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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-16
tThe following Is the second of
three articles telling of courts
martial at Camp Meade.)

The investigator went through the
records OF the courts-martiaI at Camp
Meade to get some line of the offenses
which resulted in the longest SEN
fences, and he presents the facts just
as they are:
In this connection it is proper, of
course, TO remember that the country
has been in a state of war. in which
light it may not always appear that
the punishment was TOO severe.
The private, who was sentenced to a
thirty-yAar term, say those familiar
with the case, was guilty of q par
ticularly aggravating offense which
called for the sternest punishment.
1t seems that the accused tried to
evade the draft by seeking TO flee into
Mexico. He was caught on the shore
OF the Rio Grande about forty miles
from Eagle Pass. where the Maryland
National Guardsmen were stationed
in 1915. The fugitive was arrested
there and brought back to Meade. lie
broke prison and escaped again. He
was not conscientious obJector-
There was apparently no reason for
his action except a lack of heart to
fight
The court martial decided that there
was little difference between mans
running away from the draft than his
running away from a battlefield. The
latter offense in war times has been
generally punished by death. The
court at Meade construed this man 3
ofTense as an act of pure cowardice
and thought the punishment should
meet the case. The heavy sentence
was approved by the reviewing au-
thorities, who. throughout the history
of both the 18th and nth Divisions
were, as has been stated, more lenient,
as rule. than the courts.
Circulated Auti-War Propaganda.
The twenty fve-year terms. two in
number. We're imposed for refusal to
wear the uniform of the United States
Army and for disobedience and in
subordination shown to superior Of
ticerS, In both cases the accused are
said to have been of bolshevist ten
denotes. One of the two, at least, was
caught trying to distribute anti-war
propag anda. Both of them. it is said,
tried 10 incite men to refuse to do
military service.
The court decided that the two men
were the very worst types of enc
mics, and that in another country
they probably would have been shot
at sunrise on the morning following
their conviction.
The first of the three cases drawing
terms was that of
a private whose beiiigerent nature
could not be questioned. but whose
warlike activities were wrongly di-
rected. He was convicted on two
charges of striking his superior Of
ficrs in the face with his fst--his
first lieutenant and his corporal
Later a case involving the shooting
of one private by another drew only
fye-yar term Such a difference in
penalties raises the question, Which
is the worse offense, the striking of
an officer in the face or the shooting
of a man in the ranks: Does the diff
ference in the two sentences indicate
that life of an officer is more sacred
than that of a man in the ranks?
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PUBLIC LANDS FOR ENTRY.
Nearly Three Million Acres Are
Designated by Secretary Lane.

Nearly 100000 acres of public lands
have been designated for entry by Sec
rotary of the Interior Lane. Mineral
lands comprising 773.o acres of the
total lying within the Ignite area of
North Dakota can be bought for from
so to $40 per acre. More than million
acres Of dry farming lands are opened
for entry under the enlarged homestead
act. II may be obtained in tracts OF
800 acres scattered through five states,
Idaho. Montana. Oregon. South Dakota
and Wyoming.
Close to a million acres opened for
entry in tracts Of $40 acres under the
stock-raisIng homestead law are in
Arizona. California, Colorado, Kansas,
New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon and
Wyoming.
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UNFOLDING Army Morale.

These officers say that all punish
1nents given look solely to the mainte-
nance of discipline and the holding
tight of the morale of the Army.
To be perfectly fair. this expiana-
>fjon seems a good and reasonable one,
and yet il Is noticeable at times that
when an officer is guilty of some
grave offense he escapes more lightly
than a private An officer must be
protected on account Of the dignity
Of his Office. InVerseiy. a man who
forgets that dignity should he pun
ished for lowering the standards OF
the Army
Some officers at Meade and other
camps have escaped with compare
lively light sentences. a certain cap
tain was convicted at Meade not long
ago of Ascending with money be-
longing to sick soldiers There were
other bad charges against his name
Yet he was sentenced to only seven
years President Wilson reduced that
sentence TO five years.
Again the question Of discipline
arose in that case The ofrense was
not as serious in a military sense as
others. President Wilson thought this
penalty too severe. In other cases
where officers at Meade were dis
charged from the Army and in other
ways punished the President revoked
the findings and restored these officers
to duty. He apparently Is more ten
der-heaFtsd than the courts He was
easier on the officers than their as
socIaLes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-16

Fire originating in a grist mill To-
Gated in the rear of the Nixon Whole
sale Grocery Company, at Augusta
Ga, destroyed that company's plant
yesterday, with an estimated loss OF
$4,000
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Objected to Carrying Wood.

