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J TRENCH < 3#Published weekly at lh? National Campa Kocu* i:n'l,S4U HryO^ ( Sairmaa ? AdvWary Baanl DPyj?^('amp and Location M "liKT B*-*urrKi*rd. Alcaaadrla. I .a New Or t imp Bov.se. Fori Worth. Texas Fort W IA?3*H' '.irlsirom Aviation Field. Arcadia, Fia.Tampa LJ? '-j^s Camp rod;/, iVmlnj. N. Mr* K1 Fare rj? "*v-iy Camp Curter. BattV Creek, Mich Battle < A 'amp l>evenr. Ayer. Boston _*T" ''inu> l?lx. Vrl(h!?tiiWi. N J.. Trrntor Camp iVniphnii. Fort Si^l. (>kla ^Okla'hoi ?? '"inip Funest. Cbl.-kimai em, Gn ChattaE % ^ I amy Fremont. Paki Alto. Cal San Fri | Camp PudkU n. H?rt P. ley. Ivan Topi-ka I'tmp Gordon. Atlanta. (>a Atlanta Camp Grant. Ttoekford. Ill The Ch I'imp tkcrno. Churl'ttr N. C. Chariot Camp Kancih-k. A^osU. Gn Vnjusta Camp Ja k??n. Columbia. S. C Colnmbl ''amp iuhtMtoa. Jacksonville. Ft a Jarksun e fim;- Kearny. Unda Vista. Cal law An ffcy Camp l.er. fVtersbur*. Va Rlchnjo ' I'amp l,rwl?, Taft?m?. W?*h Tacomt ? Wj-'L* Camp I?o?aa. !li?w?ton. Tex i. Jloustor Camp Mr Arthur. Waro. Tex... Waco i / | Cump Mi'Cstlaa. Aeniilon. Ala Blrratng ! A I 'ort 14> I'lii-nun in?l Camp Jensup. | j Camp* Meade. Admiral. >!d .Wash I "amp P'h-. little Rock. Ark Arkansi Cr?np Sev.i-r. i;roenevIUe. ?. C . .Oreeoev ? a:np Shr.l v. Hattir.'sburjc, Miss New til Csntn Travis. S?n Anlo;iK Tex...... An ESBMSSam camp rptoa Yap hank. U L.'n. Y. New. Yc Cw a-; cm -n Naval Station Charles island is C I Marine Station... .Charles Pu; :'?v.?sl Ln'!?r th~ maipHTa of th' N*tlo ri -- Vn!" ?i s; 'i-a. v.-,;h Ihr co-operation of the a ' UNCONDITIONA! __?$E^St wT- C. In the la."t paragrrph of the Presifit ' rEffc, / drr.i's tiply :d the German peace pxo'pcsjls ia a ringing message of Arr.eriji ' jf. S;* * '.king for the United States, the jfclPresident ssys: "If i:. mi s: deal with the military ..,m-prer* ard mor?rct-ic3l autocrats cf Germany now, cr if it is likely to have | A to dc~l with them laver in regard to the international obH^ations of the T :.r._r.y V-e-pi-*, it must dempry', not peace negotiations, but surrender. Nothing can be gaircd by leaving the essentia] thing unsaid.** (4 'I here never was any doubt as to / where the President stood. On November 12 of last year, addressing the , Convention of the American Federa 4p,'^?' '' }' tion of Labor, in Buffalo, he said: ^?<l ?* " "You will notice that I sent a friend ..." ijj ^ of mine, CoL House, to Europe, who is as great a lover df peace as any man in the world; but I didn't send him on a peace mission yet. I sent _ ? - him to take part in a conference as to 4 m bore the -war aw to he 'won, and he knows, as I know, that that is the way 40BBH9 to get peace, if you want it for more ^ | / J than a few minutes." JlJ There is no one in this land that does no* desire peace just as earnestly [GMSSflVr as CoL House, or, for that matter, as earnestly as the fond parents whose only son is right now in the midst of EgmffJyjS the carnage. But the country is resolate in its determination to achieve () 'fj peace by victory. Re ft is one of the cardinal teachings 1 of the Germany military system that ' rji w? ~! peace shall be desired only as a means * W j to new wars and that the short peace 1 "T"y^ "1^ shall be desired more earnestly than * . America desires peace that the use- ? ? ful and productive industries may ~~~~ flourish, that none shall be afraid any ' more. To make peace without the 1 '1 ' J. guarantee that the useful and produc tive industries should be permitted to < ~ V& prosper cr that the fear of the jang- i JpPC_ ling sword should be removed, would 1 rfTjT,* f A be to build upon a false foundation. 1 - V-y When the United States was called i B S~^ jXlT/ uPon by the President to declare a ] 1 W state of war with Germany, this was i "*"S TSPn 3 mcssaSc t0 Congress: i M|ti ^*~ "We are accepting this challenge of 1 ' hostile purpose because we know that i I in such a government (Germany's), i C j fsjh )// following such methods, we can never ' \i Pg Si,I have a friend; and that in the presence \ \jTj nl'!' organized power, always lying i Y in wait to accomplish we know not i what purpose, there can be no assured 1 , security for the democratic govern- l meats of the world. We are now about to accept the gauge of battle with this natural foe of liberty and shall, if necessary, spend the whole ^ force of the nation to check and nollify its pretensions and its power. ?/Hr <K Wr a rr hut nnr of tht? rhammnnt; J A of the rights of mankind. We shall lSC\y r when those rights have V> haen made as secure asN*the faith and fmJ ^rcc<*om ?' nations can make *n k? a(*c*rcss to Congress of IfiMBfr lEg the United States recommending the ^ declaration of a state of war between ^ l i If the United States and the Austro// Hungarian government (December 4, rl-^w* 1917), the President said: 4 -JSJfff?/ "l-et ***** he no misunderstanding. ^ vjjEmffijr ** X Our present and immediate task is to ,v*n the war, and nothing shall tarn \ ~s aside from it until it is accorn*"'.' ;)lished.