The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, August 30, 1917, Image 3
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Dean Shaifer Mathews of Cihicc
shows how the Kaiser and his n
pounced on democratic world like
Besides being an author, editor, caergymati, &L. n
Mathows is a member of the National Security league
nised to spread throughout the United States inform
of our war with Germany. The committee was formed
alent belief that many Americans were unfamiliar wit
grievances and the reasons why war could not bc
Mathews is known as a student of international politi
Dr. S. L. Gulick went to Japan as representatives of t
United States.
4 (From New York Times Maga
AMERICA needs to be told why
ignorance is to its credit. A nation
live like a gentleman among natk
found it difficult to believe that al
moved by respect for the customs at
codify gentlemanly relations between
We have at times overpraised ou
Poses, and in consequence for the L
. Jhave listened with a rather amused
cessive proclamations of the kaiser
f of Germany by subsidized mnouthpi
broke out in 1914 for two years we
Germany and its agents as we expe'
to treat ourselves.
Our attitude might have charam
Samaritan if he had comue upon th
up the traveler, and schooled himse
the whole affair was exaggerated. We simply cou
German attitude of mind. Accustomed as many o
inte'rpret the finer ideal life of Germany, we could no
like Eueken, Iarnack, 1-Ierrmann, and )iessmaann
without reserve lend themselves to the defense of ti
worthy of their words as we had understood them.
Against our will we have been disillusioned. %
into war, we have had war thrust upon us. A chair
over which we have had no control has brought
home to the Americans, anxious to maintain their
faith in Germany, the conviction that America's
sovereignty was being outraged, its people killed,
its inner peace deliberately attacked, anti its insti
tutions, founded in sacrifice and offered to the
world, not only despised but in danger of destruc
tion.
Germany has forced America, as it has forced
almost the entire world, to defend itself by arms.
Nobody but those suffering from myopic idealism
sympathies can see anything else. Some of us
have suffered when the scales have fallen-cut
away by facts. At last we see clearly. Ve have
not been drawn into the war by capitalism, or by
commercialism, or by national policy. For months
we have been living in a state of war, deliberately
planned by a nation whose leaders for ten years
have been preparing some day to fight America
and who have counted our good nature as cow
ardice, our unpreparedness as a lack of national
self-respect.
Here are the facts:
s We are fighting this war, in the first place, be
cause Germany made -war upon us.
For years she has sought to build up in Amer
icea a community more loyal to herself than to the
United States. Money has been lavishly spent in
Germanistic societies, alliances, and associations
to win the admiration and loyalty of American
dtizens. Our universities have been flattered,
our professors have been honored for this rea
son. Praise of the kaiser has been inserted even
in the spelling books of our public school system.
Spies have been everywhere.
When the war came in 1914 German oflicials,
many of them in high diplomatic positions, treat
ed the United States, a neutral nation, as if it
were an enemy. Pro-German publications were
founded and subsidized, strikes were organized,
mnanufacturing plants were blown up, plots
against nations with wvhom we had treaty rela
tions were formed within our borders, b~ombs
were placed on ships in our ports. Hatred of
America was systemstically disseminated through
Germany and efforts were made to involve us in
trouble with Japan and Mexico.
In reply to our repeated protests against these
and ether acts of Germany, to be mentioned pres
ently, we have received promises and explann
tions whleh were little less than insults. The
treaty that had existed almost the entire life of
the American republic was set at naught and
Sefforts wet-e made to coerce us into favorable
modifications of its terms.
The right oftade with belligerents, which Ger
mnyn had always claimed, even to the benefit of
.our enemy in 'the war with Spain, and wvhlch at
Germany's own insiatence is universally recog
aised in international law, wvas treatedl as the
violation of our neutrality and allance with her
enemies. And, finally, the proclamation of unre
Sstricted destruction of neutral ships upon the
high seas was a notificatior) to the United States
that it was no longer a sovereign people, but
that if it would sail the seas in safety it must
conform to conditions set by a power that dlefiedl
International la1w, humanity, and elemental imor
ality.
