South Bend News-Times, Volume 35, Number 63, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 4 March 1918 — Page 6
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MARCH 4. 1918.
POTSDAM'S AMERICAN COUSINS. Our American militarist.-, as if tuuins ly political marriage to tin plotters of Potsdam, continue their plotting anticipating tho congressional elections next fall. Anything to discredit the war administration at Washington, out of which to corral another dissatisfied voter; anything anti-American if need be, or pro-German if it must be. Hotter to break down every American ideal, and prolong the war, if necessary for year-, than miss a partisan advantupe, even though the bais of it le of whole cloth, appears the minister motive behind their propaganda. As we have before rem irked; no, indeed, it need not be of the -in ado in Germany" variety. American politicians and American journalists are entirely capable, with their eye fixed on partisan advantage, to cooperate with the Derlin article and quite without Jlerlln's cooperation in return; and thus, knifing the president, by Indirection, of course, through knifin; his war administration appointees, goes merrily on. Here is one that might almost have come from tho plotters of Potsdam, however, finite direct; "All amies In the world have the death penalty for desertion, but ee'y Haker has fhown his pacifist inclination and his unfitness us a military leader by netting it aside in this country. Humanltarianism Is good for speech mnking but poor for making armies. Watch the number of desertions grow." I'.wt. no, think you, it Isn't taken from George Sylvester Vierick's American Weekly, formerly the "Fatherland." Were he to rtter such stuff we would accuse him of advocating here in America, the Prussian mould of militarism, without any of "humanItarianlMii" in it, except .such of the insincere typo that pours forth from the mouths of the von Hindenfxz.. von Ileftling, and the von Tripitze. This if you please, is of the exceeding "patriotic" brilliance that shines forth six times a week from over at 12S N. Main st., and ll'J-l-LT. in Center alley, next to Tony ISarrett's Owl saloon. Get tho motive; anything to discredit Sec'y Daker, and by Indirection take a sneaking coward's stab at 1'res't Wilson author of rkc'y Daker's appointment. The militarist cf course dispises him for his "pacifist inclinations," so-called, but have you ever noticed that in this war It Is the men who believe in peace who are doing the work, and rue getting ready to fight for that reace instead of the ranting, roaring, bellowing militarists, v. year or two ago so athirst for gore, but who now make it their principal occupation to find fault. Sec'y Haker set :isid- the death penalty for disevtion, d't? he? Xo, he suspended the penalty Just as Abraham Lincoln did in thousands of cases during the Civil war; in fact, practically all cases or rather commuted them to imprisonment in a federal prison, taking each case on its own merits; exactly what b'ec'y IJakcr has done. Proof of his 'unfitness as a military leader," is it? Then Lincoln was unfit and George Washington was unlit. The assertion of our contemporary is as of th3 diseased brain of a Potsdam junker, the military system of which it would seemingly transport, and fasten upon everyone save its own attaches. "Humanltarianism is good for speech-making but poor for making armies," is it? splendid sentiment to inoculate th-3 brair.s of American fathers and mothers with; that there should be n humanit irianism in our army life, and in .-ubstance, that our fight in this war under the claim of humanity is merely a "speeehmaking" .umi:t!ace. Nothing could be better faiOuIattd to make "pacifists" of American:, and "naclfists" of th- most dis-
picaMo sort; the sort that ! for "peace at any price" rather than tho Paker calibre that is for "peace at any tost" even the ct of war. Our cont-mporat V ncd not worry about the prospective increase of disunions. Fven if there should be a few. they would be im wors-e than a lot of "slackers" running at larre; "slickers" through being "clackers" for whom Oiir contemporary N a real, modern, up-to-date incubato. Amerua ntered this war as a pacifist nation, if yo i vi-h to call it that. It kept out as long as it could, hoping auainst hope, perhaps, but hoping. When all hope faib-d. and it became necessary to take up the sword, it was j.nt to collect indemnities, or to court annexation.-, but to enforce peace, and a lasting peac-? in the name of humanity, not only as a "speechmaking" pastime, but. if o:i please, as an established fact through a world made safe for democracy. st asid tb":e prinrinbs: eliminate humanitarian-i-m from this war. and thrt determination to securo for humanity that measure of self-government, that will render !ts repetition nnposjd'de, and there r.f thir.g left for America to !':ght for. You might as weil lie down and 1 t the kaiser have his way. The like of Prussian mllitati-m ss about all that is bft when huuianita ria nim and democracy loe out. w hether by s-lf-elirnination or by force. and jo'i might perhaps, as well have it under a kaiser as un ! r a Poosvelt.
