Atwood Bee, 17 Oct 1918, p. 3

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OPINIONS. ON WORLD PROBLEMS nations; she bas been obliged to nish a great land army and naval army and war industries army, and iy Chas M. Bice, Attoraey-at-Law, Denver, Colorade. in consequence, cannot 'begin to com=| © z image clans ans pete with American yards in the LENINE SAYS SO. is sounded which chimes 10 perfect peamege tele eS with the recent utterances: 6f es. ¢-a "In order to save ave the p DOV rer of fa! Cabo Tid peasants 3 not | velt. France 'knows £ Speer than remar' London ' "recoil from an atten' with Im-/ we the character of the "foe, which is. in re Pees ye the m Edward perialists." to be destroyed. What she has suf- Hur the United. This is the declazation of "Little | fered, we have only read art SOMe- States Shipping Board. He antici-! 33 " Lenine to rattle bem av skeptically. Now is the: pates German pro 2 thet would -- published in the U. 8. saad | time for America, including Canada, ' try to to raise an ¢ envious spirit Pra 15 ugh pe of the ky conspiracy to betray Russia a ieee ye Mats ae Germany. ta Bolshevist government and Ger-' ; to take into was they are sending their "sons: road by the million, the realization _that Germany is a foe. with who ican shipping superiority. This winter the German aim will be to show to the rest. of war continues the better it will many in the interest of the latter we can never safely treat for terms for the U. S., which, when it does and against the Russian people an the allies. The mask has at last been removed from the two adventurers, and they"are forced to appear in the | open as the ally of Germany. s Ls LJ = To save the worker and the peas- antry of Russia, Lenine and his part- ner are to act with Germany, the lover of the poor and oppressed! They are to deliver as much of Rus- sia, not already conveyed, as they can control, to the war ma- chine for use against the nations' which are fighting for the freedom | of mankind from German domination. Supplementary to decuments published by Washington are others appearing in Europe, proving that a double conspiracy existed among the "friends of the people," the Marxian Socialists, to deliver Russia to Ger- many early in the war. In fact, the _ conspiracy was hatched eine' the war broke. s s Philip Scheidemann, the German Socialist, who tried to entrap French to her knees, we, along with our 'lies, must dictate the terms of pene, AHEAD OF TIME In the official despatches as in the descriptive wri war CO! : pondents, calling: of f the American ad- | vance in the St. Mihiel salient, it was | sta t the American attacking force was several hours ahead of the carefully prepared schedule. This, 'without boasting, is the American way on the eld. The men were tug- ging at the bit, anxious to get ahead and attack the Huns. They were im- patient of the routine imposed by the of war tactics. A jo to be done; let it be done quickly is the American and Canadian motto. "What," "it might have been asked by the onlooker, "what of the enemy machine with its scientific devices and instruments of torture, and its still more carefully divided timetable of ' operations ? What of that invincible { and British Socialists at the begin-' machine of forty years' making that ning of the war, was the go-between was going to conquer the world by for Germany, and the twin-Judas' who bartered the cause of Russia under the guise of International So- cialism. He it was who wrote the program and who paid the a. in- stalment; it was this same Sche mann who wept crocodile ants. in; 1914 for the poor workingmen of all nations; that made a deal wit Maxim Gorky, the Russian novelist, to go to the defence of Lenine and ' Trotzky and their propaganda of "down with the bourgeoisie And up with the proletariat. u s . Documents are published to show that Gorky, who wrote so vividly of the woes of the Russian peasant, re- ceived 150,000 Kronen for his sup- port of the Bolshevists and their in- de- | the goose-step route? There is an ingrained American be- , lief that any man that hits below the i belt is a coward. Germany's four ;years of frightfulness has had the j very opposite effect upon the Am- | erican and Canadian soldier that it ; was intended to have upon him, and 'those who are now his blood brothers. e American and Canadian are contemptuous of the. German ma; chine; and this state of mind is worth many regiments and no end of big guns. Neither Americans nor Canadians will ever place their foe upon their own level. If a German machine gun crew, as often