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United States Shipping
Board IS Training Thou
sands of Recruits for
the Merchant Marine

MEXICAN crews for American mer-
chant ships"
This is the slogan of the United
States shipping board, which has in
hand the great task of creating an
adequate personnel for our new mer-
chant marine.
In years past, whenever the subject
of creatino q merchant marine in nrO-
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09
An Idea Comes
Out of the West

From a training camp in the Mid
die West where harassed officers are
struggling with some thirty-odd ma
tionalities and as many languages, the
germ of an idea came into existence in
the mind of a high ranking officer.
Watching with absorption the phleg-
matte or overenthused activities of his
motley official family, he caught one
day the CLEAN Of that diving fire"
which is Slavonia.
On gusty night, walking alone
among the outposts of the camp, turn
ing in his mind the thousand perplcxi-
ties of the day, he heard voice in the
darkness, singing softly but with in
tense fervor. The officer paused. The
strain was wild and gypsy-like, with a
curious martial beat, and the words
were cultural and unintelligible. Verse
after verse poured forth. rhythmic and
monotonous, fraught with a tremen-
dous intensity. The singer paused sud-
denly as though interrupted, his song
broken off in midair. The officer stepped
forward and saw crouched at the
edge of the camp, close to the barbed
wire inclosure. slender, boyish figure
which sprang erect as he approached.
There in the darkness the officer asked
a question or two and was answered d
quietly and directly.
Who was the singer and what his
nationality? He was Serb from Aus
tria.
What was he singing? What, indeed,
but an extemporaneous poem which re-
counted the deeds of his great an
cestors.
And who were his ancestors? Great
Serbian heroes, sir, who fought for the
freedom Of the Slav against Turk and
Teuton in the Dast-oh, very long ago.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09
The Slav Note
Brings an Answer

One man, practically ignorant Of
the English language, enlisted because
he had gathered the impression that
the cause which America had espoused
was the cause of his own freedom. Ar
irving at training camp and being
promptly classed with the enemy aliens
whom he hated and despised, he aban-
doned a particularly offensive round of
kitchen police and in "unbeftting
terms" addressed his commanding off,
GER. He declared wildly that he had
entered the army to fight, not to slave
in kitchen, and that he desired most
earnestly to be sent to France, Italy,
anywhere, Immediately, and thus be
removed from the hateful society of
his fellow soldiers, who happened to be
of most pronounced pro-German ten
dencies. When reprimanded for insub-
ordinate conduct he retired, to suffer
acutely, but not in silence. He wrote
at random to everyone he knew de-
scribng the cruel injustice of his posi-
ton, which, needless to say, was not
apparent to his commanders, overtaxed
as they were with the strain of trim
ming to the rigid olive drab confines
of the service the variegated and very
raw material in hand. The age-old
wrongs of hot-hearted Slavic patriot,
while forming the essential leaven Of
the loaf of Slavic emancipation, failed
to impress the military authorities as
unusual, and his periodical protests,
arriving invariably with his tour of
kitchen police, were hastily classed
with the other unintelligible COM
plants which reached their ears daily
in some thirty-five languages.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09

But suddenly, over and above them
all. sounded the clarion note which dis
tinguished the Slavic cry for freedom
as of deeper, more intensely national
origin than the lesser wailings Of the
usual, discontented foreigner. 1t came
and soupded through the sleeping camp
on the eve of the Orthodox Christmas,
about the 10th of January. 1t was
muf1ed rife shot. A startled investi-
eating party found him, stretched upon
his own weapon, which he had turned
upon himself in the desperate convic-
ton that his technical status as the
alien enemy both of his own people and
of the service in which he had enlisted
would forever bar him from that active
service overseas upon which his hfe's
whole interest hung.
The sound of that shot hes pene-
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09
By Caroline Dawes Appleton

of its members are, through a techni-
cality of citizenship, outcast and adrift
from the very cause for which they beg
to be allowed to fight. By very reason
of their former serfdom beneath Teu-
tonic rule, large percentage of Slavic
draftees in the National Army and en-
listed men of the regular service are
technically classed as "enemy aliens"
and perforce treated accordingly. With
those enemy aliens of avowed PROF. Ger
man tendencies the madly patriotic
Slav is cast into the ranks of the dis
loyal and denied active service on any
front.
RELOCATED to the non-combatant
branches of the service, jeered at and
ridiculed by his pro-German CO.
workers, entirely misunderstood in his
frantic protestations to be allowed a
gun and something to shoot at, the ar
dent Slavic patriot works and per-
functorily trains in gloomy depres-
sion. And all the while his heart flames
with the wild hope that he may some
day join the golden ranks of those
heroes whose names Slavonia reveres.
The petty differences Of factional
politics which the world arbitrarily
associates with Slavic uprisings are
sunk in the vital spirit of fraternity in
suffering and oppression. A flag, a
government, a place for the sacred
archives of Slavic history and shelter
for the guarded fame of national indie
pendence are the dream Of each and
every Slav. Whether laboring uncom-
prehendingly and misunderstood in the
non-combatant sections of an Allied
army, whether chatting beneath the en-
forced trappings of an Austrian uni
form, or bound with the thraldom of
Poland, the Slav sees only the star of
his races freedom and his hatred of
the Teuton foe. Here, it would seem,
is fighting material for something
more organized, more co0rdinated,
more vast than merely a foreign
legion.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09
One Slav Body
Opposes the Plan

