldly fight for it if this
nation is to be saved.
The perils of the time are not
i imaginary. We are face to face with
j them.
The nation will survive them. But
J only through the patriotic, the de
| voted, the consecrated service of men
| who comprehend and love and are
S willing, regardless of immediate conse
i quences, to battle for the true Ameri
canism of Washington, of Lincoln, of
Roosevelt and of the millions, who
have stood by and with them in all
that they did to the great end that
“Government of the people,
“By the people, for the people,
“Shall not perish from the earth.”
GERMANS IN SAMOA
ARE TO BE DEPORTED
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, July
1 (by Associated Press).—It is under
1 stood that the Germans in Samoa are
! soon to be deported. Police lately
sent from the dominion to the islands
are to assist in this process. It ;s
also understood that the New Zealand
authorities are to take over the Ger
man cocoanut and other plantations
in Samoa, valued at about $5,000,000
and that by way of compensation this
amount is to be deducted from New
Zealnd’s share of the German war in
demnity,
MUCH SPECULATION IN
RUMANIAN OIL LAND
BUCHAREST, July 1 (by Associat
ed Press).—Despite the heavy spec
ulation in oil land and oil property
now going on in Rumania, expert oil
men say that it will take at least five
years for this country to properly
develop such prospects. The specu
lators are merely selling prospects to
e^ach other rather than developing
the property.
The oil production in 1919 was
917,999 tons which was less than fifty
per cent of the pre-war production of
the oil fields. The amount of oil
shipped out of Rumania in March
1920, for example, was 5,278 tons,
which indicates the difficulty of get
ting the oil transported.
There is one small pipe line which
runs from the oil fields to Constanza.
There are about 2,000 tank cars
which might be operated. It takes
two years to drill a well, it costs ten
times as much now as before the war,
the oil transportation is bad, and the
government puts many restrictions on
the export of oil.
FILIPINOS OPPOSED TO
DOCTRINE OF SOVIETS
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MANILA, July 1 (by Associated
Press).—The eighth annual meeting of
the labor congress of the Philippine
islands went on record as opposed tp
the doctrines of Bolshevism. The con
gress also adopted resolutions favoring
an eight-hour day and woman suffrage.
Jacino Manahan (Filipino), secre
tary of of the congress, explaining the
action of the meeting, said:
“The question of Bolshevism was
brought before the congress for the
purpose of sounding the opinions oi
the members and it was completely
rejected. The doctrine was rejected
because it is against a democratic
form of government, because it is in
favor of and is practicing compulsory
or forced labor, which is against the
eight-hour demand of Filipino labor
ers, and because Bolshevism requires
obligatory military service.
“The Filipino laborer, being a pac
ifist, is in favor of the abandonment oi
war.”
The congress also favored cornpul
sory attendance of children and op
posed the participation of the labor
congress in any political movement
except “when any such movement en
dangers the welfare of the labor ele
ment.”
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X-Ray Fai s to Save
Burglar From Prison.
Los Angeles. — When Fred
Wyatt appeared before Judge
Frank Willis, having been sen
tenced for burglary three dif
ferent times previou'dy, he dis
played a little lump en his head
and said he knew he had a brain
depression that caused his diffi
culties. He asked for an X-ray
examination of his brain. On or
der of Judge Willis an X-ray was
taken at the counry (hospital
and later returned to Judge
Willis. His brain uas reported
normal.
“There’s someth if)*- there that
maues me steal,” .-aid the de
fendant when shown the X-ray
pi ate.
“I wish we couul take an
N-tay that would show the men
tal peculiarities of people that
make them do wrong, but we
can't,” remarked Judge Willis, as
he sentenced Wyatt to San
Quentin for from one to five
years, with a previous sentence
Of ten years for other offenses
tdded to it.
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GIVES LIFE TO SAVE DOG
Iowa Boy Is Drowned While Attempt
ing to Rescue Pet From
Icy Waters.
Des Moines, la.—Lester Wilson, ten
year-old son of Harry Wilson of Val
ley Junction, gave up his life in an ef
fort to save his pet dog. The dog
went through the ice over Coon River,
Lester was drowned in an effort to
save him.
Lester and two other boys wex*e
coasting down the bank "of the river.
The other boys broke through the ice
and Lester’s dog jumped in after them,
The boys scrambled out, but the dog
could not get a foothold.
The Wilson boy reached out to grab
his pet and losing his balance plunged
headlong into the river under the
ice.
The dog dived beneath the ice when
he saw his master disappear, but was
nulh''1 out hv tTw* ntber bovs.
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