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THE SUNDAY OltEGOXIAN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 9, IC17,
FIREMEN RUSH ON DECK, ENGINES STOPPED,
AS U-BOAT IS SIGHTED; GUN DRIVES MEN BACK
Difficulties of Naval Gun Crew Aboard Merchantman Described Writer Relates History of Campaign, Gleaned
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PART ONE.
First to Sleet the Foe.
(Compiled' from records of Navy De
partment.) For the most part, the United States
Is still preparing: to launch its attack,
vast in men and resources, as-ainst tha
German Empire. Armies that will be
counted by millions, money rolling: up
Into the billions, and the industrial
nerg-ies of the Nation are mobilizing
to smash a battle front overseas. Getting-
ready is grimly earnest business
which lacks the thrill and pageantry of
other American wars when, almost as
fast as they could be mustered into the
service, the regiments went marching
off to engage the enemy. In the pres
ent crisis the first martial note was
truck when Pershing's forces van
ished in a nig-ht and reappeared-somewhere
in France, but even there it was
the same arduous programme of train
ing, waiting- and preparing for the
word. '
Meanwhile, for more than - half a
year, there has been briskf ighting- on
blue water, single ship actions waged
with the dash and courage of the best
Tankee naval traditions, and episodes
to recall the fame of those privateers
men of the Revolution and 1812 who
fought for glory as well as for cargoes.
To and fro across the Atlantic, defying
the German submarines, the merchant
steamers under the Stars and Stripes
have made hundreds of voyages with
Navy guns and gunners aboard, and as
one of these fine lads might tell you.
"We are giving the country the first
run for its money."
Armed merchantmen! The phrase is
eloquent of a brUliant era of maritime
history which this generation has al
most forgotten, when Columbia, not
jsntannia, ruled the wave,- and New
England skippers fought with pike and
carronade to defend the freedom of the
seas. A century ago, when their stout
East Indiamen explored new trade
routes on the other side of the globe
and sailed in quest of ports mysterious
and unknown, there were always rows
of guns behind the bulwarks and crews
trained to man them.- 'A peaceful voy
age was a novel experience. These tall
merchantmen were harried by pirates
and privateers of a dozen races, and
they expected to swap broadsides or
pile on canvas in a stern chase all the
way from the Bahama Banks to the
ports of China, Sumatra and the Indies.
These American mariners were the
ons of the earlier race of Colonial sea
men who had sailed and traded amid
dangers so. manifold as to make their
hardihood astounding.' In vessels not
much larger and far less seaworthy
than the lifeboats which hang from a
liner's davits, they had dared distant
voyages and the swarming freebooters
of a bloody, lawless age upon salt
water. .
And yet, through two centuries.' of
maritime conflict, there was never an
-American merchantman sunk with her
crew and passengers by privateer or
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colors she flew French, Spanish,
Dutch or English. Such barbaritv was
practiced only, by the outlawed pirate
-with the black flag at his mizzen, and
far less often than is. commonly sup
posed. In fact, most real pirates -were
mere thieves who preferred plunder to
cutting throats, and fought no more
than they had to.
It was reserved for the imperial Ger
man government, exponent of a 20th
century civilization so superior to all
others that it had Its own distinctive
name-of Kultur, to. achieve an infamy
unique In all the history of the sea,
flthe wholesale slaughter and drowning
"of merchant crews and the people In
trusted to their care. " The drunken
"pri'vateersman and his crew, of gallows
ecrapings, or the red-handed buccaneer
crimes as abhorrent and incredible.
The great war in Europe has turned
military science upside down and
' tossed most of its precepts Into the
rubbish heap. - Invention has resolved
"it into a struggle of three dimensions
in i the air. on the land, beneath the
eea a clash of new factors ' hitherto
undreamed of. Battleship fleets which
were to decide the mastery afloat ride
idly at their moorings. Nothing re
mains that can so vividly remind us of
.other days, as this story of the armed
merchant ships which in 1917 are
steering out to win their way to port
'in order that precious merchandise may
be conveyed to those that sorely need
it. They are armed not as privateers,
but solely to defend themseives against
unlawful attack, precisely as were
those old American merchant fleets of
a vanished era. -
During the long debate in the Senate
over the armed neutrality bill the issue
was befogged by the "little group of
willful men." The President asked
nothing more than was "Justified by
American history and precedent. Hun
dreds of vessels used to sail heavily
armed out of Salem and Boston , and
Portsmouth in times of nominal peace,
nor did any foreign government con
sider it a hostile act. They were hon
est merchantmen in duty bound to
protect themselves against lawless ag
gression. And it was these same
armed merchant ships which " were
swiftly commissioned as privateers at
the outbreak of the Revolution and
swooped the sea like hawks. -They
captured 800 British ships, audaciously
hovering in the English Channel and
the Irish Sea, and dealt the enemy's
prestige a deadlier blow than' did
Washington's armies by land. 'It was
in merchant ships authorized as priva
teers that Captain Jonathan Haraden.
a figure to stand beside John Paul
Jones, captured 1000 cannon upon the
high seas and he took them all in the
smoke and flame of gunpowder.
