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WHAT UNCLE SAM SPENDS ON EACH SOLDIER
When it comes to clothing and equipment for the sol
dier boy Uncle Sam is no niggard. You may have observ
ed that in the appearance of the men. in what they tell you;
about their clothing, arms and equipment, and you may
have seen in the papers that the total cost o! these ' or each
man is. at the outset, -Slot‘>.30.
But the generality is not so interesting as the details.
An analysis of the clothing bill of 310.1.21 is worth the
while. That bill covers as a fundamental for sleeping com
fort two woolen blankets at a cost of $18.75. One can feel
comfortable even in the very consideration of a $0 blank
et, government price. There are two wool service coats
that cost $15.20, three suits of summer underwear, $3:
three suits of winter underwear, $8.76; an overcoat. 811.
i>2, and two pairs of shoes. $10.20. '
These are the chief items of the soldier's wardrobe,
but the bill includes many others, omitting not the belt and
the hat cord, the shoe laces and socks and shelter tent and
tent pins and service hat, poncho, flannel shirt, wool
gloves and identification tags.
In the matter of fighting equipment the bill is $47.36.
The rifle heads the list at a cost of $10.50. The gas mask
comes next and is set down at 312. The cartridge belt is
34.08 and the steel helmet is 83. For the most part steel
helmets and gas masks are made in France and Great Bri
tain, although the manufacture of them has begun in this
country. Eating utensils, first aid kit and pouch to carry
it foot up $7.73.
We venture to sav that no soldier in the allied forces
will be so well and so comfortably equipped and clothed as
he who will fight for a free world under Uncle Sam’s flag.
NOTHING BUT AMERCANS
The movement for the more thorough assimilation of
aliens on an exclusively American standard, as suggested
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by Theodore Roosevelt and the patriotic men associated
with him, under a call entitled “The Children of the Cru
cible,” will be exceedingly helpful to such efforts in this di
rection as have already been made in an organized way.
The Roosevelt appeal acquires strength not only in its elo
quence, but in the type of men who signed the statement.
Men of many religiions, coming to America from many
countries, join in pleading for a more ardent, single-heart
ed devotion to American ideals.
“Some of us,” runs the statement, “were born abroad,
some of us are of revolutionary stock, but all of us are
Americans, and nothing but Americans.”
The names, Straus, Fiala, ( rimmins, Reuteidnhl,
Meyer, Loeb, Borglum, Elslierg, Behr, Kahn, Quinn and
others are evidences that in the case of these Amei itans
the melting pot has accomplished its work.
“Americans, and nothing but Americans”! To what
•-I fine, patriotic cause are these men devoted! 1 he\ ask
that there be no more looking hack to the fatherland, no
more division of affection, no more compromises of con
science; they ask for one devotion, one loyalty, one ser
vice to the country that offers us all liberty, opportunity,
homes, education and the desirable things of life that men
contend for.
“The crucible must melt all who are cast in it,” the ap
peal sets forth. “It must turn them out in one American
mould; and this must be the mould shaped 140 years ago
bv the men who under Washington founded this as a free
nation separate from all others.”
War is doing this service for us. It is taking men from
their selfishness and divided allegiance and endowing them
with a new and single-hearted patriotism. The national
defense is driving us from individualism to group action.
Whatever the country of our origin, we are realizing that
we are one people, devoted to one nation and ready to de
fend it with our blood and treasure.—Ex.
THE“VELVET” HAND
The clumsy ruse of Germany in the Argentine mat
ter is but another evidence that the machinery of Teuton
efficiency is in need of repair. We have grown to regard
German methods in every line of endeavor as evidencing
a marvelous efficiency, yet no nation has been so stripped
of pretense to truth and fair dealing as Germany, in the
! activities of its foreign office.
Its “hidden hand” diplomacy has a knack of reveal
ing itself at untoward moments. Its clumsy work was re
vealed in the cabal to involve America in a war with Mex
ico and Japan; the German foreign office has been proven
a liar by no less a person than the Kaiser; and now come
the revelations of the Argentine incident, in which the
German charge at Buenos Aaires is discovered communi
cating with his government under cover of the Swedish
minister and foreign office, and calling Argentina’s for
eign minister a “notorious ass.” Not the least interesting
incident of the smuggled communications is the evidence
that the German charge advised the sinking of Argen
tina’s ships at a time when he was professing the most
friendly concern in that country’s affairs.
Germany has used the club so long that it has no long
er any skill in using the velvet hand and in concealing its
“will to power.” Its secret maneuvers are accompanied
generally by coarse and clumsy methods, and its “hidden
diplomacy” is generally announced by banner heads on the
first pages of the world’s newspapers.—Seattle P.I.
C.W. PALMER
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