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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-08-04
America Has the Right
to Demand Support
From Men Of Irish Blood
By T. P. O'CONNOR, Irish States
man and Writer
SAY in all solemnity to men o:

T SAY in all solemnity to men OF
l. my race in America, and | don't
think that nine hundred and
ninety-nine out of every thousand
need a reminder: Remember that
your W country is now in the war
against Germany; that it is in it as
much as England, in it as much as
France, in it as much as Italy, in it
as much as Russia.
America has the right-more
than any nation, indeed-to posi-
lively demand enthusiastic, united:
self sacrificing, c%onsecrated love to
her from the men Of Irish blood
AMERICA HAS BEEN THE REF
UGE, THE ASYLUM, THE SAY
TOR, OF OUR RACE.
America is at wal again, this time
with Germany, as at Gettysburg
where Thomas Francis Meagher lee
the Irish regiments to glory and tt
death. So generals of Irish BLOOD
will lead and die with American sol
diers. Again there will be the Kel
lys, the Burkes and the Sheas by
the tens of thousands in the Ameri'
can forces by land and by sea.
Will not every patriotic man Of
the Irish race, patriotic'to America
patriotic to Ireland, stand behind
these Irish soldiers and sailors
What is the true alternative of The
Irish-American at this hour?
1T Is CLEAR AND SIMPLE YOU
MUST BE EITHER PRo-AMERICAk
OR PRO-GERMAN. YOU CANNOT
BE BOTH.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-08-04
Insidious InAu.
ence Prompts Ger
many to Commit
Atrocities
ByPROFESSOR REGINALD ALDWORTE
DAILY. Harvard University


MANY of US have lived in Ger
4V1 many. We are convinced that
a goodly number of Germans
disapprove of the atrocities planned
and executed by their officials. We
cannot share the notion that the
Germans are necessarily of a differ.
ent race from the peoples of west
ern Europe and America. But there
is some insidious influence at work
in central Europe which has pro.
duced horrors, treacheries to civil.
ization, futile and stupid. If this
influence is alcoholism it can be
eradicated.
IN THE FUTURE, ABSTINENCE
OR GREAT TEMPERANCE AMONG
THE RULING CLASSES OF GER
MANY MAY ENABLE THEM TO WIN
BACK OUR RESPECT.
In writing this l do not, of course,
forget the larger issues leading to
the great war and its bitterness
the tragic accidents of geography
the vitality of that foolish doctrine,
the divine right of the state; the
decay of religious faith in much OF
Europe, the reversion to the bar
barian's belief that personal and ma
tional honor stops at the national
boundary and the political inexperi'
ence of most Germans. All these
enter into the problem.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-08-04

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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-08-04
Peace Will Bring FEEDER
alton of Nations Now
Fighting Autoc-
racy
By Lord NORTHCLIFFE. Head of
British Mission

TT is only by an absolute mobiliza-
1 ton of mar power and machine
power that this war can be won.
Industries that at this moment seem
remote from mobilization for the
war will sooner or later be called
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-08-04
American Enternrise.

The provisional government of Rus
STA has been offered $1,000 a week tc
let ex-Czar Nicholas pose for American
movies.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-08-04
PORTO RICO DRAFTS 1o4,98e
Only Thirty Alien Enemies Found OF
Island Territory.

The total registration in Porto Rice
under the selective draft law was 1O4,
9S6.
The registration is divided as fol
lows: White, 1925; colored, 24,605
aliens. 2,0T6; enemy aliens, 80.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-08-04

upon to do their
part. For one
thing the great
bulk of automo-
bile output will
b a to be
concentrated on
trucks. In the
second pla e,
the automobile
factories will
inevitab be
comma deered
for the manu-
facture of aero
plane parts and
~aeroplane con-
~struction gener-
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-08-04
LORD NORTH
CllFFE.

ly. In the aeroplane lies n great
hope of allied victory. The war has
taught that the aeroplane engine Of
spring may be almost useless for ac-
tual fighting by the next autumn, so
rapid are the Developments produc-
ed by the fierce competition of war.
HAVE A STRONG CONVICTION
THAT WITH PEACE WILL COME A
CLOSE FEDERATION OF THE Ma
TIoNs WHO ARE NOW FIGHTING
THE GREAT FIGHT FOR FREEDOM.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-30
Exodus Began Oct. Is;
$1,000 Marched Away
Omitted Press Leased Wire.

