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TUESDAY, AVGUST 21. 1U17.
THB WHITE FI.Ati.
The latest attempt to hoist the
white flag over the capltol at Wash
ington Is not succeeding. The sen
ate shows a gratifying disposition
to sauelch the dwindling group of
wilful men who porslBt in misrepre
senting their country and trying to
bedevil its war preparations.
Senator LuPollotte's peaco resolu-
tion. of course, will not pass. Its
author could not have hoped that it
would pass. But tho mere ottering
ot such a resolution In the United
States senate at present is an offense
deserving harsh condemnation.
It Is absurd to proposo that con
gress shall proclaim, at this time,
definite terms on which this country
will make an early peace with Ger
many. It is absurd to proposo that
thcro shall be no indemnities or ter-
rtorlal acquisitions, and that all the
belligerents shall bo nssesosd to pay
for the restoration of ravaged ter
ritorial acquisitions, and that all the
ously would be to surrender borore
wo havo begun to fight. It would be
a betrayal of our allies. It would be
trading our own birthright of free
dom and greatness for a mess of
Prussian pottage.
If such action Is sincere, 11 Is whol
ly unnecessary. As Senutor l'omer
ene says:
"There Is no noed to rottonite why
America is In this war, Germany
committed enough crimes against
this country to make every American
feol that peace cannot come until
Germany Is beaten or until Gcrmuny,
admitting hor wrong-doing, asks for
an end of hostilities. It must bo a
repentant with whom peace Is mndo.
"Everybody In this country knows
why America is fighting Germany.
Every Bchool boy knows it. And not
a loyal American would think of end
ing the conflict until American hon
or and American rights are vindi
cated." But sincere or Insincere, such pro
posals made In high places do enor
mous harm. Reports from Qermnny
Indicate that the entire German press
has seized upon this latest outbreak
of peace propaganda In Amorlea to
Insplrn the Germnn people with now
hope and strengthen tho malign pur
poses of their government.
"Every pacifist in this country."
says Charles Edward ItuHsull, "who
goes about prnttilng of peace, every
congressman that introduces a peace
resolution, every senator that is play
ing the German game, is doing fur
mors Iftirm to the United State, to
the cause of democracy, to the Ideals
of his country, than a million Ger
man soldiers on the battle line can
JAI'AX iOINi TO FIGHT?
A Japanese mission, said to be on
an important errand, is now in this
country. Its coming arouses bopo
that Japan will proceed to play a
more vital part in the war.
There have been rumors lately to
the efTect that Japan is really pre
pared to get into the game. One re
port said that she has 2,000, .,00 sol
diers already mobilized and ready to
send Into Russia to fight on the east
ern front "as soon as certain diplo
matic phases are cleaned up." It ha
been declared, too, that Japanese sol
diers have actually reached France.
The public utterances of the en-,
voys since their arrival might be In
terpreted as forecasting more nctfve
co-operation. "We are here." says
Viscount Ishi, "as allies in a common
causo. We come as comrades in a
gigantic struggle which involves tho
liberties and tho sacred rights of
mankind."
We hope this Is the true Interpre
tation. Most Americans have got an
Impression that Japan's policy was to
let the other powers fight on to their
mutual exhaustion, and then proceed
to reap tho benefit by widening her
own domain. She has been thought
of as tho future Prussia of Asia. And
If Japan evnY undertakes to play tho
part In the Pacific that Prussia has
tried to play in fciurope, we shall
have to fight her for the same reason
that we and our allies have had to
light Germany.
Kor tho sake of our own future
welfare, nnd Japan's too, wo should
rejoice in having hor Join whole
heartedly in this war and fight by
our side with fult sympathy and un
derstanding Such co-operation would
cement our friendship and make it
onsy to adjust the problems of the
future.
