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Evening journal., 1918-01-14
THEYRF Al HERoEs

THE Germans were ralding the American frst line
Il trenches in Alsace.
Deadly artillery fire splintered shells all about our
boys. and untred In repeling trench attacks.
Even the brasest hid behind anything which seemed
TO oner shelter from those screaming messengers Of
death.
Two of our boys were bit by shell splinters. One.
Charles Box. Of Oklahoma, half buried under o ton
or so Of earth. His "bunke" worn from lighting
and weak from loss Of blood threw himself down beside
bis fallen comrade.
The commander the boy kneeling there digging
Into the earth with his bare hands.
Gomez he ordered
But Charles Orr Kansas farm lad. only g. for the
first time refused to obey his commanders order.
Gomez the commander repeated you'll be killed
there, get down belowr
Il can't" Private orr said Don't you see my bunki6s
wounded? / can't leave him here" .- --7----
And he didn't, not until others came and dug his
bunke out OF the earth Then, when Hero orr and his
bunke got back into the dugout the former insisted
upon staying right there to battle with the Huns while
his more severely wounded comrade was carried TO the
hospital
When Private BOX opened his eyes he whispered to
the
That's the kind Of bunkle to have"
It isl
George Pattullo telling about that FIRST raid Of the
Germans in the Saturday Evening Post Charles OFT
The First American Hero
Nc Is hero. There's doubt about that
But Charles Orr brave and fearless, is only one hero
in hundreds Of thousands of American boys who are
giving themselves TO their counrys cause Conadentl,
we believe that any OF those boys would defy IN,
OF German shells and death Itself to bring
from the battlefield the wounded body Of a comrade-
his bunkiel
For that's the kind Of boys boys are matter
whether they be from Kansas. from Delaware or from
some other state.
There can't be any 4bravestn when al are equally
brave. There can't be any first hero" when all have
offered the sacrifice Of their lives that the Hun horde
be driven into defeat
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aGoATn oR .FouR-FLUsnER..

Il ITHER the Kaiser is giving his dear friend Ferdinand
~ Of Bulgaria the tarred end Of the stick. or he Is
telling whopping big lie. with Ferdlnands consent.
Bulgaria went into the she did for gain. The
Kaiser outbid the Allies Bugara's armies Offset those
OF Serbia and Rumania and saved the Balkan situation
for the Kaiser Moreover. Ferdinand has actually con-
quered occupied those parts OF Serbia Rumana and
Greece which were the pay offered him by the Kaiser.
So that when the Kaiser talks mo annexation, he pro-
poses to repudlae Ferdinand and his deal with him.
Wouldn't that Jar you. If you Of Bulgaria.
Worse yet mo annexation" restoration TO Tur
key Of Armenia, Mesopotamia and the Holy Land and
perhaps domination Of the Derdanelles and among the
things that Bugarans desplse Turks and control OF
the Dardanees by Turks Moreover. while Bulgaria has
been powerful and sl ally Of the Kaiser Turkey
has been grevously burdensome and losing ally to him
Ferdinand If annexation" pulls through. is that good
Woodworking son who wasn't prodigal and who didn't
get my fatted calf barbecued for him.
wouldn't that jar you more. If you were car Of
Bulgaria?
But as before remarked, the Kaisers mo annexation"
proposal may be merely a gold brick offered with the
consent Of Ferdinand II not, Ferdinand will stand in
history as the most splendid specimen Of goat pro-
duced in times when most everybody is goat in
respect other
Evening journal., 1918-01-14
SPANISH EMBASSY
IN WORTH WAR TIMES
By The United press.

BY The United Press.
,,AoniNulON, Jun. ii--Business Is
bum at the Spanish Embassy. And all
because Of an innocent little Joker in
the Trading With The Enemy Act.
Before Congress took the final step
toward cutting Of the seepage OF every
thing from tooth picks TO money into
Germany. the Royal Spanish Embassy
acted as the clearing house for affluent
Greeks and Russian Jews in this coun-
try. Monies sent to war sufferers In
Poland. Galicia. Russia, Palestine, and
the Balkans was transmitted through
it.
King Alphonso's emissaries even
acted as a Lost and Found column
All that was necessary for a war re-
fugee to know was that he had a re-
lative in America. Senior Don Pelayo
cia-Olay-attache ct the embassy
did the rest.
But congress Of the United States was
interested only in seeing that no gold
les, ed into enemy territory.
Il required about a fortnight TO re-
turn some $4,000 sent to the embassy
for forwarding to the other side by
1000 contributors.
And now Senior Olay spends most Of
his time in New York.
Evening journal., 1918-01-14
Editorial Opinion
PLAYING WIN THE PACKING TRUST

