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ON THE OLD ROAD.
Frequent mention has been made since
the commencement of the war of the fact
that much of the fighting has been done
on and around the edges of the Plain
of Flanders which has been called "the
cockpit of Europe.” It is true that much
fighting has been done on this land
from the time of Julius Caesar and prob-
ably even before that down to now. It
has however seen little more of strife
than the terrain over which the Italians
are now endeavoring to force their way
against the Austrians.
For many hundreds of years this has
been the military highway between the
plains in the north of Italy and those of
Hungary. It has been the pathway of
fighting men almost since the dawn of
European history.
The Romans marched to and fro along
this road and in fact constructed a num-
ber of military highways in the district
where the Italians and Austrians are now
struggling. These roads became of vast
importance during the latter days of the
empire when the foes of Rome were
pressing her hard from the north and
northeast. One of the Roman emperors
was assassinated by his mutinuous troops
on the bank of the Isonzo.
Over this road came the man who gave
terror to the name of “Hun” which has
been so extensively adopted by the allies
in their references to the Germans in
the present war. This was Attila the so-
called “Scourge of God.” He swept
through the Roman empire until he was
defeated and turned back on the plain nf
Chalons not far from the battlefield of
the Marne where the German invasion of
France was checked and hurled back.
The battle of Chalons like the battle of
the Marne was one of the important and
decisive battles of all history.
Later along this same road across the
Alps marched Alboin the king of the
Lombards when he was invited by the
Romans who could no longer fight for
themselves to come into Italy and rid
them of their enemies. Alboin settled
finally in the northern Italian plains
which bear the name of Lombardy unto
this day. It was in Northern Italy that
Alboin whose life was one of war met
his death in one of the most gruesome
tragedies of all time.
In Napoleon’s early campaigns he
pushed along the same road on his way
to Vienna after his great series of vic-j
tories in Italy. The Austrians sued for|
peace before he had made much of an
advance and he was compelled to wait
another seven years before he entered
Vienna at the head of a victorious army.
All through the centuries men have
fought and struggled along this route
between the plains of Italy and Hungary.
So long as men fight in that part of the
world just so long will they continue to
fight along this roadway because while
military tactics may alter almost beyond
understanding the principles of military
strategy which compel certain move-
ments if certain ends are to be gained
are unchanging and eternal.
A NEW DIPLOMACY.
Developments of the last three or four
years have made it apparent that the
present greatest need is a new brand of
diplomacy. A point in question is the
very recent exposure of Swedish duplicity
in aiding Germany by transmitting secret
code messages while posing as a neutral.
Another very striking illustration is Beth-
tnann Hollweg's denunciation of Mr.
Gerard because Gerard has told the pub-
lic the plain facts about his dealings with
the kaiser at the time Belgium was in-
vaded. Hollweg's contention is not so
much a denial of what Mr. Gerard says
as an expression of resentment that Mr.
Gerard should so far forget the ethics of
diplomacy as to tell the vulgar throng
such official exchanges.
It is probable that if all diplomatic in-
trigues and secret exchanges could be
laid bare covering only the period of
time since the war began the peoples of
the various nations belligerents and neu-
trals would be filled with disgust. The
few things that do come to light such
as Gerard's exposure of how the kaiser
justified the invasion of Belgium and the
laying waste of a peaceful and happy
land because of "military and strategic
necessity” and Count Luxburg's advice
to sink Argentine ships “without leaving
a trace” show how morally rotten Euro-
pean diplomacy and particularly German
diplomacy had come to be.
It is inconceivable that men who in
personal affairs claim to hold fast to
Christian practices and highest ethical
codes will stoop to murder assassination
lies deceit and the wholesale destruction
of nations and people merely because
they are acting in the roles of "diplo-
mats.” Yet they do it. In fact the larger
part of European diplomacy has been con-
structed upon centuries of conspiracies in
large and small things until a man s
ability as a diplomat was dependmt to a
large extent upon his ability to be an
inhuman crook. '
Some of the medal bedecked uniformed
and finely educated grandees of European
courts have been excellent diplomats
gauged by European court standards and
most despicable cowardly double deal-
ing rogues judged by the standards of
lour individual code of ethics.
