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the foregoing letter was printed that he
had not heard Of any confirmation, but
that such thing did not surprise him.
such reports have caused great
outcry. especially in the English press
Poor England. Will she never learn
what war Is. never understand what IL
means 10 be at war; Her condemnation
OF tying a soldier to a machine guns was
one Of her most foolish vsillings about
German methods of warfare. why not
tie man to gun? That's playing the
cursed game OF war as IL should be
played. It's one more difference be-
tween w&r as waged by military ma
tion and as waged by non-miiitary ma
ton.
DO you know what machine guns is?
The most Internal implement of that
harvester of death, war And what is IL
to the man that wieids It? It is. firstly, a
means to NOW down his enemy as a
reaper mows down wheat. and, secondly,
q means to prevent his enemy reaping
a similar harvest To tie man to his
cal 1t forces man to reap his har.
vest to the last second. and even a sec
ond is much when a machine gun Is in
question. Asfew seconds may save hun
dreds OF his comrades.
tht ibsUe.
1T is an accusation Of cowardice ?
Not at all. I honestly believe that am
no coward, yet | would hesitate to swear
that | would stick to my gun to the last
second unless / were strapped to Il, that
would not lose my courage. get cold
feet, or. to put IL more mildly, get rat
tied.
"One man chained to a gun may save
hundreds of lives so IL is not terrible
nor horrible, but noble and magnificent
II is not often given TO soldier in mod
ern warfare to die so noble a death. To
the English mind II means brutality. in
humanity, something shocking. But il
Is war, and In war there Is no place for
sentimentalism. Sentimentaiism is dan
eerous. War is brutal and inhuman and
the truth should be faced. l have no
doubt the bravest German soldiers were
as ready to be chained to their guns as
they were to fire them"
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San a German Soldier
Chained to Machine Gun

At various times reports have been
printed OF German soldiers being found
chained to the quick-fring guns which
they were serving, writes a Paris corre-
spondent Of the New York Sun. The Diff
nculty of obtaining first-hand evidence
about such a practice has he'd to these
reports being treated as inventions and
the explanation being offered that such
chains were part OF the Nordinary fitting
OF the euick firer French captain,
however, has written 10 say that the
stories are undoubtedly true.
During the September attacks" he
says I'm our sector In Artois, myself
saw German noncommissioned officer
In charge of mitrailleuse who had been
attached to his gun by iron chains locked
to his wrists. This man, though driven
crazy by our violent bombardnent and
by the ierceness of our attack. had con-
t.nued to serve his quick firer up to the
very minute that he was captured. Our
men had unfastened him, but had left on
his wrists the bracelets which fastened
him to his mitrailleuse.
This Boche, In answer TO my ques-
tons. declared to me that it was at his
own demand that he had been riveted
TO his mitrailleuse because an attack
was expected, and he wished to be sure
TO remain by his gun whatever hap
pened, as he was afraid that he might
be afraid. He added that 1t was frequent
In the German army
Retreat Blocked.
The captain went on to say that he
doubted greatly that the man had been
attached solely at his own request. but
that the fact remained, whether volun-
tary or involuntary. He added that the
Germans. when an attack Is expected,
have been known to wall UP their men
In the first-line trenches by placing sacks
of earth and barbed-wire obstacles In the
communicating trenches by which men
might retreat. Such men can only leave
the front trench over the parapets to-
ward the enemy or toward their own
second line. where they would be between
two fires
The suns correspondent with the
Foreign Legion, in reply to a request to
Investigate the truth about men being
chained to their guns. wrote long before
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30
The Kaiser's Mortgage.

