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The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-12-16
LIE CONDIZIONI DI PACE
OFFERTE DALLA
GERMANIA

BERLINO, II - II Cancelli-
ere TedeSco Bethmann Hollweg,
ha oggi annunziato al Reichstag
quail sono lie condizioni di pace
offerte dalla Germania e che sa-
rebbero lie seguenti:
PRIMO: - La Germania con-
sente restaurare il Belgio e la
Francia Settentrionale.
SECONDO: - La PoIonia e
la Lituania devono essere rico
nosciuti come regni Independent
ii.
TERZO: - La Serbia sara RI
tenuta dalPAustria- -Ungheria.
QUATRO: = Tutto il terrific
rio perduto dai Bulgari nelI'ul-
TINA guerra balcanica deve es-
sere lOro restituito.
QUINTO: - Tutto il terrific
rio perduto dalPAustria-U -Unghe-
ria e con quistato in questa gu
ezra dallItalia deve essere resti-
tuito.
SESTO: = Tutti i possessi CO.
loniali della Germania nelPAfrica
mel Pestremo Oriente e nellie al
tire parti del globo devono essere
restituite.
SETTIMO: - La Turchia RI
terra Costantinopoli ed il suo
territorio in Europa.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-12-16
TERRIBLE MINACCIA AL
BELGIO

LONDRA, 13. = II "Daily
Telegraph" oggi Stampa in gran
de evidenza quanto segue:
'Noi siamo stati informant da
fonti sicurissime che recente-
mente i poteri centrali offrirono
la pace al Belgio al seguenti ter
mini:
81 Belgi sono invitad ad insi-
stere in favore di una pace i'm
mediata. In cambio di cio' il 10
70 paese sara ad essi restituito,
la sua independence garantita ed
auto finanziario dato Ger la sua
riabilitazione economical.
'Nel case che questi termini
siano rifiutati e. state fatto mi
naccia al Belgio che la sua stessa
esistenza, suoi monument, i
suoi ediici ed anche lie sue citta'
sono in pericolo".
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-12-16
GIL ALLEATI PRENDONO 5
VILLAGE IN MACEDONIA

PARIGI, II. - II communicate
odierno da Salonicco dice che
gil Alleati hanno occupato Gin
que piccoli villaggi sulla riva
destra del Vardar; che la neve
ostacola lie operazioni di fante-
ria in Macedonia, al nord di
Monastor; che un aeroplano ne
mico fu abbattuto sullo Steuma
e che aviatori alleati bombarda-
rono caserme nemiche nella re-
gione di Doiran.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-12-16
L'IMMIGRAZIONE RIDOTTA
A UN QUARTO

WASHINGTON, 8. = II Com
missario generate d'immigrazio-
ne, on'Caminetti, mel suo rap
porto an-nuale, mostra che Pim-
migrazione dall'Europa 81 e. ri
dotta ad un quarto rispetto a
quella normale prima della guer-
ra, in cui la media del nuovi ar
rivati era di circa l milione al
Panno.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-12-16
IL KAISER ANNUNZIA LA
PROPOSTA DI PACE
ALL'ESERCITO

BERLINO, II. - LImperato-
re Guglielmo ha notifcato oggi
ale truppe combattenti la pro-
posta di pace da lui fatta al ne
mico.
II meSsaggio dice:
Soldati:
D'accordo col sovrani miei al
leati e conscio della nostra Wit
toria no fatto una offerta di pace
al nemico. E. ancora incerto sc
esso la accettera'. Finche' non
giungera' questo momento Vol
combatterete."
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-12-16
LA SITUAZIONE MIGLIORA
PER GIL ALLEATI.

LONDRA, II. = Un dispacciO
da Roma ALA Wireless Press
dice che secondo notizie da Pie
troburgo, la Germania ha inco-
minciato a ritirare dalla Rune
MIA alcune Divisioni per trasfe-
rirle ad altri 'front.', e la situazi-
one degli Alleati in Rumenia di-
venta piu' favorevole.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-12-16
LIE ARTIGLIERIE NEMICHE
MEL TRENTINO QUADRU-
PLICATE