This sweeping statement does not of
1 course apply to them all. There have
been exceptions but they have been con-
spicuous by their infrequency and as a
rule they have not been successfu'
diplomats.
\\ hen our first American envoys went
to European courts they were contemp-
Ituously referred to as "shirt-sleeve diplo-
mats” an expression which in view of
j those who bestowed it was somewhat of
a compliment although not so intended.
The Americans in turn bestowed upon
their European associates the title of
"backstair diplomats" and in that category
the German envoys probably led the
world.
Men who would never think of lying
awake at night scheming how to rob
their next door neighbor of his money
lands and even his life have as diplo-
mats spent long hours working out
methods -whereby they could destroy
subjugate or dominate neighboring states
| and peoples.
The policy marked out for Germany
by the great Bismarck and those who
followed in his steps is almost directly
responsible for this great world war.
And it was considered the highest form
lof diplomacy and statesmanship in its
: day!
Out of the present upheaval must
come a new diplomacy. It must consist
jof the employment of honor instead of
{rascality; honesty instead of theft;
candid dealing instead of deceit and
(subterfuge and it must be based upon
the wishes of peoples and not of schem-
ers for conquest fame or wealth. Until
that is brought about no step towards
abolishing future warfare is possible.
Is there any more reason why a
diplomat should be a rascal in state af-
fairs than in individual dealings? But
European diplomacy has been based
upon the ability of one envoy to outwit
out-lie or out-kill another diplomat by
one means or another. It was part and
parcel of the kind of monarchy we have
gone forth to crush and it undoubtedly
will largely perish with Prussianism.
A HARD-HEARTED GOVERNMENT.
As a rule we have a paternal sort of a
government; a lazy easy-going beneficent
spend-thrift liberal sort of a government
that puts up with a whole lot more than
any other government in the world and
shows at times more patience than judg-
ment.
But it is not always so. There arc times
when our great democratic government —
a government of the people by the peo-
ple and for the people turns upon its iron
shod heel so to speak and becomes al-
most tyrannical.
As a rule agitators dynamiters anarch-
ists and anyone else including ward poli-
ticians can mount a soap box at any
corner of any busy street in any city in
any state in the union and denounce the
government as fully and vehemently as
pleases them. Nothing is done to them.
They think they are enjoying liberty and
the rights of free speech although they
are not.
But except in very rare instances the
government ambles right along and pays
no attention to them. So these agitators
and anarchists and disturbers continue to
shout as long as any one will listen or
drop a nickel in their respective hats and
then depart. To all these matters the gov-
ernment seldom pays heed.
Thus it was that when a committee of
Bisbeeites drove some 1200 miners out
of the Arizona mining camp on the pre-
text that the said miners were I. W. W.
disturbers the government paid little at-
tention to it. It was a matter for Arizona
to decide and perhaps more properly
speaking for Bisbee to decide; the gov-
ernment did nothing. These deported men
were sent to Columbus N. M„ where
the army finally took them in charge
and put them in an abandoned camp back
of the army post there. It appears that
out of the 1200 deportees there really were
about 100 I. W. W.’s or what passed for
them —that is men who did not want to
work very badly. The bona fide miners
slipped away two and three or three and
four at a time and got jobs because they
had families to support and Liberty Bonds
to pay for and the government needed
men to get ores from the mines.
But the 100 or so I. W. W.’s were not
so accommodating. They decided to re-
main. The government through the army
quartermaster was issuing them full
rations daily just the same as though they
were enlisted in the army. But there was
this difference and it is the difference be-
tween daylight and dark in I. W. W.
ethics—these men were^not required to
do any work.
So they sat about their comfortable
camp under the peaceful blue sky of New
Mexico and talked and sang and played
games and took life easily while the
paternal easy-going old government fed
them.
