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fLAITSMOUTE 9 EM t-WEEK LI JOURNAI
THURSDAY, JULY 1317.
Cbe plattsmo'Jth journal
PUBLISHED SEMI-WEKKLT AT I'HTTSHOUTH, KGniUHKA.
EaUred&t Fostofflcejt Flattomouth. Neb., as second-class mail matter.
R. A. BATES, Publisher
ITBSCRIPTIOJf PIUCEi
Oh, thus be it ever when free men
shall stand
Between their loved ones anu-wim
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wars desolation;
Blest with vic'try, may heaven res
cued land
Praise the power that hath made
and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must,
When our cause is just,
And this is our motto:
"In God is our trust!'
And the Star Spangled Banner in tri
umph shall wave
O'er the Land of the Free and the
Home of the Brave!
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Nobodv knows who's drafted yet.
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But what's the use worrying about
it'
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Keep up the good work on the
roads.
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Buy a Ked Cross button, and help
the ladies in tfieir noble work.
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The more pin money a woman has
the more stuck-up she is.
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Nobody gives a wrap about your
ancestors, it's ycu they are interested
in.
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Thrse are days when you aie not
supposed to wear much more than a
smile.
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Dr. P. L. Hall is one of Nebraska's
best citizens, a patriot, but not one of
the wind-jabber order.
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Some of those windy United State.
senators who talk much and work
little, should join the I. V. W.
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Everyone can give aid to the Red
Cross. If you can't give dollars, give
cents. Every little helps, you know.
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Ice is about the only thing M at
needs a blanket wrapped around it to
keep it comfortable this kind cf
weather.
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The way to keep the weeds out of
your garden is never to let them get
bigger after they have established
their identity.
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Sunday was the warmest day of
the season, and electric fans were
called into requisition by all who
could afford them.
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The Red Cross booths are not to be
kicked down or torn down until tho
ladie3 get through with them, and
the sooner some smart Alecks find
this out the better.
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The man who is hoarding food pro
ducts for exhorbitant prices is invit
ing confiscation. .And when it come
he will learn something, though his
patriotism will still be at ebbtide.
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With respect to the writer whff
tells twelve ways to use stale bread,
one is now reminded of the rabbit
formula. One must first catch one's
stale bread, which is increasingly
scarce and shy.
Hollweg recently said: "We must
fight to the last gasp." There was
nothing new in this for the allies,
who have already stamped the con
tingency indellibly upon the face of
the war situation.
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People sneer at dress suits because
head waiters wear them, just as if
that fact could make any difference
in real democracy. If a man's only
mark of superiority is his garb, let
him dress like a drum major.
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Ever since the organization of
this country men have been drafted
for service. Thousands have left lu
crative businesses to accept posts un
der the government and receive lit
tle or no pay for their service. Pa
triotism was what prompted them to
make the sacrifice.
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IN
ADTANCK
SUBMARINE LOSSES.
The submarine problem continues
u torture mankind
It remains the
most formidable obstacle to the prose
cution of the war to an early and suc
cessful conclusion. The continuing
ravages of the U-boats constitute,
too, the grimmest menace to the
economic stability of the world and
the resumption of normal conditions
after peace is concluded.
The belief has been growing, of
late weeks, based upon British offi
cial repoits, that submarine destruc
tion has been so appreciably dimin
ished that it is no longer a menace
of the first order. This belief ex
periences something of a shock when,
it encounters this statement by the
new German chancellor, Michaelis.
In his opening speech to the reich
stag he said:
"The submarine war isacccmp!ish
ing ail, and more than all, it is ex
pecttd to. I declare, in fact that
the submarine war accomplishes in
the destruction of enemy tonnage
what it should. It impairs England's
economic life and conduct of the war,
month by month, in a growing degree
so that it will not be possible to op
pose the necessity for peace much
longer. We can look forward to the
further labors of the brave subma
rine with complete confidence."
This might reasonably be looked
upon as an utterance more boastful
than true, designed to bolster up the
waning confidence of the German peo
ple. But it is in a measure cor
roborated by ji Washington dispatch
of Saturday saying that submarine
warfare is destroying merchantmen
at at rate "at least four times the
amount of tonnage built." This is
based upon the "figures in possession
of the government," which show the
osscs "to be averaging about 1,000,-
000 tons 'dead weight' monthly, this
including weight of cargo."
