The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-07

SCdIICSJ L WOulQ De 2OOQ omen II
the revulsion against active socialism
should extend also to academic social
ism, which has been allowed to ex-
press itself in legislation during the
past four years. We now see more
clearly than ever before what social
ism means when ultimate test comes
1t means resistance to government
IN form OF tatamOunt to treason. To
coddle socialism in legislation is to
invite its Ultimate demonstration n ac-
ton. There has been too much of such
coddllng IN legislative action in this
country McCracken Enterprise.
Keep Camp SURROUNDINGS Clean
Sons and brothers are going ont
of thousands of honorable and honor
ed households of the United States to
give their services, their lives it may
be, to the defense of the nation. They
are answering the nations call. Al
ready, and justly, there rises from
these households a demand that the
nation, IN return, shall at the very
least provide for these, its soldier
boys, every possible safeguard
against the moral pitfalls that have
proverDially beset the pathway of the
man-at-arms- 1t is none too early to
arouse the authorities to the need of
safeguards of this sort Conditions
on the Mexican border were not
above reproach, as witness the sa-
looms that were strung along the
line, always inviting soldier patron
age Conditions that surround the
permanent Army and Navy stations
are constantly in need of betterment,
as witness the Newport situation
wherein the complaisancy of the To-
cal authorities has forced Secretary
Daniels to use the men in the United
| States service to keep patronage
| away from resorts that were said BY
the local authorities not to exist In
short, it is clear that the forces of i'm
morality are seeking to intrench
themselves IN or around every sta
| ton or camp where the young men
who are going forth to serve their
country are likely to be assembled in
any considerable numbers for instruc-
| ton, for practice, or in actual perfor-
nance of duty.
Strange as 1t may seem, city and
town authorities are not, as a rule,
alert to exercise their power of pre-
vention In this situation. However
much local officials may have bestir-
red themselves to secure the taking
up of their district allotment of Lib
erty Bonds, or to swell the contribu-
lions to the Red Cross, too often thew
forget their opportunity to contri-
! butte to the. support of the war by
| closing a resort or refusing a license
! to some craftily placed saloon. The
same officials who may be emphatic in
their demand for sanitary conditions
at military camps are not ALWAYS
! equally emphatic in their willingness
to insist on moral sanitation as one of
the prerequisites. Civilian bodies,
NO, g o1-4Ie
| sanitary experts, are giving attention
to this phase of the matter; and there
| are. indications that the national Gov
! eminent Will not fail to act in cases
! where the State and local authorities
| are derellct. But the demand for COM
! plete extlnguishment of immoral in
| 1uenceS about camps or in the neigh
! borhood for military or naval stations
| should be taken up by every we'll
| meaning man or woman who has at
/ heart the welfare of the country, its
soldiers, and the great cause which
| they are now seeking to defend. To
see that the boys and men in United
| states service have decent surround
| Ings, and are subject only to clean
influences while in camp or awaiting
| their call top Ositive activity, is only
one way IN which the non-combatant
! population of the country can "do its
Bit in the war; to assist even passive
~ IN giving aid or comfort to the
| the boys who have come from their
forces that would tend to demoralize
homes to offer themselves for the ser
vice of their nation is little short of
! treachery to that nation, and should
be dealt with by those summary
methods that are always in keeping
with war.
For war is the Great Adventure OF
this day and generation. The nation
that wages it should pause for no
federation and no quibblilng when the
end to be achieved is efficiency, based
on what is right. The families that
have given up Their boys are no
''slackers" in the nations hour of
need Shall the nation be slack
er" IN its response to the demand of
those families that their boys shall
have proper moral protection? =
Christian Science Monitor.
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