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The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-05-10
BOYS REACHING
MAJORITY MUST
REGISTER FOR
Army TRAINING
Joint Resolution Amending SeIec-
tive Service Act Agreed Upon
In Conference and Soon win
Be Before President
WILL ADD MILLION
MEN TO THE LISTS
QUESTIONABLE Blanks and All
Forms For New Registration
Now In Honolulu Waiting For
President To Sign :

.WASHINGTON, May g.
!" ASSOCIATED Press) - Al,
most the last stage in the amend.
ment to the Selective Service Ac,
which will automatically enroll
youths reaching the age of tweh.
ty-one in Class IN Of the draft
was reached yesterday when thc
senate and house cOnferees agteed
on the provisions of the FONT
resolution that all American
youths reaching their majorit,
since June last, the date Of regis
tration,' must enter the military
service.
These names will be added &c
the bottom of the list Of Class IA
registrants and will be called into
the service when former Class Ia
men are exhausted. In the meas.
ure as agreed to in conference
theological and medical students
will be exempted. Il,
The senate adopted the reso
luton on March % and the house
in an amended form, on April Is
The principal amendment, mad,
in the house was the one to auto
matically place the new regis,
trants at the foot Of the list aric
another whereby draft evaders
could not suddenly become i'm
bued with a desire to study the
ology and make their entrance ip
to a divinity school the means ..
escaping their responsibility. &
1t is estimated that the amend
ment will bring from three omar
tiers of a million to a million more
men into Class IA at once.
DRAFT RESOLUTION
The resolution provides:
That during the present emet
5ency all male persons, citizens 0
the United States and all NAL,
persons residing in the Unite'
States, who have since the 6ftf
day of June, 1917, and on or be
fore the day set for the registration
by proc lAmatiOn by the President, at
tanned the age Of twenty.one years
! shah be subject to registration In &C
rordance with regulations to be pres
cribed by the President, and that upol
PROCLAMATION by the President, statinJ
the time and place of such registration
It shall be the duty Of all such persons
except such persons as are exemp
provisions of said act approved Ma,
49, 1917, and any act or acts amenda
tory thereof, to present themselves TO
and submit to registration under tn
provitions Of said act approved Ma,
Is, 1917, and they shall be registered
in the same manner and subject to tn
same requirements and liabilities a
those previously instructed under tn
terms Of said act"
FOR DURATION OF WAR
Members of the military COMMITTEE
made the act apply, throughout tn
var so the President may at any tim
require registration. The war depart
ment plans an annual registration T.
bring in more young men for service.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-05-10
RA|LROADERS TO GET
BIG WAGE INCREASE

WASHINGTON, May 7--(Associated
railroad wage commission recOmmenda.
tons of twenty percent increase in
wages will be followed, which will
mean an increase in expenses to the
roads totalling $260,000, 200 annually.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-05-10
sCocIAL1sTs COMMENCE
- TO SEE A LIGHT !

CHICAGO, May I - ASSOCIATED
Press) The executive committee of
he Socialists, recognizing the power
Of the new espionage act, is consider
ing. repudiating. the "pacifst" plat
form adopted At st. Louis because Of
'egal advice that II the party retains
1t and adyoeates measures called for
by it the Socialists will be liable to
prosecutions
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-05-10
MONSTER MEMORIAL ~
SERVICE HELD IN MANILA

MANILA, P. l., May 6-(Delayed)--
ASSOCIATED Press) - A monster me-
mortal service was held here today
with patriotic features Representative
Jones, author of the Philippine "home
rule" bill Governor General Harrison
and Manuel Quezon, representative IN
Washington, were eulOgized by speak,
erS
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-05-10
French ! { !. lGUN \ WHO.
S;IRAFING LONG
;;'S:tRANGERIOoTW|NlI[:

PARIS; France, May 7-(Associated
Press The Paris municipal council
has voted to send several cases Of good
Wine to the French. artillery crews who
Gre peppeting the German @long-range
sah pSsi.ieas and hive already put two
out Of business az, 4, -, D..
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-05-10
LEGAL RIGHT TO SEND
ARMY TO FRANCE UPHELD

WASHINGTON. May 7--(Assoeia.
ted Press)-Deciding test case
brought before it, the United States
Supreme Court today upheld the con-
stitwional right to send soldiers over,
seas.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-05-10
CODE MESSAGES BARRED
r ;~y Blythe BoLSHEVIKI