CAMP MILLS, Hampstead, l..
l., Nov. 30.-In the darkest hour
which precedes the dawn, thou
sands of Sammies of the rainbow
division marched away from their
camp here en- route to France
while the townfolk cheered and
showered them with gifts. Details
of the rainbow's secret departure
can now be told. following the an
nOuncement that this unit, had
safely arrived lover there"
About 3 a. m. on Oct. Is, the
rainbow division engineers march
ed away. Last farewells had been
said several days previously when
every man was given an extra long
leave. Many married during that
furlough.
AS the engineers tramped thru
the dark to their entraining point,
the townspeople of villages scat
tered around this part of Long
Island dressed hastily and came
to their doors in the chill of early
morning, to bid the departing
boys Godspeed.
This was the beginning of an
exodus that lasted more than q
week.
During that time $1,000 men,
fully equipped for fighting, with
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-30
MILITIA NOW
over THERE

CONTINUED From rage One.)
to the nature of other units "over
there"
The rainbow division is compos-
ed of troops from Louisiana,
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, New
York, Ohio, Georgia, Alabama,
Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota,
Maryland, South Carolina, Califor-
mia, Virginia, Missouri, North Car
DINA, Kansas, Texas, New Jersey
Tennessee, oklahoma, Michigan
Nebraska, Colorado, Oregon and
the District of Columbia.
Gen. Mann, formerly head OF
the militia division of the war de-
partment, commands the rainbow
division and Col. Macarthur, for
mer war censor, is his chief OF
staff.
The units, gathered from all
sections of the country, began col.
lecting at Camp Mills, Hampstead
l.. l., this summer. Since then
they have been trained and fully
equipped for foreign service.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-30
Coalition Government
Forming at Petrograd

IL tunited Press Lepsed Wiresp
PETROGRAD, Nov. 30 "A
coalition government, consisting
of bolsheviki, minimalists. inter-
nationalists, the left parties and
social revolutionaries, was In
process OF formation today.
The new government will con-
sist of a ministry representing all
these political factions, which will
be responsible to parliament
comprised of 10S members OF the
workmen's and soldiers soviet, an
equal number of representatives of
the peasants congress, 100 dele
gates for the army and sixty from
the trades unions.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-30
8 RYE WARNING
ON OLSHEvIkl

with that nation the policy he
adopted toward Mexico. it Will be
that the u. 8. will not interfere
with the working out OF the peo-
pies national aspirations. provid-
ed America 10 not affected In that
process OF evolution.
Such an attitude applied to
Russia would mean that the u. 8.
would neither disapprove nor ap-
prove of the bolsheviki and would
permit the Russian people as a
whole to work out their own
democracy. this government hav-
ing full faith In Russia's inherent
ability to save herself.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-30
SEEKING
TO HELP
RUSSIANS
BY LOWELL MELIIETT


(Copywright, 1917, by the United
Press.)
PARIS, Nov. 30.--America is
insisting that the allies adopt a
more sympathetic policy toward
Russia.
The result of the revolution
must be saved.
AS the champion of world de-
mocracy America is not inclined
to look upon Russia solely from
the viewpoint of the aid her re-
habilitated armies might be to the
allies. That Russia return to the
fight is a matter of extreme ne
cessity, but the U. S. would not
see her shackled again in the
bonds Of despotism, to gain this
END.
The U. s. is not going to stand
by and see democratic advantages
in Russia lost thru lack Of SYM
pathy from other nations allied
in the fight against autocracy.
The United Press is informed
en- high authority today that this
attitude on the part of America is
being clearly presented to the
delegates of the inter-allied coun-
cil, who held their first session
yesterday.
Representatives of all the ma
tons are thinking about Russia
at the present time above every
thing else.
Colonel House and his asso-
ciates are devoting themselves to
the task of maintaining allied
sympathy toward the revolution.
Talk OF TRAITORS" must cease In
discussing Russia, the American
delegates have pointedly impress
ed upon representatives of other
nations.
Premier Lloyd George pointed
out in his Paris speech how Serbia
and Rumania had slipped thru the
hands of the allies thru lack of
sympathetic action from the en-
tente powers. America is insist
ing that Russia not be permitted
f! to go the same way.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-30
TEuTONS prepare
FOR new ATTACK