From the New York World.
The act OF Sept PC, 1914, creating the
Federal Trade Commission hardly con-
templated such an inquiry as is now
in progress as 10 the Packing Trust.
II was supposed that the commission
was TO be In a sense a prosecuting
agency. II was TO make Inquiries, Of
course, but they were not to be con-
Quoted with the Grassland and poll
tical methods usually adopted by COM
mittees of Congress.
We are told that representatives Of
the Trade Commission have been in
vestigating the organization and oper-
atoms OF the combined Chicago pack
ers for long time. Probably that is
true, but II the inquiry has amounted
TO anything, why is It that after three
years the best that can be done with
the greatest Of monopolies is tardly
to open a public Investigation, to which
Tom, Dick and Harry are summoned
In Washington?
It was stated yesterday that one
packing firm had refused to deliver
its books to the commission. The law
covers that point completely. If the
commission wanted these records II
could have compelled their production
privately by going before the United
States Court Of Appeals in Chicago
Everything now sensationaily charged
has been a matter Of noJoriety for a
generation.
Public investigations Of the Packing
Trust are farces The trust thriVe'
upon such Investigations. In fact, tina
is a part of its business as regularl,
provided for In It's yearly budget as an,
other socalled overhead expense. II Thu
Trade Commission with Francis J
Heney in its service is not ready nov
to meet the Packing Trust in court /
never will be ready. BY law, its find
ings If supported by testimony, ar
conclusive. Why no findings after al
these years?
Evening journal., 1918-01-14
Repeal of New Postal Raie
Law is Immediate Obiec i've
Charles johnson Question Of Second Class Rates Should
Then be Met in Congress Basis of Relation Of
PostofHce Country a Whole

nation gladly pays the deficit, on ac-
count Of the vast social benefits.
The only sound principle upon which
a great Government department has
been and should be established Is 10
perform such functions to a nation that
are so general in their social effects and
benefits as to become a proper charge
AGAINST society as a whole--the benefit
To society as whole being lmmeasur-
ably greater than the Incidental benefits
TO, any individual. In the light OF such
a inciple-which Is clearly recognized
the cost Of the Department or Agri-
culture, and the Interior, and Commerce
and Labor, stands forth in its real re-
lation and Justification. And the Post
Onlce Department is not a whit different
ON them In relation to the American
people.
10 is this principle that is the primary
and underlying foundation and 1ustill-
cation for the Postal Department The
function grows and extends with the
need The postal system Is a vast in
tellectual, as well as economic, nigh
way Il is the highway between minds
IL is the high road by which is initiated
the production Of our national wealth
In an illiterate country a postal system
might be a subsidy TO a privileged Few
IN a brisk, active-minded nation OF high
/ lteracy and high energy such as this
any step that tends TO throttle postal
function by any means is direct blow
at the energy, as we'll as the minds, OF
its people.
Not A Publishers Subsidy.
I nd massage
rates are no subsidy to publishers
every political economist knows ina
the frelght or transportation charge Il
passed on TO and paid by the ultimate
consumer. Low postal charges are ther
If one loves the word subs .dy =
subsidy" TO readers, a subsidy tC
every reading, writing, and thinkin.
American man, woman or child. II
such a sense our public schools arr
Subsidies; our boards OF health arr
Subsidies: our police department.
are Subsidies" as are our paVe'
streets. our open roads, and great high
wavs Of the country.
This postal question Is essentially
nothing more or less than q moderI
parallel Of the old toll road and FREE
highway question. In those days Their
were people who argued that low toll
or free highways were a subsidy Il
the owners Of vehiclesl This needs NJ
argument in this day and generation
even to Congressmen who have vote
for this absurd so TO 900 per cent
newspaper and periodical postage law
But for the present situation, let m
again express my appreciation of you
clear editorial and join with you il
emphasizing the fact that this is tn
time when all publishing interest
should stand united in demanding tn
repeal Of this absurd law, and thel
take up the discussion Of the SCUM
principles OF postal administration
Evening journal., 1918-01-14
FALSE HOPES.