TOXIC, Japan, May - Especial
Cable to Nippu Jiji)--Bolsbeviki at
Vladivostok have prohibited the send
ing of code messages from the 81
beriAn port. The latest news from
this. seetion shows that the city Is
comparatively quiet.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-05-10
A|AS.s.HAMPER
HUNS ALLIES
TAKEADVANTAGE
OF THE DELAYS
90 .s..i q. he.ltesNs 90 ~ a....a "a
Germs ans Unable To Move
Through Ground. Deep In Mud
While Allies On High, Ground
Bring Up Reinforcements
ARTILLERY DUELS ARE
FEATURES OF THE DAY
Canadians Do Some Raiding At
Arras and Germans Try To Re-
taliate-Teriflc Bombardment
Comes As Huns Reply

Nj ENN 1OKh, May S-IASSO-
~ ciated Press )-Heavy rains
throughout Western Europe are
now handicapping the Germans
and making it practically impos-
sible for them to carry through
any movements towards the new
offensive they are known to be
preparing. In both the salients
they have driven in their great
drive they are being held in the
low ground, which has become
swampy mOrasses, whereas the
Entente troops are holding all the
high ground and are able to trans,
port their meh and guns without
undue difficulty.
Not only is the rain transform
ing the ground over which the
Germans must maneuver into al
most impossible swamps but it is
doing great damage to the TEN,
pOrary trench systems the Ger
mans have prepared along their
present front. Direct information
of this damage has been secured
the Canadians raiding the Ger
man lines in force yesterday after
noon at Melville st. Vast, nortl
of Arras, finding the trenche:
deep in mud, with the sides caveG
i'll and, in some places, almost fill.
ed with water.
REINFORCE EVERYWHERE
The Allies are taking full ad
vantage of the delay in the Ger
man offensive and are reinforcing
their lines everywhere. MANY
American regiments are movin!
into the front positions, brigadeC
between British and French bat
talions. Every hour of delay ir
the German plans makes the pros
pect for final victory for the En-
tente more certain.
Yesterdays fighting was con.
fined TO artillery battles on many
sections Of the front and to raids
Paris reports particularly heavy artil
lery fighting on the Amiens front, il
which the Allied gunners are respond
ing shell for shell to the Germans
while dispatches from the eastern from
in Macedonia to the French war Office
report heavy artillery activities there
TERRIFIC COMMANDMENT
British headquarters announces a ter.
r hr bOmbardmPnt last night Of the
British lines southwest of Arras, fol
lowed by German raid in force, which
the Canadians threw back This bonn
bardment and raid were, apparently, in
retaliation for Canadian raids ycster
day against the Germans both nortl
and southwest Of ArraS, the Canadians
entering the German positions and cap
turing three machine guns besides de
'troEmg number of dugOutS and ma
chine gun emplacements.
A German raid against the French
south of Amiens was beaten back, the
German effort being weak.
CANNON DUELS IN ITALY
On the Italian front, Rome reports
the enemy is keeping up general de
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-05-10
Dies At Hour He
Was ToRe-Wed
.His Divorced Wife

{ CHICAGO, May s -, (Associatcd
Press) AT the very hour set Tor his
remarriage to his divorced wife, Wal
ter e. Kirkpatrick, former Kansas City
:ailway magnate died here yesterday.
de was divorced from his wife in 1915.
Recently a, reconciliation, took place
ind the couple agreed TO re-mafry.
Death interviewed. : - $50
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-05-10
CRACK |. FLYERS |: TO
). . .s,.l:l.IDROPNAMEsuNEl

,oM4H4 selsrAska, May s-(ASso,
ciatea Press fteF June all the
crack passenger tfaiAs, of the United
States nov eOmmonly kaoRn by fancy
names viii drop the names and assume
numbers. Orders to this effect have
been issued by the railroad administra-
ton at Washington, according to an
announcement made public by the
Union Pacific.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-05-10
CROWDER REQU|S|T|ONS
SKILLED DRAFT MEN

WASHINGTON, May 7-(Associated
P.ess) Provost Marshal General Crow
der today issued a requisition for 1000
draft men specially qualified for skill
ed work, to report for duty May 20.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-05-10
CONSTANTINE SAID :. :.
TOBt UNIDENTIFIED