Piave line. The enemy has not
ceased his efforts to find a weak
spot, but the initial impetus OF his
attack has noticeably lessened.
The Italian morale, as a result,
has increased to the most COM
plete confidence in all ranks that
not only will the line hold, but that
reinforcements will enable even
greater measures against the en-
envy.
Snow in the mountains to the
north was slowing up the fighting
in that sector today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-30
the fen D
BY BERTON BRALEY.

Time jeered about 1t with the rest,
Il Knocked the solemn-vsaged folk who sat
About the table, deaf to joke or jest,
Browning upon whoever dared to chat,
No, not for me, said that sort of game
Which caused such lines and wrinkles in the brow.
But suecumbed-and reye in my shame
I've joined the tribe, ind I'm bridge fiend now
ponder Foster day by day
read whole columns the New York Sun,
Which give the dope true strategic play
And how to bid two clubs when you have none;
try to this WISDOM times enough
1t leads to something mighty a
(My partners read another experts stuff
But the less l am bridge fiend now.
/ dream of bids and doubles and fineose
/ talk of leads and tactics when awake
And when play l show acute distress
At conversation that the others make;
Post mortems my habit, l essay
To show my partners where they erred, and how,
Few people play as badly as play
But none the less am bridge fiend now.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-30

Nine Drunks Picked Up
Nine men were picked up by
Tacoma police Thursday for in.
| toxication.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-30

fUnateA Press Lensed WIRE,
0TOCKHOLM, Nov. 30.-Allied
military officials, except Ameri-
GA, have served formal warning
a. Russia's bolsheviki authorities
that In attempting q peace with
Germany Russia is ruthlessly cast
ing aside solemn treaty obliga-
tons.
According to reliable informa-
tion here, the notice was In the
/. form of joint note, which was
delivered to the bolsheviki COM
1nander.
The widest speculation was
aroused here over news that no
Americans signed the note.
The allies message announced
- protest in the most energetic
manner against Russia's violation
\ OF the conditions OF the treaty of
August %, 1914, in which all the
allies, including Russia, solemnly
agreed not to conclude peace
separately"
The message concluded with the
admonition that "the signatories
consider it theN duty to warn
Russia that violations of this
pledge may cause very serious
consequences.
The omission of American sig
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-30

all their baggage and parapher-
MALTA, marched out of Camp Mills
en- route to France. While the
nation slept thousands of rainbows
embarked on their transports.
Toward the latter part of that
week the entraining time was
changed to q daylight hour and
the khaki-clad hosts marched quite
openly.
There we're stirring scenes at
the entraining points, when cheer
ing crowds thronged about the
men, tossing them cigarettes and
other presents, shouting and
- some women quietly
weeping.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-30

The omission OF American sig
natures to the note reported above
may be very significant OF the
policy of the U. s. toward Russia
II President Wilson follows
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-30
Pasadena Game
For Jan. LIST Off

The 91st division football team
at Camp Lewis was greatly disap-
pointed Friday to receive word
that negotiations for a game New
Years day at Pasadenas rose fes-
tival with the marines were off.
An Allentown, Pa, medical unit
team will fill the date instead.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-30
TEUT
RAID FAILURE


tOniteu PresS Leuseu Wire.p
PARIS, Nov. 30.-The second
powerful German raid in two
days, following violent artillery
bombardment and partaking al
most of the nature of a localized
offensive, was unsuccessful
around Chambrelles, today's Off
cial statement asserted. Artillery
ing was reported very intense
turnout the Argonne front.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-30

