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New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
The Wide Open Door
By Ralph Barton Perry
OF the Fi1iLuntes
Of the VigiLantes

1t is now regarded in some quarters
as evidence of intellectual advancement
to smile condescendingly at those who
declaim about patriotism, liberty, FRA
ternity and equality But never before
have these things possessed so much
substance and so much truth as to-day.
Liberty as self-government, as willing
submission to self-imposed law and to
benefcent institutions, is more clearly
than ever the only escape from the op-
posite calamities of license and tyran-
ny. Fraternity, or the sense of fellow
ship and mutual dependence. is the
only thing which can save our human
relations from the meanness of obse-
quiousness and from the hatefulnes. /.
OF arrogance. Equality, the recogni-
ton of the common lot and the com
mon humanity, the wide-open door of
opportunity, remains the only gospel
by which men may be saved from the
bitterness Of undeserved failure or the
false pride Of undeserved success.
These are more than ever the precious
things, the things worth living and
dying. for, the things we love and call
American: and patriotism is more as
suredly than ever the most powerful
force by which they may be kept alive
and safe in the world.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
The Great American Family

mere would be no more of having
Cuthbert loll in a hammock and strum
a banjo, while Jack carried in his share
of the wood and MIXED the brindle COW
for him. I'd make Algernon responsible
for just as much labor as Jake was
doing.
An Even Break
Then | wouldn't have to feel nv
face get hot when friend asked me
what part of the family burden Waldo
was carrying, and how long before
Cosmo would be breaking fifty-fifty
with Bob. would know that any time
there was hard job or an unpleasant
one on hand I could grab the first bow
that came through the door and tell
him to get busy. There would be an
even break all around.
"Then l would know that l could
bank on the family strength as a unit
at any time that neighbor tried to
pasture his goats in our lettuce bed or
his mules in our sweet corn. II the
neighbors knew that every boy In the
family was backing me to a finsh and
had his sleeves rolled up for action.
and if they all knew that every boy in
the bunch was just as we'll trained n
scrapper as Jim and Bob and Tim and
Jake, they would rope their goats and
mules and hobbie them.
! The family has got to como to Il or
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
Minute Men of the Pen
How American Authors and Artists Haze Giuen
Their Genius to Offset German Propaganda and
Inspire Nation-Assistance Giuen Without Cost to
Host of Patriotic Movements and Government Efforts

get picked on by every pup and heel
biting cur in Christendom. They have
to come to it or get walked on and spit
on and used as slop jar by every filthy
nutocrat who sets up a dictatorship in
our village. When they know that a
poke at George is like slapping the
family face, and that every boy is all
there and ready, they won't poke, be-
lievc me.
Poor old Uncle Samuel! Until every
man and woman has been made to see
where lies the wisest course there will
be grumblers. | meet them every day.
| know one who grumblcd loudly and
bitterly because her boy was induced
to enlist in the artillery. She could not
see any right nor justice in it. She
felt that the act Of the government had
been cruel and uncalled for. Then the
boy came home from the cantonment
and gave his mother course of lect-
ures extending over three days, his
time of furlougE.
Look at me, mother" he began. ~
vas ound-shouldered, holIow-chested
couldn't stand square on my feet, had
no muscle and was suprcmely selfish.
So he went on, telling her what he
had lacked, and she saw what he had
now. Then he gave her enthusiastic
accounts Of what he did and how he had
been made sergeant and how the com.
mandant had given him few words OF
commendation and what a fine lot Of
fellows the other boys were and how
the spirit of patriotism was growing
every day. The day after he went back
to his duties met her.
~ never saw him look SO we'll in his
whole life. He looks four inches taller
and his shoulders are so square and his
muscle is big and hard. He is so en-
thusiastic that he had me and his father
so excited that we wanted to get out
and march with him. He has gained SC
much and / fail to see where he has
lost anything wanted him to keep
His mind is taking hold Of bigger and
better things, he looks at religion with
more appreciation, his whole mental
attitude is improved. Take him out
| Not If could do it with word. am
proud Of him right THERE!"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