happens, holds on to the last man, they are respected as sistence upon peace at any price. Agreat light has appeared among, the people opposed to German sway, | and no longer wit! there be heard in! any of the allied countries appeals such as have been appearing in Am erican Briti publica' trust and confidence in the Bolahe. vist movement. The whole thing is a fraud of gigantic proportions--the boldest undertaking in many ways that can be found in all history--the wholesale delivery of a hundred and seventy million of people for so many paltry pieces of gol e > Bolshevism, German _ Socialism German-Russian have exploded, and it will be a iong! time before any "ism" paceerpaciad in Germany will receive countenan from this or any allied country. AN INSPIRING WAR. Stephen Lauzanne, Editor-in-chief ef the famous Paris Matin, a visitor | in the United States as a member of the French High Commission to this country, jnvites America te that high mountain top from which she can envisage, without distortion of vision, the meaning of the catyclism which is now drenching the world with blood. After recounting, in an address before an Association of Commerce, the deportation and enslavement of French women and children, th? Jes- 'and tactival instructions. s s. s s So I cat successful nternationalism 'their superiority to their foe in all) individual fighters, and they are given quarter; but the exception does not alter the outlook upon the enemy ole. t is because the Canadian - and Amesinia private. soldier, who are, after a! prime factors in ue the war, know the German as atom in a mass that is insensate ana knows no law on the battlefield, that he is "going ahead of schedule" and will continue to drive forward "on his own" regardless of book rules and of peace, but to whom, after menting end, will be the grand world dicta- tor on account of her shipping sup- eriority. The letter reads: fighting shoulder to shoulder the other great democracies should, after the war, turn. its resources against them for trade conquests o the very kind which were largely instrumental in bringing on the war. If our ships do not bring prosperity to our neihbors as well as to our- selves, our own pride in the achieve- ment will be diminished. Our ships will be operated after the war upon principles which recognize human and natural rights and equities. This is part of the consistent policy of Presi- dent Wilson. It is made plain in his public statements. It is also plain in the history of the United States, which is free from selfish aggression toward either territory or trade. In building her merchant fleet America plans, first of all, to win the war, and after that to overcome her own neglect in providing ocean transport for her own trade. "To this end the 'people of the U. S. are preparing to develop transpor- tation on their own trade routes, without disturbing the trade or rights of other nations. And they, further- more, hope that the American mer- chant marine will play a large part in bringing the neighboring democra- cies of the American hemisphere closer together. Suggestions 'of sel- sh motives will, of course, be cir- culated in connection with the fleet we are building. Every nation lined up against autocracy can be depended upon"to detect the course of such sug- gestions, discount them, and main- tain a solid line for democracy and humanity until the end. * s e s This sounds like a new Internation- alism. It is a rare kind of altruism coming from a nation that was sup- posed to have no other end in view than worship of the dollar. We must have an idealism after all. a | Couldn't Afford It. ses Mother 'was very 'much occupi with the new baby, so father took it upon himself to keep Johnny from worrying Mer by being naughty. He noticed that his obstreperous young son-had the quality of thriftiness and resolved. to appeal to it. "Sonny," he said, "I'm going to give you a penny every day you're a far they have been invariably and have demonstrated. their acts, performed imperiously and | effectively. When the Germans took to poison gas and mutilation of prisoners and] striking terror into captured cities by , ° Indian methods, when they sent to the | bottom of 'the sea women and chil-! dren indiscriminately, they wrote their own doom. hey were out- | -- lawed. The American fighting man_ has! been going ahead of his schedule: since he took the "can't" out of! Cantigny, and he is not likely to slow | up on his own will. What are we) Canadians and Americans over here! doing to maintain our soldier at his stride? Are we giving him the