THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
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WHAT HAPPENED TO BRYAN
When William Jennings Bryan,
former secretary of state, rose to
convey the greeting of great tem
perance organizations in the United
States to a monster prohibition con
vention in Toronto on the last day
of Fehruray, he was met by hoots,
cat-calls, and shouted remarks of
derision.
“What about the Lusitania?”
“Put out the pro-German!”
“He held back the United States.”
“We don't want him.”
“Saurkraut!”
There were answering shouts of
“Put them out” and “Where's your
fair play?” but the disturbers kept
up the noise. They sang “Over
There,” “Rule, Britannia,” and “The
Maple Leaf Forever.” The chairman
tried to restore order, fact was met
with shouts:
“Put Bryan off the platform and
we’ll be quiet."
"Put him out a we’ll go out too.”
Then a wounded veteran, Major
Nasmith, appealed tc the distubers.
“Boys,” he said, “our men arc
fighting for liberty and freedom in
Europe. Let us have it here.”
But many of the men who were
making the disturbance had them
selves been in the trenches and fight
ing for liberty; and the sight cf Mr.
Bryan as he started to speak set
them eff again. Nothing that Mr.
Bryan said could be beard twenty
five feet from the platform. The
; rent majority in the assemblage
wanted* hihi^to have a hearing, but
the disturbers could not be quieted;
arid Mr. Bryan requested that no
force be used by the police, for he
said that he was not willing that
any one should be hurt in an effort
to make it possible for him to speak.
So Mr. Brva. hod‘to content him
self with dictating a statement to
reporters.
Afer he had stood his ground for
an hour and departed, many express- <
ed their regret at such an occur
ence; but the feeling of the men !
on the street was that “Bryan got
what was coming to him,” and that
the convention made a great mistake
in putting such a speaker upon a
Canadian platform just now.
A Canadian correspondent writes
that:
“Four years ago no more popular
visitor of the United States to Can
ada could be found than Mr. W. .T.
Bryan. But, he says, it is not so
now. The actions of the peace advo
cate since the war began have filled
Canadians with the keenest bitter-:
ness, and that feeling is not to be,
easily allayed. He was secretary
of state when the Lusitania was
sunk and when the honor ‘of the j
United tSates and the cause of the j
Allies demanded that the United
States enter the war. The subse- j
quent disasters of the war and the!
entailed deaths of thousands of Al-1
lied troops and civilians are laid at!
his door. The fact that the United j
States is now in the war is in spite i
of his every effort; and the fact!
that he speaks so loyally now is I
is credited to the fact that he has so j
to speak. Scores of distinguished i
Americans have been welcomed and j
listened to with the keenest interest
in Toronto, but the presence of Mr. '
Bryan called forth memories too
fresh and wounds too severe to be
easily forgotton and forgiven. Hence ,
occurred the demonstration that is'
regretted by all liberty-loving people.’:
The memories of Americans are!
provererbially short, comments an
exchange, but they cannot be so J
short as to allow Americans to for
get the association of Mr. Bryan’s
name since the invasion of Belgian!
and the Lusitania massacre with pa
cifists and pro-Germans, and his per
sonal association with them in public
meetings. Whatsoever a man sows
that shall he also reap. In a world
struggle between those who are will
ing to fight for liberty and those
who either fight against it or will
not fight at all, Mr. Bryan chose
Of., the outset to take his stand
against those who were fighting for
liberty. It is not surprsing that
those who have fought for liberty
do not find him a welcome visitor.
The feelings of the majority of Can
adians are most probably expressed
by those disturbers, but their judg- '
ment is probably better represented
by the majority in that meeting who
would have suffered Mr. Bryan to
speak.
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HOOVER SANDWICH
The latest thing in light refresh
ments is the Hoover sandwich. It
is made by placing a very thin slice
of meatless Tuesday between a
slender piece of wheatless Monday
and a still slender piece of wheat-.
less Wednesday. Camouflage with
a little wax-paper dressing and serve
cold a la Garfield.
The idea is not entirely new, as
sandwiches quite similar to the
“Hoover” have bee:> sold at the base
ball parks for many years.