Emerson Hough.
Rupert Hughes.
Edward Hungerford.
Fannie Hurst.
Wallace Irwin.
Burgess Johnson.
Robert Underwood Johnson.
Reginald Wright Kaufman.
Joseph G. Lincoln.
Don Marquis.
Cleveland Motfctt.
Ethel Watts Mumford.
Meredith Nicholson.
Ralph Barton Perry.
Ernest Poole.
Harrison Rhodes.
Anna Steese Richardson.
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson.
Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Theodore Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt.
Edgar Saltus.
Henry Dwight Sedgwick.
Marion Couthouy Smith.
Ida NJ. Tarbell.
Booth Harrington.
Roland G. Usher.
William English Walling.
Stewart Edward White.
Caspar Whitney.
Kate Douglas Wiggin.
Jesse Lynch Williams.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

the Prussian government and the
leagues for promoting the teaching Of
German in primary schools of the coun-
try was clearly demonstrated; the pro
Germanism of Hearst, of George Syl-
vester Viereck and of numerous other
publishers was equally exposed; the
attitude of the German language press
and it's effort to hold the Germans and
Americans of German descent in line
for the Kaiser were made so clear that
legislation had to follow; through the
mouth of organized labor itself was
proved the falsity of the German-in-
spired assertion that this was a rich
mans war. So also this pro- German
leanings and tendencies of the Socialist
party and such pacifst organizations
as the League Against Mlitarism and
the Peoples Council were brought
under the spotlight
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
A Eew of the Nigilantes

Lyman Abbott.
Samuel Hopkins Adams.
George AIDE.
Gertrude Atherton.
Irving Bacheller.
Ray Stannard Baker.
Ralph Henry Barbour.
Bruce Barton.
Rex Beach.
Geraldine Bonner.
Cyrus Townsend Brady.
Abbie Farwell Brown.
Gelctt Burgess.
Thornton w. Burgess.
Amelia Josephine Burr.
George w. Cable.
Walter Camp.
Bliss Carman.
Robert w. Chambers.
George Randolph Chester.
Helen Gray Cone.
James B. Connolly.
Edith Barnard Delano.
James Montgomery Flagg.
Granville Fortescuc.
Hamlin Garland.
Theodosia Garrison.
Charles Dana Gibson.
Robert Grant.
Marion Harland.
Albert Bushnell Hart.
Hildegarde Hawthorne.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
They Pressed the N,
Of Preparedness

The pressing need Of preparedness
as eloquently brought out by Gelett
Eurgess, Ellis Parker Butler, Henry
wight >Sedgwick, Hermann Hagedom,
Arthur Bullard. Meredith Nicholson
nd Rex Beach.
The poets were not behind. Theo-
COSTA Garrison, Wallace Irwin, George
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
Vigilante Service
Has Many Objects

Among the many subjects which
came up for treatment, certain ones
have crystallized into permanent OBJ
jects of Vigilantes propaganda. These
may be summarized as:
The breaking down of prejudice of
all kindsto make a united America
with ideal Americansm as it's only
slogan.
Universal service, whethcr we have a
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
Vigilantes Sharpen Edge
Of Nations Spirit in War
Authors Expose Perils of Paci6sm,
Point Out Need of Universal Service.
Help With Loan Campaigns and
Inspire People to Sacrifice

E. Woodberry, Amelia Josephine Burr
Abbie Farwell Brown and Clinton Scol-
lard seconded the efforts of the prose
writer's in stirring verse.
With our entry into the war, the
energies of the Vigilantes were applied
with increased vigor to their con-
stantly augmenting tasks. Now it was
no longer q matter only of arousing
the American public to a sense of it's
obligation to the world and to the need
OF preparing for it's own defence.
Scores of practical questions, which
had nevertheless to be transhgured to
make them interesting to the people,
were pressed upon the Vigilantes from
many sources.
The government for one demanded
that the writers and artists hold them
selves subject to its needs. Organiza-
tions of q governmental nature,
like the Red Cross and the Y. NJ. C. A,
put forward their bids for aid. Prac-
tically all the organizations designed
for patriotic service seemed to feel
that they had some claim upon the
service of the Nigilantes. And so far
as possible, always keeping in view
that the chief object of the organiza-
ton was TO inspire the soul of the
country-to keep it alive to the best
ideals of Americanism-the Vigilantes
gave their assistance right and left,
and always without CHARGE
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
Promoted Liberty
Loan Campaign

