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Wj& . / Camp Kuwle. Fort Worth. Texas Fort !
?? Carl?ln?m Aviation Field. Arcadia. Kla.Tampi
1^^ ^ Camp Cody. Deminc. N. Mrx K1 I'ai
yy?- ?" Camp Cuater. Hat tie Creek. Mich Battle
\'S-/ Camp P? veoa. Ayer. Maa< Bostor
,'d Camp i>ix. wrijntstown, A. J trvmv
Camp l><miphin, Fort Sill. Oklm. Oklahi
^ ' Camp Knrrwt. Chlekabmu[i Oa I'hatti
3^ Camp Fremont. Palo Alto. Cal San K1
, Camp Kuniiton. Fort Riley. Kan Topeki
f /. Camp Uorilun Atlanta. Ca Atlant
ERjj>ir3jL /A Camp Grant, R^rkfurd. Ill The C
Camp Greene. Charlotte. N. C . Charfc
Camp Hancock. August*. Ca Aato*
Camp Jarkavn. Columl>la. S. C Col mm
Camp Johaiton. Jacksonville. Kla Jarkw
^ Camp Koartiy. I.tnda Vista. Cal 1 ?oe A
?31 y Camp Lee. Petersburg. Va Klebm
HfiVM/ Camp I,r*ii. Tacoma. Wash Tacom
r ^3tt^RI ^ ??np I-ogan. Houston. Texas Hntmti
Camp McArthur. Waco. Texas Waco
eKGyBWr* Camp McClellan. Annistcn. Ala HirmH
Camp Meade. Admiral. Mil Wixh.,
Camp Pike. 1-ittic Rock. Ark Arkam
WRBB&jg Afy Camp Sevier Greenville. S. C* Green'
W$HM clxN Camp Shelby. Hattlesburg. Mlw New C
Kln|t\ Camp Sheridan. Montgomery. Ala Montr
Camp Zachary Taylor. I-ouiavtlte. Ky . . l-ouisv
BCajnp Travl*. San Antonio. Texas. . . . (
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Camp Fpton. Yaphank. I-. I.. N. Y Macon
Camp Wheeler. Macon Oa New T
Charleston Naval Station Charle
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BOY?MAN
By GOUGH
Publisher of the Hou.st?
"T > ?! m *k?nV(n1 fkif T ran fieht. I
S knowing ray loved ones are across the
seas, far from danger, though my
every effort is for their safety."
An expression of a soldier about to
start for overseas.
Only yesterday he was a boy. with j
a boy's love of pleasure, a boy's care-1
free disregard for obligations to anyone
or anything even fairly remote
from the object cf his immediate
pleasure or happiness.
This morning he heard his country's
call and became a man, dropping
reluctantly in many instances the
pleasures and anticipations of youth
to assume the burdens of a man. To
become a part of a big organization to
prepare for war. To lose his identity,
to do drudgery, to chafe under the
monotony of camp life, to serve a government
to him impersonal to fight an
enemy to him unknown and uninteresting.
To take this step required
every element of manhood?much that
is lacking in many men more mature
in years.
FLAC
To say that the American flag.
means more to the A men can people
today than it has ever meant before
' is no reflection upon their patriotism.
It is a simple statement of fact. It
follows, therefore, that Flag Day.
AJune 14. will mean more this year than
' / / ' / it has meant since the observance of
vy the anniversary was instituted.
jftf For the first time in American
history, Old Glory is waving on Enropean
battlefields. It follows, therefiRSPef.
fore, that the American flag means:
y more to Europe than it has ever meant
i To the Teutonic hosts, and particuitttfggf
. larly to the Teutonic rulers, the Stars
\* y and Stripes have a new meaning. BeOa
i ihr ^orc l^'c war ^a*> symbolued a free
rtMwJWS people, with immense natural reu!'2l&P2
sources, great wealth and certain, mis!J\?fW&
understood ideals of government. To
the Teutonic qiind it was inconceiv-j
able that forty-eight commonwealths,!
federated as the United States, could
?. ever be a powerful nation, as power;
. was reckoned by European rulers.
Kaiser Wilhelm is credited with the'
^ statement that America's power was
negligible because America was a real j
democracy.
/# This same view had been taught by
Prussian propagandists. Their teach-J
( ,r-Ss naa rcacnca r::c cais ui ncaiwni
/ Wilson and, months before war was
3y " declared by the United States, he said:
"Men are sayinf that if we should go j
to war upon cither side there would
jrr jSdf A be a divided America?an abominable
JA libel of ignorance?"
J(^ Jj Forty-eight stars in the flag did
Pj. mean forty-eight commonwealths. Yet
if j* there was but one flag! And it was
JB the significance of that which escaped I
the minds of the Kaiser and his coun^3rf
sellors. They knew that the fortyfVja
eight states were not vassal states and
they could not understand the
strength of the tie that bound them,
<jt)i *or l^c P 55'3" mind had been nurtured
upon the doctrine of force.
