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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-04-18
OPINIONS OF EDITORS.
Two Good. Causes.

Two Good Causes.
IF the cause Of America is very
dear to the Princeton Unions heart,
the cause Of good roads is close
second. Elk River Star News.
* * *
It Would, Casey.
The newspaper that would be afraid
Of displeasing kaiserite subscribers by
standing up for Uncle Sam would be
a frail reed to lean upon, wouldn't it
now?- Jordan Independent.
* X X
Another Nonpartisan Lie Nailed.
Promoters Of the Nonpartisan league
have represented that President Will
son had Endorsed the leagues work.
Secretary Tumulty, in response to an
inquiry, said: "The president gives in
dorsement to no organization. DE
troit Record.
X X X
TwouM Suit Us to T.
If this war doesn't let up pretty
soon some new laws regarding pro-
family in print will have to be enacted.
Just plain adjectives don't express, and
editors must be given the right to re-
lieve themselves by cussing, the same
as other people.-Hokah Chief.
* y X s&
The Proper Place for Him.
Paul Dehnel of Chaska, Fairfax,
Worthington, Bemidji notoriety, has
been "pinched" for publishing an anti
government paper. We hold to for
mer prediction that Paul will wind up
at the federal penitentiary at Leaven-
worth, Kansas.-B PLANE Herald.
* X y
Where Ed. is Needed.
We trust that Edward Indrehus of
Benton county will not accept the
empty honor of the democratic nomi-
nation for secretary of state. He is
needed for another term in the legisla-
ture in his district, to which position
he can be easily e1ected.-St. Cloud
Journal-Press.
X * X
Lindbergh in the Discard.
We don't know what party c. A.
Lindbergh has right to claim mem
bership in, but he has filed in the
primary election as republican. His
party record, including his recent an
tics at St. Paul and Fargo, is of such
a character, however, that no republi-
can would be under any obligation to
vote for him should the improbable
happen and he be nominated. He &C.
copied the Nonpartisan league indorse-
ment for the purpose Of fighting the
republican party, a party which has
discarded him and has no use for him.
His boosted independence is class ego
tism and nothing more, and his holier-
than-thou pretentions are joke
Warren Register.
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Freedom for the Prisoners OF the
Revolving Chairs.

