The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald., April 12, 1918, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7

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WHY WE ARE
AT WAR WITH
GERMANY
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h t h a « th* Mafcry a f » h # rant < rtth .
school. I gave my name and was ac­
cepted. I had Joined the Snldde dab.
and my troubles commenced. Thirty-
two men of the battalion. Including my-
eelf. were m at to L ——% whore wa
went through a course In bombing.
Here wo were Instructed In the uses,
methods of throwing and manufacture
of various kinds of hand grenade»,
from the old “Jam tin," now ohaelata,
order detailing two nroa from each
Blighty. Ha had Mid, “whenever you platoon
go to bombing school to
gat la a charge and run year bayonet learn th* to duties
a bomber and haw
up to th* hilt iatoea German th* Frits to manufacture at bombs.
Noncommis­
w in fall. Perhaps year rifle will be sioned officers wwa generally selected
wrenched from your grasp. Do not for this course. After about two
Hast* Urns, If th* bayonet is fouled
a t school they returned to their
In bis equipment, by putting your foot j weeks
la mat billet» or In tha lira
«a Ms stomach aad tugging ut the rifle units
trend», as tha case might be, and got
to extricate tha- bayonet «Imply busy
their platoons haw to
press th* trigger aad th* bullet wffl make teaching
“Jam
tins.”
free It" In my peasant situation this Previously . a order had boon issued
was th* logic, but for th* Ufa of m* for all ranks to save empty Jam tins
I could not remember how ho had told for
th* manufacture of bomba. A pro­
sro to get my bayonet Into the Ger­ fessor
would sit an the
man. To m* this was th* paramount Are step of In bombing
th*
front
trench with th*
issue. I dosed my ayes and lunged , remainder of his section
crowding
forward. ‘My rifle was tom from my j around to see him work.
hands. I must hare gotten the Gar- j On his left would ba a pile ef aapty
man bacaase ha had disappeared.
About twenty faat to my left front I oa the Are step woald ha a miscella­
was a In«» Pi »salsn nearly six fast neous assortment of material used In
four Inches la bright, a fine specimen [ the manufacture of the “Jam flu .”
of physical manhood. The bayonet Tommy would stoop down, got aa
from his rifle waa missing, bat ha empty “Jam tin,“ taka a handful of
clutched th* barrel la both hands and 1 clayey
mud from the parapet aad Une
was swinging th* butt around his bead. th* inside
of the tin with this sub­
I could almost hear th* swish of the stance. Then be would reach aver,
butt passing through th* air. Three pick up his detonator aad explosive,
little Tommies were engaged with him. and Insert them Ip th* tta, fuse pro­
Thay looked Bk* pigmies alongside of truding. On the fire step would ba a
th* n seals n The Tommy on th* left pile of fragments of shell, shrapnel
waa gradually circling to th* rear o f , bolls, bits of Iron, anils, etc.—anything
his opponent It was t funny sight to | that was bard enough to aaad over to
ooo them duck tbo swinging butt and F rits; he would acoop up a handflal at
try to jab Mm a t tha asms time. Tha this junk and put tt In tha bomb. Per­
Tommy ussiest mo received tbo butt haps on* of th* platoon would aak Mm
what ha did this for, aad ha would
explain that whaa tta boo* exploded
these bits would fly about and Mil or
wound any Gorman Mt by s u m ; tbo
questioner would Immediately pun a
button off Ms tunic aad hand It to
the bomb maker with, “Wefl, Mam*
me, send this soar ns a souvenir,” or
another Tommy would m tunt asr aa
aanal appeal ara glvan out through
Mr. W. I . Ayar, Federal Food Admin- t h e NATION AND MORA I . d u t ie s
latrator for Oragoe, In tha fallowing Tha nil ora of Germany b a llo t that
thay have tha right to prarall over all
othar oat Iona Thay alao bailor« that
tha power of tha state la tha only oh
Jaot for which Ita rulara should Strug
until the next harvest (and tola la a gla. Still further, thay balls to that
military naoaaalty) wa meat reduce moral principles and Ideas hare no
our monthly conaumptton to twenty- glace la determining tha actions of
oaie million buahela a month aa against
state, since tha sola duty of tha
our normal consumption of about the
atato la to gat power. This la Oar
forty-two million bushels or fifty par man political philosophy. American
oant of our normal consumption, re political philosophy, from tha aery be
aarrlag a margin for distribution to
lug for general consumption approxi­
mately one and onebalf pounds of
wheat products weekly par person. nfter dental of the claims of moral
Many of our consumers ara dependent fasting, of international right, of hu­
upon baker's bread. Such bread must man decency and chivalry.
be durable and therefore requires a The German historian. Treltochke,
larger proportion of wheat products • t whom foot princes and rulers sat.
