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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, 3IA1! 13, 2B17.
The most vital of all
educations is that which
subtracts folly from force
and tells us what we must
not do.
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Germany Wins We Pay
BY HERBERT KAUFMAN.
Despite the awful drubbing which Germany has just experienced on the western front, she
is still a match for the combined forces of the allies.
Without the assistance of American munition makers and food exporters, it is quite cer
tain that her enemies would by now be very much at her mercy.
Our entrance into the situation is the one element which ultimately guarantees the Kaiser's
defeat.
The imperial government is therefore in the position of a bully, with all the odds in favor
of thrashing an opponent, who is suddenly pulled away by an onlooker and held while the other
fellow proceeds to turn the tables and pummel him into submission.
Therefore it is logical that Germany should hate us with an insane ferocity that augurs
no mercy in the unlikely but possible event of her victory. - . ,
This possibility will become a probability in proportion to the immediacy of our prepara-'
tion to fulfill the responsibility we've assumed. -
Assured of reinforcements when needed, our allies will hurl their full strength against the
central powers and capitalize their present advantage to the utmost. But if we fall down on
' our contract and do not deliver the assistance to which we are pledged, when it is expected,
the consequences are shuddering to contemplate.
This war has by no means reached a decisive stage, but we can determine the decision by
universal military service, with a whole-hearted co-operation of the industrial resources of
the Republic.
The eleventh hour is ten hours late. We can save men; save months and save millions through
prompt and vigorous action.
If we dillydally, argue, trust to luck and place Jtoo much hope in an early peace, Von Hin
denburg's ruthless battalions will Belgiumize America, German war vessels will pound our
coasts and women and children, as well as men, will know how horrible war can be made.
If Germany can reach this side at all, she will come as the conqueror of Europe, as a deso
lating and despoiling Hun, burning with rage and avid with cupidityto humble our pride, to
loot our wealths, to smash us.
If fear and selfishness are holding you out of the ranks or tightening your grip on the bank
account, fear and selfishness even more urgently demand that you enlist at once and lend
every dollar and effort to the prosecution of an earnest and valorous campaign.
Once certain that the United States means to send all males of military age to the front and
intends to spend whatever money is necessary to warrant "a triumph for its arms, Berlin will
quite probably surrender to the overwhelming handicap before our forces or fortunes are on
the field. -
Every slacker encourages another. One enlistment now has the moral value of two later on.
Seek to escape service and you're sure to undergo it. Procrastination threatens our chances.
There's no way out for us, except by pitching in.
' You'll have to fight in the end, so volunteer at the beginning.
Whatever time we lose in dallying must be made up by additional levies. Your shirking may
eventually draw your fathers into the ranks.
Answer the President's call. Do your duty today; ,
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The luck you've had is not so
bad, your body is intact.
Forget the cost of what you've
lost, the years ahead are
stacked
With opportunities beyond the
measures of the past.
A good position can be got, a
fortune still amassed.
You have the necessary tools,
they're waiting in your
brain ;
No man who ever used them
well attempted long in
vain.
Go out and scout, prospect
about, and buck your fate
again.
" But doubting mind has yet to
find a chance upon this
earth;
You'll never get more than
you bet yourself what
you're worth.
If you f believe you can't
achieve if you decide
you're through
You surely can't expect that
we will have more faith
in you.
Take EnougK IWhile You're rM It
SUCCESS finds fertile ground along every avenue . of endeavor. A
healthy ambition will take root anywhere. Four of the largest depart
ment stores in America are dominated by men who learned merchan
dising in the backwoods. The president of a recent thirty-million-dollar
combination of office utilities companies was selling sewing machines from
door to door some 20 years ago. A former cowpuncher is the big executive
in a world-famous agricultural implement house, and the number of ex
newsboys who own dailies, head corporations, hold prominent places be
fore the bar, in medicine and industry is amazing.
They simply did their level best from the start. Having the whole earth
before them to pick over, they selected first-rate chances while' they were
at it.
There hasn't yet been a practical dream beyond realization or a spot too
far removed from the hub of affairs to discount the potentialities of a
striving, eager man. If you'll add a little imagination to the amount of ap
plication necessary to hold a hand-to-mouth job, before long you also will
cease to be a hired man.