What is even more startling is a
dispatch published with alarmist
prominence by the extremely conser
vative and usually reliable New York
Times, from Charles II. Grasty, the
treasurer of that newspaper, who is
now in London. Mr. Grasty, formerly
owner and editor of the Baltimore
Sun, is a journalist of the highest
standing, and his copyrighted dis
patch is marked "Passed by British
Censor." In it he say that, following
the change at the admiralty, attention
has been called to submarine condi
tions and that "there has -been a
sharp revision of opinion in the last
few hours as a result of a re-exam-
t
ination of facts and figures." Recent
assuring statements, it is declared,
have not been well grounded. The
gist of the dispatch follows:
"What has escaped attention and
what is now brought to the fore by
the change at the admiralty, is the
inexorable fact which anybody with
knowledge of the rule of three can
cipher out for himself that at the
present rate of construction and de
struction there cannot possibly be, at
the end of a few months shipping
enough, unless British commitments
elsewhere are considerably curtailed,
to feed England and France and main
tain the present armies in the field,
and as for conveying America's
armies to Europe and maintaining
them, it will simply be out of the
question.
"The loss of ships by submarines
totals 1,000,000 tons a month, or from
two to three times the total of new
construction. Therc is no possibility
whatever of construction capacity
overtaking the present rate of loss in
time to avoid a peace being forced
on the allies. What is wanted, there
fore, io to largely increase the de
struction of U-boat3.
ine Uritisn government is, and
the American government ought to
be, eye to eye with the' staggering
fact that the allies have got to find
a way to cuib the submarine or lose
'the war a way not yet found asI
not even approached, except experi
mentally." x
The figures given here a' tonnage
loss of 1,000,000 a month are so
huge as to be incredible. The Ger
man government would be boasting
instead of explaining if those figures
were accurate. And Lloyd George
would hardly have said in London
Saturday: "Regarding the submarine
loses, I must disagree with Chancel
lor Michaelis. Gradually, but surely,
we are increasing our protection and
diminishing our loses."
It is conceivable that the Grasty
dispatch was written, and passed by
the censor, for propaganda as well
as news purposes. For exampl?, the
disgusting and disheartening Den-man-Goethal;3
quarrel that is da'ay-
lng American marine construction
needs a charge of dynamite to blow
it up. And again there is a growing
advocacy in Britain of hn attack in
force, by the combined navies of Eng
land, France and the United States,
on the German submarine bases. The
dispatch may ha.-e had cither or both
of. these; th.ngs in view, c-v some ftl.tr
things ir. adit ion to the simple ; ro
mulgation of news.
Bifl when tht proper discounts ;.re
made, and the best pussildc face is
put on the situation, it remains true
as the New York Evening Post re
marks, "that the . submarine is
serious problem for the allies." The
Post jroer on tc say:
"We do not n.'jfi to thin': of l,r00.-
"00 toi: v month The Manchester
Guardian recognized half r. ytur ago
that if the U-boats sank only hajf n
million tons bf British shipping a
month the depletion of the mercantile
fleet at the end of the year would be
grave. That amount of waste would
mean the reduction of British ship
ping available for non-military pur
poses by more than 50 per cent. We
must add to actual losses by subma
rine and mine the ordinary casualties
of the sea. We must take into ac
count the wear and tear on ships aris
ing from continuous strain and lack
of time for repair. We must reckon
the progressive effect of a depleted
shipping on the energy of the allie:.'
military campaigns. We must count
in the effect of soaring freight rates
and resultant food prices. The fig
ures for submarine losses are always
open to a new and more menacing in
terruption, but there is no reason why
the figures themselves should be ex
aggerated wildly." World-Herald.
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WAR MUST HAVE ITS WAY.
We have a lot to learn in this war.
The control of the news which people
read is only a start in the program,
of winning the war. It will become
necessary to control labor, to appor
tion raw materials, to distribute pro
ducts and to prevent waste. All
these things the government will do
in the course of time.
In Great Britain all of these things
have been done. Over there the will
of Parliament is supreme, there is
no constitution to hinder the effect of
what the lawmakers have the courage
to pass. In America the case is dif
ferent, our constitution will come be
tween the government and its suc
cessful, efficient prosecution of the
war.
- The government of America is not
framed for the fighting of a modern
war. The states have power which
they use differently, and pass widely
divergent lawst upon the same sub
ject.
It will become necessary before
the war is won to supplant the au
thority of the federal government in
order to secure uniformity. The
point is not whether we like it, or
whether we wish it or not, the gov
crnment must establish its control
over every phase of industrial life in
order to wage war efficiently, and at
present, efficient war making is the
big idea behind our government and
its efforts.
Conditions have made it necessary
that there be a limit to our freedom
in order that the world may be made
safe for democracy, by removing
from its surface, the cancerous
growth of militarfsm.
THE BARRIER.
The submarine problem persists, in
spite of the clearing up of the Grasty
dispatch to the New York Times. The
statement therein made, that subma
rine sinkings are at the rate of 1,000,
000 tons a month, was the basis -' a
sensation in Washington and New
York, and elicited many heat?d dem
als. It develops now that it was the
result of an error in ' transmission,
and that the figures, as written and
passed by the British censor, were
000,000 tons a month. But w;ith this
correction the rest of the dispatch
stands unshaken by the storm that
has been provoked, and admissions
arc made frankly, in London ami
Washington, that the submarine men
ace is the greatest of the war, that it
seriously endangers allied success,
and particularly that it has created
a very difficult problem as to how
American troops, in large numbers,
are to be landed and supported in
France.
