The Washington herald., 1917-04-20
How the Editors Are Viewing
America and the World War

diers were being poisoned and to demand
that they be saved and the offenders
punished? Or, as the Evening Post point
ed out yesterday. suppose the govern
ment should plan secretly to send an ex-
redition to Mesopotamia, would not the
people. through the press of the country.
have the right to be heard upon this ro-
mantle proposition7 A little debate upon
the ilf-fated Dardanelles expedition of
1915 might have been useful in averting
Disaster sss
No Room for IdIers.
tAtantA Constitutiouj
With the country at war and every
community unit Of it graphing with
plans whereby to meet successfully the
extraordinary demands of war, there is
no room for idlers.
There is something for every able
bodied man to do; and he who refuses
TO do his part should emphaticaIly be
given to understand that the United
States Of America is too small for him.
No man Is far-seeing enough to be able
even to approximate the wars duration.
But be IL short or Iong-drawn-out. II is
the patriotic duty of every citizen to do
his utmost to hasten its conclusion in vic
tory.
All men win share alike in the blessings
or peace when peace comes; and Just so
every man owes 1t to his felIow-citizens
and to his country to bear his share in
the winning of peace
This does lot necessarily imply military
duty; yet 1t does imply Just that IL under
arms the man can render his best serv-
ice and make the most telling effort to-
ward the coveted goal.
Service to country under war stress
may, and can with equal value and equal
patriotism, be rendered In civilian pur-
suits-in the industries. on the farms, in
the doing Of the days work
The demand, and the righteousness of
the demand, depends not so much upon
what the individual does, but that he
does something of account Thus the man
who helps feed or make shoes for an
army performs as necessary a service to
his country as does the man in the army's
ranks.
Boston Transcript.
The Sultan has presented the Kaiser
with a sword. Is the gift to be taken as a
hint to get busy and help the giver out of
his serious troubles? 1t would seem so.
The German sword has been OF very little
assistance to the Turks of late. Meso-
potsmia Is lost to them, and one Of their
armies. commanded by a German, has
been vanquished in Palestine. The British
Russian sword is penetrating the Ottoman
vitals, SO to speak. and II the German
sword is going to save the Sick Man. IT
is high time that II struck. The trouble
is that, so far as Turkey is concerned. it
cannot strike. having all and more than
1t can do elsewhere. The German Bull
garian-Turkish line may hold fast In
Macedonia, but it cannot do more. Even
In their present transition and doubt. the
Russians are evidently able TO hold their
line in Roumania, which prevents the
Germans from sending any army into
Asia to help the Turks against Russians
and British there. In the meantime the
, progress of Gen. Maude on the Tigris
is rapid, taking the conditions OF climate
and transportation into consideration. He
has advanced as far as Samarra. seventy
! five miles beyond Bagdad, and almost
half way TO Mosul. The Turks are plain
,, ly unable to oppose him. Already the
| talk OF Berlin to Bagdad' In Europe
has shifted to "Bagdad TO Berlin" Turk.
ish interest in the sword which Mehmed
! v has sent to William II will center
Ikeenly in the use which he makes Of IL