WAR SHOWS DISEASED WOULD.
What l? Going On Is a Tremendous
hffort To Throw I'oi&on Out
of System.
(E. S. Martin, in June Harper's)
This modern life draws heavily on
?11 resources. Three years ago next
fall an eminent American historian
watched the beginnings of the war
?f all the nations with forebodings
that if it lasted long enough it would
?nd in the collapse of national credit,
followed by the collapse of private
rredit, and then a return to primitive
conditions, and the support of what
life remained by phonal agricul
ture. It has not come to that yet, in
this country at least, but it has made
undeniable progress in that direction.
Up to lately the opinion prevailed
that our civilization, with all its de
fects, was certainly on the right
track, and far better and more prom
ising than any civilization that had
preceded it. Men saw its incompar
able progress in mechanics and sci
entific knowledge, and its apparent
extrication from dreadful errors that
had harassed their fathers' fathers,
and looked for such a multiplication
and exchange of commodities as
would abolish poverty, and for such
an expansion of liberty, order and the
rule of wisdom as should presently
stabilize the happiness of mankind.
But all those expectations have been
rery rudely shaken. Everything to
which we trusted to smooth the pro
cess of universal salvation is now
again under critical scrutiny. We
doubt that this age of mechanisms
will turn out to be a valid millenium.
We doubt that, after all, coal and
iron and copper and organization and
efficiency are destined to save man
kind. We see all the resources of
science, all the products of all brains
and all factories applied either to
destroy humanity or to palliate a lit
tle that destruction. We see the
world that the doctors were busy
making germ-proof suddenly over
whelmed by a horrible disease that
neither medical nor scientific nor
theological acumen at all avails to
check. Raging and ravaging, it
spreads from nation to nation, till
observers call its course the great
est tragedy in recorded history.
Mankind is sick. The war, like any
other disease, is a symptom. What
is going on is a tremendous effort
to throw out some poison from the
human system.
What a Government Bond Is.
The Government of the United
States has two methods of raising
money. One is by taxation. The other
is by the sale of bonds, which is a
method of borrowing money.
The Government bond is the print
ed promise <^f the Government to
pay back the borrowed sum of money
at a certain time, and to pay inter
est on it at regular intervals until
it is repaid.
The Government borrows money in
this way only after it has been given
the right to do so by act of Con
gress approved by the President, and
the terms of the loan are set out in
the act.
Back of the promise of the Govern
ment stands the honor of the Govern
ment and all its taxing resources.
Really tho whole wealth of the Na
tion stands behind this solemn prom
ise of tho Government to pay.
This makes a United States Gov
ernment bond the safest investment
in the world. If the bond of the Uni
ted States Government is not safe,
no property in the United States is
safe. If the United States can not
pay its bonds, it is hardly probable
that it will be able to protect the
citizens in their other rights.
The Liberty Loan Bonds of 1917
are especially attractive investments.
Not only have they this absolute
safety characteristic of all United
States bonds but they are tax free
not only from all existing taxes but
from any war tax that may subse
quently bo levied. No State, city, nor
county may tax them. The inheritance
tax of the United States and of some
States may affect them, or, rather,
affect their transfer after death of
the owner by will or by inheritance.
Another advantage these Liberty
Loan Bonds possess is that if the
Government issues bonds later on
during this war at a higher rate of
interest the holders of Liberty Bonds
will be allowed to exchange at par
their bonds for bonds bearing the
higher rate of interest.
WILSON BUYS LIBERTY BONI)
Subscribes $10,000 "With Great
Satisfaction."
Washington, May 31. ? President
Wilson today joined the ranks of par
ticipants in the Liberty Loan by sub
scribing for a $10,000 bond.
Writing to Secretary McAdoo, the
President said:
"May I not send you personally my
subscription to the Liberty Loan,
which I make with great satisfaction
and with the wish that it might be a
great deal larger?"
TAKE THE LOAN.
(Written in May, 1861, at the out
break of the Civil War.)
Come, freedom of the land,
Conjc, meet the great demand,
Tril* heart and open hand,
Take the loan!
For the hopes the prophets saw,
For the sword your brothers draw,
For liberty and law,
Take the loan!
Ye ladies of the land,
As ye love the gallant band,
Who have drawn a soldier's brand,
Take the loan!
Who would bring them what she eould,
Who would give the soldier food,
Who would staunch her brother's
blood,
Take the loan!
All who saw her hosts pass by,
All who joined the parting ery,
When we bade them do or die,
Take the loan!
As ye wished their triumph then,
As ye -hope to meet again,
And to meet their gaze as men,
Take the loan!
Who could press the great appeal
Of our ranks of serried steel,
Put your shoulders to the wheel,
Take the loan!
That our prayers in truth may rise,
Which we press with streaming eyes
On the Lord of earth and skies,
Take the loan!
? Edward Everett Hale.
Deeds Speak Louder Than Words.
