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WHY WE ARE AT WAR
WITH GERMANY
LECTURE NUMBER ONE
Two Bits
* 2.00
. 9.00
. 15.00
A
V.
Series of Lectu-es By Ephraim Douglas Adams, Executive Head
of History Department, of Leland Stanford Junior University
“The object of this war is to deliver the free peoples of the world
from the menace and the actual power of a vast military establishment
controlled by an irresponsible government, which, having secretly planned
to dominate the world, proceeded to carry out the plan without regard
either to the sacred obligations of treaty or the long-established practice;
and long-cherished principles of international action and horfor; . . This
power is not the German people. It is the ruthless master of the German
people. ... It is our business to see to it that the history of the rest of
the world is no longer left to its handling.’’—President Wilson, August
27. 1917.
The Germans As A Chosen People
Tlio inr^otiAn poiioa rvf frhie u;or ic
P.Armon\’c firm
belief that she alone has the right to direct the progress
of the world and to exploit its resources. For the last
thirty years the military autocracy of Germany has seen
to it that this belief was taught in the schools, and today
that autocracy is reaping the benefits of a blind obedience
to its will. German political writing of recent years is
full of the idea that the German people is “God’s chosen
people, destined to impose its ‘Kuitur’ upon all other
peoples.”
“The German soul is the world's soul, God and Ger
many belong to one another. “Germany is the center J
of God's plans for the world." “We hope that a great;
mission will be allotted to us Germans . . and this German
mission is: to look after the world." Germany is chosen,
for her own good and that of other nations, to undertake
their guidance. Providence has placed the appointed
people at the appointed moment, ready for the appointed
task."
“The German people is always right, because it is the
German people, and numbers 87,000,000 souls.” “Kuitur
is best promoted when the strongest individual Kuitur.1
that of a given nation, enlarges its field of activity at the!
expense of other national Kulturs.” "The attempt of
Napoleon to graft the Kuitur of Western Europe upon
the empire of the Muscovite ended in failure. Today his
tory has made us Germans the inheritors of the Napo-:
leonic idea." The farther we carry our Kuitur into the
East , the more and the more profitable outlets shall we
find for our wares. Economic profit is of course not the
motive of our Kulture-activity, but it is no unwelcome by
product." "Our belief is that the salvation of the whole
Kuitur of Europe depends upon the victory which German
‘Militarism’ is about to achieve.”
These quotations are but a few of hundreds of like
expressions, and the last one cited is from a manifesto
signed by thirty-five hundred German professors ad lec
turers. Reduced to simple terms, the German belief at
the beginning of this war was: 'God directs Germany.
Civilization advances only by combats between Kulturs in
which the stronger and God-directed one has the right
to prevail and must prevail. The immediate and present
object is to make our Kuitur prevail in the East (in ‘Mus
covy’), and in accomplishing this we shall also gain econo
mic advantages. This is the first step in our world dom
ination.’
Where does America stand ip this theory of a “chosen
people"? America denies that theory; she denies that God
has chosen any one people as His own; she asserts rather
that there are many civilizations, each with its own merits
and defects, and that to each must be left the working out
of its own problems.
We Americans are unable to understand, or sympa
thize with, a people who conceive of themselves as a
chosen people, chosen of God—a people to whom all
things spid actions, however inhuman or brutal, are re
garded as permissable, even holy, because of a faith in
their superior mission and civilization. To us such a be
lief is direct evidence, not of a leading, but of a lagging
civilization.
This German ideal, when expressed merely in theory,
even though taught in Germany for the last thirty years,
stirred but indifferent interest in other European nations.
In this war Germany has revealed in the application of
her theory a lust for world power at the expense of other
peoples, a lack of good faith, a brutality that have stamped
her theory as involving a return to barbarism. 1
By the application of German theory we were forced
unwillingly, to go to war. But today we know that there
was no escape from a war between two contradictory
ideals. Germany’s economic objects are many and large
(they wjjl be pointed out), but the basic cause of this war
was^the German ideal of a dominant nation. That ideal,
by Germany’s own challenge, is on trial in arms. Against
it we must prevail, or we shall perish.
NEN1AITE GEES
INFORM ON
ENGINEER CORPS
Well Known Klondyker* Are Now
Officers in New Regiment of
Engineers.
Frank Murphy, general foreman of
the A. E. C. electrical staff, has re
cently received advice in the matter
of a new Engineers regiment which
is being recruited for service in
France.
Several well known Dawsonites
are officers in this regiment, among
them O. B. Perry, former general
manager for the Guggenheim inter
ests in Dawson, and Raymond E.
Franklin, electrical engineer for the
Yukon Gold Co., in Dawson.
Mr. Murphy has made application
for enlistment in this new regiment,
the details of organization being in
a letter which is as follows:
Mining Service.