There has been worse instance or for that
matter more characteristic instance OF the vici-
business of hyphenated spite and disloyalty than the
attack made upon Walter Damrosch, the musical
conductor. by the Vossischc Zeitung and other
German papers. By these organs of kultur Mr..
Damrosch is pronounced renegade because he
is in sympathy with the vast majority of other
Americans in condemning the worst excesses of
German imperialism. But renegade" from what ?
Mr. Damroseh was born and reared in America,
and is by his own culture as we'll as by sentiment
and temperament. a thorough American. His father
was born in Germany and the son, as an orchcs-
tral conductor, has done great deal to interpret
But his German paternity has not made him less
loyal as an American, and like great many other
Americans OF German parentage. he has not SYM
pathized at all with Germanys political and mill
tary ambition as evinced in this war For this he
is to be denounced by the poisonous Kaiseristic
press as renegadel Evidently the Kaiser holds
IL mortgage upon every person in America who
possesses any German blood, unto the third or
fourth generation.-Boston Transcript.
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Means Hardship for Fircmen.

Editor OF The Washington Herald:
Through the columns Of your psper you
have done a lot for the working classes
of our city.
enclose herewith a newspaper clip
ping describing how the nremen OF our
city are TO be dressed up like army off,
GERS. This has taken place and the fire.
men are Obliged to buy these elaborate
uniforms on little more than a laborer's
pay. This Is a great imposition on these
men who have the filthiest and most
dangerous work OF any OF the employees
OF the city. They suffer enough hard
ships without torturins them with high
standing collars. something that Is out
Of place on fireman. The added eX-
pense Incident 20 the purchase OF these
uniforms will reonire the firenen 10 be
paying for them for at least seven
months. for which the fremen and their
families will have to suffer. This fire
department has done its work well for
years and Il has not been necessary to
dress the men up and decorate them with
service stripes and gold
The changing OF the style OF uniforms
win leave the members Of the depart
rient with no less than i.co0 good uni
forms Of the old style on thier hands
with practically no chance TO wear them.
The greatest injustice has been done TO
the chiefs OF the department by having
an Inspection board, which 10 composed
OF captain and private. who have the
authority to inspect all clothing and can
order their superior officers to get new
uniforms when they think they need
them. In no other city IN the United
States is such thing done. t. e. place a
subordinate In q position where he can
order his superior officer to get new
uniform and pass on II as 20 whether or
not II fits The new uniforms should
have been issued November ] for the men
to wear, but owing to the large number
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NAVAL ORDERS.
MOVEMENTS OF vEssErs


Benhsm. arrived New York Yard. January p
Birmingham sailed foT Guacanayabo Bay lamar,
q; C2. C13 and C5 sailed fof Cris,ohal lamar
y; Cbsttsno1ga. sailed for Nanzsnlio, Isuasry q
tumminss. arrived Guaeauayat Bay. January a
Glacier. sailed for Mszstian, January q; McDoncsl
sailed for Guscsnsysbo Bay. January z N.a.lsan
hrrtrer Guaymas January 2; Nero. sailed 10,
To, lotsmpo. January 2: Ono arrived Norfon
Yard, Jsnuary q Potomac. sailed for Cristohsl
lannaFS .; senoma, arrived Cuastaasno. Isnusr,
n; Nicksbsns a,rired BreneTton. Jsnasp
Wyoming arrived Guantanamo. Jaassry .; Ysns
ton, arrived Guantsnsmo January a. -
NOTES.
The probable Gate of the sailing Of the oria,
from Hampton Roads for Guantanamo has b,.T
extended from the 9Th instant to the md proxino
The Jason. now at Bostoa. has been ordered ts
rrocsei to the Norfolk Yard thence TO tri,tpts
ssad return TO Hampton Reads.
ORDERS TO OFFICERS
Lieut. Junior ersdsl r. B. H2muea detached
to Atlantic Reserve Fleet
Lieut. Gunior radel G. J. MeMiiin. dstacaes
to Sacramento.
Assistant chaplain W. W. Eia~. ssp0...ed frou
January = lsA
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Secretary McAdoo is urging US to enter South
America for trade" says Mr. George w. PERRIN.
AT the same moment Secretary Lansing is urg-
ing US to leave Mexico and abandon our trad.
What is the use OF starting out to capture South
American trade, when this country's governmental
attitude toward foreign trade is fundamentals
wrong on almost every count?" So far as NJ
McAdoo is concerned he is probably trying TO n;ct
out few places for his goternment-owned sb;ns
to 60.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30

The first woman to sit on jury in Wvando.,,
County Kansas sayed two men accused of high
way robbery from the pententiary by holding on,
for two days and refusing to vote guilty" with
the men jurors. The instance lends color to N.
theory that if men were tried by women thew
would go free often as women who kill nou,
escape punishment at the hands of jurie. conn
posed of men.
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ARMY ORDERS.