Henry Pruess, of Lucerne, Kans.,
wore his war shoes to Kansa City
Saturday and clattered through the
shopping district where trim-slipper
ed shoppers, overwhelmed with won
der, gazed after him.
Mr. Pruess is 70 years old. The
wooden shoes are not new to him,
as they are to many who saw him
yesterday. He wore them in Germany
52 years ago, and resumed the cus
torn when the United States declared
war on Germany.
"They're as comfortable as carpet
slippers when you get used to them,"
he said at the Union Station, on his
way to visit a daughter in Quimby,
Iowa, as he slipped his heavily stock
inged feet out of the wooden shoes
to rest.
Pruess' reception in the downtown
district annoyed him. He didn't like
the levity with which his patriotic
sacrificcs was received.
"I don't have to wear them," he
said, "but I'm doing it for my coun
try ? not for Germany. I don't work
and I walk very little. Wooden shoes
will do for me. Those who need leath
er shoes may be able to buy them
cheaper because of my sacrifice. Yes,
I'll buy liberty bonds. Never mind
how. much I've been farming in Kan
sas and the years haven't all been
bad. Everybody should buy bonds
and help frea the German people." ?
Kansas City Times.
RUSSIA FIGHTING MILITARISM.
T. N. Perkins Found Petrograd Whole
Heartedly for War.
Seattle, June 1. ? On his arrival
here from Petrograd Thomas Nelson
Perkins, chairman of the executive
committee of a Boston financial house,
said that he believes Russia is de
termined to oppose German militar
ism to the end.
"So long as Germany clings to the
military rule," he asserted, "Russia's
whole hearted support of the war can
not be doubted. To give Russia her
greatest relief we must send roll
ing stock to equip her railroads ? all
the motive power and cars that we
can ship. I was told that at Vladi
vostok there is an accumulation of
possibly 800,000 tons of freight, little
of which is now moving. Most of the
freight going in is being sent through
Corea."
Gone Another Way.
A Quaker had gotten himself into
trouble with the authorities and the
Sheriff called to escort him to the
lockup.
"Is your husband in?" he inquired
of the good wife, who came to the
door.
"My husband will see thee," she re
plied. "Come in."
The Sheriff entered, was bidden to
make himself at home and was hos
pitably entertained for half an hour,
but no husband appeared. At last the
Sheriff grew impatient.
"Look here," said he, "I thought
you said your husband would see me."
"He has seen thee," was the calm
reply, "but he did not like thy looks
and has gone another way." ? Har
per's.
Wasn't Overlooking Anything.
Lawyer (to witness at a l oose trial)
? Did you take cognizance of the man
who sold him the liquor?
Witness ? I took the same as the
fest. ? Awguan.
WHY BIRTH REGISTRATION?
War Makes Birth Certificate An Im
portant Document.
Because birth registration is the
only means of keeping an official re
cord of a person's birth and is the
best proof of his legitimacy, his de
scent, his right to inherit and of the
age for schooling, voting and mar
riage, it becomes probably the most
important record of a man's life, and
what is more such a record is becom
ing more and more important as our
civilization advances. The time is al
most here when a birth certificate will
be required for almost every kind of
service and occupation. With
the adoption of some form of
universal military service which our
country will soon do, it will be this
document that will determine the eli
gibility of a candidate for training
At the present time the United
States is devoid of uniform and com
plete records of the births of its
citizens. As a result many patriotic
young men have been kept out of the
army and navy and. from rendering to
their country the service they desired
because they were unable to furnish
proof that they were of legal age and
American citizens.
During the European war it has
been the birth certificate that has
saved many a person, Americans in
cluded from being killed as traitors.
As a matter of fact, it is not safe to
travel in any country without this
legal authority of birth and citizen
ship. It has been predicted that dur
ing the reconstruction days after the
war that a record of a person's birth
will be necessary for his welfare and
safety. ? Health Bulletin.
Buy a Liberty Bond.
Let us not endanger success by
complacent optimism. Let us not sat
isfy ourselves with the reflection that
some one else will subscribe the re
quired amount. Let every man and
woman in the land make it his or her
business to subscribe to the Liberty
Loan immediately, and if they can
not subscribe themselves, let them in
duce somebody else to subscribe.
Provide the Government with the
funds indispensably needed for the
conduct of the war and give notice
to the enemies of the United States
that wc have billions to sacrifice in
the cause of liberty.
Buy a Liberty Bond to-day; do not
put it off until tomorrow. Every dol
lar provided quickly and expended
wisely will shorten the war and save
human life. ? Hon. Wm. G. McAdoo.
Eulogy on the Horse.
In an eloquent tribute to the horse,
written by that active friend of ani
mals, Mr. George Foster Howell of
Brooklyn, New York, and published
in a recent issue of the Ledger-Dis
patch, Norfolk, Virginia, occur these
pertinent paragraphs:
"On the battlefield the horse faces
the enemy as bravely as the most he
roic soldier that ever carried a bayo
net, and when shot and shell tear and
rend his powerful body he gives up
his life for man without a whimper ?
he utters only the groan of the dumb
and speechless. It was he who de
lighted the hearts of kings, princes,
and potentates. He is the useful ser
vitor not only of royalty but of the
humblest human creature, be he
peasant or even peddler.