To the Prussian mind the fortyJR
eight stars meant experimental def$>/>
aw mocracy. Each state wanted to be
>- represented in the national emblem;
'yEtA eac^1 statc asserted its autonomy.
Therefore there could be no com- >
Sra posite whole. The experiment in de-1
mocracy was idealistic, Utopian, and
the symbolism was proper because a j
federation so loosely conceived was'
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radfiuarters
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-SOLDIER
J. PALMKR
n Post, Houston, Texas
At noon today he is a "SOLDIER,"
ready to fight, happy in his knowledge
that his loved ones are safe across the
seas. He no longer is working for his
government?but fighting for his loved
ones?for his home and his country
with a new knowledge of the meaning
of freedom. He no longer looks upon
the enemy as unknown, but as a living,
-breathing menace to all that he
holds dear in life. He is a soldier with
a purpose, a soldier with knowledge
of methods and causes of war?a vital
part of an inspired force that cannot
be defeated.
There is left but the night of suspense
while he is battljpg over there,
and then the glorious dawn of tomorrow
with victory for a free world.
The fame of those who return and the
glory of those who give up their lives
will Kvc through the ages.
Just now, however, we can but gaze
in wonuci alUU pnut ai ?.??*,
transition of the boy, the man and the
soldier.
I DAY
unquestionably the product of minds
so impracticable that they were soaring
towards the stars!
The American ideal was high?as
high as the stars, if yon will?but no
ideal is to be condemned because of
its great reaches.
The day of testing came. Democracy
was at the cross roads. And
again the Kaiser was shown to have
made a miscalculation. Some years
before he had calculated on the disintegration
of the British Empire because
it had bound its dominions only
by cords of loyalty. Yet when Britain
in her distress called to the dominions
in the uttermost parts of *lie earth,
the flower of the manhood of those
colonies came forward eagerly, joyously.
And what a record they have
written:
So with America! Ten millions of
her men went to the booths and registered
for service, for the ultimate
sacrifice if necessary. They went
with no other compulsion than-the expressed
will of the Federal Government.
| Today no home in the land has escaped
the claims of war. No home in
the land is without its share in the
j sacrifices. Old Glory floats to the
I breeze and with it a companion flag
| the service symbol. Is it any wonder
that the national flag means more to|
day than in the days of ease and careI
free prosperity?
Never was there such a united
America. Today there is no North
and no Sonth. It is one nation, indivisible,
with a flag whose forty-eight
stars must preach their true symbol
i even to those in the palace at Posdam.
| The flag floats in the breezes of the
i battlefield, proclaiming to our strugI
ehner Allies that all the resources of
America, in materials, money and
men, are pledged to victory. The red
stripes tell the extent of America's
preparedness to sacrifice, the blood of
her finest sons shall be shed. The
white stripes tell the world. Allies and
enemies as well, of the purity of America's
motives, that she battles for
righteousness, and with no thought of
selfish gain bat only that the world
may be made safe for democracy in
which she experimented and of which
she is the chief exponent.
"Then conquer we must, when
our cause it is just, and this be
our motto, 'In God is our trust.*"
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Two German I
Kaiser Stari
People of the Teutonic powe
Right on the heels of the "Dear
of Austria-Hungary, came' the r
i. . _ n i I.
wno was uie Vjenuau aniuassou'
the war.
These revelations were wri
when the judgment of another
guilt in the present war, Prince ]
been the helpless tool of a grasp
papers came to public notice. T1
After the publication of his
a Krupp director, but now a n
some further facts of the Germa
The so-called Potsdam confe
July 5, 1914, Germany had deck
Yet the German people we
and that Germany did not take t
Later Former Foreign Mi
Lichnowsky statement and prac
In view of all this, what is g
nearly four years he^has been de
ceived and that his governmei
Pecksniffian Emperor was the ft
Miles behind the battle lines
for his six sons, the Emperor v
Western drive?using, of course
could steal?for it probably was
the Chinese campaign. Then hi
cried out: "What have I not do
The answer is nothing. For
DR. MOHLON:
"I knew Dr. HeJfforich's particularly
i.itimate relations with
the personages who were sure
to be initiated, and I knew that
his -comnmnicatioo was -trustworthy.
After my return from
Berlin I informed Dr. Krapp von
women una naioecn, one o*
whose directors I then was at
Essen. I>r. Hclfferich had Riven
me permission, and at the time
there was an intention of making
him a director of Krnpps'.
"Dr. von Bohlen seemed disturbed
that Dr. Hetffertch was
in possession of such information,
and he made the remark
to the effect that Government
people can never keep their
months shut.
The Kaiser had told him he
would declare war immediately
if Russia mobilized, and that
this time people should see that
he would not vacillate. The
Kaiser's repeated insistence that
this time nobody would be able
' to accuse him of indecision had,
he said, been almost comic in its
effect.
"On the very day indicated to
roc by Hclfferich, the Austrian
Mltiknatum to Serriu appeared.
At this time 1 was again in Berlin,
and 1 told HelfTcrich that I
regarded the tone and contents
of the ultimatum as simply monstrous.