No city of any Importance should
bo left off tho Pacific highway. Be
ing on the highway means many a
dollar to the merchant and people of
every community through which It
passes. It should bo the purpose of
tho highway commission not to at
tempt to evade a slnglo town, hut on
tho contrary add' ns many cities as
It in poBKlblc, thus distributing the
benefits derived from the tourlKt
traffic as broad as can be made, ttint
every county through which this
highway courses might receive tho
benefits.- It's a business proposition
pure nnd simple and a mighty
line way to encourage the upkeep of
'he road. Kiddle and Myrtle Creek
aro Just ns Important as nny other
town, largo or small, and are justlv
entitled to every consideration from
the commission. i
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NATION MUST CARE
FOR THE FAMILIES
Of Men That Are Drafted And
Sent to Fight At The
, Front. '
IT IS PROUD PRIVELE6E
I-'uinlly Allowance, Indemnity turn)
liiMirance for Our Soldiers tuul
Hal lor Tli Duly of a
Jutit Government,
Ily V. O. McAdoo.
The nUmber of 'claims for exemp
tion from military duty under the
draft law has caused a painful Im
pression In many quarters, but after
all, does not the fact that no provis
ion has yet been. made by the gov
ernment for the support of the wives
and children, mothers or fathers of
the men who have been drafted, ex
plain many of these claims for ex
emption? Under the draft law the govern-
nient has the power to require every
able-bodicu man between 21 and 3
years of ago to perform military
duty. Thousands of the, drafted men
are wage earners who married years
ago nnd are tho sole support of de
pendent families. So lone as the
government has maue no provision
for the care of these dependents. It is
natural that such drafted men should
seek to protect their loved ones by
staying at home. I am sure that if
the congress should promptly enact
the pending war Insurance bill,
which mattes definite allowances for
the supoprt of tho dependent wives
and children, fathers or mothers, of
soldiers and sailors, claims for ex
emption on that score will cease.
Th(s is an - Imperative duty of the
government. vTe cannot deprive
helpless women and children of the
support of the wage earner by forc
ing him Into the military service of
the country unless the government
substitutes itself as their Bupport.
Imagine the emotions of the man
who Is called Into the military ser
vice of his country with full knowl
edge that his loved, ones are left
without means of supporj. and may
he reduced to want unless the char
rit.ytof the community in which
they live comes, to their relief. It
would be nothing less tnan a crime
for a rich and just government to
treat Us fighting men so heartlessly
and to subject their dependent wives
and children, who are unable to flght,
to greater Buffering than if they
could flght.
The morale- of an army Is as es
sential to its effective fighting power
ns guns, ammnltlnn and other in
strumentalities of war. Of equal Im
portance Is the morale of the civil
population which must support the
armies in the field. We cannot have
this essential morale unless the na
tion comforts tho men in the ranks
with the knowledge that everything
possible will be dono for them and
their families, and renders to the
civil population at home the assist
ance which will make it most effec
tive In upholding the government
and tho lighting forces.
Tho purpose of the war insurance
bill now pending in the congress
Is to secure the future of America's
soldiers nnd sailors by Insuring
their lives and providing adequate
compensations and indemnities for
loss of life nnd total or partial per
monant disability; also to protect
their families against poverty and
want by providing them with suf
ficient means of support during the
absence of tho men at tho front.
The nntion, having been forced to
resort to the draft in ordor to create
quickly an army to save the coun
try, is under a higher obligation to
do those things far its fighting forces
than If a volunteer army only was
created. This great and rich repub
lic cannot afford to do less, and it
must do what Is proposed in a spirit
of gratitude and not ns charity. Ev
ery soldier and sailor who serves his
country in this war will earn every
thing the proposed war insurance bill
provides; to bo n beneficiary of the
proposed law will be a badge of
honor.
When wo draft tho wage earner,
we cull not only him but the entire
family to the flag; the sacrifice en
tailed Is not divisible. - The wife and ,
cffildrcn, the mother, the father, are
all Involved In the sacrifice they dl-j
recti y share the burden of defense.
They surfer Just as much as the sol
dier, but In a different way, and the
nation must generously discharge as
a proud privilege the duty of main
taining them until the soldiers and
sailors return from the war and re
sume the responsibility.
