South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-06-24

the ranks of the humble. He was always
equppng himself for something better and
that is the beginning of all success. He wasn't
afraid of responsibilities
lie was soldier too not in khaki drilled
i / to brave the lannon's mouth in awful
charge-but man behind the gun, away be-
hind, doing his mite in the ranks of prepared
ness and maintenance. The Anaconda mines
are great belcherS of copper-an indispensable
quantity in war preparations.
Almost since the first outbreak in Europe
the American copper mines have been taxed,
and taxed heavily, to meet the demands of the
allies for various types of war supplies.
At the moment of this explosion, that cost
ManuS Duggan his life, and which he had pre-
pared to lose so nobly, the Anaconda proper
ties had been practically requisitioned by the
American government; the output was in
enormous demand for the equipment of our
fleet, and our armies being made up for the
front.
Government orders were to be; were being
filled first There was a question at once if
the explosion had not been the work of med
dleSome culpntS fighting the battles of the i'm
peral German government. 1t may not have
been, probably was not but the men in those
mines were paving the way for oncoming
clashes beyond the seas.
Young Duggan knew this-he may have
been suspicious as to the source of the cataS-
trophe,-but this or no, he was whole Red
Cross hospital in himself 1t was as if on the
very battle front he had SuccOred the wounded
himself falling victim to a fatal she'll.
But he was a soldier and whole Red Cross
station in more ways than that
Everybody in America today, but very little
difference how employed, is in the service of
the country. That at least should be the ideal
even if it isn't quite all real.
The army and the navy are as the outposts
the battle front and the backbone-but back
of it all is the commiSsary and the ordnance
department and these extend all the way back
to the corn-feld, to the forests to the mines.
Work where you will and serve as you may,
you cannot, or at least should not feel other
wise. In the home, in the school, in the
church, in the store, the office, the factory the
fields. or as digger of old earth'S metals in
the operation of the railroads. the telegraph,
the telephone-you are almost always directly
or indirectly provider of the sinews of war,
somehow, that the men in the trenches or plow-
ing the seas may have equipment and a maxi
mum of power.
y EFT THAT SPIRIT-fee1 that way about it
VI and labor to that end, and no power under
the sun could force Americas defeat. Attach
yourself in spirit, and in purpose, to the ordi-
nance or commsSary department Of the army
and navy; consider yourself a soldier in some
one of these branches of government service,
employed that those in the advance may live
and serve longer and more effectively, and you
have increased the national man-pOwer just in
like degree.
1t is the spirit Of helpfulness; of living for
each other-the spirit with which Manus Dug
gan was endowed. 1t is the true spirit of CO.
operation, of real democracy; that which meas
ures the greatest good by what ii will do for
the greatest number Manus Duggan saved
the lives of twenty-five He lost his own. He
made the supreme sacrifice for the majority.
The United States too needs TO come to
that strain of thinking. 1t must come to it if
it is to win; come to it in populace and con-
greSs-a determined America first and Ameri-
ca always" not alone as against any foreign
power, but in preference to ourselves as indi-
vidualS.
1t must come to it in times of peace as well
as times of war; in the civil as we'll the mill
tary life.
At every moment every man is bound by the
he had no more to give. You a
the military, is very similar to t
IS Duggans and the prospective NJ;
lvo more chances TODAY anC