Those seven characterization charges
are Interesting in that they reveal a
decided aversion 10 carrying coal and
wood on the part of six Of the cui-
prits. The seventh case was that of
. man who declined either 10 sweep
the floor o. the detachment office or
do kitchen work"
All of the men who refused TO do
4hese things called themselves CON
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Reprimand to Lieutenant.

The worst Feprimand ever given to
any soldier at Meade was placed upon
q lieutenant who cursed sergeant,
That reprimsnd was so singing that
j. was carried in the press dispatches
and commented upon editoriaily by
many papers That officer was con-
fined 10 the limits of the camp for
xix months. He afterward died he
yoicaiiy leading his soldiers into ac-
ton.
A close scrutiny Of cases, however
jnciines one 10 think that officers have
had more leuiency SHOWN them than
Ene men
The ffteen-year sentences were I'M
posed upon Offenders of three elassaes
The first of these was mo de Up Of
socialists, conscientious objectors, or
paeifSts Of other stripes. There were
sixteen coming under this head. The
charge in esch case was refusal 10
put on a uniform. The treatment that
should be accorded such persons has
been one Of the yexing problems of
the war. Fifteen-year sentences was
the Meade solution. Desertion was re-
sponsibie for five other convictions.
The remaining seven cases involved
various charges of INSTRUMENTATION
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Oficers at Meade saw that the an
swer TO that question depends en-
tirely on the circumstances and the
result such sentences will have upon
those found guilty. They say the
general public does not know, a-s
rule. the inside story of case, and
that there are circumstances which
win entirely change the viewpoint of
the court called upon to Judge.
Frankly, the military authorities do
not believe that a slight shot wound
inflicted on another man by soldier
in the heat Of anger or in some sud
ness with the striking of man who
must command respect in battle and
who must have his soldiers subject to
him. They say that A light punish
ment for such an offense would throw
an organization into chaos. break
down discipline entirely. destroy the
morale of an army and bring ruin
and defeat.
They say the suffering of an injury
by one man is in no way comparable
10 the evil results that would ensue
to country's or worlds cause from
a knowledge among the men that they
could turn against their officers with
sppunity. The shooting of man
would not necessarily impair the
morale of an army, They say IL is a
person in authority and bring about
a riot and would be more severely
punished that man who would shoot
or stab another. The shooting OF a
T,atroiman in the discharge of his
duty. they say, is a far more serious
onense than the shooting of a mere
citizen In the heat of a quarrel
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02
A FERvENT PRAYER.

Every day, nowadays, you will hear people draw
long breaths and say: "Well, the war is over;
now we can let up and take it easy" 1t all de-
pends, of course, upon what you consider easy.
Some people take the easiest kind of life in the
hardest kind of way but if you consider life will
be easy merely by attempting to shake off respon-
sibility, you have lost your gas-mask, and the poi
sonous fume of cowardice will soon render you a
despised no-account, regular by-gum down-and-
outer The principle reason why many people are
old in body at sixty or seventy is because they
have lost interest in the vital things of lfe be-
cause they sigh and say: Il have done my part, |
have lived my life, and now am going to quit and
just sit around and wait for the last long roll" All
right, if you just want to be sitter and sigher,
go to it; but not for Up to our last conscious
moment on this earth we want to be in the thick
of the fight, doing our share to help solve the
Worlds big problems and little problems, and our
constant prayer Is:
"Oh, Lord, don't let US sag!" 4W. L. Brownell.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

~ OES your desire for peace, your patriotic
love of liberty, your ardor and passion for
your country stand the pocketbook test
This will be the question which every American
must answer, April 21, when the next government
loans is to be floated and people are again asked
for subscriptions.
There is gone now the emotion of war. No Long
er is there the picture of the American boy with
the Stars and Stripes fighting on foreign shore.
No longer does his danger and the menace of ex-
Kaiser Wilhelm furnish the dramatic appeal TO
fire the thoughts and hearts to the point of en-
thusiasm.
But of all the loans that have been floated, this
one should be taken with more joy and more en-
thusiasm than any of its predecessors
Looking back to the dark days when Germany
seemed so far from death, danger and destruction,
it is easy to recall the extravagant phrases which
then described the passion for peace.
There were fathers who would have paid for
tunes to have ended the war one day sooner III
that day their sons were to be sent to the firing
front. There were mothers who would have
thought no financial sacrifice too great If the war
could have ended in 1918-as it did end. Peace
then seemed to be wonderful thing-and 50
priceless
for peace.
The dollars which are needed are to be spent
to insure us against any future wars-for they
go for the things which gave to the world the
spectacle of indignant republic turned mill
tant, and that spectacle will warn any nation for
generations that this country is unbeatable
Those dollars go for the boys who are in France
and in camp, go for their wages and their equip
ment.
They are needed to pay for the guns, the air
planes, the ships which were obtained over night
and which spelled doom for the Boche.
These are the dollars which brought peace
that madness and devastation.
Get ready to answer to your conscience. Are
you fit to live in peace? Were you worth fight
ing for? Are you really an American, ready to
sacrifice for American ideals?
The answer is the size of your contribution to
the Victory Loan.-Kansas City Post.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

