The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-07-12

with all the SpcCA will WLiCu our
transports can convey them to the
seat of war. The munitions it is left
for us to supply. by investing out last
cent in War Savings stamps.
Had Never Seen the Sea.
"Manv of the men now embarkirg
had v before seen the sea-" So
wrote a witness of the setting out
from an American port of a part of
the army of the new crusade.
"Probably no Englishman, no citi-
zen of the British empire, can quite
realize the miracle that is taking place
when men from Minneapolis, Jeffer-
son City or Milwaukee sail forth to
fight at our side in French Flanders"
saws the London Spectator, in an ar
ticle on "The New Crusade"
"They had never seen the sea. How
should they. working competition
hours in a dry goods store in Men,
phis or driving an express wagon in
Kansas City? They had never even
imagined that crowd of new noises
and smells that can be most compen-
diously described as Foreign Parts
"The American hitherto had lived
in a busy isolation shut off from the
contention of Europe by a curtain
woven in about equal parts of great
distances, the Monroe Doctrine, and
an admirable capacity for %minding his
W business"
And yet these splendid boys, WI
learn, have faced the perils of sea
and front-line trench alike, with ar
indomitable assurance that seems to
border on Indifference. They have
lined up on a sinking transport, and
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1t needed this year to awaken Amer
lea to the invincibility of her national
spirit.
Class Against Class.
The workers of the world are at
least entitled to say that they did not
begin this war. 1t is a gigantic fail
ure of the middle and so-called aris-
tocratic classes of Europe.
On the other hand, Of no class can
it be said that they spared their own
flesh and blood from the conflict.
There has been a terrible equality of
the dead.
But when the war is wei there will
be a reckoning of class with class
throughout the length and breadth of
it's own existence and methods of life,
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things they do-the sort of people they
are.
There is likely to be founded during
the next decade a colony of republics
in the old world, based on the prin-
ciples and ideals Of the great republic
of the new world.
Decentralization and Crime.
The German newspapers still pub
lish every day fresh evidence of de-
moralization and the increase of crime.
At a conference held in Berlin to dis
curr 'public insecurity" in all parts
of Germany, it was stated that most
Of the burglaries and other crimes are
committed during the nights between
Friday and Monday. Statistics were
given of the payments made by COM
panies which issue insurance policies
against burglary and theft. Pay
ments on account of burglaries in
creased from $500, 900 in 1914 to
81 ,10O, 900 in 1916 and to about 3d.
900 900 in 1917.
Owing to the constant thefts of
food in Berlin. an official order has
been issued that no corn or -four is to
be moved through the streets after
dark. The theft of letters is becom-
ing more and more common. One
night nineteen letter boxes in Char
%lottenburg were broken open and the
letters were destroyed after the post
age stamps had been torn off. Owing
to frequent thefts of letters at a small
town named Miltenwalde, the post
master laid a trap for the thief, with
the result that his own wife has been
sent to prison for six months.
"a ace between Hindenburg and
Wilson, thus Lloyd George des-
cribed the war situation. The race
is in the homestretch and Wilson leads.
Germany, despite local protestations
from the side lines, has no hope of
victory. The cheer leaders have done
their work well; but it is to no avail.
The German people have been or
ganized to cheer on occasion. 1t is
difficult for the bereaved and the
half-starved to Go so, but the cheer
leaders carry pistols instead of mega
phones! The people must cheer.
Hindenburg is beaten and he knows
he is beaten. He knows there is not
even the remotest hope of ultimate
victory. So. while he runs, he re-
sorts to foul play. 1t is a trick as old
as human nature.
This is the explanation of the u
boat raids off the eastern coast of the
United States, which we may now ex-
pect as regularly as air-raids on Lon
don.
The German kaiser s%coffingly said
that American aid would come too
late. The German newspapers in
sisted that America would be baked
first by the delay necessary to the
training of troops and then by the
lack of transports. The German PEG.
pie were deceived right to the very
last.
Then American soldiers went into
action. Even German captives were
surprised to see them in France. Blu
y the transports had been going bacl
and forth negotiating the great trans
atlantic ferry with safety. And tn
German leaders, bafled in their con
fusion as they felt they must explai,
to the patient public, said it did no
matter how many American troop.
were notwithstanding would TAX
care of them.
But the British and French off
cial reports began to tell the story o
American daring and America,
achievement. Thousands of Germa,
soldiers, invaded home, began to de
scribe. the fighting qualities of tn,
American troops and to tell the trutl
about the growing army from Amer
lea. 1t was than that the U-boat ex
pedient was decided upon. It was no
intended to wreck any great damage
unop American SHINING. II woo NO,