We extend our Fluctuations to those
young military men whose bitter fate
1t has been to get no nearer the Hin
denburg line than the west bank Of
the Anacostia, and whose spurs have
accelerated nothing more animate
than a rolltop desk. The Secretary
Of War has come to their relief by
ordering the chief Of each bureau in
his department to replace by the end
Of this year all men Of Glass 1 who
are in the War Department service
In this country with men who are
physically disqualified for general
military service, or else with men
whose classification is deferred on
the ground Of dependency.
Glass / of the selective service is
broad. 1t includes single men with
out dependents, married men who
habitually fail to support their fami-
lies (surely there are none Of these
in officers uniformsD, married men
who are supported by their wives,
and married men not usefully en-
gagged whose families have incomes.
In short, it includes every class Of
men who ought to be at the front IL
their physical condition is such that
they will be useful in the Grand Tour
toward Inter den Linden.
1t Is announced that there will be
no exemption from Mr.. BAKEE's or
der except "where incumbents are
indispensable" We are confident
that the young warriors, springing
from their hated desks. will convince
their chiefs that nothing is indispen-
sable except their presence in the
line of battle.
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Ing Of sixty active opponents Of their
rule ard at the same time Of prov
Ing their loyalty to Germany. Ber-
lin took apparently rather cynical
view Of their efforts, declaring that
the assassination was the working
out of the schemes of Entente repre-
sentatives in Russia. This attitude
was almost Immediately taken by
some of the Bolshevik leaders and
found expression in their press. That
the Entente Powers feel the opposi-
ton of the Bolsheviki Is shown by
the reports from Petrograd saying
that the French Embassy fears an
attack similar to that made upon
the British, and that the Bolsheviki
are encouraging the populace to mas
sacre the French and British.
The Government at Moscow shows
every determination to continue, so
long as 1t is permitted to hold out,
to be a faithful servitor of Berlin.
Its rule by terror and murder, its
disregard for the respect of the ma
tons Of the world seem to increase
with Its desperate efforts to maintain
Its hold upon what remains Of Rus
sia. In view Of these facts there Is
little reason to believe that the de-
mand of Great Britain for reparation
will receive any more satisfaction
from the Bo,shevikl than 1t would
from a pirate crew or n band Of
brlgands. There Is hope. though, that
their excuses will arouse the resent.
ment Of the Russian people to such
pitch as to put an end to their
| Infamous rule.
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do YoUcLAIMExEMpTIoNl"
The Question, II Seems. IL to BE Put
After All.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sr: In
the anal stages Of the new draft lesis-
iation q provision TO end the process OF
requiring registrants TO claim exemption
or deferred classification was eliminated
on General Crowder's objection. Ac-
cording to the newspaper reports he
promised that this matter would be
taken care Of by the War Department
regulations. which would spare regis
trants the necessity of preferring such
claims.
1t is now reported by the newspapers
that the new registrant will be expected
to state whether he claims deferred
assifscation or exemption" II General
Crowder's promise to Congress was cor
rectly reported by the newspapers last
week, why should he not keep TT Why
should not the pressure Of public opinion
represented by 13,5oo,ooo prospective
registrants be invoked to compel him
to keep It?
It Is going TO be more difiicult in the
new registration. with Its large percent
age of men OF older years, for regis
trants to reconcile all the conflicts Of
duty and responsibility in the face Of
this question Of exemption or deferred
classification claimed or not. The older
the registrant the more Is he likely to
feel that the question is degrading. In
view Of General Crowder's promise to
Congress. why is It to be asked?
There 10 still time enough for the War
Department to direct all draft boards to
instruct resistrants not to answer It, but
where IL In asked in the QUESTIONABLE to
state any particular facts in their knowl-
edge not otherwise covered which would
assist In classifying them for the draft.
PRosPDcrivE RDoIsrRANT.
New YoRK, September 6.
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THE DECEIVING MOTORIST.
His Trunk Was Not Prepared for the
Rnggage Car.

To THE l.lroR OF THE SrN-Sir: lie
passed me "a, about . o'clock Sunday
morning In the vicinity OF the Grand
Central Terminal. He was at the steer
ing wheel OF the car. Leaning against
the vacant seat beside him was a
steamer trunk that had all the appear
ance Of being new. A woman and
child sat in the rear. l Immediately
classed him as a conscientious gasolene
saver on the way to put his wife and
child aboard train.
Wishing to please DR.. Garfield I left
my own car in the garage and trolleyed
for my outing to Rye Beach. 1t was
a glorious day and sylvan hooks were
at premium. In searching for Just
the right spot for her and me to spread
our box lunch came upon the idea
spot Of all. Did We lunch there? We
did not That spot was preempted by
my conscientious gasolene saver. his
wife and child and the steamer trunk.
The last named was bearing up under a
picnic lunch that was much to the good
In quantity.
1t will take more than a steamer
trunk to deceive me next Sunday.
TWIN SIX.
NEW York, September 8.
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The Dictated Peace aud What Is to
Come Afts&ward.

