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The Washington times., 1917-10-14
The Wisdom of
Napoleon-No.2
his was Napoleon brief statement of the art of
Concentrate Your Forces.


The art of consists IN hdving aOdyS forces than
the the point Ohere the enemy attacked ohere
he attacks"
Napoleon victories apparently as easily with
inferior with superior force That is to say Napoleon
with hundred thousand men, perfectly ready to meet
another general with two hundred thousand men, five
hundred thousand men, BE simply took care that his men
should be and better placed at the point Of
actual decisive struggle. -
Don't think that Napoeons view of in battle
battle and successful strategy in one kind Of fighting
means successful strategy In another.
Napoleon beginning his career ambitious cautious
young soldier representing republican nation intensely
Jealous Of military glory knew that he must not expect too
great support from home-that he must win perish
Very often he could not equal his sdversares in
bs but always he managed to surpass them in numbers
the particular point where the hard fighting occurred
TO march aeGys the enemy at angle, and destroy
his forces detail"
armies marched against him They took different routes
stationed themselves in what they considered be superb
strategic positions The army was almost three times as
great his BE attacked onethr Of this foolish force
and destroyed while the other wothrds looked heplessy
On attacked the second third and won the day BE could
forces at every fighting point, as he combined his.
'Who has that to do NTH the agent trying to sell lot of
goods? What has that to do h the unemployed looking
for jobF"
you ask Of these questions answer you
easily Every man who approaches another with object
the equal Of the whom he approaches Let him simply
be better prepared the point Of attack he work
from the other let him be prepared show that he
do the work. and that the other needs have it done
If he wants to sell merchandise let him be thoroughly
prepared prove that his goods the best and that they
ere really needed
the who wants to win certain point will actu-
ally concentrate all Of his forces that point he carry
the day.
An eminent Washington statesman is superior to many
bootback yet this writer has colored bootback in
Washington unconsciously initiating Napoleon and putting
al of his forces moral sentimental and oraorica upon
pontthat of persuadng the statesman that he needed
He succeeded, and the statesman got the shine,
which, as matter of fact he did not need.
The coored concentrated all Of his energies
single point Of attack-the fighting point
BORROW NAPOLEoN'S IDEA. LEARN TO CONCEN-
TRATE YOUR FORCES. ..r
P.S-THE NEXT EDITORIAL IN THIS SERIES WILL
DEAL WITH THE WISDOM OF NAPOLEON IN ONE Of
THOSE DISAPPOINTING PHASES.
The Washington times., 1917-10-14
Labor Comes Into Its Own
in War
ncient Kings and Modern Financiers Realize the \
the Human Body When the BugIe Blows.

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The talk and thought Of the worlds war Effort rcss
%onsv " s'ns'0us se'' - siss' s
The physical and financial coward and sscksr .xists b.
iSM hs 11orG nr%Ie T.. h.o h...,.a.,d .h,. .. "a.
itself the deciding factor and readily pssssnty Violently
this nsh IN nnt;i "a ~ /. .rS
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This picture snuhasxes the Oreath tuth revealed IN an
wars since the beginning Of mankind and Of human brutality
You must have M millions @ % Of gun. 70 .hi. mean.
thousands OF skilled aDorers TO make the guns millions q
strong bodies to carry them into battle with the courage =
Iou must nave SHIPS TO Cross the ocean-skied laheE
must p build them good sesnsn must man them
You must feed and cothe your troops to hghk Labor
supplies the food and the clothing -.
Labor gives us an that we have, the comfort Of Tia
majority the uxuy and esse Of te few security For an sn
Rut war onlv mares reaI;xa at lahor 4, and MEAN.
and does : = - 2 -
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In peace the king looks from the terrace of his palaos
toward the field mines and marshes where labor ea an6
slaves and dies he power every one Of oss bodies
power to destroy any life.
How much Be got Of that working body yonde
marsh before it dies?that Ii the question How little food
plus how many strokes Of the LASH win keep that body work
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American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-01-11
U GREATEST YEAR.