ROMA, 13.-Da information
da varie 'front.', lutte attendibii,
risulta che il gia' ,rilevante nu-
nero di bocche da fuoco posse
duto dagh austriaci mel Trentino
e state quadruplicato in QueSte
ultime Settimane.
L'aumento incessante dele ar
tigierie eseguito dial comando
austriaco allO scope di compensa-
re il progressive improvements
del materiale uomini mel proprio
.esercitO, era m fatto noto in tut
ii piu' minuti parLcolari al
nOStro Commando il quale in un re-
cente communicate Specifico' in
maniera dettagliatiSSima lie do
taziOni di materiale bellico di cui
PeSercito nemico man mano Sc
venuto fornendo. Da tale espo-
siziOne risulta che ogni divislone
di fanteria ha a sua olsposizione
76 pezzi, di cui una forte aliquO-
ia di medic calibro. Per tai mo-
do, dati gil ulteriori aumenti, lie
divisiOni austriache mel Trenti-
no posseggono attualmente ben
3O4 bocche da fuoco per ciaScu-
ma. QuestO numero di pezzi e.
enormemente sproporzionato al
biSogni dell'esercito nemico mel
Trentino, tanto piu' Sc 81 pensi
ch'esSo non e. memo diviziosa-
mente ricco in mitragliatrici ed
e. soccorso, per giunta, dale po-
sizioni formidabilmente forti per
natura. Percio' in queste in
formazioni 81 e. indotti a vedere
una nuova cOnferma dele prece-
denti notizie parlanti di grandio-
81 preparativi per una nuova of
fensiva IN grande stile contro
PItalia.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-12-16

VERSO LA PACE f?

che i suoi tentativi di invertire
Questa legge storica saranno og-
gi e sempre destinati al piu' di-
sastroso fallimento, e relegati
nella cerchia degli sforzi tortuo-
81 ed inutili.
La Germania potra' imporre
condizioni di pace soltanto guam
do essa, la grassatrice, avra' fac
cato lie ginocchie allie aggredite
Francia Inghilterra, Russia e
Italia, oggi piu' forti piu' in
vincibili che mai!
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-12-16