Leave Of sb~ence for month on surgeon, Ger
ttcate Of disability granted Lieut.. Col Ronert n.
Noble, Twenty second Infantry.
Leave OF absence for one month on surgeons Ger.
tifcate Of disability granted Mai Arthur Williams
CORPS of Engineers.
Lieut., Col. George Montgomery. Ordnance DeTart.
ment. or one Of hts commissioned assistants viii
visit the Sandy Hook Proving Ground SANDY Hook
n j.. on Official business pertsining to the tea q
materiel under manufacture at the Flartford Ar.
senal.
Leave OF absence for two months granted Cant
Leo c. Mudd. Medical Corps to take eject on on
about April 4, 1915
The leave Of absencr granted Capt Cad Morgan,
Twenty fourth Infantry, is further extended fifteen
dsss
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30

The "amens' of Hon Cyclone Davis b,,;uu
been barred in the House he is left witbop,
Of expressing his individual approval of a sn..t.r,s
remarks, except by capping his hands. which -
a solo performance might prove even mo,e AZ
tracing than a fervent amen" How would it do
to attach small flagstaff to the Hon. Cyclones
desk and provide him with banner with an
amen inscribed thereon, which he could fling to
the heated arr OF the House whenever sentiment
appealed to himf
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30

Careful silent spy work, the deadly bounce
and the long, slow killing of nations spirit /,
said speaker in New York, "are the three stems
in the German method of conquest. Belgium's
fate at present is the last stage The first is GO
ing on in the United States" And the work of
the spies is being made easy while we are quar-
reling among ourselves and discussing all our mill
tary plans in the newspapers.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30

Mr. Bryan assumes that the income of the
farmers g per cent of the less than $1,000
100000 received for their crops last year." and
bases an argument on the figures, just as in the
old days he used to assert that the prices of wheat
and silver always moved abreast and shrdluuu
convincing argument on, that false foundation.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30

"Thc United States should whip an enemy at
the waters edge" said witness before the House
Military Committee. "If foreign power believes
we can do so, the chances of war are less" Can't
the preparedness advocates win over Nebraska.
Iowa and Kansas on that waters edge pledge.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30

One distinguished Englishman tells his coun-
trymen they must pray another warns them to
save, while Lloyd George says that next spring the
enemy will be overmatched with and mu-
nitions Still, praying and saving will do no harm.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30

Very little interest is being manifested in the
proposal of the Washington government to all
the belliserent powers that they agree on certain
principles of submarine warfare. The people are
weary of the interchange of notes that appear to
lead but to the parsng and Interpretation of diplo-
matte phrases.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30

The Germans have shelled the cathedral city of
Rheims again, because the allies dropped bombs
on Freiburg while the town was celebrating the
Kaiscrs birthday. A poor return for a contribu-
ton OF pyrotechnics auspicious occasion.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30
THE SOURCE.

II there is not some Fount of Love
Somewhere in this great Universe,
Whence comes the joyous treasure-trove,
AS from some boundless open purse,
That fills the heart of man with peace,
And mitigstes the sting OF woe,
And sends him smiling DER life's seas
Whatever adverse winds may blow?
(Copyrixht. N&l
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No doubt there some persons who have
been to the White House who believe it is quite
enough that the President knows the liars, with
out having the roster of the Ananias Club
made public.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30

Not even the daily horoscope could figure out
Louis Brandcis
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whose subject. Ar. WEI

Editor OF The Washington Herald
wish TO say that ]. too. would IN
to also ask the question. Whose sud
jects ere we" and that I agree wild
the writer. Heart and Sole America al
in last Sundays Herald.
Kiplinr's The American IN sev9
Seas, 10 10 my mind a true pictuj
OF US ss q people. There WAS A tiuI
when thought any one who woul
dare write such a poem should not :
allowed TO enter this country.
Ny country makes me ashamed (
call myself an American.
EUMfLIATFn
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30
But there is that philosopher!