n HE fall Of Jerusalem is likely TO raise false hopes in
one respect at least. It will have a pronounced
effect upon the Turkish morale that sure, but that
will spur the subject peoples Of Asia Minor TO revolt
against their Mosem rulers is by so certain.
The Ottomans in a decided minority in Asia Minor
and if the subject Christian there should unite
against the oppressor they could create situation OF
prime Importance the present world state Of the war
But hopes that they will do must be based upon
scant reflection of history either remote or recent
The larger bulk Of the subject population Of Asia
Minor Greek-n fact the Greeks are claimed TO be the
largest racial group in the ottoman Empire-and the
free Greek nation has taken up arms against the
Turk without hoping If not expecting that the ensaved
brethren on Turkish soil would revolt in such force as
to make Greek victory and swift Yet it has never
happened.
Even in the days Of the first Balkan War. when the
Greeks and the Bulgars fighting then together were ad
yancng upon Consantinope from two sides and the
success Of the Balkan League assured the Greeks
In Turkey took no steps to aid their countrymen.
Four centuries Of subjugation have done their work
well.
Even the fall Of Jerusalem will not undo it,
Evening journal., 1918-01-14
THE WRONG TO EE RIGHTED
Iron the New York Trlbunel.

Il is the unanimous testimony Of all
Washington correspondents that the
Presidents declaration. concerning Al
sace-LOrraine was more instantly and
generally appauded than any other
portion OF his historic address. And it
Is the similarly unanimous testimony
Of all who heard the'Presldent that his
declaration was accepted as pledging
this country TO nght until France re-
gained her lost provinces"
The wrong OF Lorraine was
twofold The people of the border lands
were not merely French in spirit
more French than the French them
selves" 10 use their own phrase. They
had been penetrated and permeated by
the French Revolution as perhaps no
other portion Of France was. The
deepest wrong of all was TO transfer
from the democracy Of France TO the
autocracy Of Germany, men and women
devoted to democratic Ideas ana ideals.
When the Germans took Metz they
sinned against the doctrine of nation
allty. for Metz and its environs were as
French as Paris and its subjects. When
they took Strassburg they committed
a crime comparable with that they
would commit if they should seize
German-speaking portions of Switzer-
land. For both the German-speaking
people Of Alsace and OF Switzerland are
republican in spirit and in Ideals
When & g Germans annexed these
French provinces the unanimous pro-
test Of the representatives Of the in
habtants was flled in Berlin and Paris
alike. And forty years after the annex
alton a G rman Chancellor announced
that Germ my was still encamped on
hostile soil in the Reichsland The out
rage Of s., erne, a few years before the
coming Of the present war, was a inal
demonstrat ion Of what Prussianism
has meant in the Rhine country People
who were denied the right TO choose
their own nationality were refused the
opportunlt, to speak within their en-
forced frontiers At home and In Ber-
lin they W ere treated as a conquered
people. Fer nearly a half century
Strassburg has known what Brussels is
only Just learning.
The German took Alsace-Lorraine as
he invaded Belgium, on the pretext OF
necessity He annexed the French-speak-
ing CITY of Metz and the German-speak-
ing city of Stcassburg for the same
reason. He has held them ever since
by might alone. No one pretends lhai
German rule has been popular Desplte
the fact that nearly 100000 Germans
have immlqated into tho provinces ana
ceaselessly labored to create Ue man
loyalty. the people have remained IN
recOnciled. Alsace-Lorraine mas given
France a hundred generals IN TINS wal
and Germany not one Thirty unousah0
Alsatians have at the peril OF theiI
lives crossed the frontier TO hght 10
French armies II Americans nave any
doubt as to the wish OF these peopl.
OF Alsace-Lorralne, let them inquire OF
natiN es Of these proNn now hNlhs
In exile In the United States.
Evening journal., 1918-01-14
MONDAY, JANUARY IA, 1918.
SATISFACTION OF BEING IN IT."