Colonel ROOSEVELT spoke his mind
with his accustomed force and direct
ness ut the Lafayette Day exercises
in the City Hall yesterday. He. OF
course, is for the dictated peace. The
burden of his speech was the need OF
victory so smashing, so overwhelm-
ing, that repetition of the present
crimes Of German autocracy and its
vussal allies will be impossible.
In Colonel RoosEvELT's opinion the
guarantee Of future safety for the
world must rest not merely in gen.
eral disarmament and a peace agree
ment between a league Of nations,
but in the continued preparation Of
our own national strength ito Sc
cure justice for ourselves and to do
justice to others" That means, as
he understands it, not Prussian mill
tarism but universal military. train
ing and service on the Swiss plan
modified in accordance with our own
republican needs.
Colonel ROOSEVELT has been per-
fectly consistent in his view Of the
relative Importance Of natiOnalism
and internationallsm, and the same
sentiments have been uttered by him
frequently and vigorously ever since
the question Of ways and means to
enforce world peace became peril
nent. His remarks yesterday on this
subject are not of the nature Of a
surprise. -s..- .... .,.-
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by established rules and precedents
while we are always trying new experi
ments. For example, II an elevator 70,
STUCK between two floors. what would
you do" The Englishman looked puz-
zled for moment and then replied
why, ] suppose we would try TO fix
It, and II we couldn't We would cut f,
out The American retorted. THAT ie
Just 1t you would stick to the old meth
OBS We would anchor the elevator and
raise the building"
laugh went round in which the Eng
lishman did not JON. and asked his
friend afterward what Mr.. So-and-s1
meant by saying they would anchor
the elevator and raise the building. That
Is the kind ~ joke that often ESCAPES
an Englishman, especially in the mid
die OF a serious conversation, because
even when explained to him he thinks
IL not funny but childish.
ENGLIsHMAN.
New York, September 0.
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In In the privacy Of the home with
more or less Intellectual agony.
When the questionable is returned
the Government will have full state
ment Of the registrant's economic, So
cial and occupational status. II the
citizen have the best of reasons for
asking exemption or deferred CLASH
fcation and vet be too proud to make
the claim, the official examination Of
his questionable will bring to light
the error Of his pride. Yet his white
lie would delay the machinery Of the
draft to some little extent. 1t is far
better, since the question is to be
asked, that the man questioned
should answer It fatty. A blunt
Eyes" might save his wife from the
greater humiliation Of explaining to
the draft board the real condition Of
the family fortunes.
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The Failure to Encourage the Max.
Ing Of Fresh Curds on the Farm.

To THE EDIToR OF THE SUN-Sir: Your
readers are no doubt much relieved 10
learn that after an all day debate the
Senate has stricken out of the Agricul-
tural bill the provision for an appropria-
ton to encourage 1.-THE making of cot
tage cheese on the farm"
This was a commendable and proper
action for the Senate to take. As all
students Of the subject know. cottage
cheese should never be made on a farm.
but. as the name indicates, in a cottage.
Now that this important question has
been decided, we trust that the status
Of other members Of the cheese family
will be definitely settled by appropriate
legislation. Some cheeses should un-
doubtedly be encouraged. others treated
with indifference. and still others posi-
lively discouraged.
As the Allies in their present drive
are rapidly approaching Brie and Neuf-
chatel. the public will await further leg
islative developments with considerable
interest. AsHBEL p. FITCH.
NEW YORK. September 8.
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"Do You Claim Exemptl0ne''

We venture to suggest that our
correspondent prospective Regis
trant," whose letter appears else
where on this page, has confused the
Provost Marshal General and the
Secretary Of War. 1t may have been.
and probably was, the intention OF
General CRowDER to do his utmost
to spare every man who is subject
to the operations of the man power
law from undue humiliation, but 1t
was Secretary BAKER who made the
public announcement that efforts
were being made to obviate the ne
cessity Of the registrant declaring
that he sought exemption or deferred
classification. This statement, given
to the newspaper men in Washington
on August 20 by the Secretary Of
War, was as follows:
we wanted to arrange the resula-
lions SO as to save a married man who
ought to be exempted from the humilia-
ton Of claiming exemption by making
the process as automatic as possible.
Tho theory upon which We want to
work this draft Is that no married man
whose wife and children are dependent
upon the continuity of his earnings. and
who will not be able to live on the SOL
dier's wages. will be drafted"
1t now appears, as prospective
Registrant" correctly indicates, that
It Is General CRowDER's intention to
put the question which Secretary
BAKER described as humiliating, an
swer to be made either by the regis
trant or "some other interested per-
son." say u dependent relative or a
watchful employer. 1t Is explained
in Washington that, while the Gov
eminent has no wish to embarrass
the citizen, the putting Of the ques-
ton and the answering of it will
give speed to the machinery Of the
draft; to adopt the system Of letting
the Government decide, In each case,
whether or not the reglstrant should
be exempt or deferred would retard
the machine.
Our correspondent and thousands
Of other men who hung upon Secre-
tary BAKERS plan may find some
comfort in the knowledge that the
bald methods of the first draft will
not be followed. The registrant will
not be asked orally, In the presence
Of others, whether or not he claims
exemption or deferred classification.
The question will be put in the written
QUESTIONABLE which will be mailed
TO the citizen within few days after
next Thursday, the day Of registra-
ton. On Thursday the questioning
will be Of the simplest kind, concern
ing only the registrants name, adj
dress, age, date of birth, color, place
Of birth, citizenship, occupation. en-
ployer's name, place Of employment,
and name and address OF nearest
relative. Upon answering these ques-
lions the registrant will receive his
blue card and he will then await the
arrival at his home of the question
naire, q sixteen page form to be filled
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two ladies engaged by the Government
in every county In forty-seven States.
These two ladies have a drawing ac-
count with the Government, as l under
stand 1t. Of s12 per day each and
salary OF more than 500 per month.
"At least this much Is known: The
young lady driver Is getting 81 per day
for that. and she says she knows the
expenses run to $50 per week besides"
The letter writer, failing to see
the Unreasonable benefit to be con-
ferred upon generations vet untaxed
by the recovery of lost art to child
hoods memory dear, falls into o pas
sion because the Government Is pay
ing three ladies In every county in
forty seven States SIS week to re-
store the art of cottage cheese max
ing to the housewives of America.
Hear this passionate protest:
81 do think such a deal a. this should
have immediate investigation and pun
ishment dealt the guilty offscisl foster
ing such disreputable business.
SHOW me the housewife who knows
anything about housekeeping who can
not make better Dutch cheese than any
CRATER going about the country at the
expense OF tho Government"
Nonsensei What every housewife
in the land knows about cottage
cheese making Is nothing compared
to what each will learn from three
ladies' and an automobile.
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Great Britain's Demands Upon the
EOisheviki.

