South Bend News-Times, Volume 36, Number 43, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 12 February 1919 — Page 8
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FEBRUARY 12, 1919.
THE "RIFLE STRENGTH" THAT WON. Flffun-s rrrcntly mad public by th- war department Kie nfw li'lit on the pro.it battle, lahtinic over several months, which constituted Germany's Waterloo. Thf relativ' power of the two armies during that strupKlf is comput'I in terms of "ritle strength" that in. the number of men on each nide at any time" standing Jn the tn nches arnl ready to ko over the top with tli bayonet. " This rrrkunlnfr, of course, rloea not indicate anywhere near th- total number of troops enRaged. It ignores ever, the active artillery, which played so vital a part. But since, the "ritle strength" is a Rood meaMiro of offensive power, it serves as a dependable index to the proportionate strength of the two sides. We tind, then, that on the firs of last April, just after the Germans had launched their bis offensive intended to take Paris and the channel ports, they had about rifles on the western, front, while the allies had only 1. 245,000. That superiority enabled the Germans to make tremendous pain. It was then that the Macedonian call was sent to Washington, and American plans were changed and troops were rushed to France as fast as the allied navies could carry them. As a result, on July 1 the allies had pained a majority. They had 1.556,000 rifles to the Germans' 1,412,iao. It was that feiiperiority that enabled Koch to take cne initiative the middle of the month, and it was the continued influx of Americans at the rate of 10.000 a day that enabled him to retain it despite the constant attrition of unceasing battles in many sectors at once. Ry Nov. 1 the German rifle strength had dropped to 866,000 while, the allied strength, after the heavy losses of the Argonne, stood at 1,48 5,000. That was five allies to three Germans, with the ration rapidly rising in the allies' favor. Ify the end of November it would undoubtedly have been two to one, or better. It Is plain enough why Germany -started in October moving heaven and earth to end hostilities before the preat catastrophe came, and why on Nov. 11 she sipned with frantic hasto the heavy terms Imposed by Koch. Ict us hope? that these figures are. reprinted in Germany. From the present attitude of the Germans, one might suppose that the battle had stood about even on Nov. 11. and the- Huns had quit lighting as a favor to the allies.
their blunderings. Our reference by way cf comparisons. l to the late Theodore Roosevelt, quite as Mr Samuel D. Pettenglll put it in his address at the Cham
ber of Commerce luncheon Monday, only Mr. Pcttengill might have gone much farther. While Koosevelt would have ruled everybody, particularly the proletariat with j
an Iron hand, Lincolns pitying eyes would have lifted them out of their "slough of despond" in a sympathetic way, leaving the plutocrat more of a minus quantity then than now, to flounder about in his mire as he had made it. And the reason for the distinction Is obvious. Had Mr. Roosevelt's birth been humble, as was that oi Lincoln, that he might feel the Impulses, the sorrows, and the hardships that Lincoln had felt, his impetuous.
Hell Phone 2100. exaggerative, determined nature, would have made of
him an I. W. W. leader, for this we all know that anything that mood in the way of the Roosevelt nature, vsas given no corner, and was asked for none "direct actionlsm" being outside of his category only because of his ease of birth, his education, training, political acumen, and a consequent lack of lowly feeling. Lincoln's was the "simple life;" Roosevelt's the "strenuous life." That Is among the differences, and perhaps more accountable than any other one thing, for all the other differences. And old "Honest Abe," out of that life has shed a radiance that perhaps no other American will ever equal. Pres't Wilson has. been 'held up too in comparison with him, but there is no comparison, particularly in this respect, Wilson beins cool, calculating, a student, and indomitably indepen
dent, waging his wars for humanity yes, but more in a school-masterly fashion, than as a father or brother.
L The present incumbent of the presidential chair,
compares with Lincoln mainly in the enormous responsibilities that have been thrust upon him; in the hardships that ho has undergone; In the amount of sneaking, snarling, insensible, copperhead criticism, that has been his to swallow uncomplainingly; and, in his final determination to go ahead and do the right as he sees it, keeping faith with bis promises, ignoring his critics, quite as Lincoln did, too often to their discomfort.
