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MISTREATING OUR MEN.
It is stated that the Germans have de-
cided to treat such Americans as tall into
their hands during the war with excep-
tional severity. They have already created
a record for brutality in their treatment
of the Russian prisoners and it is said
they intend to treat the Americans even
worse—if possible.
If this is done the United States should
take prompt measures of reprisal. W'e
jiave far more German prisoners now
than Germany holds of Americans and
as the war goes on. it is probable that
we will take as many Germans as the
Germans take of us. We arc at all times
likely to have more Germans than the
Germans will have of Americans.
It goes strongly against the grain of j
Americans to treat prisoners otherwise '
than in a decent and humane manner. Wei
have an instinctive dislike to starving. 1
beating and insulting men who cannot;
help themselves but we must make Ger-!
many understand that she cannot treat!
American soldiers with brutality without
exposing herself to reprisals of some kind i
Retaliation in matters such as this is
not pleasant to consider or perform but
the paramount duty of protecting our
men must be always kept in mind.
There is every possibility that one of
the great tragedies of the war will be
disclosed at the end of the war when the
stories of the treatment prisoners of war
have undergone in Germany are told. Ger-1
many has little food for her own people!
and for those she has enslaved from Bel-
gium and northern France. She lias there-
fore little for the prisoners. It is certain
that when the curtain rises on the prison
camps of Germany a hideous story will
be told.
It is therefore all the more important
that we warn Germany in advance that
she will be held strictly to account for
the proper treatment of such Americans
as may be taken prisoners of war.
oo
INEFFICIENCY INCARNATE.
At a recent session of the Senate mili-
tary committee General Crozier chief of
ordnance in the United States army said
that in the various arsenals of the United
States there are at the present moment
more than 7000 machine guns which are
available for the training of troops.
Now for the other side of this machine
gun proposition.
Senator Lewis of Illinois recently made
a visit to the Illinois division which is
stationed at Houston. lie inquired into
its condition and equipment. He was
informed among other things that the
division has only one rusty machine gun
that can be used for training purposes
and that this gun has been “trained with”
so extensively that the threads and bear-
ings have been worn smooth and the
gun will no longer hang together. There
should be sixteen machine guns for every
machine gun company and this entire
division has but one—and that one is
worthless.
The question now arises why. if the
United States has more than 7000 ma-
chine guns stored “fur training purposes’
in the name of common sense it does not
turn a few of them loose where the troops
can become familiar with them?
Seven thousand guns held up and a fid
division of the army fitted out with onh
one rusty gun that can no longer han^
together.
There is a fine situation and the worsi
of it is that it is a situation for whicl
some fool in the ordnance department o
the United States army or in the Wai
Department itself is directly responsible
In Heaven’s name how much longer ar<
men of the army to be subjected to sucl
idiotic deprivations as this?
The thing is worse than idiotic. Tin
■ •
WEDNESDAY .
men who are responsible for the lack of
machine guns in the hands of the troops
which need them so badly for training
purposes are directly interfering with the
efficiency of the army. They may not 1 '
willing aids of Germany but they are aL
ing her for all that. They should prompt!'
be thrown into some place from whicl
thev will not be able to work so mud
damage to the efficiency of the army a-
they are now doing.
There is absolutely no excuse that can
be offered for things of this kind. I hex
are the result of stupid inefficiency of the
worst type and whoever is responsible
for them should be court-martialed and
thrown out of the army—if he happens to
belong to the army—or dismissed from
office in disgrace if he happens to be a
civilian.
The men of the army arc trying to do
their best to serve the country. The peo-
ple are trying to do their best to aid the
army and the country. It is disgraceful
that the efforts of the men of the army
and those of the people should be nulli-
fied by such inflamed inefficiency as has
been shown in this one matter of machine
guns.
OO
WORKING MISCHIEF.
When such a anan as La Follette of
Wisconsin stands in the Senate of the
United States and offers obstructionist
tactics to the prosecution of the war. he
may be able to do little harm to the
cause of the United States within the
borders of the United States. He is how-
ever capable of doing much injury to the
cause outside the United States.
