TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. NOVEMBER 7. 19J8
What was it that stimplated a re­ with this nickname, but it was not
TAFT CHARGES WILSON SEEKS
form of lamentable methods and de­ until late in the summer that they;
TO BE DICTATOR.
lays in clothing, rifles, machine began to realize its availability for
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guns,
artillery, and amunition but copy. There was the handicap that
Wants Democratic Congress he can
investigations in the Senate Military "doughboy” applied only to the in­
Mould "Absolutely to his Will”
Committee ot Republicans and a few fantrymen, but for a time the name
By William Howard Taft
(ByCourtesy of The Public Ledger)
Philadelphia, Oct. 25—The presi­
dent, having put by, ill grim times
lute these, the scruples of taste in his
appeal to the American people tor
the return ot a Democratic Congress,
oi course invites a respectiul consid­
eration and discussion by every loyal
American citizen oi what he says.
The appeal ot the president is for­
cible but. specious. The uniiied leader
ship he asas is autocratic power in
tieids in which the Constitution and
principles oi democracy require that
he should consult other representa­
tives ot the people than hiniselt.
In pursuit of his policies, he con­
sults neither his own party nor any
other. He wishes a Democratic Senate
not because he would seek their as­
sistance in the foreign policy to
which by the fundamental law they
are to advise the consent, but be­
cause he can mould them absolutely
to his will without consulting them.
He lias visited his displeasure on
every Democratic member of either
uouse who has differed with him
und called upon that member's con­
stituency to reject him.
Does Nation Need a Dictator?
The Girl and the Bishop
E was one of the best known American bishops, preach­
ing straight-out, man-fashion sermons to the boys in
France. Everywhere they liked what he said and the
way he said it
H
On a certain night last summer, he was scheduled to speak
in the big hut in one of the largest centers. His subject was
announced. The hour was set for eight o’clock. Everything
was ready.
It is not necessary for the country’s
welfare that he should be absolutely
ruler ot this nation tor the two years
ensuing from March 4 next? That is
the premise upon which the sound­
ness oi his appeal, in its ultimate an­
alysis, must rest. Do we need during
the lite of the next Congress a dicta­
tor? One who knows the facts of this
war, and our part in it, and who
loves liberty and popuiar government
must answer no. The war is nearly
won. It may taae a year longer. We
hope it will be less. The complex
questions of the terms of peace are
to be settled in the term ot the Con­
gress now to be elected.
The still more difficult questions
of reconstruction after the war are to
be met by that congress. Do the
American people by their action in
the next election wish to make both
the terms of peace and the recon­
struction after the war depend on
the uncontrolled will of Woodrow
Wilson? That is the issue tjiat he
puts to them in his appeal.
“Unless you give me uncontrolled
power you repudiate me and my
leadership before the world.”
Aut Coesar aut nullus.
Has Unprecedent Power.
Then came the telegram. It came in the middle of the
afternoon. It threw the head Secretary into a frenzy. It was
from Paris.
It said that the most popular American actress in France
would arrive to give her performance that evening!
The girl and the bishop at once!
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A hurried consultation was held and then it was explained
to the bishop how matters stood.
“What time does she arrive?” asked the bishop.
“A little after eight o’clock,” said some one.
“Then it’s perfectly simple,” the bishop went on. “Move
my meeting ahead to seven o’clock. It will last only forty-five
minutes. Then clear the hut, re-arrange the benches and
bring on your musical comedy star1 ”
“ Do you mean it ?** they gasped.
“Why, of course!”
And that is exactly what they did. At 7.45 o’clock the
bishop closed his meeting and at 8:15 o’clock the actress began
her show, from the same stage.
There was no pretense about it—no attempt to get an audi­
ence for a religious meeting by announcing a vaudeville show.
Each gathering was announced for exactly what it was. And
at both gatherings the hut was packed!
The American soldier needs diversion and entertainment
as well as he needs religion. He gets both at his hut—each one
in its place, each one clearly defined, honestly labelled, sincerely
offered.
This United War Work Campaign is for funds to carry
clean, wholesome amusement to the soldiers as much as to pro­
vide them with the athletic, educational, religious and social
background of home. It is to round out the lives of the men
whose existence in a foreign country would become narrow and
monotonous.
Give—to let the soldiers have a few of the good (things you
have every day.
Never in the history ot this country
has the President had such vast and
unlimited power as he has to-day. It
has been often exercised 'through
agencies selected by him without
great consideration ot the individual.
Far too many instances ot partisan­
ship in the selection ot these agencies
are known of all men to give point
to the President’s disclaimer of
thought ot party in this appeal. The
people restrained protest against ar­
bitrary exercise of power in their
anxiety to win the war. The power
which the President has was voted
to him by the Republicans in both
houses. They manifested no partisan
desire to withhold it, in spite of the
knowledge that it would tempt the
use ot it tor partisan purposes.
