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TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 21, 1918. THE NEWS AND OBSERVER The News and Observer Raleigh, N. C. Published Every Day I In the Toor THE NEWS AND OBSERVER PUBLISHING COMPANY JOSEPHUS DANIELA, President UPTICE. NEWS AND OBSERVER BUILDING 114-116 West Martin Street 1 Editorial Rooms Dept.

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m. for Sundays. I pledge allegiance to MY FLAG and to the Republie for which it stande; one nation indivisible with Liberty and Justice for all. MORNING TONIC (Dr. Frank Crane.) The brave, grim, cheerful American soldier at the front in France ought to be a tonic to all of 115.

UNCLE WALT MASON HE ALSO SERVES. Before the war across the sea our thoughts were all of boodle; we showed enough of loyalty by whistling "Yankee Doodle." We groaned whene'er we paid a tax, and raised old Nick and Harry, and said the burden ef our backs was much too fierce to carry. If we were asked to rise and aid some project, for a minute, our winning smile would be mislaid: we'd ask, "What is there in it?" We'd talk much of the public weal, of things that needed doing; but all we'd do was rant and spiel, and chew all rags worth chewing. In selfishness we all were soaked, long years of peace had spoiled us; then Stoker Wilhelm deftly stoked, and raised the fire that roiled us. We've vowed 1 to put him in the broth who made this nation nervous, and we have shaken off our sloth, and our one aim is ser.

vice. see the bankers leave their banks, the pastors leave their churches, to round up cheap disloyal cranks and pull them from their perches. I see the merchants leave their stores, to help in bond campaigning: each man forsakes his private chores, no arguing, explaining. We're shaken from the musty ways in which we used to travel; we want to serve, to help, and raise a cloud of dust and gravel. Oh, it's a great thing for our souis, It puts new zest in living, this thing of finding that our rolls are only fit for giving.

Prices have no dificulty in going over the top. Prof. Keeble has got a sweet job all right. Although it is hot it is coal weather It does not seem exactly plane sailing with the serial mail service just yet. Russia now knows just how bitter the cup of German peace is.

Now isn't it the most natural thing in the world that fish stories have to be sealed down! Keep eating a little less wheat and a little less meat. The aireraft program is causing some very, very plain talk. The man who cultivates a war garden is the one who has got ground to brag about. It takes a pen for some folks to come to the scratch. Of course things generally look black for the miner poets.

Some people no doubt would like to see all the pacifists drowned in the Atlantic. The Kaiser is crowing now and is going to ent crow when the peace table is set. In having the iron heel on Austria Germany, of course, has the upper hand of that country. Stick to the little Thrift Stamps and they will stick to you. In keeping Austria under her thumb, of course, Germany resorts to any kind of an underhand method.

There is no question but that now is the time when the cattlemen and the packers are making their steak. The President yesterday signed the Overman bill giving the President broad powers to co-ordinate government departments. It is not recorded that he did it under protest. MAKE IT A BIG OVERSUBSCRIPTION! Raleigh's Intensive campaign for a quick raising of $30,000 for the Red Cross has been launched in vigorous fashion- a manner which beyond any doubt forecasts the successful termination of the campaign within the time limit set. The parade of last evening was inspiring.

It was an eye-opener to a good many people for they did not dream that Red Cross activities in the city and county had reached such dimensions. It aroused enthusiasm and admiration for the work women of the city and county and he was cold-blooded indeed who in observing these unselfish workers did not feel in his neart the desire to co-operate with them in the mercy task to which they had committed themselves. The speaking at the Auditorium also was an of lively and soul-stirring interest. The occasion size of the audience was an augury of IL very cessful campaign for Raleigh's quota of the dred million dollar fund of the Red Cross. The responsiveness of the great throng to the ances of the speakers showed that it would not take talking today to get folks to contribute to the Red Cross.

And the speeches were good. We have shad war speeches, but the people never lose inmany terest in them especially when they are by those who have been in the war. Pershing's men found their way right to the hearts of the crowd and their graphic account of experiences in the by battle zone they undoubtedly caused not a few of those who heard them to revise upward their pective donations to the noble war fund which commands the attention of the Raleigh public today. The day's events lacked only one thing--the presence of troops in the parade. Diligent efforts were made to get them and the authorities had consented to release them for in Washington the parade if any chanced to be in Raleigh at the time, but, as luck would have it, there were none here though several companies went through yesterday morning.

