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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-03-05
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The Delays In
Shipbuilding

The obstacles encountered by our
shipbuilding program seem without
limit and have about exhausted Am.
crican patience. First the program
was delayed by the row over the
type Of ships to be constructed and
other differences. Now 1t In the In
cessant friction between capital and
labor. The companies say many OF
the laborers are stacking and soldier
ing on the job and that the more
they are paid. the less work they do.
The workmen say that some Of the
companies are using the emergency
to make lot Of money for them
selves.
Our war work can proceed only
20 fast as our ships are built. The
more the ships are delayed. the
longer the war will be. the more will
be the loss Of life among our SOL
diers, and the heavier will be the
burden Of debt we have to take on.
Everyone on the chipping Job should
realize this thoroughly.
This ID no time for either capital
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-03-05

selves to the winning of the war at
the exclusion OF all else.
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Burglary. too, is falling into the
hands OF specialists. Two women
break into store and steal nothing
but pants: two men break into q
citizens home, disdain money and
jewelry. and steal nothing bat booze.
Pants and booze are the big Issues
Of the day. Even now We can re-
member when money was eagerly
everybody wanted II and no
body had It; now II 10 pants and
booze. Who can keep track Of the
changing fancies Of this tempera-
mental world?
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As an offset to the campaign RAJ
lying cry Thank God for Wilson.
He kept us out Of war;" in num-
Der Of the large offices on the Pacif-
ic Coast. we find this slogan. eve
should be thankful to Carranza. He
kept us out Of Mexico" 4
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Every household In Italy saves all
the odd bits Of paper. These are
soaked In water and kneaded into
balls. then put In the sun to dry.
They will serve to give . little heat
later on. MSNiE|E
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Many q man who thinks he Is
ready money resembles q dollar MI
nus seventy cents.
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One method Of lodging popularity
is to give your neighbors advice.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-03-05

lists or work people to use emergen-
cy to secure gains they could not
get In peace times. In so far as any
OF them do seek to take unfair ad-
vantage, they will incur the enmity
OF the entire American people. The
government shonld promote an ex.
tensive campaign Of patriotic educa-
ton in all the shipbuilding centers.
It should send to those localities
some Of its best speakers and plen-
ty Of patriotic motion pictures.
The shipbuilders should be helped
to see what a terrible thing the
German menace IL. They should be
shown how the German government
Is the most brutal the world has
ever seen. that It has trampled on
all laws and agreements. and that
nothing in the world is safe II II
should win the war.
II there is a Stacker spirit among
the shipbuilders. It will be much
more effective to appeal In this way
to their reason, than to try to drive
them. Let them see that their in
terests demand the speedy construc-
ton Of those ships. and things will
begin to hum in the shipyards.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-03-05
WESTERN MINING
A GREAT INDUSTRY

Mining Is one Of the Vests most
important industries and the follow
ing figures Of production In = few
western states for 1917 offer the
best arguments for state and ma.
tionai policies encouraging to In
creased production.
Utah's total mineral production for
1917 was about $115.000.000 with
copper. silver and lead the principal
output.
wyomins produced sso.ssl. s1o
with oil and coal in lead.
Nevada. sss.ooo.ooo with copper
and gold leading.
Idaho. s54.ooo.ooo With lead. ill
YER and sine the principal metals.
California. al. lb7. sss. principa-
lily gold ana copper with over $780,
100000 in oil production.
These figures are simply illustra.
tive and do not include Arizona
which produced nearly three times
~ much copper - Utah. NOR Mon
tana. which II one Of greatest cop
per states IN the uAiea nor J New
Msxiee and Colorado which ~!
great metal producers.
Il would probably ~ safe to %,
that the eleven states west Of Nsrt1
Dakota and Taxas pss1uesd nsarl,
|sls1se. 100000 in new mineral
wsaith In 1917.
When you consider production fol
tAess mines 10 . vital necessity Il
the government In carrying on thu
war It h apparent that measures
tsealAs 70 saeoursss ne devsasp
i u the minias anassns,Aiag n
!itry AZ important.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-03-05

