Show PERSHING'S CHARGE r General Pershing's charge to the first American troops landed in France to expel an enemy that has invaded this beautiful land was Your four first first duty Is to 0 fight light this foe and protect our ally You are here also to lift a shield above the poor and weak You will be kind there- there therefore Tore fore to the aged and the Invalid You ou will be courteous to all women and never ne have so much as an evil thought in your mind You will be beet beery bevery and with little et very ery tender gentle children You will do well therefore therefore there there- for fore to forswear the use of all liquors You will do your duty like brave God Honor men Fear your country Defend liberty May God have you in His keeping t t-t-t BANG JL THEM TIIE By B Dr Frank Crane When hen the German submarines destroyed destroyed de de- de- de the steamer Carolina in their raid upon American shipping they made made madea a small effort at courtesy in allowing the passengers to get getaway getaway awa away In the boats They did not cut heir throats nor make them walk the plank after the m manner of the buccaneers of former time But they left leCt helpless women none the less to the mercy of or an oncoming oncoming on on- n- n coming storm exposed in frail craft to almost certain death For this there can be no excuse It is despicable dishonorable ble and inhuma inhuman Bad Dad as war is It has lias always alwag 11 been n characterized among nations that made any pretensions to c on by a certain chivalry Soldier Soldiers were rough men and did rough work but they ther fought only against armed forces only with ro foemen men worthy of their steel Those who forgot themselves In tn Inthe Inthe the fur fury of conquest and massa red or tortured the defenseless have b bj by common consent been considered not as good soldiers but as as s pirates or brigands When caught the they have been e c mercilessly It Is time we stopped treating submarIne submarine submarine sub sub- marine crews as prisoners of war when we capture them They should be hanged forthwith I and ignominiously If a soldier is taken In a fair fight figh t the he deserves to be he treated with ron con Bu Du f if caught d at rapine or wanton murder of or no tin armed citizens he should he be hange han c i t tat I at once It may be objected that i 11 if i achang we ac hang submarine crews the will retaliate by hy hanging prisoners they have havo captured from our army But from all accounts they are do doing doing doing do- do ing worse than that now They are torturing them starving and mutilating mutt muti lating theta them I Germany should be ho made to reef lee eel eelI I I that we ive do not consider the drowning drowning drowning drown drown- ing of women and children the bombing of or hospitals and air raid raid- upon unprotected civilians as dec war for even war has Its decencies An Any man caught who ha ha- been of barbarous assault whether r in airplane or submarine whereby innocent people leople have been boon destroyed should have short shift While civilized nations should not allow themselves to lump Into the general program of German frightfulness frightfulness fright fright- they should make plain to the Huns HUlls that when they are apprehended apprehended apprehended in such acts of inexcusable barbarity they will be treated not nOl as honorable soldiers but as criminals not as our enem but as the common common common com com- mon enemies of mankind t J-t-t i Go t GO GO TO COLLEGE Many lany a 1918 high graduate graduate ate is debating with himself this year Shall I go po o to college or shall shallI I enlist at once for Cor military service The war department has just made it possible do both It says In effect to the ambitious young American You serve your country by hy going to college To Tomake Tomake Tomake make sure that you do not lose there thereby thereby thereby by the opportunity of serving your country in in a direct military capacity you OU will be asked to join the special U. U S. S army college training units that are are to be formed You will be liable for service at a n. moments moment's notice notice no no- tice but because you OU are worth more to the nation with your college training than than without t It you OU will willbe willbe be e. e expected to stay In college until called b by the government The war departments department's announcement announcement announce announce- ment provides that beginning with September 1918 military instruction instruction tion under officers and noncommissioned noncommissioned non commis officers Of C the army will be provided In cr c every institution institution l' l of oC college college col col col- lege grade enrolling for the Instruction instruction tio tion one h hundred or or more able able- bodied stud students over o the age of jo 3 eighteen will he be encouraged to en en- list The enlistment will constitute the student a member of or the army of th tits United St States tes liable to tp ac active active ac ac- tive duty at the cal ot the President It will however be Le the policy polley of oC the government not to call the members members members mem mem- bers of the training units to active duty until the they have reached the i age of twenty-one twenty unless urgent military necessity com compels els an earlier call Students under eighteen and therefore not legally eligible for enlIstment enlistment en en- will be encouraged to enroll enroll enroll en en- roll in the training units Provision Provis Provis- Provision ion will be made for c coordinating the Reserve Reser Officers Officers' Training cor corps s system which which exists in about one- one third third of the coll collegiate I with this broader plan This new neww policy polle alms aims to accompliSh accomplish pUsh a two-fold two object the war de de- I announces first to dey develop develop de de- y lop as a great military outset the large largo body of young men in the colleges and second to prevent unnecessary unnecessary unnecessary un un- un- un necessary and wasteful depletion of oC the colleges through Indiscriminate volunteering by offering to the students a definite and immediate military status No nation has made such generous provision for combined military and college ollege education as has the United States In thIs tills new plan The youth who rho avail themselves of the privilege will vill be ser serving ing their country's immediate im- im medIate as well as future needs o 0 o |