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Show , . . " fHE PRESS-BULLETI- N . x FTC Did We Enter the War ; T ; theRight Time? pie fell before the Bully of Berlin. If we owed anythingto humanity after the sinking of the Lusltania, we cer-tainly owed a dern sight more to hu-manity after the Invasion of Belgium.. We cannot now urge "defense of 'Am-erican travelers" as a Lusitania pro-vocation, for that's too selfish a thing for great America to do. We are In the war "for humanity's sake" now we pride ourselves upon it and if we are. why were we not in after Jhe Belgian Invasion? 'Belgian people like to live and breathe the same as Americans. But Roosevelt was op-posed to a declaration of war then, and said so in no uncertain terms. The Lusitania was sunk May 7, 1915. Figuring a year to get ready for war we would not have been ready until 1916. If we had Jumped in when, Belgium was attacked, we would have been ''ready" nearly a year quicker than that. Thus, if the "getting In" was good in 1915, it was Far better in 1914. That's perfectly plausible argument. America's Hour ' Some Thoughts Upon Topics ; Which Are Very Much Alive In America At Present "I, John Doe, hereby pledge myself to patriotically support the United States during the world war, with my ' t whole soul, body and mind. I pledge ' myself to obey my superior officers, , . ' those in authority, over me, from the . greatest to the least. I will refrain . from finding fault with them, grant-- " lng that they, like myself, are ftable to mistakes, and will stand behind ,y . them in all their acts against the , common nemy. If I have the feeling that I can help them better to do their duties by my advice, I pledge to go direct to them' with the sugges-tion, and not Injure public discipline and public morale by criticising them . to others." t An oath every man should subscribe" to during the war.) There Is too much "fault finding" . In these days, and tot) little of what " we might call "helpful criticism." , . While some unreasonable folks may , . not see a difference between fault finding and helpful criticism, still . there is a, great distinction between ""7 ...... , , .the two terms. We believe Iq, helpful - ' criticism, and, if public officer John , Smith Is at fault the place for helpful ; -- criticism is in John Smith's presence. he is the average-ma- n of, common y.'.-- 1 5 j. 'good Judgment he will listen careful--' ' Jr. and; give respectful hearing. We ,. v f ;,aU can learn something from every-- ' . body, and the officer who wishes to p , perform his . duties faithfully may sometimes, get real help from his; ,v subordinates and we are all subor-- . $ dlnates to every officer. . Fault finding is another thing. An officer has no right to consider help-ful, criticism as fault finding. As we look at it the fault finder voices his ...... opinions to everybody else but the proper party. He-th- us does the very r , thing that brings law and rules Into ... ' disrepute, and thereby Injures the public morale. In this day when there is a demnpd sn1 nerd fpr tr'rt obedience on the part of everybody, "It can only be maintained by careful ' ' ' respect for law. To find fault with : : ' the law enforcer Is to destroy confi-dence In the law, and break" down th 'iJ-- ,Jw'"- S public morale, and the morale of the ' v.-- - v - PeoP1 means everything In the war . r ' now being waged. , - A year ago (Herbert Hoover, the American Food Commissioner,,., had ' an interview with the British Food ;: Commissioner. They .had before them a carefully prepared estimate of the world's supply of food, and.it ! -- .'"-.. was tfeen that unless tomething des-- . j j ; perate was undertaken, the Allied' ar--' '' ' mies would have to succumb to Jhe T. r Hun. The" British food commissioner ..'.; asked IMr. Hoover what could be done: ' , Mr. iHoover replied: "If the Amerl- - . can people cut their flour and sugar consumption In half, we can supply England, France and 'Italy with tfte food they must have." The British officer threw up his hands and said: ','The Wlar Is Lost." - He did not believe the American peo-ple would do it. - This put Mr. Hoover upon his met-- tie, and , he smashed the table with his fist, and said, "The American Peonle Will Do It." ' Now, as a matter of fact America should not have gone Into, the war until she did go into the war, and this is why: Italy Jumped Into the war game early In order to seize the Tren-tin- o and recover the port of Trieste. Selfish motive did you say? Bulgaria Jumped Into the war game early in ordeiv to swipe a piece of Macedonia, and lay the foundation for recovering Dobrouja. Selfish, was it? IRouma-nl-a got her feet wet in blood so as to get title to Transylvania, and possibly "cop off" Bessarabia. Selfish, Tur-key got in to get back Macedonia, and Russia made no bones of wanting Constantinople and the Dardenallea. France wanted Alsace (Lorraine and didn't blush a bit when she said so. Japan climbed into the. war, wagon and stuck Kiao'"Chau Into her pocket at one and 'the same time. Germany, J herself, actually, wanted all of Middle Europe, lied America . entered the war when Roosevelt said we should, the. world would have arisen to ask, 'IVViiat territory do you want?" ' Now, 'we'll admit that such a ques-tion' may seem grossly incompetent' but when" the case is diagnosed Its im-portance Is easily seen. Our many American neighbors on the south, all the way from (Arizona to Patagonia, have been grossly su&plctous of us for many years. We do not say that these suspicions are Justified, but Germany and other European cou-ntries have "knocked on us" In order to - get southern trade. South Ameri-can countries have been taught to be-lieve that Uncle Sam was only look-ing for a good excuse to eat them alive, bones and all. Our entrance into the war in 1915 would have been viewed, with dark suspicion, and we might have turned a number of south' ern countries to the German side "ol the scrap, which affiliation, from a naval point of view alone, would have offset our strength for a long period of time, and doubtless, would have given the Allies very little advantage for a year or so. South America was honeycombed with German spies, and German 'nfluence, and the posslbilit of dividing the western heniisphere ir war sympathy would have been high ly probable. The American people did it, but f. : . with much fault finding. We do not mean that e very bocly found fault; lar from it. Most of the American people buckled down with all. their hearts, to support Mr. Hoover in his ' pledge. Some folks, however," didn't . t like it. . They didn't like the order, ' " . nor they didn't like the order-ee- . "Gen ' erally, with our characteristic short-- I ' slghtedness we "struck at" the fellow , nearest to us. It was human nature. We made it unpleasant for everybody In sight. We criticised the order, never thinking of the wife and chil- - dren of the fellow who, In our defense poured out his blood upon the thirsty . soil of Picardy. Shame on us, and shame to the very ground that we walk upon! . Some day we'll eulogize iMr. Hoov--' er and his food administration. Some s n , day we'll eulogize our boards of ex-emption, but, In the meantime, we are satisfying our greedy natures, by cursing them and all their forbears, clear back to Noah. !BUt, we sup--pos- e it will all come out in the wash, and when we are eating white bread again, we'll forget all about it. But, in the meantime, we4hlnk life is Just one dern thing after another. There. are a few "helpful critics" and there are many fault finders. But, after all, we have another kind of fellow who constantly harps upon the subject of "what might have hap-- ' j ' pened if the thing had only been done . some other ,way." The "I told you so" fellow is ever abroad' In the land. He finds many willing and listening ears. He has expressed himself re-peatedly, in fact he has done most everything but suppress himself. We have all indulged in this line of "guff" but, it occurs to us that "the mill will never grind with the waters that have ' passed." In the face of the common enemy it seems to us that now 1b the time for people to "about face." Roosevelt And The War At the New York Republican con- -' ventlon he 6tated that America should have gone to war when the Llmitania was sunk. If we han he says, we would have given morale to the A-llies and saved Russia from collapse. The war would now be over and we would be happy. - Roosevelt is "thirty minutes late" with his suggestion. He is likewise too far down in history. We ehould have gone to war when Belgium was invaded. Miny Americans lost their lives by reapon of that invasion, and the stranding of thousands of people from this country In Kttrope. It v.,v plain then that .Germany, jumping as nhe did upon a weak and inoffendlng nation, had full fledged plans tor the world comment and world domination Looking at the event from our "hind flpiit" it is easy to see now why we should have Rone to vvar, rinht itt ' that moment, when an Innocent poo- - Thus, refraining from war in 1915.1 served a double purpose. We obtained nn agreement from Germany to sink no more neutral vessels only such, as they found, by search, containing con-traband, and then all passengers and crew be allowed to escape. Germany's breaking of this agreement in Febru-ary, 1917, furnished unquestioned Jus-tification for America to enter the , war, and we can now contemplate pleasantly the fact that every South