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THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS
4 BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 EioN coUNTRIEa
IN LATE DISPATCHES
ooINos AND HAPPENINGS TRAY MARK THE PROGRESS
 OF THE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR

we.tern N.w.p.per Union New. Service.
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of policy which, as Secretary of State.
he had woven for Mr.: Jefferson
But Mr.. Madison did not want war
The United States were not. strong
enough, particularly now that the party
in power had disbanded its army, dis
mantled its navy and reduced Its rev.
enues to MINIMUM; The Preslaen s.
He wished to fight only with the
weapons of nominal peace. embargoes
and retaliatory restrictions.
Napoleon was the enemy OF the civil
lied world. had been Americas own
enemy in disguise and had thrown on
the disguise. England was fighting him
almost alone. all Europe thrown into
beam, and now America had joined the
forces Of Napoleon. in fact II not In
tention. as he had planned. 1t was
natural that the raw and rural na.ion
should thus have seen Its own interests
in isolation and INDUCED its own pas
sion of resentment with selfshness
England's policy had cut America TO
the quick and had become intoleranie.
peration that that policy had been a
measure of war against the Corsican.
not against her; It was a traglcal nus
natural accident that the ~ war . snGn,a
France" This was President Wilson's
view of the war OF 1879 fifteen years
ago.
during this war, had left William and
Mary College, at Williamsburg. Va. and
in ITS Joined the Sd Virginia Regi-
ment near New York with the rank of
lieutenant. He took part In the battles
Of Harlem Heights. White Plains and
Trenton. where he was wounded. Dur
ing the campaign Of 1777-78 he served
on the staff OF William Alexander Carl
Of Sterling), ranking as major and taxi
ing part in the battles of Brandywine.
Germantown and Monmouth. In 1911
he became Secretary OF State under
Madison and acted as Secretary of War
in 1914 and 1915. AS head of the War
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.
PARIS, June 81. 1917.
RY concierge's mother is nearly
Wl eighty years old. Ever since the
S0' first month of the war she has
been all alone inside the German lines
with her only other son a prisoner In
Germany. AS soon as her little village
was reconquered by the French, my
concierge asked permission to go to see
her. Nearly all of the houses had been
destroyed. but hers was still standing.
and some dozens Of her neighbors were
sleeping in 1t. 1t was in the English
lines and, in the want of all things. the
British troops fed the population from
their own rations. My concierge asked
his mother what struck her most in
this change from German soldiers to
British soldiers.
English bread" she answered. Il did
not know bread could be SO good"
And all the neighbors licked their
lips in approval.
The sudden change from their priva-
tions under the invader. when they
would have died of starvation II IT had
not been for the American RELIEF COM
mittee, sharpened their appetites, no
doubt. But a Swiss doctor who has nao
the unusual privilege of visiting IN de
is made, cannot say too much In It's
praise-and Of all the other unexpected
things which he was permitted to see.
IT have been struck by the extraordi-
nary power which tho English have 10
improvise things offhand. adapting
themselves to circumstances In sur
prising manner. For they, too. kno"
how to Organize.
A captain showed the astonished
Swiss around the enormous bakehouse.
Like the other immense buildings OF the
base 1t has been run up since the MIL
lions of British troops began coming
into France Much of the material all
the tools and workmen-and work
been brought on from
England
Two hundred and fifty thousand two
pound loaves of bread are baked here
every day All this immense quantity
of bread is made by hand. and 1t takes
200 900 pounds of wheat flour daily.
There are 600 ovens, each of which
holds $50 loaves.
Heated water in a never-ending net
work of iron pipes takes the place OF
Are and the baking is done in one
hour The dough is kneaded by SOL
diers in $50 troughs In the upper story
In white from head to foot and every
thing around them is kept spotlessly
clean, and there all day long they
alternate their work with cleaning up.