PARIS, MAY 8--(ASsociated
Press) Dispatches from Zurich
announce the serious illness Of
Constantine, deposed King Of
Greece. The dispatches report the
condition Of the ex-monarch a.
serious and saw that the illness
may prove fatal. III s'1f'
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-05-10
STARVING PERSANS ...
........:..::.::...ii,...,.::IyRNyGANNBA[
s341sgcssss;t .:.<'
Famine and sTyphus Ravage
..tstss8 Country y,

WASHINGTON May ~ Associated
Press) Department Of state dispatches
from Teheran say that conditions in
Persia have grown desperate, with
famine increasing and typhus prevalent.
In most cities food shortage has
forced the people to eat dogs and even
to resort to canpibalism.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-05-10
IRuMANA BENDS KNEE
TO THE GREEDY HUNS

AMSTERDAM, May 7-(Assoeiated
Press)-A Bucharest despatch says
that peace treaty between Rumania
and the Central Powers was signed yes.
terdAy. r,.f W
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-05-10
NICARAGUA DECLARES
WAR ON THE HUNS

SAM JUAN DEL SUR, Nicaragua,
May 7-(Associated Press)-The Mica.
raguan eongresa 10, declared war on
the Germanic kiss,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-05-10
FOR DURATION OF WAR

Members of the military committee
made the act apply, throughout the
var so the President may at any time
require registration. The war depart.
ment plans an annual registration t.
bring in more young men for service.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-24
1T TO GERMANS
IPhila. Innuirerl


Before we got into the war, and
even afterwards, 1t was not uncon-
mon to meet lukewarm, milk-and-
water American who, after paying
the required tribute to our own
own country. would exclaim: But
you've got to hand 1t to the Ger
mans"
Back of this seeming spirit of fair
play was the intimation that the
Germans were invincible, that they
very idea that had been drummed
into the heads of the Germans by
their false system, and this idea was
encouraged by those who considered
themselves good Americans.
Well, we are handing it to the
Germans, and we hope the eulogists
OF the Huns are satisfied with the
way in which the job is being done.
If we are correctly informed, our
boys on the other side of the water
are handing" it to the Germans
with both hands, and they are doing
it in a good old-fashioned American
way. The pent-up indignation over
the sinking of the Lusitania, the
atrocities in Belgium and the firing
upon hospital ships is giving
strength to the arms that carry
American guns and that thrust bayo-
nets in the direction of the fleeing
Huns.
Yes, we are really and truly
handing it to the Germans" now,
but in a way that neither the Ger
mans nor their apologists ever ex-
pected.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-24
HOW LONG?

"HERE is now an abundant sup
ply of water in the reservoirs
of the city and might it not
be a good thing to utilize some of
the surplus in reviving the parched
grass of the river parks?
When one sees the dead leaves
dropping all over the city from the
neglected shade trees and the fur
ther neglect of broken branches and
overhanging boughs along the side
walks, one cannot help wondering
how much real interest there is in
the trees among those who are
charged with municipal administra-
ton.
Civic bodies and individual citi-
zens have urged upon City Council
the organization of a Shade Tree
Commission without avail. Behind
the opposition is the selfish objec-
ton of overhead wire corporations
which do not want to be interfered
with in their slashing of trees in the
stringing of wires.
But how long will the people stand
for this sort of thing?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-24
Prophet of American Ideals
kansas City starl

The circumstances under which
Theodore Roosevelt spoke at Sara
toga give his words a moving solere n
ity they could not otherwise. have
had.
He spoke not only as the one pub
lie man who had forseen from the
beginning the significance of the war
to America, and had striven might
lily to arouse his country to the ne
cessity of preparing against the day
OF need. He spoke also as the father
who had laid all that was dearest to
him on the altar, and who, in the
name of the fathers and mothers of
America, called for life saving eff
ficiency in the prosecution of the
war and for the overwbelm vic
tory that alone would justify the sac
rifices made.
1t was the American statesman
who spoke, but the statesman with
the vision and the purpose that come
only to those who have suffered. For
at the time of his address, of his four
sons and one son-in-law at the front,
one had been gassed, another had
been disabled perhaps for life and
was probably to be invalided home,
while a third was reported missing
In air battle. Three out of five in the
casualty lists, and the war just be-
gun!
Out of that bitter experience
came his plea for the. greatest pos
sible haste in throwing all of Ameri-
cas-. giant strength into the task; for
the immediate extension of the draft
ages and for armies overseas next
year equal in strength to Germany's.
That is a plea to which the heart
of America will respond. 1t is the
plea of patriotism and humanity
In the presence of a patriotic
statesmanship consecrated by such
sacrifice, the shrill voice of malice
and SANDER must die away. Theodore
Roosevelt at Saratoga, under the
shadow of a torturing uncertainty
for his son. pleading for a more eff
ficient citizenship, stands forth as he
has stood for years, the man of vision
and of execution, the prophet of
American ideals.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-24
Prepared to Enforce Peace