American country, save Venezuela, has either entered the war with us, or broken relations with Germany. And the day may come in this war when we will need this 'South Ameri-can help more than the Allies needed our help in 1915. lEven if we do not finally need it, the friendlv made as allies in the war will be of vast and inestimable benefit to' Amer-ica In the future. Should We Have Entered Earlier The argument may be used ,that America would have lost fewer men had we gone Into the war in 1915 than we will now. Under the lew of things today this would not have been true. We would have thrown our young men against far better German armies in 1916 than we are now. We would have burned ourselves against the hottest kind of a battle line, &s Britain and France, after their sad experiences in 1916 and 1917, can eas-ily tell us. We could not possibly have closed the bloody struggle by our help in less than two years, or until the period when Russia went to pieces at least. We are not urging this argument as our own, but only to show that the claim being made that we might have escaped with less punishment is not Infallible by any , means. Personally, for the great cause, we now fight for, we had as good a right to shed our blood as did Britain or France, hence we have little patience with the argument that we might have gotten of feasler if we had done gomething else. We do not believe in this business of continually conducting "post mor-tems- " on the war question. We are Calvlplstic enough to believe that there Is an Overruling Providence guiding the affairs of men in this great day of horror, a '.Mighty Hand that leads us as It will regardless of our puny opinions and puny plans. It avails mighty. little to talk about "what might have been" in fact such talk Is the most idle imaginable. Things aro as they are because they are, und because they aro intended to be as ty are. In the end they are going to rome out all rlslit, be-cause an All Wise Providence is go-ing to make them so. Weak and fin-ite man cannot make them otherwise if he would. Is God In This War Sniiie folks eay that God has noth ing to do with the var. If the writer believed that God's mighty hand was not moving over the troubled surface of Europe,' every moment of the- - day and night, we would tremble with a desperate fear and wish -- that the mountains would fall upon us. That He is working in what is to us a mysterious way to perform His won-ders, there is absolutely no doubt. Far be it from us to say that "God Caused the War" for that is hardly correct. With European natrons spending forty years In developing "man made power" it is not to be wondered at that God in permitting them to try out their weapons. He is proving to us that man made power means only waste and destruction, a lesson the world seems to need in a most desperate way. This being ' the fact, why spend our time in holding post mortems, and howling about what might have happened if some-body had done something different? America could not go to war until sentiment crystallized in its favor, which was no, until we did go to war The All Wine Power which guides the minds and hearts of men, brought that sentiment into action at what He called the proper moment, and that is all there Is to it. We might as well forget everything else and be happy. But speaking about fault finders we want to commend one worthy and de-lightful American citizen in a ipecial way. We refer to "Old Hiill" Taft, the muchly cursed Talt, one of the best men who evtr sat In the Presi-dent's chair. If America possesses a citizen who is entitled to a ffrouch it is Bill Taft. if there Is a single Am-erican citizen who ha3 less ol a grouch than 'Bill Taft we have failed to find him. In all the war talk and criticism ilr.-- Taft has never raised his voice in fault finding of President Wilson or any American official. He has had his helpful suggestion, time and again, but he has refrained from any form of ragging criticism. Ho Is a man among meu, God bless his fat old soul, and we tip our hat to him. If he kicKed all the time we wouldn't blame himfbecaune he was the victim of the greatest injustice ever visited upon any public official in America. and betrayed in the house of his friends. Out he does not He is a pood old sport, laughing away his po-litical mishaps, and acting the real man at every stage of the game. May his shadow never grow les. may his trilw increase. Jefferson Bee. "7--- , zzn Wiere You Get the Beat Bread The City Bakery, At 52 Main Street, Is Making the Best Bread In Town. If You Don't Believe It Give It a Trial j... We not only have the best equipment, but we know just what ingredients to use and just how to bake to make a Perfect Bread.. Everybody wants Good Bread as that is the most important part of the diet, and we are making just what you want. We have the best and we can prove it. . When you eat Bread from" our Bakery you will say so, too. ,. .'