When the dough is risen and ready the
Ioaves slide down to the ovens on an
Inclined plane. As the work Is divided
numbered, there is no possibility Of
Sinking As soon as the loaves are
baked they are taken out Of the ovens
and ranged on shelves running the
whole length of the building. There q
little railway carts them OF in its
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House of Representatives of the United
bled, That. for the purpose of enabling
the government Of the United States to
prosecute said war to a speedy and
successful termination. the President
employ the militia. naval and military
forces of the United States. and to call
for and accept the services of any
number of volunteers. not exceeding
either as cavalry. artillery or rif1emen.
to serve twelve months after they
shall have arrived at the place OF
rendezvous, or to the end of the war.
sum of S10,000,0O0 out Of any money
in the Treasury, not otherwise appro-
priated. be. and the same is hereby.
appropriated for the purpose of carry,
declaration or war was made by Con-
gress on May 10.
James Buchanan, afterward President
Of the United States. became Folks
the war with Mexico was successful in
avoiding or preventing the interference
Of other nations. He had been a
private in the war of 1912. When the
came to the Senate he was the only
member of the committee on foreign
affairs to report favorably on annexa-
ton.
President Mckinley. in 1898. made
sharp distinction between an ulti-
matum and declaration of war. After
reciting the grounds upon which Amer
lean intervention in Cuba was justifi-
able, calling attention to the serious
injury to commerce. trade and business
of the American people and the
'wanton destruction of property and
devastation of the island he said in
his message to Congress:
THE present condition of affairs in
Cuba Is a constant menace to our
peace. and entails upon the government
conflict waged for years In an island
so near us and with which our people
have such trade and business rela-
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E0o the soldiers who are abroad
and to the soldiers who are new
to camp life at home, 1.-The Star
q Spangled Banner" America,
Columbia, Gem of the Ocean" and
other patriotic songs. which they Will
listen to and which many of them Will
sing on independence day. will hold
deeper meaning than they have ever
held before. as for thousands the DAY
itself will convey its full significance
and value TO- the first time.
Although the United States has no
national anthem which is authorized by
law. it has hymns and songs a-plenty
which will inspire the soldiers sailors
and marines who have pledged them.
selves to their country's service at
home or abroad. and camp and trench.
battleship and line of march In TINS
country and in Europe will ere long re-
sound with the songs of Uncle Sam
fighting men.
1t was to learn something of the mu-
sic which is to inspire the American
boys in the war that call was re-
Gently made upon Lieut. w. H. Santel-
mann, leader of the United States Ma
rine Band the foremost military band
in the world Lieut.. Santelmann is proud
of his organization of seventy-hve
trained musicians. with which he has
been connected for twenty-seven years.
and which he has led for the past nine
teen years. having been appointed sue
cessor to his former leader. John Philip
Sousa.
while the United States has no ma
tional anthem authorized by federal
law, army and navy regulations pro-
vide that 's'The Star SDanGled Banner
shall be designated as the national air
of the United States of America. SO far
as the military and naval service is
concerned said Lieut. Santelmann,
land it is now played in camp every
day and in war time it is played at the
close of every military musical pro-
gram
Asked regarding the favorite march
ing songs of the soldiers. Lieut.. Santel-
mann replied: There are only few
specific songs composed for and used by
the service alone, but the soldiers make
their own selection. as suits the time OF
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that state of war existed between the
United States of America and Spain.
and urged speedy action. Ito the end
that the definition of the international
status of the United States as bel
ligerent power may be made known
and the assertion Of all its rights and
the maintenance of all It's duties in the
conduct of a public war may be as
sured"
Congress. on the same day, responded
with the following resolution: BE it
resolved by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States
of America. in Congress assembled:
First, that war be. and the same is
has existed since the 21st day of April.
AID. 1898. including said day, between
the United States of America and the
kingdom of Spain. Second. that the
President Of the United States be. and
he hereby is. directed and empowered
to use the entire land and naval force
of the United States and to call into
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English i'm France Show
That They Cam 'Orgamize' %

wagons to be put in sacks and taken
to the troops at the front.