. . On this occasion
Helfferich also said to me
mm (nc naincr iiau p;uuc wn
northern cruise only as "a blindHe
had not arranged the cruise
on the usual extensive scale, bnt
was remaining close at hand and
keeping in constant touch. The
Austriahs, who, of course, did
not expect the ultimatum to be
accepted, were really acting rapIdly
before the other Powers
could find time to interfere. The
Deutsche Bauk had already made
its arrangements so as to be prepared
for ail eventualities
"Since the first days of 1917
I have abandoned all hope as
regards the present directors of
Germany. Our offer of peace,
without indicating our war-aims,
the accentuation of the submarine
war, the deportation of
the Belgians, the systematic destructions
in France, and the
torpedoing or English hospitalships,
have so degraded the governors
of the German Empire
that I am profoundly convinced
they are disqualified forever for
the elaboration and conclusion of
a sincere and just agreement. . .
The German people will not be
able to repair the grievous
crimes committed against its own
present ami future, and against
that of Kcrope ami the whole
hujuan race, until it is represented
by different men with a
different mentality. ... As
a man and as a German who desires
nothing but the welfare of
the deceived and tortured German
people, I turn away definitely
from the present representatives
of the German regime."
CONSCIENCE CONDEMNS T
DEMNS ONLY THE LIA
SCIENCE AN
Vriters Prove
led World War
rs are gradually being undeceived.
Sixtus" letter of Emperor Charles
evelations by Prince Lichnowsky, *
or in England at the outbreak at
tten for 4 family record so that
generation had determined the " ? a
Lichnowsky would be seen to have
mg bureaucracy. But the private
le people learned the truth,
confessions, W. Mtthlon, formerly
isident of Switzerland; published *
n policy.
rence did take place. As early as
led upon war.
e told Britain was the aggressor
he sword, it was thrust upon her!
sister von Jagow confirmed the
ticalty exculpated England,
oing cm in the German mind? For
eeived. Now he knows he was deit
lied, the clergy lied and the
ither of lies.
, in as great safety as he demands
iewed the great panorama of the
i, the most powerful telescope he
i one of the glasses taken during
> caused tears to fill his eyes and
>ne to avoid all this!"
here is the record:
I PRINCE LICHNOWSKY:
"I learned that at the decfadre
I iwneaMntl/ui at Pnffldam nn Jnlw
5 the inquiry addressed to us by
Vienna found absolute assent
among all the personages in authority;
indeed, they added that
there would be no harm if a war
with Russia were to result. So,
at any rate, it is stated in the
Austrian protocol, which Count
Mensdorff (Austrian Ambasaa?
dor) received in London. "-v
"My London mission was
wrecked not by the perfidy of
the British but by the perfidy of
our own policy. . .1 had ., > u"?2mS
to support la Ijondow a potter
whfch I knew to ha -falls nit?, i.,jr . ,
I was paid out, for II was a sis
against the Holy Ghost. . . .
We pressed for war. We delib- "
crately destroyed the possibility
of a peaceful settlement. .
Kir Bdward Grey, throughout
the whole of the negotiations,
never took open sides with Has- 's&\
sift or France in order that ho
Iiugut HUV niipjflj ?J? J
u conflict. "Hurt pretext wan cropplied
later by a dead Archduke.
"As appears from all offidal
publications, wit host the facta r
being controverted by our own
White Book, which, owing to Ita
poverty and gaps, constitutes a
grave Hclf-accmsation:
"I. We encourage <"/i)unt
Bercbtold (the Austrian Foreign
Minister) to attack fiervia, although
no German interest was
involved, and the danger of a "
world-war mast have been '-38pjj
known to us?whether we knew
the text of the ultimatum is a
question off complete indifference.
,42. In the days between July ' ;$|jj
23 and July 80, 1914, when Mr. '
Sazonoff (the Russian Foreign .^1
Minister) emphatically declared
that Russia coukl not tolerate on
attack upon 8crvia, we rejected 5
the British proposals of medtaohhnuffh
Uppvin linlW .'SiSiH
Russian and British pressure,
had accepted almost the whole
ultimatum, and although an
agreement about the two'points
in question could easily have
been reached, and Count Berchtold
(the Austrian Foreign Mill- "pjj
ister) uas even ready to satisfy '-flS
himself with the Servian reply.
"3. On July 30, when Count
Bcrchtold wanted to give way,
we, without Austria having been
attacked, replied to Russia's
mere mobilization by sending an
ultimatum to St. Petersburg, and
on July 31 we declared war OB 1 1
tbo Russians, although the Caar
had pledged his word that an
long as negotiations continued
not a man should march?so that
we deliberately destroyed the
possibility of a peaceful settlement.
"In view of these indisputable
facts, ft is not surprising; that
the whole civilised world outside
(lennany attributes to ns the
sole guilt for the world-war."
HE LIAR, BUT KULTUR CONR
WHO HEEDS HIS COND
CONFESSES
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