In the second p~lace we are defending ourselves
* ~ against Germany because .the Germani state has
entered upon a program which means the destr-uc
tion of democratie institutions.
The Prussianization of Germany means that the
policy of Prussia to carry on economic and po
litical expansion by war is to bn extended
throughout the entire world.
We recognize that there were once, and we
-dare believe even now that there are, two Ger
manys, one liberal and the other an autocratcy
based on militarism. The struggle between these
two forces since 1815 has been a steady subjuga
tlon of liberalism in Prussia and the or~her Ger
* man states to the will of a Prussian feudal no
bility. Representative and responsible govern
inent in any true sense of the word has been
fought by Prussian leaders relentlessly, Edtuca
tion has been made at creature of autocracy and a
source of international hatred.
* ~ The same fate has met every land Prussianismm
has touched. Austria was beaten into submission
in 1800, and all the othier German states- were
made practically subject to the will of the Hohen
mollerns between that date and 1870. France was
s'obbed and humiliated. Tme Balkan states were
kept in perennial war in the interests of German
expansion. Bohemia and Poland have been treat
ed with the same disregard of populair rights as
has been Aisace-Lorraino. Turkey betTcamei ai vas
eat of the kaiser. A great milItaristic, anti
datmocratic state like southern Germany, sub
isrvient to Prussia, has been staeted and all but
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and the laudationti j''1 *I?tI '
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struggled to treat
ted other nations
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Is built from the Baltic to the iersiai gulf.
Great Britain was maligned and threatened with
destruction. South Ameri-a Was in part colon
ized by Germans, and the Monroe loctrine Was
repeatedly threatened.
The highest authorities in .Japan have repeat
edly said that German intrigues were endeavor
ing to bring about misunderstanding, if not war,
between Japan and the United States.
As far back as 1903 representative Germans
frankly said that Germany would have to fight
America because it was Germany's commercial
rival. In Samoa and the Philippines German -in
terference twice at least brought us to the verge
of war. Had it not been for Great Britnin. which
has always recognized American Policy in the
Vestern IIemisphere and submitted disputes to
arbitration, German arrogance and ambition
would have years ago brought on the crisis.
With the commercial expansion of European
nations, the United States has no quarrel. If,
however, such expansion is based, guarded, and
enforced by the threat of war, the United States
can see the machinntions of men who are dsir
ous of expansion at the expense of the rights of
other nitions.
Since the outbreak of the European war, the
ruthlessness of this German hostility to other nn
tions, and particularly to those (lint have regard
for international law and really representative
government, is apparent. We have seen treaties
disregarded whenever they stood in the way of
German militaristic plans. We have seen con
quered states treated with a brutality worthy of
Assyria. We have seen a policy of terrorism ap
plied systematically in the ab~use of prisoniers, the
massacring and1( deporta tion of civilihm populan
tions, the indlescrib~able abuse of women and clil
dren, the destruction of noblest wvorks of art, the
devastation of abiandtonedi regions, tihe wholesale
execution of Poles, Bohlemians, and1( Serbians ; tile
incitement of Mohammiedans to a holy3 wvar, and1(
the permissIon of an attemlpted1 extermlination or
(lie Christian people of Armenia.
We have seen hospital ships sunik, unfortilled
towvns bombed anld bombarded. We have seen a
medal struck in honor of the sinking of (lie Lusi
tania. Up to tihe date in which we ilnly recog
nized that Germany was waging wari upon)1 uts we
had seen 220 American citizens, among them manr
women and children, kIlled by German subhma
rinles. Altogether, on the first of A pril, 1917, wve
DRIED EGGS TO*
U. S. FROM CHINA
Imports of eggs products this year haive amiounIt
ed to about 10,000,000 pounds(1, valuied( on the nyver
age at about 15 cents a pound. Thuese pr-oducits
are imported chiefly fromi Jaipan andi China and
include eggs that have b~een dried, frozeni or~ pow
dred. Tfhey are ulsedl in this country princip~ally
by bakers in the manufactu-e of varlouis kinds of
pastry.