We have drawn the sword to vindi
cate America's violated rights, to re
store peace and jutstlce, and to secure
the progress of civilization. We can
not permit our soldiexs, while they
bold the front, to be stabbed in (he
back by uncertainty as to what is
being done for their loved ones at
home." Our tomorrows are in their
hands theirs in ours. The national
conscience will not permit America's
soldiers and their dependents to go
unprovided with everything that
step forward In tho recognition ofj
the republic's duty to its heroes. I j
consider U the most significant and j
progressive measure presented to j
congress slnce the flociaration or
war. It immediately affects the well
being of a greater number of per
sona than any act with which I am
familiar. It den erven the earnest and
vigorous support of the country. It
provides the broadest and the most
liberal protection ever extended by
any government to Its fighting forces
anil their, dependent families. The
United States, the most progressive
and prosperous nation on earth, set
ting an example In the ideals for
which enlightened humanity Is fight
ing, should set the highest example
of all the nations in the treatment
of those who do and die for their
country and for world freedom.
We are proposing to expend dur
ing the next year-more than ten bil
lion dollars to create and maintain
Just, generous and noble people can the necessary fighting forces to re
do to compensate them for the suf- establish justice in the world. But
fertngs and sacrifices they make to justice must begin at home; justice
serve their country. i must be done to the men wno me ana
Aside from the care and protec- Buffer for us on the battlefields and
tion of their denendHniB . ivhiln th for their wives and children and de-
soldler Is alive, the proposed war In- pendents who sacrificed for us at
surance act provides for definlto "oni- T do justice to them requires
compensatioH for his dependents in oni a lltne or ine money we are ex
case of death, for definite and ade- pending for the general objects of
quale indemnities in case of total or(tne war-
partial disability and for re-educa-i Let It not be Bald that noble Amerl
tion of th maimed and disabled ca was ignoble in the treatment of
man, so that he may take up a new her soldiers and sailors and callous
occupation and make himself a use- to the fate of their dependents In
ful member of society. We must re- this greatest war of all time.
Btore their efficiency and1 ad just their, The pending war Insuranco bill
still available faculties and factions YeB compensation, no pensions; it
J?08 and vocatlon8' fixes amounts definitely in advance
which the injuries of the battlefield Jrjstead of holding out tlfe mere
have not wholly destroyed. The heavy cnance Df . gratitudes after the con-
nmfn l,VT, reB"itln elusion of peace. It saves the de
from this conflict, which is without ho.-c dh -i
precedent in history or imagination, the necessaries of life while their
juuv"-i""'win,'"'"""'" r-"""r 'ii'i'iivm
will place new and greater values up
on all forms and degrees of human
energy, and demand as a flint duly of
intelligent government that every re
maining useful sense and limb of the
blind and crlpled shall be reclaimed
under the benevolent processes of
education and reapplied to economic
uses for the benefit of soclet. The
millions we shall be called upon to
Bpend to support the dependents of
tho soldiers while they , aro in tho
fighting line, for Indemnities und for
re-education of the crippled, are In
the Inst analysis investments of the
best sort: they are sums of capital
advanced by the nation to promote
utility, self-rcbpect and economic de
velopment. More than all, they are
essentially humanitarian and in the
highest sense a discharge by the gov
ernment of an esesntlal duty to so
ciety. Military service is now obligatory;
those who Imperil themselves have
no election. Tho insurance com
panies do not and cannot permit this
fact to affect their calculations. They
must protect themselves by charging
premiums so high that they are se
cured against loss no matter how se
vere the rate of mortality may be.
