Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-06-23
Oy RHETTN CIHLDT DORK

lies in the middle of a battle. The
upshot Of the whole thing wDeet4V
they sent the Russian troops 6JcH
from the front and now they Wuth
In labor gangs, Tuty don't want 20
20 back to their own country Ihlug'
are too bad there.
one Man Without Country.
among our fliers was a young
lieutenant who was born an Rus
sia. Not Jew, Russian n,
was finishing his training m thf
camp. lt was partly the munot0uN
and the lack OF work that made hun
melancholy. You know We haven
enough practice planes and tho fly
ing men are idle half the time luI
I mainly II was the sight of thos,
/ Russian lahorers that got on his
! nerves. He used sometimes to talk
/ othcm, and they were patheticRly
glad to have him because nobody
( else spoke their language and they
/ were lonesome.
"IIe said to me once, When those
| poor devils landed in TTrancc the
/ houses we're decktd with flags To
greet them The streets were full
| Of cheering crowds and children
| threw flowers In their path Now
nobody trusts them TO fight. They
| are outcasts. They have no coun-
| try, and no country wants to adopt
/ them l tried 10 tell him that he
was wrong. that the allies wanted
/ To- help Russia to get back, but 1t
was no good,
by and by this man took 1t into
his head that he was distrusted be-
cause he had been born In Russia.
/ II wasn't true. But he thought It
was. lie said so. one day he went
up in an altitude test with ~ OBJ
server. lie was acting as pilot but
! the machine had a double control
and the man with MIN was n cool
and capable flicr. Otherwise the
! thing might have been even worse
| than II was. For when they were
/ 5000 feet up and sull climbing the
/ Russian suddenly unbuckled the
| belt that secured him in his seat
and before the observer could even
guess what he was about to do, he
stepped over the side Of the ma
chine into space.
l. Effort Of Propngandlsts.
THAT settled me. | said to my
self that 1 would rather be dead
\ than be a man without a country
That's what that poor fellow figured
that he was and all other Russi3ns.
! I'm not a Russian nor an interua-
/ tionalist, nor anything else but a
! 100 per cent American, and II they
want to XIII boches, I'm ready to be
gin any minute"
4 man without a country Is
there any sentence in the language,
/ any combination guf words more
| dreadful2 Yet what the German
1 propagandists, which Is the real
name Of many Of the paeiflsts and
"intcrnational!sts," have been trying
to do TO American youth is to take
their country away from them. They
nearly succeeded and the proof of
that was the three years OF indiffer-
ence we loitered through before we
woke up to the fact that this war
was ours, as well as England 3
Frances and Belgiums.
We failed to realize that our
country was in immediate peril. be-
cause we had almost forgotten that
we had country. Are we all awake
to the fact yet? No, because II we
were. there would not be left any
where from the Atlantic ocean to
the Pacific one single disloyal citi-
zen. one single copperhead or So
called internationalist. No communi-
ty would tolerate them. There would
be no corner where they could hide,
Socialists Begin to See Light.
The Socialist party leaders are be-
ginning to see great light on the
81 bject OF loyalty to the government
and are advocating new policy to-
ward the war. Their last party
platform read like one Of Trotzky's
m essages to the Petrograd Soviet.
but now even the late Socialist can
didate for mayor OF New York, who
appearei for the pacifist vote, and f.
got II, is beginning to talk about I,
revising the platform.
Unless it is revised the Socialists /
are going to lose their adherents at /
present serving in France. The jew !
ish boys who, a little over year |
ago, were Grating from soap boxes |
against the draft and against what |
they called this profiteers war"
are among the hottest young pa
triots and keenest fighters in the |
army.
/ saw some Of those boys at Camp |
Upton last autumn. l saw one who
was sitting in Il corner blubbering +.
like a small child because he was
being sent to Spartanburg lie was
being transferred because he was
begging to be allowed 10
go home. His captain told me that
the only thing 70 do with him was
10 send him so far away from New
y ork that weekend visits home
would be impossible
saw other Jewish boys who were
soldiers then. but every
one / saw in France was enthusiast
lie about his work, and as little Of
an internationnlist as the young man
in the aviation camp, The Jewish
soldier has made good | was told
SO by many officers aud saw 1t
Tor myself
Merely Loathc the Germans.
Our soldiers have not been taught
10 hate the Germans and ! don't
hink they do hate, them li Is GER
ain that the French people with
whom our men associate do not 3u,
hey scorn and lJ;ne the linden
burg method Of making war and
his attitude our men share They
'egard the Germans with horror
-ather than hatred and so must all
Nmericans who even family realize
what is going on every day and
lour in the invaded districts Of Bel
GUM and France.
our soldiers. many Of them. have
eon this terrible thing. and 10 has
made their blood run hot in their
rteries it has set their jaws hard
md caused their eyes 20 blaze What