four l!ights AN ADVENT.URE IN INTERNATIONALISM

44Then he showed four lights when he wished them to set full ·sail and follow in his wake.''

From "First Voyare 'loud the W~li J,y MageUu."

1917" .

Berger, Hillquit and Lee one night

Planned a cruise across the sea ;

''0h dear no,'' said Woodrow, "we're in this fight

To make the oceans free." L. W. - New York Call.

THOUGHTS FOR BANDAGE ROLLERS ON HATE ·

On March 5 of thi~ spring a New York daily ran first page scare-head lines to the effect that so,ooo German Reservists had under orders from Berlin crossed the border en route to specified points in Mexico. Not a shadow of authority was given. A few weeks later another daily published the government's official statement that only 34 Germans had gone ·into Mexico since January 1.

Mrs. Catherine Couch, an American visiting her father in Dresden, was tremendously shocked when· she read an American report in the May 22nd papers that she had been tried and found guilty of espionage and had been shot for the crime "somewhere in Germany." Mrs. Couch stated that she had not been shot and that, on the contrary, she had been treated very. consider­ately l:.>y the German government.

Wars are fought with lies and hate ('!.!" more than with cold steel and poisonous gases. The G~at War could not have be~n continued three years without lies.

• On Sunday, May 27th, one of the New York big dailies published two pages of drawings of German atrocities -drawings, remember, -not photographs, made in the trenches in France-a country where hysteria is a rec­ognized disease like cholera. It is the beginning of the Propaganda of Hate without which this country can never be made to fight effectively. Is it unpatriotic of us to ask you to harbor reasonable doubts of stories of the enemy's atrocities, to pray to God that our own men and boys will not commit any abroad, and to remember

· occasionalJy tlwlt there is only one atrocity at present worthy of our hate-WAR?

ANNE HERENDEEN.

ON MURDER Mother, think straight: Are you a slacker? Suppose

Congress were to decree- as it could-that, after train­

ing, only mothers of sons of conscript age 'Should be

transported to France and into the bloody war

trenches. Suppose the saving of America's honor and

the maintenance of the freedom of the seas were given

into the keeping of mothers only. There is nothing in

human. experience you would not bear for your child;

yet you would not commit murder for him. W111 you

al.low him to do so without a protest? Is this big boy

· the same whose head once lay on your · eager heart,

whose trusting b~!Jy eyes looked into yours for re­

assurance when lightning flashed and thunder roared?

Is this big khaki-clad form the one you nursed ·through

croup and measles while in your imagin~tion you saw

him a blessing to humanity? To most mothers, be­

cause they know the price of life, war is forever both

senseless and wicked. If it were up to you, you would

find another way. Is it fair-is it motherly to allow your boy to do that which you know to be morally im­possible for you to do? Are you shouldering your responsibiFty in this crisis?, Think straight! Are you a slacker?

ADA CHASE DUDLEY.

THE BULLET - By DJUNA BARNES

PRO PAT RIA

THE CASUALTY LIST

Germany Aust ria France England Russia · I t a ly The U nited Stat es

4,000,000 J,OOO,OOO J,OOO,OOO'

500,000 3,000,000

200,000 ?

A UGUST 1914 TO JANUARY 1917

Religion - and That Sort of Thing

Dr. S. Parkes Cadman of Central Congre­gational Church, Brooklyn, said recently:

"If religidn means to us what it did to Christ, that is a Cross of blood, then the soldiers and sailors are the most religious men we have among us. Shed blood has always brou;ght men nearer to God."

We sugges.t the following prayer (by Mark Twain) for lk. Cadman's use:

"0 L1>rd our Father, our young pa­triots, i~ lols of our hearts, go forth to battle-be Thou near them I With them -in sp~~it-we also go forth from the sweet p1~ace of our beloved firesides to smite tqe foe .

"0 Lq!rd our God, help us to tear their soldierd to bloody shreds with our shells ; 1elp us to cover their smiling fields \th the pale forms of their pa­triot dea,tl; help us to drown the thunder of the g lms with the wounded, writhing in pain; lhelp us to lay waste their hum­ble homi!S with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffend­ing widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little clHldren to wander unfriended through wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst. We ask of one who is the Spirit of Love and the ever failbful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset. Grant our prayer, 0 Lord~ and Thine shall be the praise and honor and glory now and ever. Amen."

