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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, POIiTLiAND, JOE 3, 1917.
Hot Heads and Cold Feet
Cause Most of Our
Trouble.
Where Jealousy Gaardi
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The Gold en Sword of Victory
v . 1 BY HERBERT KAUFMAN
The sword is in the making, the long sword, the strong sword, the Golden Sword of Victory;
What part of the blade will yours be? Add your bit to its bite time presses quick, lest the
splendid weapon lie unfinished in the forge.
The Rhine Dragon is again free. France writhes in his clutch and his horrid tail flails poor
bewildered Russia.
Slay the accursed thing, hew the talons from the beast! Break his back and release Ger
many from the dread spell which blinds and binds her, while the monstrous power of mili
tarism persists.
The fate of civilization is on our anvils. We alone can make the magic weapon for world
rescue.
Europe is dying under the onslaughts of the ravaging monstrosity.
Belgium is a charred, blood-dabbled waste. Rheims is a stone-pile. The Marne and Aisne
bear sanguine tides to sea. The slopes of Champagne are heavy with the grapes of wrath and
whitewashed crosses blossom in million-fold from Calais to the Hellespont.
Blind men stumble over every road and mouthing, mangled wretches, once stalwart images
of God, carpet the night with agony. .
Death and his carrion hordes feed fat beneath the shuddering stars.
The heavens whir with the beat of hawk men contending.
From sun to sun the ceaseless parks of cannon pound devoted regiments to pulp, and
every salvo swells the orphans' ranks and dooms more women to despair and want, while
famine snarls without the door and pestilence crawls nearer, nearer, nearer.
This is WAR. The war that Prussia brings the hell on earth designed by Frederick's in
sane brood to halt the power of Democracy and make the Teuton might supreme.
This is the war that we shall know if Kaiserdom prevails and the oceans are free for the
ever-growing fleets which patiently wait behind the mines of Kiel.
On with the making of the sword, the Golden Sword which holds our hopes.
We are late at its crafting, ominously tardy. The clock speeds while decision lags.
. Delay is. treason. We can't spare one hour.
Billions are our surest bulwark. Misering forebodes misery and'woe for America.
Do your duty. Add your strength and your savings to the great cause.
If you can't go to war, your dollars can. Enlist your purse todav. Your money is not too
old to fight.
The heaviest price of victory is cheaper than the lightest penalty of defeat.
Our allies cannot hold their ground if we hoard our wealth. .
We cannot deliver our forces for months, but we can, we shall, we must mobilize the bank
accounts of these exhaustless United States for the immediate and unswerving support of the
confederated champions of Freedom and right. '
Is your check-book a slacker or a patriot?
Buy your Liberty Bonds at once! If you hang back, France cannot hold out.
Finish the sword the long sword the strong sword the Golden Sword of Victory.
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You quit! No other fact ex
plains The paltry end of all your
pains.
You quit, while other men
pushed through
And took what was your equal
due.
With half a hundred goals in
sight
You give up midway in the
fight.
One disappointment chilled
your zeal,
At one rebuff you turned on
heel
And gave your second wind no
show.
Lif e; thrashed you with a sin
gle blow.
How could you estimate the
winnings
Or count the score of unplayed
innings?
tTrutK, tlie Dime Novelisf
THE weakness of logic is its faith in averages. Theory always substan
tiates its case with majority examples. It works in airlines and in
its fondness for ideal conditions requently goes amiss.
Destiny is a regardless rule breaker. We can never be sure that any
state of affairs will continue to exist because it is fundamentally right or
ruled hitherto by invariable laws. Disruption and disaster appear in the
least expected quarter. History has taught us constantly to be ready for
the worst Whenever man begins to congratulate himself upon his increas
ing control of mundane affairs and his growing mastery of natural forces,
Providence chastens his conceit with a horrid whaling.
At the very apex of human achievement, right upon the heels of the most
brilliant discoveries as yet to be credited to a single generation, with our
feet upon the lintel of millennium and an anvil ready to beat the last sword
into a plowshare, an obscure citizen of a trumpery little kingdom assassinates
an Austrian Grand Duke and at the impact of his bullet the whole machinery
of progress is wrecked.
