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WHY WE ARE AT WAR
WITH GERMANY
LECTURE NUMBER FOUR
A Serie* of Lectu-e* 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 practices
and long-cherished principles of international action and honor; . . This
power is not the German people. It is the ruthless master of the German
. neople. ... 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.
HERMAN RUTHLESSNESS AN INCULCATED
BARBARISM
A government assorting its riff hi to conquer the world, de
nying any duty except that of increasing its own power, and
a people drilled in this theory, produce a nation whose acts hor
rify humanity. Yet those acts are hut the logical result of a
ruthlessness in war deliberately planned. It was at first said
hv Americans: ”1 es, then* arc occasional Herman atrocities, no
doubt, hut so tln-re are in every war." \Ye know that cruelty
and barbarism are a definite part of tin* Herman method of
making war.
First the teachers and professors: "When* Herman soldiers
had to seize the incendiary torch, or even to proceed to the
slaughter of citizens, it was only in pursuance of the rights of
war." One single highly cultured Herman warrior represents
a higher intellectual and moral life-value than hundreds of the
raw children of nature whom England and France, Russia and
Italy, oppose to them." "Even if there were no question of
vengeance. . . the mime of opinisiny tin <l< relopmeut of tier
munii is so great that the most trenchant measures are scarcely
a sufficienfl punishment for it." The more pitiless is the roe
rirtis. the greater is the security of the ensuing peace. In the
days of old. conquered peoples were completely annihilated.
Todav that is ph ysieull y impractabh*. but one can imagine
conditions which should approach very closely to total destruc
tion."
Next the army officers: "By steeping himself in military
history an officer will la* able to guard himself against exces
sive humanitarian notions; it will teach him that certain severi
ties are indispensable to war. nay, more, that the only true
humanity very often lies in a ruthless application of them."
"The warrior has nets! of passion. It must not . . la* regarded
as a necessary evil; nor condemned as a regrettable conse
quence of physical contact nor must we seek to restrain it and
curb it as a savage and brutal force."
Last the clergy: one incident, and one quotation from an ad
dress on the Sermon on the Mount is enough for Americans.
"Whoever can not prevail upon himself to approve from the
bottom of his heart the sinking of the Lu-situnin, . . and give
himself tip to honest delight at this victorious exploit of Her
man defensive jmwer—him we judge to he no true Herman.
Herman teaching has borne fruit and the world is aghast.
Yet we have become so accustomed to "Herman atrocities" that
some of our horror at them has waned. It is wiser to remember
Volumes are needed to list, merely, flu* /»'«dV/ cases of bar
barity—for Gennauy by refusing investigation through a neu
tral jury proposed by Cardinal Merrier, has confessed guilt.
No, rather she acknowledges the acts charged against her and
glorifies them.
Rut let us not for yet that Herman soldiers, in 1914 with no
restraint, raped the women of Belgium and France in the first
advance; that they placed screens of children before them; that
they executed, as a wmrniuy against a feared Belgian rising, fifty
Catholic priests and thousands of innocent citizens; that they
gave themselves up “in a hundred different places, to plunder
ing, ince.ndiarism, imprisonment, massacres and sacrileges"
i Cardinal Merrier)-; that in France they have deliberately
made a desert of territory in retreat with an object, not of this
war, but of destroying productivity for at least a generation
to come; that Her many openly applauded Turkey upon the mas
sacre of nearly one-half the population of Armenia; that Ger
many, by the cruel starvation anti deportation of conquered
populations is attempting to ‘‘Germanize** the lands of Poland
and Russia; that she torpedoes hospital ships with “defenseless
beings, wounded or mutilated in war. and women who are de
voting themselves to the work of relief anti charity” I protest of
the International Red Cross Committee at Geneva!; that no
other government, in the world's history, ever ordered or ap
proved a Lusitunhi.
This war is lost, and a yrenter trill follow it. unless it is
fouyht to the point where Germany knows for all time that
such arts are, in the end. fatal to the government that commits
them. « ... i
utunuutmo flnt
REPORTED 10 THE
L HERE
Sixty Name* on Delinquent Li»t:
Must File Thei- Que»tionnaire
Before Date Specified.
The following list of draft de
linquents was turned over to the
United States marshal’s office yes
terday by the local boaH •
Local Board No. 19, City of Ne
nana, Alaska:
To Deputy Marshal, Nenana Alaska.