(From Bfcgraphy of Mark Twain by Albert Bige ow Paine, Harper and Bros., Publishers.) /J

" Step'ping Heavenward " { (1917 Version) .

"In war, ~tiling an enemy for one's coun­try is more ~rviceable than dying for it. In war, it is mqre beautiful to give than to re­ceive. One 'of our men dead is lost to his country whi~h has spent time and money equipping hl\n. A man lost to the enemy is clear gail'l{tO this country.

"We - lot ~oing out to die, but to kill. Dying, aft ta, may be a beautiful thing, but a m ractical thing is to kill. Let the other fe io the dying.

"What want to offer up on the altar of is Germany-not ourselves.

Dying for te's country is an acceptance of fate. We i ant to administer fate, not ac-cept it. 1

" Pro patriJ, kill someone else." (C!zicago Tribu11e editorial.)

Little Words of Love "There is lno hate in our hearts for the

German pec·ple," said the P resident on May 22 to Rtpresentative Heffiin. T he news must have c~used quite a sensation among the hundred Germans waiting in line at the Federal Bui'ding, New York, whose em­ployers had ; discharged them rather than endorse theiL applications for permits with­out which tley can scarcely venture from their homes Iter J une xst.

Still More War Horrors " When Lord Beresford was speaking at

the Savoy Hotel in London he happened to pick up a plate from the table and saw that according to the stamp on the back it had been made in Germany. 'Here's a pretty state of affairs,' exclaimed the Lord. 'We have actually been eating off German plates I' A succession of crashes followed a number of guests seizing their plates and hurling them to the floor.

" 'Such a state of affairs must never occur again,' said Lord Beresford, "I do not think I should have enjoyed my luncheon if I had known I was eating off a German plate.' "

" Old Glory " at a Tidy Profit " Within a very short period after the

declaration of war," says Asst. Secretary Newton of the Treasury Department, "the controlling influences among the flagmakers of this country doubled the price on flags. In some instances the price was increased Ioo%.

"Naturally, when this country went to war for the maintenance of human liberty and civilization every patriotic citizen in the country desired to show where he stood by the display of his country's emblem, but he soon distovered that a 100% penalty had been imposed upon his patriotism.''

Which reminds us somehow of President Wilson's recent words at the dedication of the Red Cross building : "We look for no profit, we look for no advantage, we will ac­cept no advantage out of this war.''

So Doth the Happy Patriot (Hear.d before Senate Finance Committee,

May 12.) Newspaper and Magazine Publishers:

Gentlemen of the Committee, magazines have already been boosted far enough. The public will not pay more. We would have to pay this war tax ourselves. We wish to "do our bit," but some other way. We urge that magazines and newspapers be not taxed.

Druggists: As the bill is now drawn we will have to pay the tax ourselves ; it cannot be passed on to the customer. Gentlemen, we insist that we are patriotic, but we rec­ommend that this bill be changed to read, "a tax to consumers of one cent upon every twenty-five cent purchase."

Automobile Manufacturers: The auto­mobile business of America cannot stand up under this additional 59'o tax. Is it possible, gentlemen, that you do not realize that only a very few retail dealers in the country are paying expenses!

Moving Picture Producers: And it is true -also that the moving picture houses of the country are operating at a loss.

Advertisers, Coffee Roasters, E lectric Rail­ways Representatives, Insurance Companies, Piano, Jewelry, Patent Medicine Manufac­turers, etc. (In effect): Gentlemen, we are patriots ; we wish t o do "our bit," but we want to be patriotic in our own way. We recommend that you tax someone else-not us.

Sporting Goods Manufacturers: Members of the Committee, we urge careful consider­ation of any additional tax on sporting goods. J. Y.

How to sell LIBERTY Bonds "If a man refuses to buy a Liberty bond

from you, I say knock him down," is the advice given salesmen of the bonds by Charles G. Davies, president of the Central Trust Co. of Illinois.

(Chicago Tribu11e.)

At Plattsburg May 28.-Much "pep" and g inger were

shown this morning when members of the officers' reserve training camp here started the day's work.

This was due in no small measure to the break in the monotony-the rest period--over Saturday afternoon and Sunday. D rilling was in order in the morning, the field work being:. followed by conferences and bayonet practice.'