This is proven conclusively by extracts
from German newspapers that have just
reached New York. One of them the
Koelnische Zeitung says:
Thrcugt out tho United states the opposition
against sVil?on’a war is growing daily. The forces
at work are tremendous and th-' movement ha**
taken on such proportions as to cause alarm and
is being considered with deep concern in Washing-
ton.
Gern.an-Amoricans Irishmen and Socialists arc
making common in n dor to obstru< t the war prep-
arations and t > paralyze th- future conduct of the
var. The leader of this movement is the radical
Senator Lr. FoJktte of Wib- onsln. who has gained
the support of not a small number of congressmen
who do all that is in their power to prevent all
measures that are under consideration for an effec-
tive pros - ution of the war
The organs of the So ialkts publish sharp arti-
tl s denouncing those that profiteer by a prolonga-
tion of the war laying th- blame for America’s
entrance into the conflict at their door.
Tills vkw d also held by William Randolph
H.arst. who in his n any newspapers declares
frankly that the United States is fighting Eng-
land’s tattles.
So far the government does not dare to prosecute
him.
It was this man and the influences cited above
that are responsible <or the election of Juds- Bylaw
fur mayor of New York over Mitchel the candidate
of the capitalists. This result was nothing short of
a moral box on M-. Wilsons ear.
The Vossiche Zeitung of Berlin says:
That ti e anti-war sentim* nt Is ever Increasing
daily in the United States is shown in the fact that
Mr Roosevelt is no longer r< garded as representing
th< true public opinion in America. AH the great
n. tiopolitan dailies to which he had contributed
articles have droppc i him. and he is now associated
with an obstur* west- rn newspaper in Kansas City.
Ihe Berliner Tageblatt publishes an
leditorial headed "Wilson’s Fight Against
the American People” and says:
Wilson’s greatest and most active opponents are
th*: socialists and not so much the pro-German
tkment which keeps comparatively quiet draw-
ing 1 is inference frem the fact that most of the
So irthst papers in the United States of America
nave been suppressed or placed under icstri< tions.
including the New Yorker Volks Zeitung. a Socialist
paper printed in the German language. •
Besides the Socialists and the I. W. W. many
organization* representing the farmers and laboring
civs 3 that are opposed to Wilson’s war policy
have o * le into existence ain< e the outbreak of the
wv. It is the ever growing anti-war fueling
throughout the United States that forces men mien
ar Senator Stone Hardwick and Gronna into line
v lth men like Hearst and La Follette.
There is a fair illustration of how much
injury may be done by men who may
not be actually disloyal in a desire to see
their country defeated and despoiled but
who are so utterly twisted in their intel-
lects that they are uhable to see how
serious an injury to the cause of the
United States is created by their attitude
of opposition.
The United States owes it to itself as
a nation to its loyal citizens and to the
men who are fighting its battles to put a
complete quietus on men who are doing
such vast hurt to our cause. They may;
not be deliberate traitors in intent but!
the result of their work is the same as
if they were that and nothing more. If
the United States has no law that will
reach such people it should lose no time
in making one.
OO
NO SNOBBERY IN DEATH. .
In any army there must be men who
igive commands and men who obey them
j unfalteringly. These two things are the
first essentials to an efficient fighting
force. Once they are lost the army is lost.
1 They arc the basis of discipline ami the
■measure of success. Without them no
military unit could long be differentiated
from a mob.
But it is a far cry from the official dis-
tinction between the officer and the en-
listed man so necessary to military dis-
cipline and the affectation of social supe-
riority of the one over the other which
11 until this war existed more or less in all
armies and to an extreme in som<- of the
■European armies. The Germans today cm-
jnhasize a social superiority of the i
over the private as the verv f ’ m
■ of their military and governmental or-
ganizations.
4 But so far as the allies are concerned;
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
the great war has levelled the social
castes to a large extent. The French long
ago eliminated the social distinction for
soldiers off duty and the British had their
entire social and military system rooted
up since they called every available man
to the colors.
For there is no snobbery in death and
the British found as has every nation
sooner or later engaged in such conflicts
that social position in civilian life bears
but lightly upon a man's qualifications as
a soldier. The best officers after all are
born not made. They can be improved
by training but unless the spirit of lead-
ership is there they will ultimately give
lace in battle to the natural leaders of
the men who will show them how to fight
by example and precept.