In the year just closed no nation ever heretofore did a
volume of business with foreign nations reaching to a to-
tai of eight billions of dollars, with three billions excess
of exports.
The volume of domestic trade exceeded f~orty-fve bill
lions, an increase of thirteen billions, thus making 1916
our banner year. Unemployment of willing labor was
almost unknown, and wages were the highest ever Known.
The total of profits cannot be exactly stated, but 1t is
known to have beeen the largest in any nations eXper-
fence. The only trouble we have had was the number OF
strikes. due in large measure to the high cost of living.
The present outlook is for peace in the year beginning
from January /, 1917. Even if the war continued, the ex-
penditure of blood and treasure could hardly maintain it.
self; nor would America wish it to. ldealists among them
dislike the picture of themselves sitting upon a pile OF
money bags drenched with blood, while the world re-
proaches them with moral ~aloofness in a world CRISIS.
That is not the case. If the world war is carried to the
end Americans wish, their money and munitions will have
contributed to a result which hardly could have been
reached otherwise. Their moral force has always been
used to support peace, regardless of their profits. They
have turned their faces outward as never before, being so
compelled by the nature of their foreign trade. Thus IN
their economical and moral significance the figures as stat
ed denote a new era for all Americans. No manufacturer
no merchant escapes the influence of the statement herein
made. Men in public life also are compelled to take wider
views. Never again can any public man ask as was asked
in the senate, What have we to do with abroad, either in
trade. banking, finance, or world ~politics?" The CONVEX
sion of our country from debtor to creditor will Influence
our legislation as powerfully as our trade relations. Our
policies will have to be recOnsidered IN the new aspect OF
affairs. AL sorts and conditions of men will have need
to read, mark, learn and inwardly digest the trade sum-
maries of the year as a point OF new departure IN the ma
TONS economic history. We must profit by the eXper-
fence gained in our greatest year, and we will II we are
wise-Idaho Register.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-01-11

be defeated at an election held in a period of temporarily
inflated prosperity such as we now have.
1t is foolish to say that the result was due to mistakex
In the management of the Republican campaign or to a
failure on the part of Mr.. Hughes to meet the issues or to
the fact that Mr.. Roosevelt was not nominated. Mr..
Hughes made a powerful canvass. He was enthusiastic
Ically received everywhere, but the inflated prosperity
from one end of the country to the other made the
administration.
The cry that Wilson chad kept us out of war; made the
women, even those who did not like Mr.. Wilson, reluctant
to vote against him. Voters in the state of Washington.
who had been complaining that the protective tariff had
ruined the lumber industry of the state, forgot all about
it in view of the increased wages they were receiving, the
steady work and shorter hours.
1t is clear that the party leaders on both sides did nor
fully realize the tremendous advantage-th that Mr.. Wilson's
candidacy gained from the boundless prosperity of the
country. 1t is not remarkable that under such abnormal
conditions all political forecasts failed and that Mr.. Wilson
became the first Democratic president to secure the honor
of a reelection at the end of his first term since the days
of Andrew Jackson.
Mr.. Hughes was stronger than his party. Proof OF
this lies in the fact that he polled 100000 votes more than
Roosevelt and Taft together got in 1912. Chairman Will
cox and his associates conducted the campaign on the Re-
publican side with energy, efficiency and with a dignity
that commanded respect. The same might be said Of
Chairman Mccormick on the Democratic side. The peo-
pie will understand the situation better in the light of flu
ture events.
The pocketbook nerve is the one that must be touched
to make the American voter stop and think-Leslies
Weekly.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-01-11

sinister rumors to effect that some people who were "in
the know" did not let the opportunity pass to pick up some
easy profits in the stock market when securities went
tumbling, as they were bound to, as soon as the presidents
note became public property.
The incident serves to emphasize the power which an
administration holds upon values in this country. What
the presidents note did upon a large scale which affected
every industry whose securities are dealt in on the market,
can be done to a lesser degree with individual securities
by any one of a group of officials whose duties bring them
into contact with the industrial life of the nation. This
power, it is to the credit of American public life to record
has rarely, if ever, been abused-and it is significant that
it is only within the past few years that anyone has ever
seriously surmised that personal gain or any other private
motive lay behind any course of action on the governments
part. That such surmises are now rife is due in part to
the system which clothes officials with such enormous
power and in part to the askance with which conservative
minded people have come to regard much of the activity
in some circles of the present administration.
The remedy is partly legislative-by limiting the power
of administrative officers-and partly political, by see
ing to it that the government is lodged in the hands of men
and parties immune to sinister influence. The country,
however, has just voted and it is a trite observation that
a nation receives that sort of government which it de-
'Alene Pross.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-01-11
BASIS OF PRESENT PROSPERITY.