military use a large nurnber of ships now engaged la unnecessary commercial tervlce. Ar.1 Incidentally we can develop valuable mineral rekource yet untouched, and go far toward completing-the economic Independence of the United States. The Idea is to produce all our own "war minerals" instead of importing them. Sec'y Lane insists that it can be done. We are now getting from various part of the world 2.000. Ü0O tons a year of nitrate, pyrtte. manganese, graphite, tin, mercury, potah, tungsten, antimony, chromite, etc.. used in manufacturing explosives and other war materials. It takes shlpj to bring them, and it takes ships t carry the fuel and supplies we must take to the mines that produce thcpi, and to carry the producta we muu export in exchange for them. And many of those ship are lost. The voyages are long, and the unloading imposes an added burden on our congested ports. "American mines can produce all of these min
erals. ' says the Hcretary, "providing they are given the necessary assistance by the federal government." He has asked congress to make a special appropriation so that a large force of metallurgists can be set to work immediately on the changes that must be made to reduce our low-grade ores, so that geologists may obtain and test ore samples, and so that engineers can proceed with the development of mines. He wants to apply to the problem immediately the most expert talent In America, and tap these latent resources with-, out delay. There should be no hesitation in voting money for such a purpose. It is equally desirable for war and peace.
THE MELTING POT "Come Take Pot Luck With Us"
Tin: iiAHiviNc; ixg. Ily Arthur II rooks Uakcr. it's freely stated that the dog whoe unpacHllc note is frequently ejected from his highly heated throat, who springs the strongest canine words for what he has to Fay", whose bellicose belligerence predominates hl bay, is oftenest the one who makes extremely rapid flight when fronted by an animal whose purpose is to fight. The gentleman 'who tells you th.it he's not a bit afraid, who entertains his hearers with pugnacious vrasconade, who brags about the enemy whose vitals he has bored by skilled manipulation of his sharp and shining sword, is not by any certainty the one who rirst appears In answer to Iii country's call for cheerful volunteers. Put rules are not infallibly in absolute effect. When you approach the barking dog, be duly circumspect; and when you're dealing with a vaunting member of the class whose talents seem to specialize exclusively In gas. It's well to keep the nearest door conventiently agape, through which in an emergency it's easy to escape.
FINISHING THE JOB. Joshua Hutterworth of Newcastle, Kng., bccretary of the Pritlsh .Shipwrights association, and himself ; shipwright, is in this country as a representative of Pritlsh labor. And he is delivering this message to American workers; "We were not ready for this war, and didn't believe it was coming. o at first we had to put our sons up to stop with flesh and bones the steel machinery of the I inns. Put we have the tools now, and we are going to finish the job. We want no peace which will leave the slightest chance for this bloody murder to be let loose again." We Americans have been saved from the first great sacrifice. We have not had to check the rush of the Hun's war machine with the unprotected flesh and bones of our young men. The French and British and Belgians did that for us. We start now, even with our veteran allies, ready to fight steel with steel as they are doing. It has been u frenzied scramble to get our "tools" ready, but we are rapidly assembling them, and will soon be equipped for the struggle. And our motto is that of the Pritlsh workJngmen: "We have the tools, and are going to finish the job." - THE OLD RELIABLES. The workers In any causo may be divided into three cla.-ses. There are the First Enthusiasts, who are seized by the wave, sport gaily on top of the Hood but soon become waterlogged and sink to the bottom. There are the Hardly Persuaded, who cling to the shores of tradition and if they yield to the stream a, all. drag anchor all the time, in fear lest they be carried away.
Lastly there are those steady craft, the Old Reliables, i
whose course is a calm, midstream one. disturbed neither by wild enthusiasm nor hampered by old tradition. These are the ones that carry the freight to its destination. Now, when the real strain of the war is upon the land, the first days of extreme enthusiasm are over, and all the old traditions are shaking. This is the tim9 for every' man and woman to become one of the Old Reliables, whose steadly holding to the course means the final delivery of the goods.