In a later dispatch to the New
York Times Mr. Grasty quotes Ad
miral Beresford, who with Lord Rob
erts was one of the earliest prophets
of preparedness, as saying:
, "The allies are not the least bit
aware of how crucial the situation is.
We are all dependent upon British.
allied t and neutral shipping, and the
fact is that the average rate of loss
since February has been at the rate
of over 7,000,000 tons per year.
I make out that if all present ship
constructive industries including en-
ines, boilers, plates in England
and all the rest of the allied powers
were working full time, net much
more than three and a half million
tons per annum could be turned out.
Now the grave thing is this. In
order to be seriously effective the
American, nation must send 1,000,-
000 men to France. You allow from
three to five tons per man for trans
port. Where is that tonnage to come
from, especially in view of the need
of supplying the world with food and
necessaries. In addition to this there
must be maintained a continual
stream of vessels for supplying the.
American army with food, equipment,
munitions, supplier, reserves r.nd all
the rest.
"Inevitably there will be a shortage
of food throughout the world now
and after the war. as well as a shorts
age of cargo vessels to carry what
there is. It will require the most
acute intellects of men who navo
proved themselves sound as to organ
ization and preparation to avoid dis
aster." The United States is preparing to
send and maintain an army of a mil
lion men in" France. Congress has
provided an immense, fund of more
than $600,000,000, to construct air
planes and train airmen to operate
them, and high hopes are entertained
that this arm of the service alone
may make it possible to win the war.
But the problem how to get all
these men, airships, munitions and
supplies to the battle front remainr,
to be solved. The Chicago Tribune
says, in a Washington dispatch, that
there is high authority for the state
ment that the United States will not
have 200,000 troops in France before,1!
September 1, 1918. It quotes the
same authority to the effect tha
when 1,000,000 more tons of British
shipping have been sunk England
will be forced to abandon the Salonilri
campaign. It is declared that tho
5,000,000 tons of shipping required to
sustain an army of a million Amer
icans on the battle front are entirely
beyond the present resources of the
allies and America. And it has beer,
announced that figures in possession
of the government at Washington
show that ships are being sunk three
or four times as fast as it is possi
ble to construct new ones.
Secretary Baker has explained that
the reason southern sites are chosen
for militia camps is that the lack of
tonnage may require the keeping ciT
the militia armies in this country
through the winter.
The situation is in the highest de
gree exasperating, even after making
due allowance for exaggerations. The
United States will soon have the
arms, the men and the supplies to in
sure the winning of the war. It sees
ibe Russian armies again melting
. awv jn the fires of internal disordo
and a renewed German offensive. It
sees the German armies . poun.ii:
mightily on the French front, ap
parently in a desperate attempt to
break the French resistance whilrf
America and Britain are ttill figuring
on the problem of how to bring this
j COUntry effectively into the war. And
j yvhile tho embargo weapon is serving
jn mo5t useful purpose in shutting off
supplies that have been reaching
Germany in a roundabout way, the
harvest season is approaching tha
for several months, at least, will put
Germanj' beyond the danger of
starvation.
There are, however, consolation,
and hopeful aspects to the picture.
The German government has real in
ternal troubles of its own to reckon
with. There are supplies badly need
ed which no harvests can supply. The
people are crying for peace, and a
more of the guilt wears off thr
kaiser's crown their cries will grow
more formidable. The harvest k
coming on, too, in France and the
British Isles, where large crops arc
anticipated. These, for a :-hort while
anyhow, should tend to release ship
ping for the use ef troops and their
supplies from the United States. The
s:me resourcefulness and courage
that landed Pershing's first army, and
that have landed hundreds of thou
sand? of Canadians and Australians
in Frame, should suffice to get Amer
ican troops there, even if the total
shipping tonnage is decreasing at a 5
alarming rate.
But with it all there is no '.scaping
the conclusion that in the submarine
there has been turned loose upon the
world the greatest danger it has ever
faced. World-Herald,
bethiscom-i .icmfwypaicmfwy cmfwy
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OUR SOLDIERS' WAGES.
When congress irscrer.icd the wage
of the soldier to $".0 a month it was
quite generally understood in thi
United States that an innovation had
been made. It is therefore disap
pointing to learn that both Canaan
and Australia have been more libera!
The Canadian soldier receives $1.10 a
day for his service, and the Austral
ian gets ?1.44, while in both countries
there is an allowance of about $20
per month for the support of the de
pendent families at home.
The new pay for the soldier of
Uncle Sam is approximately $1 a day.