Just why this stanch American doc
trine was revived against Germany is
easily understood by recalling certain
events of the last two years. It was
postponed because the Imperial gov
ernment gave promises which .were in
tended to be broken. The United States
was reluctant to believe that the
statesmanship of a' great nation could
be built wholly upon perfidy, dishonor,
and brutality. The pledges, of decent
behavior wrung from Germany after
the tragedies of the Lusttania and the
Sussex were wantonly violated-in the
sinking of the Cunard liner Laconla.
The German announcement that all
merchant ships would be sunk without
warning inside a barred zone -was the
conclusive proof that. all international
law was regarded as a scrap of paper.
This unrestricted submarine war
fare" was misnamed. .It was piracy,
pure and simple and of a kind so base
that Captain Kidd would have" blushed
for It. The President of the United
States, by means of the power which
be has the right to use without any
special authority granted by 'Congress,
notified all nations through the - De
partment of State on March 13 that "in
view of the announcement of the Im
perial German government on January
31. 1917, that all ships, those of
neutrals' Included, met within certain
zones of the high seas, would be sunk
without any precaution taken for the
safety of the persons - on board and
without the exercise of visit and search.
the Government of the United States
has determined to place- upon '. all
American merchant ' vessels sailing
through the barred areas an armed
guard for the protection of the vessels
and. the lives of the persons on board.'
Now. the distinction was very care
fully made, that these we're not armed
ships, but merchant ships carrying
armed- guards. This was ibecause the
guns and gunners were to be furnished
by the United States Navy as a part
of tne Government. In order to re
tain 'their status as merchant ships,
their skippers were to continue in
command and the gun crews were to
attend strictly to their . own business
of trying to sink as a pirate any sub
marine which Bhould fall to observe
the laws of boarding, and searching for
contraband. It was perfectly clear
that arming a ship for defense was a
right and not a belligerent act, and
that the presence of defensive gun
crews did not make vessels either
auxiliary cruisers or ships of vwar.
The old-fashioned mariner had no
such technicalities aa these to bother
his head about. His own crew fought
his ship as well as sailed her, and he
could find plenty of men trained to the
trade. - In these days, howeevr, the
Navy Is .the only resource for arming
a ship. What seems like splitting hairs
in the matter of the "armed guard"
was therefore a legal device -to let the
Navy do the work and yet avoid any
confusion as to the character of the
vessel. No matter how many guns she
might mount, she was etill e merchant
man controlled by her captain, crew.
and owners.
It was new business for the Navy to
undertake and the demand came at
short notice, in the midst of a rush of
routine preparations for war, when
every ..officer was fairly working hi
head off. To key the fighting fleet to
the highest possible notch of efficiency
was the one thought in mind. Here
was the armed guard, to be organized
overnight as a separate department of
the service, liners ad cargo steamers
tied up at the docks and clamoring for
their guns and gun crews, the country
very impatient and unfairly accusing
the Government of going to sleep on
the Job.
To lay hands on scores of guns of
the smaller sizes required was one
phase of the problem put up to the
Navy. They were not piled up In stor
age, like the. old 12-pounders in the
East .India warehouses of Salem a
hundred years ago. War was impend
ing, and it was shown that a great
number of these secondary battery
pieces would be required to arm trans
ports, the larger patrol vessels and the
rest of, the auxiliary Navy list. Arm
ing' merchantmen was an additional
task and a very large one. The guns
were found, however, and excellent
gouns they were, nor were the ships
kept waiting any longer than was nec
essary to build the platforms and
mount the long weapons in position.
When It came to getting guns crews
there were complications. The si
men who put a four or five-inch gun
through its paces are trained to work
together in highly perfected team play.
The word went to the fleet that so
many gun crews were to be drafted for
the armed guard and detached at once.
There were, lamentations and protests
in wardroom and on quarter-deck un
official, of course and rumblings
among the chief petty officers. A good
sight setter or pointer was worth his
weight in gold to any ship. The de
stroyers- could not bear to lose any of
theirs, because they would be first into
action when the war realy broke. The
rivalry among the great gray citadels
of battleships was too keen to sutler
their being robbed of men who could
put a hole through a target. It was a
situation rather up to the. private con
science of the commanding officer. If he
had a Puritan ancestry he obeyed or
ders to the letter and sent a picked lot
of gunners. If he let his professional
zeal stand In the way a bit. the draft
he forwarded was well, not quite so
well trained. Not such an easy matter
to decide when there are never enough
crack gunners to go round.