An increase of nearly ST. 0 000, 900 in the export value
OF 40 classes of commodities, the first nine months of 1916,
compared with the first nine months of 1914, conveys some
idea to the casual reader of what is meant by the express
sion war order prosperity"
Our total exports to all countries during the nine months
ended September 80, 1913, the last nine months of which
was under the protective tariff policy, totaled 81, 705 600,
600, of which Europe took 1895, 100000 worth or $50 per
cent, the 46 classes of goods under consideration account
ing for 10 per cent Of the total exports.
Seven of the first nine months of 1914 marked a period
of serious industrial depression in the United States. I'm
ports were increasing, exports were decreasing, and the
balance OF trade was running against us. The European
war bomb burst August ], 1914, and almost Immediately
there was a rush to our market of European purchasers
of horses, mules, breadstuffs and metals. In August, for
example, Great Britain made huge purchases of sugar in
the United States. Notwithstanding this stimulus to our
export trade, however, the total for nine months period
of 1914 was S265, 100000 below that of the 1913 period
Europe taking 1878, DOC, 900 worth, or go per cent, and the
As classes making up 40 per cent of the total.
But during the first nine months of 1916 our exports
averaged $434, 100000 in value per month, the total to all
the world being $3,907, 100000 of which Europe took II
per cent, or So, 100000 and the 46 classes accounted
for II per cent of the total exports.
Of course large quantities of goods included In the 40
classes are being exported to Canada, Japan, Russia-in-
Asia, as war munitions, and, no doubt, some of them are
for peace purposes, but that the vast proportion of them
are for use in the war can not be ~truthfully denied. 1t is
also true that a small percentage of them are consigned
to neutral countries, but any abnormal increase IN this d.
rection is due primarily to the fact that the markets OF
darby, to the fact that some of these goods lind their u-
innate destination in Germany and Austria a matter which
calls for the increasing vigilance of the British blockade.
1t has been the policy of the department of commerce,
for partisan reasons, to ignore exports OF foodstufts, etc,
in considering our war export trade, but the fact that
wheat took a tumble in price when peace conditions were
preached by the imperial chancellor of Germany indicates
the part which these products play In such trade.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-01-11
WHO DID 1T?

Inquiring readers of Leslie's write to the editor and ask
who elected Wilson," and What defeated Hughes?"
Various explanations are offered. We reply: 1T wasn't
the German vote; it wasn't the Catholic vote; it wasn't
the Irish vote; it wasn't the Jewish vote; it wasn't the Pro
testant vote; it wasn't the labor vote; it wasn't the people
who thought; it wasn't the people who never think. 1t
was Prosperity"
While everybody is working, with wages high and pro-
ducts of the farm, factory and mine at record figures, who
cares who is president? Who cares what becomes of the
country? The present is all right. Let the future take
care of itself. And it will, for an overruling Providence,
it is said, always takes care of Americans and drunken
men.
The editor says these things because ten days after cleo
ton he took a trip across the continent and had opportun-
tiles to talk with prominent newspaper aditors and public
men of both political parties in different sections. He
came to the conclusion that no president can or ever will
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-01-11
A LITTLE LIGHT ON A DARK SUBJECT.

Always unreasonable in his attitude toward the United
States, Carranza is true to form in his refusal to ratify the
agreement signed at Atlantic City November "a by the
American and Mexican commissioners.
Publication for the first time of the text of that agree
ment reveals the exceeding difficulty of holding Carranza
down to any plan of fixing definite responsibility on his
so-called censtitutionalist' government.
When one considers the terms of the agreement his re-
fusal to ratify it becomes indefensible. On our part we
ing-the withdrawal of American troops from Mexican
territory. The protocol deals only with that phase of the
problem and the policing of both sides of the international
boundary: 1t is silent regarding indemnity for American
losses of life and property. 1t obligated the United States
to withdraw P%ershings forces within 40 days from the
date of ratification.
If C~arranza had promptly ratified it and made good his
repeated and effusive assertions of his willingness and
ability to restore law and order in northern Mexico Amer
lean troops would now be out of Mexico, for the only limi-
tation the United States put upon its promise to withdraw
its forces was a reservation that sin case there are any
further activities of the forces inimical to the constitution
alist government which threaten the safety of the interna-
tional border along the northern section OF Chihuahua
the withdrawal of American forces shall not be delayed
tivities."
Carranza's refusal to sign the agreement can only be
accounted for on one of two theories. Either he is hope
lessly cantankerous, or he is playing "both ends against
the iddle"-popularizing himself with the ignorant and
%prejudiced masses by refusing to ratify the agreement and
making a show of demanding instant withdrawal of the
American forces, while secretly hoping that our forces
will remain south Of the border, and thus relieve him IN
large part of a task that he knows to be beyond his capaci-
'ty, or at least AFFORD MIN a plea IndI Cne presence Il Amer
lean troops makes it impossible for him to preserve order.
Apparently the administration at Washington mclnes
to the latter conjecture, for persistent intimations are
given that it is making ready to bring back the Pershing
forces.
1t has long been apparent that the situation is beyond
President Wilson's capacity. All his efforts to undo the
mischief wrought by his original error of driving out
Huerta and backing up Carranza and Villa have ended in
failure-the Vera Cruz expedition, the A. B. c. confer
ence; the flirting with Villa; the repeated appeals to Car
rama; the formal demand on the leaders of the various
factions to go into conference, and recognition of the Car
rama government when Carranza refused to participate
the pursuit of Villa, and now this last fascO of the Atlantic
City conference-have neither solved the problem nor
even palliated a trouble that has gone from bad to worse
in spite of all of DR.. Wilson's p~erplexed efforts to find a
remedy.-Spokesman-Revie
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-01-11
WHO LEAKED REGARDING PEACE PROPOSAL?