........ We Make All Kinds of Bread and Make Deliveries to Every-body. If You Want the Jiest Bread, Phone Your Order to 382 Bolotas Bros. Proprietors. City Bakery ... .... " ",' 1 i: I Forli j I Fresh"ES Oairy I i Located at the Lead Mines . j I 19 Cows. 3 Cahes, 2 Horses, ri Wagon and Harness Good business in Bingham. Owner going to war. N Bm ChitasyBox 37 , Upper Bingham $ 'v ' 1 Bad News for Berlin The war news from the Eastern front these days is bad news gor the German people, and gloom hangs over the whole nation. , We, here at home, have opportunity to send the Germans some more bad news. A tremendotfs subscription to the Fourth Liberty Loan will be as distressing to the German people as a defeat on the battlefield, and will mean as much. It spells defeat; it breaks their morale; it means power to their enemies. LET'S ALL GET READY FOB THE ' FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN I And in the meantime Start a Savings Account . Citizens State Bank l Q. B. KELLY, Cashier j f j t, t Tear Out Fill In Hand Letter-Carrier- -r Mail to Post Office V-S Itoto wMBbw iud, f ; S Name S Addreu ? ' .' V'WS.S. I Acril $4.l I July $4.18 I Ort. $4 21 IS J x ( i uUTOnfTAMit M" I Auf. 4.19 I Nor. 4 21 S , "3INGHM BRIEFS In."expTesslng thanks t5 the 'people who contributed ;coffee arid other re-freshments . to the fire fighters last, week, the' firemen mwntioned J. as one t the contributors which waa an error, die; does not live here now.. It was R. T. Asanuma who', made' this y contribution. s Mr. Asanuma is proprietor of the Miners Hotel.; '... : Miss Margaret Tennant of Highland Boy left last Friday for (Logan, where she has entered the Brlghanv Young College. Miss Tennant graduated from the iBingham high school last spring and is a. talented young lady. F. W. Quinn, clerk of the town board, who has been in the East for the past three weeks, 1s expected home about Monday, The town hall has seemed rather lonesome since Mr. Qulnn's.departure and his friend3 will be glad to know that "he wiU be back on the Job in a-- few days. J. Bourgard, vice president of 'the Corrlnne Gas & Oi Company, spent Wednesday in Corinne on business, connected with the company, v It now looks as 'if Bingham is to be shy another teacher in the near fu-ture. Albert J. Southwick is prepar-ing to go to France in the Y. (M. C. A, work. He received a notice to report in Salt Lake next Monday for inspec-tion. iMr. Southwick is t musician, and if he goes into thef service he will be in the musical department He has been trying to get in some department of the war work for some 4ime, and It now appears that his efforts are to be crowned with success. He la a good fellow all right, and as' a musi-cian he stands near the top. Mark James has returned home from the farm at Union, where he spent the spring and summer. John Christensen of Cedar City, athletio director of the !A. C., spent a few days here this week visiting his brother,. Homer Christensen. Frank Scussel has sold his soft drink parlor and candy store to Louie Gavaz & Co. At' the last meeting of the local or. ganizatlon of Ruth Reffekahs a num-ber of the state officers were present Among those present were Miss (Li-llian Pierce, president of the state assembly; iMrs. Clara Mooro, grand secretary; Mrs. Sudheimcr and Mrs. Harris. Dr. and Mrs. J. (H, Reardon of Salt Lake spent Sunday In Bingham visit-ing Mr. and IMrs. George Chochos. ' 'Mrs. Frank Scussel and" little daugh-ter, Violet, have moved to' Salt Lak,e. Mrs. A. F. Tremelllng, Mrs.. James Jackson, Mrs. Oandres and daughter, Thelma, Mrs. Thomas Nerdin and Mildred and CMoyd Nerdln went on a motoring trip to Saratoga Springs Inst week. They made the trip with W. E. Collins in his car. . Miss Vera Stringham returned to Salt Lata last Sunday, where he has reentered St. Mary's Academy. Miss Ada Clays, who hs been at- - dropped. So we will again ask those who htiTa not done bo to call at onoa and fix up their subscriptions. The funeral service of the late John Bruntoh was .held last bunday. after-noon from Society Hall.' The services were conducted by Rev. P. A. Simp-ki- n of Salt Lake and musiq was fur-nished by Mrs. Boland and Mrs. White. A large number of people at-tended and the floral offerings were very beautiful. The Interment was In the Bingham cemetery. The Bingham teachers held their annual hot dog bow wow two miles up Markham gulch Wednesday night. The party numbered about 2G and they reported a delightful time. This is the occasion when the teachers get acquainted and initiate