There is a certain grim humor in a let-
ter which a Canadian soldier is reported
t ■ have written to a friend in America
who recently was commissioned an offi-
cer. Fresh from the fighting on the west-
ern front he sent the following among
other bits of timely wisdom for the guid-
ance of his friend:
Don't refuse again to associate with
an enlisted man whom you meet off the
drill ground and away from camp. Ton
may need him some day to carry you off
the field of Flanders. If he likes you and
your kind it will make a heap of differ-
ence.’’
Arid for the benefit of enlisted men
this Canadian veteran wrote:
"Don’t mind a young officer who is
snobbish. He's a rookie or he wouldn’t
do it. His snobbery will be all shot away
in the first fight it has to be or he’ll go
down. Remember that eighty per cent of
all the big officers in France were pri-
vate soldiers once.”
That is the proposition in a nutshell.
War by reason of science and invention
has become less and less of an individual
proposition. It is an army that is as one
man. rather that wins the battles of to-
day and the individual is a small but of
course necessary cog in a vast machine.
When it comes to the test of nerves
morale suffering and death the human
side stands out as in no other way. A
man then shows himself for what he is
and neither shoulder straps nor chevrons
can make him any more of a man nor
any less of a man that he happens by
nature and disposition to be.
Snobbery is as out of place in an army
as in an office: it is just as vulgar and
just as despicable in uniform as out of
uniform: the caliber of man who will be
guilty of it to any great extent is not like-
ly to make much of a soldier and he runs
in addition a large chance in this war
that before he comes out of the army
again the enlisted man he so offends
may be his commanding officer and his
military superior. For it has happened so
in France and is still happening.
And even if such is not the case when
it comes to men dying upon the battle-
field a machine gun makes no distinc-
tion. A sharpshooter now and then may
select the officer if his sight is accurate
enough but not for his social qualifica-
tions.
In death all men are equal—except
those who by their gallantry in the face
of it emblazon their names high upon
their country's honor roll. A survey of
that roll shows no preponderance of offi-
cers or enlisted men. The honors are quite
evenly divided.
—oo
Under federal control shall we refer
to the conductor as "Hon.”
OO
The governor has called a meeting of
the drought relief committee. However;
it has nothing to do with prohibition.
OO
Germany is holding the property of
Americans in trust. Germans in America
may contrast that with courtesies accord-
ed them here.
O-
Women school teachers in Ireland receive
the same pay as men for the same kind of
work.
—oo
Light on a Dark Subject.
Though all the "Beds” of America are howl-
ing for a "free press” the Bolshevik! have
>up pressed in Petrograd every newspaper that
is not pro-Gerinan. Sometimes two facts
• collocated are more impressive than comment.
—Brooklyn Eagle.
—oo
The New Year—l9lB.
j Knee-deep in the sm ws the Old Year goes
In a khaki unifori.i
( With a sword and a gun and a blanket-roll
And a tent to keup him warm.
Ti e music of bells o’er hills and dells
In silvery cadence tloats.
With the stirring sounds of the fife and drum
And tins bugle's martial notes. 4
A motor hums and the New Year comes
A girl in overalls.
With a bag of tools ai d a box of lunch
As the factory whittle calls;
Fur woman will sow . nd reap and hoc
And drive the ships mid cars.
And turn the wheels of the mill that man
May follow tl c stripes ami stars. —Minna
living in Leslie’s.
Criticising the \dmini*t ration.
Here is art issue sharply defined by the
th'ck-and-thin supporters of the administra-
tion: Is the administration to be immune from
criticism throughout the war? Are important
mistakes to be passed over in silence? Are
we to take over the old maxim of royalty
"The king can do no wrong?”
To these questions there can be only one
. nr.swer from patriotic Americans who are not
blinded by party prejudice. The only way to
1 g-t mistakes corrected is to point them out.
There is not a business institution in the
country that can stam. immunity from criti-
cism. When the heads of a business make
. ti emselves a mutual admiration society and sit
atcund telling each other how fine they are.
then that business is dying of dry rot. If
! there were only a chorus of praise for what
th» administration is doing how would the
’ evident learn where the weak places were?
An executive may not enjoy criticism. But
be knows he can’t succeed without it.—
K insas City Star.
At the Theater*
Unique Chorus in “Clilu Cliln.”