Swiss doe aay s Mss seoooe ossss ..i
warm and smelling deliciously. Brit
ish soldiers are eating better bread
than we do in Switzerland"
The Swiss was quite as much as .on.
ished when he went on to what looked
my eyes the biggest heaps OF utterly
different objects 1 had ever seen. II
was the accumulation OF everything
that had been brought back from the
battlefields."
Clothes, leather. arms and cannons.
helmets and wheels and all the rest
were there waiting to be examined.
Nothing is destroyed unless it can
never in any way be used again. go
on every battlefield everything is gath
cred up.
Whatever is found in the German
trenches is examined with particular
care. This is because 1t may disclose
some secret in its making. some I'M
provement in arms or in equipment de-
tails As the Swiss doctor passed Of
fcers were taking a German machine
gun to pieces to see II 1t did not nave
something new and interesting.
In a single place they pile up trench
tools, leather sacks. cartridge belts.
small guns for Smelling. broken or In
dented helmets, rifles. sabers. bayonets
and SO on. After a first sorting out.
each class of objects finds its way to
its own special workshop. Women have
this Job to do and. the Swiss doctor
says: They sing while they do II. And
in all the workshops I passed through
the work kept time with music"
Work women take the pieces Of
leather. scrape them. and wash them.
and dry them and iron them out, to
get all the mud stains of the trenches
from them. 81 saw old shoes by the
hundreds Of thousands. They are to
be mended and remade and given to q
soldier whose new ones are worn ont.
are made of them by a little machine
invented for the purpose"
Tho Same complete overhaulfng IL
given to cannons and gun carriages.
Immense triphammers give shape to
the steel pieces which mend the dam.
aged spots.
The swiss doctor found the sewing
dreds and hundreds OF women. at hun.
ireds OF sewing machines. worked By
clothes. They come back from the
front like rags and these women trans.
form them back to coats and trousers,
trenches" said the captain who was
guide.
There is a special place for tenta A
vindlass pulls them up to the ceiling.
Then. from underneath. It IL easy to see
whether anything can be done to make
hem over. In the arms room" women
that the ts suns tSs ss
lsed again, it is passed on to the proper
vorkmen. II not. It 10 taken TO pieces
md the coed pieces are sorted and kept
or use So 1t IL for everything which
8 brought back to the base.
STERLING HElLn6
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wars There are many popular songs
Of today which the soldier boys are
many a campfire abroad will be sur
rounded by lusty-throated singers.
making the night vibrant with the
lively airs Of stage favorites. 1t was
said by a veteran of the service that
not only will the lads in khaki take
their own CHEEKY songs of yesterday
and today with them. but they will
rapidly absorb those of the English
speaking soldiers when the time comes
to hobnob with their allies on the
other side of the sea
It was by one of those curious and
unforeseen chances that the British
soldier made '"Tipperary," light. music
hall ditty, his marching song when he
ago. 1t had. however. the right swing
to tighten his footsteps and tits a long
way from home" carried its own mes
sage to the heart when he was in
little isle" When a call was made for
a new popular song for the soldier in
the trenches the most acceptable came
from the youthful composer. 1vor No
vello, son of Clara Novello Davies. the
singer himself former soloist of Mag
dalen College, oxford. This song is
Keep the Home-Fires Burning Till the
Boys Come Home" and it is one of the
songs most frequently heard In the
trenches of the allies today, for it has
been translated into six languages. The
half-wistful words and the simple tune
make an immediate appeal. The chorus
tells the story:
Keep the home-ires burning.
While your hearts yearning;
Though your lads far away
They dream Of home.
There's a silver lining
Through the dark cloud shining;
Turn the dark cloud inside out
Till the boys come home.
The old Jacobean songs still do good
work for the men in kits and bonnets,
and THE Campbells Are Coming" and
Cock Of the North" are yet shrilled
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Always the Vanguard Of Liberty

lions, when the lives and liberty Of our
citizens are in constant danger and
their property destroyed and them
selves ruined-where our trading yes
seized at our very door by warshfps OF
a foreign nation, the expeditions OF
filibustering that we are poweriess to
prevent altogether, and the irritating
questions and entanglements thus
arising-all these and others that
need not mention. with the resulting
strained relations. are constant men
ace to our peace. and compel US TO
nation with which we are at peace.