than oereal broads baked la tha home. eagerly absorbing hi* teachings, de­
“Tha well-to-do In our population voted hie life to spreading thle gospel
can make greater sacrifices to tha of Poseer. It to tree, he said snear-
consumption of wheat products than tngly, that “a stock of Inherited son
can tha poor. In addition our popu­ oeptioes of tategrity and morality Is
lation la tha agricultural districts, n necessity _ for government,
—
(useful,
where tha substitute cereals ara abun­ that subjects of tbs state . be
obedient),
dant. m mare skilled In the prepara­ but “the end all and be all of a
tion of brands from these othar cereals atato la Bswsr." “The state la tbs
than the crowded city and industrial sols judge of the morality of Its owa
populations. With Improved transpor­ actions. It is, In fact, above morality.
tation conditions wo now hare avail­
able a surplus of potatoes. We also emary In moral.”
have la the spring months a surplus From this It follows, in International
relations, that there la no rule or
eats for human consumption. The gnldo to eonduet exoapt self-interest.
drain on rye and barley ns substitutes In this present war n follower of
has already greatly exhausted the sup­ TrMtashka, ana of the loading com
ply of those grains.
moe-eehool educators of Germany,
“To effect the needed oaring of Klrschen stetner of Munich, driven
wkaat wo are wholly dependent upon boms the theory. “Th# great lesson
the voluntary assistance of the Amer- which the German people baa had to
lean people and we ask that the fol- learn la to think In terms of power.
. . . Lot no one hors say that
Flrst—Householders to asa not to
passed a total of owe and one-half Ilf* of their awn. True, so loag aa
ponado par weak of wheat products tha groat states around them allow
par parson. This mesas not more them to exist. But any day may see
than oas and three-fourths pounds of the and of their existence, la spits
victory broad containing tha required of an treaties to tha contrary. . . .
percentage of aobstitutoa and about Neither saliences nor treaties provide
oawhalf pound of cooking flour, mac­ tha level security . , ,y There are
aroni, crackers , pastry, pies, cakes, no ethical /Headship* betsseen states
wheat breakfast ««reals all combined. in our dap. . . . There are on Ip
friendships of convonlenee. And friend­
dubs to observe two wh set Isos days ship* of convenience last Just as long
par weak, Monday sad Wednesday, as ns the convenience Itself.” . . .
at present, and la addition thereto not Professor Buttnberg of Loipslg sums
to sorvo In tbo aggregate a total of It sp, “All ethical considerations are
more breadstuff*, macaroni, crackers, completely alien to the stats and the
pastry, piss, cakes, sad wheat break­ stats mast therefore resolutely keep
fast earsala containing n total of more them at arm's length.”
than two ounces of about flour to any Can we wonder that the German
one guest at nay on* meal. NO Foreign Secretary spoke of the broken
WHEAT PRODUCT« TO BE SERV­ treaty with Belgium as a “scrap of
ED UNLESS SPECIALLY ORDERED. paporr or that the school children
Public eating establishments not to of Germany celebrated the sinking of
buy mors than six pounds of wheat tha Lusitania/ <ff that German agents
products par month par guest, thus in America, smoothly rriendly in ap­
conforming with limitations requested pearance, secretly plotted, before wa
ware In the war, to destroy oar In­
of the householders.
our railways, even our lives?
Third—Retailers to ssD not more dustries.
than one eighth of n barrel of floor In there no such thing any more
a common humanity—no “decent
to gay town coasaatsr at nay one time aa
respect to the oplnios of mankind.“
and not more than one quarter of n aa
Thomas Jefferson stated it In the
barrel to nay country customer at
of Independence? Is our
any on# time and In no case to sell Declaration
of righteousness, yes, even of
wheat products without tbs sale of an Ideal
unselfishness. Impossible In Interna
equal weight of other cereals.
polities? This tear, if Germany
Fourth—Wa ask the bakers and is tlonnl
defeated, map decide these ques­
grocers to rodeo* the volume of vie tion*.
Oermanp spins, the strug­
tory broad—sold by dolivary of a gle has 6«f but if fust
begun.
three-quarters pound loaf whore one
This American democracy of our
pound was arid before and correspond denies,
has always denied, the
tag proportions In other weights. We Oerman and
theory; It asserts that tha
laws which formulate the duties of
man toward each other are binding
upon nations squally with Individual#.
For centuries civilisation has been
slowly advancing from ignorance,
prejudice, and selfishness toward sym­
pathy, understanding, and n desire to
see fustier done, whether between in­
dividuals or nations. The “be nil and
end nil” of a state Is not Power—it
1« Justice
And the German government has
loft us la no doubt ns to the results
of her theory. In application. That
government has broken - a solemn
treaty with Belgium, ordered tbs mur­
der of Innocent hostages, bombarded
unfortified towns, torpedoed unarmed
passenger ships, destroyed works of
art where they could not be carried
to Germany, plotted secret war against
neetral nations—an of them actions
she once pledged herself to forego—
has lost In short, nil sense, appar­
ently. that she is dragging the former
good name of tha German people
through a astro of dishonor, the stain
ef which will net be removed for
generatiews. Against this used phi­
losophy and mad government the war
mast be waged, until they ara de­
feated, or there Is aa safety far man