~ EGINNING with earliest youth-'too little to play"
ID right through to age-"just too old to enjoy
things" and mot going out much any more'-of all the
pains OF life there is sharp and aching to
any Deawarean. than the sense OF being "out Of IT,"
In youth few Of US have escaped. We have all wept
dreary because were too little 10 get in the games
OF the big boys. Some Of suffered schoo-day os-
tracism because we had red hair or a lisp, were
lame. bashful. or ragged or homelyin way
lifted for the gay aristocracy Of utterly selfish youth.
In play were ignored; in school entertainments we
always played the thinking parts is safe to say that
every human being no matter how happy or fortunate
al some time In bis or her career known the slow
work or pleasure while he stands by-not in it."
You may have noticed the contented smile Of the
and sock kners Of the present day; you may
also noticed the important air with which Mother
and Sister hustle Red Cross headquarters the
Eelf-connden pleased smile with which Mother reminds
the family that IS meailess wheatless day and she
has created splendid substitute the forbidden dsh
You have seen all these things but did you stop to think
that all this air OF oheerfuness, sefrespect and
friendly. busilng activity among the folk means
Just one thIng-ihe newly awakened, divine Of
5ein lin IT,"
The United States Is at war-and women I'm It"
Too little have they been given part IN the affairs Of
The nation, but in this hour OF effort for the whole
people. they allowed decidedly important part lin
tin q" give from their homelife without
complaint to conserve food to conduct the e-saying and
life retaining Of the Red Cross to help in the
very clothing OF the armies with the labor Of their hands
When there Is work to be done and sacrifices to be
made women are undoubtedly in It,"
Their appreciation and splendid OF the opportunity
and their pathetic Joy al being "in It" unspoken
appeal to the nations goyern0rs-Gve vote voice
Ia The game OF democracy. and how well Will
play. if just be in tr
Evening journal., 1918-01-14

And now. President Wilson has said
that the wrong must be righted But
for such a wrong there can be but one
compensation. The stealing Of a child
can be compensated for only by the
return OF the child Only the Pacifst
and the Germanophile can mistake the
Presidents meaning. which was not
istaken by those who heard him He
meant that Alssce-Lorraine must be
restored TO France and hesmeant that
the United States would fight until this
was achieved. 1t was at once q declar-
alton Of principle and a pledge Of pur-
pose And as to both the American peO-
pie stand with the President.
From the beginning OF the war France
has been the bulwark Of civilization.
against Teutonism. Without French
herOism, sacrifice, victory, Germany
would have achieved world supremacy
before England was ready or America
enlisted. Had England no, Permitted the
German annexation Of Alsa'e-Lorralne.
Germany could not Ia invaded Bel
GUM. and Northern France would not
have been ravaged and sacked.
Without Alsace-Lorraine France Is
always in deadly peril The keys to her
richest provinces are Strassburg and
Metz; holding them. she guards Lor-
raine and Champagne. This would not
be a reason for taking from German!
people who desired to be German, but
it is a final reason why people desir-
ing to be French and who have endured
all agonies in proving their devotion TO
France, should be restored TO she re-
public.
The world cannot pay its latest debt
TO France, no matter what it now does
But without France there is no secur-
F ity for democracy in this world, and
without Alsace-LOrraine there is no Sc
Icurity for France Germany took these
prov inces because they opened the road
/ to the heart Of France Now, the wron-
must be righted II can be righted Gully
when France is made whole and len
chile. Justice and polio! alike combine
/ TO demand the single safe solution, The
/ restoration TO France OF what was brut-
ally, wrongfully, shamelessly stoler
nearly half a century ago, when Ger
many could do in France what she il
see king TO do now in Russias Battle
prov inces.
President Wilson's words cannot b'
mistaken. The nation has not mistaken
and will not mistake them, and Amer
leans will welcome the opportunity K
give security TO France, who gave III
freedom nearly century and hal
ago.
Evening journal., 1918-01-14
OBSERVE THE BOY WIN me BASKET.

=, oRBEs Magazine has got up list OF hfty Of
Il Americas foremost leaders Of finance and business.
as selected by popular vote, which contains some in
eresting data.
OF the fifty, wentyfour are sons OF parents VINO were
in poor circumstances nine had rich parents and seven
teen had parents only moderately wo-on.
There's only school teacher in the list OF those
who became big and rich. and hold our breath while
announcing that sixteen per cent OF those who started
poor began as grocery boys There may not be whole
lot Of high instruction in Brother Forbes list but II
surely has warning to be kind and respectful to your
grocery boy whose poenallties probably don't appear
on his surface.
The time may come when you will be kowtowing to
him to discount a note or TO forbear forecosns on
mortgage.
Evening journal., 1918-01-14
rIIE n,rrrnrNCE IN POLICY.