For the government the organization
threw itself heartily into the campaign
for the Liberty loans, the conservation
OF food and fuel and the war savings
campaign. 1t also Joined with sub
committee Of the Committee on Public
Information, located in New York City
IN campaign to counteract the Ger
man propaganda in Russia, which mis-.
represented America and its attitude
toward the Russian democracy.
Among the organizations which ap-
pealed to the Vigilantes for support
beyond those already mentioned, were
the National Security League. the
American Bankers Association. the
League to Enforce Peace, the American
Alliance for Labor and Democracy, the
United States Chamber of Commerce
the American Defence Society and the
Boy Scouts.
The cunning of the enemy in seeking
to promote every anti-American agency
was exposed and followed up with un
remitting vigor. The alliance between
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
Exposed Perils
OF Pacihssn

The editors, alive to the significance
OF this unique undertaking, hailed the
work of the Vigilantes with enthu-
slasm, and shortly the articles, poems,
slogans and stories, bearing after the
name of each author the phrase "Of
the Vigilantes," appeared in news
papers, large and small, from coast to
coast.
The fact that the Vigilantes realized
even then the problems that would
have to be met later on is demonstrated
by q glance over their earliest publca-
tons.
The perils latent in the theories of
The pacitlsts were exposed by Charles
Hanson Towne. Samuel Hopkins Adams
and Robert Grant.
The justice and wisdom of universal
military training and the weakness OF
the volunteer system were made clear
by George AIDE, Robert W. Chambers,
IIamlin Garland, Irving Bachelor, Por-
ter Emerson Browne and Reginald
Wright Kaufman.
Julian Street. foreseeing the effort
10 inspire i'll Will for England by those
who hated Britain moro than they
loved America, pointed out the errors
and tho prejudiced attitude OF the
school histories of the country.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
:" TNg@g TwEY GO
TIME Vigilantes are known all over
the country as authors and ar

everyman was still absorbed in his
daily routine. Intuitively, they grasped
the significance of the great tragedy
and foresaw the coming night of woe.
And even as they shrank before the
horror of it all, they realized the OBJ
legation laid upon them, as it was laid
upon the seers and prophets of old.
They Interpreted
Our Destiny
They had been denouncing the beast
Individually ever since that black day
IN 1914, when it mad fallen upon de-
fcnceless Belgium; they had been cry
ing out for America to go to the aid
OF the champions Of right; they had
been pointing out that destiny would
sooner or later force US into the strug
gle, even though we selfishly chose to
stand aloof. These had been the scat
tered cries of the individual prophets,
but now they were drawn together as
by an invisible power. Early in March,
more IMAM InOULn before AInCTlca Oe-
clared herself in the war, the Vigil
autes was organized and within a fort
night all the most prominent writer's
and illustrators had come under its
banner.
Although they included the best
known names in America--men and
women whose work commanded the
highest prices in the open market-one
and all agreed to give thei- services
gratis. The only expenses we're to be
those of administration (even these
were put upon patriotic basis of COM
pensation) and the. mechanical cost of
printing and distribution.
An arrangement was perfected to
send out proof-sheets every week TO
newspapers in all towns of five thou
sands or more inhabitants. Fifteen
hundred daily newspapers thus re-
ceived a direct service by mail, with
out cost AT the same time, arrange
ments for publication were made with
the American Press Association and
the Western Newspaper Union to reach
the thousands of newspapers, includ-
ing dailies and weeklies, upon the lists
or those organizations.
Exposed Perils
Of Pacihsn
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

and always witho
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-08
EXAMINATIONS

In many American cities they have abolished the
plan of holding examinations at the end Of each
school term to determine whether the children are to
be promoted to higher grades. There the children
are judged on records kept during the entire term
and are promoted or not according to what they
did from the first day to the last. 81
This modern educational method robs childhood
of all its examination horrors" and at the same
time teaches youngsters that they are not graded
on what they NAL happen to have on the tip of their
tongues on particular day. but on their day-to-
day work, just as they will be rewarded in later
years for their week-n and week-out achievements.
However, in many schools the torture system Of
term and examinations still prevails. Children are
prodded into reviews and their little minds are over
taxed for few days and often far into the nights
to..gpass the examination. = NJ. T. 4 2+z, a,
This scholroom nightmare has harmed the bodies
and minds Of many children e~:: II"
Thing Of a shop foreman who based his judgment
Of his workmen's ability and effort upon periodic
examination rather than daily and hourly observ-
ance! Yet that is what the examination system asks
of a teacher. y" r '@s. n I, {. M r y
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-08
STRAW PRoF1TEERs

