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"OLD GLORY"
CV America For Americans
WELL, ARE VOl".'
Are you a civic mendicant, re•
eelvtag the unequaled benefits 01
America. citizenship without giv
ta^ anything but the taxes forced
frosa you? Are you a civic whiner
always complaining about the w.n
"they"5 who govern you do things
despite the fact that "they"
really you?
Are you a civic coward, afraid
of losing worthless friends-, or o:
"Interfering with, business," if yon
call attention to inadequate schoo
administration, or in the s-treei
cleaning, or in some other portior
of the public service?
Are you a civic sneak, trying tc
<veld just taxation by evasion 01
downright dishonesty, and thus put
*.'ng udoii your neighbor part oi
the burden^hich is yours? Are you
a clrlc waster, considering that tht
water supply, the food at-.d fue
you buy, the service of collecting
garabge and refuse, the city's
fiarks, and in general the communi
ty service for which you pay 01
do not My, is to be used less care
fully than if it was not related tc
the present needs o* the fighting
world? - j£!f_
Are you a civic "uglifier"—to us<
Dr. Eliot's good word—who throws
refuse into the streets, who fails
to keep his home premises pleas
ant in the eyes of hia neighbors'
Do you, in your ousiness, spread
the Tirus of civic smallpox thri:
either using or permitting th«
Placing of the advertising sign:
which, assault the eyes of your de
fense^ neighbor?
Determine the status of your citi
eeushrD. JBy searching self-inquirj
find out whether you are a nega.
tlve, and therefore half bad. citi
ten; whether you are » r,elfish and
destructive citizen, pulilng down
what others are endeavoring to buil
up; or whether you are truly a
constructive citizen, jealous foi
the quality and the honor of the
goyernme:>t of wnich you are •'
t>art.—J. Horace McFarland, in the
New York Independent.
RESPONSIBILITY MH. W ILSON'S
Wfcat refuge remains to the of
ficial whose •work is criticized?
Onlv thfl higher responsibility of
his »upeiror. If lie is not doing
hia wor.k how is it that he is re
tained Ju his position? And thus
the collective impact of all criticism
si our war preparations, as of
sur military and political strategy,
ionyerges upon the center of ulti
mate responsibility, the president.
Th0 president is ultimately re
iponsible for our conduct of the
«"ar. II *9 arrive too late or with
orcea Inadequately trained or
•quipped .the blame for our defeat
▼111 fill upon the president. Nor
Loes b.» responsibility end here,
tfore »nd more. Frenchman and
5ngliBhmen, Russians and Italians,
u?o-Sla%. and Checo-Slayoks, are
^aertlair that the outcome of the
r*r w 11 be determined by Ameri
ca *«tloa. IX the war ends be
DRAFTING AN ARMY
Conscription Had Its Origin In
France In 1799.
THEN SPREAD OVER EUROPE.
The Terrible Fowor It Placed In Napo
leon's Hands Forced the Other Na
tions to Adopt the System—Its Intro
duction Into Tins Country.
Conscription originated In France In
17US. At that time the country had
Just pas:-td through tlie lon^ and
bloody war oi' t!:j French revolution,
which the uiouaivhs of Europe had
handed together to i rush. Frauce, un
der Napoleon, hut! come forth victori
ous. but her aioiy was exhausted, and
it was evident that some new system
jf recruiting would be ne> essary. as
volunteer enlistment uo lu.iger sutiiced.
It whs then that lieueral Jourdau
brought forth and passed the law es
tablishing < ons. riptiou. Since then It
has been the basis of ull French mill
tary legislation and. to a certain ei
tent. of that of all other countries.
It was throu.uU the terrible power of
conscription that Napoleon was enabled
to carry on tho iUMiu.lc wars which
churmteiized Ills rei^n and by means
of it, after losing in the snows of It us
sla the largest army thut up till that
time had ever been put into tho field,
to reappear u few months later with
auother aruiy nli!io>i as inrce.
Out of necessity the other nations
were forced to follow France's exam
ple. and conscription became general.
Under the French regime every citi
zen between the ages of twenty and
twenty-five was liable to service for
five years. 1'ru-sia. however, still fur
ther developed the powers of conscrip
tion by reilu- liijr the period of service
In the runks and passing her soldiers
as soott a- they were suilicieutly iru'u
ed into a i. serve Ktcc, thJa by de
crees tralii.i; ; Let* v. hole population.
This latt: r system, which was con
sidered ih i • i f the most farreaehlng
and Important < visits if the last cen
tury. owed its <>ii^i:i to the conditions
Imposed on 1'iuss.ia by Napoleon at the
treaty of Tilsit, whereby i'russia was
restricted t'.a >t..!.d: .g aruiy of 43,UK)
men. She lie. i to the letter of the law
by maintaining her army at the pre
scribed number. b«it l..-r trained citizen
reserve force w:i< llrdted only by the
population of t!ie country.
