THE FIRST GAS ATTACK. |
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Its Effect Was Nothing Less Than
' Appalling.
"The first gas attack was of the
so-called 'drift-gas' type," says Henry
P. Talbot in The Atlantic. Chlorine
gas was discharged in quantity
by a favorable wind over the Allied
trenches, with diastrous results.
Chlorine is a heavy gas, green in color
and exceedingly irritating to the
membranes of the air-passages even
at great dilusion. This gas may be
liquedified under high pressure in
steel cylinders, and great numbers
of these cylinders were placed at intervals
of a few feet along the front
that had the enemy realized tne iuu
laid outside, opening toward the
trenches of the Allies. The gas was
simultaneously discharged from/these
openings, and with a light wind it
held close to the ground. It is said,
that had the enemy realized the full
effect of this gas attack and followed
it up they could havq pushed completely
through the Allied lines. It
* is probable that they were not themselves
adequately protected against
the gas, and were uncertain as to
' . what they would find in the gassed
area.
* The Election.
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It is with a feeling of profound relief
that South Carolina can look back
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on~the recent election and receive the
"npplause^of the country for having
refused to allow her devotion to the
sacred cause for which America
struggles to be impeached. Even the
minority that voted for Mr. Blease
r must realize on sober second thought
that it would have been a calamity
irom wmcu tiitj oiawuiu
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slowly have recovered to send to the
senate a man with Mr. Blease's record.
Even the thousands of "friends'*
\ of Mr. Blease who insisted to the last
in putting political factional preference
before the one supreme issue
\ of principle must feel now that it is
well that they did not succeed in
forcing the State into what could not
u have been regarded, to say the best
of it, as other than an ambigious position.
We reiterate our conviction
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. expressed before the election, that
ODly a ver^ small portion of the
Blease vote represented disloyalty.
iC . The size of that vote is too easily
and obviously accounted for by other
features of political life in South
Safe; .
Carolina.
If Mr. Blease could have been forced
to meet his opponents squarely
r; upon the stump from end to end of
the State, we do not believe that he
}' could have polled one in four of the
^ ; vote that was cast. Mi. Blease has,
in our opinion, never shown his political
cunning (and of cunning he is
possessed of a vast store, while wonderfully
lacking in foresight or wisdom)
than when he adopted his plan
of an independent campaign.
Mr. Blease is notable among South
Carolina politicians for the reckless
folly?with which he throws away opportunities.
The reasoq is his narrow,
short-sighted outlook and limitU;
ed general intellectual capacity. In
the qualities that make a statesman
no man could be well more lacking.
If nr? tho outbreak nf war he had
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thrown himself whole-heartedly into
the nation's cause, he woultt have
been irresistible. As it was he acted
as he has repeatedly acted before and
as he will doubtless act repeatedly in
future. He hung himself more effectively
than any opponent could have
done for him. It was as distinctly.
Bleasesque as anything could be; it
was due to his fundamental intellectual
incapacity. If anything could
more completely reveal the intellectual
limitations of a man than this
blunder it is for that man still to profess
not to be able ?to see why the
United States ought to be at war with
Germany. The hold of such a leader
on large "masses of the people is due
to a series of political accidents in
South Carolina intricately mixed up
a with the old liquor situation, personalities,
etc. Strip Mr. Biease of his
balderdash, his gift for stump speaking,
and his supreme cunning in deceiving
the illiterate and exploiting
class feeling, leave him only his record
as a constructive public man, and
there is very little left.
It is evident we do not consider
Mr. Biease a proper man for public
. service. We feel no confidence from
the recent rebuke which he has received
that the State is secure against
him in future. As striking as is his
personally, he is far more significant
as a symptom than as an individual.
Until illiteracy has been eradicated,
until labor has come to understand
its interest and speak through its
own bona fide representatives, South
Carolina will have to spend a great
part of her political energies in sim
ply keeping men out of office that she
ought to be able to devote to programs
of constructive statesmanship, j
?Newberry Observer.