Then one day a sharp-eyed quartermas-
ter took in the situation. He made a brief
but pointed report and it took the usual
official course until it finally reached the
government. Then it was that the govern-
ment showed one of those tyrannical out-
bursts above referred to. What did it do
put those 1. W. W. in jail? Not at all.
It merely reduced their rations. It put
them on half fare.
Then there was phndemonium at
Columbus. Those 100 I. W. W.’s arose as
one man and denounced the government.
They would not stand for it—no sir.
What would they do—they would leave.
They refused longer to be cared for by a
paternal government so tyrannical as to
issue them only half rations.
So at last the word “finis” is to be
written upon the I. W. W.’s official con-
nection with tl^e army. The good old days
are gone. The camp at Columbus is again
to be deserted and its once happy in-
mates are to take their several ways out
into the cold and cruel world. They have
trusted the government only to be de-
ceived and now more than ever are they
convinced that social justice and true lib-
erty cannot be had under the existing
regime. They have included half rations
in the things they will denounce when
next they appear before the proletariat
on behalf of the brotherhood of men.
But one thing they will not do come
what may—they will never never go to
work.
A shortage of hogs is feared in the
United States. There has been no evi-
dence of it in some circles however.
While trench coats arc to be the popu-
lar fashion for men this year they will
be more appropriate if reinforced with
enlistment papers and side arms.
Germans in America who are disposed
to complain at the treatment accorded
them since wc entered the war might
turn their attention to how Buenos Aires
citizens act under similarly trying cir-
cumstances.
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Tried. Anyhow.
“Be ye therefore steadfast” adjured a
Kansas preacher and the local paper reported
V “Be ye there for breakfast.”
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“Clothes Tickets” In Berlin.
The Imperial Clothing Office announces nc-1
cording to the Berliner Tageblatt that “for
roHtica! reasons it is empowering a quite lim-
ited circle of persons to buy clothes tickets."
It Is carefully pointed out that the light to
grant such privileges is reserved to the Im-
perial Clothing Office alone and does not be-
long to other persons or authorities. No ex-
planation is given of the “political reasons"
which justify over-dressing.
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True Now As Then.
This is from a speech delivered by Abraham
Lincoln on October 15 1858 during his great
debate with Stephen A. Douglas:
That is the real issue. That is the Issue that
will continue in this country when these poor
tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be
silent. It is the eternal struggle between these
’\o principles —right and wrong—throughout
the world. They are the two principles that
hive stood face to face from the beginning of
time; and will ever continue to struggle. The
< re is the common right of humanity and the
other the divine-Tight of kings. It is the same
principle in whatever shape it develops itself.
It is the same spirit that says “You toil and
work and earn bread and I’ll eat it." No
matter in what shape it comes whither from
the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the
people of his own nation and live by the fruit
of their labor or from one race of men as an
apology for enslaving another race it is the
Mime tyrannical principle.
Edison’s War Inventions.
Muclt Interest has centered in the labors of
Thomas A. Edison since he virtually retired
from public view two montlw ago to apply his
genius to inventing something of value in the
war for democracy. The utmost secrecy sur-
rounded his labors and naturally there was
much conjecture as to the direction his efforts
would take. There was never any intimation
&s to the problem he was studying. Did it re-
.ate to the submarine to the air or to the pro-
duction of a more powerful explosive? The
public could only guess. Uis visit to the White
House has revived tlw* public curiosity. Inas-
much as be was accompanied thereto by Secre-
tary Daniels and the conference with the
President lasted for three-quarters of an hour
it is assumed that his inventions—it Is report-
ed that there is a series of them—must be for
I use by the navy. It is reported that he has
already turned over to tl>e Navy Department an
invention which officers believe may be adapt-
ed to naval uses with good results. Of course
secrecy will still be observed for we may be
sure that Germany 1s as much interested as
we are and would pay any price to learn in
advance what the American wizard has pro-
duced in order to forestall l<s use. Perhaps
the world will first learn of the secret when
It is electrified by news of what it has ac-
complished. In the meantime everyone will
hope that American inventive genius has pro-
duced an antidote for the brutality of Germv-o
warfare.—Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
CHICAGO 111. Sept. 15.—Treason
to America In the world war wag de-
fined by Elihu Root and labor was
pledged to fight until world torylsm
had been overthrown by Samuel
Gompers at a patriotic rally here
Friday night staged by the National
Security League for the announced
purpose of vindicating Chicago
against alleged intimations of un-
patriotism.
