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The Washington times., 1918-08-04

The American Defense Society has
planned to carry out an economic boycott
OF Germany on a still larger scale. The
signing Of one society's pledge will not in
terfere with the other. The DefenSe So
ciety's campaign will cover North and
South America and will be undertaken by
the 276 branches of the society, as well as
by other national and patriotic and civic
associations. The following is the pledge
which all are asked to sign:
That ] may not directly contribute
financial aid to the German military policy
with its disregard of international law. its
attacks upon unfortiied towns. its mas
sacres of the innocent and the helpless
its enslavement of peoples, its use of
poison gases and fumes. its Ignoring the
Red Cross badge. its bombing hospitals
and its torpedoing defenseless merchant
ships, | pledge myself never to buy any
article made in Germany" The society
expects to obtain 100000 signatures to
this pledge.
The Chamber of Commerce of the United
States, whose headquarters are in Wash
ingtOn. d. c., has taken up the idea that
our commanding position as an industrial
and commercial people may be used as a
weapon against Germany after the war
The Chamber of Commerce. of Boston.
Mass, presented a series of resolutions for
the consideration or the national chamber.
providing for a boycott of Germany's ex.
port trade in certain contingencies after
the war. The resolutions were passed by
l.204 votes against ISL
The great piers of the Hamburg Ameri-
can, North German Lloyd and other Ger
man steamship lines have been taken
away from their German owners by the
United States Government They repre-
sented the accumulated efforts of German
business men for fifty years and brought
in upward of S20O,OOO,OOO a year in rev.
enue. They also played a great part, as
everybody knows now, in carrying out the
Kaiser's plans of world conquest The citi-
zens who are now organizing the anti-Ger-
man boycott, propose that these piers shall
never be returned to German ownership
and that no other piers shall be leased to
them in place of those forfeited.
German steamship piers have also been
seized in San Francisco, Baltimore, Boston,
Philadelphia and other American ports
Here also our citizens are planning that
their exclusion shall be permanent These
measures will entirely shut German ship
ping out Of the United States and thus de-
prive Germany Of one of the greatest
The Washington times., 1918-08-04
Millions of American Men Signing the German
Boycott Pledge of the American Guardian Society

be punished. They must not only be
taught a lesson, but they must not again
be allowed to accumulate wealth which can
be spent for cannon and cartridges to start
another world horror for our children or
grand children.
One of the first definite moves to pun
ish Germany was made by the British Sea-
mems Union. This union, which is COM
posed Of 250, 900 members, has resolved to
boycott Germany one month after the war
for every peaceful merchant ship sunk at
sea. During the period of the boycott no
British sailor viii work on a ship carrying
German goods or a German passenger.
]. Havelock Wilson, the president of the
union, declared that the men in the ship
ping industry had determined not to toler-
ate a German on British ship and that
they would not take British vessel into
a German port for a term of years, "in
retaliation for the shameless assassination
of $1,000 non-combatant seamen."
Up to a few weeks ago this boycott ex-
tended to five years and eight months.
After the sinking of the Canadian hospital
ship Llandovery Castle. crime of excep-
tional atrocity, meeting OF 500 seamen
and stewards at Liverpool proposed to add
a whole five years, instead of a month, to
the after the war boycott. In that case it
will be recalled that the submarine delib-
erately torpedoed the ship, though she was
unarmed, was lighted with a great blazing
Red Cross over her bridge and was illumi-
mated from stem to stern with white and
green lights as an indication of her mis-
sion of mercy This ship carried eighty
Canadian medical corps men, fourteen
female nurses. many wounded soldiers and
other attendants. Out of 258 persons in
the crew and passengers 2S4 were
drowned Twelve out of the fourteen
women nurses were lost. After the ship
went down the U-boat cruised about
among the wreckage trying to ram the
boats and drown the survivors, who in
cluded some wounded men.
The French Sailors Union, comprising
200, 900 men, has followed the example OF
the British union, and it is certain that our
American unions will take similar action.
1t is confidently expected that the seamen's
unions of the northern neutral nations
Norway, Swe d IN and d n m ark-will
eventually take similar action although at
the present moment they would be in dan
ger of reprisals from Germany. They have
lost more than two thousand Of their men,
bers, ruthlessly destroyed on unarmed
merchant ships by German U-boats.
Great Britain Rights Reserved.
The Washington times., 1918-08-04
Lovi> i>Renaeers.-
In the Hands of Justice.
By Louis Raemaekers.