But the campaign got a splendid start any way. And now it is up to all of us to do our utmost both in giving and soliciting today so that Chairman R. D. W. Connor can report to headquarters that Raleigh and Wake county have handsomely oversubscribed.

PUTTING IT TOO STRONGLY. average man looks upon the war as an opportunity to get something rather than an opportunity to give the uttermost in money, life and service." Thus spoke Mr. J. T. Mangum, Y.

M. C. A. social director of Camp Greene, Sunday in an address delivered in this city under the auspices of the local Y. M.

C. A. We have an idea that Mr. Mangum overstated the case. He would class the majority of the people or certainly half of them as profiteers.

This is putting it too strongly. It would be nearer the truth, we believe, to say that the average man wants to do what he can to help win the war. Every succeeding drive finds warmer hearts and pocket books more widely open. Many people do not give largely. But that does not mean that they do not give liberally.

Whether gift is liberal or not is ascertained by Ending how much is left, not by observing how much is given. There are some who are thinking of the war as a means of lining their pockets or adding to their prestige, but relatively these are not numerous. The war is revealing greatness of soul on the part of those who are staying at home as well as on the part of those who are going to the front. THE NEED OF VISION. Vision is the greatest need in the accomplishment of any undertaking.

There can be no adequate preparedness unless there is complete realization of what is to be done. In an address at Philadelphia last week Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard University, said that Germany was the first power that realized the magnitude of the conflict which is rocking the world today. It is to be hoped that even Germany did not understand the size of the task she undertook, but judging from what she has accomplished, she surely had some sort of adequate notion of the tremendous job she would have on her hands in winning world domination.

For her preparation was wonderful. The first man in England who realized the scope of the war is said to have been Lloyd George. When he became minister of munitions he multiplied every estimate by sixteen and later doubled his own estimate. He saw the size of England's task. Dr.

Lowell says America as yet has not realized the magnitude of the conflict but is waking up to it. The people generally perhaps have not realized the magnitude of the task but there is no question that President Wilson and other war leaders have comprehended what the United States must do to render a fair contribution to the task of the winning of the war. No effort is being spared. Achievements already effected have elicited the enthusiastic praise of unprejudiced minds everywhere. It is the individual American who is failing to get an adequate vision.

He is the man Dr. Lowell and others like him are talking to. He is the man who needs to wake up and measure up to the full reach of his duty. And let him start with the Red Cross! WILL PRESS THE FIGHT. It is not surprising that the advocates of woman suffrage will keep up the fight for favorable action by the Senate on the constitutional amendment up to the very moment of adjournment.

The suffrage cause is gaining strength all the while. It is not so much that its champions feel that the women generally are clamoring for it. They are not. That they are not is freely admitted. What especially gives strength to the suffrage cause at a time like this is the beauty and the extent of woman's devotion to her country in the presence of a great emergency.

Men contemplate this spirit of self-sacrifice and unselfish service and wonder if there is not some new instrument that can be placed in woman's hand to equip her even more thoroughly than she is already equipped for minister to the needs of humanity. The ballot occurs to many of them for they know that the ballot affords an opportunity to stand for right against wrong, for purity against corruption and they know that that is where woman would stand. This feeling is liable to grip a United States Senator at any time and take him down from off the fenen if he is there or indeed to pull him bodily from the ranks of the opposition. The suffragists should and will press their fight to a finish. Their cause is growing stronger fair-minded people behold the glory of woman's part in the war.

GERMANY'S GRIP ON RUSSIA. According to Ven Avare, the Cleveland lawyer who has lately returned from a tour or Inquiry in Russia, the task of overcoming German influence In Russia will be a great one. Before the beginning of the war and indeed for some time after, most people who thought of Ruswia at all thought of her as a country that was safe for Russia unless Germany should win a military vietory against her. But all the time Germany had been busy fastening its claws on the country and preparing for its collapse without a decisive struggle at arms. The ostensibly peaceful penetration of Russia, points out, was started by German colonists Sivare 250 years ago.

In 1870 he says the German government began to turn its attention to the work of ita citizens in Russia. "Since then," declares Mr. Svare, "the Kaiser has done everything in his power to interfere in Russia's internal affairs and build a new Germany there." What Germany could do in Russia becomes all very clear now when it has been revealed what it would undertake to do in the South American countries and in fact in North America with three thousand miles of rolling ocean between. many had such a hold in Brazil that she seriously considered the possibility of an uprising of the German element of the population. Imagine what she could do in laying her plans for the appropriation of the territory of a next-door neighbor! Perhaps Russia has been judged too harshly.