"The men who are speaking and
writing and printing arguments
against the war now and against
everything that is being done to car-
ry on the war are rendering more
effective service to Germany than
they ever could render in the field
with arms in their hands” declared
the former secretary of state amid
cheers.
“It Is impossible to resist the con-
clusion that the greater part of
them are at heart traitors to the
United States.
"As time goes on and the char-
acter of these acts becomes more
and more clearly manifest all who
continue to assicate with them must
come under the same condemnation.
There are some who doubtless do
not understand what this struggle
reaUy is."
At this point the speaker was
interrupted by cries of "Hello Bill!"
and he departed from the text of his
speech long enough to declare "I
don’t think he understands It. But
I think he will some time.”
Declaring that General Grant said
"let us have peace” only "after Lee
had surrendered” Mr. Gompers as-
serted that “after Kaiserism had
surrendered then we too will hav*
peace."
“There can be no peace" he con-
tinued "while there is a Teuton on
the soil of France. There must be
no peace until they are driven out
of outraged Belgium."
Applause for Gompers.
The president of the American
Federation of Labor frequently was
interrupted by applause when he de-
tailed plans laid by the government
for war insurance for soldiers and
sailors and its attempts to make sure
that the standard of American home
life shall not be lowered.
Judge Jacob M. Dickinson presi-
ded as chairman in the absence of
Governor Lowden who telegraphe.i
his regrets as follows:
“Springfield is the storm center
of Illinois just now and I must re-
main at my post. The great major-
ity of workmen here are loyal but
sinister influences are at work to in-
volve labor in a hostile attitude to-
ward the government. We must
separate these two forces. To do so
we must give larger recognition to
loyal labor organizations such as
those represented by Mr. Gompers.
Above all labor and capital are
equally interested in maintaining in-
ternal order while this war is on. It
will do no good to win battles abroad
if we cannot maintain peace at
home.”
Fronted by a hedge of glistening
bayonets carried by a detachment of
ROOT DEFINES
TREASON AND
OREES LOYALTY
Mass Meeting Held in Chicago
Is Attended by Unpre-
cedented Crowd.
GOMPERS IS APPLAUDED
Labor Leader Says Govern-
ment to Prevent Lowering
Standard of Living.
Traitors to Country.
A Hedge of Bayonets.
The Golfer’s Wife .
National Guardmen the speakers ad-
dressed a crowd which rivalled My
national convention throng that ever
filled the coliseum both in size and
vociferous enthusiasm.
At the Theaters
HUI Closes at Majestic.
With Saturday’s three perform-
ances the better of the two bills
performed so far this season at the
Majestic will be closed and a new
program will be introduced Sunday.
Tho current bill la headlined by
Clark and Hamilton in a droll skit
called "A Wayward Conceit.” Mrs.
Gene Hughes appears in a new satir-
ical sketch called “Gowns" in which
she is well supported. Spenser
Kelly and Marion Wilder supported
by Misses Karla and Dorothe
Haynes accompanists sing "Songs
Past and Present" and are one ot
the hits of the program. Beeman
and Anderson have a remarkable
.skating act. The eccentric dancing
of Francis and Ross is good. Synco.
puted melodies are well rendered by
the International Four who make ex-
cellent use of comedy. The Five
Nelsons close the biil with a very
clever juggling offering.
Miss Buntiug at the Grand.
Miss Einma Bunting and her as-
sociate players who all this week
have presented “Little Peggy
O’Moore" will close that delight-
ful romance at the Grand Opera
House with Saturday's performances
and will present “The Heart of We-
tona” through the week beginning
Sunday. "The Heart of Wetona" is
a story of a Comanche chief's
daughter who gives her love to a
white man only to discover that he
is unworthy of it. The play which
was written by George Scarborough
was produced jointly by David Be-
laseo and the late Charles Frohman.