Why Most Girls Go Wrong
FATHERS who look after their daughters are seldom forced to look for
them. Girls do not inherit judgment. There is no such thing as in
stinctive wisdom. Knowledge of the tawdry and terrible phases of life
comes only from experience. - Good women have no acquaintance with the
menaces along the broad highway arid mothers who wear secret wounds
do not admit their follies. The guidance of children is a man's responsibil
ity. . When he shirks it, innocence is apt to pay a sad price. A vaccinated
mind is generally immune from temptation.
All men have natural
weaknesses, just as all
metals are cheapened by
their slag. Only the cruci
ble can refine strength.
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No Bread Lines AKeacl
WAR is bad business, but don't you ever make the
mistake of thinking that war means bad busi
ness. Mars has lately become the foremost employer of
labor and the leading customer of commerce.
It takes a dozen farmers, mechanics, trainmen,
butchers, bakers, tailors and shoemakers to maintain
a soldier.
We can't put a million men under arms without
putting at least twelve million other men under the
eight-hour clock.
'We must build cruisers, cast cannon, produce rifles,
tin meat, raise food, weave khaki, pack surgical kits,
cobble footwear, construct motor cars, extend trans
portation, manufacture uniforms, knit socks, erect
forts, roll armor plate, draw wire, mine metal and fuel,
mix explosives, process chemicals, provide spades,
picks and tractors, furnish ammunition, airships, elec
trical equipment in such quantities that existing capac
ities will stagger under the sudden burden.
Every trade and every branch of trade, from Ban
gor to Bellingham and from cannery to foundry, will
soon be mobilized for the colossal task of transforming
an industrial giant into a Titan warrior.
Within a few months we must accomplish what
Germany required thirty years to do.
Think of it! More than a quarter of a century
of preparation to be crowded into less than a year!
Factories must work day and night shifts, rail
roads will operate extra trains, produce will ride to
port from every arable acre on the continent.
We have become the armory and the bread-box
of our allies and we have called a host to the colors
whose needs alone will total billions of dollars in food
and raiment and weapons.
The hugest sum of money that ever poured from
this country's treasury is about to flood the United
States.
There will be work for everybody and everybody
must work. The heaviest responsibility of the greatest
war in history is now on our hands.
We must not only support the cause we have es
poused, but also support our confederates with their
necessities.
Get busy and keep busy. Hire new help, enlarge
your plant, order machinery at once.
Hesitation, delay and pessimism serve our enemies.
This is no time to retrench or hoard. This is no
moment to reduce operations.
The Government isn't counting expense, but min
utes, and its plans will be hampered by every doubter
and coward and penny pincher.
Consumption will not diminish. Uncle Sam is in
the market for more goods than the members of the
new Army and Navy individually purchased and their
sons and daughters and wives will soon be holding
down their old jobs, and collecting their men's wages
which will in turn be spent at the grocer's, the de
partment store and the druggist's.
Patriotism is flooding Washington with ready
cash and Washington is shipping it in carload lots to
the manufacturer and retailer. There are no bread
lines ahead. An unprecedented era of prosperity is
around the bend.
However sad the price, the business outlook was
never better.
TKe Third Degree
OUR LAW presumes innocence until guilt is estab
lished. In certain cities the police do not.
Friendless suspects are subjected to unspeakable
barbarities the very persons appointed to preserve
order and enforce obedience of statutes are often
inexcusable offenders against the prime rights of citi
zenship. The splendid work begun by Dickens has been
gradually extended until the abuses and cruelties once
practiced in all penal institutions have been pretty well
done away with, but the odious third degree persists in
a lot of communities. It would be unfair to humane
and progressive authorities not to make this a limited
accusation, but there are enough chiefs still counte
nancing and encouraging maltreatment of prisoners
in their bailiwicks to suggest the advisability of
National action against the practice. Some judges are
thoroughly aware of these facts and some district at
torneys subscribe to the physical pounding and mental
hounding which not infrequently force poor bewil
dered devils to confess uncommitted felonies. When a
prosecutor becomes a persecutor he is unfit to hold
office. This is a Republic.
w POraUGIIT, 1S17. BX HERBERT KA.UF3IAIT, GREAT. BRITATJf AIYB JLSM OTHER RIGHTS RESEBYEDW