''Fact that million young men in U. s. will this
summer wear soldiers headgear rather than straw
hats will not disturb straw hat industry, tariff COM
mission says. Decrease in sales will be compen-
stated by higrer prices for women's hats Of more
Expensive material and more intricate patterns =
This from Washington newspaper that ought to
know what it's talking about
Oh, We Gods! After whole year of the war this
is the kind of economy that they still discussing
seriously down east ia lot Of those same young
men get Themselves gassed and then buried over in
Europe, will undertakers here begin putting out
fancy collins at fancy prices for the rest Of US to
make up the difference? It's pretty rude joke,
but at that it is logic cut from the same piece Of
cloth as the announcement quoted above.
Why couldn't those milliners, male and female,
who feel that they just must be up to something or
other, war or no war; join either the army or the
Red Cross nursing brigade? We ask for rising
vote on the question: It, fs,.t. III
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-08
MORE FIGHT, NOT FEAR

German submarine raiding Of the American coast
may help the kaiser in his mad effort to delude his
own people with stories of victories" and tales
of fear striking the hearts of Germany foes and
more or less damage may be done to allied shipping,
but the largest result of the U-boat raids will be
Americas increased determination to fight ''over
there with larger forces, more powerful and more
courageously than ever.
The Huns err if they think they have brought the
war to America by their submarine operations off
our coasts. What they did was to plant in every
Americans heart the desire and determination Ia
keep the war Cover there and not let up an ounce
Of fighting energy until the war has been brought
to the Rhine and from there carried to the throne
Of the imperial personifcation of frightfulness in
Potsdam.
U.b0ats have sunk unarmed merchantmen near our
ports. They may sink more of them By the time
this is read they may have fred shells into an
American port. In so doing they do more to arouse
the fighting blood Of Americans than million ora.
tors could hope to do.
The sound Of German bomb bursting on this
side st6S sWiilheli1
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-08
THE POSITIVE AMERICAN

To be merely American is not enough. One must
be positive American.
1t isn't sufficient to be anti-German. One must
need be pro-American, to be real American
The other day professor of Missouri German
university in an address to an audience of German
origin, insisted that to be merely negatively loyal
and obedient to the laws was not enough they must
be spontaneous and unreserved in the expression of
devotion to America as their only country. s"
Negative Americansm if it may be called that,
is so per cent anti-Amercanism. 1t ism t help in
winning the war, and may be hindrance.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-08
HELPING Us TO SAVE

Gladly and cheerfully the postmen have added
another task to the many burdens they daily carry
up one street and down another crisscrossing back
and forth from home to HON. Now they are boost
ers Ind sellers Of Thrift Stamps and War Savings
Stamps Wherever they stop and often at homes
where seldom they have letters to deliver, they
preach the gospel of thrift to help win the war.
From letter postmen leave at no meswe take
this paragraph:
eve postmen have to crowd an awful lot Of work
into day, and / thought we had about reached
the limit when Uncle Sam came along with his
Thrift Stamps. We all can do little more if we
want to, and am mighty glad that can help win
this war by turning in few dollars each day to the
United States Treasury
Our postman explained that he wanted our help.
He wanted us to tell him that we would acquire the
Thrift Stamp habit and said he would deliver them
regularly.
Probably your postman has had the same con-
versation with you.
We are not doing anything for the postman when
we buy Thrift Stamps of him. Rather do we add
to his daily toll But we do help ourselves when we
save money-and that is what we do when we buy
Thrift Stamps and War Savings Stamps. Also we
help Uncle Sam finance our war;
The postman's stamp selling campaign should be
made as easy for him as possible by making ar
rangements with him to deliver certain number Of
stamps each day, semi-weekly or weekly as our saw
ings permit
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-08

Hohenzollern. 1t makes want to fight. If we
had heard these bombs over there earlier more of
us would be cover there this minute fighting the
worlds great fight against your hordes of brutalized
soldiers
The more American ships you destroy the more
we will build!
The more Of our food you SINK the more we will
grow and saveY
The more you try to brighten u.s. the more we will
fight!
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-08
WHICH JUDGE Is RIGHT?