but tHerc IS tHdt pHIIOsOpHcf!
What did he mean by saying there ought not
to be such a thing as duty? .......-.- ..
He meant simply that ought to convert duty
into pleasure. In that way alone, he believed
could we convert it from foe to friend.
It's our old theory of caring, isn't it?
If you will only care for duty, according to
this philosopher, if you will only love it, you will
conquer it. You will make it completely change
its character.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30

What's the Constitution between Senator Shep
pard and the Ant-Ssoon League?
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True Blue. of Germany Pareptaee

Editor OF The Washington Herald:
VIII you please grant me space in The
Open Forum" for a few words on pre-
pc redness. As native-born American,
true blue, but OF Germsn-American
parentage. l think the insiRustion. often
heard, that German-Americans as q
class. are opposed TO preparedness. is un-
Just. 1t is natural that they should re-
sist the attempts being gs-nade 70 burden
this country with a large standing army,
as they know what that means by e1-
perience In the Vsterland. Many Of them
served in our civil war, my father among
them. and in the Spanish-Americsn war
in which I also fit and bIed," and Il
seems the general opinion among them
that the Immense sums spent on our
army do not produce results. They know
that our army officers, with the e1cep-
ton of those of the engineer and med
ical corps. have no standing among mill
tary men In Germany. German military
authorities agree that our army lacks
discipline and would be inefficient in time
of war, in spite OF its large number of
officers, proportionately. and the high
salaries they receive Furthermore. Ger
man-Americans look with distrust on the
efforts Of army men to sbliosh the militis
and supplsnt it with a continental
army in which politics would probably
play as important a part as with the
regulars. However. IL the United States
should ever get into trouble with any
country whatever. they will be found, as
in the past, fighting for "Old Glory"
FIR. SCHULTZ.
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The New York World may now defy Presiden
Wilson to do anything it cannot support,
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30
A Line o Cheer Each Day o the Year
By JOHN KENDRIcK BANGS.

First printing of original poem. written daily
for The washington Herald.
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Q.e.tIe.. r.r tn

Editor OF The Washington H~rar
In New York paper OF recent ds
Theodore Roosevelt is quoted az "a
lows:
''The orowrins outrage nss BE-
committed by the Turks on the 4
msnisns- 1t is dreadful to think u
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Our Attitude Toward Duty.
oy JOHN D. GARRY

4
There ought not to be such thing duty" !"
says American philosopher.
He'is not anarchist
On the contrary. he is strongly in favor of the
established order.
And yet he believes that if there were no such
thing as duty in the world all the problems that
torment human beings would straighten themselves
out.
Suppose there were no such thing as duty.
What sigh would go up from weary hu-
manity
1t would be as if heavy burden had been lifted
from the shoulders of the world
Then there would be relaxation. refreshment,
ease.
The effort previously devoted to the perform
ance of duty might be given to something else far
more agreeable.
But one pleasure would be lacking, the shirking
of duty.
Many of us would miss this pleasure. Some
OF most delightful moments come from the
consciousness that for time, at any rate, we have
put off the burden of duty.
But we have to pay for this pleasure, as we pay
for so many of our pleasures most dearly priced.
And if, by chance, we avoid paying, for time, or
seem to avoid paying, there is some one else who
has to pay
For here is the invariabe quality of duty; it
must be done some must pay
And even If we escape paying for one neglect
Of duty we are likely to find ourselves involved in
some other neglect of duty that we must pay
for.
Always, in the end, those who neglect duty
pay.
The consciousness of this common fact Of ex-
perience is the chief of our finding duty so
heavy burden, so wearisome.
1t is plain. then, that there is no escaping duty.
Such being the case, how absurd of that Ameri-
can philosopher to say that there should be no
such thing duty.
No such thing as the thing of all things that
we can't possibly get rid of
How easy, for example. it is to get rid of hap
piness, or peace of mind, or property, any other
Of the most valued possessions in life!
But the more we twist and turn in our efforts
to get away from duty the more involved we be-
come in its meshes, in the cords it throws out to
trip us and cripple US and bind hand and foot
If we have sense we won't struggle We will
simply give up and attend to duty.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30
THE OPEN FORUM =
In Which Readers of The Washington Herald Ex-
press Their Views on Current Topics

