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EFFICIENCY IN AMERICA
Germany efficiency has been held up as a degree of excellence un
attainable by a Democracy. The accomplishments of the United
States since April 5th last refute the truth of the claim. In the short
apace of time since that day the United States has accomplished the
following :
Declared a state of war as existing between this country and tier
many;
Seized 91 German ships ami begun repair work on them;
Authorized unanimously a war fund of $7,000,000,000 ;
Appropriated $600, (10(1,000 for merchant shipping and as much
for air fleets ;
Agreed to loan our Allies 13,000,000,000 and advanced them a
large proportion of that sum;
Passed a selective draft law and in a single day registered nearly
ten million men for military service;
Enlisted 600,000 volunteer soldiers in the Regular Army ami in
the National Guard of the States;
Sent a commission to Russia to aid Democracy there and a body
of railroad men to Russia and another to Kranee to advise and assist
in railroad transportation in these countries;
Begun the construction of '.2 camps for our soldiers;
Sent to Bngland a Meet of destroyers and to Krance detachment
of troops ;
Authorized and now enforcing embargo whereby our enemies wil
receive no more food or material from uA;
Passed a food conservation law;
Organized many voluntary commissions and boards who are aid
ing the Government and the people in the speeding up of work, con
Strvation of food, and other national movements;
Drafted by lot 6N7.000 men for military service;
While the (Jovernment was accomplishing these things the Amer
ican people have loaned the United States $2,000,000,000 and offered
91,000,000,000 more, over four million eitizns subscribing to the loan;
In addition they have Riven over $100,000,000 to the American
Red Cross and $3,000,000 to the Young Men's Christian Association;
All these things were accomplished while our soil was not itivtul
vd or even threatened with invasion and without any disturbance of
business conditions. All was done with the calm determination and
Judgment of an earnest, patriotic people performing a servioe for
civilisation and mankind and maintaining the rights, the dignity,
and the honor of the greatest nation in the world.
The German leaders derided America's entry into the war as a
bluff. This is our answer.
The German Imperial (Jovernment was nearly fifty years in per
fecting its military efficiency. In less than four' months the Ameri
can Republic has made such strides as to indicate that in less than
two years' time the boasted superiority of German efficiency will
have been discredited. There is such a thing as American efficiency,
and time will prove that German efficiency can not withstand it,
fighting as it is for liberty, justice, and humanity.
A GREAT MISTAKE
The reflecting American will be sorry to h am that no names of
States will remain attached to the National Guard nov taken into
the Federal service and that none will appear in the designations
of regiments formed out of the selective draft. In this ruling may In
seen the influence f regular army officers, but the civilians of the
War Department OUght to appreciate the value of State pride and
rivalry in war. Our early confederal ion of independent States has
long been welded into a nation and we are long- past the era when
State pride tOOg precedence to national, but the very foundations of
our governmental system still rest upon the separate existence of our
numerous commonwealths, each within its own distinct boundaries,
each known by its name, and eaeh within certain limitations fir.' to
govern itself. And eaeh of these separate Statets has a just right to
the fame of the achievements of ils sons in war.
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iNcbruka) Doubt
The value of the stimulation of such rivalry ami the tight of lo
cal proprietorship an- recognized even in England, a country far
more consolidated than ours and with natch leas reasons for local
designations in its military. Yet there arc British regiments carrying
the names of the mother counties of Sussex, Lancashire and the Vest.
We are all Americans first , but We are also New Yorkers, Georgians
Kansans, etc., and something is lost that is ours of right and that is
of distinct value when the sons of any State are submerged in men
numbers, going to war only as the fiftieth artillery or the two hun
dredth infantry. Tin picture is blurred and the inspiration is im
paired. This new ruling is contrary to both American and British
precedent, it is not a gain but a loss, ami it ought to be reconsidered
VOU at the eleventh hour.