the new mem-bers. They had a big feed and amus-ed themselves with camp fire stories, the chief feature of which was the ghost stories by Homer Chrlstenson. j A delightful sociable and dance was given at the Commercial Club last Tuesday evening. Miss Hasl Kearney, of Denver, who has been visiting Miss Ida Jones, has returned home. . Mrs. Theo Marx and children, Theo and Vandeless, have moved to Salt Lake and are now living at Fourth East and Third South. Mrs. Marx was a resident of Bingham for aany years and has a great n aber of friends here who will' regret her leaving. IMr. Murx will ren aln In Bingham and continue the work of his cigar factory. The stores of H. Geffen and Julius Damenstelq were closel all day last Saturday in honor of the Jewish New Year. The stores will also be closed tomorrow, which Is the fast day. Mr. Damenstein - says that these are two days In the year that he never does any work. Miss Evelyn 'Mani left this week for Salt Lake, where she will resume her studies at ISt. IMary's (Academy. David Conder of (American Fork spent last Sunday in Bingham with Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Meyers. William Robbins Is now seldom seen about the police station and there may be people who think lie has left town, but this is not the case. He Is busy Just now on a big Job Hie is building the big water tank up In iMarkham and he Is getting along mighty fine with the work When It Is completed it will greatly facilitate the, water situation in the camp. There are quite a number of Bing-hamlte- s who are at present very busy getting their affairs in shape so that they can do service in th army The registration of yesterday will call to the colors a great number of good men from this camp. IH. Geffen, who has been confined to his room with sickness for about three weeks, is now able to be on the streets again. Pon t forget to bring around the letters you receive from the boy in the army There are many of the subscribers of the rre9sjBulletin who will be delighted to read what he has . to say about the service. tending Brown's dressmaking school at Salt Lake, has returned home. 'Bv an order from tlie government we are compelled to have all our sub-scribers pay their' subscriptions. When we make up our mailing list now nil delinquents will have to be The banks, stores and all business places here were closed yesterday on account of the registration holiday. c Ray Sabey, better known as Friday who was formerly employed by Frank Clark at the Butte Cafe, and who has been on he battle front in France for some time, has been wounded in battle according to information re-ceived by Mr. Clark a fev days ago. His injury was from shell fire. There was an automobile accident in town last Sunday. David Conler of American Fork had been up to Copperfield and while coming back down the hill he lost control of his car and it dashed into another car at the Intersection of Carr Fork and Main, injuring Mrs. J. H. Shelley and damaging both machines. iMrs. Shell-ey was taken to the Bingham hospital where her wounds which were not a, were dressed. , The Bingnam delegation to the state firemen convention at Brigham City this week was composed of W. F. Thompson. C. J. Stlllman, Fred John.son, Samuel Sweet and E. G. Locke. Mrs. (Minnie C. Peters of (Lewlston, Montana manaeer of thn Leu-lnto- Abstract Company, stopped over in I Bingham this week to visit IMr. and Mrs.. A. C. Cole while en route to St. Louis, where she will attend the Na-tional Abstractors convention. Dan Fitzgerald, Roy Nelson . and John Whltmore spent Peach Day in Brigham City. Several small children climbed on-to a motorcycle iSunday afternoon which was standing in front of the store of S. J. Hays and Company and one of them managed to release the brakes, and It started off down the canyon at a rapid rate with the chil-dren on board, but before it got into a break neck speed It ran into anoth-er car and was stopped. The kiddies escaped uninjured. The car had to be taken to the shop for repairs. There will be a dance at' Inintra Hall tomorrow (Saturday) night. Music by five piece orchestra. There wur no meeting of the town board this week. Court cases have been unusually small tliis week both in the municipal1 and county courts. - - m Far-tteein- g Voice. "A voice Is walling to Bee you, iua'nm, Is the way a new maid called her mistress to the teIephou.L5oetoc Transcript k Ard He'n Worth Listening To. T,hi- - limn who iv.'.ily' has nulliisijj tu i y V'Twnilly titllts less than other poo pie, because he considers It worth giv-- i ''ng some thought to. Holland has applied to the United States government for a shipment olj, fat. No trouble at all In arrauglm that. Just pare down a few head waiters. |