However, there came to these first
armed merchant vessels a wonderfully
keen lot of youngsters, long enough in
the service to know what was required
of them, directly in charge of chUf
gunners' mates and chief boatswain's
mates with three or four "hash marks"
or enlistment stripes on their sleeves,
seasoned veterans who are to the Navy
what the First Sergeants are to the
regular Army. Their officers may have
been reluctant to see these drafts leave
the fleets but the spirit of the gunners
was quite otherwise Instead of drill
lg in harbor they were to put to sea
and get the chance of action.' They
were the -envy of the shipmates left
behind. Shooting up submarines was
the proper stuff. Sftne sport to that!
That ships were sinking every day,
with never an opportunity to flght
back, . torpedoed from ambush, crews
blown up In their bunks or engine
rooms, or shelled in the boats, or freez
ing and drowning hundreds of miles
from land, failed to check the en
thusiasm of these eager bluejackets.
A gun properly trained on Fritz and
his submarine would blow him to
hades, where he belonged.
- It was a sport they knew nothing
whatever about, nor could their officers
teach them the lessons of experience.
A target so smalh elusive and momen
tary as a submarine was bevond their
conception. Some of them were natives
of Inland states, who had been sent
from the Great Lakes Training School
to the fleet, where they had their first
glimpse of salt water. Crossing the
ocean was a great adventure in itself.
Defensive action against submarine at
tack required schooling of a special
kind, but there was no time to or
ganize preliminary instruction among
these first gun crews so hastily drafted
and sent aboard merchant ships.
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plined men. Now they were to work
out their own salvation, perhaps no
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to the Navy-yard at an Atlantic port,
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crowded with bluejackets and marines.
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Then the curtain of secrecy was
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dered full speed ahead. And it was.
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There was a certain dramatic fitness
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liners should have been first to accept
the German challenge. Two of them
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keep the allied armies in the field and
maintain her Industries at home. Fab
ulous freight rates had recalled to
service every vessel that could stay
afloat and turn her engines over. Some
of them were email, with barely room
enough for their own crews, and no
quarters whatever for a naval guard.
Temporary deckhouses had to be con
structed, decks cleared of their gear to
make way for the guns, a hundred de
tails arranged to insure the health,
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of the bluejackets he came beseeching,
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they do without target ' practice and
shoot at no submarines unless they
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fitting out the ships and who flinched
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to take the best of care of the gunners.
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LAW OF THE TITHE
The Lord's Revenue System.
By Dr. JAMES E. TALMAGE
Of the Council of the Twelve. Church (
Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints;
Salt Like City, Utah.
Payment of tithes was required un- '
der the Law of Moses. Indeed the
prominence given to this requirement
in the Mosaic eode has led to the in
correct assumption that tithe-paying
had Its beginning In an Israelitish stat
ute. Tithing is older than Israel.
Abraham paid a tenth part of his gains
to Melchlzedek. who was king of Salem
and priest of the Most High God (Gen.
14:20 and Keb. 7:1-8); and Jacob made
a covenant to devote to the Lord's
service a tenth of all that would come
into his hands (Gen. 28:22).
Following the development of the
children of Israel into a theocratic na
tion, the practise of paying tithes in
kind became one of the features by
which they, the worshipers of Jehovah,
were distinguished from all other peo
ples. The requirement was explicit and
its application general, to rich and poor
alike. Thus we read:
And all the tithe of the land, wheth
er of the seed of the' land, or ef the
fruit of the tree. Is the Lord's i It la
holy tmto the Lord. ... And concern
ing; the tithe of the herd, or of the
flock, even of hntsoever panseth un
der, the rod. the tenth shall be holy
nnto the Lord." (Lev. 27:30.32).
As long as the people faithfully com
plied with the law of he tithe they
prospered: and when they failed the
land was no longer sanctified to their
good. Hezekiutv (see 2 Chron: 31:5-10)
and Nehemiah (Neh. 13:10-13) reproved
the people for their negligence in the
matter and awakened them to the
jeopardy that threatened; and. later.
Malachl voiced the word of Jehovah in
stern rebuke, forceful admonition, and
encouraging promise, relative to the
payment of the Lord's tenth:
"Will a man rob tisdf Yet ye have
robbed me. Bet ye sny. W herein have
we robbed yet In tithes and offertnsjs.
Ye are caned with n carsei for ye have
robbed me, even -this -whole nation.