We know of no more auspicious sign
of the times than the task undertaken by the
churches of the various denominations
to raise large sums of money for home work of a
social and community nature, for reconstruction
work and for all the other lines of work which
should be the vital business of the Church regard
less of it's creed or tenets. The Methodist Church
alone has undertaken to raise $1O5, 100000 and to
get the promise of fifty thousand full time
workers, both men and women. The same thing,
with mere change of figures perhaps, is being
asked by the Presbyterian Church; judging by
press notices we constantly receiving the Bap-
fists are making similar campaign and so on
through all the denominations. Churches have
come to want above all ulterior things, larger
community life for their church, a larger COM
munity usefulness and they are going after it
with a vast enthusiasm and purposefulness. It
is q highly encouraging sign of the new time,
of the new day, in the church and in the world;
. new time and new day when the keynote is
service, with the church realizing at last that
the right road to perfection in another world
is by way OF better and happier and nobler con-
ditions Tor mankind right here.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

Buying bonds and many of them in the COM
ing VICTORY Loan is symbol of your real
patriotism. In the four previous loans you bought
them because you were in danger or your son
or your brother was in danger, or because you
would be sharply and forcibly reprimanded by
Uncle Sam if you didn't In the coming sale you
will buy them because you filled with a
real patriotism, love for your country which is
greater than your love for the inanimate dollars
in your pockets Your country's need is still
great apparent and urgent. This is the time
to prove your love for her.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

OF all the slush, the words to the song 'My Min
nesota which the legislature has been asked to
adopt as the state song, are the supreme slush.
There is neither poetry, rythym nor compliment
to the good North Star State anywhere about
it, let alone any symptom of plain common sense.
And yet it is this tumble of words which our aug
ust body was asked to legalze, making its
singing obligatory upon all the public schools. We
would like to ask what the poor kids of Mime
sofa have ever done to the "Wise Old Owls down
at the state capitol that they should even dream
of such a thing. When we have state song let us
have a real one with at least semblance of beau
ty expressed in something which may at least pass
for good English.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02
THE SOLDIERS CHANCE

He stopped one day at the office
A fellow haggard and tall,
And asked if place were vacant
For clerical work-that's all.
II. Il:
OF course was awfully sorry,
That at present things were slow;
But he only smiled tnd thanked me,
And then he turned to go.
j
| noticed an arm was missing,
And said-with different glance
"How did it happen?" -he answered
"Out in the Fields Of France"
Ny hand went up to his shoulder,
Yet he didn't show surprise
At my sudden change Of feeling,
Or the tears that filled my eyes.
You bet I could find him something,
And give him Soldiers Chance
For a boy of mine was lying
Out in the Field of France.
Man 7. Reed
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

The Anoka deacon who beat up the girl
bank cashier began his career Of crime years
back stealing pies. He would have gone to
the bad long ago If he had chance at the pies
made by Fairmont's cooks.-Fairmont Senti-
mel
Frank, we call that brutall If the pies are q
bad as that, the least you could do would be d
keep still about il.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

weary pillow of pain, binding up broken bodies
and broken, bleeding hearts as we'll
He who could best speak Of her noble deeds
lies cold and still Who then will speak for her !?
Let those who have been appointed to do honor to
the American sailors and soldiers who fought
in the war, make room in their plans for the
American Red Cross Nurse-Spring Valley Mer-
curry.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

An exchange says: young man, don't swear!
There is no occasion for it outside of the print
ing office, where it is useful when the paper is
behind time. 1t also comes in handy in proof
reading, and is indispensable when the ink works
badly and the folder begins to buck 1t has been
known to entirely remove that tired feeling of
an editor after he looks over the paper after it
has been printed Outside of printing office
it is foolish thing"
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

american exports now average more than
$2O,OOO,OOO day according to the department
of commerce They averaged $21 100000 per
day in February-News item in Minneapolis
Journal of March 27.
And is a country that can do a thing like that
every day of its existence going to hedge at mere
little six billion dollar VICTORY Loan! If it does
we shall be moved to blush for America.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