Its people have been thought of as selling out to Germany; it was more properly a case of Germans living in Russia delivering their country, or large portions of it at any rate, over to their German masters at Berlin. Svare says that in the rich agricultural government of Kherson, the chief city of which is Odessa, 104,000 German settlers in 1905 owned or controlled one-fourth of the production area. Naturally with their superior forcefulness of race and temperament it in easy enough for a German minority in a province of Russia to rule over its destinies. But the German growth in Russia has not been without opposition. Mr.

Svare, who seems to have made a pretty careful study of conditions in Russin, says that all classes of people there hate the Germans and Prussianism. In his opinion the Russians have a correct estimate of the Germans. a tremendous handicap," he continues, a ruling family of German blood, an officialdom under German influence, and a German element in the country working night and day in the interests of Berlin, for years the Russians combatted the German peril. The struggle against Germany will go on. The Russians have shaken off one set of shackles.

They will shake off the German chains which enmesh them now." Halting the Germanization of Russia is a mighty undertaking, but mighty powers have entered into the arena for a fight to the finish to determine whether the world shall be safe for democracy or safe for Germany. INTERPRETING THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH. When President Wilson speaks the press of the world takes notice. The London Daily Chronicle describes Saturday night's speech in New York as "an utterance which lifts the purposes of the 1 war out of the rut and shows the light of the spirit across its sorrows, shames and monotonies." The London Daily News, referring to the President's remarks concerning insincere peace moves, declares that "if it does not absolutely close the controversy, such a verdict from such a judge inevitably carries very great weight." The News is a part of what Lloyd George calls the "cocoa press" and the pacifistie note in the quotation from it is accordingly intelligible. The fact is that the President long ago closed the door to peace controversy.

In his recent speeches he has declared it as his conviction that it was useless to talk of peace until the German military power was broken. The London Daily Express gave the best interpretation of the President's New York speech, calling it "a thrilling call to duty and sacrifice." That is what the country needs at the present more than anything--calls to duty and sacrifice that will be heard and heeded. And there is no one in the position to voice such a call so effectively as President Wilson. The way North Carolina has started on its Red Cross task shows that this State is aroused to the value of the Red Cross work. The Germans now are said to be waiting for a return of the offensive spirit to their divisions before ordering the new offensive.

Meantime time is working for the spirit of the Allied forces. If the Ukrainians could have some outside help maintained without drawing on Ukraine supplies, they would drive Germany out quickly, Germany having made it plain that it is going to have Ukrainian supplies at any cost. The German air raid on London Sunday night was the first since March 7. In the meantime the great offensive was carried out. Does the resumption of air raiding signify that it may be some time yet before the second offensive will start! Another Spanish steamer has been torpedoed, but as proud old Spain has got in the habit of accepting insults and injuries with only verbal remonstrance, the incident is not expected to have any effect on the relations between that country and the Imperial German government.

Motorevele Officer Mangum is to be commended for his activity in arresting automobile speeders. In view of the rate of speed at which many automobiles go in this city it is remarkable that there are not more accidents. The police department is perjectly justitied in taking vigorous measures to abate this menace. About Preparedness By SAVOYARD As I was "going on to say" the other day the vital issue involved in this world war is whether mankind shall be ruled by the sword. If that question is decided in the afirmative it will be the paramount duty of every nation, little as well 3.9 big, to prepare for war every day of the year and FILL FILL THE POCKETBOOK every hour of the day.

Heretofore it has been the concern of nations to it that other nations inflict no harm on them. That is a relict of barbarism. When man is civilized it will be the concern 'of nations to see to it that they work no harm to other nations. When civilization reaches that point, now far distant, the prophecy of Isaiah 11:4 will be fulfilled and the grandest dream of Victor Hugo will be reality. If the Entente allies beat Germany so completely as to have her at their mercy a peace will be dietated by them and it will provide that all nations shall disarm.

On the other hand, if the fight shall turn out to be a draw the peace will be nothing but truce, and all nations will prepare and when the war comes it will be even bloodier than this war. And if Germany shall be victor and dietate the peace she will be mistress of the world. France will be spoliated and much of her territory in Europe, together with all the colonies abroad, annexed to Germany. Belgium will become what Alsace-Lorraine has been since 1871. Holland and Scandinavia and all of Russia will be vassals of Germany just as Austria is now.