A FORTNIGHT ago, army bulletin was posted. In
"A Flanders TO the effect that the Germans had taken
an American soldier prisoner and then cut his throat
Now we have the report Of the capture of German
submarine by United States destroyers on November Pa
German sailor sinking, when overheard from the
destroyer Tanning went Mate Harwell and Coxswan
Conner and saved him.
The Grst act German. ruthless criminal and bar
barrie The second was American heroic, humane and,
God willing Il will be repeated II occasion arises.
ME und Got" says the Kaiser There never before,
even in the history Of Apaches, cannbals, and head
hunters a people with 50 ow-down conception OF
God as to put their deity in such company.
The German policy is to extermnae nations and in
dvlduals The American is to save and build up. Wen
neht il out on this line though It take century of
summers.
Evening journal., 1918-01-14
BY CHARLES JOHNSON POST.
Director, Publishers Advisory Board,
New York.


New York.
Let me congratulate you on your clear
and balanced editorial in The Editor and
Jlisher for December IS
Whatever question OF detail there may
be for discussion between periodicals
and newspapers, it is the fact as you
have so clearly shown, that unless the
present absurd guesswork law Is re-
pealed no sane legislation can take it's
place Those who uphold the present
law and those who believe that the Post
Office is a con, enient club for regula-
ton or taxation. would like nothing
better than to have newspaper and
periodical publishers coming forward at
this juncture with a specific substitute.
The demand that publishers present q
substitute measure bears all the ear
marks OF a political trick, TO throw a
bone OF contention among publishers,
so that as long as contention exists there
can be neither repeal nor substitute.
The one thing on which all publish
ers should stand united Is on the flat
demand for the repeal Of this absurd
80 TO 900 per cent. newspaper and
periodical postage increase that was
damned into the war tax, without re-
gard either for the reading citizen or
for the principles underlying the rela-
ton OF the Post ONCE 20 the country
as a whole This latter principle must
be clearly defined before any satisfac-
tory postal legislation can be enacted
by Congress.
Purpose of Postal Department.
Just why the Post ONCE Department
uh Ea
making establishment is the mystery Of
a certain type Of American thought The
Department Of Agriculture, the Depart
ment OF the Interior, the Department Of
Commerce, the Department Of Labor, all
perform costly functions Of direct COM
mercial benefit to each Of the great
classes Of our commonwealth. and-so
far as return revenue is concerned 90
such departments-ar a total and alb
solute loss Of revenue The origin and
development OF the Post 0nre Dono"t-
ment clearly shows that it was estab-
lished and elaborated, not as a mean Of
taxation or method of collecting reye-
nue. for the support Of the Government
but as the only method whereby the
citizens Of the country could be intel
lectually united and welded into a CO.
hesive, coherent, thinking nation Serv-
Ice TO the nation so expensive as TO be
prohibitlve TO any individual, yet when
the benefit Is vast and absolute to the
nation as a whole was and is the real
postal principle.
Letters have been delivered in Alaska
in the earlier days, where the dOg-sledge
haul alone cost one dollar per letter and
where the sender paid only two cents
and the receiver nothing The Philip
pines Is another case in point; the Rural
Free Delivery is yet another. But the
Evening journal., 1918-01-14
With The Pdiagrap1ers

The German idea OF an armistce is that the other
fellow stops nghtng-New York World
Why not a law providing that in the accused is
pretty she shall be dismissed and the state saved the
cost OF trying her for killing her husband ?-Terre
iiaue star.
The average citizen viii find that OF the easiest
things he has been asked 10 do in order help the war
along is faithful compliance with Secretary McAdoos
request to restrict the OF gold coin-Phiadeiphia
Inquirer
Evening journal., 1918-01-14

bottles and am now entirely well-so
10 iii nv work and not a trace ot
nv old trouble. I have told many OF
~ friends what wonderful results they
win Get from its use. - Mrs. s. !.
SFNn'TR. 1850 9Th Ave, Troy, n. Y.
Women who are in Mrs. Seniors
condition should not give up hope CT
submit tc such an ordeal until they have
given lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound a trial.
For suggestions IN regard to your
condition write Lydia 2. Pinkham Med
icine Co, Lynn, Mass, iheresuitoI snelA
40 wears experience is at your service
Evening journal., 1918-01-14
sn1Nns LIKE A PINK TEA.

GAYS the United states Fuel Administration to the
y operators under contract to furnish coal to the camps
please take necessary steps Immediately to insure coal
supply TO camps We OF you and offer cooperation
to this end"
Maybe such pnktea talk is the best that Mr. Garneo
can give them under the authority granted him, but It Is
mighty little better than nothing. What Mr.. Garfield
should be able to say and say Is something like this
put coal in those camps per contract. or COM
rnandeer your mines and do myself. at your riskF
And II would be the contractors. not the boys In camp
who would do the shverng.