Lid O0IIIldIlld, Id QudlG C0nCd Oil
Spacciare a. monde i successl Ii
pOrtati sulla piccola Rumenia per
grand vittorie e vorrebbe AMI e.
levarli al grado di vittorie deci-
SiVe, tenta ancora una volta, con
manovra piu' stolta che able, di
gesuiticamente respingere la re-
sponsabilita' della guerra simu-
lare il suo ardente desiderio di
pace unicamente per sentiment
di umanita', formulando con tea
tralita' che non ha precedent,
proposte di pace su condizioni in
veroSimili.
Per quanto riguarda PItalia,
questa non deve prender alto che
d'una cosa: CHE LA GERMAN
Ia PONENDO A CONDIZIONE
CHE L'ITALIA RESTITUISCA
ALL'AUSTRIA I TERRITORI
CONQUISTATI, ANNETTE
UNA BUONA VOLTA OFFICI-
ALMENTE LIE NOSTRE GLO-
RIOSE CONQUISTE.
Del restO ne Italia, me- Inghil-
terra, ne Francia, me- Francia,
ne Russia, prenderanno in con-
siderazione neppur lontanamen-
te siffatte condition. di pace.
lie condiziOni di pace che uni
che e sole PIntesa potrebbe prem
dere in considerations sono queI-
le basate sui trionfo pienO ed as
solutO del sacrosanti principii di
nazionalita': ossia Ia restituzio-
ne alPItalia del territori triden-
TIM, iStriani e dalmati: la resta-
urazione della Serbia, del Monte
negro, e del Belgio; la restituzi-
one ALA Francia delPAlsazia e
della Lorena; la independence pi-
emma assoluta completa della
fOlonia.
la Lorena; la independent piena
aSSOluta e cOnnleta della Po1on-
la.
Che la Germania imbaldanzita
da successi affatto secondari CO.
me quelli riportati sulla Rune
MIA, creda che questo sia il mo-
mento Opportuno per riparlare di
pace, in verita' non sorprende:
ma che gil Alleati, pero' i quail
hannO tutti mezzi e dispongono
di lutte le risorse d'ogni volon-
ta' ferma ed indefettibile per
cOnseguire la vittoria defnitiva,
e pei quail piu' tempo passa e
piu' certa questa vittoria divi-
enc pei logoramento ed esauri-
mentO immancabile ed inevita-
bile del nemico; che gil Alleati
siffatte condizioni siano disposti
a prendere sui serio, e. un'altra
facenda.
Per ora possiamo assicurarvi
che a queste stolte condizioni di
pace PIntesa rispondera' in una
sola maniera: colo spingere en-
ergicamente la sua guerra liberia
trice.
E bene la Germania ricordi
quanto la storia insegna: cioe'
che fu sempre il gruppo di nazi-
oni alleate coll'Inghilterra che
impose lie condizioni di pace: e
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as we saw them, after weeks mobilization,
marching off TO defeat Carranza's .hordes.
And how the very sight of them inspired hun
dreds of US TO enlist!
In time of desperate need we ourselves,
again like our fathers, might volunteer to de-
fend our country. Unframed, unorganizei.
but loyal and brave, we would march along,
singing, as some unknown poet sang in the
Sixties:
I'VE are coming Father Abraham, three hun
bred thousand more,
From Mississippis grinding stream and fror,
WeO Engiand's shore;
We leaUe our ploughs and workshops,
Our ioires and children dear, IT,
With hearts too full for utterance,
With but silent tear.
We dare not look behind US, but steddfastly
before,
We are coming Father Abraham, three hun
bred thousand more"
Poets don't consider the months of work and
training necessary to fit newly recruited man
for the battle line. Willingness and money
10 again quote General Wood, "are not IL
themselves sufficient without the element Of
time Preparation for war requires a gree;
deal of time, and it requires tremendous
amount of organization. We cannot take
million or two Of men, despite the splendid
promise of former great statesman, AM
make them soldiers between daylight and dark.
1t would mean the destruction Of tens of thou
sands Of men, and certainly the ruin Of the
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nation that depended upon that kind Of prep
aration.
War is not matter Of getting a certain
number Of men together in these days anj
putting arms in their hands and having a band
march them out of town. War is opposing
the organized might Of nation against the
organized strength Of your own, and you can
not do this in happy go-lucky way. War Is
of all games the one in which team work
counts, and yet you expect US 70 put into the
field a million or more men and have them
ready in a few days. We cannot accomplish
the training and organization necessary to
meet conditions Of modern war without time
Spread-eagleism and hot air are not a secure
foundation for national defence"
Next to the question of organization the
matter of equipment looms largest The re
cent mobilization was delayed, in some cases
several weeks, because men could not be fur
nished with the necessary clothing and arms
Although the same difficulty experienced
in 90, we had forgotten the fact. Instead, we
have remembered William Henry Venable's
poem. Battle Cry" of May /, that year, ia
which he lives up TO his poets reputation by
telling US:
With nusket aud hducrsdck ready are ice
To tramp the globe over. TO Stceep eUerE sea.
From the isles of dead Philip to Floridd's Key.
I'VE think of the Name aud our hot bosoms
siceU,
And then ne are ready TO storm gates Of
He'll"
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To Mr.. Veaable the men Of 1898 and those
of 1775 are the same. They both could pick
up their muskets, lightly toss hayersack con-
tanning bite Of lunch over their shoulders
and defy the world They did not need uni
forms, field pieces, horses or other equipment.
On an empty stomach they could storm gates
of He'll"
The hypnotic spell which has drawn ved
over the eyes Of the American people has not
been cast alone by our more recent poets.
They found plenty Of examples for their ex-
aggerated and thoughtless enthusiasm in the
first contributions to American literature
In 1774 Joseph Warren, pleading for free
America, gazed into the future and uttered
prophecy that is still long way from being
fulfilled:
lift up your heads, ye heroes, Ma
And swedr NTH proud disddin, if4,M
The wretch that 1could ensnare you
Shall lay his sndres in rain;
SHOULD EUROPE EMPTY ALL HER
FORCE
WE'LL MEET HER IN ARRAY,
And fight and shout and shout and right
For North America"
With regard TO the books TO which our poets
have so copiously, if not freely, contributed,
Frederick L. Huidekoper, author Of THE
Military Unpreparedness Of the United
States" says:
Our school books are almost invariably in
correctly written. There is scarcely one-ard
/ have examined great many-which tells
the truth of our military history. 1t is very
natural. | suppose, and certainly much moro
agreeable task to depict victory and brilliant
success than it is TO chronicle disaster anG
failure, but it is high time that the American
people knew the unvarnished truth about their
military history. Unfattering though it may
be TO our national pride, few Americans real
ize that the United States has never been en-
gagged in war, except that with Spain, in
which il has ever employed less than two SOL
ders to every one used by its adversary In.
deed. in one instance, the Florida war, we had
under arms thirty times as many men as did
our opponents
Mr.. Huidekoper and General Wood are Paul
Reveres of our own day. Their message is
not midnight one, telling US that the enemy
is marching down upon US; rather it is an
eternal one, warning US to prepare for the fee
that may descend upon US at any moment.
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Bv Harold NJ. Harvey