I'm view of these facts and these
considerations, l ask Congress to au-
thorize and empower the President to
termination of hostilities between the
government of Spain and the people Of
Cuba, and to secure In the island the
establishment of stable government,
capable of maintaining order and OBJ
serving it's international obligations,
tnsuring peace and tranquility and the
security of its citizens as well as our
own, and to use the military and naval
forces of the United States as may be
necessary for these purposes"
+
Nine days after the above request
from President Mckinley. on April 20.
1898. Congress passed the following
resolution: Joint resolution for the
recognition of the independence OF the
people of Cuba. demanding that the
government of Spain relinQuish Its au-
thority and government in the Island OF
Cuba and withdraw its land and naval
forces from Cuban waters. and direct
ing the President of the United States
to use the land and naval forces OF the
United States to carry these resolutions
into effect.
This resolution, which was known as
an ultimatum to Spain by the people of
America, was signed Immediately after
Its passage by President Mckinley and
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from the bagpipes as they head the
men on their way to the trenches. while
Harry LADDERS rollicking catches roll
readily from Highland throats.
+
Although Jack Tar goes ashore fire.
quently enough to bring aboard most
Vile, the songs by which he stands
have all flavor of the sea. In reply
to a question about the songs sung by
the men of the navy, an officer said that
the old sailor songs still held good and
one of the finest musical things he had
heard this summer was the old familiar
Nancy Lee" voiced by 500 sailors in
training at Newport as they marched
to the accompaniment of full band.
The verses and chorus of this fine sea
song give just the long. full swing re-
quired in yard practice and deck play:
OF all The wives as ser you know,
,, leo no: ola lads ;.,i ho 1eo no: yeo no:
Yeo no, lads, no! yeo no!
see there she stands and waves her hands,
And every day when I'm away she'll watch
An whisper low. when tempests blow. for
Yeo no. lads. no, yeo no.
The sailors wife the sailors star shall be.
Yeo no! we go across the sea.
The sailor's wife the sailors star shall Be.
The sailors wife his star shall be.
Such other old sea favorites as The
Midshipmite." 'Larboard Watch" They
All Love Jack" "a Life on the Ocea n
Wave" Rocked in the Cradle CT the
Deep" The Tar's Farewell" Land
lord. Fill the Flowing Bowl: Home
ward Bound" The Anchors Weighed"
Sailing" Pull Away" Rolling Home"
Farewell to Grog" and "Alrs Well
are quoted as among those still sung
by the men of the present-day navy
and will be included in Lieut.. Sousa' 8
carload" of music .or the scamen. The
newer favorites. among them, "Remem-
Der the Maine" and "A Toast to
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their march and conditions generally.
United States lead in popularity when
our soldiers are away from home. After
their national songs the soldiers and
sailors are very likely to choose one
or two of the popular hits of the day.
If 1t happens to suit their marching
time and conditions generally. The
most popular song of this character
among the boys who fought in the
Spanish-American war was Therell Be
a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
This song was so frequently sung by
the soldiers of '9s and '99 that French
paper, in recording the taking of Ma
nilla, related that the United States
troops marched into the town Whlle
their regimental bands played their two
national anthems. The Star Spangled
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the actual service Of the United States
the militia of the several states to
such an extent as may be necessary to
carry this act into effect"
The country was wholly unprepared
for war. The army of the United
States numbered but $4,000 officers and
men. Volunteers and militiamen had
to be depended upon. But Congress
was worked up to fever heat over the
atrocities. which had lasted over Q
period of two and a half years. Tho
destruction of the battleship Maine
of Havana and the loss Of two officers
and 23s men by the explosion had
aroused the whole country. making war
inevitable.
1t is plain that America has ever
fought her foreign wars in the van
guard of liberty, and that the princi-
pies underlying her Constitution and
the Declaration of Independence have
been her guiding star for justice and
humanity.