we'll known. There are broad sug-
gestions that he is q Presidential
candidate and Is laying the founda.
ton for support In 1920 through
generous political patronage. This
may or may not be true. The thing
most obvious is that whoever leads
in this national crisis: whoever shows
courage and wisdom to disentangle
problems Of industry or finance; who
ever deals fairly and capably with
small or large units Of men, will moi
fail OF political favor after the war,
II he wants II.
Note. however that Mr.. McAdoo
does not follow the crowd. He forms
his own conclusions and fashions his
own judgments. He believed that
the American public would subscribe
to a IL per cent bond when the
composite opinion Of American bank
ers was to the contrary. He looked
more on the factor Of patriotism as
an incentive than did they. He can
take the bit in his teeth and go
against the current as he had to do
many times In the early days Of the
war. when demands came pressing
both from homo and abroad. And he
can change his mind when he dis
covers q mistake Of policy or Of
judgment.-Review Of Reviews.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-03-05

How = eng Dan We
Hold Out

The French soldier u paid SEQ q
year; German, sss : yssr; British
$50 year. and the American gets
$3.50 . year. At this rate how long
can We hold out! We have been In
the war scarcely year, yet our war
debt is climbing by meets and
bounds. and will soon be = large
as that Of ali Europe. Necessity re-
Quires that each Of 10 devote our.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-03-05
The Wastes Of
War

In these days we are kicking mill
lions around the country like foot
balls. A billion dollars. the expen-
diture of which by . single Con-
gress was once considered . great
extravaganza, Is now q minor item.
Now every dollar Of this money Is
well spent II It 10 efficiently used.
II will be worth great many bill
lion dollars to administer thorough
licking to Germany. We should not
begrudge any amoust Of money It
can cost. But great deal of mon
ey can be saved by. prudent atten-
ton to details.
For instance. observers who. this
winter went over one camp which
had to be abandoned temporarily ON
account Of weather conditions. found
. deplorable lack OF care for tho
equipment. Az one observer reports.
II looked ~ II hit By hurricane.
Great numbers Of tents were being
torn TO pieces By the wind. Balsd
hay WAS left unprotected. Stoves
and camp Kitchen equipment were
LETT exposed and rusting. Ice and
snow were covering valuable equip
mont. II was claimed that the total
loss Of property would be 100000.
The expenditure Of 100000
would not BE- regarded for q moment
II It produced any military advan-
tage. But this hasty abandonment
did not help particle. II would not
have hindered military efficiency II
= force OF men had been left to care
for that property. On the other hand
II would have promoted military Of
ficiency. By giviag the men training
In care Of equipment.
Military life with IT, demand for
precise Instructions and rigid COM
Dllalee with orders. sometimes brseda
. marrow responsibility. An officer
may zee something all wrong. Yet II
It does not come strictly In his de-
partment. no will say It u not Nil
business to attend to It. The army
men ought to have . watchful eys
out all the time to stop the wastes
Of war. to pick up the loose ends
and hold down the costs where 4
can be done without military loss.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-03-05
Home And Love
Robert w. Service

Just Home and Love! The words ere
small. ess-
Four little letters unto .saeh:
And yet you will not find In all
The wide and gracious range Of
speech
Two more 80 tenderly complete;
When angels talk in Heaven above.
I'm sure they have no words more
sweet
Than Home and Love.
Just Home and Lowell IT'S hard u
Which Of the two were best to gain;
Home without Love ID bitterness;
Love without Home II often pain.
No! each alone will seldom do:
Somehow they travel hand and glove
Ire you Win one you must have two
Both Home and Love.
And Il you've both. we'll. then I'm
sure
You ought to sing the whole d.,
long:
Il doesn't matter II you're poor
With these to make divine your song
And 80 praissfully rspsat.
When angels talk in Heaven above
There are NO words more simpl!
sweet.
ThaA Home and Love.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-03-05

Sosrss .soo.ooo men on all fronts.
In the West she can hardly have
more than 100000 present and
eventually AVAILABLE. while her foes
certainly have 100000 men now
ON the liue.-American Review Of
Reviews.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-03-05
Criticism And
Compliment