Bring ye all the tithes Into the store
house, that there may be meat In mine
house, and prove me now herewith,
sallh the Lord of hosts. If I villi not
open you the windows of heaven, and
pour you out m blessing, thnt there
shall not be room enough to receive It."
(Mai. 3:8-10).
At the time of our Lord's personal
ministry the law had been supplement
ed by innumerable rules, comprising
unauthorized exactions, often based
upon mere trivialities. Christ approved
the tithe, but made plain the fact that
other duties were none the less imper
ative. (See Matt. 23:23).
During recent years great Interest
has been manifest in the matter of the
tithe, among theologians, ministers and
intelligent laymen: and the re-establishment
of tithe-paying as a religious
duty has been strongly advocated. It is
important to know that the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has
observed this requirement from the
early days of Its history not because
it was operative in ancient Israel, nor
because it was law and custom among
the Jews in the days of Christ, but be
cause It has been authoritatively estab
lished through modern revelation In the
Church. In 1838 the Lord systematized
the practise upon which the people
had voluntarily entered, and defined
the tithe as a tenth of one's individual
possessions: "And this," said He, "shall
be the beginning of the tithing of my
people. And nfter thnt. those who have
thus been tithed, shall pay one-tenth
of all their Interest annually! and this
shall he a standing law unto them for
ever, for my holy t'rlesthood, snlth the
Lord." (Doxtrine & Covenants 119:3-4).
The manner in which the tithes of the
people are to be paid, and the channels
through which the contributions are to
be distributed and used in the work
of the Church are specifically set forth.
As of old. so in tne unurcn or jesus
Christ of Latter-Day Saints today, tith-
inir is the divinely established revenue
system by which the pecuniary needs of
the ecclesiastical community are pro
vided for. And as of old so today,
tithe-paying must be a voluntary free
will sacrifice, not to be exacted by
secular power nor enforced by Infliction
of fines or other material penalties.
The obligation is self-assumed: never
theless it is one to be observed with
full purpose of heart by the earner
who claims standing in the Church and
who professes to abide by the revealed
word given for the spiritual develop
ment of Its members.
It is essential that men learn to give.
Without provision for this training the
curriculum in the school of mortality
would be seriously defective. Human
wisdom has failed to devise a more
equitable scheme of Individual con
tribution for community needs than
the simple plan of the tithe. Everyone
is invited to give in amount propor
tioned to his ability, and to so tglv
regularly and systematically. The
spirit of giving makes the tithe holy:
and It is by means thus sanctified that
the material activities of the Church
are carried on. Blessings, specific and
choice, are promised the honest tithe
paver; and these blessings are' placed
within the reach of all. In the Lord's
work the widow's penny is as accept
able as are the gold-pieces of the
wealthy.
Tithing is the rental we are asked to
pay on the property committed to our
keeping and use. We are but tempo
rary holders, lessees of property the
ultimate title of which is vested In Him
who created all that Is.
The Latter-Day Saints believe that
the tithing system has been divinely
appointed for their observance; and
they esteem themselves blessed in thus
being permitted to have part in the fur
therance of God's purposes. Under this
system the people have prospered sev
erally and as an organized body. It Is
the simple and effective revenue law
of the Church; and Its operation has
been a success- from the time of its
establishment- Amongst us it obviates
the necessity of taking up collections
in religious assemblies, and makes pos
sible the promulgation of the Church's
message, through the printed and spok
en word, the building and maintenance
of Temples for the benefit of both liv
ing and dead, to an extent that would
be otherwise unattainable.
For a more extended treatment of
this subject send for pamphlet "The
I.w of the Tithe." Address Bureau of
Information. Salt Lake City, Utah, or
Northwestern States Mission, elO East
Madison St.. Portland, Ore. Adv.
BETTER THAN CALOMEL
Thousands Have Discovered Dr.
Edwards' Olive Tablets axe
a Harmless Substitute.
Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets the substi
tute for calomel are a m?d but sure
laxative, and their effect on the liver ia
almost instantaneous. They are the result
of Dr. Edwards' determination not to treat
liver and bowel complaints with cdomel.
His efforts to banich it brought out these
little oliverolored tablets.
These pleasant little tablets do the good
that calomel does, but have no bad after
effects. They don't injure the teeth like
strong liquids or calomel. -They take hold
of the trouble and quickly correct it Why
cure the liver at the expense cf the teeth?
Calomel sometimes plays havoc with the
gums. So do strong liquids. It is best not
to take calomel, but to let Dr. Edwards
Olive Tablets take its place.
Most headaches, "dullness and that
lazy feeling come from constipation and
a disordered liver. Take Dr. Edwards"
Olive Tablets when you feel "loggy and
"heavy." Note how they "clear" clouded
brain and how they "perk up" the spirits.
10c and 25c a box. All druggists.