HOME-READING COURSE FOR
CITIZEN-SOLDIERS
(Issued by the War Department and all rights to reprint reserved.)
This course of thirty lessons is otlered to the men selected for
service in the National Army as a practical help in getting started
in the right way. It is informal in tone and does not attempt to gi\e
binding rule# and directions. These are contained In the various
manuals and regulations of the I nitcd States Army, to which this
Course is merely introductory.
LKSSOX SO. 2K
WHY \VK FHiHT
Every American knows the causes
of our war with the German Govern
ment. Yet this course would be in
complete if it did not contain a in ioi
review of the events that finally forced
us into war, when at last there t
ma;ned *no other means of detei'di**,^
our rights.
The soldier of an autocratic *vai'',‘*
may tight best when he understands
least of the true meaning of the war.
To tell him the fact would he to chil!
his enthusiasm. But the citizen s
dier of a tlemocracy is enti* led to kra-w
for what purposes he enters the strug
gle. He tights best when he sec^
most clearly why he lights.
The resolution of Congress declar
ing a state of war (Apr. H, 1 -' 1 *1
presses the immediate cause in oso
few words:
“The Imperial German Government
has committed repeated acts of w.u
against the Government and the peo
ple of the United States of America/*
Chief among the acts ot war wen
attacks by German submarines on
American ships and on unarmed mei
chant ships of other nations carrying
American passengers. “Vessels ot ]
every kind." said the President in his
address to Congress on April J. 1 *'"♦
“whatever their flag, their character,
their cargo, their destination, their er
rand, have been ruthlessly sent to t o
bottom without warning and without)
thought of help or mercy for those on
board, the vessels ot friend y noi.ti.tt>
along with those of belligerents. Kven
hospital ships and ships carrying re
lief to the sorely bereaved and strick
en people of Belgium, though the lat
ter were provided with sale conduct
through the prescribed areas by the
German Government itself and w« ie
distinguished by unmistakable sign>
of identity, have been sunk with the
same reckless lack of compassion or
of principle * ' . The present Ger
man submarine warfare against com
merce is a warfare against mankind.
German Insults and Aggressions
There were other acts of hostility in
addition to the submarine warfare. In,
his Flag day address delivered at
Washington on June 14, U>lT, the
President summed up the events that
brought on war as follows:
“It is plain enough how we were
forced into the war. The extraordin
ary insults and aggressions of the
Imperial German Government left us
no self-respecting choice but to take
up arms in defense of our rights as a
free people and of our honor as a sov
ereign Government. The military
masters of Germany denied us the
right to be neutral. They tilled our
unsuspecting communities with vicious
spies and conspirators and sought to
corrupt the opinion of our people in
their own behalf. When they found
that they could not do that, their
agents diligently spread sedition
amongst us and sought to draw oui
own citizens from their allegiance—
and some of those agents were men
connected with the official embassy of
the German Government itself here
in our Capital. They sought by vio
lence to destroy our industries and ar
rest our commerce. They tried to in
cite Mexico to take up arms against
us and to draw Japan into a hostile
alliance with her—and that, not by
indirection, but by suggestion from
the foreign office in Berlin. They im
pudently denied us the use of the high
seas and repeatedly executed their
threat that they would send to their
death any of our people who ventured
to approach the coasts of Europe.”
Our Liberty and Safety Involved
Yet even this list of “extraordinary
insults and aggressions” does not tel!
the whole story. Our motives for war
go even deeper. Not only our rights
ami self-respect, but our liberty and
safety, are involved. Speaking on
July 2l>, 11*17. at the officers’ training
camp at Madison Barracks, X. Y., the
Secretary of State said:
“The evil character of the German
Government is laid bare before the
world. We know now that that Gov
ernment is inspired with ambitions
which menace human liberty, and that
to gain its end it does not hesitate to
break faith, to violate the most sacred
rights, or to perpetrate intolerable
acts of inhumanity * Let us
war to establish an abstract principle
of right. It is a war in which the
future of the I’nited States is at
The record out of which grows oui
deep conviction that it is necessary at
once to put a curb on so powerful am
unscrupulous an enemy is set lorth in
an official publication “How the War
Came to America.”