Inc REVIEW OF hoVloWb mhko
direct criticism on our present reve-
nue. measure. charging that II 10 in
equitable. obscure and unavoidable.
and at the same time pays q distinct
compliment to Senator Smoot and
his proposed amendments. This pop
ular monthly says:
ION January S. Senator Smoot. Of
Utah. introduced q series Of amend
ments to the federal revenue law
designed to make It workable and
equitable. His proposed changes
would simplify and vastly improve
the excess profits action and would
repeal also to the very unwise and
unjust some system Of second class
postal rate increases. His most i'm.
portant proposal Ii to make the ex-
cess profits tax truly An excess war
profits tax By establishing standard
normal rate Of pre-war earnings. He
arrives at this By taking the aver
age Of the five years before the waf
and taxing for 1917. any excess over
this standard normal very heavily.
up to 80 per cent in the last gradu-
alton. Senator smoot's plan :
II adopted. would change an inequit-
able. obscure and unworkable rsve-
nue. measure into . simple. Just and
effective one. Senator smoot's plan
would raise more money. At less ex-
psnse and trouble and with less
|hardships to individuals and bust
ness"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-03-05
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A BIT OF FINANCIAL
HISTORY

the credit Of the United States
was 20 high and unquestionabls that
in 1900. two years after the Spanish
War. : per cent bonds were offered
|at par and oversubscribsd. This y Z
financial performance no other IA
ton has ever eQualsd.
United States 4 per cent bonds N
1883 sold ~ high ~ $50 and In
1901 brought lss - on the stock
market.
The United States has never -
fauitsd on any Of .its bonds. Net one
Of it, bondholdess ~ ever lost {
cent Of principal or int1ssst except
those who voluAkazjly save taken
losses BY selling 60 bssds In a
period Of Temporary No. dsprsssion,
One hundred cents en- The dollar
!!prinsspai ana interest ~ the Unit.
"a sta6A saways ~.
neksse fhs 1sso.veo, zee 900 ia
sssN 90 ~, - = en- Aasisnal -
$500 ssse1s - rssgee hoassty
- xu<iFls6: libsfsy Loea Bonds ere
The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-01-25
THE WEATHER.

The weather is making new records
shis winter, and the memory of man
reaches not back to the like Of it,
Neither does the written record show
its equal for severity and continui-
ty.
We had a killing frost and cold
much earlier than usual, so early that
the farmers in this section gathered
much of their cotton in the bolls and
dried it out and picked it afterward
There seems to be we'll founded
belief that severe winter is always
followed by abundant crops, so we
are justified in the hope that the Lord
has sent this winter to prepare the
way for such abundance of food as
we are going to need next year.
We are also led to hope that this
winter has been too severe for that
pest or plague known as the boil
weevil. If he is not so constituted as
to be able to hold his own in Con-
lecticut and Massachusetts,, we are
well satisfied that this winter has
been too much for him, and the worst
luck we could wish Mexico, would be
that he should return to that country
and stay there.
In the late summer, when the war
Department located the camps south,
and sent thousands of men here from
the north and west, they expected
quite a different winter, and it is
not surprising that they were unpre-
pared for such as this.
And these men in camps also are
getting disenchanting experience in
the south. But for the fact that the
whole country has been blizzard swept
during the whole winter they would
believe that the Sunny South was
myth.
To say the least of it, we are get
ting some very disagreeable adver
tising by reason of the fact that the
Lord has this winter, seen fit to bring
the climate of New England, down
south along with the New England
soldier boys. Our only hope is that
may yet even up matters by being
IN early spring.
We believe that there is order and
purpose in everything, even this very
unusual weather, although we may
lot see any good in it now.
The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-01-25
Noting the fact that Virginia has |

Noting the fact that Virginia has
followed Mississippi in snapshot
ratification of the prohibition con-
stitutional amendment, the Phila-
delphia Record says: ''It is a safe
bet that neither state will be so. keen
to act on the suffrage amendment.
That is where politics comes in.
There is a good deal of hyprocisy in
this eagerness for prohibition. In
the Southern States it is aimed at
the negroes, and because of the ne
groes the same states will be reiuc-
tant to colored women" The Record
no doubt gets its opinion as to wom-
m suffrage in the South from some
If. our Southern newspapers and poll
ticians. It is fact that some of our
Southern newspapers and politicians
Ease their opposition to the suffrage
amendment on the ground that they
object to the enfranchisement of ne
gro women. But this is a strained
point of objection of the narrow kind
hat is designed to appeal to predu-
dice, and there is really nothing in
t. We have practically eliminated
he negro men from any states, and
the same methods applied to our
white Democrats primaries could be
made to apply to the negro women.
Herald.
The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-01-25
DO YOUR PART.