SUBMARINE LOSSES
(Cverybody was frightened when a correspondent recently cabled
from London that German submarines were destroying 1,600,XH) tons
of alliod shipping a month, a rate of destruction with which the ship
building of all the allies can not keep pace. It was difficult to recon
cile the sinking of 0,600,000 tons in six months with England's pub
lished figures of increased imports during the half year, but there
was a great scare until it was learned that there had been a cable
error adding a million to the Correspondent's figures. But even
the destruction of 600,000 tons a month is a very grave matter, in
volving threatening possibilities unless our plans," delayed by dissen
sion in the Shipping Board, are carried through wilh the greatest
possible speed.
The scare was wholesome and should have good results, one of
which ought to be an accurate Statement of the British Admiralty
not only of the number of ships destroyed but of the amount of ton
nage. Without the latter there can be no real understanding of the
damage and neither in this country nor in England can tin- public
be properly informed. The complete record is of the greatest im
portance to us not only because of the need of conveying food to Kng
land, our most important ally but because we should know precisely
the amount of risk involved in transporting our soldiers to France.
In proportion as the danger is known the effort to meet it will be the
more complete. The British authorities have pursued a misguided
course ui this matter.
THE PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
Under the regulations of the selective draft registered men will
be physically examined when they report to the local boards and only
those who pass this examination will be enrolled for the army. But
the first examination must be followed by a second after an interval
of training in the rendezvous camps, and it is estimated that the sec
ond physical examination will disqualify fully one-fourth of the en
rolled, who will then return to their homes perhaps to And their jobs
no longer open to them. Manifestly this is undesirable hardship. In
Consequence it is urged that the first physical examination should be
final and complete and to make this possible it. is recommended that
the government utilize the insurance companies' skilled and efficient
force of medical inspectors.
We have all heard of nun returning from the officers' training
Camps after a period of drill, being rejected bv the second examina
tion though accepted by the first, and the same story will be toH on
a much larger scale in the ease of tin- draft nu ll t ill', ijkiiv.lt An
w-rwm ! wvawvtu ci nil-
al examination at the outset is desirable, but. can a first elimination
be complete! No doubt all experienced army men will give only one
answer, and that a negative. Apparently a period of hard training
is necessary in order to test the novitiate snhlii-i 's hawmm at
aiiee and to reveal detects which at the outset, are invisible even to an
expert medical eve.
RUSSIA ON HER FEET
Russia's resumption of vigorous warfare may be accepted as
proof that the report of the internal dissension ami confusion fol-1
lowing the revolution were exati ye rated mul there i.l..ntii'nl I
tirmation in the account of Charles Ed W.'l I't 1 I I xv, I I til ill. A morm-.n
. 1 1 II I IVUII
mission to Russia, a trained observer who says: "There is no auarchv
here. There is only a limited amount of disorder. The people of
liussia under the most trvintr conditions hav cm,-. m ,.vu,..i..
dignity and restraint. Kvery phase of the present, situation is a loir.!
ical ami normal oiitcnm' of natui-ul mium mm... ...i.... : i
and hopeful If only other democracies give help wholeheartedly in
stead of standing by to prophesy destruction.''
The cxairircrat ion was mm in (!.. man ...r....tt ;,. i? ;.. .i
- in ' iii iiu-win Mini uir
obvious purpose of discouraging both the wiser Russian leaders and
their friends in the countries of the allies, hoping thus to prevent or
debiv remedial Ant inn while InKm.tim t.. r,. ....... ...i n .
. ........ ...f, ... naiii vin man iiuei es;s
through permanently disturbed conditions. German agents in the
United States also are said to have done their best to manipulate facts
and false reports of their own malriiio. in vine t..
that the situation in Russia was hopeless. But this effort in the
Uai-er s interests has tailed The n..iv Riiiiuiau i-,,,..,i.i;.. ....
; .......-.,.. t. uwuv h uii ins jeei
ami is moving Hteadih toward ils uoal in suite of umvUahL
ami manufactured hindrances
GOOD TIMES IN THE CAMPS
I he announced plans of the commission on trainina ttmn activ
ities are rather startliuu. convevin the imnnuuinn thui n .1
' ' C I ...wi , WUI "III-
Uier hoys take advantage of all the amusements and interests orovid-
...I .1. ... .1. Til I ... - ...
ew ui e I lev u ill n:ie i n ,,i n. 1 ..... . ... ... I
... ... , ,., ,,,, ,,,,,,, ,,,, .i.iiii.iix iriUUUlg.