The consumption of Asiatic egg pr-oducts inl this
country has greatly increased in recent years, and
therefore the condItions undeir which they are
prepared become of greater interest to thle ipublic.
Th'le operationi of a mlodei plant at Shanghai is deC
scribed as follows:
"The eggs atre received at the door of the fac
tory in baskets containing approximately 1,000
('ggs, and as tihe factory offers better prices for
choice eggs it is securing (lie highest class of egg
produced within a circle of probably a 100-mile
radius. The eggs are brought into the examinling
room, whlere tile conteuts of the baskets are gone
over and all cracked or otherwise dlamlaged eggs
are separated. Trhe eggs are then candled by
Chinese, who pass them before the candling lamps
alt tile rate of 500 an hour. The handilinig rooms
are kept in a temper-atuire not exceedling 56 degrees
Fahrenheit, tile range of temperature In the build
lng, used both1 for freezinig aind for drying eggs,
being from zero to ulpwardl of 100 dlegrees Fahren
helt in the freezing and drying rooms, respectively.
"From the candling roomis tihe fresh eggs with
unbiiroken shells are taken to (lhe breaking room,
wyhich In poitit of sanitar-y applIances anid atten
tion to details of personal hygiene scarcely is sur
passed by (lie operating room of a hospital. In
fact, tile general effect of the room, aside from if
lowv temperature, is that of a well-ordered hoc
pital, but wvith ten white-capped and aproneu
nurses where the ordinary hospital would have but'
one. The factory now employs 100 girls, each of
whom is expected to break and separate from-1,0
(w
sbine w Jarfare
~~1 r A iI1.
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Wesa Grman prcpttn this wol wE+ ar,
worl to be ij unr ad to defend" l lft agains/. t a
racy. We ( haveentred', the. wa pimrly in"\1!Clf
.K1efense. To h ae / don an ting }less woub , h ave
bee so far crid. out an th tl , odrnnn
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tin f Euop sol weane thai t. e' n ourI
a aaius o sle cls milry1 autoerney
lgnEn invtal w: as. w.:ith andfor', emocracy.
ot to 1 have ' c -p t dwt h al' wr ldt ha t is en
'1 :)!L ' 21 f ' , Ii"
Geran th its1 miiaiteatoreistr
been a bid fo suce
naty, en 110 terb than (;S itonoal sutis stin by
suponacrone warfare,
ed saw Germany prectifitu r Brig ihs world wnr,
irn ich she has use poison aal ire, :)s a tin
of her official policy at a voun art yingn in tre
have1)sr of her leaers she alwdl Iv ii' rest of the
world to lhe unreadly to defend itself augarinst an
nttac for which Germany 11141 menr-trepuring
for 40 years.
The slai catalogue of facts mbakes It plain
nvhy America is fighting to defend itril ard he'nc'
racy. We have entere the war intri y in self
hefense. To have done aytli less Would have
been'I to sulrender our sovereigznty andi to havej
aited passien luntin the Gerain program had
been so far cri out and thle Irbrly tha odern nde
Itenden of Europe Cv wearkeaed thae we in our
deprtareuness utold hne been forced to fight
at rap~acious, conscienceless militiaiy autocracy,
nretse entds a wat' are avovedly tadeenaec, ag
grandizedent, ad the lv ol of the wor. Our
alignment inevitafly was olth nl for dempocracy.
An epoch of civilization hangs In ilta balance.
Not to have co-operated wite a worl that Is en
tiravo-ring to pirotec(t ii self 1)81(1 its future from
Germany with its militaistic aitocracy, its ter
toriesm, and its disregard of international law,
tihat noblest prouct of civilization, would have
been a b~id for suicide.
bVe do not fight for aggrteanddent or inde
nity, or the forcible imposition of our institutions
tpo ay coantry wud tight for self-protection.