An eastern judge the other day found man
guilty of dsorderly conduct for kissing his wife
when she didn't want him to kiss her.
1T is woman s inalienable right to refuse to be
kissed if she doesn't wan to be kissed this judge
said, adding, and she doesn't forfeit this right
when she marries the man." >s@@
But on the other hand Judge Graham Of San
Francisco officially rules that husband may kiss
his wife whenever be peases whether it pleases the
wife or not.
Indeed, SO firm are the Judges convictions upon
the subject that he was moved to put his decision
in verse:
BE cave man, seize your mate
If she shows you signs Of hate;
Let her scratch, let bite,
But kiss her, boy; it is your right !"
Take your choice of DECISIONS Mr.. Married Man.
We refrain from expressing our opinion as to which
is the right one. We'rs married
A Thrift Stamp day isn't enough if you can
save more.
We now Judge the indivudal by what he does for
his country, not for himself.
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The kind of fighting our soldiers are doing Cover.
'nete 'ne'e ua'' '"aA'' veterans y 'l'' = '''O''
oruef'
"nen you get GOWN 10 Drass JACKS 'le real nD'
erty belle is the young woman working in muni-
ton factory.
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"n ., Oh nooan s'op - '" mnaw aD,"'
ms ms o.. ana nee'h' oo~e ms DA9i ne 'ea''y =
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-08

Again do health experts condemn the Oh swim
min hole, forgetting that those who read health
reports are too old to slide down mud banks and
those who do never read health reports.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-08

The true patriot doesn't sit on his front porch
Of evenings and deplore the loss of food ships in
U-boat raids. He gets out in his war garden and
makes good that loss of food.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-08

No doubt the kaiser will appreciate any as
sistance lobbyists in Washington may render him
in defeating the presidents war profits tax pro-
gram.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-08

Greatest army ever stransported overseas by
any country in the history Of the world" is Amer
icas first-year-in-war record. Which will only be
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-08

Only after street railway company has put
into practice every possible scheme Of economy
and efficiency should it ask for an increased fare
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-08

England is further increasing the high cost
Of loving by taxing the correspondent with the
divorce trial costs.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-08

The worst thing that can be said about any
man is that "he's good Prussian."
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-08

When an American stops talking about 20 doing
his bit' and begins doing his BEST he's really in
the war to win.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-08

When you get down to brass tacks, the real Lib
ton factory.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-08

We now Judge the individual BY what he does for
his country, not for himself.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-08

there these days makes veterans Of them in short
order ~
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-08

i A Thrift Stamp day isn't enough if you can
save more.
Evening journal., 1918-01-05
PREACHER
IN Hanover PULPIT
The Rev. c. H. Bonner Of
Ocean City, N. J. to be
Sunday Speaker
OFFICER TO
ADDRESS CHURCH MEN

Tho Rev Charles II. Bohner OF Ocean
city. n j., will preach tomorrow
morning and evening in Hanover Pres
bytcrlan Church. Eighteenth and
Boulevard. The evening service begins
at o'clock. The special music at the
morning service viii be as follows: Or
gan voluntary, Romance" Veckwer
anthem. by quaritite,, II VIII LIT Up
Mine Eyes" Jones; Duet. Mrs. Man
nerlng and Miss Mason, God Is Love, ~
The Woman's Missionary Society
will meet in the church on Friday af-
tornoon.
The church gymnasium will reopen
on Monday night after the holiday va
cation.
Captain Schwab. Of the British Army
will address the Westminster Club OF
the church in the Mems Parlor on
Tuesday night. Captain Schwab has
seen service In the front line trenches
on the Western front. and viii tell OF
his experiences there.
The Rev. H. Framer Smith will add.
dress the prayer service on Wednesday
night.
The women Of the church will mee
on Thursday 10 sew for the Red Gross