sources Of her wealth and power.
Certain highly personal forms of action
have been taken against the German race.
The British Empire Women's Defense
League has asked all women within the
British Empire. the United States and
allied countries to, pledge themselves not
to marry any German. The pledge reads:
I'm view OF Germany's unforgivable
ohenses against womanhood during the
present war and to prevent the spread OF
a race which has proved itself outside the
bounds Of civilization, I pledge myself
never to marry man of German nation
ality or birth"
Steps have been taken to exclude Ger
many permanently and completely from
the Pacific Ocean. Senator Salisbury, of
Delaware, has introduced a resolution in
the United States Senate proposing that
the United States, Great Britain. France
and Japan shall decide on measures to pre-
vent ANY power which has pursued meth
ods OF warfare on the Pacific not warranted
by the laws of war from ever holding pos
sessions on the Pacific" Russia, China
and other countries having territory on the
Pacific will in due course be asked to Join
the agreement.
All factories and Businesses in the
United States owned mainly by Germans
have been transferred to American man.
agement under Government supervision
The Germans formerly held a dominating
position in the textile industry. and their
holdings in this line were valued at two
billions. The measures now being put
through will make their exclusion perma-
nent
The Germans before the war sent us
nearly all our chemicals and dyes. Fac
tories have now been startedJto make all
these products in our own country. After
the war Germany will not only find herself
shut out of our market, but our products
will take the place of hers in other mar
kets. Great Britain has already abrogated
all German patents and we are expected
to follow her example.
Already the Germans and the German
Government, backed by the military party.
are making extensive plans for building
up an after war trade throughout the
world and they look upon the Americas
as their best fields. To head off this pro-
posed trade invasion is the duty of every
American"
The British Government is working out
plans to cut of all supplies of raw ma
terials from the British Empire to Ger
many, even though German and neutral
ships may be ready to convey them This
will be a most effective measure against
Germany. as her industries are mainly de-
pendent on raw materials from the British
Empire, the United States and South
America. The boycott in our own country
is practically assured. as has been said,
and South America is confidently expected
to follow our lead. These measures in
combination would surely bring German
trade and industry to an end, and cause
her economic ruin. The common people
would probably be forced to emigrate to
countries where they are hated. to save
themselves from starvation and the brutal
naughty "Junkers, left without servants,
soldiers or wOrkmen would become as
miserable and povertystrcken as the
poor Belgians whom they are now crush
ing beneath their spurred heels.
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into the thousands. Rae
mackers, the great Dutch
cartoonist, has suggested
that Hindenburg, whose
soldiers hung Canadian
troopers on crosses, and
again and again have bayo-
neted prisoners, should De
dealt with in the same way.
Perhaps Raemaekers's sug-
gestion would be no more
than justice as the punish
ment for the Kaiser himself.
One thing seems now to
be agreed upon-that pun
ishment of some kind must
be visited upon the Kaiser
and his sons and generals.
The Germans are not an
honorable enemy. In defeat
they are not entitled to con-
sideration. They have not
fought nobly and lost. They
must be regarded as savages
and punished. The world
must be rid of their kind for
all time-an example must
be made for the benefit of
future generations. This is
the feeling in America and
in the countries of the
allies. When the war is
over we will not shake
hands, smile and "let by
cones be bygones."
But if the author OF the
Belgian atrocities. the man
who ordered the sinking OF
neutral ships, with their
helpless passengers, and the
Zeppelin murders Of women
and children, and the de-
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struction Of hospital ships with sick and
wounded-if this man cannot be executed
as a common murderer, then what should
be done with him?
When the Germans are finally beaten
there will be no federation of the appeal
to forgive and forget" In every direction
ii is now apparent that the Kaiser and his
people are not to be again welcomed to
the brotherhood of nations. Things will
not be as they we're before the war-Ger;
many will not be helped up from her
prostration and welcomed to share the
life and trade and confidence Of the nations
she has tried to destroy with every wicked
device she could employ.
What shall be done to the Kaiser is a
very real problem which will confront the
civilized world very soon. And every SOL
dier who has fought against him, every
father or mother or wife or sweetheart
who has lost a dear one in the war, and
every taxpayer whose burdens have been
doubled, has a right to insist that the
Kaiser be punished. Is 1t enough to Danish
him into exile as Napoleon was? Is COM
Portable exile on some st. Helena enough
punishment? This very question will soon
be pressing for an answer.
1t has been suggested that the Kaiser
and his sons be brought before an interna-
tional court and tried for their crimes.
Perhaps the Chief Justice Of the Supreme
Court of all civilized nations might make
up the International tribunal. A verdict
reached by such a jury would command
the respect of the whole world.
But this is not all. The German people
are also to be held to responsibility. The
old nonsense that only the military leaders
we're to be blamed is no longer heard. We
know that the war spirit was thoroughly
STEPPED into the bone and marrow OF the
German people. The cruelties and bar
barities of the German troops were as
much their own initiative as their officers.
Germany as a nation, as a people, as
mass, will be punished-this is already
settled. Poverty, disgrace, humiliation
they will suffer for years to come.
There is to be "a war after the war" 1t
may not be officially operated by the re-
onsible Governments of the allies. But
this war of social and economic
punishment of the German people
is already organized, and 1t viii
be waged by the people OF the
allied nations to show their deep
and lasting Indignation.
A nation lives, breathes and
prospers by its trade. If its trade
The Washington times., 1918-08-04