WITH THE ITALIAN ARMIES,
Nov. 30.-Italian aviators today
reported a heavy movement OF
troops behind the German-Aus-
Arian lines. 1t was believed that
the enemy, despairing of success
in forcing breach in the Italian
Hines. was preparing to move men
for blows elsewhere.
General Diaz' forces are now
definitely on the offensive at num-
erous points on the mountain
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-30
Will Entertain College
Men From Camp Lewis

To plan an entertainment for
the college men at Camp Lewis to
be given Dec. Is, the recreation
committee of the Collegiate Alum.
nj will meet Saturday morning al
1880 in the Y. w. c. A. rooms
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-30
IL Buried Miners
May Yet Be Alive

CHRISTOPHER, Ill, Nov. 80.
"A faint hope that Is miners i'm
prisoned in mine No. II, wrecked
by an explosion here last night,
may be alive was revived today
when rescuers who had penetrated
the debris within 40 feet OF the
men reported they could hear the
hum of the air shaft fan.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-30
BRITISH LOSE
l2O,679 In NOV.
united Press Leased Wire. }

LONDON, Nov. 30.--Novem-
ber's casualties among the British
army forces were greater by far
than those of any recent months,
according to compilations today
from published casualty lists.
During the month ended today,
Britain lost 120,679 officers and
men in killed, wounded and miss
ing.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-02

heard afar. No creature wants bis
flesh, no lady wants his plume, though
a more perfect and brilliant ebony can.
not be found In nature he is bit Of
the night with the sheen Of the stars
in II, yet the open day is his provinces
publicity his passion. A spy, police
man, a thief. a good fellow, a loyal
friend, an alarmist, socialist, all ID
one. Winter makes him gregariousr a.
it does many men: at night he seeH
the populous rookery in the WOODS, py
day be wanders in bands seeking 1000
In spring he establishes crow net
work all over the country and Is rare
~ out Of earshot OF some of his leiio'
How we should miss him from 'as
day, Among our community OF olrss
he is the conspicuous, al!-the-yeaf
round feature. We do not love MN
there is no poetry in his soul; ou' ~
challenges our attention; he is a.
home in the landscape. he Is ne'ei
disgruntled. Come rain, come shina
come heat, come snow, he is On III
Job and Is always reassuring.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-02
OUR COSTLY LESSON.

The only democratic system, says Colonel
Roosevelt, is obligatory, universal military
training In time of peace for our young men and
universal service in time of war for every man
and woman in the country in the capacity in
which they can do the most effective work.
Our only safety lies in our own armed
strength and the only way to make this
strength effective is to make it ready in adj
vance.
Because our government did not realize this
and allowed two years and half to go by
without the first steps towards making ready
10 play the part that was to be forced upon us,
all the men we have been able to get to France
In the four months since we entered the war is
little fraction of our regular army with moth
ing but their rifles, without artillery or air
planes and helpless against equal forces with
the equipment modern war demands It is ru-
mored now that some Of our national guard
NAV go abroad in November, which will be
eight months after entrance into the war,
and that our conscripted army is not expected
to be ready to sail until next spring. This is a
humihating exhibition of national ineffciency,
besides which we must spend billions IN a
costly hurry to make up for wasted time But
we probably shall have learned our lesson when
this war is over and never be caught so unprc-
pared again.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-02
Dancers Of Peace.