League to Enforce Peace Bulletin]
The British government has be-
gun public discussion of a League
of Nations. Will Washington follow
our ally's example? This thought
must have been uppermost in the
minds of many who read the recent
news from London.
The United States, through Presi-
dent Wilson's note of December IS,
1915, addressed to the Entente AL
lies, became sponsor for the League
of Nations idea. The allies, in their
reply to this note, accepted the prin-
ciple involved in the Presidents
/ proposal Since then, although Presi-
dent Wilson and leading European
statesmen repeatedly reaffirmed their
adherence to this general purpose,
so far as the public knows there has
been no advance in the exchange of
ideas on this fundamental war aim
among the governments associated
in the task of subduing Germany
Now the British government,
through Earl Curzon, its spokesman
in the House of Lords, is on record
as willing to discuss "details. The
House of Lords, June 26, adopted a
resolution that this house approves
the principle of a League OF Ma
tions.'
Earl Curzon called attention to the
fact that the nations associated in
the war against Germany were al
ready league to enforce peace and
that the rudimentary organization of
such a league existed in the ma
chinery created to coordinate the
resources and efforts of the allies in
the war. One of the chief difficulties,
he pointed out, would be the limit
ing or rationing of armaments. If
ornaments were limited, the inter-
national court must have the power
of inspection and control which
meant in practice the complete con-
troll of all sources of production in
the various countries concerned. He
indicated an opinion on his part that
economic pressure, after this war,
would be more effective than mill
tary force in keeping recalcitrant
nations in bounds.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-24
AFTERWARD

In the Afterward. when I am dead,
1 want no flowers over my head.
But If Fate and the Gods are kind
They'll send me Sikh half COM
pany
To fire three volleys over my head
To sweeten my sleep. when 1 am
dead.
And many shall sneer. But Some
One shall sigh,
Yet 1 shall not hear them as there
lie,
For this is the Law of Lover and
That all joy must finish, all feeling
end.
And many shall laugh; but Some
One shall weep,
Yet I shall not know-I shall lie
asleep;
A worn-out body, dried-up crust;
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust!
And they'll drink a toast up there
in the Mess,
Here's to a friend in his 1oneliness!"
And music and talk for while shall
cease
While my Brothers drink to their
Brothers Peace.
And the Sikhs shall say (th&. were
once mine OWN:
WHO rode with us often now rides
alone!"
And leaning over the grave they'll
sigh
"Sahib murgya! XII jae. Ki jae!"
And I, who so loved them one and
all,
Shall stir no more at the bugle CALL
But another Sahib shall ride instead
At the head of my Sikhs, when
am dead.
And even this thought which hurts
me so
Shall cease to trouble me when go.
MY chestnut charger, Mam'selle
(She was fleet of foot and I loved
her well!)
Shall nibble the grass above my
head,
Unknowing that one she loved is
dead.
Some one-my Horse and my Com
pany
Shall fail to smile at the comedy;
Shall strive to reason, yet fail to
guess
That Life is little and Death is less!
And they shall sorrow a little space
Till somebody comes to fill my place;
But all their sorrow. their grief and
pain,
Tney shall expend upon me-in vain!
And you-if you read this epitaph-
Harden your heart, I pray you,
laugh!
But If you would deal with me ten
derly
Place one dew-kissed violet over me;
claim not this and ask no more,
Yet this was the flow'r that Some
One wore
In the long dead days that have gone
before.
Captain Cyril Morton Horne.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-24
[Phila. North Americana

