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THE G A ZETTE-TIiTES, HETPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1917.
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OFFICIAL PAPER FOR MORROW COUNTY.
Thursday, August 2, 1917.
PAYING APPALLING PRICE FOR UNPREPAREDNESS.
Assistant Secretary Vrooman declared in his armory ad
dress that the cause for which Columbia has drawn the sword is
so sublime as to justify the government in spending money
"like a drunken sailor."
"When the figures are weighed the term used by Mr. Vroo
man to emphasize his utterances loses much of its seeming ex
travagance. America's war bill, already incurred or in the way
of being incurred, totals $17,000,000,000 for this year alone
$170 for every man, woman and child in the nation.
Much the greater part of that gigantic sum is the penalty
for unpreparedness. Half of these billions would have main
tained universal compulsory military training for half a cen
tury. If we had had universal training for 10 years we should
now be immensely better prepared to grapple with Germany
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than we shall be at the end of the coming yenr after the govern
ment has spent this $17,000,000,000.
And the heart-breaking tragedy of it all is that war has
come upon us through unpreparedness and by reason of unpre
paredness. German militarists defied us because they thought
we were impotent. They contemptuously dismissed our pro
tests. If we had been prepared through universal training if
Germany had known that we had a reserve of 8,000,000 or 10,
000,000 trained citizen soldiers, with all the rifles and equip
ment needed for their immedaite service, ready to throw upon
the firing line behind the stupendous artillery barrage of France
and England one of two very different situations would now
lie before us.
In all probability Germany would have refrained from us
ing the submarine against passenger liners and American mer
chant vessels; would have respected our neutrality; would
have avoided all violation of our laws, all bomb plots and crimes
of arson and other lawless intrigues in this country.
But even though Berlin had thrown all prudence to the
winds America, with the preparedness of universal training,
would have been able to fight the war to a triumphant end with
but a fraction of the cost of life and treasure which we must now
pour into the desperate conflict. Spokesman Review.
Morrow county is proud of the fact that we have here in
Heppner one of the finest court houses to be found in the state.
It is now almost isolated on account of the condition of the side
walks leading up to it. One piece of walk leading up to the
May street bridge is so wobbly that it makes one almost seasick
while crossing over. Here and there loose boards fly up from
one end to crack the pedestrians on the shins, or maybe throw
some aged woman violently to the walk. Such conditions
should not exist. If we have said anything about these walks
that sounds harsh or overdrawn, we would advise you to take
an inspection trip over this route up May street to the court
house. If you get all the way over without stumbling, you have
walked in luck. The city may avert a damage suit if the prop
erty owners along May street on both sides leading up to the
May street bridge are asked to improve these walks soon.
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PLAYING THE WORLD FOR A FOOL.
Chancellor Michaelis discovers new evidence of entente
plotting. It is a conspiracy born of land hunger, of the greed
for national aggrandizement. Alsace-Lorraine is the stake and
the German empire is to be the ictim.
The worthy chancellor simply dresses an old ieda in tlu
new raiment of an alleged alarm.
It is a touching cry that goes up from the German Mace
donia. The more touching because, coincident with the dis
covery of this wicked conspiracy to despoil the empire of a peo
ple conquered and held in unwilling subjection for nearly fifty
years, leading German papers, that are always in the full cry of
Prussian sentiment, announce it to be inconceivable that Bel
gium should be released, of that the German frontiers in the
East should retire from where the fortunes of war have at this
time extended them.
The victim of an insane arrogance is never able to get a
true perspective of the subject matter on which his delusion is
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based, lhat is the only piausioie explanation ior ur. iuiciiaens,
seeking as the mouthpiece of the kaiser, to play the world for
a fool. Portland Telegram.
THE BRITISH ARMY.
"Great Britain has now in the field or in training approxi
mately 5,000,000 soldiers," remarked Lieutenant White, an
English officer, at the Willard. ' ' There are about 100 regiments
;-ach with a distinctive name and for the most part with a dis
; motive uniform. These regiments are old institutions preg
miit with tradition, such as the Royal Scots, the Fusiliers, the
3o! '.stream guards and the Gordon Highlanders. Each Regi
ment has great numbers of battalions. You see, the military
iiiit in England, is entirely different from that in this country.
For instance, a battalion in America comprises perhaps 400
men and a regiment at the minimum, say, 2000. In England it
is entirely different. A battalion has 1000 men and a regiment
raav consist of any number of battalions. The Fusiliers, for in
stance, comprise 38 battalions. In each battalion there are four
companies of ?'0 men with two captains. ,
"At tiio beginning of the war the standing army of Great
Britain did not exceed 250,000 men. Every regiment has been
recruited and rerecruited, and I venture to-say that there is not
a regiment in the army that has 100 of its men left who went in
to service at the beginning.
"While the English people several months ago really be
lieved that it would be better for the allies if the United States
were to maintain its neutrality, they have experienced a change
of mind, and now everybody is heartily glad that America has
come into the war, believing that it wil hasten the end. Nobody
in England has any doubt about the outcome of the war, but all
realize that it is a big task and that progress necessarily must
be slow." Washington Post.
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Another state joined in the funeral procession of John
Barlevcorn wlien Utah went dry last Tuesday at midnight.
Congress will have to hurry or the U. S. will be all dry before
they have the honor.
I Heat wave in New York killed 23 people in one day. And
: yet some of us Morrow county people had begun to believe that
Ave were having hot weather here. We are just fortunately sit
uated and don't know it.
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' The Morrow County Fair is just six weeks away. Are you
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