Is smut OH
it starves.
A | T e a d y
world = wide
pla n S are
maturing to
S h ut off
G e rmany's
trade after
[ h e W ar.
w n q Z ever
m a y b e
d o n e t o
punish tn e
Kaiser, it is
already GER
tain tn a t
the German
people will
The Washington times., 1918-08-04

RESIDENT WILSON has declared
r. that no terms of peace shall be
= signed with Kaiser William or his
officials. The war must be fought out
until the German Emperor surrenders.
When the Kaiser is a prisoner, wnat shall
be done with him?
Private assassins are hung or shot when
they are caught. But it is not customary
to hang a king, even il his butcheries rup
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Copyright. 1918. by Star Company.
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Napoleon
IN Exile
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And How
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Pier at
st. Helena.
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-27
CANTONMENT TYPES
THE MOUNTED ORDERLY,


a1d naD4
n there are 0e
- and there's are Ride
Orderly
American When he afoot he might be mistaken
objects
unmounted He has look In his though
Country not Visible to the lay qnauestran eye ne
withheld He dreams aIoo
mounted That all paradise and adjoining to
feels the
underneath him. what gold Of the ncas could from him ms
Orderly Closeup The king may
nothing his valet and colonel has terrors for the
Importance his contacts until ne
bodiment Of colonies and on horse His RED sleeve PASS
walkers who clutter the earth ore
the farfamed leopard would change his well known spo
couldn't II he would
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-27