There is hereby certified the fol
lowing list of tht names and ad
dresses of persons who have been
duly notified to file with the Local
Board the questionnaire required by
the regulations promulgated by the
president of the United States un
der authority grant'd r.y Act of
Congress approved May Id, 1917...
and who have failed to file such
questionnaire.
Under authority of Section 6 of
the Act of May 18, 1917, and by
Section 130 of Selective Service
Regulations, you are required im
mediately to vist in person or
through deputies each person whose
name appears on this list, to locate
such persons within 5 days of the
date hereof, exclusive of Sundays
and legal holidays, you shall re
port to this Local Board all infor
mation you may have obtained con
cerning such delinquent registrants.
Further information and descrip
tion concerning these persons is
available in the records of this
Local Board.
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April 3,
Name
Abram Gutciaff
Thomas Brown
Joseph Phair
Fred Chivenkoff
Alek Boloff
Samuel Rosenbluth
Arthur Bunnie Shea
Gus John Hahn
Audulgaery Darchieff
George Buick Walker
Lester Boyce Earhart
Milan Gryak
Jarry John Bardes
Jack Jadoff
Louis Paul Rapps
Michel Saraff
Ehrich Eichel
Maik Kossoff
Oscar Berg
Mike Gasoff
Aldis Meier Gerhardson
Thukididis Koulouris
Gustav A1 Gerhardson
Alex Gagoff
Herbert Willford Miller
Axel Larson
Arthur Gawne
William Arthur Young
Robert Grighton Innes
Joseph Kuderna Milo
Wm. J. Wain wright
Jack Cambul
Sam Hamloff
Henry McPhee
Matt Ostovich
Jim Couff
Alex Fred. Frederickson
Sam Gagoff
Oscar Witalis Johnson
Jack Zoloff
Abo Gimoff
James Riley
Frank Graydon Sherrard
James Howard
Andrew Sorokovikoff
Louis Jacobson
Carl Ortoff
Thomas Laconi
Henry Joseph Green
Finan Daniel Delaney
Alex Gaboff
Christian M. Mortensen
Fred Gush
Jim Kadoff
Frank Weisel
Daniel Juretich
Alex Menzaeff
Earl Hagen Foster
Arne Arneson
1918
HOWARD P. CURTIS,
Member of Local Board
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NATIVE YOUTHS
Articles made by boys and girls
at the Indian school at Susitna sta- |
tion, under the direction of Miss '
Katherine G. Kane, the teacher, I
were received in Anchorage recently
by Arthur H. Miller, superintendent
of Indian schools in the southwest
em district of Alaska under the
federal bureau of educalion, and
were sold at auction at a meeting
of the Young Men’s Christian asso
ciation. Every article was actioned :
separately and $1 of the amount ,
was applied to the purchase of a
membership card in the American
Red Cross and the remainder, if
any, of the selling price, went to
the maker.
The articles included moccasins,
plain and fur-lined, souvenir snow
shoes, fur-lined slippers, wall pock
ets, diminutive baby slippers, money
pouches, belts and ladies’ work
packets made of the intestines of
the hair seal, which were caught by
the natives in the Susitna river. j
Superintendent Miller in comment
ing on the work of the natives, said
that if given the opportunity to un
derstand the aims of America in the .
world war, the natives of Alaska
would gladly do their share and that
the desire on the part of the natives
of Susitna station to express their
willingness to aid is illustrative of,
a similar desire by the Indians in ;
other parts of the territory.
There are about twenty-eight na
tives in the school at Susitna sta
tion and all of them are taking a
keen interest in the" class work .
ELECTRIC PUMPS
DECK PUMPS
FORCE PUMPS
PITCHER PUMPS
WELL POINTS
Lang and Toledo
RANGES
JUST ARRIVED
Tanana Sheet Metal Works
13
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OVER THE ICE
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COLAND IN FAIRBANKS;
STARTS BACK TOMOROW
The Koland stage, which left Ne
lana several days ago. reached Fair
>anks late yesterday afternoon and
s scheduled to start on the return
rip tomorrow morning. It should
■each Nenana on Monday, fast trav
*1 being impossible at present owing
o trail conditions.
TRAVEL ON THE RIVER
IS MORE POPULAR NOW
Fred Kiel, the Totatllnika fox
, farm man, who was in Nenana to
! day on a business visit, reports that
' the river trail between Nenana and
Fairbanks is more popular now
among mushers and dog teams than
at any time this winter. This is
largely due to the fact that the
Coldstream route has been rendered
difficult by wind and snow.
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