The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-04-26
WAR ENCYCLOPEDIA
RECENTLY ISSUED BY
THE GOVERNMENT
Pertinent Facts of the War Concisely
and Authoritatively
Stated.

"a war OyclOpeQld is special
war publication of the government
issued through the Committee on
Public Information. 1t is handbook
for ready reference on the great war,
and contains in some 300 pages a
great mass of information sirnnly
arranged and clearly stated u S
issued in response to an insistent
demand from many students, writer's,
clergymen, lawyers, business men and
the public at large for authentic
statements of the outstanding facts
concerning the war in alphabetical
arrangement
The "War Cyclopedia" was edited
by Frederic L. Paxton, University of
Wisconsin; Edwin S. Corwin, Prince
ton University, and Samuel B. Hard
ing, Indiana University, the editors
drawing freely upon the time and the
patriotic goodwill of large number
of special writers from all parts of
the country. Because of its special
value and the high cost of printing
a small price of rs cents a copy has
been fixed by the government to
cover the cost of production and dis
trlbution. 1t may be obtained from
the Committee on Public Information.
10 Jackson Place, Washington, d. c..
In a foreword Chairman George
Creel, of the committee, says: "Other
handbooks have been and will be
made by other agencies; all will
serve their end, for this war is not
to be won by an established doctrine
nor by an official theory, but by an
enlightened opinion based on the
truth. The facts of history and life
are the only arsenal to which Ameri-
cans need resort in order to defend
their cause. The deeper their study.
the tirmer becomes their conviction.
The War Cyclopedia' represents an
effort to arrange in simple form the
facts most needed"
Articles on persons have been left
out except as the editors have deem
ed biographical notes to be abso-
lutely indispensable; knowledge of
American public men in particular
has been assumed.
An indication of the character and
the wide range of the information
provided may be had from the fol-
lowing citations made at random
through the alphabetical arrange
ment:
Under the title Alsace-Lorraine
something of the history and the
character of that province now in
world dispute is given, and Professor
Otfried Nippold, a German scholar
formerly in the diplomatic service
but now of Berne, is quoted as saw
ing: when one looks back into the
history of Europe during the last
forty years, it seems inconceivable
that anyone can be unwilling to adj
NIT that the annexation of Alsace-
Lorraine was political mistake"
and that "the Germans have shown
themselves incompetent in their gov
eminent of the people of Alsace-
Lorraine"
The term "Boche," now so COM
monty appearing in American news
paper dispatches as a familiar desig-
nation of the Germans, is shown to
have originated before the war in
Paris. The German assistants of
Paris printers were so designated.
The term "Boche" was probably also
used in the Franco-Prussian war in
1870, for lola, in his novel LA
Debacle," put the term in the mouths
of French soldiers to designate Ger
mans. The term zee boche" was
used, before the Franco Prussian war