Kansas City Times: II the soldier,
in the trenches should read the reeen.
report OF a certain accident insufsnc.
company they might have some ssIa .
feelings as the sailor whose sls
was threshing about in great s'oiD
at sea ,,..
Il pity folks on shore 'oh ..-s
with chimney pots falling sua..ss
blowing off the caves Of houses aH'
trees falling" =.
The report gives the record ., "a
cidents to the companys ponc!n~
ers the last three months. IL suo. -
that a person doesn't have TO 90 ~
war to be in danger. Nineteen m e.
fell downstairs at home and
jured: ten slipped on floors ana WI,
hurt: seventy-nine sprained IN.
ankles; three slipped in oa'n, s.ss
and one died from that hurt; 'M l,s.
were injured getting out OF ped zoe
enty were hurt while at play ~.
were hurt while dressing. and tnlta
seven were hurt while working So
the house.
In one case a soldier went thiu .;n.
the fiercest battles of the war u
jured and while home on a tuiio's
fell and was seriously injured
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-02
BURROUGHS AND The CROW.
An Appreciation Of Generally Un
APPRECIATED Native Bird


John Burroughs, in Art World:
Country people are now much more
friendly to the crow than they were In
MY boyhood. He is not so black as he
was painted. The farmers have learn
ed that he is their friend, for all his
occasional computing and chicken
stealing. His is the one voice you are
pretty sure to hear wherever your
walk leads you. He is at home and
about his own business. 1t is not his
grace as flyer that pleases US: he is
heavy and commonplace on the wing
no airines, no easy mastery as with
the hawks; only when he walks is he
graceful. The pedestrian crow. how
much at home he looks upon the
ground-an ebony clodhopper, but in
Ills bearing the lord of the soil He al
ways looks prosperous: he always
looks contented; his voice is always
reassuring. The farmer may be dis
sruntled and discouraged; his crows
are not. The country is good enough
for them; they can meet their engage
ments: they do not borrow trouble;
they have not lived on the credit OF
the future; their acres are not mort
gagged. The crow Is a type of the
cheerful, successful countryman. He
Is not bird Of leisure; he is always
busy. going somewhere, or policing
the woods, or saluting his friends, or
calling together the clans, or mobbing
a hawk, or spying out new feeding
grounds, or taking stock of the old. or
just cawing to keep in touch with his
fellows. He is very sociable; he has
many engagements, now to the woods.
now to the fields. now to this alley.
now to the next-a round of pleasure
or duty all the day long. Not given to
solitude and contemplation like the
proud hawks. not pugnacious, never or
rarely quarreling with his fellows.
cheerfully sharing his last morsel
with them, playing sentinel while they
feed. suspicious, inquisitive, cunning.
but never hiding: as open as the day
in his manners. proclaiming his where
abouts at all hours of the day. looking
upon You as the intruder and himself
as the rightful occupant. The stiller
the day the more noise he makes. He
Is never a sneaker, never has the air
OF prowler. He is always in the pub
lie eye or ear. His color gives him
away. his voice gives him away: on
the earth or in the sky he is seen and
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-02

system under which a handful of wealthy junk
ers can outvote ten thousand people. Ii that
promise is kept the masses would have SO much
power in their own hands that the rest would
be easy and they could decide their political
destiny for themselves
When the military power of Prussia is
broken and Germany stands an impoverished
and isolated Ishmaelite among the nations, IS
there any room for doubt that the people will
make a clean sweep of their whole govern
mental system with its ridiculous divine-right
pretentions, which has brought upon them
their crushing woel AT the crisis of the Rus
sian revolution Milukoff, patriot but conserva-
tive, proposed to put worthier car upon the
thrne But four words from Kerensky ended
all thought of that Russia he said, sis a
republic Has Germany no Kerenskyf We
may not have long to wait before we see.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-02
THE TIDE OF THE TIMES.

Professor Heize of Germany, who has been
a staunch supporter of the dynasty and the
imperial system, declared not long ago that the
Prussians cannot stand alone in their resist
ance to the great tide of the times flowing to-
wards democracy throughout Germany. the
rest of Europe, the rest of the world.
Prussian despotism still stands as yet a
boulder in the stream of progress: but it is be-
ing undermined and the time seems not re-
mote when the torrent will roll it away. The
German people are now beginning to realize
the extent of the disaster their rulers have
brought upon them and to demand change.
Uhe kaiser promises them the abolition OF the