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PATRIOTISM GROWING.
American newspaj>ers have
long gloried in their indepen
dence. If there was a head
that they believed should be
hit, they have never hesitated
to take up a bludgeon and pro
ceed to the task.
The independence and free
dom of the press is a national
institution. And it is real.
But in going over many
newspapers, of all political ad-j
herences, in the past few
weeks, we have failed to noticej
where a single publication has
printed a cartoon making fun1
of the President or published
a diatribe of the character oft
en seen in newspapers attack
ing public men. What crticism
there has been is moderately
expressed in all cases.
In the Civil War, President
Lincoln was not so kindly,
treated by the press of flip
North.
The rekindling of the fires
of patriotism in America has
lifted the press and the people
out of politics.
Wilson, the commoner, was
chosen by the people as leader
in democracy’s war. And not
a loyal hand is lifted to oppose'
him, and not a loyal paper tra-1
duces him.
The new patriotism is so all
embracing that it has come to
include an unprecendented loy
alty to the man in the Presi
dent ’s chair.
-VJ
UNFORTUNATES.
A mighty host of good peo
ple in the nation are having to
suffer much inconvenience be
cause they have failed to be
come citizens of the land they
love. They are paying for
their neglect.
Certain Austrian subjects
are suffering most in this re
gard, since they have been de
clared alien enemies
Austria is a conglomeration
of states, and certain elements
of the empire have never had
love for the Austrian govern
ment. Many have come to
America to find asylum; and
unfortunately many of these
latter have failed to cast off
the husks of an allegiance that
they do not feel.
It is hard to think that Hun
garians, Poles, Croatians and
Czechs, who look upon Austria
as the despotic ravager of their
native lands, are made alien
enemies as a necessary war
measure.
It shows that when people
find refuge in America they
should at the earliest oppor
tunity become American citi
zens.
-o
CONCERTED WE WIN.
In union there is strength—
if the strength is properly
used.
Otherwise in union there is
weakness and diorganization.
The allies have more power
and more economic power than
Germany and her allies. The
problem is to get the power of
all the allies directed toward
the defeat of Germany.
That problem is at last be-!
ing considered under Ameri
can leadership. Germany is
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dictator among her allies. The
central powers wage war con
trolled by one supreme com
mand.
Among the allies there will
not be a dominating nation.
But there must be a central
direction of effort. !
The sooner this concerted
action begin, the sooner will
the war end. By next spring
the allies should bo directing!
their fighting energies along
lines laid out on board princi
ples of mutual help with pre-[
pared strategical checks to all
possible German operations.
That will make impossinte
German thrusts like that into
Italy. It will put around Ger-j
many a constantly tightening
band of steel with no weak
spots.
TIME TO GET AT IT.
Tt is not too early to do your
Christmas shopping.
Cordova stores are well
stocked with Christmas goods.'
The selections are better than
thev will be a week later.
Clerks have plenty of time
now to wait upon you and show
you goods in stock. In a few
days the rush will make it im-;
possible for you to consume
much time inspecting stocks. |
Early Christmas shoppers
get the care of their buying ojf
their minds early; they see to
it that*clerks are not overly
rushed; they get the pick of the
stocks.
There is logic behind the re I
quest that you shop early.
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UNIVERSAL SERVICE.
Congressman Julius Kalm
has said that he will introduce
a hill in congress for universal
military service for two rea
sons—to provide a potential
army in this country that will
make it certain that no nation
will ever try conclusions with
us, and to give the young men
of the land needed physical
training.
Whatever arguments may
arise over the bill, military
training unquestionably makes
better men physically. The sol
diers at Camp Lewis are al
ready showing that.
A hundred thousand men:
went to the Mexican border,1
most of them from the national
guard. They were soft and far]
from physical perfection.
When they were called back
from the border these men
weighed a million pounds more]
than when they went. j
On army rations, living hard]
camp life, this force gained ten
pounds to the man. Every man*
did not gain—some lost much,
excess weight. But the aver
age gain was ten pounds.
When the boys came home
from the border, they did not
need so much leather for their
belts, hut they did need their
shirts larger in the chest. They
had better color. And on the
border they were safer from
disease than if they had re
mained in their own homes, so
efficient is the health service
in the modern army.
✓-o--—
When the official, German
report says nothing more ex-]
ultingly than that the battle^
is progressing satisfsV^rilyi
the kaiser has suffered baa
defeat. The worst the^Geii
mans can say is that eWery
thing moves along just ri Alt,
Before? Trotsky went to Tniis
sia to work for the Germans
he drew $12 a week as a New
York reporter. By the time he
and his fellows bring Russia to
starvation and thorough disor
ganization lie will draw lowjhr
wages than that.
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Santa Claus will come In
ships instead of in a sleigh, o
our boys in France. And Saii
ta is already on his way.
-o
Hindenburg may he the su
preme potentate of the Germati
army, but he has never had the
nerve to show his fully authors
ity and send the crown prim.'
home to papa.
-o
One Maryland man will nevt
er again take advice againsi
playing a shoestring to tne iim1
it. He got a leg cut off bv a
train, and used a shoestring to
stoj) the flow of blood until an
ambulance arrived.
-o
For the first time a congress
man has lost the confidence of
a voter in his own district by
failing to fill a request. A
farmer in Ohio wrote to his
congressman asking for speci
mens of all United States
money in circulation.
-o
The London Times was so
enthused with General Byng’s
victory in France that the edi
torial writers neglected to say
anything about binging the
Germans. What an oversight!
-o
Germans are trying paper
clothes. The Kaiser is getting
the Germans into a sack, and a
paper one at that.
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