In the chorus of “Chin Chin” to
be seen at the Grand Opera House
Thursday Friday Saturday and
Sunday there are sixty girls. More
than two-thirds of these girls have
never been seen either here or in
New York. They have been chosen
from the ranks of the prettiest girls
of every state in the Union.
By an arrangement that was made
with a talking machine company out
of town applicants for positions in
the chorus who were unable to go to
New York where the engagements
were made had their voices recorded
on disk records at the various agen-
cies and these were sent to Manager
Charles Dillingham for considera-
tion.
Among the typical beauty chorus
are two from Chicago one from
Denver one from Boston three from
California tw*o from Philadelphia
two from Cleveland one from Sioux
City two from New Orleans one
from Dallas Texas one from Duluth
and one from Cheyenne Wyoming.
•‘Th© Visitor”—Majestic.
One of the strongest sketches that
have been presented at the Majes-
tic this season is the offering of Por-
ter J. White and Company called
‘ The Visitor” a character that
brings mystery tragedy and withall
wit and humor. The theme of the
playlet has to do with a tense situa-
tion that occurs after a prosecuting
attorney’s hard day at court and in
his own home and which involve^
the man he is about to convict for
murder his wife himself and "The
Visitor.”
Nellie V. Nichols is a favorite who
returns after an absence of two
years. Miss Nichols is presenting
an all new act this season.
Ilex Beach Stars at Empire.
With the initial showing of "The
Auction Block.” a photoplay version
of Bex Beach’s famous novel at the
Empire Theater tonight the entire
film company making Beach pic-
tures will appear in person and in
costume on the stage. They will be
presented by Director Frank Powell
with the permission of R. W. Mc-
Farland manager of the Rex Beach
Players. Mr. Powell it was who
brought out Theda Bara in "A Fool
There Was.” The leading woman of
the Beach Company is Miss Anna Q.
Nilsson who has co-starred with
George M. Cohan and others. Her-
bert Hayes plays opposite her. The
company is now in San Antonio pic-
turizlng Mr. Beach’s latest novel.
"The Heart of the Sunset” which
will be shown at the Empire upon its
completion.
"Oh You Sweetheart”—Royal.
A concoction of mirth and melody
with an elaborate scenic background
and beautiful costumery is "Oh. You
Sweetheart” the miniature musical
comedy which headlines the Pan-
tages vaudeville bill for the week at
the Royal Theater. It has a neat
little plot and catchy lines and songs
for the nine young women and two
men who make up its company.
Johnny Small and the two Small
Sisters offer a dancing novelty en-
titled "Curtain Diplomacy.” Al
Wohlman. aside from an excellent
voice and a repertoire of popular
songs is a clever comedian and
makes full use of all his talents.
Paula first on the program is
nn accordionist and singer who not
only handles the instrument with
great dexterity but proves herself
proficient in variations.
A feature photoplay is an added
attraction on the bill.
“The Simple Life”—Princess.
A surprise sketch presented by
William Trainer and Company is
"The Simple Life” an exposition of
a novel occurrence in that once for-
tified abode of simplicity—a peni-
tentiary. It is one of the features
at the Princess Theater.
Up-to-the-minute singing and
dancing headline the four-act vaude-
ville bill as presented by GayneH
Everett and Company. Pat and
Peggy Houlton lately come from the
musical comedy stage offer a pleas-
ing skit under the title of "A Sum-
mer Flirtation.” Swain’s Novelty
Circus is made up of pet rats and
cats which perform in harmony de-
spite their instinctive antipathy.
‘‘The Trouble Buster” starring
Ain’t It a Grand and Glorious Feelin
DIPLOMAT HEADS
SERBIAN MISSION
DR. MILANKO VESRIITJL
Dr. Milanko Vesnitch Serbian
minister to France who heads the
diplomatic and military mission to
the United States photographed at
the Hotel Knickerbocker New’
York shortly after the arrival of
the mission in this country. Dr.
Vesnitch represented his country
at the inter-allied conference in
Paris.
Vivian Martin is the feature photo-
play.
Hart at Pearl Today.
William S. Hart will appear at
the Pearl theater today for the last
time in an Ince social feature "The
Square Deal.” In addition to this
attraction a fine art drama "Man
and Woman” will be shown. Thurs-
day a special Fox feature will be
the attraction.