We read that eaeh camp will have "a monster thotn" i.uf
Broadway attractions will tour them on a regular circuit that each
camp Will witness the wrestling and boxing matches of champions,
ami even billiard exhibitions in the billiard halls provided; that each
camp win nave a Huge . H, '. A., building and a twin hall for the
Knights of Columbus; that there will be branch libraries, that the
government will install eollegle professors to teach French, Italian
lid other languages, and that intensive courses will be taught in any
t ra te desired.
It would appear that the training camps are expected to remain
in existence many years let us hope not ! and that the main object
is to provid amusement for our soldiers while they are receiving a
liberal education. Vet it has been naturally supposed that the camps
would be the scene of military training pushed day and night to the
limit of the recruit's physical and mental endurance. Of course it
is desirable to have proper provision for the health, recreation and
education Of the troops during hours that can not be devoted to the
all-absorbing business of rapid ami thorough training in the science
of war, but some of these ambit ioous plans seem to ignore reason as
well as expense. Certainly the boys in khaki will not be able to com
plain of the lack of a good time.
MINISTERS' SONS
l'h popular impression that there are more "black sheep"
among ministers' sons than among the sons of the average man is
greatly modified, if not entirely disposed of, by RcV. Dr. Macartney
of Philadelphia in a published assay dedicated "to Wood row Wilson,
son of a Presbyterian clergyman, spokesman for the soul of Amer
ica The popular impression is an old one, going hack at least as
far as Thomas Fuller (1609-1661), the English historian ami divine
who noted that "there goeth forthe a common report, no less un
charitable than untrue, as if clergymen's sons were generally unfor
tunate, like the sons of Kli, dissolute in their lives and doleful in
their deaths," and who explained that it was mrely because clergy
men's sons were "more observed " than others. Supporting a sim
ilar view, Dr. Macartney shows from biographical dictionaries that
a larger ratio of the sons of ministers than of other men attain to
worthy distinction and eminent usefulness
This popular impression of insufficient basis has other causes
than the unusual inevitably attracted to the fall of a minister's son.
ibi of these is that members of ministers' families, wearying of the
persistent religious atmosphere of the home circle, sometimes affect
i more worldly manner than would otherwise be cultivated. Anoth
r cause is to be found in the Industry of the scandalmonger who, in
order to excuse his own evil, exaggerates the amount of depravity
ipp aring from time to time in the families of professional religious
ui h. ,
NEEDLESS JOY RIDING
This country is consuming crude petroleum at the nate of i'.lb,
000,000 barrels a year, and, as the annual product is now only IKX),
000,000 barrels, the reserve surplus is being exhausted. Production
must increase or consumption must decrease. As the possibility of
the former is regarded as doubtful, the latter appears to be a nec
essity. Therefore the Advisory ( 'ommission of the Council of .Nation
al Defense, realizing the need of conservation, has issued the following
warning: "Pleasure riding should be curtailed. People should look
upon their automobiles as necessities to be Mad only when needed.
Not a gallon of gasoline should be used in the present emergency
except for useful end."
Many thousands of Americans, in response to Mr. Hoover's ap
peal, are now using less wheat Hour than formerly. This is a hard
er task than the cutting down of the consumption of gasoline by cur
tailing mere pleasure riding, for all over the country pleasure riding
is done to excess. All necessary uses of the automobile could contin
ue, even regular family pleasure outing might not be interrupted,
and still the Consumption of gasoline could be greatly cut down if
excessive and needless joy-riding could be checked. There are thou
sands of ear owners who are unwilling to Stretch their legs in order
to do an errand two or three squares away. There are hundreds of
thousands of young folk who joy-ride the whole evening throughout
the open season. They may be seen dashing ceaselessly around in
every town of this country, and the observer often wonders when
their prodigous appetite will be appeased. A vast saving could be
accomplished without hardship to any one, and even with benefit as
a result of variation in amusement, if the victim of immoderate joy
riding could be induced to heed the appeal.
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