10 ONE who has ever gone TO school in
the United States would, at frs.
thought. consider Henry w. Longfe'-
,.u Jobn Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell
uo,nes. Ralph Waldo Emerson or the rest Of
=. well known rhymiug contributors to Nc
~nsev's Third Reader as anything if not the
ct ardent patriots. All of US who have had
:. astav after school, because we could not
-, "bv heart their inspired tributes to the
v,ute Men, TO the revered Paul and his mid
.;,bt message, and to other storied heroes,
.,ld ever doubt their love of native land.
Vet this very pride in the nations fathers
=, sincerely presented in their poems has made
hem. unwittingly, TO be sure, enemies OF their
..rr,rvs welfare. On the foundation stone
. tradition. cut and polished by their verses,
..,v have founded cult which, because Of its
most universal acceptance by the American
.rbl;c. has resulted in most appalling lack
. ,-eparedness to defend Our persons and ouT
..orsrtv. After reading all our lives how our
iorsfathers stepped forth at a minutes notice
= drive invaders from our shores, we have
..-,e N believe that our country can never be
ssfsa+ed by arms, and that an unorganlzed
.ols;erv. BY merely shouting Boo" can drive
If all the hosts OF Europe.
Although we readily admit that our regular
army can in no way compare with the stand
:, armies Of the Continent, coached by our
,striotc poets we meet all arguments with
.bs fact that our active militia has always
;,,,,nsd into the breach and saved the day in
.i-,e ~ need. Just as the Minute Men stood
-ss5v 70 defend the people of the Massachu
sets Bay colony in 1775, we rest content that
.bo-e will ever be brave souls who will turn
.ho tide Of war when it beats against our
gates.
In his poem Lexington Oliver Wendell
Holmes writes;
"Sloscly the mist DER the meadows loos creep
ing,
Briqht on the deicy buds glistened the sun.
When from his couch, While hts children Were
sleeping,
Rose the bold rebel and shouldered his gun.
flushed ,cas his parting sigh,
While from his noble eye
Flashed the last sparkle Of hberty's fire."
There's preparedness for you! The Minute
Man goes peacefully 70 bed on the evening Of
April IS, l775. Along toward daylight Paul
Revere rides by, shouting: Come on, lads, the
rsdcoats are coming. Get your guns, and
veil show them if they can tamper with
Americans"
He calmly rises, kisses MS wife and sleep
ing babies, gets down his old musket from the
hook and unconcernedly goes forth to do battle
a, the bridge.
In contrast, consider a militia man Of to-
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prepared and unready. Such a procedure IS
simply murder; not only murder, but wanto1
murder, because it can only result from de-
liberate neglect and failure TO heed conditions
which exist to-day, and TO take heed from the
lessons Of all time. It is gross and brutal dis
regard Of human life"
When Longfellow burned midnight oil l.
give publicity to the midnight message Of Paul
Revere he did more than to put the engraver's
name in the mouth of every schoolboy and t
get an amusement beach called for him. He
laid himself bare to the accusation of being
the man who has done more 10 injure the pre-
paredness for defence Of the present genera
ton than any other of the New England poets
In the last lines Of paul Revere's Ride he
offers a prophecy, bald assumption, which
may force US who read it TO run, If ever we
are attacked:
Borne on the night wind Of the past,
Through all our history 70 the last,
THE PEOPLE WILL WAKEN AND LIS
TEN TO HEAR
The b,urying hoofbeats Of that steed
And THE MIDNIGHT MESSAGE OF PAUL
REVERB
If Longfellow believed what he wrote, ne did
not know the American people. In the well
ordered quiet of his Cambridge study he SUM
bered on little realizing that three-quarters OF
us would never get 10 business on time if II
were not for our alarm clocks, and that most
of US depend on a repeating alarm, at that
There are DOZENS yes, hundreds, Of Paul
Reveres who have been trying to waken US for
years, but we have slept on, waiting for sone
one 10 come and shake US, if need be, but
peaceful in the belief that we would be called
at the proper time Rushing madly after our
own particular interest, we have no time for
any midnight message, unless it be telegram
or one owe. telephone. We have not cared
whether the country was prepared for war.
Nothing less than a Black Tom explosion
would stir US. and then we would roll over IN
bed and say to ourselves Another subway
cave-in Oh, pshaw. III go to sleep again
There will be some one else there TO help, II
help is needed"
Before the Civil War Paul Revere was send
ing out daily warnings, and yet not until Sum-
ter was fired on did the North awake. In '9s
we slept as peacefully as infants until the