June Caprice the girl of sun-
shine who is appearing in William
Fox’s latest photoplay "Unknown
274” has been in motion pictures
since last April a year. She had
practically no stage experience.
TRADE POLISH WORKERS
German Ncwsimixr Advertisement
Offers to Exchange Them.
AMSTERDAM Jan. 2.—An adver-
tisement of an extraordinary nature
appears in the Deutsche Tageszei-
tung. It is headed. "Exchange ’’ and
reads as follows:
Fifty Polish workers (twenty men
and thirty girls) will be exchanged
lor an euual number of others.
This of course may be a compar-
atively small matter after all the
crimes committed in Kulture’s name
but such a brazen piece of* slave-
dealing reads curiously beside the
numerous Junker declarations being
made in these days that German hu-
manity is rescuing the Poles from
Russian serfdom.
The advertisement draws a pro-
test from the Berliner Tageblatt un-
der tlie heading of "The Modern
Slave Market.” ”So” it exclaims
"fifty persons are to be exchanged
like so many cattle! They have been
consulted about their fate just about
as much as so many cows or draught
oxen would be.”
'The Light's Short Story
IX TIIE MOOS OF FAUJXQ
BLOSSOMS.
(By A. Marla Crawford.)
There was the mellow fragrance
of late autumn in the air w’hen Dave
Thornton turned his runabout from
the white road of the valley to climb
Roan mountain to the little stone
lodge he had visited every fall for
five years. Here and there a patch
of crimson nipped by an early frost
glowed like a blot of blood against
tre green of the trees. To the left
in the valley an acre of goldenrod
rippled in the breeze like a field of
grain ready for harvest. The shouts
< f children playing around an old
cider press where the older people
were busily crushing late apples
came to his ears and he smiled grim-
ly at their happiness. Some day they
too would be disillusioned about life
as he had been. The whistle of a bob-
white calling sweet and clear
sounded from a nearby corn field
where pumpkins lay yellow in the
sunlight. A trumpet vine spilled its
scarlet bloom riotously over the oak
xees by the road.
He was going back against his
will and better judgment. Five years
before he had built the little white
lodge and furnished it out of his
store of treasures picked up on his
travels all over the world. They had
planned to spend their honeymoon
there —he and Carolyn Maynard. But
fate in the person of another man
had interposed and Carolyn bad jilt-
ed him and married a young ambas*:
gador who had taken her abroad im-
mediately. Dave had pried open the
old wound every year by going back
and living ova»* again his old Jove
affair. Now he was going back to
pack up a few of his things for he
had planned to sell the place to Ed-
mee Boynton a young girl who was
beginning to sell short stories to the
magazines. He had met her at a lit-
tle studio tea and had come to like
h r well enough in the weeks that
followed to agree to sell her his little
house of dreams the dreams that
had never come true for him. She
was coming up the next day to look it
e\ cr.
When Dave was half a mile away
he looked up and saw the lodge like
a little white flower opening out of
a green calyx. Smoke curled lazily
from the chimney. Evidently the
old caretaker was ready for him.
As he stepped on the rustic porch
he saw r a merry little fire of Black
Jack logs crackling on the old brass
andirons that had been his mother’s.
A rough basket of wild flowers hung
cutside the door. Within gay pil-
low’s gave a festive air to his worn
old leather couch and he saw a euke-
lele dropped carelesly in the corner.
A Chinese tea set that he had picked
up in Canton was on a wagonette
and a little blue flame burned cheer-
ily under the kettle. Ho stood in
the doorway a little amazed won-
dering if his eyes did not deceive
him. Many times he had pictured
the little house like that warm and
Intimate and cosy.
“Possession” said Edmee Boyn-
ton dressed in a dull blue smock
that half hid half revealed the
curves of her young body as she
came to meet him. “is nine points of
the law*. Mother and I have moved
in. Truthfully we are stopping at
*he hotel on top of the mountain
but T could not resist running down
here and getting things all homelike
for you. Like it?’’ she asked smil-
ing at his expression.
"So much that I can’t think of
selling the place now.”