*" What was true on April 2, 1917, and on December 4, 1917, is not only '% ? - r,_ V ' S^CAMP and Cantonments for the soldlors of the ulq darters hili?on Avenue k City KT BRYAN f Co-operatinr Pdbliahers ewspaper Publisher 1?*n? Times Picayune D. D. Moors orth Star Telegram Amnn C. Carter Times *. . ..IX B. McKay Herald H. D. Slater rreek Enqulrcr-.News .-...A. L. lllller Ulobe Charles H. Taylor, Jr. Times James Kerney na City ck I a ho man E. K. Oaylord km'Ks (Tend.) Times H. C. Adler tnclscn Bulletin R. A. Crothera Stat*- Journal Frank P. aiaci-ennan O-nstltutlon Clark Howell K ago Dally Ntw* Victor F. Lawson tc Observer W. B. Sal I Ivan i Herald Itowdrc Phlnlzy la Stale W. W. Ball ivlllo Times-Union W. A. Elliott gelc* Times Harry Chandler nd V*wa Leader John Stewart Bryan Trlbtmr F. S. Baker t I'ust Roy U. Wataon lornln* News Charles E. Marsh ;l<am (Ala.) New* Victor H. Hansen Journal J. S. Cohen [I?. tl) Kvraior Star..".... Fleming Newbold ki Democrat ?.... Elmer K. Clarke llle Dally Newa B. H. Peace -leans Item James M. Thomson niery Advertiser C. H. Allen ,le Courier Journal Robert TV. Bingham tonlo TJght Charles 8 Dlehl ?rk World Don C. ^eltx Telegraph W. T. Anderson ton News and Courier R. C. Slegllng ton Post T. R. Waring Evening News Edward II. Butler nal War Work Council. Y. M. C. A. of the hove named publishers and papers. L SURRENDER equally true at this time, but more obviously so. Overtures for peace have been r.ade by both the German and the \ustro-Hungarian governments. The \ustro-Hungarian proposal was given he scant treatment it deserved. The jcrman proposal was the subject of ;ome diplomatic "conversations." rhe conclusion of the "conversations" vas a single word, but a thoroughly Vr^rjrpn word?"Surrender." Given every possible opportunity to ?-V?? ?U?* fkaa BMr* rarv.kl. rtf k*inor leaJt with, the German spokesmen ailed to establish a claim. Therefore the message to them, as o Lee at Appomattox, was "surreaier." We have said that there is a sin:ere desire for peace on the part of he American people. We say, with>ut any eqairocatson, that there is no rvidence ox a united desire on the part >f the German government and people or peace. Until sncfa time there can >c bat this one answer, "surrender." iVhen there is snch a desire the snrender will be an accomplished fact. The German replies are their own rommentaries. Always they are lookng towards the new war to which a :ovenanted peace now wonld be but a arc lode, war is the national indusry of the German people because of Ik attitude of a government under vhich they have been subject so long. It was represented to the President I the new Chancellor that he voiced :he majority opinion of the Reichstag ind the overwhelming opinion of the German people. .Listen to this same Chancellor as he addresses the Reichtfag while the President's reply to an ipparent surrender is being awaited: "President Wilson's last note did; not make clear to the German people i ''.ow this -public agitation will end.; His next answer will, perhaps, bring j iefinite certainty. Until then we most n all cur thoughts and in our actions' prepare for both eventualities?first, \ .Udl IliC CUCUJ/ V4 luuvuvg mv ious for war, in which case there is no choice for us but to put ourselves in a posture of defense with all the strength of our people driven to the last extremity. Should this necessity irise, I have no doubt that the German government, in the name of the German people, will issue a call for national defense in the same way that it spoke for the German people when it took action for peace. He who honestly took a stand on the basis of peace will ALSO UNDERTAKE THE DUTY OF NOT SUBMITTING TO A PEACE OF VIOLENCE WITHOUT A FIGHT." 1 Evidently there is great capacity for fight still left in the German government and m the German people. America's reply to the Chancellor is: -Surrender." The Chancellor said be spoke for the people. A very large number of the German people are under arms. Field Marshal von Hindenburg, addressing that large number, said: "Political events of the last few days have produced the moet profound impression upon the army, notably upon the officers. It is my duty to support the government instituted by His Majesty. I approve the step taken toward peace. The German army has a superiority over all others in that the troops and officers have never engaged in politics. We desire to adhere to that principle. I expect that the confidence that was accorded me in thai days of success wQl be all the strong! 110w." It is a very grudging acquiescenc that von Hindenburg gives and be tween the lines of nis order to hi troops is only a very thinly veiled ai surance that the army is ready to gt on with the fight. Less subtle is the Crown Prince ? Germany. Says he: "The exchange of diplomatic note gives mc the occasion to recall m order according to which each office in command engages his responsibi ity when he loses a position or mod fies his line of resistance without ei press orders.