Of misfts and several other delays. scnss
of the men have been Obliged TO accept
their uniforms whether they ff or not, II
thy hope &c. get any benefit Qua Of them
before the winter is over
FRIEND OF THE FIREMEN.
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Editor Of The Washington Herald: The
American press has already discussed at
length the President's preparedness pro-
gram from the military and financial
standpoint Is there not an sspert Of
the problem, however. more fundamental
than either?
Here we are in the midst of the direst
bleeding TO death. Asia Is straining every
nerve 10 hold our friendship. We would
seem 70 be safer from invasion than at
any time during our history. We are
not only safe. but we are prosperous
Our prosperity, however. is not the re-
suit OF our own planning. II is coined
out OF Europe's agony. And yet at the
very time when our hearts should open
as never before 10 the piteous cries from
across the water. when all our thoughts
and all our substance should be freely
given TO binding up the broken wounds,
when the hour calls for a supreme and
glorious unselfishness, we are proposine
70 retire within our little world and pro-
claim as our national policy. safety
first"
Instead Of considering how TO embark
on course that would bring us the
gratitude and love Of every nstion-such
for instance as taxing ourselves 70 lend
them billion dollars TO repair their
losses after the war-we propose a plan
that will inevitably make each one of
them hate US a little more
Some years ago we returned 70 China
100000. which was an ovefpayment on
the Boxer indemnity. That was not a
present TO China. but only a refusal to
keep what did not rightfully belong to
u.s. Yet the return OF that sum-hah the
cost Of a modern Dreadnousht-has made
the United States the most beloved nation
on earth In the hearts OF that great
Asiatic people now so sincerely cropping
for light and liberty. Is there not a les
son here for a nation that would plan
preparedness for peace?
Let us then make haste slowly In in
creasing our armaments. BY the time
the war is over we shall most likely find
the nations ready TO organize the world
for peace and some sort OF disarmament.
II that Is the case. any great burden Of
taxation now imposed on the American
people for armament purposes will be
wasted.
If the nations. however. instead Of
making a durable peace. only declare a
truce In order to continue the mad
scramble for greater and ever greater
armaments. then the United States. hav-
ing lost neither in treasure nor in men
will be In a better position than any other
nation TO enter the inevita BILE and crush
ing race whose end is death TO all but
the most powerful.
HAMILTON HOLT.
ITzl
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30
Protest From EI Paso,

Editor Of The Washington Herald
When the Wilson-Carrsnzs press agency
sends out from Washington a story say
ing that representatives of Villa, Zspata
Argumedo. and other leaders opposed TO
the policies Of Mr.. Wilson, President Of
the United States, and the de fscto die
tator of Mexico met al Cordova Cthey
spell it 'Cordoba'D and decided to kill
Americans, Il admits that an imports Mt
center in the state OF Vera Cruz is not
In the hands OF the Carrsnzs faction.
This is one of the many lies that are
concocted by our department Of lost
causes TO suppress discussion In public
and in Congress. II the omnipotent in
competents knew Of this conspiracy 10
murder our people and did not warn US
the responsibility rests on the so-cslled
Department OF State.
There is one fortunate prospect ahead
of the United States and that is that
President Wilson is sure to run against
the man who will next occupy the White
House, regardless Of who rune. This
country and our flag Is held in contempt
in every land in the world-and this be-
cause of our hypocritic and cowardly for
eign policies. The administration is ask
ing for an adequate army and nsvy-foT
what? To protect those individuals in
power against the wrath Of our own peo-
pie? Certainly they would not use Il
against any one but Hayti or Nicaragua
El Paso, Tex, January ..
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