"On torment of the horse's ,:fe is
the average thoughtlessly cruel boy
who drives the grocery wagon. The
youth no sooner jumps on the wagon
than the reins are given a hard, sharp
slap on the horse's back and he is
kept going at high speed. When he
wants to stop he hauls up the lines so
suddenly and so violently as to almost
pull the animal down on its haunches.
Many of these irresponsible youths
beat the horse with the whip, and the
welts thus made are always silent
witness of the boy's cruel nature, but
the groceryman is too busy to know
or to care what happens to his horse,
so long as he can sell groceries and
deliver the goods.
"In dealing with the horse, let us
put ourselves in his place. Let us
practice the golden rule. Suppose you
were the horse and the horse the man,
how would you like the horse to treat
you? Answer that question honestly
and the whole problem of justice and
mercy to the horse and to all other
animals is instantly solved satisfac
torily."
Book love, my friends, is your pass
to the greatest, the purest, and the
most perfect pleasure that God has
prepared for his creatures. It lasts
when all other pleasures fade. It will
support you when all other recrea
tions arc gone. It will last you until
your death. It will make your hours
pleasant to you as long as you live.
? Trollope.
Don't feed the birds too much in
the mornings, because they become
loafers for the balance of the day
when they are overloaded at the
morning meal.
OUR HEROES IN GRAY.
Let mc picture to you the footsore
Confederate soldier as, buttoning up
in his faded pray jacket the parole
which was to bear testimony to his
children of his fidelity and faith, he
turned his face southward from Ap
pomattox in April, 18(55.
What does he find, let me ask you
? what does he find when, having
followed the battle stained cross
against overwhelming odds, dreading
death not half so much as surrender,
he reaches the home he left so pros
perous nnd beautiful?
He finds his home in ruins, his
farm devastated, his slaves free, his
stock killed, his barns empty, his
trade destroyed, his money worthless,
his social system, feudal in its mag
nificence, swept away; his people
without law or legal status, his com
rades shun and the burden of others
heavy upon his shoulders.
Crushed by defeat his very tradi
tions arc gone; without money, credit,
employment, material or training,
and besides all this, confronted with
the gravest problem that has ever
met human intelligence ? the estab
lishing of a status for the vast body
of his liberated slaves.
What does he do, this hero in gray
with a heart of gold? Does he sit
down in sullenness and despair? Not
for a day. Surely God, who stripped
him of his property, inspired him in
his adversity.
As a ruin was never before so
overwhelming, never was restoration
swifter. The soldier stepped from the
trenches into the furrow, horses that
had charged Federal guns marched
before the plow, and fields that ran
red with human blood in April were
green with harvest in June.
The new South is enamored of her
work. Her soul is stirred with the
breath of a new life. The light of a
grander day is falling fair on her
face. She is thrilling with the con
sciousness of growing power and
prosperity.
As she stands erect, full statured
and equal among the people of the
earth, breathing the keen air and
looking out upon the. expanded hori
zon, she understands that her eman
cipation came because, through the
inscrutable wisdom of God, her hon
est purpose was crossed and her
brave armies were beaten. ? Henry
W. Grady. ?
SELF TRAINING FOR
THE INFANTRYMAN.
By CAPTAIN GEORGE. L. KILMER.
The Infantry arm Is the main feature
of military force on a large scale.
Civilians see more foot soldiers than
horseback fighters and cannoneers.
No special previous training is neces
sary to make a fair Infantry recruit
out of a civilian. The Infantryman is
all the better for good stature, from
five feet six inches well on toward six
feet four, and weight 125 pounds to
1T5.
A man's force of bodily impact may
serve a good purpose in infantry. Eye
and nerve help in the shooting proc
ess. but the man behind tho bayonet
should be as well set up as a pugilist,
as firm on his feet and powerful and
skillful with arms and bands. Good
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Photo by American Press Association.
RIGHT BUOCLDEB ARMS.
practice for ability and control Is t?
stand erect, with feet together, points
open about one foot, elbows to the rear
and bunds, palms Inward, resting on
the hips.
Various movements may be made
from this pose to exercise the back,
shoulders and hips, but It Is especially
Important for the Infantryman's trali>
lng to take It and. while holding shoul
ders firmly back, rise up high on the
toes and repeat It again and again.
The strain here Is on the feet, and one
can get further results by holding to a
strap or rope suspended overhead Just
within reach while on the toes and
swaying back and forth and sidewlse.
Practice marches nre good training
for Infantry. The long march Is un
like the parade ground march In that
the gait Is natural, one the soldier falls
Into to lie comfortable nnd get over the
ground. On parade the rifle may be
carried In various positions, as ordered,
but on the march at "shoulder arms,"
either right or left. Is the rule fretn
choice.
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