The novelist who in June, 1914, dared submit the events of the past three
years as a plausible plot, would have bsen laughed out of every editor's office
between the Seven Seas.
Imagination is a febrile substitute for reality.
Truth, not romance, strains credulity.
The Apostate Overplavs His Hand
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realize that there is some black blood in their veins.
persecutor ot his people, the parvenu most insulting
emphatic. The lion's kin invariably recognize the
fTHE apostate overplays his hand
I creed ne arouses curiosity as
against a negro as those who
The proselyted Jew is the hardest
to menials. Pretense is always too
ass in the lion's skin.
The Price of Place
THE wrong tool is not to blame for its inef
fectiveness. But even though we appreci
ate the mistake of its choice, that knowl
edge does not alter our attitude toward its per
formance. Thus, it is now obligatory upon National con
? ii5ce sensibly to estimate and if needs be,
boldly censure men chosen for certain definite
tasks of peace, who find themselves unable to
fill the specifications of suddenly imposed
war jobs.
America, in her extremity, is forced to oper
ate mainly with ready organizations and many
a legislator and executive, who might under
normal auspices have acquitted himself with
distinction, will fail to sense the values in moves
and measures for which neither training nor
expectation fitted him.
We are chiefly factors, farmers, financiers
and our leadership bears the mark of its molds.
At best, the present situation is a colossal
experiment in potentials and we must hold our
selves in patience as the experiment proceeds.
The majority of our first officers and adminis
trators will be half-baked tacticians ama
teurs hothoused for the front and the direc
tion of the ponderous, perilous enterprise with
its myriad ramifications, to be co-ordinated
under such pressure as no military undertak
ing of equal scope was ever before promoted,
is, for need of drilled and seasoned captains,
thrown into the hand of a novitiate citizen
body.
We are slated for bungles, bungles, bungles.
Problems, problems everywhere and not a man
to think the solution for half of them.
When preparation should be bounding along
air-lines, it is bound with red-tape lines.
Congress fiddles as opportunity burns.
Every day another regiment is being talked to
death on Capitol Hill. Fumbling, mumbling
incompetents snarl for the bones of party
credit, meanwhile creating fresh snarls for the
sore pressed Administration.
Many upon whom we have learned to pin
faith as authorities in their respective special
ties are destined to make a ghastly mess of
their alien endeavors.
Honestly won reputations will be bitterly
lost. When the strength of a commonwealth
is devoted to a life-and-death trial, the price of
place is critical with humiliation. We are bat
tling against a desperate and an amazing
enemy, and as fast as we recognize inferiority
at any point, instant correction and improve
ment are vital to our fortunes.
If politics, influence or sentimentality play
a part in this crisis if figure-heads are per
mitted to direct men or methods if false con
ceptions of gratitude for previous service
rendered the Republic mislead us to keep
square pegs jiggling in round holes if ability
alone does not rule our councils if the wisest
and shrewdest and staunchest are not permit
ted free thoroughfare and the roads to promo
tion are not always clear for genius and gen
eralship, then God help us.
Real Food Control
TENFOLD the thriftlessness of the American
housewife would not cost the country nearly so
much as the habitual shiftlessness of the Amer
ican farmer whose disregard of ordinary precautions
subjects an appalling share of his crop to bugs, blights,
worms and vermin. This year we cannot afford to
board the pests with usual lavishness. The high cost of
extermination is more than offset by the higher cost
of existing. Before we meet our new foes it is essen
tial that we beat these old ones.
Since Congress is in a billion-dollar mood, we urge
a proper appropriation for a vigorous drive against
the crop eaters. In the worst years we plant sufficient
acreage to satisfy our requirements, but the silent
partners of the farmer reduce the gross yields enor
mously. The right sort" of food control starts at the
beginning.
A determined and intelligent attack upon the forces
of pillage will materially support our military adven
tures and ease the pressure upon the popular purse.
JVhen one set of warriors is levelling their guns at
a temporary enemy, by all means let an equally impor
tant battalion turn their microscopes upon these per
manent ones.
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