The one Slavic organization which is
opposing the organization of Slavic
iegions is the Polish National Defence
Committee, which was organized in
1912 for the purpose of aiding the
movement for independent Poland
From the first, funds were forwarded
to Joseph Pilsudski, now General PHI
sudskl, heading the Polish Legions, for
the maintenance of military schools IN
Poland organized by him.
Pilsudski used the money for the
formation of secret military schools
for the training of officers, and when
the present war started he headed q
small army. Since the great fight OF
roland was directed against Russian
autocracy, the Polish Legions, with
General Pllsudski as their commander
greeted their attention to fighting
Russia. When the Russian revolution
overthrew the Gear, General Pilsudsn!i
refused to fight Russia. AS a result
the Germans imprisoned him in the
Fortress of Magdeburg, together WITH
10000 men of his army.
The committee anticipated the sI-
trance of the United States into the
world war" said DR.. B. D. Kulakovski'
editor Of "Wici," official organ of the
Polish National Defence COMMITTEES.
For this reason we did not ally our,
selves politically either with Gres,
britain or with France. We opposeo
the formation of Polish military units
OF on the side Of the Allies, or in the
United States. An army is one OF tss
attributes of the sovereignty of sta"
and is the force guaranteeing the inde'
pendence of nation. 1t is in the ID.
terest of Poland that the United Ststes
be militarily strong and efficient. fhs
splitting up Of the uniform militsu
organization of the United States ln.e
Italian, Greek, Polish, Armenian, Syr''
an or Jewish armies would be tanss-
moant to complete chaos.
Those who wanted to serve reae,
tionary political ends, who denouneeo
Pilsudski and his followers as Pras
sian mercenaries, must now admn
their error. The only belligerent g
American soil is the Government OF sns
United States. We urged all the mem
Ders OF our committee, and there A.
over 10000 of them, at the time q M
entrance of this country into the W.. W.
to prove by their acts that the fosss
IN America are conscious of their egy 's
toward this country and of the tonss
tradition of fighting for our ana -
freedom
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09
The Old Mistake
Was Made Again

They understood this time. Under
the suppressed laughter of a hundred
odd of their more Americanized fell
lows, the handful of Poles, Czechs and
AustroSerb looked at each other sui
lenly and morosely. The old mistake
had been made again. In that silent
exchange Of glances they picked their
leader. After drill he approached his
commander respectfully.
"Sir," he said, "I and my brothers
are indignant. Again we are treated as
enemies and traitors. Pm not an Aus
trian. l am Croat-two of them are
Austro- -Serbs-ten of them are Czechs
from Bohemia - another Serb
from"-
Nothing Of the kind!" snapped the
exasperated officer. you're all Aus
trians. "There may be political differ
ences and all that in your own coun-
try-you're always kicking up some
kind of row over there-but you're
all cut off the same piece of cloth. /
can't stop to argue with you. Either
you're an American, an alien or an
enemy alien"
"No, no! l am a Croatia Slav-mv
people have always fought; why, sir,
the first two prisoners taken by the
American Army in France were taken
by Polesl
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09
The Most Difficult
To Assimilate