[Phila. North Americana
Yet there is a further reason why
Americans are deeply touched by
the death of this boy: 1t is the tragic
but fitting expression of another life.
Never has Theodore Roosevelt been
more inspiringly the reflection of
Americanism; never more true to
himself. than in this hour of search
ing trial. Here was the supreme or
deal for his courage and his faith,
the testing of all the inspirational
doctrine he has preached to his
countrymen. And he met it not
alone with the fortitude all men
knew he would reveal, but with a
solemn pride that his boy had proved
worthy of his race. His only words
to a sympathetic nation were these:
"Quentin'S mother and 1 are very
glad that he got to the front and
had a chance to render some serv-
ice to his country and show the stuff
there was in him before his fate
befell hine"
No clearer expression of the man
could have been given. Yet it was,
we may believe, something more
than a personal response; 1t was a
message of comradeship and inspira-
ton to all men and women of this
land who have felt or are to feel the
same heartache-that they may be
conscious of the glory as we'll as the
grief of sacrifice offered in a high
cause serenity that is utterly
apart from stoicism. as the father Of
another soldier has written in up
lifting words:
81 am much more sensitive to
what this destruction means than in
she early days of the war, because
it is interpreted to me to-day in the
threat that hangs over lives very
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-24
IF SHOULD DIE

If 1 should die in Flanders field,
If should die in France,
oh, take me out and bury me
Beneath some friendly poplar-tree
(Those poplar-trees of FranceD
oh, keep me near, where 1 can hear
Those roaring guns of France.
If I should die in Flanders field
Beneath the sod of France,
There let me stay till victory
Is come, and all the world is free
(God grant this boon to FranceD
Oh. let me stay to see the day
That freedom comes to France.
Then take me fur from Flanders
field
When freedom comes to France;
Return me to the very land
1 love the best, my Maryland
(1t's sweeter far than FranceD
Oh, bring me home to Maryland
And say: "He died for France"
Robert Garland.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-24
Quentin Roosevelt
North American (Philadelphia).

dear to me. Nevertheless, I find my
mind dwelling less and less upon the
spectacle of physical destruction.
Why is this? l think it is because
L nave become more conscious of the
spiritual grandeur of the war. 1
nave realized that man is so much
more than his body that the loss of
the body is not the loss of the man.
L have learned to think of the body
OF u soldier as the vesture only of
the spirit, and of the spirit as STEP
ping out of its torn and blood
stained vesture in the vigor of in
destructible existence"
LIE Temps, the most influential
Journal in Paris, says of him (Col.
Roosevelt):
"If he has not come himself, as
he wanted to do. to take his place in
the midst of the. combat, it is be-
cause obstacles more powerful than
he have kept him in the United
States, where. moreover, he has not
ceased to serve by every means in
his power the cause to which he Of
fered UP with a full heart those most
dear to him. He has given us his
four sons, all animated with the
finest emulation of heroism and in
spired by all the great thoughts with
winch paternal tradition had sur
rounded them from birth.
May the great soul of Ex-Presi-
dent Roosevelt find in this trial the
consolation and comfort which our
brotherly friendship sends to him.
He knows, as he has often said, bet
ter than anybody else, how fruitful
in benefits for generations which
will come after us and gather the
harvest of our efforts and our suf-
ferings is the beauty of freely
offered sacrifice"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-24
German Reasoning

IN. A. Reviews War Weekly
The Muenchner Neueste Nachrich-
ten has it all figured out. America"
1t declares solemnly, does not intend
that Germany shall be thoroughly
defeated, and both America and ia
pan can be depended upon to play
false to the allies" Having fortified
itself with this comforting reflection,
the paper continues:
America is becoming more and
more a decisive military factor in
the war, but even from a purely
military point of view America can
not desire that England shall win
the war outright. Americas interest
lies in compromise, so therefore re-
gard Wilson with less suspicion than
usual. 1t must not be forgotten also
that for America the world war is
merely an expedition. America can
not be defeated on French soil, and
for America and Germany there Is no
front upon which q tactical victory
Will involve a political decision.
An absolute victory for England
would break the so-oalled Anglo
Saxon circle and sooner or later pro-
duce struggle between England
and America for domination of the
world. With inimitable cunning
Oriental Japan awaits this last issue
of present history.
Truly, the ways of German reason
ing are past finding out; or, rather,
as the London Times neatly put. 1t,
the Munich editor must be aware
that the political ignorance of his
readers knows no depths" We can
| only hope that he will get a copy OF
the Presidents Fourth of July speech
and have a fresh struggle with his
fascinating suspicious.