Suddenly a little pulse in his throat
began to hammer with painful in-
sistence. He wanted to take her in
his arms and kiss her where her
shining black hair waved back from
her high white forehead. Ho had
always felt that she attracted him
powerfully but a burned child
dreads the fire and having been
fooled by one woman had made him
wary of the sex. Seeing Edmet Boyn-
ton against the background of his
little house of dreams that had flow-
ered into a real home under the
magic touch of her deft fingers made
him realize that ho had fallen in
love again hopelessly happily in love
with the little story writer. Ho had
believed that romance had died out
nf the world for him but love can be
hem in the moon of falling blossoms
as well as in the springtime of life.
"Are you going to make mo sorry
Coovrighted. IJI7 by The Tribune Assoc. (New York Tribi
JANUARY 2 1918.
that I came? It will be such a dis-
appointment not to stay here"
She turned away her lips quiver-
ln».
"Do yon think that you can write
stories love stories up here?”
Sho smiled then and looked up at
him. "There is one disease that peo-
ple never acknowledge” she told
i>im. "Writers never admit that'
the - can’t write anything they at-
tempt tr produce. The disease is fa-
ta'. One never recovers. Won’t you
ha.c some tea" she asked hosplt-
ab y "ir your own house?"
II ’ turned and took both her flut-
terin- little hands in his own. “If
yo t v. ill promise to be partners and
cwn half the house and—and—all
ot me!" he answered. As he drew
her into his arms all the old doubta
and misgivings disappeared like
mag'c and a happiness greater than
he hac ever known flooded his
Lear* She had taken his cold emp-
ty little house and opened the win-
dow: to the sunshine of love filling
it with dreams rosy dreams the
dreams that must inevitably come
true. "J love you” ho whispered
passionately ”f love you dear.”
Outside a bird called a tender lit-
*le mating note and the answer
■erne soft and sweet from a con-
tented heart.
There were steps on the porch and
through the door came a vision that
Dave thought could not be real. Car-
-iy Maynard in the pale gray of
widowhood was smiling at him. Ue
went forward to meet her his arm
s.ill around the little storv writer.
I'Vf" as ho greeted her. this woman
who once thrilled him he won-
do I how her coming would affect
him. but his pulse save when he
looked at the wondering Edmee was
jus* as steady as usual. He might
•'.ave been greeting any chance ac-
quaintance. He was conscious that
Carolyn looked rather old. a trifle
1 ase and her complexion was made
up too much for beauty. He had
been fortunate to escape her. He
found himself critically comparing
her to the sincere naturally beauti-
ful little creature who held his
br.art. How could he ever have loved
Carolyn!
Tho fair visitor did not tarrv long.
She realized all too well that a
woman of thirty can not successfully
* jmpete with youth at twenty.
"The eternal triangle!” exclaimed
Edmee when they were alone. “I
think that I will write a love story
how —about you.” she told him.
“And how will you end it. little
sweetheart?” he whispered his lips
< n ’ter eyes and her mouth.
"The hero and the lady who took
J.i.' house right away from hint—"
Were married in the moon of
'oiling blossoms" he supplemented.
"And lived happily ever after." she
prophesied. Then in true housewifely
Ui rm she ran to the wagonette. "The
kettl''.” she said dramatically ‘‘has
boiled drv."
HARD WORK IN “TANKS”
Idea That Small Men Can Serve in
Armored Cara Is Erroneous.
LONDON Jan. 2.—A lot of wild
talk has been heard at tribunals con-
cerning the tanks.
Whenever a man below the aver-
rge height has come up for exception
the chairman has almost invariably
remarked regardless of the man's
muscular development "Oh you are
just the type they want for tho
tanks.”
Nothing could be more misleading
(says a military correspondent) and
the war office is trying to correct
this widespread view.
They point out that men under five
feet are not wanted for the tanks
unless they are of exceptionally good
1 hvsique and mentality.
The tanks do not provide “cushy”
jobs for the unfit. The work is hard
and heavy and the nervous strain is
great as any man who has been in
one during an attack will testify.
A Glove Tliat Writes.
LONDON. Jan. 2 —A surgical
glove has been invented which will
< nable a man who has lost the use of
the tendons in the back of the hand
to bp able to write just as well as if
ho had those tendons there. This
slatemen* was made by Surgeon Gen-
eral Sir Francis Treherne.
By BRIGGS
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