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COLLEGE
THROW GRENADES
AS FIELD SPDRT
SAX FRANCISCO, Cal.—The an
nouncement that the University of
Washington has fallen in line with;
a numtlr of other institutions and !
included grenade throwing as one of J
the regular field events has renewed
the discussion as to the probable af
ter effects of the war on athletics.
There are followers of track and
field sports who express the opinion
that there may be a revision in the
list of events by the inclusion of
more utilitarian events to replace i
those which have no particular use
fulness.
A former Princeton University
athlete in speaking of the matter J
said:
“The case of the hand grenade
throwing contest is a good example
of what may follow. It would in
all probability supplant the shot put
or javeline throw. The shot put is
not an all ’round developer in my |
opinion. It builds only a small por
tion of the body, confined particu
larly to the arm and shoulder mus
cles of the hand used in hurling the
missle. No accuracy is required,
distance being the only thing to be
attained by the contestant.
“Grenade throwing calls for both
distance and accuracy. It also'
would be a utilitarian event for the j
reason that thousands of young men I
incidentally would be learning how1
to throw a missle which has become |
one of the most important weapons j
of defense and offense in modern ;
warfare.”
The hammer is another event for |
which a substitution might be effect- j
ed by borrowing from the list of :
events used in military games.1
There is nothing particularly spec- j
tacular in events for the onlooker 1
such as is afforded, for instance, by •
the pole vault, one of the most i
thrilling of the present field events. ,
Javelin throwing as an event in the j'
days when men fought with arrows ;
and ' spears would have served the I
same purpose as grenade throwing j1
today. But the javelin is now ob-j
solete. ( , ■ |'
It is rot likely that anyone wants j
to do away with the spectacular, but j1
. vents which are neither spectacular j
nor of any particular use might j'
be supplanted with competition that '
furnished a little of both these ele-11
nents.
SALEM, Ore—The sale of Liberty '
Bonds in the road camps where em- i
oloyes of the state highway commis- i
■\>n work has proved to be an im- 1
f-£tus to greater endeavor in road-:'
ouikiing, besides raish ; . large sums >
for the government, according to ■"
State Highway Engineer Llerbert 1
Nunn. Patriotic enthusiasm gener- i
ited in the road camps of Oregon 1
by bond campaigners resulted in ' ■
greater z.al in construction work : I
and the lowering of unit costs, the i 1
engineer declared. Regarding the : i
increase in work performed, En- j
gineer Nunn said: I
“This entirely gratuitous assist- i
ance given by the men had such an j ’
enlivening effect upon them that I <
am pleased to report a dhtinct drop ;«
in unit costs due clearly to greater i
performances with the eight hour ]
working periods since that time.” !
At one camp the Liberty Loan :
committee made arrangements to 1
vi.it the employes in company with :
the contractor in charge of the :
work. The contractor L. O. Harold, |1
addresed the men at each gathering.; I
axplaining that the purchase of bonds j1
was not compulsory, but that every '
man owed it to himself as an Ameri- 1
can citizen, to buy a bond and
»ssist the government in conducting I
the war. He told them that he had 1
s checkbook and fountain pen ready I
and that any man who desired could '
lave an advance on his wages, up
to the amonut then due him, for the
purchase of bonds. Substantial | <
sales were made at that camp.
E
OF AMIES
(Correspondence of The Associated
Press)
Headquarters Italian Army, April
12.—Attention is now being center
ed on the mountain front, in Italy,
'or all the indications are that this
s to be the main scene of coming
operations instead of the flat river
eountry to the east. With these
operations already starting, it is well
:o take a survey of this mountain
section for its main points are likely
:o be heard of very often in the
;oming months. Already along
diese mountain roads there is the.
dir of great forces of men, guns,
ind horses moving into position, and
i great battle is already on, with
:he Italians on the offensive, in the
Bresena mountain sector.
The Tridentine Alps which stretch
icross northern Italy form a natural
fortification between the two oppos
ing lines, and it is in the lower see
don of these ranges that the military
jperations are now unfolding. While
t is a front of several hundred
•niles from the Adriatic up to the
Swiss frontier, yet part of this
stretch is impenetrable mountain
Teaks covered with eternal snow, and
here are practically only five lines
jf approach where breaks in the
nountain heights permit military
>perations to be carried on.