Consequently, the very men who are
called into the service because their
physical condition is of the best and
who ns civilians would for that rea
son be able to secure the most favor
able lnsurnnce rate in peace time, are
denied as soldiers the necessary life
insurnnco to cnabi them to protect
their families and dependents. The
tremendous rutes charged by private
insurance companies to protect them
against the extra-hazardous risks of
war put Insurance entirely beyond
the reach of the conscripted sol
dier. Military necessity has, therefor,
subjected the most lit subjects for
insurance to an insurmountable dis
crimination unless the government
Itself supplies insurance at cost and
upon a peace basis. It would, In
fact, be dastardly and undemocratic
If the government should penalize
the soldier who is forced -to render
the highest duty of the citizen by Its
failure to provide war insurance
inpon pence terms and at not cost,
first, because the pay of the -enlisted
men in tho army and navy Is less
than the wages and salaries generally
earned in private life, which reducos
their Investing capacity; nnd, second,
because government insurance is an
essential war and emergency meas
ure, Inaugurated for the , specific
benclit of our military forces, and
cannot and should not be conducted
for profit.
Such overhead charges as agents'
commissions, advertising, promotion,
local rentals, etc., are eliminated.
The government nmst assume the
cost of administering this benevo
lent agency. Just as It bears the cost
of administering nil oilier govern
ment agvncles established for tho
benellt of the people.
This legislation will he n great
men are at the front. It deals with
its heroes liberally for the suffer
ings that result from their disable
ment on tho field of battlo, and, if
they die, it makes just provision f6r
the lovel' ones who survive them. It
fosters the helplesB and dependent,
the maimed and disabled, and recog
nizes the Imemnslty of the nation's
debt to the vnior and patriotism of
her heroic sons.
AT THE JiTNEY DANCE
What will probably have a tenden
cy to discourage the nooularitv of
Jitney dances In this city, 'or rather
encourage closer attention by the lo
cal officers, was an occurrence at
tho Maccabee hall Saturday night
when Mrs. Cook, wile of Harry
Cook, who has had much to do with
conducting these Saturday night
dances, "mixed" with Clementine
Wooderson, a waitress e'mployed in
this city. Mrs. Wooderson, as has
been her custom, attended the dance
last Saturday night and took a seat
close to Mrs. Cook, who, the former
alleges madu remarks to a lady
frlends .next to her concerning her
self that did not have exactly the
right "ring,", and -to which Mrs.
Wooderson took exceptions and left
the hall, going into an outer room.
She was immediately followed by
Mrs. Cook and tho two met in the
hallway. Without any ceremony
whatever, Mrs. Wooderson states, 'the
irrnte woman grabbed her by the
arm and with considerable force
shoved her down the stairway, at the
Same time giving her to understand
that her presence was not wauted at
any dance conducted by her,husband.
In the melee Mrs. Wooderson almost
lost a sleeve from her waist and re
ceived a slight scratch on her neclt.
What prompted this action on the
part of Mrs. Cook tho waitress was
unnble to say and came as a complete
surprise to her. An attorney was
consulted today In reference to the
offalr anu a chargo of assault and
battery was discussed, but whether
or not any action will be taken
against Mrs. Cook has not been
lenrned.
ATTKXTIOX HOXOIl GUARD.
A special meeting ot the
Honor Ounrd has been called
far tomorrow evening at the
armory nt which time Sergeant
Victor Mlcolli will address the
girls on the necessity for hav
ing, a mcss fund. The Honor
Guard members are urgently
requested to be present.
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leave fir I'ortland Tonight
District Attorney eorge Neuner
will leave for Portland tonight
where he has oeen summoned be
fore the federal grand jury.
Left for Son Francisco.
.0. D. McAllister, who recently re
turned from San Francisco, whore
he had Been in the Interest of the lo
cal oniipr of railway trainmen, left
yesterd'ny for the southern citv to
again give his attention to matters
affecting tho order which call for
adjustment.
Will I!o Sorority Cliaperones.
Mrs. G. N. Riddle and Mrs. W. T.
Langlols, of Riddle, leave September
1 for Eugene where they will havo
charge of a well known sorority
house during the college ternv. The
esteemed ladies will act In the capac
ity of chaperones.
Kdenliower Lady lletter.
A. S. Bushnell, of Edenbower, re
turned from Portland yesterday
where he has been attending his
wife, who has been under the -care
or Dr. Rockey at the Good Samari
tan hospital. , Mrs. Bushnell is' much
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