The Melting Pot OOMEl TAKii POTX.UCX WITH UB
Wherefore ftga in, Roosevelt differs from the emancipator, in that he has been among the most virulent of critics, of a man in so trying a position, instead of being the man. Roosevelt compares better with Sumner. Chase and Stanton in the cabinet, Sumner in the senate, Horace Greely and his New York Tribune, and the men of opposite partisan faith who could see no good whatever in Lincoln's doings. It is splendid of the Roosevelt eulogists to overlook this phase of his last days, in recounting his virtues. He may have been honest, sincere, probably was, but good intentions, coupled with bad judgment have jeopardized many a much needed reform. Accordingly Lincoln will continue to stand alone as a character in American life and history. He was himself. Happily those who have been compared to him here have also lived their own lives; have characters all their own. That is the kind of life to live even though in the spotlight of history, there may be others more admirable. As Col. Robert G. Ingersol once said: "Abe Lincoln came nearer to a reincarnation of the man Christ, reiterating his nature, than any other man that has ever lived, and the dictum still holds good. "He is the only man eince the Christian era," Col. Ingersol continued, "who has ever attained real greatness without abusing it," and perhaps that dictum holJc? good too.
OLD AGE FLIES. Everybody has read of old people who "have never ridden on a railroad, and never intend to," although the species is now nearly extinct. Here i.s an antipodal case. Mrs. Abigail Weare of Saugus, Mas?., is planning to celebrate her 97th birthday by an airplane flight. It is no mere "stunt," either. Mrs. Weare wants to visit her birthplace in northern New Hampshire, and ays it is too long and tedious a journey by railroad. So she has "ordered an airplane. This sort of thing may be commonplace enough before long. There will be a real thrill, though, when some centenarian takes a crosscountry flight on his hundredth birthday. With this venerable old lady to set the precedent, some man ought to tackle it soon. Call the roll of 9a-year-olds for volunteers!
A DEMOCRATIC TAX. Petitions have been circulated in the big New York department stores protesting against the proposed "luxury tax" incorporated in the federal revenue bill, which taxes high-priced commodities of many kinds. According to tr.e protests, the proposed legislation Imposes a direct burden on one class of the consuming public and is, therefore, "contrary to the democratic principles of this republic." Why so? Hasn't it always i)een a good democratic principle to tax republicans?
South Rend, Ind., Feb. 11-1913. Editor South Rend News Times Dear Sir In the Editorial Column of Feb. 9 you refered to the Ar.ti Tobacco peopl as Fanatics naw I dont think these people are Fanatics at all they are just every day Grafters expecting to bleed the Church people out of several Millions of Dollars eery year the same as the Antl Saloon League have been doing so as to pay themselves a big fat Salery without doing any work and control News Papers and Leguslatures. They dont care whether it injures a man to chew or drink it is the easy money They are after. If you would read the Editorial Columns of the South Iiend Papers I think you may have discovered some real Fanatics before this Rut you alnt a good S: ort you would deprive some, people of things that they enjoy but when they want to get your smoke you hollar Fanatics just like all Reformers. Now really dont you think it was time that these Anti clrafters got a real Job and produced something that is required to maintain life instead of living off some else all the time. Yours truly George Mueller 70S W La Salle St. Perhaps it is the youthful appearance of Councilman Maurice Vennet that caused a big policeman to take the member from the Third ward for something he never was and probably never will I e. The police brought in a man at police headquarters Monday night just before the city council met in regular session. The prisoner, who was charged with the unlawful possPüion of liquor, happened to be a Relgian. Councilman Vennet speaks the Relgian language lluently, and he al?o was acquainted with the man under arrest. The man was telling the councilman ali about how he got arrested and everything, the
two conversing in Belgian. One of the officers at the station became restive under the prolonged conversation between the councilman and his companion. The officer stood on one foot nnd then on the other. Finally it became too much for him so he walked up to the councilman, grabbed him by the arm. swung him around and bellowed, "Don't you know that you can't
talk to prisoners th;it away?" Councilman Vennet loosened- his arm from the grasp of the officer, looked at him a moment, wondering what it was all about and then told his friend under arrest goodbye. As the councilman walked up the stairway leading from the police station, the officer who had Interrupted the councilman's conversation turned to Dean Wilhelm, a reporter for The News-Times with a disgusted look on his face. "Did youse ever see anything to
heat the nerve of these reporters. he asked, pointing his thumb at the retreating form of Councilman Ven
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Getting the Most Out of Life
fly JlUhop Samuel Fallows.
