AUJANCM HBRA1D, THURSDAY. SHPT. ' IftIT
the ALLIANCE HERALD
Lloyd 0. TbomM, Editor John W. Thomiu. Associate Editor
Oeorge Edick. City Editor
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come under the draft law Russian. Italian and Rm
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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..
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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.
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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-
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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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