The Marcels of Haloes, Rainbows and Mock Suns
lly Garrett P. Scrvis.
One Sunday night, recently, about 12 o'clock. I remarked how beautiful and clear the moon wa. A fewminutes later, going to the window again, I wa surprised to see a white ring around the moon, such as we see before a etorm, and outside of that ring a perfect circle of a rainbow, the colors appearing very distinctly. Is this unusual, and what is Its significance? Mrs. J. J. M. What you saw was a very beautiful lunar halo, a phenomenon rarely exhibited with so much perfection. Although the colors were those of the rainbow, yet it w" not a rainbow, and did the sky opposite to the moon i. e., rainbows are produced. 1 you had taken notice of the arraongement of the t.r'smatic colors in the circle you would have seen that the red was inside, whereas in -the rainbow the red is outside. True lunar rainbows do occasionally appear, but. like rainbows formed by the sun they are only visible in the part of the sky opposite to the moon, i. e., the spectator back must be toward the moon (or the sun.) Their colors are the same aj those of solar rainbows because moonlight is nothing but reflected sunlight, but they are comparatively faint, because the intensity of moonlight is so much less than that of direct sunlight.
ALCOHOLIC HONESTY. A Stamford, Conn., man who was sent to jail for six months for shouting "To hell with the Flag!" pleaded that he was drunk when he did It. That's poor excuse. As the old Latin motto says, "In vino Veritas," in wine Is truth. There's a sort of honesty in alcohol. Tho patriot shouts for Old Glory all the more zealously when he gets a few drinks into his system. The traitor gives himself away. If the whole population of any community were ro reckless as to come under alcoholic influence at once, it would be fairly easy to part the sheep from the goats.
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OUR OWN WAR MINERALS. A i-hip huvtd is i bip built, s-o'y of the Interior Lane has a plan whereby, he savs. we can turn to
PROPPING CANDID 1UIMARKS. (Saginaw .News.) When men unaccustomed to being questioned are confronted by a congressional inquiry the result is often edifying and remarks are occasionally dropped which are not only notable for their candor but which have historical promise. There was that never to be forgotten coal magnate who last year achieved fame with his admission, "well, we am only human." and now comes George Paldwin of the Hog Island crowd. George was asked by Sen. Hiram Johnson how much of patriotism there was in the American International Shipbuilding corporation's six millions of profits in building ships for I'ncle Sam. and replied: "You can't feed a corporation on patriotism." This is just a trifle mote candid and decidedly more explicit than those general remarks heard so often as to "soulless corporations." etc. Mr. Paldwin evidently knows his corporation and the idea of feeding it on patriotism probably druck him as the nearest equivalent to extracting bread from a stone he is acquainted with. Congressional investigations certainly have their values, after all. No such admission might be looked for in a thousand years from Mr. Paldwin, excepting under cross are of such questioning as he was submitted to at Washington. However. Washington seems about to give birtfi to a corporation of a different kind one not only to be fed on. but conceived in patriotism. This is the war finance corporation, the bill to further which has been favorably reported by the senate committee, and of which it is saitl no more important measure has been presented to congress sine-1 we entered the war. It is a financial measure of supreme importance, affecting the entire industrial and bankinc business of the country, as well as the nation's currency. It places extraordinary rowers of credit in the hand of the war corporation, which is to Le provided with a capital of J 4." fu . f": " . ; on ; an.l while its loans are restricted to railroads, utilities or industries necessary t: war work: Its ramification must he such as to affect the entire financial sv stern. With the president will rest the responsibility of appointing the directorate of th'.s corporation, subject to confirmation by the senate. As a matter of fact it is to be a national corporation, and it is to 'e fervently hop.1 its methods of doing b.isiness will be such as to change the viewpoint of gentlemen who believe that "you can't feed a corporation on patriotism."