We again urge you to look at your
label and send us the dollar if you
owe it.
We wish to keep the price at one
dollar, and we can not afford to lose
any of the dollars. We do not want
to lose any of our subscribers either,
but if we have to cut you off it will
not be our fault The Journal is
the legal organ of Marietta and of
Cobb County, and we cover the coun-
ty as no other paper does. Help
US to improve the paper-your pa
per.
The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-01-25

We did not approve of picketing the
White House, and we do not approve
of many of the things which some
of the sentimental woman suffragists
do, but we do approve of woman suf-
frage. The world is moving on to-
day at rapid pace. Every day we
see changes effected on large scale,
in some part of the world There is
no use in our going to sleep and say
ing ''let well enough alone" We
must move on, or move backward,
and this is no time for moving back
ward. The time has come when wo-
men must help in the political, as
we'll as the social and industrial life
of the nation.
The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-01-25
OUR FARMERS.

We are told every day that the
farms of the country must produce
more foodstuffs this year than ever
before. We are told that there will
also be need for a full cotton crop
with which to help clothe the world.
When we consider that there is a
lack of commercial fertilizer and that
the boil weevil is going to be on hand
to take his toll out of the cotton crop,
this task cut out for the farmers
seems an impossible one. And it will
be even more impossible, if much
more of the man power of the nation
is removed from the farms.
Up to date, quite a percentage OF
farm labor, both white and colored,
has either volunteered or been draft
ed into the service of the country.
Instead of being producers they
have become consumers. The next
contingent, and each successive one
will remove more of the labor from
the farms and add to the ranks of
the food consumers.
Now there is no doubt but our
farms can produce more than ever
of they are properly Worked-if there
are laborers and no idleness. But
where will laborers come from, if
80 or so per cent of the able-bodied
men on the farms are removed?
1t might become necessary for the
government to draft men for farm
work in the end, and would it not
be better to leave on the farms, now
enough of those accustomed to doing
farm work.
One undisputed fact stands out,
and that is that the farm must run
if every factory and every shop closes
down, so why not leave on the farm
the men who are already drilled in
farm work?
Nobody doubts the patriotism of
the farmers of this county. Nobody
will question the bravery OF the sons
of old Cobb county. Their sires
fought on bloody fields in every state
south of the Patomac, and their mo-
theirs endured without murmering all
the hardships of war.
We do not know exactly where the
responsibility rests, but we do know
that at the fountain head of authori-
ty, all these things should be seri-
ously considered in making call for
men to bear arms, when they are go
ing to be even more needed at the
plow.
We feel that the patriotism of ev-
cry class of our people is going to
stand the test, that they are going to
do everything possible to produce
more, to save more, and help more
in every way to win the war, but some
careful adjustment of the war ma
chinery, so as to preserve and main
tain our farms at the highest possl-
BILE efficiency, will be the wisest
course just now.
The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-01-25

The illmanered and outrageous
treatment accorded Mr.. Hoover, by
Senator Reed, of Missouri, IS still
fresh in the winds of all fair minded
people, who deplore a state of af-
fairs whereby any citizen may be
hauled up before senate committee,
and abused and insulted without re-
course.
This method of venting of the sena-
torial spleen seems to be getting en-
tirely too common. The protection
which the law gives members of the
senate should not be stretched to
cover up such exhibitions of person
al malice and spite. Speaking of the
latest such display, the Albany Her
aid is quoted below.
Senatorial courtesy" as practiced
in "The Most August Body in the
World" is ore thing, and ordinary
good manners as reflected in the
speech and demeanor of members OF
the Senatorial committee investigat-
ing the War Department quite anoth-
er. Secretary Baker would have
been fully justified in MASKING in at
least two senatorial faces while he
was on the witness stand, but he man.
aged to get through the ordeal with
out either losing his temper or dis
playing any bad manners.
The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-01-25
WOOD VERSUS COAL.

