The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1917-07-19
Making War a Failure.


THEY are doing everything that
high freight charges can do to make
the war n failure, TO make it impos-
slble.
II do not say that they realize this
or intend IT. The thing has happened
naturally enough because the CONNER
cial processes which we are content to
see operate in ordinary times have
without sufficient thought been CON
tinued Into a period where they have
no proper place.
Il am not questioning motives.
am merely stating n fact and stating
10 in order that attention may be fixed
upon II.
The fact is that those who have
fixed war freight rates have taken the
most effective means in their power to
defeat the armies engaged against Ger
many. When they realize this we may,
! take it for granted, count upon them
to reconsider the whole matter. 1t is
high time. Their extra hazards are
covered by war risk insurance.
Warning Is Sounded.
81 know, and You know. what re-
Spouse TO this great challenge of duty
and of opportunity the nation will ex-
pect Of YOU; and I know what re-
| Spouse you will make.
Those who do not respond, who
do not respond in the spirit of those
who have gone 10 give their lives for
us on bloody fields far away, may
safely be left to he dealt with by
| opinion and the law-for the law must.
Of course, command those things.
Il am dealing with the matter thus
publicly and frankly, not because have
any doubt or fear as to the result but
| only in order that In all our thinking
and in all our dealings with one an
other we may move in a perfectly clear
air Of mutual understanding.
Must Have Same Prices.
And there is something more that
we must add to our thinking. The
public Is now as much part Of the
government as are the army and navy
themselves the whole people i'm all
their activities are now modified and
in service for the accomplishment OF
the nations task I'm this war; Il is
In such circumstances impossible just
~ 10 distinguish between Industrial
purchases made by the government
and industrial purchases made by the
managers of industries. and it Is just
as much our duty 10 sustain the indus
trials Of the country with all the in
dustries that contribute 90 its life as
~ is 90 sustain our forces I'm the field
and on the sea.
Think Not OF Self.
eve must make prices TO the pub
lie the same as the prices 10 the gov
eminent Prices mean the same thing
everywhere now. They mean the eff
cheney or the ineficiency OF the ma
rion, whether IL rs the government that
pays them or not They mean victory
or defeat They mean that America
will win her place once for all among
the foremost free nations Of the world
or chat she VIII sink TO defeat and be
come second-rate power alike in
thought and in action. This is a day
Of her reckoning and every man among
us must personally face that reckoning
along with her
"The case needs no arguing ] as.
sumo That 7 am only expressing your
owl luouEhts Whhi lhuNt ue IN the
I mind of every true man when he faces
I the tragedy and the solemn glory Of
I the present war, for the emancipation
I Of mankind
OF summon you to a great duty. n
/ great privilege a shining dignity and
+ distinction. 7 shall expect every man
+ who IS not o Stacker 90 boz at my side
f throughout thls great enterprise In
F So mo- man car win honor Mo thinks OF
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