fuil strength of the nation? SHIP BUILDING | truction of French cathedrals and monuments, the burning of cities and America's shipbuilding program villages, and the Berserker rage of has attracted the attention of the! the Hun which carried him, in the! outer world, for it means a world. lust for destruction, even to the' revolution in ocean carrying trade, | cutting down of trees. He said | which in turn signifies intlustrial and | "Our ideal is to restore in Eurgpe commercial dominion, according to | a spirit of liberty, of humanity, but, history since man first learned to! above all, of respect for Internation-' navigate. i |. ignorance, al Law. That spirit will be restored | only when the other spirit of brutal- ' ity, of aggression, of domination, will have been extirpated from Europe. | That other spirit is symbolized by the! Prussiang, militarism, and Prussian militarism must go. | It shall go when the Germans will ' realize that they are not the strong- | est, but the weakest; when they will | realize that they have not to dictate | terms of peace, but that they have to) agree to terms of peace; when they | will realize that they have to respect | the independence and the liberty of | every nation in Europe, great or small, strong or weak, as the su reme law of Europe and of the world. For that we shall fight to the end." s . * . To inspired words like these, no- thing can be added. They thrill like a bugle call. They express exactly that France which, as a nation, floats to-day before the eyes of the world like a disembodied spirit from which nll weak and shrinking flesh has been burned away. "-- There is nothing of hate, nothing of vengeance, but the m determ- ination that justice shall be done, that the murderer m the north shall expiate his crime, not only for |. Franee's sake, but for the sake of Evrope and for all mankind. 'At the same time the stern rote Visitors from other nations here to inspect, go away amazed at the work being done and avhat is in store for| the immediate future. A party of; Japanese visitors to Hog Island | yards, near Philadelphia, admitted that more shipways were to be found in that one place than in all Japan; and Lord Reading has been telling , marine England what this country is doing directly for the war in ship-) building, and what the world may ex- | pect after the war from the huge | program already outlined. American | yards have done much to undo the! vermin submarine ravages of the enemy and have changed the whole! outlook. Building is far overtopping sinking, and that fact has significance to the enemy that cannot be over- stated. i * + What is going to be done with all this American shipping that is being added to the vessels requisitioned and already on hand? hat does the American government, engaged in the business of building sips, intend to do at the return of peace? Great Britain, that held control of the world's ocean freights before = war, admits that phe wil take second place. She haé I hens heavily in in ~ submarine war. it maintain hér navy at "eee peace time strength; she has good boy, on condition that every day ~ are naughty you give me a pen- y. Is it a go aa like to do it, dad," answered the small boy thoughtfully, "but I can't afford it. I've only got two- = penny in my benk to start OO Food too rapid!y cooked loses its full flavor BRITISH FLEET gET TRIPLED. 2,500,000 Tons, 146,000 Men in 1914, Now 6,500,000 Tons, 400,000 Men. if one th F stidutd dome tose it x fectaata hour, | : hammer-head of ile treets ashore. It is four years renvad the battle- to their: war slipped a i station and the British, ae became suddenly one decisive and fix fac- means an open atihatine between | cat this war is unlike all other wars; the allied nations that the longer the| tor in an unstable world. be € supreme task of the navy has been to make secure on all the seas of all!" the world the transportation of men, material and food. Between the date of the declaration of war and June 30 last, the needs of the allies have in- military stores, cargoes whose vast- ness and diversity had never been contemplated nor foreseen. The sub- marine war intensified and waxed to its greatest violence, yet the great work of supply and _ transportation -- forward with never an interrup- ion. The navy, which in August, 1914, had comprised warships and aux- iliary vessels to a total of two and a half million' displacement tons, had swelled by June of this year to asum of six and a half millions; its per- sonnel had grown from 146,000 to nearly 400,000. Of the 20,000, 000 | men