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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 20, 1917)
AUJANCM HBRA1D, THURSDAY. SHPT. ' IftIT the ALLIANCE HERALD Lloyd 0. TbomM, Editor John W. Thomiu. Associate Editor Oeorge Edick. City Editor Published Ererjr Thursday by THE HERALD PUriLlSHINO COMPANY Incorporated Lloyd C Thouuu, President J. Carl Thomas, Vice Pres John W. Thomas, Secretary Kntcr at tho post omn at Alliance. Nebraska, ofr transmis sion through the mails as Moond-clajui matter SUBSCRIPTION PR ceTS rorliiT y kaTTin advance if your copy of Tin- Herald loe not reach you rejrularly or sat isfactorily, you should phone 'J40 or drop a card to the office. The best of service is what we are anxious to Rive, so don't hesitate to notify us without delay when you miss your paper. TMTERN ATIONAL SLACKERS There are satisfactory reasons behind the nrnnnaitinn tn Arf .11 w g - J' ww IV " M & Qll all. - 1 who have lived in this country one year, except the subjects of vtcrmany aim ner allies wno arc exempt hy treaty Under the propo anion suojects ot tnc allied ami neutral countries may leave the Unit ed States within ninctr davs. but if thev eluet in pain - - -" - - nn. j muni come under the draft law Russian. Italian and Rm ' - MVvvinf M.'m sntrude, who are now livinar in this enuntrv to th f ,- than a million, may depart and put themselves under the draft laws of their own lands or remain here ami onmo nnAn Tk.. - - " vmrt. ' van not shirk the military duty they owe to their arovernmentj, remain immune unuer our protection, and succeed to the jobs which Ameri can citizens leave in order to shoulder anus. Thev can no lonirer odir responsibility as aliens nnd must ehnnr wKUti mmmu.1 tnry will serve. Such are tho provisions of thr MMtfl r.r.lntmi .,,. aAV mm 1 here is no room fpr the international slacker who claims protection from two countries and is not willing to serve either Such a law will solve the problem of a large class of aliens, but will not affect the res- ueni suojecis ot tiermany and her allies. Under treatv these must be eft in peace so long as they obey the laws, but they are under sur veillance and can actively serve the in (! ,,f ri,.r,.n u .ill. only at their peril. AMERICAN CAMOUPLEURS Fighting from cover with the employment of every possible meth od of concealment both of men and of plans is older than American Indian warfare. It is older than Macbeth who. as the bard of Avon relates, was doomed when Hirnam wood came to Dusinane, the attack ing force hidinit its approach by means of a green branch held aloft by each soldier, with the effect of a slowly moving forest. The meth od is even older than the first uncivilized tribes of history. It was long supposed that these primitive arts of deception could not be em ployed by great modern armies and that they properly belonged only to the savage times which produced them, but this unparalleled war has brought them back, and they have now been developed with a cunning and resource of w hich the savage of past ages was incapable. The French call the old method adapted to modern needs caniou tlage and the man who practices it a camoufleur. The devices report ed are many and some of them most ingenious. We read of dummy cannon that recoil and flash a puff of smoke under the eyes of hostile aeroplanes while genuine guns are fired from concealed pits some hun dreds of yards away. Counterfeits of dead horses and even of dead men have been employed. Aeroplane sheds have been made to look like wheat fields and railroad trains like workmen's cottages. If the Germans make a bridge impassable by eontinuel shelling, thi French build another and keep it covered by day with an innocent liver scene painted on canvas which is rolled back at night. Such schemes for throwing dust into the enemy's eyes have long been rec ognized as necessary on the Kuropcan battle line, and now the value of all this military "nature fuking" is attested by the fact that an American camouflage company is being organized for service in France. The object is to enlist ingenious young men who "are looking for special entertainment in the way of fooling Germans, and who will be able to "cast a magic veil of invisibility over military works, ac cording to the Official Bulletin, which says: "The Chief of Kngineers in the War Department is looking for handy and ingenious men who are ready to fight one minute and practice their trade the next. Y her ever a machine is set up, or a trench is taken and reversed, or a bat tery of artillery goes into action, or a new road is opened, or a sniper climbs an old building, or a new bridge is built, or an officer creeps out into an advanced post to hear and to observe, there must go the camouflage man to spread his best imitation ot the magic veil of in visibility. Ironworkers, sheet-tyetal