Brewery workers at Kansas City
have received an 18 per cent, increase.
Tacoma (Wash.) teamsters have
secured an eight-hour day.
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WHAT HE DID.
Secretary Baker's First Day in
France.
I "Secretary Baker at the Front" is
the subject of a two-part serial which
opens in the September Century. It is
written by Ralph A. Hayes, private
secretary of the Secretary of War,
who accompanied him on the latter^
memorable journey this spring. In
the following passage Mr. Hayes describes
Secretary Boker's first day in
Paris:
"Immediately upon leaving the
breakfast table, there was begun a
two-days' series of conferences with
officials, American and French, at
Paris and Versailles.
"The first, morning's work was at
the chambers of the premier, where
'The Tiger' of France and the Secretary
conferred in private. An hour
later, the American ambassador and
Mr. Baker closeted themselves at the
embassy. Next we drove to the residence
of the marshal of France. At
an old military school Marshal Joffre,
who now is military advisor to the
French government, leads a semi-retired
life among the students of the
art to which he has devoted his life.
He is enthusiastically reminiscent of
his visit to America, and speaks hopefully
of repeating the trip. Later we
lunched with Gen. Pershing. At 2.30
the Secretary of War had his first
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meeting with the newspaper men.
Scarcely had the journalists gone
when the Secretary was on his way
to the Alied War Council at Versailles.
The council headquarters
were within a stone's throw of the
spot where the Third Estate precipitated
the revolution of 1789, where
England recognized the independence
of .America in 1783 and where the
first Prussian William made his
headquarters in 1870.; Following a
hasty trip back to Parts there was a
later afternoon conference with the
President of the French Republic.
Thereafter the rise of a brightly
shining moon and the appearance of
countless stars seemed to usher in
the end of a perfect day.
"But there was not yet to be rest
for the tired travelers; for when in
midevening the alerte sounded as a
warning signal of an approaching
air attack, all Paris knew that the
Boche was coming by the high road,
and in that knowledge discreetly
sought its securest cellars."
American Food.
Mr. Herbert C. Hoover's announcement
at a dinner given in his honor
by the Lord Mayor of London that
"the period of our anxieties in the
matter of food is in all essentials
now past" was as important as the
bulletin of' a timely battle won by
America and her Aflies in the field.
In announcing his success, Mr.
Hoover explains it. The American
hog figures conspiciously,,the American
steer being found in the background.
' "To increase our beef production,"
he said at the Mansion
House dinner, "would require from
three to five years." Beef, then, must
continue to be scarce and high. But
the hog had come nobly to the res
cue. "I have in my possession," said
he, "the needs of our European Allies
for meats. We can furnish the whole
volume in pork alone." In the next
twelve months America will be able
to export 18,000,000 tons of pork,
and Canada will add 3,000,000 tons.
Furthermore, "there will be no need
during the next twelve months for
any restriction on the volume of
bread-stuffs to be shipped to the Eu
ropean Allies." No wheat figures
are given in the London dispatch, but
the administrator promised that the
2,000,000,000 people in Europe and
North America wouJd have ample
and^better bread. The enemy's conditions
must go from bad to worse,
for, "although a body of some 100,000
persons, comprising the dominating
spirits in Germany, have been able
to put against the rest of the world
the military forces of 160,000,000
people, they have not been able to
produce their needed food."
The food "slogan" ' having been
eliminated by Mr. Hoover and his
Allies, the people of the United
States, there remain the other factors
that at various times we have
been told would win the war: Ships,
airplanes, machine guns, heavy artillery,
gas shells and men. We are
building the ships, airplanes in some
n iionfiftr montii'no ornno in enmo Hp
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gree (steadily increasing,) heavy arj
tillery hardly at all, there being fair
promise but not much performance,
and a beginning has been made in
gas shells. We have 1,500,000 men
in France and on the sea, but not
enough planned for yet. To obtain
needed reinforcements the draft age:
must be extended by Congress. That
is unavoidable, and delay might be
fatal.?New York Times.
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