Ihe Slavic Immigrant has lost, per-
haps less than any other, his national
lstlc tendencies and enthusiasms. He
IS difficult, if not impossible, to assimi-
late, and that which so definitely de-
clines to assimilate is scarcely popular
in America.
The first thought to be carefully i'm
! pressed upon the arriving immigrant is
the Importance of his immediate Amer
lcanization. This had been a definitely
constructive policy upon which much
OF the country's present unity depends.
The Slav demonstrates thoroughly and
courteously his willingness to be
Amerlcanized, but not his WILLINGNESS
to be assimilated. 1t is his proudest
boast that though Slavonia is at pres
ent nation without freedom, the
Slavic race has never been assimilated
by any other. He maintains that the
strength of his race lies in the verv
stuDbornness Of his determination to
become nothing and remain a Slav.
certain military and civil authorities
OF the United States government have
come recently to believe that in that
strength may possibly lie the greatest
weapons of all those various and start
ilngly discovered defences and, re-
sources which America has revealed
beneath the developing processes Of
the war. The old question which has
taxed the brain of immiprat;on sx-
perts, as to the feasibility of incor-
porating into the nations existence
these unassimilated foreigners, is sunk
INTO oblivion before the military i'm
portance of utilizing a ready-made
natlonalism which has it's own pecu-
liar and intensified reasons for hating
and fighting the common foe.
For this assimilation of the unde-
nably rich resources of the Slavic tenn
permanent and energies, the Central
Powers, foreseeing the present situa-
tion no doubt, have struggled with in.
creasing perturbation since Bismarck's
drastic step Immediately after the
Franco-Prussian war. The Iron Chan
cellor first proclaimed the Imperative
necessity Of absorbing the Slavic race
primarily by the abolition of its laneu.
age, dialects and customs throughor+
central Europe.
The Language of
Hope and Freedom
With ponderous German textbooks
and their systems of pedagogy fou-
rishing IN an overnight growth through
Bohemia and Jugo-Slavia, the Slavic
tongue slipped into the intimate chan
neis OF love. home, laughter and music
and with the indomitable spirit Of Il.
origin ~ has laughed softly and reson-
sntly throughout the years, the song
language the love language, the Ian
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09
And He Is Mentally
Overlooked

1t has been remarked that the vari-
Gus societies and the elaborate and
effective systems which have been es-
tabllshed in the various training camps
for the amusement and recreation of
the men treat with the foreign speak
ing soldier not at all. Lectures and
plays in English he cannot understand;
the camp library is a closed door to
him; his mind is continuously be-
logged regarding the issues and prog
ress of the war, and he is conscious
only of living to do what he considers
to be menial and unworthy labor be-
meath stigma Of citizenship which he
can never overcome and which forever
bars him from active service.
But the acuteness of the situation
has become so marked as to attract the
necessary attention of the government.
Plans are afoot to provide the Slav
with the mass meetings his heart
thrives upon; the native speakers to
thrill him and keep alive in him the
great spirit of his people, and event
ually to make him part of the vast
army which shall deal justice and ret
ribution to his oppressors-perhaps
by descending upon them through the
eastern gateway to Russia.
Many tales, pathetic, amusing and
even tragic, are told of the training
camp situation, while the wheels of
government revolve to control and re-
lieve the tension.
young company commander,
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09

weary with explaining over and over
his simplest commands to a score or
more extremely foreign members of
his company, and suddenly realizing
that after all these were technically
enemy aliens and never to utilize their
arduous training in any active fashion,
gave way to his evaporation.
you're nothing but bunch of huns,
anyway" he roared irascibly. "What
you can understand you won't. Not a
--- one Of you will ever fight under
mel wouldn't trust you out of my
sight"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09

trated to the furthest corners of the
country's understanding America has
come to look upon the Slav with new
and somewhat wondering eyes; to as
sumo somewhat her own share of the
responsibility of the lack of compre-
hension in which she has been at fault
as we'll as the failure of the Slav with
IN her gates to adequately express
himself in the new tongue, or to ade
quately inform himself of the tradi-
tions of the new country.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09
Has Special Motiye
For Hating Teutons

Through draft boards and recruiting
stations everywhere has poured the
country's full quota of Slavic fighting
power. From the 100000 Poles, 2,oo0,-
600 Czechs and 100000 Jugo- -Slavs a
vast army has been recruited--an army
speaking little or none of the language
OF Its adopted country, knowing less Of
fts traditions, but an army with a
motive and cause of its own, with a
private and particular hatred of the
common foe before which any other
anti-German sentiment palcs into in
significance.
But this army is thinly scattered.
widely distributed among training
camps and stations. and the majority
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09

THAT WILL Dol" declared his
commander with finality
Well accustomed to injustices, mill
tary and judicial, the Croatian of this
instance harbored the conviction that
his race was once again the victim of
official insult When assigned in his
turn to a tour of kitchen police he re-
garded 1t as peculiar and added
affront unequalled by anything save
the rankest Prussianism. Wherefore,
he and his comrades speedily became
examples of martyrized rebellion,
whose fame could not fail to spread
from camp to camp among relatives
and friends until once again the cruel
oppression of the Slavic race in gen.
eral because the fiery slogan which in
cited fraternal orders and societies to
more vehement demonstrations of their
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09
Slavic Contingent
Of the u. S. Arrny