** Two constructions might be place upon the word "recall" as employe by the Crown Prince. But it is ol vious that he is abrogating nothing he is calling his order to mind. Hi is an attitude of snarling cotnplianc which means nothing short of delaye defiance. And while the negotiations ar Never has the spirit of"the Ameri can Army heen illustrated so stril ingly ss during the ravages of tb influenza epidemic. Notwithstanding the fact that me were stricken by the thousands; nol withstanding the fact that, in some c the camps, there were daily funeral) the men in the ranks always referre to the epidemic lightly, calling it th "Flu." The daily routine was upset in som of the camps; a strict quarantine wa imposed; liberties were curtailed?be never were the men depressed. They knew they were in the pre* ence cf a visitation and they felt tha the surgeons of the array were doinj the best they could. This they felt wa as good a best as any civilian pbysi cians could do. It was not that the men had sad denly become* fatalists and that the were resigned to the inevitable. The; demonstrated that they were not fa talists when they cheerfully adopte all the precautions prescribed by th sanitary officers. But they were rc ?r Parsons was a newspaperman, a exceptionally clean-cut, intcQiger chap with a real desire to do sereict He was officer-timber through an through, bat he went along with th rest at the feSowi from his dnf board, cheerfully, willingly. His first letter wai typical, loll c the wonders of camo and the aerrici HI. -? itiret'eil igm.sm nimsosan rits iccooa umucucq axsappouitroec at the caliber of men he was Ihioa with. Subsequent letters showed growing discontent, first with thine in general, later with his non-coma an finally with his officers. Then Parsons came back home o a short furlough and called on his foi mer employer, an old veteran of ot war with Spain. After listening to hi criticism of camp life and the Army i general, the employer suggested in bantering bat kindly way that, aftc all, the Army warn fortunate in havin at a time when everything was a wrong, at least one man who was rigfc "The Girl I L '? r pending the burning of TiSages and the ruthless deportation of cmtiana e may have ceased in some of the mora - conspicuous places in response to _ s President Olson's pointed statement. - Yet German soldiers staggered out of ' ttjjl t Valenciennes srith so much loot that they could scarcely make their escape ;! f before the Allies appeared. One cannot but feel that the Gcrs man peace proposals were sent td i y America when they were sent because r the United States was engaged jnst ;J I- then in raising the largest war loan "a! i- even proposed for any people. ! One cannot but rejoice that this war loan W?? not orrtv subscribed, but Kb- V d erally over-subscribed. One cannot ? d but feel that*the generous, whole- -. fe hearted response of the American peo- ^ pie waa a mandate to the Army to 18 get on with the war." ^ To the German government, to the -j German army^to the German people, e we eay, "Snrrender." 'LU" i- signed to this extentC that if they were r- to give their lives on account of the ravages of a disease, they would do ' V * so cheerfully. And who shall say that those in the service of the army who n were felled by the disease are not just I- as much entitled to a place on the >f nation's roll of honor as those who , V fell .iq battle? . d To those that are concerned with e the behavior of (he troops in battle, -Jgj their attitude daring the epidemic was e a splendid angary. - s The men who called the little an- ? "i it derstood disease the "Flu" will think in terms of Heiniet and Btisv Bert has h and will go into the very jaws of death it smiling and singing. g They will see the wounded and the s dead and they will cultivate a new r JsK i- will to win and an undying determina- . tion. K The patience, the fortitude?and the y resignation?in the presence of a y scourge were the products of the disi cipline of democracy. . d Is it any wonder that our men have e written a splendid chapter in the reci ord of military achievement? n ?a man who knew how things should ,t be rim. IgSM Parsons saw the point and backed . "" water; but neverthuess insisted that d he could sec no chance for promotion, A m Cat . IA nn? if ?Sm JRmm it fain rm Jfafc" , Then he asked for suggestions. On , the basis that no matter how good the * material in in "ad" may be, snKn it t- catches the ere it fob, his employer ' a insist fd on being shown how Paraopa ~ '"J n sainted. Upon being satisfied that a "the old man" was entirsly Melons, * .i s Parsons came to a salute which, while d technically correct. Indeed all Semblance of "snap" and spirit, n That was the tarning point JS Straightway the employer insisted c, r upon Parsons throwing everything s he had into "his salute. Parsons sa- a n great light and promised that "stup" 9 would be his slogan from that day on. j i And it was; for, on a day some four g months later, he came back dk !1 "snappy" a soldier as one conld wishit a corporal. eft Behind Me" m
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