Maine was blown up in Havana Harbor M
wide-awake interest was shown in the recent
Mexican crisis until men had been murdered
in the raids on Columbus. Dragged by the
noisonous soothing syrup brewed on the
hearths of peaceful old New England poet,
we have drowsed in happy contentment
But we knew that some one would cry out
to US as Park Benjamin did on the eve Of the
last war with Mexico:
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Arm! ARM Your country bids you drm'
Fling out your banners freei
Let drum and trumpet sound alarm
Ger mountains, plain and sea-
"March on,cqrd from tn Atldntic's shore
To Rio Grdnde's tide;
Fight as your fathers fought Of gore! H.
Die as your fathers died.
$50 UindicGte your country's fame,
Arenge your cOuntry's tcrOngi
The sons should O1cn a deqthless name
To lchom such sires belong.
"To arms To arms Ye men Of might;
Array from hop,ei Away'
The first and foremost in the fight
Are SIRE to Uin the dGB"
And. of course. we would be the first and
foremost, In our patriotic literature, like
clipping brides in movie" thrillers, we
never escape our fathers. We must always
fight as they fought and die as they died. AS
a matter Of fact, if we did fight as they Tough.
we would be very sure to die as they died.
and much sooner. Our deathless names would
have 10 be sought in the numbered Identified
ton tags on some desolate battlefield and
there would be so many Of US that the search
would not be an easy one.
This praise Of the deathess name is another
failing Of our poets. They hirt with it, they
tease it into life and then they romp with IL
through yards of spondees or dactylics, leak
ing US on into the maze until we believe that
glory gratis, awaits every man who rushes 70
the colors.
"Come, pc lads who wish to shine
B,1ght in future story;
Haste 70 arms and form the line
That leads TO future glory.
Beat the drum, the trumpet sound,
Manly and united;
Danger face, maintain your ground
And see your country rigkted.'
The tremendous harvest of this type Of poem
that is gathered into the granary Of our lit
erature each time that we engage in war, or
even talk of it, has led US to look on war as
sort of tremendous Hippodrome spectacle.
There is nothing terrible about it, or the barts
could not use it as the subject for their pretty
verses. To US it means uniforms, bands, flags,
the sun flashing on steel, the tramp of many
feet. How splendid the regiments looked as
thew paraded down Fifth Avenue on their way
70 entrain for the border! How safe we felt
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The background corn grist in the mill,
The spade in earth the are iH- cleft.
"They trent where duty seemed to cal,
They scarcely asked the reason 'chy;
Then only knew they could but die,
And death tcGs not the tCorst OF ALL
Although Whittier has exposed himself Z,
by making US believe that MI
litiamer could march 70 victory at the drop o.
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az. A. 3 o'clock some morning he IS reused
y telephone message which informs him
"a, hostile feet has landed at Coney Isiana
I'd s advancing on New York. Would nc
IN his Uniform and snatch up his gun, ever
be had them with him, and dash by subway
me Brooklyn Bridge, there TO resist the
-sry's INVASION, II he did, would there De
poet eft alive in this broad land TO write
ssrzas IN praise Of the splendid victory such
Il Emerson wrote in his Concord Hymn:
BY he rude bridge that arehed the FOOD
TIER fag 10 ApriPs breeze unfurted;
here the snbattled turner's stood,
And fred the shot heard round the woTld.'
he nilitiamen Of to-day are not farmer
1T are keen, active guardsmen, who have
TILED Cnce each week for long time; and
what would the result be if they should
y, In moment from private life into N"
ga Most Of w have never stopped -
mar of that. When we have thought about
a. all We have remembered that such
S1,normstion has been successfully accom-
,'''st many times in the history Of our land.
can quote no less authority than John
''ehtsf Whittier land who could doubt hi'
'wsD:
"1yt n their suUuons came they teit
The Dio1ah Dqid-furrow stonding stH.
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the hat, ne saves himself somewhat by the
second stanza. In it he expresses, IN mill
degree, the feeling Of present-day army officers
In a recent speech on preparedness General
Leonard Wood, commanding the Eastern De-
partment said: 1--WE officers Of the army and
navy are looked upon sometimes as extremists
and as professional fanatics, but we are not So
We do not want 10 see your sons and your
Young men thrown into war, willing, but un-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-03

20 ONE who has ever gone TO school il
~ the United States would, at frs.
thought. consider Henry w. Longfe'-