A rainbow never shows a complete circle, but at the most only a semi-circle, unless the observer happens to be at a great elevation, as in a balloon, when more than half a circle can be seen, but never an entire one. Halos and rainbows also differ in the size of the circles or semi-circles, that they exhibit The radius of a ralo is about 22 degrees, and that of a rainbow about 42 degrees. Other arches and circles are sometimes seen outside of both the rainbow and the halo, but the radii given are for the principal, or primary, phenomena. Another fundamental difference between a rainbow and a halo is that the cause of the former is a combination of the effects of refraction and rellection of light In a mass of falling rain drops, situated In the opposite part of the sky from the sun or the moon, while a halo is caused simply by refraction of light passing through a mass of floating ice crystals in the same quarter of the sky where the sun or the moon is. In order to have a halo it is only necessary that the light should be turned out of its course (refracted) at a certain angular distance (about 22 degrees, or 46 degrees for a secondary halo) from the luminous body by prismatic particles of ice in the upper air, which, while turning the light from its original direction and thus bringing it to the observer's eye, at the same time disperse the primary colors into a colored band.
But, to have a rainbow, the light must first enter drops of liquid water falling In a shower and be there refracted, and have its primary colors dispersed by the water, and then be reflected from the inner surface of the drops on the side opposite to the sun. and thus be sent back to the observer's eye. which is situated between the falling drops and the sun. In the reflection from the back of the drops the order of the colors is rever.-ed and the red comes out below, and this causes the upper or outer border of the rainbow to appear red, because if the red ray from a particular drop enters the eye the other colored rays v ill pass above the line of vision, but a violet ray from a lower drop will enter the eye at the same time as the red ray from the upper drop, and thus the bowappears red above and violet below. There Is no similar reversal in the colors formed by the passage of the light through atmospheric ice crystals without reflection, and so in the halo the red is on the Inner and the violet on the outer edge of the circle. Connected with the halo are the amazing appearance? called "mock suns." which sometimes almost equal the ical sun in brightness. There are many other magnificent phenomena as.-ociated with the play of sunlight and moonlight among the floating vapors and crystals of the atmosphere, such as the coronas, or "glorias," that often appear around the sun or the moon when the air is filled with translucent clouds or with extremely minute particles of water vapor. Like the halo, the corona is formed in the immediate neighborhood of and i symmetrically disposed around, the
luminary whose light givea rise to it.
Put an entirely new cause is n operation to produce the corona. It is due to neither refraction nor reflection, but to diffraction, of light. Diflraction is the sprciding of a wave of light into the space behind an obstacle that interrupts its direct passage. The obstacles in the case of the formation of coronas are the opaque particles of vapor, or other substance, floating in the air. . One result of diffraction is the dispersion of the various colors of which white liht is made up. and from this arises the appearance of prismatic hues In the ring of a corona about the sun or the moon. A corona can be at once distinguished from a halo by the fact that its colors are arranged on the plan of those of a rainbow, l. e., the red is at the outer border. In addition to all these, there are the wonderful phenomena of "sunpillars," anthella or aerial spectres Ulloa circles." fog-bow.s, luminous atmospheric crosses, and other strange apparations in the sky.
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Monday, March 1, 19 IS. Ura.nus rules for evil early in the morning, but later Mars is in beneflc aspect. It is a favorable sway for military affairs making for safety and success, except in aviation, which has rather a sinister direction. There is a sign today that indicates treachery and warns against spies, even in the army and affiliated organizations. Under this aspect of Uranus it is held easy to hatch plots and carry them out, so extreme vigilance should be exercised, especially in guarding public buildings. During this month the planets ap pear to forecast much movement on the part of United States troops and it is prophesied that all their experiences will be superlative and extraordinary. Astrologers predict Uief but intense participation in the war. The Pacific coast comes under a rule of the stars that presages internal and external dangers in the various states. In the great northwest peril lurks, the seers declare, through secret machinations of enemies, who may incite lumbermen and others to deeds of violence. There is again the prognostication of strikes and labor troubles. Astrologers foresee perils in political agitation which may have serious results in the autumn. Many changes in Congress are foreshadowed by the planets, owing to sensational incidents and startling events that will mark the coming summer. Increase in interest in spiritism and occultism, so long predicted for the United States, will be very marked after mid-summer, when strange stories will find credence. Persons whose birthdate it is probably will have an active year in business that will prove fairly prosperous, if change is avoided.
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thouuht to th minor troubles of today. of course, you will meet oi'sti.Clfts every one does; all through life no one u free from annoyanc? and bigger disappointments. You envy the happy disposition from which trouble seems to sort of sdip away. You can cultivate the state of mind you so desire lv looking ahead, not backward.
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