"Well, turn in now," directed the off,
Ger, fatty. But the seed was sown.
Somewhere in his memory the wild
strain Of that patriotic lament echoed.
Its queer abrupt ending irritated him.
Suddenly he remembered having heard
somewhere that these people sang end
Iessly in this fashion, and their abrupt
examinations were a part of their
musical history-the result of the in
variable Interruptions of their meet
lngs and song-feasts by investigating
parties of soldiers whose mission it
was to quell these dangerous national
lstic seances among the bonded Slav
whose territories they ruled by con-
quest.
Smiling at his reminiscent digfession
into the sphere of musical history. the
officer turned in his mind the feasibil-
lty OF forming these countless Slavic
draftees of his own and other camps
into vast Slavic army; not foreign
legion, but Slavic contingent of the
American army, to fight beneath the
American flag and according to we'll
tested systems prescribed by the regu-
latlons. But this army should be Off
cered-at least its noncommissioned
officers and certain portion of the
commlssioned-should be picked men
who know the language and customs of
the Slav and of all the Slavic countries.
and who could guide their men and
fight with them in their own cause.
which, after ALL. is identical with ours.
The plan is big. With the recent up-
risings in Bohemia, the presentation
to the State Department of the organ
lied movement whose object is the sys
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09

tematic encouragement Of these patri-
otic demonstrations in Austria, the
military feasibility Of the plan in
creases. immigration and citizenship
experts as we'll as military are concen-
trating upon the upbuildng and main
tcnance of the Slavic spirit which ap-
pears to be SO rapidly dissipating un-
der the adverse conditions of the train
ing camp.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09
Promoters of Patriotic Enterprise Say if Teuton
Stigma Is Taken Off These Technialy Austrian
Subjects 100000 Are Ready to Fight
Under the American Flag

Then he, although an enemy alien,
desired to fight against these same
enemies?
In torrent of broken English the
boy declared his passionate willingness
to fight any one - anywhere - that
would bring about the freedom of his
people. In fact, he insisted upon fight
ing, Immediately, in the most sangui-
nary sectors possible!
"Do you not realize" the officer
pointed out, chat if captured you will
be shot for treason by your own gov
ernment?"
II suffer more here, non-combatant,
than by being tortured by an Austrian
executing party!" answered the boy
simply.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-09

T>ROM factory mouth and mine pit,
from field and workshop
throughout America strange
and as yet somewhat unwieldy stream
is pouring into the nations service. 1t
is a mighty flow of molten patriotism,
white hot and susceptible of being cast
in the mould of rev and powerful
guided, anncaling rapidly, in grave
danger of chilling into formless mass
of useless, finely tempered metal.
The Slavic immigrant, Pole, Czech
and Jugo- Slav, refugee from genera
tions of oppression by the Central
Powers, has found the freedom of his
soul. Fired by the accumulated resent
ment of years of serfdom, nf1amed by
the sufferings of his bonded kinsmen
overseas, who are forced to fight and
die in the support of rule they detest,
the Slav in America, as in France and
England, has gathered his brothers
about him and declared his readiness
to league the fervor and force of his
oA\iOAC iSHtiiiB IdCe WIFI tHc IHOueTn
war skilled legions of democracy.
France has already tested and proved
the valiant strength of her foreign
legion of Poles, Czechs and Jugo- -Slavs.
England, slower to absorb the essential
foreignness of these volunteers, at
length grasped hands with her Slavic
immigrant. But America, it appears,
Is slower still to recognize and use the
mighty idle weapon at her hand.
Already thousands of Slavs have lost
their lives fighting under the banners
of France and Italy Nearly 10000
Poles died upholding the traditions of
the famous Foreign Legion. The Polish
Legion in France has been depleted and
recruited so often that no record of the
men who have passed through it's ranks
is available, but to-day it numbers 25,-
600 men--all volunteers. Fighting in
France, too, are 10000 Czech -Slovaks,
while $4,000 more of these escaped Aus
trian subjects are under arms in Italy
There is besides a '1ost army" of 49,
600 Jugo-Slavs in Russia-also men
escaped from Austria-of whose fate
nothing is known here. The Legion of
Polish Volunteers in America, in addi-
ton to those who have gone to join the
colors in France, now numbers more
than 5000.
."The Slav is fre--a living fre!" is
the slogan passed down from father to
son through all the generations which
have longed and suffered for freedom.
Alike on the plains of Poland and
among rugged mountains of Jugo-
S!avia little children are trained to
worship the sacred fire of their nation
alism, to sing the patriotic folk songs
OF their fathers, to regard themselves
as but embers in the mighty leapine
fame Of Slavic liberty. When the way
was found to relieve the immediate
pressure Of the hated domination of
their enemies by emigration to the new
world the Slav brought with him the
fame Of his hatred, now famed into q
scorching blast.