1. The Engineer corps of the
United States army has been author
ized to raise, by voluntary enlist
ment, a special Mining regiment, to
consist of six companies of 250 men
each, to be known as the 27th En
gineers, National army. This regi
ment is now being recruited. The
first company has been formed and
is in training at Camp Meade, Md.
2. This regiment is to be made
up entirely of picked men from the
various mining sections of the coun
try. All trades and occupations in
and around a mine will be repre
sented and each company will have
a sufficient number of men skilled
in each trade to enable it to operate
as a unit.
3. The work to be done is purely
military in character and what is
known as “first line” work. It con
sists of the preparation of under
ground shelters for the fighting
troops and the placing of explosive
mines. This work requires a high
degree of skill in rapid tunneling
construction and involves the hand- i
ling of all sorts of material from1
clay and chalk to hard rock. In
addition to the regular engineer
equipment, each company will be
provided with special tools such as
tunneling and boring machines, com
pressors, drilles, hoists, lighting sets.
4. While most of the work of the
27th Engineers will be underground
mining, the regiment will be trained
to fight as well as to mine. The
commanding officer will be a regular
army engineer officer, the remain
ing officers of the regiment being
largely drawn from the mining en
gineers who have volunteered their
services and who have been given 1
the necessary training at the officers’ j
training camps.
5. All men who volunteer for
this service will be enlisted as pri
vates, but those who show them
selves qualified will be raised to the
grade of non-commissioned officer, j
Any recruiting officer will enlist
men for this regiment, but each man
must show proper qualifications by
way of experience and pass the usual
examination. All men between the
ages of 18 and 41 are eligible for j
enlistment, if not actually drawn on
the draft. The inclosed sheet gives j
full particulars of the service and:
instructions for enlistment.
6. The 27th Engineers offers a
great opportunity for the miners of
this country to show their skill and
courage. Any experienced mining
man who wants first line service in
France is urged to enlist at once.
Experienced miners, both hand
and machine drillers, muckers, tram
mers, timbermen, tracklayers, pump
men, hoistmen, blacksmiths and tool
sharpeners, electricians, machinists,
carpenters, surveyors, time-keepers,
cooks, shift bosses, mine foremen
and topmen, are wanted to enlist in
the 27th Engineers (Special Mining
Regiment.)
All men are enlisted as privates
and from such will be chosen the
following for each company, who
are paid as follows, the below scale
for service abroad:
No.
First Sergeant 1 $60.00
Sergeant, first class 4 - 60.00
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GENERAL ADMISSION 25c RESERVED SEATS 50c
Supply Sergeant
Mess Sergeant
Stable Sergeant
Sergeant
Corporal
Horseshoer
Saddler
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Cook
Bugler
Private,first class
Private
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132
51.20
51.20
51.20
51.20
40.80
44.00
40.20
40.20
44.00
33.00
36.60
33.00
Master Engineer, senior grade
96.00 :
Master Electrician, junior
84.00
1
60.00
60.00
grade
Battalion Sergeant
Major
Batallion Supply Sergt. 1
N. B.—The last four mentioned
non-commissioned officers belong to
the batallion headquarters.
After a man has enlisted he is
clothed, fed. sheltered, and trans
ported at the expense of the United
States army. Pay as show in the
above table is practically clear
money.
Instructions.
Go to the nearest recruiting office
and enlist for the 27th Engineers,
Camp Meade, Md.
FOOD ADMINISTRATION
EXPECTS DROP IN THE
PRICE OF RICE
Lower prices for rice is the pros
pect by early April, according to
an announcement by the United
States food administration.
The cause for the advance in rice
prices is attributed to the fact that
most rice mills have been running
to full capacity in order to supply
the demand for 1 million bags for
our fighting forces and the Allies.
As a result the normal supply for
home consumption has been tempo
rarily reduced.
Erroneous Report of Shortage
This fact has given rise to the
erroneous report that there is a
shortage of rice in the United States.
Based on the distribution figures' for
the months of February to July,
1917, and the available supply of
rough and cleaned rice on hand on
February 1, 1918, after deducting
the 1,000,000 bags purchased for
export to Europe, there is still an
apparent surplus of 1,457,498 bags.
This surplus of approximately 150,
000,00 pounds is ample for our
domestic purposes.
Advices received from Fairbanks
this morning tell of the departure
from the upper town of Dr. A. A.
Kennison, the well known optician,
who is coming to Nenana to attend
to local eye needs. He is making
the trip down river with the Mala
mute Kid, and should be here to
morrow night.
OVER THE ICE
GARDEN SEED
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SCHOOL ELECTION IS
BEING HELD TODAY
Up to two o’clock this afternoon,
only thirty-eight voters had regis
tered their votes at the polling booth,
for the school election which is being
held for the purpose of electing
three directors for the school board.
Five of the voters wer ladies. The
polling place is at the fire hall.
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