We dlo niot fight to further Biritish ambitions or
French schemes of colonization. We are fighting
for the Institutions which with varying degrees
hdlesrei frshl Atericazed cortir orlhd by
thena fiacoy, A afte their unarls Treyanrd
Ouyre asuc ed wil proced itosthe, weorkriom.
iThenl frakingroo hie anld oclree'sndhil
drtoie ejyace astfo eneulra theioeralism
tos at thwe orces, ~lalfore nearly Of century
laaeea ito s ppneswsor. haialyspane
Tnego he cnIenn, uino preserve inv Aeic
aond nbgyaa the tllertynw thatge witht hnd
cradecks tOur thei bvar afe the futurig acie.
Teet b 'rinot thrn fi urhed bypadexterous move
mtof theingernwhneh anrmit the egg tio wop
ntashav(elrl cup hwhaerest the tsk scagh seeng
that whoteralnoe o tir ae la the ie.le rt
fthe eopl feature inotprsaor the ear adin fths
thou00ggy flayred, beiforced. thirought the fac
toryapayingusigner avy'sI tam ptrsrai , ta paThe
and workin onlywhix days aoutkita of s e nfaes,
whlahsare aled o colu tiaa temperatre slliht-y
tuoethe paknagroo, weeit lan pc plaed toin itxs
labor, woitht wthedper whlo il eh aaroe~i tenellegg-n
Fbr thak eeing os f eggsav Ithe searatrdon any
tacralln arecried woud juta aseafor the manesec
tue of frairyraksa only aftera train~ier 100 girge
thcan are takento the freea ngn hamers.Her
Athe tmatuwrers etri clse ozroi rahtreynhet
athe ctorand whites an yotlkrris are pouredcua'to
serilizeadiacg tont ras tatfil asn the oall ftheg
frouainof ihnmhatl iiegrsir ety f ntr
HOW AMERICA CAN
FEED ITS ALLIES
Important Message to People
From Herbert C. Hoover,
Administrator.
WORLD SUPPLIES ESTIMATED
increased Production, Elimination of
Waste and Careful Control of Food
Exports Form tho Solution
of This War Problem.
Washington, Aug. 20.-Vhat the peo
ple of the United States not only can
but must do in the matter of food pro
duction and use in order to help win
the war is set forth in detail in a
statement issued today by Food Ad
ministrator Herbert C. Hoover. If we
fail to do our part in this respect, he
says, the people of the allies cannot be
maintained at war, for their soldiers
cannot light without food.
The normal imports of wheat and
other cereals by France, Italy, the
United Kingdom and Belglum, and the
estimates of the 1917 crop in those
countries con pared to the normal pro
duction are given by Mr. Hoover in
tlbulated form, and the conclusion is
drawn that in order to provide normal
consumption it will be necessary
for them to import in the next 12
months 577,000,000 bushels of wheat
and 074,000,000 bushels of other cere
als. If the crops of the United States
and Canada all niature safely, North
America will have an apparent nut
plus of 208,000,000 bushels of wheat
and 950,000,000 bushels of other cere
als. The allies, therefore, must tie
other cereals than wheat for mixing
in their war bread, and the people cf
America must reduce their consump
tion of wheat flour from live to four
pounds per week per person.
Decrease in Food Animals.
A careful estimate of the world's
food animal position shows a total net
decrease of 115,005,000, and this will
be greater as the war goes on. As
the increase of herds and flocks takes
years, we must reduce the consunip
tion, eliminate waste and carefully con
trol meat exports.
Our home dairy products supplies
are decreasing, while our population is
Increasing, and we must ship in
creasing amounts of such products to
our allies. Consequently this indus
try must be stimulated, aid ho'iw
users must save the wastes in milk and
butter. Much the same may be said in
the case of sugar.