It achieved success at the Lyceum
Theater New York. In the struggles
among the pride ot Wetona’s father
tlie love of the other man the faith
of Wetona and the falsity of her lov-
er thrilling situations not infre-
quently tinged with humor are de-
velope'd.
Vaudeville at the Royal.
The first program of Pantages
Road Shows consisting of five acts
of vaudeville will give way to a new
bill at the Royal Theater after Sat-
uaidy's performances. These will ot-
ter San Antonio vaudeville lovers
their last opportunity to see the real-
ly notable submarine exhibition that
is being given at the new playhouse
by Captain Louis Sorcho. Captain
Sorcho's demonstrations include the
actual working of submarines un-
derwater telephones and search-
lights mines and torpedoes. The ex-
hibition is given in a large glass-
fronted tank with exact models of
the devices whose operations he il-
lustrates. There are four other acts
on the "bill. Queenie Dunedin is a
clever entertainer. Stoddard and
Hynes render a comic musical
sketch "The Absent-Minded Pro-
fessor.” Edith Haney is a whirl-
wind of amusement in herself. Be-
ven and Flint offer "A Slight Inter-
ruption” of dancing talking and
singing.
AGREE ON HOME GUARDS
Bill Will Bo Slightly Amended and
Presented to Governor.
AUSTIN. Tex.. Sept. 15. — The
free conference committee appointed
to adjust the differences between the
House and Senate on the home
guard bill by Johnston of Harris
reached an agreement late last eve-
ning and when the report of the
committee has been adopted by both
branches of the Legislature the bill
will be enrolled and presented to
Acting Governor Hobby for ap-
proval.
The commi’tee rejected the House
amendment which placed the organi-
zation of the guard with the county
commissioners left that portion ot
the bill as it was originully--that is.
the formation of the home guard
shall be by the sheriff. The com-
mlttee accepted the House amend-
ment which provides that when not
in active service the members of the
heme guards shall return to the sher-
.ff all arms and ammunition in their
possession.
M TO IL
MH BE MY
mi m
Rapid Progress Being Made
by Senate and House Mem-
bers in Conference.
HALF LEVIES AGREED TO
War Profits and Postal Sec-
tions Probably Will Be
Left Until Last.
WASHINGTON D. C„ Sept. 15.—
Agreement upon about one-half of
revenue levies in the >2476000000
war tax bill was reached Friday by
the Senate and House conferees in
their first day’s work. Such rapid
progress was made that the principal
disputes were narrowed to the war
profits and postage sections fore-
shadowing a complete agreement
early next week.
While conclusions of the conferees
pre officially sgid to be tentative
there is little probability of further
change in tbe sections passed over.
The committee’s sessions are secret
at the request of Representative
Kitchen but it is reliably stated that
the results of the first meeting in-
cluded:
"Adoption of the income tax nor-
mal and surtax rates virtually as re-
vised by the Senate and designed to
raise >842200000 additional reve-
nue.
House Provision Dropjied.
Elimination of the House provision
levying a one-third increase on 1916
taxes a retroactive assessment from
which $108000000 in revenue was
to be raised.
Partial approval ot the tobacco
section as revised downward by the
Senate to raise >56600000 as against
>68200000 proposed by the House.
Adoption ot the intoxicating bev-
erage section virtually as revised up-
w.rd by the Senate to raise >207-
000000 as compared with >151000-
000 proposed by the House.
Approval of practically all Senate
changes In the section taxing public
utilities including the three per
cent levy on freight transportation;
the assessment of passenger trans-
portation re iuced from >75000.000
to >37500000; the taxes on Pull-
man accommodations pipe line
transportation and telegraph and
telephone messages costing over fif-
teen cents.
The House conferees also agreed
to the elimination ot their provisions
for levying >30000001) on electric
light gas and local telephone serv-
ice and >5000000 issuance of in-
surance policies.