workers, carpenters, cabinet makers, stage carpenters, property men, plaster molders, photograph ers, scene painters, and sign painters will make up this force of emerg et&cy magicians There is in store for them plenty of excitement and no end of opportunity to use their wits " for oaeh man Such vast east is staggering, but, with the adoption of some form of universal military training a future probability, the outlay may be regarded as in large part permanent investment. Nearly three hundred millions will be emended hv tho Wr A. partmerit in building training cam ml mak-itur th nnat e k , . -c Jr n ivoi ui me thirty-two cantonments about nine and a Quarter million Th at Spartenlmrg will cost $3,234,750. or about $92 for each of the men iriuun as capacity, l amp Upton at Yaphank, presumably because of the requirements of a colder climate, will cost $6,390,528, or $165 According to the new eastern editorial correspondent of the Kan sas City Star, nothing worth mentioning has been accomplished since this country went to war. The dispatch of torpedo boat destroyers to the submarine zone and of troops to France, the mobilization of the National Guard, the drafting of a national army of 6H7,(HM men, the construction of wonderful ami costly cantonments wherein to train them, to mention only a tew ot the great works accomplished or un der way all this is nothing! A record that has astonished and de lighted our European allies appears to be invisible to the eye of a disappointed and jaundiced man. as 1 DISTINCTALY FEMININE Thr ' ' l. LritM of I rv:it 1 hn. it'nn u .vl.l u i.l. hmSm u 11 C - mm w vr v.i'ii- j i U i i 0 fame. It has been impossible not to admire, even moss backed con- : 1: 1 . 1 . . mingling appiause wim disapproval as tney read 01 how these brave women faecd th. nemv in :). manltui r. .,..., . ...1 - ' ' ... v..' 1 1 ' 1 . 1 I u .1 1 1 1 U 1 1 . ,11 1 carrying a dose of poison as well as a gun in order to be able to escape a fate worse than death in the event of capture by the Germans. The heroism ot this legion of women was the more dramatic bv contrast with the frivolity and soldiers who, literally gone mad over their country's freedom, are icpirnciiii'ti us .siupping in me iimiuie ot a Otitic to step aside and dis cuss .social reform. Kilt tllOUirhtful nbsi evers . 'I s sum mat n, A. til 11 VI l more than physical, have been inclined to think that the members of Ua a:. .ami A mw iKiun are sun women in spile ot their trousers, their guns and their bravery, and now a not jdtnar.-th,i nn n .,i.,..,.... t opera bouffe m the wonderful story has been revealed. It appears that the Petrograd division of the Legion is "in revolt" because its f i ri 1 w ..-, , a II 1 11 lit . 1 I . . . . JLt a wwmsw wan uie naru name ot Butch koreva. is "too rougn. ne M too rough, not because she leads her followers in to the thiek nt the tiirht hut t....... ...... ...1 .1 j; i . , slaps their taces! No wonder there is revolt, for a brave girl-soldier mast resent a slapping as scarcely leas humiliating than a spanking. HATE IN GERMANY Reflecting observers fore SAW III;! I r . . . 1 . 1 . . . 1 .. . ' . , I . - A i J . " v . . .11 11 awn j rfinv io Hie ope ecim matin e the HohanKAllMS .-.. 1.1 r.,i 1 1- n. ii . . ""u Tim'iut-ii in vieriuanv as a means of rallying the people in support of the reigning dynasty, .w..j ..v, luirsan an auu-wiisou niohi 1 uation of Ger man women and children The "mobilized" are not expected to march on Washington, ot course, they are only to love the kaiser and hAta and curse the president. The hokal Anzeiger of Berlin has pub lished an appeal to the women of Germany urging them to oast their U..KUSI. wow, oi me nead ot the American govern ment. No doubt kawerdom now rings with "Gott strafe Wilson " T ""'UL'1 "tiintraieiy spat in the taces of helpless pris oi.ors of war may be relied on to curse as mush as is iImiJ 1 It is difficult for the average American to comprehend all this Wr' AH It IIInn 11 or... .... ......... 1 . . . .. - .c .1Ui a itiiiK ui painoiic zeal or in indignation un der insolence and wrong, but we value our dignity and shrink from any approximation of the violent, fishwife method. We associate hate with wickedness, we really don't enjoy ,t, and we insist on keep bg it within respectab e limits. The Germans, on the other hand seem to revel fat ,t "Hate in Germany is cultivated as a noble pas sion, says ex-Ambassador Gerard in his account of his Berlin exper iences, and during the war divines and miiamIi Uit ;.k ...u iTl K!- ff? 19lJ .th.c eonunand at iisvau a opeecn m wnicn ne extolled the advantages of hate and said that there was nothing like getting up in the morning after Having passed a night in thought and dreams of hate." Are such people civilized beings, savages at heart, or just grown-up children! 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