Mr. Hoover urges a greater con
sumption of fish and sea foods, in
which our coasts and lakes are enor
mously rich. Trhe products of the land
he reminds us, are conserved by the
eating of those of the sea.
Our Duty.
In conclusion the food ndmlinistrator
says:
I have endeavored to show in previ
one articles that the world is short of
food ; that Europe is confronted with
the grim specter of starvation unless
from our ablundance and our waste we
keep the wolf from the door. Not only
must we hantve a proper use of our food
supply in order that we may furnish
our allies wIth the sinews wvith wvhich
they may fight our battles, but it is
an act of humanity towardls fellow
men, wtomen and children.
By the diversion of millions of men'f
from production to wvar, by the occu
pation of land by armies, b~y thle Iso
lation of markets, by belligerent lines,
and by the destructIon of shIppIng by
submarines, not onily has tile home pro
duction of our allies fallen by ever
500,000,000 bushels of grain, hut they
are throw'n upon us5 for ai miuch bInrger
proportion of their normal imphor'ts for
merly obt ained from ot her~ ma11rket s.
They have reduced consumption at
every point, but menCI in the trenches.
men in the shops, and the mllions of
women placed at phleailll labor re
quire more food than11 during peace
times, and the incIdence of thleir saving
anid any shortaige which they many suf
for, falls first upon womlen and11 chIt
dren. If this prliatlon becomues too
great, their peoples ennnot h~e mana
talied constanlt ini the war, mli we will
be left alone to fight thle 11 bttie of
democruey withl Germanl~y.
The problenm of food consl~ervnlfioni is
one of nmany comnp'exlons. WVe e:innmot,
and we do not wish, wuith our1 free ini
stitutions andl our' large resolnrces (of
food, to imitate Europe in Its ipoliced
rationing, but we must voluntarily and
intelligently assume the re'splonsibility
before us5 as one in whleh everyone
has a direct and inesenipnihil intere*st.
We must Increase our export of foods
to the allIes, and in, the cIrcumstances
of 0our shipping situation, thiese' exports
must he of the most concentrated
foods. These are wheat, flour, beef,
pork and dairy products. We have oth
er foods in great abulndance which we
can use instead of these commnodities,
and we can prevent wastes iln a thou
sand directions. We inust guard the
improving One's Good PoInts.
The art of posing lies In one's abil
ity to acquire it without appearing af
fected. To make those with whom
one comes in contact weary with un
necessary affectation is of course a
thing to be dieploredl. If the individual,
however, realizes the importance of
helping nature's endowments, she will
appear perfectly natural in always
qtriving to look her very best. Learn
toe know your own good points and
take the trouble to ctultivate them.
You will find that it will pay.
drainage or exports tross the Ui "t -
States, that we retain a proper supply ', -:
for our own country, and we must }
adopt such measures as will aanelio
rate, so far as may be, the price condi
tions of our less fortunate. We might
so drain the supplies from the country
to Europe as by the high prices that
would follow to force our people to
shorten their consumption. This oper
ation of "normal economic forces"
would starve that element of the corn
munity to whom we owe the most pro
tection. We must try to impose the.
burden equally upon all.
Action Must Be Voluntary.
There is no royal road to food con
servation. We can only accomplish
this by the voluntary action of our .
whole people, each element in propor
tion to its means. It is a matter of
equality of burden ; a matter of mun
ute saving and substitution at every
point in the 20,000,000 kitchens, on the
20,000,000 dinner tables and in the
2,000,000 manufacturing, wholesale and
retail estabiishments of the country.
The task is thus in its essence the daily
individual service of all the people.
Every group cnn substitute and even
the great majority of thrifty people
can save a little-and the more luxuri
ous elements of the population can by
reduction to simple living save much.