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You kin blow about yer hero volunteer,
An yer rough an ready, steady infantree:
You kin sing about yer Jackie an kin cheer
Fer yer neat an handy. dandy cavalree;
But of all the sojer men l ever knew,
An Of all the sailor men l ever seen.
When there's fun fuss Eight, the boy to
keep in sight
Is Billy Blue. United States Marine.
An it's hi Billy. Billy, Billy BlueI
We think we've got q little job to do.
We expect to have a fight an we want it
started right.
So we puts the startin' of 1t up to you.
Some of their best songs have been
written by the "amphibious war
riors'' themselves, and the spirited
"Chanson of the United States Ma
rine," by Corp. Percy Webb, U. 8. M.
c., has as Its motif the stanch motto
OF the corps. "Semper Fidelis." It's first
verse is:
There Is a motto bold.
Written in letters gold,
Blazoned every fold
loyal and zealous)
On that proud nag we bear.
Peerless beyond compare.
Borne with everywhere,
Semper Fidelis!
There is no saying yet just what will
be the selection of songs the United
States Army man will take with him
to tighten his marches and campf1res
abroad beside his country's particular
patriotic songs and the popular songs
of the civil and Spanish-American
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the trained fighting force of England,
and the backwoodsmen shot to kill.
The second foreign war in which
America was engaged was the Mexican
war of 1916. The causes which led to
this war were. first. Mexico claimed
Texas as part of her territory, notwltn-
standing its Independence was &C
knowledged by the United States. Eng
land, France and other governments
The United States claimed by annexa-
ton the Rio Grande as the Texas
boundary. while Mexico alleged the
western limit Of the province never ex-
plundered American vessels in the Gull
of Mexico, confscated property OF
Americans within her borders covered
by treaty Of 1881 and committed IRE
auent acts of depreciation beyond her
borders.
These acts led to much fighting on
both sides of the disputed boundary.
and May II, 1886. President Polk sent
he said: "As war exists. notwithstand-
ing all our efforts to avoid 1T. from
every consideration OF duty and pa
triotism we must vindicate. with deci-
sion. the honor. the rights and the IN
terests of our country.
"In further vindication of our rights
and defense of our territory. l invoke
the prompt action of Congress to recog-
place 1T the disposition Of the execu-
tive the means of prosecuting the war
with vigor. and thus fastening the res
toration of peace"
Congress passed the following meas
ure: IAN act providing for the prose-
cution of the existing war between the
United States and the republic Of
Mexico.
whereas. by the act of the republic
of Mexico. a state of war exists be-
tween that government and the United
states: Be is enacted by the Senate and
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Dewey" will also be sung with fervor.
Amy one familiar with life at An
napolis will recognize in Anchors
Aweigh" the favorite chorus of the
two-step composed by the musical d.
rector of the United States Naval Acad-
envy, Charles S. Zimmerman. Neither
are its strains confined to campus or
and Navy foot ball games can attest.
There is the verve Of real life and youth
in the bold. ringing challenge:
Stand, Navy. down the field.
Sail set to the sky:
Well never change our course.
So. Army. you steer shy.
Roll up the score, Navy,
Anchors awefgh
Stand. Navy. down the field
And sink the Army gray.
The Naval Academy Graduates Song
is an old favorite to an old tune, which
admits of variations to suit current
conditions. and another closing day
favorite of the Annapolis boys is God
Save America" which is an effective
round in five parts. Its patriotic words
and resounding notes make an effective
ensemble.
Bless the United States!
Continue the Union
For ever and ever.
Amen.
The United States Naval Academy has
it's hymns for special occasions. and
that entitled For Those in Peril on
the Sea" is sung In chapel every Sum-
day. When parting day comes 1t adds
the touching familiar hymn God Be
With You Till We Meet Again" to the
list. On the recent occasion of the
graduation of its young navy officers
to take up the serious business of war.
many of them before the completion
Of their full term, this was sung by
ended only one man was equal 10 car
rying the affecting words to their close.