No provision has thus far been made
for dependent families, for under the
selective draft system there is an
understanding that those with de
pendent families will not be called.
However there will be men going
into 'the service whose families are
dependent upon them. There have
been such men accepted as volunteer-,
and there will be many who will scorn
to claim exemption on that ground
ThQre will be "dependent families to
care for when our boys go abro.ir!
and the increased soldier's pay v.iil
hardly suffice to prevent it.
Someone moved by a humane im
pulse has proposed that a fund be
raised to care for those mothers and
children who mav be left by our sol
diers in ill-supplied homes. Some of
the enormously wealthy men who
have been trying to keep their posses
sions within mobile limits by building
universities and libraries might take
care of the problem without incur
ring want, but if they do not, the gov
ernment ought to make provision for
that character of necessary work.
While the campaign for the $100,
000,000 Red Cross fund was in prog
ress there were occasional s tatement?
from sources not always official that
some of this fund would be devoted
to caring for the dependents of sol
diers, but it is doubtful if even so
liberal a fund can meet this neces
sity in addition to the other recog
nized needs that will make heavy
drafts upon it. v
. Stay-at-home Americans are fond
of thinking that their army will go
forth better equipped and better cared
for than any other soldiers at tho j
front. That may be true. It is com
forting to believe it. But the boya
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would pro cut in better spirit if they
were assured by the jrovernment that
tho?e they leave'behin J vil be cared
fcr as fully as are the dependents of
soldiers from other democratic coun
tries. Lincoln Star.
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Pancho Villa is still doin;r work at
the same" old stand in Mexico."
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It is all rijrht for a girl to smoke
ciararettes in public if she is that
kind of a prirl.
Some people are born lucky, while
others are easy victims of lightning
rod and book agents.
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Prcsider.t Wilson has iirdcird eiph-ty-scven
German vessel:; taken over
for the United States. Every little
helps.
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No sooner had the government ad
vised substituting corn for wheat,
whenever possible, than the price be
tran to advance.
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1 The steel trust braprs about its pa
triotism, and then turns around and
tries to force the government to np.v
exhorbitant prices for steel.
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Give a dollar to the Red Cross
ladies and get a button. Show your
patriotism by helping the ladies pre
pare for the wounded soldiery.
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Whethcr right or wrong, whether
for cause or without cause, whether
justified or not, we are now in tho
war and must fight to a fictorious
end. Every American must patriot
ically subscribe to the inperishable
sentiment of Stephen Decatur: "My
country, may she always be in th?
right; but right or wrong, my country."
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HELP OUR COUNTRY
AVOID A FOOD SHORTAGE!
- On our Lines West, in Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana,
there are thousands or acres of prairie lands that shouldbe cultivated. If
you want to
BUY I will post you on correct prices.
RENT I will help you to get best terms.
HOMESTEAD I'll tell you where best selections are..
My services are free to you. Drop me a postal card for any of the fol
lowing free literature.
"There's a Farm for You in Colorado."
"Go to Southwestern Nebraska."
"Cheyenne County, Nebraska."
"Bov Butte County, Nebraska."
'The Wheatland Colony," (Wyoming).
"The Noth Platte Valley." (Nebr.-Wyo.)
"The Big Horn Basin." (Wyoming).
"Free Government Lands" (Wyoming).
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For Infants and Children.
Mothers Know That
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TMI etNTUK COMMIT. I TOH CfTT.
In Nemaha county the Germans
are very numerous, and no matter
what their feelings may be, the most
of them have sense enough to keep
their mouths closed on the war issues.
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The fellow who persists in stand
ing in the middle of the- road like
the old-fashioned pops used to do
must expect somebody to take an o'.
casional shot at him.
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It used to be .that a bathtub on a
farm was worth going mi-es to see.
But in these days of seven-pas ;nger
touring cars, standing where horses
used to be hitched, bathtubs are as?
common in the country as cook stoves.
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The "yellow lense" doesn't appear
to get the automobilist anywhere ex
t ept into trouble.
Do something for your country. If
nothing more, buy a Red Cross but
ton. It doesn't do any good to aim high
while shooting off your mouth.
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Don't get into the habit of putting
things off until "after the war." "
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Those Omaha gum-shoe men cer
tainly got their foot in it.
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There is always a way for the man
with a will.
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He's a wise man who knows when
to compromise.
Obey the Law.- Order your Osgood
Lens. Plattsmouth Garage. All sizes.
FOR SALE The Dora Moore resi
dence property on Chicago Ave.; 8
rooms and bath, all modern. For par
ticulars see or write Geo. J. Oldham.
Phone 305-J.
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Tell me what you want, the kind of land you
nee, and I'll find it for you.
S. B. HOWARD, Immigration Agent C. B. & ,Q. R. R.
1004 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb.
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