War Profits Last.
The war profits section was passed
over and will probably be the last
settled. Some members predict an
increase in its total revenue provi-
sions of at least >100.000000 and
adoption of a compromise calcula-
tion plan being framed by the House
members.
When the conferees recessed they
had reached the manufacturing tax
section ot tho bill apd planned to be-
gin with the automobile clause to-
day.
in virtually concluding the income
tax rates the conferees specifically
wrote into the bill the proposed
doubling ot the present two per cent
normal tax and the provision for re-
duction of exemptions from $3OOO
and $4OOO. respectively for single
and married persons to >lOOO and
>2OOO. The surtax rates on incomes
above $20000 were said to have been
adjusted slightly but no changes
were made in the section causing
any appreciable difference in the in-
creased revenue yield.
In the preliminary and general
SEPT. 15 1917.
Lllscusslon of the main disputes In-
volved the postage tax feature s were
given especial attention.
Favor Postal Tax.
Some of the House membe rs want
to restore in part at least t he pro-
posed tax on first class mall and to
make an increase In sccoi id class
rates.
There was also discuss ion oi
eliminating postage features includ.
ing the stamp tax on packages sent
by parcel post.
CONVALESCENTS ENJOY
RED CROSS PROGRAM
Entertainment Lasts an Hour
at Base Hospital—Can.ip
Travis Next Week..
"Come again. Be sure /you don’t
forget us" were the remiiyders called
from the windows of th. 4 base hos-
pital Friday evening aA the mem-
I bers of the "company/' sent out by
the entertainment conlmittee ot the
San Antonio Red CrosA Chapter rode
away from the hospiAal after having
entertained the convmlescent soldiers
for an hour. The nrogram was an
unqualified success quid every num-
ber was received w Jth enthusiastic
applause ami demanjds for encores.
Among those on thje program were'
Miss Edith GoldsteAn Miss Hazel
Hutchins Joe WalMi. Mary Bridge
and Francisco Olivares Miss Mary
AlilTrey Edward Goldstein and
I Miss Dorothy Doilson of Houston.
{The program was sufficiently va-
i ried including violin and cello num-
bers vocal soloe duets and amusing
readings and the] audience respond-
ed to the mood <if the moment and
laughed and criep unrestrainedly.
The program (Was concluded with
a cabaret jiertofmance in which all
members of tht "company" took
part. Joe Wallsh danced with Miss
Goldstein while Ithe remainder ot the
company and tile soldiers joined in
singing populai airs.
This program will be repeated next
Friday evening at Camp Travis it
being the prac ice of the entertain-
ment commit^ ! to arrange a pro-
gram for the veck and present It
each sueceedinfc Friday evening at
Camp Funstoiir Camp Travis the
Hasp Hospital.^ and at Kelly Field.
LOCKHAR
BY RII
Idle Gossip About Army
Causes Citizens to Con-
sider a Drastic Cure.
LOCKHART. Tex.. Sept. 15.—The
local Council ot Defense is taking
quite an interest in the rumors that
are becoming more numerous on the
streets of Lockhart and will make
an effort to trace the source fro.e
which they eminate. The most an-
noying is the persistent report that
numbers of the boys in the Caldwell
County military company at Camp
Bowie have deserted and again that
many are seriously ill and any other
kind of a report to cause agitation.
At a meeting of the home guards this
week this matter was brought up
and it was the opinion of many pres-
ent that if the law did not reach far
enough to prosecute these purveyors
ot false reports that an fipplication
of wet rope would have a very bene-
ficial effect upon them.
With men from practically every
home in Lockhart imx in some de-
partment of the army or navy it is
bad taste even if not dangerous to
say too much against this country
and some exciting times are beforo
the people here it the work con-
tinues.
. . By BRIGGS
AROUSED
IOR MONGERS
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Diehl, Charles S. & Beach, Harrison L. The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 239, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 15, 1917, newspaper, September 15, 1917; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1614522/m1/4/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .