ADVICE TO YOUNG AMERICANS
SIX YEARS OF AGE AND UNDER
By George Ada
Can a mere child be of service to his
or her country while we are trying tt>
make the kaiser behave?
Undoubtedly.
How?
By observing the conduct of weak
kneed, hysterical and complaining
adults, and then being just as dif
ferent from them as possible.
This war is neither a joke nor a pro
tracted funeral.
You will notice that some of the
older people refuse to accept it as a
fact, while others move about in a blue
funk, exclaiming, between sobs, that
the U. S, A. is going to the bow-wows.
Let the very young children set
their elders a good example by remain
ing calm but determined
If you pick up the morning paper
and read that the U-boats bagged 17
ships instead of the customary 15, and
the Canadians captured only one line
of trenches instead of two, uo not shake
your head and declare that the Ger
mans never can be licked.
Set a good example to your fathers
and mothers and uncles and aunts by
renewing your faith daily, in spite of
an occasional setback.
Quote to them the words of Abra
ham Lincoln: “Let us have faith that
right makes might, and in that faith
let us, to the end, dare to do our duty.”
You might remind your grown-up
relatives that all during the Civil war
the Northern states harbored a good
many well-meaning people who went
about moaning that the Union never
could be preserved and we had better
accept peace at any price.
These invertebrates (an inverte
brate, children, is a creature with a
string of macaroni where the backbone
should be)—these spineless ones were
willing to let certan states seceue.
The blacks were to remain in slavery.
Our flag was to be lowered. Anything
to avoid a light to a finish.
Even after the battle of Gettysburg
when the fortunes of war began to fa
vor the North, just as they are now
favoring the allies, every community
had to put up with a few of the winn
ers and faultfinders who belittled each
victory and magnified each reverse.
Your grandfather can tell you about
these peace lovers who helped to pro
long the war by failing to give united
and loyal support to the soldiers at the
front. Ifii should happen that grand
father was one of these “peace-at-any
price” advocates, doubtless he will
change the subject and talk about
s me lung else.
l ,v n it >ou are less than six years of
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j ago, surely you can understand that!
i tho issues involved in this dreadful war !
must be settled and settled right before :
i the world may hope for abiding peace i
Therefore, if anyone asks you what,!
j you think about tho war reply as fol- :
lows:
"President, Wilson was right when!
he said that the world must.be made I
safe for democracy. Tho American;
j people have no desire to destroy Gar- ;
i many or prevent it from regaining'
! commercial importance. They want ■
Germany to restore the stolen property ■
and go home in a chastened mood.
They want to jatn the knowledge into
cverv close-cropped Prussian head that
just because a man owns a highpriced ;
automatic gun and has a lot of a mm uni- i
tion and a col led o education, lie has
no right to go out and shoot up fits
neighbors. The American people art
hoping to make it clear to the kaiser
] and the crown prince and the various
square-jawed Hindenburgs that it is
highly improper to form a partnership
with God for purposes of murder, ram
then treat God as a silent partner. As
to the final outcome, the battle of the
Marne was the beginning of the end
[■'or 200 years all the big events of his.
torv have marked an it resistible ad
vance toward the establishment of do
mocracy. When the Germans failed .
in their mad rush of 1914, it meant;
that an All-Wise Providence an 1 '.lie
laws of evolution were not to be,
thwarted by a military despot with a !
bristling mustache. Germany cannot j
win and therefore Germany must lose.
The end of bloodshed and sacrifice and ;
widespread terror will come as soon as!
the I’uiiod States of America begins
to strike aggressive blows. The more !
men we send to the front the fewer we
will lose. Our greatest enemy at
present is indecision. Our strongest!
ally is speed. Our most needful watch
word is faith. We are going to end the j
war and then sit at the council tab:. to j
repress greed and curb injustice.’’
Of course the foregoing will sound j
lather hifaluting to come from a si: -.
year-old child, but it will be the truth
and the truth is needed in large doses
at present, especially by people more
than six years old. .
_A_—
GERMAN FOOD SUBSTITUTES
INJURIOUS TO HEALTH
i —
London, Mar. 20. — German scientists
! say that unless the government ac
j lively intervenes to put some control j
| over the flood of substitute foods with j
1 which the country is overwhelmed the 1
| end of the war will also see the end of j
a third of Germany's population. Prof.
Juckenack of the University of Berlin
says: “The devil alone knows what •
are the ingredients of thousands of i
these wretched substitutes. The latest!
j products of the ingenious substitute
I mongers are really too terrible to be j
j tolerated. A preparation of crude!
kerosene is now being largely sold for j
frying oil, and 800 cases of serious j
illness, together with nine deaths,
have been traced to its use in Berlin
I alone. A preparation called “goose-,
dr ippings” is prepared from dog’s fat: j
egg substitute from a mixture of chalk ,
and baking powder; caviar from fish
scales, and bread from straw. What.;
people, no matter how patriotic, can
hold out on such fare?”
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New York: The war has changed
the ocean routes and trade relations.
Now the United States is dealing di
rectly with the producers of raw mate
rials. Half of the tin mined in Bolivia
will be refined in this country here
after. Palm oil into which steel plates
must be dipped before they can be
coated with tin, is no longer purchased
in England, but imported from Africa.
Germany will sell no more dyes in the
United States and the $15,000,000 yearly
taken from domestic industries will re
main here to the benefit of American
labor and capital. American dyes are
now’ being sent to 21 countries.
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Washington: Theodore N. Vail, in a
letter to members of the League of
National Unity of which he is chair
man, said: “The public should not be
too critical or expect too much too
quickly. The public ignored all the
warnings and would have nothing to do
with pureparation and, totally unpre
pared. they expected within a short
year that the -country should be put
upon the basis of those countries that
have been more or less prepared for
years for the definite emergency which
has occurred.”
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Washington: The new Ford sub
marine detector perfected by Thomas
A Edison, the microphone. The device
has been found to work upon this type
of vessel so well that it is possible to
determine within a mile the exact
location of the preying U-boat.
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Los Angeles, Cal., April 22. ( enoral
earthquake shocks in Rout hern < ali
fornia at, .'1:30 o'clock this afternoon.
The tremors broke large plate-glass
windows ar.d shook down cornices. 1 )ne
life was lost.
Big Losses 3t Hemet
fleinet, Cal., April 22. Marchquake
shocks occurred here at- 3:30 o’clock
tiiis afternoon and destroyed every
brick building in the town.
Genova, March 21.— Germans are
making every effort to conceal their
submarine losses, according to a Swiss
engineer employed for the past 10
months at electrical work at Kiel and
who has recently returned, ilecause
of the increased difficulty in mustering
crews German naval officials particu
lar! v keep news of t -boat losses from
tho navy. During the time he was at
Kiel, the engineer estimates submarine
losso; were DO per cent.
■'1 saw a score of submarines lined up
in the canal undergoing repairs,"’ he
said. “They had been hit by depth
bombs, which the Germans seem Lo
fear greatly.”
The engineer added there had been
two serious mutinies at Kiel during
1917.
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One wheatless meal each day.
A wheatless Monday.
A meatless Tuesday each week.
A wheatless Wednesday.
A pdfkless Saturday each week.
(Meatless means without beef, mutton
or pork.)
(Wheatless means without bread,
cracker or cakes made id' wheat Hour
alone.)
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Paris, March 22.--Foreign Minister
Pichon showed up today another Ct r
raan trick which forced the war. The
foreign minister, in a public statement,
said that just before the outbreak of
the wiiv, former Imperial German Chan
cellor Hethmun-Hollweg, sent word to
Paris that if France would d«m.d«- to
remain neutral, Germany- would re
quest as a guarantee of French neu
trality, the handing over of the French
fortresses of Verdun and Tool to'he
German for the period of the war
M. Pich.on said this showed '■ r,cl
sivelv that the Germans deliberately
made wtir inevitable.
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