Nature never gets tired of advertising. She
sends along the same little old Robin Redbreast
every year to tout her spring opening. And every
body sits up and takes notice when Redthroat be-
gins to tell about it. He is not new, but he is adj
vertising good line and no will deny that his
way of doing it is right attractive.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02
THE NURSE

= las she been forgotten in the plans for
- memomials? She went forth to war with
: : no roar of trumpets or beat of drums, the
first to 60, the last to return She carried neith-
er sword nor musket, but the gentle ministry OF
heart and hand; not to make wounds but to heal
them. She asks no recognition she seeks no
praise. The Angel OF No Mans Land beside the
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

This old United States has million faults, more
or less. We who make newspapers or we who read
them know all about each and everyone, for we
tell others about them or read about them at least
once day. But will some one please tell Us
nine per cent of us would rather live? Honest now,
would you live anywhere else if you could? We
wouldn't!
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

Statistics show that England raises more than
twice as much wheat per acre as the United States
The old u. S. A. has never let Johnny Bull beat her
in anything else-why let him win out in this?
Our extravagant use of our good soil is not the
least of the many things we have learned as a
by-product of the War.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

| Redwood Falls still has too many dogs-not real
ones but common ours that nobody cares enough
about to really take home and take care OF. They
are just like the Cares in Longfellow's poems
they 'infest the day" and then they work overtime
and infest the night. How long, City Dads, how
long.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

They who tunnel mountains and who bridge
wide waters are busy, but they are not to be
compared for real activness with that vast army
of workers busy continually with building noun
tains out of molehills. And some of these build
ers even have to evolve the molehill before they
can start it mountainward.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

In speaking of the Third House Banquet re-
Gently given at the Saint Paul hotel, the Minnea-
polls Tribune said, regarding the toast program
mo seriousness was permitted. Oscar Arneson
presided" If the second statement had been made
first there wouldn't have been any need of the
making the first one second.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

Of al grand words of tongue or pen the grand
est are-the ones we read Friday in letter from
our housekeeper who has been off the job foris 1t
three weeks or three months? She merely wrote
eIIl be back on Monday" Oh, boy, talk about your
grand and glorious feelings!
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02
BACK TO NATURE

Old Father Hubbard went to the cupboard
To get his poor self drink,
But as he drew nigh, the country went dry,
So he got him a drink atthe sink
-Pittsburg Post
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

"In our happy and free country, we can differ
in opinion without being enemies" said John Quin-
cy Adams. But John nor anybody else ever got
up early enough to state that could differ from
each other in this day and age and not call each
other Bolsheviks.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

There is one sure and straight road to happi-
ness and that is for one to keep so everlastingly
busy that he hasn't time to worry about anything.
All other roads are only crossroads and don't
really get anywhere.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

A church congregation of Albert Lea recently
presented its pastor with $1,000 purse. 1t is
probable that there will now be a grand rush for
"clergical jobs" in Albert Lea. Twill serve some
other towns good and right, too.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

We unintentionally stole good editorial last
week-and we don't seem to be able to find out
from whom we stole it so we can't make proper
apology. So we just make general one includ-
ing our whole list of exchanges.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

Frank Simonds says the Europeans can't IN
derstand United States politics. They should be
sent over here and given an opportunity to take
4 course of lectures from some of our prominent
statesmen
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

There is vast difference between thinking
and thinking and thinking and thinking and acting
and thinking again.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

You can lead your son to the foot of the ladder
but you can't push him up unless he shows some
inclination to climb a bit for himself Many a
fond parent is wearing himself perfectly thread
bare in this very futile effort.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

The Hun claims that punished Germany would
be a menace to the world Would the Hun, then,
suggest complete annihilation? There is no oth-
er alternative, we believe.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

At Camp Hancock there is poster which reads,
"They say it is fashionable to have the Flu-but
who in hell wants to be fashionable" Editors
well putt
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

Men make mighty good houses but did you ever
see one who could put up any kind OF HOME as
a monument TO his individual effort?
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

We can't see any real reason for the street cor
ner loungers getting "all het up over the presi1
Dental candidate for 192O-but they are all doing
it.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

There have been men who have denied valiantly
that they ever made fools of themselves. No per-
fectly honest man was ever in this class
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

To be sure beauty is only skin deep, but any
thing as attractive as beauty doesn't need to be
deeper-depth and brains are only required OF the
ordinary plain things.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-04-02

Early settlers started this country going anC
more of the same kind are keeping it going. (The
first of the month is upon us)