These five lines of approach or
•cmmunication through the Triden
ine Alps are the valley regions
inown as the Yaltellina, meaning
lee-saw from its winding character,
vhich leads down to Lake Como and
:oward Milan; second, the Val Carn
>nica, leading southward toward
3rescia; third, the Val Giudicaria,
vhich comes down just east of the
vest shore of Lake arda; fourth,
dal Lagarina, which follows the
•ourse of the Adige river on the
last of Lake Garda, and comes down
from Trent toward Verona; and
'ifth, the Val Sugana, which follows
he course of the Brsnta river and
vinds around the Asiago region
town past Bassano.
These five main highways through
he mountain become mire import
ant from a military standpoint, as
hey come eastward toward the
Asiago and Brenta region- All the
hief pressure has been in the east
lications at present are that it will
;e in this region.
The great fighting ground, then
could be along the two valleys on
he east, Yal Lagarina and Yal
iugana, and chief attention should
>e centered on them and their neigh
oring heights of Asiago, the Grap
a and Mount Tomba. Both of them
ome down from Trent, the Aus
rian storm center which sends for
ward troops and supplies through
ioth these valleys to the mountain
ronts beyond. From Trent the ene
ny has railroads down both these
allves.
The Lagarina valley come straight
outh to Verona and the open plain,
t was down here that the enemy
nade his first rush two years ago,
lushing from Reverto west toward
rlount Pasubia. He was driven back
hen, and all the indications are that
le will be held again i? he comes
hat way.
The most important approach is
>y way of the Yal Sugana, or Brsnta
iver. From its headquarters near;
["rent the Brenta makes a wide cir
cuit before it comes down to the ;
ipen plain at Bassano, and it is with- ;
n this circuit that the Asiago I
dateau and the hardest fighting
;round lies. The Austrian railway
rom Trent comes down the vailey
o Primolana, about twenty miles j
ibove Bassano, thus keeping up a
teady flow of men and supplies. 1
rhat is why the Italian airplanes 1
iave centered attention on Primo- j
ano, which is often mentioned in i
he communiques as having its rail
vay stations bombed.
The bomb-swept and deserted 1
own of Asiago is the center of this ,
>att!e region enclosed by the Val;
sugana and the Brenta river. Tha j
memy lines run just below the town.!
S’ear by are Mount Val Bella, Sasso, j
lo?so and Melago, all the scene of |
lesperate fighting when the enemy j
ried to come down the west bank
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>f the Brenta. The river itself comes '
hrough a rocky defile, so part of
he approach is over these interven
ng mountains which reach down to
he river valley.
This Asiago region is cut by two
ither local valleys, which are a most
important part of the mountain
iterations though they are not main
i rhways through the Alps. These
ire the Valarsa and the Astico val
tys, which wind irregularly down
oward Vicenza. Much is likely to
>e heard of this section in the coni
ng operations.
East of the Brenta river is an
ther part of this same Val Sugana
chich is also desperate fighting
rround- Hhere the enemy has made
lis main push to get down to the
ipen plain, and here ha advanced
urtherest, toward Ba-sano, yet the
plcndid bravery of the Italians held
dm in the mountains through the
‘.inter. He is still there, around
.lount Pertico, Mount Asolone, Col
’apriell and Col della Berretta. This
s bloody fighting ground apd it will
oubtless bo hoard from very often
s the operations develop.
Still further east comes the dom
nating massive of Mount Grappa,
lidway between the Brenta ar '
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Piavc rivers. It is strongly held
by the Italians and is one of the
great citadels of Italy’s natural
mountain defense. Near it. rising
from the Fiave river, comes Mount
Tomba, where the French troops
made such a brilliant drive last
December. The enemy has been
comparatively quiet in this region,
ill the indications being that he is
centering attention further west in
the Asiago region and down the
Brenta valley.
This summarizes the mountain
fighting ground on the Italian
front. where there is gathering
activity and where it is believed
the big fighting is going to occur.
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