The Balkans, Turkey and Persia will be ruled from Berlin. Italy will be a conquered province, and then Germany will "prepare" to conquer British Colonies and possessions and smash the Monroe Doctrine. This war has got to be fought to a finish. At its close the German sword will rule the world or that sword will be impotent to cause alarm. So the real issue is "preparedness." We have our judges who advocate Prussian preparedness and they are mighty noisy.

Their argument is founded on a fundamental error--that preparedness makes for peace. It makes for war as this war proves. If no nation had been prepared for this war it would not have come. It is argued that if the British army had been on the feting of the German army there would have been no war. That is speculation; but it is certain that had the German army been on the footing of the British army there would have been no war.

When a nation has an army such as the German army of 1914 that nation is going to find bloody work for that army to do. The English, or the French, or the Italians, or the Spanish, or the Americans, would make a war for such an army if they had such an army with which to wage the war. The German people didn't make this war; the German army made it. Has preparedness ever paid? Philip II was the best prepared for war of all European monarchs of his day. He engaged in war to the limit of his resources, and Spain was weaker entirely and relatively when he died than she was when he was crowned.

Old Sully was the Bismarek of his day. He had followed of everywhere except into the Catholic Church and he did more than any other man to put the crown of France on the brow of his master. And after his master became Henry the Great, Sully began a systematic preparation for war, a war of conquest, a war to extend the bounds of France to the Rhine. He tells all about it in his book, one of the most tertaining narratives in history. But it was not ento be.

A religious lunatic of the name of Ravillac put an end to the scheme by plunging a dagger into the vitals of the king and upon whose death a woman got authority and sent old Sully into retirement. Perhaps it would have been fine if a Ravillae had put a dagger into the heart of the Kaiser in 1914)-if crown prince had then been an infant in arms and a woman appointed Regent the Empire. The war would have been put off at least. Louis XIV was the grandson of Henry the Great. He was the monarch in Europe best prepared for war.

And his generals were men of uncommon military genius. armies had but to fight to be victorious. They extended the bounds of France and humiliated the of Austria. Holland was overrun by them, and had old Louis died the day the treaty of Ryswick was signed his reign would have been the most glorious of the kings of France. But he went too far.

The sword overleaps itself. He proceeded to put the crown of Spain on the head of a great grandson and at the same time he promised the crown of England to the Stuart pretender. That precipitated a war that was disastrous, almost ruinous to France. Conde, Turenne, and Luxemburg were dead while the armies of the adversary were commanded by Marlborough and Eugene and all that saved France from other overthrows was the fact that Bolingbroke was jealous of Marlborough and being on top, practically in England the peace of Utrecht and thus Marlborough became a soldier out of a job and France was let out of a tight place. Not a it.

True it conquered Denmark, You may, say Bismarck's preparedness paid. feated Austria and overwhelmed and spoliated deFrance. But it implanted lust of military glory in the heart of the German people, and the fruit of it is this world war from which it is not at all unlikely Germany will emerge utterly prostrate and powerless in the grasp of her enemies. Too many great men forget that God reigns and that He is good. TURKISH CRUELTY TO THE HELPLESS Text of Formal Complaint To Germany By Russian Foreign Minister (By the Associated Press) London, May -The Russian commissioner for for uga affairs it was made known today sent the following wireless message April 12 to the German foreign office: "In the Turkish advance on the Caucasus the peaceful population women and children, is being eut down ruthlessly by thousands.

The treaty we, were forced to sign at Brest-Litovsk provided that the populations at Arda- full han, Kars Batum should have freedom and the right to control their destiny in their own way. The events in these regions show that the policy of extermination which has been followed for the past ten years is still being pursued. "Responsibility of atrocities among the people in the regions at present by Turky Armenian, devolves upon the German government whose assistance makes it possible for Turkey to exercise its will in these regions. "The people's commissioner for foreign affairs vigorously protests against the betrayal of the right of the populations of Ardahan, Kars and Batum to dispose of themselves. The commissioner insists upon the necessity of speedy and decisive intervention on the part of Germany in the Caucasus to prevent the continuation of the massaere and extermination of the peaceful population, which is taking place at Ardahan." Hear Prof.