From the New York World's frenzy over prohibition, one gathers that the World is equally concerned with the rights of nations to control their own destiny and the right of Individuals to drink beer.
It may be deemed advisable soon to censor all library books from the teetotal viewpoint. It's dreadful to think what will happen to Omar Khayyam and Robert Burns.
The government is planning to use poison gas to exterminate the flu. Well, if it worked with Germans it ought to work with germs.
No Turkey for us, thank you!
LINCOLN, ROOSEVELT AND WILSON. Not only America, but Christendom today, celebrates in mcmorium. the anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, the man who, for humility, simplicity, greatness and strength, has had no peer perhaps, since the son of Nazareth. Abraham Lincoln was president of humanity if there ever was one. We can say this of Lincoln after a hulf century or more, we hope, without being accused of sacrilege, or provoking sneers. The license that one enjoys, and is privileged to employ in eulogizing the dead, is much broader in scope than the license available for the utterance of nice things about a man who still lives, and who continues
to inspire opposition, hatred, and Jealousies, among those who envy his shoes. Lincoln in his day was as much the subject of ridicule. and ranting. almost ravenous denunciation, as other groat men have teen both before and since his time. His humility was hurled in his face as beneath the dignity of his position; his simplicity was put down as a weakness; Sumner, Chase. Stanton, and scores of others ia his own party, claimed all the credit for his great deed" it was enough for them, that they had been consulted. The tower of strength that the emancipator was never became visible until the crash that It caused when h fell the- victim of Booth's bullet. That he really was a "president of humanity" in his tlm?, was tiezed upon by hi" enemies and his critics, as the groundwork for every abus-e, and every belittlenunt, povsMe to lo hurled a'-ain.-t his efforts. How dirTt rent thi man from that other ne, ninth in. the line of mp i ' ."viTi from him as president, whom Am ri r today . K to euU-ci-v. Lincoln was of the poor, stu!il' from the or. and kns the impulses, hcart-u'-ht s. ar.d hard-hip- of th- po r. and despite his hich position attained l hi- :furt, he never forgot the poor and waa a' le to forgive and ferset much of
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T1UZ CENSORSHIP. (Dearborn Independent.) One of the most natural things for a newspaper to do is to take a Hing at censorship. There has been a great deal of it during the war, and some since the armistice was signed. In considering this, one must remember that the primary object of the government at war was to defeat the enemy as thoroughly and quickly as possible with the least possible loss of life to our own forces. It must be remembered, too, that peace has not been concluded yet; that while hostilities have ceased
and there is little likelihood of their being renewed, it
is just as well that Germany should not have too much information about the military plans In France and Belgium. A thorough study into the censorship as practiced by the English at the British front and elsewhere and aP-
( plied, also, to the American army, revealed that cen
sorship was based on four essential points. They are:
Guard information regarding the composition of your troops, the number of your troops, the location of your
troops, the movements of your troops. That is all there was to censorship.
Revelation of such facts often cost lives. There v-as always danger of the information leaking through the
mails. Germany had a great many lines out for getting
such information. The position of a regiment or division could be lo cated by revealing in nome country paper the where
abouts of any membej of that division, and for that
reason governments kept secret the location of even'
member of the division. It was held by the governments, j
that it was much better to add to the safety of a soldier than to give friends the satisfaction of knowing exactly where he was, great as would be that satisfaction and desirable as would be the Information. At times newspapers nagged the government, and occasionally nun in their frailty did not use the best judgment in applying the cenori.hip. but the citizen should bear In mind that the government, military and civil, was made up of men of good hearts and kV?n minds v ho did all they could in every way to ave iives. The gas masks were used when gas endangered soldiers; the censorship was used when information was likely to reach the enemy and endanger them. It is always well to look deeply into the real motives of the government to get the facta before censuring.