The great measure for which the
President can claim credit in this
war are the two draft acts, The first
he could not have secured but for Re­
publican support. The second he did
not initiate until four months after
he had first rejected It and until
after Republicans and certain Demo­
crats he had prescribed for differing
with him bad forced it upon his re­
luctant attention.
Says Statement is Untrue.
"“uuFTor me Republican dot^reiT
sional support that he has had in this
war he could not have conducted It
to its present status. He charges re­
publican leaders with seeking to take
the choice of policy and conduct of
this war out of his hands by putting
it under instrumentalities of their
own choosing.
The difficulty with this statement
is that it is not true. The mere men­
tion of the name of Julius Kahn and
his work in the Congress answers
every reflection the President makes
on the Republican minority.
What the Republican leaders at­
tempted to do was to furnish the
President with an executive organ­
ization by which he might carry on
the war more effectively. There was
not the slightest suggestion that he
was not to appoint those who were
to exercise the powers under his su­
pervision and direction. He did not
wish to delegate power to his ap­
pointees sufficient to enable them to
achieve what had to be done and so
objected.
In the end he was driven to do in
more awkward
way that which
months
before
the Republicans
sought to give him effective machin­
ery to do. Thus the War Council of
Mr. Baker passed into innocuous
desuetude, while Stettinius and Geo-
thali, first rejected, were given re­
quisite power.
Alleged "Lamentable” Waite.
Thus Denman was put forward,
withdrawn, then’ another, then an­
other and finally Schwab was given
the unrestricted chance to push the
making of ships So with aviation, a
lamentable waste and failure came
first and then Ryan with requisite
headship and authority is doing the
job.
willul put patriotic Democrats?
The patriotism and usefulness of
the Republicans as a minority in
winning this war stand out so clear­
ly as compared with that of the
leaders of the Democratic majority
that the Republicans may well go to
me people on the issue which the
1‘rbsident raises.
Nor is there any more real weight
in the President's plea that an elec­
tion of a Republican Congress will
injure the cause of the country in
this war abroad as a vote of want of
confidence in his prosecution of the
war.
Invokes Faith of Allies.
The intelligence which he says the
European people have, has enabled
them to see that an election of a Re­
publican Congress will mean a more
certain prosecution of this war to an
unconditional surrender than if the
President shall secure a House and
Senate who will only do his will and
second his desires.
The shiver which went through the
hearts of the American people when
implied proposals of the Presi­
dent’s first note for a negotiated
peace were so quickly accepted by
Germany was shared by all the brave
but suffering people of our allies.
For reasons apparent to all, the
real expressions of feeling in respect
to President Wilson’s utterances in
England and France are restrained.
But when the torrent of American
public opinion compelled a gradual
return toward a demand for uncondi­
tional surrender the joy of our allies
was unrestrained. They know that a
verdict at the election for a Repub­
lican House will end forever the
dangers which seemed to face a ne­
gotiated peace.
Instead of obstructing the Presi­
dent and our allies in winning this
war and a dictated peace, nothing
would so discourage the Germans
and hearten our allies as the return
of a Republican Congress.
“YANKS" THE ONLY NAME THAT
STICKS.
No Other Name Has Found Favor
With the American Fighters.
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Now that the American soldiers
are known as Yanks, everywhere in
Europe, says the Red Cross Maga­
zine, it seems strange that anybody
ever tried to fasten other names on
them. Yet there were many shortlived
movements to disprove in this case
the old axim that is lasting nick­
name must be spontaneous, not arti­
ficial. The Red Cross Magazine has
received from Heywood Broun, long
a correspondent with our men at the
front, the following accounts of
those futile efforts.
When the first division of the A.
E. F. set sail for France, it forgot
to pack its name with the rest of its
equipment. The omission was not
discovered until the tobacco ships
were three days out. Major General
William L. Sibert posted the follow­
ing notice.
“The English soldier is called
’Tommy’, the French soldier is called
•Poilu’ We would like suggestions
for a fitting name for the American
soldier.
Suggestions came fast enough, but
they were scattering. Some of the
names, such as “Gringo" evidently
originated along the Mexican border.
Others seemed pure inventions—for
instance, “Red Avengers" "Sammy”
was not mentioned and only one man
in the whole division took the trou­
ble to suggest ’’doughboy". The men
were using this word as a matter of
course and never thought of it as a
nickname.
! seemed to have been adopted as ap­
plying to all American fighting men.
Yanks It Is.
The next stage in the development
> of a real nickname for the American
army is outlined in this editorial ar­
ticle from The Stars and Stripes, un­
der the title, “Yanks It Is.”
Nicknames are not manufactured.
Where they are, the "nick” doesn’t
stick. The world’s greatest thinkers
couldn't plaster a nickname on the
American army ¿hat would stick 10
minutes.
For the American army has already
received his nickname over here that
nothing can shake loose.
It is “Yanks".
