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NOME, ALASKA, APRIL 24, 1917.
GIVE A BOY A CHANCE.
Each day brings the United States
nearer to open hostilities with Ger
many. It is inevitable that American
ships will enter the barred zone, that
one of them will be sunk by a sub
marine, that at this season some
American lives will be lost, i'f not in
the attack on or the sinking of the
ship then by exposure in open boats.
Then it will be incumbent on the
president, according to bis own dec
laration, to ask congress for author
ity to protect American seamen and
ships. That means fighting' and
though it may begin without an open
declaration of war, it is extrmely
likely to extend into declared war.
Though war may at first be limited
to the sea, it would be blind folly to
assume that it would not be extended
to the land. We cannot foresee what
magnitude war on land may as
sume, hence prudence demands that
we prepare to fight on the largest
scale.
The present war has taught us
that wars are no longer fought by
a certain number of men hired or
picked from each hation. Nations
transforms themselves into armies
and navies, part of which do not
actual fighting, while the rest of the
nation provides that part with all
needed material fend money. Ger
many, with which we are on the
verge o war, is organized In that
manner and in order to hold our
ova we must organize in tl.e same
manner and on t;the same scale.
If the apparently impending war
with Germany should not extend to
the land, by our action we sba’l have
incurred the enmity of that nation.
V\ o cannot safely trust to the pro
posed League to Enforce Peace lor
immunity from attack, for that
scheme is still In embryo and can
only be brought info successful oper
ation by slow' development.
Experience of the last twenty
years Is ample warnng against such
blind confidence. No period has been
marked by more earnest efforts of
Professional Cards
Dr. A. F. Heimlich
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! great bodies of influential men and
women of n any nations to prevent
war and to mitigate its horrors;
| >et no like period has lfcen marred
I y so many wars of as great mag
nitude, and it classes with a war
that has no parallel in history. The
only safe course or this nalio 1 is
to assume that what has happened
to other nations will at some time,
how soon wc cannot foresee, hap
pen to us. M'e have seen that the
consequence of unreadiness is utter
defeat and destruction of a nation.
Much as we abhor war and all Its
accompaniments, we must recog
nize that they are a less evil than
tlie destruction or subjugation of
this nation.
The first essential to preparedness
s the training of our men as sol
diers. Aversion for war has inspired
many of our people with aversion
for this training, but if they would
fully consder the alternative they
would quickly overcome that senti
ment. The alternative can be con
ceived from an incident which was
related by General Leonard Wood in
a recent speech to the Ianus C’ub
at New York. He told of having met
at Eton school In England the son of
a friend, "a fine young fellow.” When
| the war had been in progress for a
year he met the father again and in
quired about the boy. The father re
plied that he had boon killed in bat
tle, and added:
"1 dont’ regret so much his loss, and
no one could miss him more, as I
i regret the act that I did not givt> him
| a sporting chance. I sent him to the
front unprepared, a willing and an
almost useless sacrifice to duty.”
There can be no doubt that, if this
country should be attacked its young
men would rush to its defense, whe
ther or not they had been adequately
( trained. The alternative which con
i fronts the fathers and mothers of
j America’ is not wheher their boys still
; go with a ‘ sporting chance," gained
by proper training for the ordea’. If
by opposing the training which will
give the boys that chance, parents
send them "unprepared, a willing but
an almost useless sacrifice to duty,” !
those fathers and mothers will suffer !
through life the same vain regret
which that English father feels. They
will then realize the truth of what
‘‘Light Horse Harry" Lee sa 1 after
his experience with imilitia in the
revolution—that that country which
sends raw and untrained men against
trained soldiers is guilty of their mur
der. Oppostion to military training
does not save the boy from war; if!
the opposition should win and if w.u 1
should come, it would send the boy to
war to be murdered. That is the pi: n
choice before the fathers and moltc---*
of the United States.—Portland Ore
gonian.
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FOES OF SUBMARINES.
Since Senator Stone most unwisely
disclosed on the llooyof the senate
the plan which had been worked, out
by officers of the navy for the protec
tion of American vessels plying across
the Atlantic, there is no longer im
propriety in commenting on the plan.
It is by this time in full ossession of
the German authorities and has ceased
to be a military secret.
Tlie plan itself seems an admirable
one. It involved the use, for the pro
tection of merchant shipping, of motor
cruisers such as those which have been
built by the hundreds for patrol ser
vice along the British coast and of
which many have been built in htis
country by private individuals, with a
view to tendering their services to the
government in time of war. The
smaller motor cruisers of,this type
are forty feet in length, have a speed
of twenty two knots an hour and a
large steaming radius for their size,
They are fittedf to carry a rapid-fire
three-inch gun or one of smaller cali
ber but sufficiently powerful to sink
a frail submarine.
The suggestion was for American
steamships to carry two of these mo
tor boats on deck and drop them into
tlie water when they reach the dan
ger zone. For the remainder of file
voyage these litt.'e scouts and fighting
craft would precede the ship on cither
bow, keeping a sharp lookout for sub
marines and prepared to attack them
the instant they appeared.
It would appear that they could
perform all of the offices of an armed
convoy, at the minimum of expense.
Indeed, the full cost of a boat of the
kind would hardly be greater thanj
the expense of sending a large de
stroyer on a voyage across the Atlantic
and back. For offensive purposes
against such craft as a submarine
these motor boats are good enough.
They are faster than a submarine, and
any kind of gunfire is sufficient to sink
the frail sea assassins.
BISMARCK SPIRIT.
When the French in 1S70 complained
tha the Germans fired upon the sick
and blind in the blind institute, Bis
marck's reply was that he did not
know what there was to find fault
with in that. "You do far worse—
you shoot at bur men who are in
sound and vigorous health." Women
and children who in thick weather
fin'd themselves in little boats after
their ship has been sent to the bot
tom must console themselves, by re
membering that they are, after al',
better off than German soldiers on the
.'■'oinme or German Zeppelin crews at
‘'uffiy, and that international law'
never says that they are to be com
fortable.—Westminster Gazette.
BATTLESHIP NEW
MEXICO LAUNCHED
International News Service.
NFW YORK, April 23.—The super
drendnaught New Mexico was
launched at the Brooklyn navy yard
this morning.
This being the fust war vessel of
any size to bo launched since the
declaration of war, brought out thou
sands of spectators who were mostly
in boats and launches with flag3 and
banners flying.
It seemed that all New oYrk was
on the water, many of the larger
boats carried bands and swept by
patriotism the event toox the aspect
of a national holiday. A salute was
sent up by the guns from the fort,
and upon the signal being given the
christening took place, and the great
sea monarch slid off the ways,, to
take her place in upholding the rights
of that nation whose watchword is
liberty.
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