Out in Indiana the boys in the ru-
raj schools have organized Saw Buck
Clubs.
AS the name indicates, these clubs
are to promote the use of wood as
fuel, and to relieve the coal famine.
The Journal office has already been
using a buck saw on Cobb county
wood, and has found it to be an eff
ficient relief, if not cure of the
no coal trouble. We commend it to
Others. We can show you how it is
done
The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-01-25
WATER OR SUN DOGS

Your readers remember what AL
len said about Sun Dogs, about the
first of December? And what bad
weather we have had since?
Well we had two Sunday evening,
about an hour by the sun, one on each
side of the sun. And it may be well
to observe days without coal.
From "Jack Spratt" an old Cor
respondent near Kennesaw.
Of those dogs had anything to do
with it, we are agin 'em.-Ed)
The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-01-25
ALIENS ATTENTION!

All German Alien Enemies of the
United States in Cobb County, Geor-
gia, are by order of the Attorney
General, hereby commanded to be
and appear at Police Headquarters
in the Court House, in Marietta, Ca,
for registration, beginning at 6 o.
clock on the morning of February
4, 1918, said period of registration
to continue from that time until s
O'clock of the evening of February
8, 1918.
The Chief of Police shall have
charge of said registration, and it is
the duty of all citizens to see that
this order is complied with.
The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-01-25
SEEING THE WAR AS A WHOLE.

This periodical, which is endeavor-
ing to support the Government in its
war measures with cordial goodwill,
has month by month tried to show
that the people of the United States
could not possibly do everything that
was expected of them, simultaneous
ly. We were already short of labor;
and it was certain that we must either
fail to meet expectations in the mat
ter of shipbuilding, food production
and the making of war supplies, or
else that we must fall short in the
rapid creation of armies to be dis
patched and maintained in Europe.
This country, however, must remain
the one great reservoir Of supplies
for the Allies. They have been fight
ing more than three years, and have
trained large bodies of men. In no
case would we fight in Europe on
large scale with an American Army
before the Summer of 1919, year
and half hence. We have made on
ly one fundamental mistake at Wash
ington; that mistake has been to con-
ceive of this world war as meaning
for the United States chiefly armies,
and still more armies. We should
indeed train great numbers of men,
but withdraw them as little as possl-
BILE from agriculture and industry
We should speed up the Navy, both
it's construction and it's personnel
We should put more pressure behind
our aviation program, both building
and training. We should bring the
merchant shipbuilding program to
large results at a speedier rate than
the present. We should make the
agricultural output OF the coming
year, 1918, by far the greatest IN
our history. Farming at the present
stage is a much more important con-
tribution toward winning the war
than the dispatch of men to the army
cantonments under the draft, or the
sending of infantry regiments to Eu-
rope.
We have faith in the ability of
President Wilson and Secretary Ba-
ker to see the war in its large as
poets and proportions. To see it
exclusively from the standpoint of
certain army officers whom we will
not name, would imperil our own
position and seriously endanger the
cause of the Allies. There is little to
be gained in assembling passengers
on the dock to sail on a ship that is
not yet built, especially if those very
passengers are the men who ought
to be building the ship. 1t is natural
enough that an army officer should
think of war in the terms of his
kind of service. This service, in
deed, involves more danger and sac
rifice than that of the men who work
in shops or in fields. We have moth
ing but praise for the army, and for
officers who are expanding and train
ing it. We are merely commenting
upon the actual nature of the contri-
button that America can best make,
as things stand, to the proper ending
of the war We shall be able to do
all things better if we give them
proper co-Ordination.-From "The
Progress of the World" in the Amer
lean Review of Reviews for Janu-
ary, 1918
The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-01-25

The New York World is much
wrought up over the charges made by
the Board of Temperance, Prohibition
and Morals, of the Methodist Church
60 the effect that drunkenness and lust
are destroying the American Army
in France.
1t says the charges are false and
slanderous, and are refuted by trust
worthy witnesses, both military and
civilian, that they are based solely
on few letters, whose writers re-
fuse the use of their names, and it
bitterly denounces the circulators of
such baseless slanders, even though
the intention may have been good