The final result of substituting other
products and saving one poind of
wheat flour, two ounces of fats, seven
ounces of sugar and seven ounces of
meat weekly, by each person, will,
when we have multiplied this by ono
hundred million, have increased our
exports to the amounts absolutely re
quired by our allies. This menns no
more than that we should eat plenty,
but eat wrisely 11(1 without waste.
Foo(l conservation has other :;pects
of utmost imiportnlie. Wairs miust be
paid for by savings. Ve must save
in the consuiinption in comtnodities and
the consumption of unproductive la
bor in order that we may divert our
manhood to the army and to the shops.
The whole of Europe has been en
gnged ever since the war began In the
elimination of waste, the sm1111p)1ieation
of life, and the increase of its indus
trial eapaeity. When the war is over
the consumiig power of the world will
be reduced by the loss of prosperity
an1(d man111 power, and we shall enter a
period of com8petition without parallel
in feroeity. After Ihe war, we must
maintain our foreign markets If our
working people are to be employed.
We shall he in no position to compete
if we coaltnue to live on the same
basis of waste and extravngance on
which we have lived hitherto. Simple,
temperate living is a moral Issue of the
first order at any time, and any other
basis of conduct during the war be
comes a wrong against the Interest of
the country and the interest of
democracy.
The impact of the food shortage of
Europe has knocked at every door of
the United States during the past three
years. The prices of foodstuffs have
nearly doubled, and the reverberations
of Europe's increasing shortage would
have thundered twice as loudly dur
ing the coming year even had we not
entered the war.
We are today in an era of high
prices. We must maintain prices at
such a level as will stimulate produe
tion, for we are faced by a starving
world and the value of a commodity to
the hungry is greater than its price.
As a result of the wvorld shortage of
supplies, our consumers have suffered
from speculation and extortion. WVhile
wages for some kinds .of lahor have
increasedl with the rise in food prices,
in others, it has been difficult to mnin
tain our high standard of nutrition.
1By the elimination of wvaste in all
classes, by thle rednetion in the cqn
sumption of foodstuffs by the more for
tunate, we shali incrense our supplies
not only for export hut for home, and
by increased supphtes we can help in
the amelioration of prices.
For Better Distribution.
Beyond this the duity lhas been iaid
upon02 the food adlminilstration to co-op
ernte with the patriotic menCJ in trades
and commerce, that1-we may eliminate
the evils which hav'e grown into our
syst em of distribution, that the lir
dlen nmay fall eqiltahly' upon0 all by res
t~tioh, so far us 25may13 be, of the nor
mal11 course of t raid. It is the purpose
of the food ndiistraltloln to use its
ul movst power and the utmost itbillity
thai patriotisim can assemible to ameli
orate' this sitiuation to such a dlegree as
may23 be piblle.
The food adn~inist ration1 is assemj
blin the best expert idv'ice in the
('ountr iy onI home (ec~ooics, on food
utlization, on trade praetices andl
tradie wa'uses, and on the conduct of
pulblie (entinag places, nnd1( we shlli omut
line from time to time detailed sugg~es
ions, which if honestly carried out by
nu'h individuals in the country, we be
lieve will effect the result which we
must attain. We are asking every
110m1e' every pulilc eating place and
many trades, to sign a pledge card
to ne(cept these directions, so far as
the(ir' circumnstnnees permit, anid we are
orgianizing various instrumentalities to
ame1(lioralte speculation. We are ask
ing tihe men~f of the country who are
not actually engaged in the handiing
of food to sign similar pledges tbat
they shall see to it. so far as they are
able, that these directions are followed,
Our Difficult Language.
Apropos of the diflculties that our
foreign-born friends exp~erience in
learning "United States," a subscribher
writes: "A boy born a Dane and raised
in a German family came to me and
said: 'Will you borrow me your wheel
barrow?' and when lie saw me smile
he said(, '1 mean, can I lend it from
you?' "-Outlook,
Daily Optimistic Thought,
The liberty of the press is essential
to a free governtnent,