"Stab for the vitals" is the instructor 's orders and "Never fire your rifle for fear of hitting a member of your own regiment, except when the blade sticks, then discharge the weapon. You will shatter the bone your bayonet is embedded in and its release is then an easy matter.''

From the condition of the st raw-stuffed bags after this drill work, the Plattsburg officers-to-be do not intend to permit their opponents to win without a real fight.

(N. Y. Evening Su1z.)

May 2g.-Merritt H. Smith, a member of the officers' training camp, is dead, a suicide.

He mortally wounded himself, after a day of gruelling bayonet practice, in which a dummy was scientifically stabbed and gouged for hours.

Temporarily crazed by the ordeal, from which he had begged in vain to be excused, Smith gashed his wrists and bre'ast with his bayonet, and finally placed it against his stomach and threw himself upon it. H e died in the middle of the night.

(N . Y. Call,)

Militarism- A Microbe When I arrived a few months ago in New

York we were quarantined and all passen­gers subjected to the strictest examination so as to ensure that no infectious disease should be conveyed to the United States from Europe. But no quarantine has been established against the moral blight of mili­tarism and the atmosphere is laden with the foulest germs from plague-stricken battle­fields, while the only physicians competent to cope with it, the pacifists, are prevented from dealing with it I

Europe is dying of the militaristic microbe -its ravages have swept over the old world and now the new is threatened. L ike cholera or smallpox, it strikes its victims almost without warning.

Can no one inoculate America against the plague? Or is the New World as well as the Old doomed to become a prey to the rabies of militarism? Pacifism must have its mar­tYrs too who may be called to seal their pro­test against organized murder with the sacrifice of their lives ere this universal blood-lust is quelled. In the end war can be stopped by men who will "die rather than kill." I t is a slogan as proud as any battle­cry; war against war.

H ANNA SHEEHY SKEFFINGTON.

Women must not feel that they cannot help in the

Great War because they are accustomed to dealing with little things. A bullet is a little thing but it is

stronger than life. Women must not feel that because they work in the narrow confines of the home,

they cannot help in the great work of destruction. It is a tender

nursery thought that the baby in the mother's arms, properly

trained, may grow up to destroy more persons and property than

any man before him. And that this helpless floppy pink 4and

may some day write ?is mother'sL name in the blood of the enemy,­

though of course it is too early to tell just yet · which enemy it will then be.

Accustom your children gradu­ally to the sight of blood. And

for yourself learn to kill a little every day. One sweet

woman is accustomed to ask herself searchingly each night, "Whom have I killed today?" And to fall asleep resolving to kill more on the ~orrow.

By their clothes, too, women can influence. White

kid boots are shown now with red, white, and blue in-

se.ts at the top. While modest . women wish that skirts

were worn longer, yet, since they are short, is it not

well to utilize t~e - advertising space? . _ V:' ar is right. For God allows

war and would He allow anything

that is not pleasing in His sight? Philosophy also approves war. For is not man naturally 'de­.structive?

As to more practical consider­ations, a - woman's kitchen is her

arsenal. A glance at the knife

rack shows that. And a raid on

husband's tool-chest will reclaim from peaceful occupations weap-=­ons not without edge.

A woman clever wi~h her fingers will soon be making gas masks at

home. Women have often been accused of being essentially pro­

ducers and conservers. Now is the

time for them to _lay forever that slander and prove tha!

they are glad a!:ld eager to destroy joyfully all that the ages-and other women-have produced. Courage,

sisters ! It takes but a minute to destroy a boy into­wh9se making have gone eighteen years of thoughtful

care. - MARY ALDEN HOPKINS.

"If the Entente Powers should renounce all claims f~r annexation and indemnity and if the Central

- Powers should insist on continuing the war-a revolu­tion will certainly result in Germany."

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PHILIPP SCHEIDEMAN N at the last s£t# ng- of the Reichs/ag-.

RevoLutionary Russia has· again stated her peace term.s. They have been substantially endorsed by the Social Democratic organizations of It.aly, Ft ance, Germany, Austria· and the democratic forces of England. They are:

1. No forcible annexation of territory. - 2. No punitive indemnities. - 3. Free development of all nation's.

WHAT ARE THE WAR AIMS AND PEACE TERMS OF THE UNITED STATES?

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Editors of this Issue:­

JOY YOUNG ANNE HERENDEEN

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