The British Government has taken
a definite step toward its demand
for reparation for the sacking Of the
British Embassy at Petrograd and
the murder Of Captain CRoMIE, its
Military Attache, by ihe arrest of
MAXIM LITvINoFF, the Bolshevik rep
resentative at London. Great Brit
ain in her vigorous protest ut the
outrage declares further that she will
hold the members Of the Soviet Gov
eminent individually responsible and
will make every effort to have them
treated as outlaws by the Govern
ments Of all civilized nations, and
that no place Of refuge shall be left
to them"
These are stern and severe meas
ures to be enforced against the rep
resentatives Of another nation. The
great difficulty, however, that con-
fronts Great Britain In her demands
for reparation and satisfaction is in
the Government, or the semblance of
Government, with which she has
to deal. There have been few in
stances of similar violation of inter-
national rights even among the most
barbarous people. These have been
the outcome, In general, Of mob vio-
lence, and Government with at
least some sense Of responsibility has
denounced the outrage and proposed
amends. In the present case there
has been no offer Of satisfaction, no
diplomatic apology, nothing but a
sullen attitude of defiance.
The evidence in the hands Of the
British Government shows that the
attack upon the Embassy was not
an act of mob, or of group of
individuals with q grievance against
Great Britain, but of body OF
troops acting under Bolshevik or
ders. The attack had thus appar-
emily the approval and sanction of
the Government at Moscow. In fact,
It appears to represent an effort to
carry out threat made ut the time
of the killing Of the German Ambas-
sador, MIRBAcH, Of placing the re-
sponsibility Of his death upon the
Entente Powers.
Scarcely had the news of MIR,
BAcH's assassination reached LENINE
and TRoTzKY than they sent an alb.
ject apology to Berlin and an offer
to bring to punishment all who were
concerned In the plot. They under
took this task with avidlty, for II
gave them an opportunity for dlspos-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-07
Taxes That Check Production.