It wasn’t manufactured for the
American army, it wasn’t caiefully
thought out by any prearranged men­
tal drive. It was just the nickname
everyone over here took for granted.
Yauk no longer means a soldier of
the north. It means a soldier from
the United States—north,south, east
or west, so long as he wears the
khaki of Uncle Sam and battles or
works under the qld flag. It means
"Dixie” and Yankee Doodle" tolled
into one.
"Sammy” was a joke, and. a painful
one. "Buddy” failed to land. One
nickname alone has stood the shell
fire of discussion. It is Yanks—•
Yanks, representing north and south,
east and west, anything wholly
American.
You can’t manufacture a nickname
in a century, but one can be hooked
to you in a day—Yanks is it!
Finally on August 14, 1918, the
army's chief of staff, General Peyton
C. March, semi-offlclally sanctioned
“Yanks” and threw “Sammy” into
the discard.
SANITATION.
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That the germ is the cause of most
deadly disease is more than mere
theory—it is a real fact. The work
of tuberculosis sanitoriums, the ty­
phoid hospitals in the canal zone,
the vaccine laboratories are all evi­
dence of the fact that the safety of
man does not depend on good or bad
luck, but upon the fight which each
individual mukes upon the disease
germs, the cause of most losses ot
life and dollars. In selecting a weap­
on to kill the germs of disease several
vital questions muBt be looked squar­
ely in the face or disinfectanting will
be little better than useless. First—
Has the disinfectant the power to
kill all kinds of disease germs? 2nd,
Can the disinfectant be used safely
whenever disease germs are found?
3rd, Is it effective, when used any­
where and every where, and by any
body, and can it be used with safety?
Therefore a disinfectant that can be
used with safety must not be a poison
or coatine acid, whereas poisonous
disinfectants endanger the life of
human beings or animals, tilts can be
verified by turning to the files of
our dally pupers. When buying a dis­
infectant be sure what you buy as
your life may depend on that pur­
chase, look at the label, note the
germ killing power and if it is poison
or not. Disinfectants are measured
upon the gefm killing strength of
undiluted carbolic acid, which they
term a phenol coefficient. Look for
the phenol coefficient on the label.
B. K. was tested by the United
States Hygiene Laboratory and found
to have a phenol coefficient 10 plus
or ten times stronger than undiluted
carbolic acid as a germ killer. Much
stronger than coal tar disinfectants
—much safer.
Safe—B-K. contains .no .poison,
acid or oil.
Vive Le» “Teddiei”
Clean—B.--K. ,a colorless, leaves
Nothing on the list of suggestions ■tain on floors or walls.
appealed to the general or his staff
Drodorant— B.—K. destroys foul
and they decided to let the French odors leaves no odor of itBelf.
name the Americans. The first com­
Cheap to Ute—B.--K. is so much
pany had just swung into step up stronger than other disinfectants
one of the main streets of the land­ that it does more disinfecting for the
ing port when an excited Frenchman same money. Use it in Barber Shops,
cried, “Vive les Teddies. The French Barns, Bath Tubs, Bleaching, bread
public seized upon the name eagerly boxes, chambers, closets, cupboards,
and it was as “Teddies” that the cuts and scratches, house and kitch­
troops were hailed when they march­ en, laundry, nasal and throat sprays,
ed in Paris on the Fourth of July. nursing bottles, operating rooms,
But before the name was well estab­ purifying air, sick rooms, etc.
lished General Pershing told some of
B-K. is not a cure all but athor-
the newspaper men that he didn't
think it quite suited the need. He ough germ killer. Protect yourself
suggested that they think up some­ now ugalnst any dangerous disease
thing on their own account, and germs that you may come in contact
Henri Bazin of the Philadelphia Pub­ with by using B.-K. B.-K is sold in
lic Ledger asked “How about Sam­ quart and gallon bottles. Our guar­
antee. B--K stands absolutely on
mies from Uncle Sam?”
The general thought that might do what It does for you. Use it according
and the combined press forces of to directions then If you don’t find
America undertook to put this name it exactly as represented by us wo
over- to the American people. It oc­ will refund your money For sale by
curred again and again in almost Kuppenbender, bith phones.
every story sent from France to
America; but suddenly the war Cor­
respondents found that in spite of
the vast publicity machinery which
they controlled the word was not j
holding up. No matter what the rest
The complete Electric Light end
Power Plant
of the world did, the soldiers would
have none of the name. Somehow
Plenty of bright, safe clean
they felt that it had a curious belit­
electric light. No more hot,
tling sound. There was nothing verile
smoky lamps.
to Sammy as there was to Tommy.
One officer explained that he didn't
like the word because at West |
Point mess, the slang for molasses
was “Sammy". He had been out of
the academy for 12 years, but, he
declared even yet the word gave him
ACKLEY A MILLER
a sticky feeling!
Tillamook Garage,
AH the time "doughboy" went on.
Tillamook
Oregon.
The newspaper men were familiar
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