I'alluro Comes High. (Chattanooga News.)) A Chicago judge compelled a
woman to fork over the promised
$50 for introduction to a husband
prospect, notwithstanding that, aft
er inspection, she decided that he
wasn't worth it.
SI-3ALL3 OHDIHIS. How vividly I recall my ensa- 1 tions more than fifty years ago, j when, having put my reniment ! aboard their train. I found myself; for the first time in my military ' career a recipient of Fealed orders! j "This envelope," I read, "is not to ;
be opened until the train reaches Milton Junction." Where were we going? In what
part of Dixieland were we expected I to bring up? Which of the con-1 federate armies were we to en-! counter? Right in my hand I had : my orders, but sealed. Right in your own hand, so to j
speak, you have yours, and those, too, are sealed. A baby is born. Sealed orders. A girl is graduated from school. Sealed orders. A boy enters business or a profession. Sealed orders.
A couple are married. Sealed or- I
ders. And fo it goes; sealed orders all along. People sometimes try to break the eal by consulting a fortune teller, but it takes more faith to swallow a fortune teller's prognostications than to trust in the wisdom of sealed orders and leave them sealed. And sealed they remain, at be3t. No fortune teller can open them. It is well that no fortune teller can. Not that we dread to foresee
the sorrows that await us. We do. J
but that is not the point. The point is that we dread to foresee the joys or at all events the wisest of us do. It would take half the thrill out of living. Xot knowing how the play is to end, an audience sits enthralled, but the fun is quite spoiled for the players. They know. They foresee everything, and it Is a wonder that they so rarely fall asleep during the play. Would you have your life made as uninteresting to you as a play is to the players? Most certainly not, and yet how often I have heard people say. "Oh, if we could only see ahead!" Well, suppose they could? There would still be sealed orders. Suppose a truthful fortune teller shou' 1 say to a young man, "You will be happily married to the girl of your choice. You will have three children. You will succeed in your profession and live to a great age-" Even then, love would be a surprise; it so far exceeds all the bliss our poets have credited it with. Married happiness would be a sur-
prise; nonoay nas ever negun to tell how sweet it is. And fatherhood only fathers can guess its delight. As for success and length of days they bring satisfactions incomparably richer and more splendid than those predicted for them. Sealed orders. Leave them sealed. They fill our life with glad surprises. They take us unawares, and test us unexpectedly, and bring out the noblest there is in us. It ia not mournfully that the darkey in the song says, "I don't know where I'm going, but. I'm on my way." It is with joy overflowing. You will call me an optimist, and so I am, but I have lived in this world a very lone: time, and, the older T grow, the more optimistic times are in His hands, who is "too wise to err, too good to be unkind." I am not afraid of sealed order, for I trust my commander-in-chief. And so may you. (Copyright. 1919.)
No. Next to Something. (Columbia State.) The Bolshevik! held up a fashionable dance hall In Berlin and secured a valuable haul. Fashions mint be different there- In this country they would have got next to nothing.
That Steak Asain. (Chattanooga News.) If Mr. Mann enjoyed a $3.50 steak at the hands of the beef trust while the balance of the country was on meatless days, we are not sure that a firing squad is not in order.
Healthier, Anyway. (Chicago News.) Although the former crown prince of Germany is t-aid to be having a dull time in Holland, he doubtless prefers such dullness to the sort of excitement he would find in Berlin.
Strong On It. (New York World.) The story that Villa has embraced holsheviki doctrine does him injustice. Ha was the originator of it on this continent.
tiii: muTT, "I haven't a thing to wear." said Mrs. Oldwed, when her husband invited her to the theatre. "Well." replied the hea triers brute. "Then why don't you get a job In the chorus with the Follies?"
Taking Chance. (New Orleans States.) Girls by the hundreds are marrying the returning marines In spite of the fact that the s!ogan of the Marine Corps is "First to Fight."
Should Listen In. (Detroit News.) Portugal acts as though she had not he;rd what Mr. Wilson said we were fighting to make the world safe for.
No Monotony Hero. (Tlaltimore American.) A woman In Philadelphia mnrried the same man twice and then had him arrested for desertion.
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