The protest of the National Pc
troleum War Service Commission
against proposed taxes on oil pro-
ducers is a valid protest. 1t COM
plains. not that taxes must be paid,
but that they must be applied in a
form to make it more difficult to get
the oil out of the ground. Indeed,
the very prospectors who drill for
oil are discouraged from trying.
This Is protest which many other
industries are entitled to make. 1t
is n protest which the Senate should
heed, not merely in the interest of
the petroleum and other industries,
but in the interest of the country,
Of the Treasury. Of our armies in
France.
The trouble with that taxation Is
that, like so much other taxation de-
vised In Congress, 1t strikes straight
and hard at productivity. A Kitchin
who is destitute Of economic sense,
who disregards the simplest laws Of
nature, never hesitates t. squash pro-
ductlvity. But with shortage Of
labor everywhere, with rising costs
of operation tending to put the
brakes on production anyhow, the
one thing at which a rational tax
maker and a sound tax measure
should aim Is the stimulation, not
the strangulation, of the production
of any article capable Of bearing
taxes afterward.
You can tax nearly anything after
II Is produced and started on it's
journey Of distribution and consump-
ton. You cannot tax anything II
you do not permit it to come into
existence. Not only the production
of petroleum but the production of
thousands Of other articles essential
to the conduct of the war, essential to
the welfare of the people, essential
to the life Of the nation, Is threatened
by Kitchln prejudices and animosi-
ties which hit wildly at revenue pro-
ducers regardless of whether 1t means
the life or death Of the thing from
which the revenue Is torn.
Prodigious revenues can be obtained
from petroleum without drying up oil
wells. The same thing is true of mills,
factories and mines. 1t is true Of all
industry and all business. And yet
while even Mexican bandit has other
wish than to burn up the ranch that
Is paying him blackmail in constant
instruments to let 1t alone, the head
of the Ways and Means Committee
in the House Of Representatives de-
votes himself to Gripping the produc.
tive agencies Of mankind, to drying uI
the fountainheads Of revenue, to blast
ing madly the fields and gardens of a
nation as n Hun might do deliberately
to make them a desert.
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The Ninrne.

Leap. we rivers of all the world.
Leap for the day the Hun was hurled
Back where the Marne's dread waters
whirled.
Nile and Amazon, hail Its fame,
Mississippi. Its praise proclaim,
Ganges. thunder its holy name.
Yield he must to that victor foe,
Dark and darker his days must grow,
Rhine. grow black with his endless woe.
Scorned OF earth to the utmost brim,
spurned Of heaven, In regions dim.
styx, grow red with the soul OF him.
Leap, ye rivers of all the world,
Leap for the day the Hun was hurled
Back where the Marne's dread wates
whirled.
McLANDBuBeH WILSON.
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A Lost Art In Process Of storation.

Under whatever name 1t was
known, and 1t had a dozen, and
whether bought from a delicatessen
merchant, cut by him with a wooden
paddle from the stock whitley bill
lowing in its yellow crock, from the
grocer, artfully wrapped in tinfoll to
make face for the bold price it
brought in that form, or If the house
wife spooned it from kitchen bowl
cool and gently tingling to the palate,
there was merit in cottage cheese.
Spread upon cookies or ginger
snaps, childhood loved and throve
upon it; thickly blanketing fresh
bread, 1t was the substantial item Of
tea or supper In million American
homes. The city dweller, If his ap-
petite was bit Maynard, his palate
not so keen as in childhood, would
dab bit of cottage cheese, which
he ordered under fraudulent for
elgn name, on cracker which he
called biscuit, and ask for jam or
the needle seeded currents OF Bar
le-duc To put on top.
Cottage cheese! Probably not more
than generation ago there could
be found no housewife in all this
broad land who could not and did
not make 1t. But what unhappy
times have we come upon! One small
item In the Agricultural appropria-
ton bill over which Congress Is now
dlstraught thus reveals truth no
less sorrowful than alarming:
Making cottage cheese on the farms,
s52.s5o."
On the farms, alas! Were the Adj
ministration busted teaching how to
make cottage cheese on Broadway
roof gardens, in its cabarets, in
Cooper Union, there would still re-
main the sad inference that even in
places of, non-agricultural pursuits so
great an art was lost. But on the
farms!
Happily, though the fruit be lost
the seed, as it were, Is not lost F;
though even farmers wives no longer
know how to make cottage cheese
Fate and an Appropriation have dis,
covered some ladies who providen-
TALLY have preserved the art. This
consoling chance we learn from a
letter received from a constituent by
Corporal KNUTE NELSON and read to
his colleagues by the Senator. The
constituent, after telling his Senator
that he was, touring in Iowa and
visiting friends, wrote:
These friends OF mine have a daush,
ter, who Is a driver of an automobile
and is at present engaged in driving
two ladies about the small country
towns in this county In Iowa, under
Government employ. in the enterpris.
| of educating people or housewives II
the way Of making Dutch cheese.
This young lady states there ar,