The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-28

people to a sense of danger seem so unsuccessful. It is hard to shake off the mental attitude of so many decades to rush to arms to ward off a danger is not felt.
 This, on the whole, however it may be dangerous, is a compliment oi no mean order to the courage of the American people. When people rush 10 arms and in frenzy upon var; it is when a great menace stirs their hearts and their impulses respond to the stim- ulus Of fear. So far the American people manifest not concern, not fear, not lethargy. But they do feel secure enough to argue out the question with cool indifference among themselves
 Pershing is a soldier. He knows very well how powerless is the lit le available army against the armed legions of the Central Powers now operating in Europe. It is his bus mess to know the tremendous effort required to organize lines of supply, and to supply the reserve depots with ample munitions. He knows the tremendous problems in trans portation. in communication, in mo- bilization and he faces still a people who will not commit themselves to any feverish reciprocal desire to meet the occasion.
 It is this that occasions his address exaggeration of the danger. Nevertheless it is less liable to be misunderstood than MAdoo's eau tion that this country must bestIt itself if it is not to be dragged at the heels of a militarism as has Belgium been.
 The average man will see no such danger even if repeated q thousand times, and such a state. ment is likely to occur to one as 2 wild possibility that is outside tue realm of reasonable probability.
 As it is the officials ought to be very well satisfied. Congress has passed every law asked of it. [; has donated billions. It has au thorized espionage laws; it has pro vided for a draft of men of mill tary age. Congress has made legal what Congress was asked to make legal and it is now up to highly empowered executive.
 It is true that to smooth the path for the enforcement of the draft, the war spirit has. to be fit ingly inculcated. Apparently np end of newspaper effort is being uti- lized for that purpose although in the last analysis the successful en- forcement will depend upon the exc cutive itself.
 It is true that not all have the same strong incentive to fight. Some men own nothing, have mo- thing and will in any event lose nothing A good many have fine fortunes, magnificent property and great Investments Their interests are none the less, the one and the other, made identical before the law. The man who has nothing will be asked to give his life ii need be, as well as the man who has so much to lose and so much to defend and such a great interest in defend ing it.
 Obviously it will not be easy to persuade the man who has nothing to lose or thinks he has nothing to lose, that he must give his service with the same devotion as he who has everything that tho human heart can wish for. That will re- quire tact: it will require the suit able culture of proper emotionalism and the development of a high spi- rit of self renunciation before the demands can be made of the citi- zen.
 Theoretically to act as if all were equal will only draw large dis counts in practical experience and lead to no end of trouble.
 It is realized by such able men as Pershing who know the dangers faced and the difficulties that must be ovcrcom }, that the people must be reused to rather sense of danger. of impending loss, of ap- preaching menace, of desperate ne-