American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-06-04

and then there are others. These mem
bers are self-muckraked in the con-
gresional record. Look up your SEN
ator n representative In Il. Read
both the lines and between the lines.
Congress has passed some admira-
BILE legislation; and then there is the
revenue bill a war profits measure
that taxes everything except war prof
It's: a OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES bill
that in the clause taxing professional
earnings exempts unearned incomes,
including the salaries OF a good many
congressman.
As a means to help you win the war
the Importance OF the fall elections
can not be accomplished.
Look the candidates over with the
same close scrutiny that you would
give 10 a horse that you were buying.
Forget their politics and their speech
es. but look TO their characters and
their records. There are just three
things 10 ask about every candidate
this year: Has he brains, honesty and
patriotism? Every boy orator. every
dunderhead. every well-meaning ass.
every corner-grocery statesman. ev-
cry cheap politician, every faiut-heart
returned to congress next fall is go
ing 10 slaughter the boys in your house.
your street and YOU town. Pork aud
tariff are not the issues this year.
There is only one issue-the war and
the life of your boy.
Before you can win in France the
administration must take a larger
dose-the whole bottle, in fact-of
the medicine that Il recommended TO
the allies when General Foch was
made the big boss of the armies. II has
already gone a long way, but 1t must
go the whole distance to centralized
and cOordinated, autocratic and re-
spOnsible control of our war activities
under go-getter and get-it-done exec
utives. We want fewer press agents and
more pressure in Washington.
Before you can win In France you
must bury the hyphen in America,
and along with 1t a few of the hyphen-
ates who have been spreading sedi-
ton and plotting destruction. And in
addition to these there is another breed
Of hyphenates that needs your atten-
tionLthe near-Americans, born and
bred here, often finished abroad. whose
skulls are full Of mush or h~eadcheese.
These are the gentry who, when we
propose to deal promptly and properly
with a Doctor Muck, oppose sentence
with gas bombs of lachrymal stuff
about there being no nationality in
art" The truth Is that there is no art
that Is not primarily and fundamen-
tally national; and even II that we're
not true, America would better endow
DR.. Muck's art with nationality for
the period of the war.
Before you can win in France you
must take Broadway and all the little
Broadways of America in hand. You
must do something to the swine soul
of the crowd that leads the jazz life;
that swills and guzzles as usual; that
brags as IL its fifty-dollar Liberty
bond were engraved in its hearts
blood: that cheers everything. includ-
ing the chorus that comes out in Amer
lean flag petticoats; and that proves
its patriotism by its hoarseness and
its alibi buttons.
Before YOU can win 10 France you
must cure or quarantine the fellows
who, at forty. are getting the chill
dren's diseases that most men con
tract In the early stages OF their men
tai growth-those measles OF the
mind -half-baked and wholly imprac-
teal theories of life and living. The
plight of Russia teaches these men
nothing. nor does the accumulated
human experience of the centuries.
They start by ignoring Nature and hui
man nature. and reach a utopian con
clusion that is like a Mohammedan's
dream of heaven-plenty of wives and
good things for themselves and hell
for the dogs of unbelievers in their
theories.
Before you can win in France you
must put out OF business those men
who preach the brotherhood of man
and practice hatred of all men-those
apostles of peace and prosperity who
would bring about the millennium by
violence and destruction and those
drummers for discomfort. disorder and
disloyalty who sell Bolshevism on a
commission basis.
Before YOU can win the van in
France you must put every idler in
America to work War is the world
cure for idleness. There is a war job
ready and waiting now for every pi-
ano-pOunding girl. lounge lizard. tango
queen. poOlroom hobo, doll and he-doll,
perfect lady and imperfect gentleman
in the country-iobs that range from
%scrubbing TO ditching. from clerking
to haying. but all good jobs at useful
work-jObs hat will release better
men and wamen TO fill places for which
their training qualities them.
Lastly. before you win the var In
France YOU must get right with your
self. We all have some faint OF these
things that are holding back Amer
lea. We are. perhaps, h~alf-hearted,
ussy-footed, hoping that before our
hour for sacrifice strikes the neces-
sity for sacrifice will be over. But u
time is now. We must be fired with
the old American pioneer spirit, each
%shouldering his share Of the burdens
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