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NOT ONE TRAGEDY, BUT MANY.
Commenting on the failure of the Allies in dealing
with the Russians, the New York World says that all the
diplomatic blunders that were made were natural blun
ders. “They all proceeded," it continues, “from the as
sumption that the Russian people appreciated the value
of the new freedom that they had won, and were prepared
to defend it as the French had defended their freedom af
ter the old Bom bon autocracy was cast out. But the Rus
sians " ere not Frenchmen. They had plenty of ideals,
bui they did not know what was practicable and what was
impracticable. They had no way of drawing a line be
tween the possible and impossible.
“In the great crisis they had no capacity for action.
There was no important middle class to stabilize society.
There were no leaders except the Bolsheviki who could
lead, and they led apparently by virtue of their social, po
litical and economic insanity, which appealed irresistibly
to the Russian temperament."
The Allies assumed that, whatever happened, the Rus
sians had at least enough sense to pursue their own best
interests, and that as those interests coincided in the main
with the war aims of the Allies, the situation would work
itself out. But as events proved, the Russians had no
sense of their own best interests, and so the Bolsheviki
proved to be the best tools that German militarism could
have found for the crucifixion of a nation.
Whatever mistakes Allied diplomacy may have made,
it is possihlt that the revolution could have had no other
result until the Russian people learned through bitter ex
perience that liberty implies duties and obligations as well
as rights and privileges, and that popular government, as
Elihu Root once said, is organized self-control. Russia is
not one tragedy, but many tragedies. If the Russian peo
ple, says the World, in the light of their recent calamity,
are beginning to understand that they have been betrayed
by the Bolsheviki as shamelessly as they were ever betray
ed bv their autocrats, thev have mastered the first lesson
in political freedom.
The history of Russia, which has been made within
the past two weeks will tend to decrease the power for evil
which the Emma Goldmans, male and female, have exert
ed in the United States.
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Germany’s war debt has mounted to 124,000,000,000
marks, and unless we win the war we shall have to pay
that debt and whatever other indemnity the Prussian mili
larv autocracy imposes.
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According to the opinion of his physicians, Roosevelt
will be deaf in one ear. Still, we imagine he will be able
to hear the call in 1920 if it should come.
- Whatever Japan is intending to do, she is keeping it
to herself. There would be no point in advertising it at
Rerlin.
The British army is now camped on the banks of the
•iver Jordan, which, a friend suggests, is what we used to
mean wrhen we sang “Over There.”
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The Bolsheviki wanted peace at any price. Well, they j
paid the price, but what did they get?
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Additional appropriation of $450,000,000 for airplanes
has a business ring that the country will approve. i
COWBOY CORPS
NICKNAME FOR
U.S. AVIATORS
ROME, March 21 — “Hying Cow
boys” is the popular title given here,
to Uncle Sam’s first fighting corps in
Italy. The American aviators* officers
and students located at a training
camp in southern Italy aie frequent
visitors in Rome and as they all wear
the United States Army’s set vice hat,
oopularly known heie at the “cowboy”
hat the word cowboq has been applied
to them.
That these aviators are regarded as
cowboys was illustrated, by an incident
with a cab driver that occurred when
a party of them w'ere on leave in
Rome and went outside the city walls
to sec the Catacombs of St. Calixtrs
on the Appian Way. When the avia
tors got out of the cab near the en
trance to the burial place of the caily
Christians, they asked the cab driver
to wait, so he could drive them back
to the city.
*l>ut my horse can’t stand the trip
hack with such n heavy load,” he c*
plained. “It’s war time and we have
n’t corn or wheat to feed him, so he’s
too weak. I’ve got a family to sup
port and I must take good care of
this horse. You cowboys ought to un-;
derstand how it is.”
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‘Very well, well buy you* horse,;
won’t we, fellows,” spoke up one of !
kthe aviators who bad just been paid
loflf. “If he’s still alive when we get
fback to town we will sell him back to
’ you.”
| While the proposition was made in
Vail seriousness the driver, thinking he
iwas about to be made the victim of!
Lome \v::d west trick, arbuptly refus- j
[ ed and drove off with his plug, leav- j
ip. *r,o “cowboys” to walk back.
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JOFFRE WITH FRENCH ARMV
REDUCED IN THE RANKS|
PARIS, March 21. — A recent reg
imental order has disclosed the ex
istence of another soldier in the
French army who bears the honored
name of Joffre. In this order, the
lieutenant colonel of an infantry regi
! ment states that the request of Cor
poral Joffre to be allowed to resign
j his corporal’s stripe “through unfit
! ness to command,” is granted, and the
corporal is reduced to being again a
private, with the duties of a horse
shoer. •
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NOTICE TO DELPt^UENT CO
OWNERS
lo GEORGE R. KING and DAVE
BAUMAN, and to their, and each
of their heirs and assigns;
You, and each of you, are hereby
notified that during the years ending
December 31, 1909, 1*10, 1911, 1912,
1913, 1914, 1915, 1910, and 1917, the
undersigned has expended more than
One Hundred Dollars in each of saiu
years, or a total of $900.00, in laboi
and impiovements upon the Social
Group sulphur placer mining claim,
situate on Makuskan Mountain, Una
laska mining district, district of Alas
ka, in which mining location you, thi
said George R. King claim an undiv
ided one-eighth (1-8) interest, and
you, the said Dave Bauman claim an
undivided one sixteenth (1-16) inter
est, as shown by notice of location
thereof and deeds of conveyance ol
said interest of record in the record
ing office of the aforesaid mining dis
trict. The said labor was performed
as and for the representation of said
claim for the years as aforesaid, as
required by the laws of the United
States and district of Alaska concern
ing annual labor upon mining claims
and the same was the amount requir
ed to hold said claim for said years.
The amount required for each of said
years being the sum of One Hun
dred Dollars ($100.00).
You are further notified that un
less within ninety (90) days after the
last publication of this notice you
contribute your proportionate share
of said expenditures, as such co-own
ers, to wit; You, the said George R.
King, the sum of $112.50, being your
proportionate share of said represen
tation for the years ending as afore
said; and you, the said Dave Bau
man, the sum of $56.25, being youi
proportionate share of said i©presen
tation for the years ending as afore
said, your interest in said claim will
be forfeited to the undersigned eo
owner, who has made such expendi
tures and will become his property in
the manner provided by law.
Dated at Seattle, Washington, this
fifteenth day of December, 1917.
FRANK MEERWALPT
Co-Owner.
Date of publication Dee. 24th, 1917 to
March 25, 1918.
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