Shorey, Says Dr. Paschal. To the News and Observer: Please call attention of the people of Raleigh to the rare opportunity they have to hear Professor Paul Shorey at the Meredith College commencement 011 Tuesday morning. Professor Shorey is head of the Greek department in the University of where his courses are always thronged by an enthusiastic number of young men and women attracted by his genial sympathies and wide knowledge of philosophy and literature which he brings to bear upon the illumination and interpretation of the subject of study. He is also one of the foremost Platonists of the world.

His work, "The Unity of Plato's Thought," is the chief contribution to the study of Plato of the last half century, and has been most valuable in disentangling the subject from the subleties and mystifications of modern German and British scholasticism. His edition of Horace's Odes and Epodes shows his versatility in the field of letters. Professor Shorey has served as resident Director of the American Classical School at Athens and as Roosevelt Exchange Professor to Berlin. It is not going too far to declare that to he is one of the major prophets of today. As speaker he is always heard gladly.

He is an interpreter of the practical problems of every day life in a way that never fails to charm and instruct. I am certain that the people of Raleigh, especially the cultured women, would be much pleased with his address at Meredith. Yours very truly, G. W. PASCHAL.

Wake Forest. N. C. BLADENBORO OVERSUBSCRIBES RED CROSS ALLOTMENT (Special to The News and Observer) Bladenboro, May a patriotic ral held here yesterday Mr. J.

A. Brown, of Chadbourn, addressed a large gathering. After discussion of the activities of the Red Cross an appeal was made funds for carrying on this work of mercy. Bladenboro went over the top by exceeding its quota. The honor flag for the Third Liberty Loan campaign has arrived and will be hoisted immediately.

PARDON REFUSED BY LOUISE PRICE East Raleigh Woman, Convicted of Vagrancy, Begins Jail Sentence CAN'T RENT PROPERTY TO DECENT PEOPLE New Precedent Is Established in History of Executive Clemency Executive clemency, probably for the first time in the gubernatorial history of North Carolina, was yesterday deelined when Louise Price, convieted vagrant, sent her wardrobe to the Wake county jail and began serving a sentence of thirty days imposed upon her by Judge Calvert at the December term of criminal court. She was given a conditional pardon by Bickett two weeks ago, followGiovernor made in behalf by a number of prominent women of eigh. At the time the Governor was considering the matter of extending clemency to the woman, Solicitor Herbert Norris, who vigorously prosecuted the indictment against her in Wake superior court, appealed to Governor Bickett not to interfere with the ence imposed by Judge Calvert. Upon certain conditions, which were laid down in the pardon, the Governor permitted the woman to leave the county in lieu of serving the sentence. Among these conditions the woman was required to her property in East Raleigh, which is said to be considerable, or place it in the hands of reputable real estate dealers to rent to decent people.

It is to this part of the pardon that she has excepted and begun her sentence. She told the local authorities that it was impossible to comply with the conditions of the don, since her property could not be profitably rented to decent people. She was extended the clemency of the Chief Executive two weeks ago and yesterday was the time limit for her to have arranged her property matters and leave Raleigh or begin her ence. Having chosen the latter tive she sent her trunk down to the office of Sheriff Sears yesterday morning notified the jailer that she would arrive in a short while. These officers were perplexed.

After she had been pardoned, they did not know whether the provisions of the pardon made it possible to receive her prisoner or not. They naturally consulted Solicitor Norris. He referred them to the Governor. The advice from the Governor's office was to cancel the pardon by writing across the face, "the defendant refuses to accept conditions and is ordered to fulfill the terms of the court sentence." She arrived at the jail shortly after lunch time yesterday. Between sobs, she paid her jointly to the cials and the newspapers, the while registering a most violent protest against further publicity.

The trial of the Price woman attract. ed attention because of the ruling of Judge Calvert in permitting the State to testimony to prove the introduce, house occupied by her in East Raleigh. This evidence admitted, the jury found her guilty of statutory vagrancy and Judge Calvert sentenced her to spend thirty days in Wake county jail. She appealed to the Supreme Court and the upper court sustained Judge Calvert's ruling. Then followed the appeal to the Governor.

Solicitor Norris yesterday, after Louise Price had been received into jail, again declined to perimt the officials to refund $500 cash bond money put up by the woman while her appeals were pending. In explanation of his action he said he had of telling "which way the cat will jump next," and fell impelled to order the bond money held until after she completed her sentence..