embarked and transported, the total losses due to enemy action up to April 27, 1918, had only reached the relativeyly trivial figure of 3,282 --roughly equal to one lost for each 6,000 carried. | drove that strange dog out of the te Old Red Wattles. they only seven," Mary. "That's ys agreed Tom, the turkey that's siteatag is old Red yenen: the biggest one of them The Gray children were feeding the turkeys one afternoon at the be- ginning of October. Most of the flock, which they had watched from the time the little turkeys left the speckled shells, had been sold and shipped to a distant city a few days before, but eight had been left on the farm. All eight had been on hand in the morning, hungry for the corn that Tom and Mary gave them. Now that the short October day was draw- g to a close, only seyen came into e¢ yard for their supper, and all the calling that the children had breath for did not bring Old Red Wattles to join their number. "Perhaps a fox has caught him," suggested Mary, as they came back from the little hill behind the barn, ; where they had called, "Turk! Turk! Turk!" almost a hundred times. "IT guess that Old Red Wattles would make things lively for the biggest fox that ever lived," said Tom. "Do you remember how he i yard one day | "Yes, and he used to run right at me," said Mary; " but he got tired ee SQUARING OF THE SEA. German Map Shows Location of Bri-; tish Navy Vessel. The decrease in the number of ships sunk by submarines is partly attribut- ed, in certain quarters, to the discoy- ery of a German map. In appearance the map resembles the key-maps of the British Isles, which indicate, by numbered squares the numbers of the various sections in the series, only in the German map the land is not num- bered, but the sea is. Off Norfolk, for instance, the "sea- square" is 432. By utilizing this guide in connection with a secret "First quality packing-case, Series 4, No. 432," would be interpreted as "Bri- tish armored cruiser, four smoke- stacks, in square 432'--otherwise, off- the north-east coast of Norfolk. The map has recently been released for Be serosa by the French censor. 's imagination with the . arcs of srkow many other devices are unreleased -to remain mysteries until the war is over. V--_--_--_----ooO "K. of K." and the French Army. _ For a time Lord Kitchener _ in the French Army in his youth. had already determined to adopt a military career when he paid a visit to his father, who wes staying in the | 'north of France. When he was there, the great Franco-Prussian war broke out, and "K. of K." volunteered for | service under the French flag. He served under General Chanzy, the | commander of the second army of the Loire. In the following year he join- ed the British Army as a Lieutenant | in the Royal Engineers. new earth; for the first heaven and i the first earth were passed away; and there -- no more sea.--Revela- , tion, xxi., The coal' of God for the world is Unity. The curse is Separation. | From the loins of the latter spring hatred, famine, fear and falsehood. The man who wrote the words of the text was a prisoner upon an is- land, separated from all he loved by a foaming circlet more impassable 'than the high walls of Babylon. Nat- urally his symbol for all that separ- ates was the sea. When he would - picture the perfect world to:come he prophesied "no more sea." To-day we approach the time of fulfilment. Even before the war we had come far, Rails of shining steel! and wires humming with messages | . were drawing the world together with | unbreakable hasps. Cables were lac- ing tight the continents, and steam- | 'ships were weaving "the ties that bind." This war at its end will not drag apart these tentacles. Its fires, on the other hand, will run the world together in inseparable coalition. | Ships and more ships will weave their web as the shuttle flies, presided over by the wings of a myriad flying host. Beirut, Buenos Ayres and British Columbia, New York and New Zea- land will be one in hope and charity. The watchword of the League of Na- tions, then a powerful reality, will be "no more sea." Only those of little faith and filmed vision fail to see that after this war most of the old objections and a - bitions will be gone. The great to remember is that never have med es in this war is only ghd many what is to conte. rs earnest ThE WEEKLY SERMON And I saw a new heaven and a; the n a;the malleable post-bellum state of | --2 the world what cannot master minds | bring to pass? "A New Earth." But first the war must be won-- | ar pimcinge a and overwhelm- | ingly wo he