“Judging the German Government
now in the light of our honest attempt
to keep the peace, we could see the
great autocracy and read her record
through the war. And we found that
record damnable. * * With a fa
natical faith in the destiny of German
kultur as the system that must rule
the world, the Imperial Governments
actions have through years of boast
ing. double dealing,'and deceit tended
toward aggression upon the rights of
others. And if there still be any doubt
as to which nation began this war, I
there can be no uncertainty, as to
which one was most prepared, most
exultant at the chance, and ready in
stantly to march upon other nations,
even those who had given no offense.
The wholesale depredations and hide
ous atrocities in Belgium and in Ser
bia were doubtless part and parcel
with the Imperial Government’s pur
pose to terrorize small nations into
abject submission for generations to
come. But in this autocracy has been
blind. For its record in those coun
tries, and in Poland and in northern
France, has given not only to the al
lies but to liberal peoples throughout
the world the conviction that this men
ace to human liberties must be utterly
shorn of its power for harm.
“For the evil it has effected ha*
ranged far out of Europe—out upon
the open seas, where its submarines
in defiance of law and the concepts of
humanity have blown up neutral ves
sels and covered the waves with the
dead and the dying, men and women
and children alike. Its agents have
conspired against the peace of neutral
nations everywhere, sowing the seeds
of dissension, ceaselessly endeavoring
by tortuous methods of deceit, of brib
ery, false promises, and intimidation,
to stir up brother nations one against
the other, in order that the liberal
world might not be able to unite, in
order that the autocracy might emerge
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from the war.
“All this we know from our own ex
perience with the Imperial Govern
ment. As they have dealt with Eu
rope, so have they dealt with us and
with all mankind. And so out of these
years the conviction has grown that
until the German Nation is divested
of such, democracy can not be safe.”!
Not Hostile to German People
One thought which you should keep
always in mind is the clear distinction
between our attitude toward the Im
eripal German Government and our
attitude toward the German people.
The President said in his speech of
June 14. 1917:
“We are not the enemies of the Ger
man people and they are not our ene
mies. They did not originate or de
sire this hideous war or wish that we
should be drawn into it; and we are
vaguely conscious that we are fight
ing their cause, as they will some day
see it, as well as our own. They are
themselves in the grip of the same
U-BOAT CRIMES
TOLD BY I-ROST
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a distant wave, and found a life buoy
clasped by a drowned woman’s hand,
and on the hand a superb diamond.
Chattily Scenes in Croat Morgue
I saw the ghastly procession of res
cue vessels as they landed the living
and the dead that night under the flar
ing gas torches along the Queenstown
waterfront. Coat after boat came up
out of the darkness, discharging
bruised and shuddering women, maim-,
ed and half-naked men, and a feW|
wide-eyed little children whose inno-j
cent minds were wrestling blankly'
with this strange new manifestation
of life. Frenzied women begged mo
for their husbands; and men with piti
able choking efforts at matter-of-fact
ness went ceaselessly from group to
group looking for their little daugh
ters, their brothers, and in some cases
for their American brides! Piles of
corpses, like cordwood, grew higher
and higher among the coils of rope
and ship’s stores on the dark old
quays. Every voice in that great mix
ed throng spoke in instinctive under
tones, varied only here and there by
a painful coughing fit or a smothered
burst of sobbing.
The incidents next morning in the
three improvised morgues were even
more poignant, as the police and the
searching relatives moved carefully
among the mute corpses. I saw a
woman recognize a dead sister, with
two drowned babies clasped *o the
cold bosom that had so recently been|
their warm nestling place. I looked
into the dead face of Charles Froli
man, after he had gone away into
that “last great adventure” of his.
The supernal tranquility of all those*
quiet faces will never fade from my
inner eye. Peacefulness was the ex-|
pression; and yet tempered with a|
good-naturedly puzzled and aggrieved
look, as though some friend had play
ed a rude joke that they did not yet
understand.
During the next fortnight Queens
town lived in a nightmare. Crown
men and women staggered in and out
of my office, literally insane from
grief, and every hour brought to light
some fresh phase of tragedy and woe,
until mind and heart refused longer
to register the redundant aw fulness.