Presidents Wilson'S note to the European belligerents
was sent to the newspapers at 8 o'clock in the evening of
Wednesday, December 20. 1t was not to be released for
publication until after midnight. Yet at two o'clock that
dav a news ticker in Wal Street carried a report that the
president was about to dispatch a note urging the war
ring nations to work out the terms of peace.
These statements were printed in the New York Times
of Thursday, December q, in the course of an article deal
ing with the crisis in the stock market; and there is a ma
tural inquiry here as to who leaked" the information.
The presidents note was dated Monday, December IS
two days before it was given to the press; it was prepared
all reports agree, several days before that. Consequent
ly. its contents must have been known to a fairly numer-
Gus group. Washington gossip has been busy trying to
gain knowledge of the presidents purpose, and there are
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-01-11
HAMILTON.

January IL will be the one hundred and s~ixty-third an
niversary of the birth of Alexander Hamilton. When the
young nation started on its career it was given to Ham,
ilton to organize for it a financial system. 1t had ne
money; no credit; it was overwhelmingly in debt; its APP
parent resources were unavailable for use; to prepare for
it a financial standing seems like the attempt of a man
to lift himself by his own b~ootstraps. But Hamilton fOun-
.ded a system which was so perfect that its details are
still the rule in the treasury department. When Jeffer-
became president he said to his secretary of the treas
ury, Albert Gallatin, "Take all the help you need and all
the time YOU want, to correct the mistakes and wipe out
the frauds of Hamilton" Jefferson hated Hamilton be-
cause he was a dead square man and splendid soldier and
hated anything like sham and demagoguery.
Gallatin went to work and spent a month in investi-
eating Hamilton's work. Then he went to the president
and said: Mr.. President, Hamilton made no mistakes.
committed no frauds, his system of finance is the most
wonderful ever devised"
Could he be back in the flesh, in all his old vigOr, how
he would exult were he given again charge of the ma
tons financial affairs, with a treasury bursting with
money, with a nation of one hundred millions of people.
and rich beyond estimation.
He was a wonder among men. Born on foreign Soils
leaving schol when a mere boy to arouse a not over i'm
pulsive people to take up arms; the foremost orator, save
Patrick Henry, in the nation; the nearest military advi-
sOr of Washington; the clearest Drained man in the con-
stitutional convention; a marvellous lawyer-his mind
seemed to be a perfect cube. And he died at fortyseven
at the hands of a practiced duelist, who, after firing the
fatal shot, skunk away to Washington where President
jefferson gave him a state dinner
Next to Washington the reverence of the American
people for the men of T6 should go out to Alexander Ham
itOn.-GOodwin's Weekly.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-01-11

Governor Alexander, in his message to the legislature,
recommends a change in the election laws, requiring reg
istration in order to vote. This will meet the approval
of all right-thinking people. The present laws open the
doors to fraud. In one precinct, at the last election, TWEEN
ty-ive voters were sworn in, giving a residence place
which upon investigation turned out to be a vacant lot.
Another recommendation and one upon which sentiment
will be divided, is to give the governor power to remove
certain officers for failure to perform their duties. This
unuuestionably has reference to county attorneys and
sheriffs and the enforcement of the prohibition laws.
Power of this kind may sometimes be advisable, but
there is danger of its being abused. The source of al
authority is the people, and the prosecuting attorneys and
sheriffs derive their power from the people, the same as
the governor. A good impeachment law is safer, and the
Press believes, will be more satisfactory than to make the
governor the sole judge of faithfulness. and efficiency
No law can be enforced against public sentiment. No Law
can be adequately enforced against a divided public SEN
timent-where violators are shielded and convicting evl-
dence is studiously withheld. The wisdom of adopting the
governors recommendation is open to question.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-09
COAL CREEK NEWS.

John White was seriously injured
Friday when threshing machine was
backed onto him, nearly breaking one
arm and hurting him inwardly.
Mrs. Mary Middleton was taken to
Abbotts Hospital Saturday, and was
operated on for appendicitis. She is
getting along as well as could be ex-
pectcd at this writing.
Most all are done cutting oats and
the thrcshing machine IL making it's
annual rounds.
Galen Stout and Monroe Redpath of
New Sharon and Walton and Ray De
Witt visited Sunday at the c. w. De-
Wits.
C. w. Dewitt, wife and children
and Mrs. Briggs autoed to Oskaloosa
Saturday evening and heard the band.
DR.. Parker of Oskaloosa was out to
John Vanaulse and vaccinated his
hogs. ~
But little rain fell here Thursday
evening, but all were thankful for the
cnange from intense heat to cooler
weather.
Aug. 6, 1917. Dew Drop.