Kaiser must go be- | code, | ' six, seven. Old Red Wattles was not of it when he found that I was not afraid of hira." When the children told their father about the lost turkey at supper time, he said, "Oh, he's all right some- where! Perhaps he went over to spend the night with Mr. Duncan's flock of turkeys." But the next morning, when Tom and Mary called at their neighbor's house on their way to school, } Duncan said that Old Red Wattles was not with his flock. When they came home from school the turkeys were reosting on the fence near the barn, waiting for their supper. One, two, three, four, five, was Willing to take more interest in the mitsing turkey. "If-Old Red Wattles does not feel like coming home for his breakfast in the eneninee we'll go hunting for | him," said, when Tom and Mary helped 5 to drive the seven turkeys into the barn for the night. od them. By that time Mr. Gray The next day was Saturday, and Tom and Mary joined in the hunt. They visited all the other farms of the neighborhood. They scoured fe big pasture and pushed i e | woods that lay beyond' it. ook sk | eed everywhere and they called and, jcalled. But they could find no one who had seen a stray turkey, and/ |nowhere could thev find Old Red}, Wattles or any fenihers to show that he had.met an untimely en'. That night, when they fed the | seven turkeys, Tom noticed a few | grains cf corn remained here and there on the ground when they drove the turkeys into a) barn.. "I gave supper than they wanted," "I mustn't waste corn When he went to let the turkcys out the next morning the scattered grains of corn were not there. "That's strange!" "Where could that corn go? shut up and the turkeys were shut up all night, and all the wild birds went South long ago." It was a little thing, but Tom thought about it a great deal, al- though he did not mention it to his parents or to Mary. When night came he purposeiy left a little corn on the ground after the turkeys had been shut up. "We'll see if it hap- pens again," he said to himself. Sure ehough, when he hurried out the next secning the little pile of corn sappeared. Back to the house he can "Old Red Wattles is hiding some- where!" he cried breathlessly; and then he told about the corn that had so strangely disappeared on two bie They laughed at him,--all except Mary,--but they had no good answer to his question, "Well, if Old Red Wattles does not eat the corn. where does it go That was on Satay morning, nal all that week the same thing pened. Every night Tom left 2 lit' Te corn on the ground when he fed the turkeys, and every morning it was gone, to the last kernel. He tried to solve the mystery by watching until late in the evening and by getting up early in the morning, but either he did not stay up late enough or he did not get up early enough; and his father would not let him sit up and watch all night, as he wanted to do. On Monday of the second week came Thanksgiving Day. Late in the Mr. | afternoon Tom and Mary went out to feed the turkeys as usual. The Gray family had feasted on chicken pie, and so the little flock of turkeys had not decreased in number. "Look! Look!" cried Mary, "Old Red Wattles is back with the others. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. See" She was right, as Tom quickly and joyfully a: There was no mis- taking Old Red Wattles, the biggest of them all, and never more plump or proud than after an absence het al- moat two weeks, What cow id fit mean ? Bacay pe "Jt was this way," she said. "Old Red Wattles is a wise old. gobbler. He knew that Thanksgiving was at , hand, and go he just kept out of sight until the danger was over. "You may be right," laughed her father, "but more likely he felt like flocking by himself for some silly reason of his own, until he began to smel! winter in the air." But Mary clung to her explanation --and who can say that she was ---- any rate, it was a good joke on oid Red Wattles, for the Grays had plans at all to have him grace a Thanksgiving table. WATER FOR JERUSALEM | lan Beneficent Result of British Rule | | in the Holy Ciiy. | It is doubtful whether the popula-' tion of any city within the zones of war has profite! so much at the, ; hands of the conquerors as that of | | Jerusalem. {na little more than half! ;2 your a eondeetie change has been | effected in the condition of the peo- ple. One of the biggest blots upon the cause his 'type is one of the alloys | 'i. rkish government of the city was that prevent the union of the pure: the total failure to provide an ade- metal. It must be burnt out, What! quate water supply. What they could a goal is that to hold the vision of, not or would not do in their rule of our boys as they swing across steel! 