would presently arouse their own
downtrodden subjects. But their en-
shaved soldiery was no match for the
free soldiers of France. The armies
of the Revolution, fighting over the
came fields where France fights today,
drove back the Germans, delivered
France and presently carried their
standards deep into the country Of the
eneny. To the oppressed peoples OF
Austria and Prussia they came not al
foes but al deliverers. For their vic
tories meant the overthrow OF the old
cruel autocracies and the establish
rnent Of new political order based
upon the sovereignty OF the people.
Unfortunately the Uniform success
Of the French armies led them by de-
gress to forget the principles for which
they fought, and to attach undue i'm
poStance to military glory and con-
quest for its own sake. It was that
fact principally which enabled that
greatest Of military adventurera, Ma
poleon Bonapafte, to turn the valor OF
the French to hls own purposes. The
armies Of democracy became convert
ed into the armies OF the emperor and
their aims became rather imperialistic
than democratic. In consequence they
lost the moral advantage Of their ear
ier fighting, and aroused among their
opponents national spirit which prov
ed in the end too strong for them. It
was true that where Napoleon con-
quered, his government was far more
liberal than the government he over
threw, but il was equally true that the
German and the Spaniard did not wish
to be made into Frenchmen even on
such terms. The consequence was
that Napoleon was finally crushed. For
all his genius and all his efficiency he
had lost sight of the fundamental fact
that the only stable foundation for gov
eminent Is the consent Of the gov
erned.
Yet he did much for France. He
gave her an administrative system
which has survived to the present day.
He gave her a code of laws which COM
bined admirably the principle of pub
lie order with the principle Of private
liberty, and furnished the pattern for
most Of the legal systems Of modem
Europe. He gave her also q splendid
tradition Of military proweas, and
proved to her what she IL proving
again today, that the French soldier IS
40 fine a fighting man a. there is in
the world.
CONYERS READ.
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-27

One hundred and forty years ago
French soldiers crossed the sea to
make this land Of ours safe for democ-
racy. It was, thanks largely to them
that we secured our independence. We
might perhaps have turned the trick
without them, but we needed their
help sorely and they gave It In the
generous spirit in which the French
man knows how to give-asking moth
ing and gaining nothing except the
Satisfaction of striking good blow in
q righteous cause. In the same gener-
Gus spirit our American soldiers are
fighting in France. Through them at
last we have q chance to repay an old
debt Of gratitude to the French peo-
pie. For the cause Of France and the
cause of democracy are one today. as
they were In the days Of Washington
and Lafayette.
Ever since then France has been one
of the foremost champions Of the dem
cratic spirit in Europe. Lafayette
carried back the sword which he had
used so well in America to strike down
despotism in his own land. He put
himself at the head of a French Revo-
luton, and sought to win for France
what he had helped to win for Amer
lea. No doubt his efforts were stinu-
lated by the fact that he had learned
in America not only that despotism
could be overtirown but also that de-
mocracy could be made to work. The
programme of the French Revolution
lists was indeed much like our own, and
their Declarasion Of Rights embodied
the same principles Of government by
the people which were set forth in
our Declaration of Independence.
While much which the revolution
lists In France did was bad and much
which they builded persisted, the ideals
of liberty, equality and fraternity
which they proclaimed have ever since
been the political watchwords of the
French people. In these words, more
over, they not only defined their own
position but they set up standard to
which the growing liberal spirit in Eu-
rope at large could rally. France led
continental Europe in the march to-
wards democracy, The other co1n-
tries more or less readily followed.
France had no sooner established her
own democracy than she had to face
the combined armies Of Prussia and
Austria. The despots who ruled those
lands rightly feared that unless free
dom were stamped out IN France it
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-27

In the words of Colonel Starbottle.
of Kentucky, Germany has Whitfield
Russia down to q wishbone." Poland,
which Germany seized and now holds.
js $500 square miles. Next to Po-
land, on the north, lies Lithuania and
the Baltic provinces, the scene Of out
RACES that are even worse than those
In Belgium and Poland. This terri
tory is 1886 square miles.
That means. in terms Of our states,
that Germany has done what would
be the same as if she had organized
Maine and Massachusetts into q sep
arate government and then seized al
Of New York and two thirds OF Penn
sylvania for herself.
This is not nj, for the Ukraine, that
great granary Of Southwest Russia,
inluding Volhynia, has been recog-
nized as q separate republic, which 10
as if Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-27