The military history of the United
States is as icmar.a >> its the rise and
rapid growth of the nation itself. In
as fixed by a:i act of congress,
the rank and file i f our army amount
ed t > l.-W men. and In lSi-j an English
expedition with only 3.50<> men was
able to seize and burn Washington.
Cous iipiiou I'irst made Its appear
aii' e here at the time of the war be
tween tile states. At the beglnuillg of
the war in lS'jl our whole regular force
was but 11.<»:»;»t'.eu. At first the north
ern army was increased by volunteer
enlistment, but the unexpected pro
longutlon of the war proved this nieth
od too slow to replenish the waste of
the armies, and in 1S03 the govern
ment lesoited t > a draft.
The fit>t attempt to carry It out met
with forcible tv^i ,u:ue and led to a
serious rb't la tli.1 city of New York,
which lasted for several days. All op
position. however, was put down and
the draft executed with all possible
forlHNirame and JustLe. Kxemptioni
and substitute pun irises were so free
ly given In the north that the draft had
little ellect except as a stimulus to
-he states In bringing to full strength
their cjuot.'-i of volunteers by voting
bounties.
In the sot'th. however, conscription
was sweeping from tlie first, and to
ward the e:ul of the war it became
omnivorous. Every man between the
ages of seventeen and fifty-flve was le
gally liable to set'vit e. the only excuse
being physical in apjxity.
The total number of men called un
tier arms by the government of the
("lilted States between April, 1801, auil
April. l^iki. amounted to more than
nearly half of this numbei
f>« iit-r raisid by cons- riptlon. If to this
we add the l.lo M«0 u:en from the
southern states the total armed force
of the country tit that time amounted
t > almost 4,iw>u. drawn from a pop
iv't!• >n of only 3-.i> o.JfiO.—Philadelphia
r.Hil L-'cr.
fore tl • objects that history will
pronouuce attainable have been at
I tained, tie blajne will rest with Am
erica ami its president. If the
war is prolonged for the sake of ob
jects thai are not attainable, or
if attained, impossible of retention
through the readjustment following
the peace, the blame will rest equal
ly wi'b America and President Wil
son.
So ether living man carries a
| weight o? responsibility to compare
with f .: ' t borne by our president. A
I kaiser may shift the responsibility
fo his chai»cellor. A chancellor, ob
serving ominous portents in the
spies, may retire, thus shifting
parr of the odium of disaster upon
'fi. successor, who may in turn re
11ire in time to escape a Bhare of
' the loss. Just so the underwriters
•of a V-> overdue may avoid part of
the loss *hrough reinsurance. All
I European statesmen can reinsure,
• but nos President Wilson. He can
lay down his responsibilities only
(with, the expiring of his term of
office, T\hen the war no deubt will
be oY?r. —From the New Republic.
toftS. RUSSELL SAGE
I
| Mrs. Russell Sage recently celebrat
| ed her eighty-ninth birthday In a quiet
manner. Advancing age has greatly
I enfeebled her, but her health is as
I good as oould be expected in one of
her age. 1
i
ORDEAL OF GRAMMAR.
How It Cams to Be Inflicted Upon an
Unoffending Public.
The world reached Its highest known
stage of intelligence before crura 111:1 r
was even invented, much less studied.
I have ImU some curiosity to find out
where and how so great a blight upon
young life first cauie into being and
why it e\ er became a school study,
and I find that the Greeks knew it
not; that their triumphant literature
and their matchless oratory came to
flower before grammar was dreamed
of; that it was not in any sense one
of the great arts which tlie.v wrought
out and with which they armed the
i human race.
I flud that after Greece had declined
i a barbarous Macedonian made himself
the owner of all Egypt, and in order to
surround himself with the most spec
tacular form of ostentation of which
his vain mind could conceive he set to
collecting not only ail the rare and
precious objects and books and manu
scripts there were in the world, but he
capped it all by making a collection of
the living men of tile world who had
any reputation anywhere for knowing
and thinking. Taking them frum their
homes where they hat! some relation
to the daily necessities of human be
ings and had really been of some use,
he shut them up for life in Hie of his
palaces at Alexandria, which the folks
there were in the habit of calling "the
hencoop of the miues." and out of
I sheer desperation, since they could du
nothing better to nun., e <heuiselves,
I they counted the w,!.i the books
| which real men bad written and pre
j pared tables of tin* f ;m ami endings
which the t1 "is <>f words employed.
The lifeless drers of books which
their distilling letr we now call gram
mar and study in.«tc.id •>. book* and
even speech itself. In their lowest
depth of iruliU'etei'.ce to the moving,
pulsing life of man n t even the Alex
audrians .s:t:i!: s'> low as that. Eruesl
C. Moore in Vale ltevievv.
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When past middle age, there fre
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Weak kidneys often bring constani
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