400 years, His Majesty' s Royal En- swept, gas drenched, fire seared pineers accomplished in a little mere What a source of spirit! than two months. preath to "keep the home fires burn-; For its water Jerusalem used to ing!" What a motto to be inscribed| rely mainly upon its winter rainfall BRITISH AND GERMAN RAIDS British Methods Wie Essentially Dif- ferent From German Methods. The curicus and quite unregenerate Teutonic psycholo gy continues to re- veal itself in the tone of German Press references to air raids. The Cologne Gazette writes: "On the first air raid on London in July, 1917, Lloyd George said that England would not reply in kind, as attacks on defenceless people were contrary to the national character. To-day, at- tacks of this kind form an important part of England's program and are openly boasted of." Assuming that British bombing methods were the same as German, it is worth pointing out that the Col- ogne Gazette is here reproaching / England for descending to the level on the banner of democracy militant ' to fill its cisterns, s supplemented by of beloved Germany. i But, indeed, and to leap from the lips of liberty--' water from a reservoir led along an | British methods in bombing, as in "broken the bareiots of brotherhood--! aqueduct constructed by Roman en- | ' other matters, are essentially differ- no more sea" There Shall BR No More Sea, But there are other seas and other continents. The vision and the faith | 4re still necessary, and then the low lying lands of labor ; shall not be separated from the fierce frowning front of capital iby the; waters of distrust and greed. Knowl- edge shall bridge the waves between the educated and the ignorant, and the strong shall bear the burden of . weak, making the weak strong a _ Then shall the tears of the sea of ! sorrow dry up. Whether. we be black or white, brown or yellow, American or European, African or Oriental, the mists of understanding at hung over the dark waters of separation shall melt away"and "we shall know as we are known." The loneliness of isolation shall warm itself on the bosom of brotherhood. You Fa right, O far-seeing pro- phet 'atmos. The daybreak whose t tinges you beheld, the zeal of the Dy oles f Hosts and the earnest-|ed. "I guess you're going ness etter i. hoping mankind |'Hamlej' at the town hall to- night id shall Humanity's sons |he eaid. have peak i spoken. . There shall be "no more sea.""-----Rev, Lyman Richard Hartley, we. EOS EEE Y ! y fae was born. This was not nearly sufficient. The Lritish Army engineers found a group ef springheads in an absolutely | gathering ground on the hills yie' ing some 14,000 gallons an hour, | and this water, which was running to | pastes is lifted to the top of a hill, | {from which it flows by gravity. through a long pipe line into Jerusa- lem. Supplies run direct to the hos- - pitals, and at standpipes all over the city the inhabitants take as much as they desire. The water consum ption | of the people has become ten times what it was last year. The instal- | lation of the supply was a triumph for the Royal Engineers. fe clea' Took Precsutleti He strode into the grocery and issed: "Got any stale eggs?" "Yep," said the grocer. "Why?" "T}] take your entire stock," said the customer. Then the grocer laughed ag" = see "No," said the customer, in a deep voice: "J'm going to play 'Hamlet' at the towng!:1] to-night." | gineers under Herod before the Sav-' ent from German methods, Despite [the overwhelming provocation she has received, Britain is not replying "in kind" to the indiscriminate Ger - man attacks on defenseless peo te; Britain is attacking, first, that most legitimate of targets, the Gurwiah army, and secondiy the Rhineland supply establishments of the German army, with machines fitted with scientific bombing sights. To reply to -Germany "in kind," Britain wouid have to bomb and machine-gun Ger- ; man hospitals, using huge flares to enable her airmen to score direct hits upon doctors and nurses as they car-- ried helpless wounded men from burning buildings. * Four Legs. The class was all attention. "Now, Johnny Smith, what is a quadruped?" asked the teacher. "A quadruyed is anything with four legs." "Yes. Now give me an example." "An elephant.' "Now can you tell me ef any fea- thered quadruped ?' --a feather bed." "Yes, sir. American 1918 corn crop. is ests mated at 8,000,000,000 bushels.

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