WAR TALKS
By UNCLE DAN
Number Three
How War Methsds Have Changed
Ever>body Must Help.
“Hello, Uncle Dan, Jimmie and I
have been waiting for you.”
“Sorry if I have kept you long,” said
Uncle Dan. “Your mother has been
telling me how bashful 1 used to be.
She said if a girl spoke to me I would
blush to my hair roots. Well, I re
minded her of the time your father
first came to see her and the joke we
played on them, so I guess that will
hold her for a while.”
Continuing, Uncle Dan said: “You
want to talk more about the war, do
you? Well, war methods have under
gone many changes and they are still
changing. No two wars are fought
alike. In early times, the weapons wTere
stones, clubs, spears, bows and arrows,
swords, etc. In this kind of warfare,
victory was with the strong right arm.
Men of enormous size anfl strength
were the great warriors. The inven
tion of gunpowder, however, has
changed all this. It has enabled men
to kill one another at a considerable
distance, and do it wholesale. The
war, as we know7 it now, is a combina
tion of chemicals, machinery, mathe
matical calculations and highly trained
men. Just think of it! Airplanes,
submarines, armored tanks, or cater
pillars, poison gases, and curtains of
fire are all used for the first time in
this war; and they are destructive be
yond anything heretofore known.
‘The methods followed by the kai
ser and his allies are simply devilish.
He must answer in history to the kill
ing of thousands of innocent women
and children. He has broken every
international law and every rule of
warfare; he has bombarded hospitals
and undefended cities, sunk Red Cross
ships on errands of mercy; he'fialT de
stroyed cathedrals and priceless treas
ures of art that can never be replaced;
he has made slaves of his prisoners;
he has tried to get us into war with
Japan; his emmissaries have blown up
our ships, burned our factories and
fired our forests. He knows no mercy
or honor. The most charitable view
to take of this blood-thirsty tyrant
is that he is crazy.
“One thing is certain,” continued Un
cle Dan, with great emphasis, “Our
liberty, the safety of our homes and
our country, and the security of the
world demand the speedy and abso
lute overthrow of the kaiser and
crushing out once and forever the
reign of Prussian brutality.”
“How about the German people,”
said Billie.
Uncle Dan replied: “The splendid
German people were happy, thrifty,
prosperous and contented. They have
been tricked into war and made to
suffer the tortures of the damned;
they have been cruelly and systematic
ally deceived. God grant that the real
facts may get to them, and if they do,
Lord help the kaiser!”
“Of course the allies will win,” said
Mrs. Graham.
“Probably so,” said Uncle Dan. “But
if we are to win, we must go the limit.
We must check the awful destruction to
shipping by the German submarines,
or we may not be able to get food and
supplies to our own men and to our al
lies; we must also put hundreds of
thousands, and perhaps millions, of
first-class soldiers in the battle line.
“Food is the first consideration,” Un
cle Dan continued. “No army can hold
out against hunger. It has been said
that food will win the war, and this is
largely true. Hence the importance
of the farm in the war plans of our
country.”
_ Mrs. Graham interrupted bj saying:
k
“In view of the importance of farming,
don’t you think, Daniel, that the farm
ers ought to be exempted from war
service?”
“No, a thousand times no,” said Un
cle Dan, striking the table so hard to
emphasize his protest that he tipped
over a vase of flowers. “We must
have no class legislation. The duty to
serve is the common duty of all, and
no class must be relieved of this ob
ligation. The question of exemption
must be a personal one and decided by
the facts surrounding each case. In
no other way can we have a square
deal, and to insure this, it is the duty
of congress to pass immediately the
Chamberlain bill, or some such meas
ure, which is fair to all classes. It
would settle all these questions and
do it fairly. Safety now and safety
hereafter demands such legislation,
and let me suggest that you and your
friends get busy with your congress
man and senators and urge them to
prompt action.
“It is time for us to realize that we
are not living in a fools’ paradise;
that this great country of ours cost
oceans of blood and treasure and it is
only due to the loyalty, sacrifice and
service of our forefathers that we have
a country, and it is our highest duty
to preserve it unimpaired" and pass it
on to posterity, no matter what the
cost may be. Our citizenship and their
ancestors came from all parts of the
world to make this country a home
and enjoy its blessings and opportu
nities; hence, in the crisis before us,
it is the duty of everyone to stand
squarely back of our country and be
prepared to defend the flag. Every
one in this crisis is either pro-Ameri
can or pro-German. Great as the coun
try is, there is not room enough for
l wo flags.”
SEEKS LIGHT WITHOUT HEAT
Biological Department of Princeton
University Hopes to Fathom Mys
tery of Luminous Animals.
Long strides are being taken b}
the biological department of Prince
ton university to obtain light with
out heat, says the Electrical Experi
menter. If the discovery fully real
izes its expectations it will doubtless
revolutionize modern lighting.
Profs. Edwin Conklin, Ulric Dahl
gren and Edmund N. Harvey are
working on luminous animals in an
attempt to fathom the cause of their
luminosity, which is 99 per cent
light. Modern electric light pro
duces only from 2 to 3 per cent light,
the rest being wasted in heat.
Professor Harvey obtained a con
siderable quantity of the luminous
material from small fish found in
Japan. He has partly analyzed the
substance, finding that like the pro
teids of the living bodies it can be
kept for years by drying it and seal
ing it in vacuum tubes. When re
leased, moistened and exposed to
oxygen it will light into a clear,
bluish phosphorescent flame.'
The substance is very powerful, as
it is still visible when one part of it
is diluted in 1,700,000 parts of
water.
SURE.
“Don’t you believe that marriage
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“Perhaps it does, but it usually
makes him shorter.”
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heiress.”
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COMPARES TOMMY AND POILU
Writer Asserts That Alongside That of
French, English Face Looks Stupid
—Latter's Body Angular.
At the Gare de Lyon poilus are
taking trains for the South. This is
our first real sight of them in their
tired glory. They look weary and
dusty and strong; every face has
character, no face looks empty, or as
if its thought were being done by
others. Their laughter is not vulgar
or thick. Alongside their faces the
English faceTooks stupid, the Eng
lish body angular and neat. They
are loaded with queer burdens, bread
and bottles bulge their pockets; their
blue-gray is prettier than khaki,
their round helmets are becoming.
Our Tommies, even to our own
eyes, seem uniformed, but hardly
two out of all this crowd are dressed
alike. The French soldier luxuri
ates in extremes; he can go to his
death in white gloves and dandyism
—he can glory in unshavenness and
patches. The words “in extremis”
seem dear to the French soldier;
and con amore he passes from one
extreme to the other. One of them
stands gazing up at the board which
gives the hours of starting and the
destinations of the trains. His tired
face is charming, and has a look that
I cannot describe—lost, as it were, to
all surroundings; a Welshman or a
Highlander, but no Englishman,
could look like that.—John Gals
worthy, in Atlantic Magazine.
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WOULD HELP.
“They say history repeats itself.”
“I wish it would repeat today’s
lesson for me. I can’t do it, if the
professor calls on me.”
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