I visited the additional groups of
corpses as they came in from day to I
day. The rigor mortis soon relaxed
into inebriate flabbiness, and the livid
features grew preposterously repul
sive. Later on the lips and noses were
eaten off by sea birds, and the eyes
were gouged out into staring pools of
blood. Still later the flesh was wholly
gone from the grinning skulls, while
from the bloated trunks there pro
jected limbs partially chewed otf, or
bitten clean off, by Ashes, into stumps
of jagged bone.
Germans Play lake Cat With Mouse
Hut you will not catch the full in
famy of this Gorman practice of de
serting open boats until you hear that
in countless instances the submarines
refused (and that with base mockery)
the pleas of these lifeboats for tow
LIGHT A PI
THE TRENCHES HAPPY!
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The English Tommies have their pipes tilled by their
folks at home; the French Poilus never want for a smoke,:
their folks are on the job; the Anzanc have all the tobacco
they can use sent them by their loved ones; and now the
time has come for the Americans to send little packages!
of happiness to their boys in the trenches and on the fleet.!
Twentv-five cents sent to The Gateway sends a big
package of tobacco to a boy in France; one dollar will keep
him smoking for a month. Send your 25 cents now. Dive
into your pocket and bring out a quarter and mail it at j
once. Secretary of War Newton I). Baker says: “The
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War Department approves of the enterprise of those who
take part in raising the tobacco fund and thanks them in;
behalf of many a homesick soldier and sailor who will be
cheered not merely by the kindly gifts themselves, but by
the spii’it of cordial and homely sympathy which inspires
them.”
It has been arranged to have the soldier who receives!
your gift of tobacco send you a return postcard telling!
you what it means to have all he wants to smoke out there.
Let us show the country that the citizens never fail to re
spond to an appeal of this sort. Send your quarter to The;
Gateway.
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age. After destroying a Belgian re
lief ship, for example, the submarine
savagely denied a prayer for towage
which it could have given with ease
and safety and as a result a ship’s
officer died from exposure. In only
one of my cases did the Germans tow
lifeboats toward land and then they
submerged without warning, leaving
the lifeboats to cut their tow rope in
the nick of time to escape being drawn
down into the depths!
Now, before taking up the passen
ger eases, let me say that 1 do not
for a moment deny that the subma-•
rine will have a permanent place in
the armaments of all nations; but!
what 1 do say, and what I hope I am j
proving to you, is that in the hands j
of white men it will he far less abom
inable than the Huns have made it.
Ho von think that an American sub-j
marine will ever rake with shell fire
a helpless boat that has surrendered
and sought mercy? Can you believe
that our U-boats will ever torpedo
without warning an unarmed vessel
which they could easily give time to
got its lifeboats out? Will \ankee
sailors ever deliberately follow a ship
until nightfall to enhance the awful
ness of its destruction? Can you
imagine white men denying with jeers
to tow toward land tiny boats adrift
alone, hundreds of miles out at sea?
Now I have been telling you these
revolting things not idly, but because
it is my earnest conviction that you
have a right to have them brought
vividly and unforgettably to your at
tention. The American flag today is
streaming from our warships on those
horror-sick waters, and it is you who
must maintain it there and see that
it shall eventually brighten into tri
umph. Thus when I have placed the
facts of this Satan’s carnival before
your minds my own task is done. It
is for you to turn them over in pains
taking meditation, and to draw con
clusions, and to govern your actions
by your conclusions. Let me only in
sist over again that the Germans not
only are doing a horrible thing—all
war is horrible and certain horrors
will always be inherent in submarine
warfare, just as they are in artilllery
work—but they are doing it in a gra
tuitously horrible manner and spirit,
wilfully rejecting measures that could
mitigate, and wilfully adding those
that accentuate its frightfulness.
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sinister power that has now at last j
stretched its ugly talons out and,
drawn blood from us.”
Every American soldier in this war •
fights for objects dearer to all of us|
than life itself—for freedom and de-j
mocracy, for the safety of our own
homes and families, for the honor of
our country. You will think often ot 1
these objects during your period of;
training and after you actually enter
the trenches. The more you think
about them, the greater will be your
pride that you are one of those first
chosen to defend them.
“The world must be made safe for
democracy.”
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