West Virginia and half Of Kentucky
had been set up 40 a separate govern
ment here in the United States.
But this does not take into account
Bessarabian Russia, with its 9Z,069
square miles. This alice of fertile ter
ritory Is equal to the other half of Ken
lucky, half Of Tennessee, and all OF
North Carolina.
The Turks, too, have not been idle.
Their little pic6ngs Of 1852 square
miles seem insignificant beside these
great depredations. But the govern
ment Of Kars and the districts Of Kara
bagh and Batum which the Turks took
mean more loss to Russia than We
would suffer If Mexico controlled the
mountain passes and the Rio Grande
crossings ON the Mexican border.
In the face Of such colossal losses
there 10 only one thing for the Allies
to do, and that il to beat Germany and
destroy Prussianism!
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-27
ARMoRED AUTO HAS FAnEn

No more armored automobiles or
machine gun motorcycles will be made
for the American Army because thew
would be of little use on the Euro.
Dean front, where the fighting is done
over ground criss-crossed with trench.
es and pitted with shell holes, It "a
now understood.
Only the tank can operate over
such surface. Despatch bearers On
motorcycles rendered good SERVED
during the Pershing campaign I'd
Mexico and much had been expected
Of the armored automobile, but neiths
er has proved of great value in
France
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-27
FREE POSTAGE FOR SOLDIERS

Captain A. G. Townsend, Quarter
masters Reserve Corps, serving as
mail censor for the American troops
going to France Ia anxious that every
soldier remember that as soon as he
steps aboard the outgoing transport
his mall need bear no stamps. All let
ters and cards sent by soldiers to
their relatives and friends after
reaching the transport or arriving
"Over There" will be handled free Of
cost to the man In khaki. Captain
Townsend says this Is not generally
understood and that ninety per cent
of the mail dropped into bags at his
embarkation port by soldiers bore un-
necessary postage.
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-27

If anyone posing az q prophet Q
year ago had predicted that Some
where in Maryland" there would
spring up city from nowhere, which
would rank second to the municipal
fly bearing the name Of Lord Balti-
more. SURPRISING the long list Of cities
already scattered across the fair ex-
panse Of the state named in honor OF
Queen Mary, he might have been
hunted down by the department Of
public safety and sentenced to intern
ment for life ON some lone island at
the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay.
Monument to Constructing Genius
Nevertheless. here is Camp Meade.
half way between Washington and
Baltimore, planned and built with the
most modern housing, sanitary, COM
munication and highway facilities and
constructed along the latest and most
approved engineering and mechan-
ical lines. It stands as tribute to
the best effort of human brain and
bre wn ir city building.
To- is laid out municipality COW
ering an area five miles wide and sew
en- miles long upon q reservation with
O few more miles to spare. With
sewerage lines using miles of piping
and masonry in construction, with
concrete streets covering nearly sixty
miles II placed end to\ end, acres of
woodland and Thousands of feet of
timber being cut and cleared, is proof
evident OF the Americans hustle
when he gets down to business on a
big Job.
Railroad construction, bringing in
three railroad lines, over forty miles
of newly laid tracks and yards hand
ling hundreds Of cars Of traffic daily,
is Q small thing today compared to
what O gigantic task II would have
been considered by the pioneers on
the plains in the early days of Union
Pacific construction.
And then q little country pogtoffice,
Admiral. which only about s99 people
ever heard of, suddenly being changed
into buSy hive Of activity by moving
its location into the camp and larger
quarters, necessitAting the services OF
forty postal clerks and handling 76,-
900 pieces Of first-class matter daily,
besides eco to 500 pieces OF parcel
post packages, money orders. special
delivery letters and registered mail.
But fire department of q half a
dozen engines and numerous other
pieces Of apparatus? How ludicrous
1t might have seemed a few months
ago. Yet here it Is. ready. and doing
service.
Twenty-Five Hello Girls
Is there q telephone in camp? Well,
the second largest exchange in the
state, with real truly girly telephone
operators, Is right In the heart of the
city. While it has but twenty-five
operators on the switchboards, II
handles daily the second largest num-
Der Of calls. ranking next to Balti-