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P tora pe-tora to 10 be bo Americans American who ho fen Bend anti letters fetter to he the UK ef e t The Th Telesis mir mar 11 IS well sell understand right sow now O t bit bet the lb tb mile gene piper Deng IIII baket Is Turning for tor or liters tore rare The Telegram dres to 10 o to bo tat eat t but tut It Ij Is wholly ind and unqualifiedly u 01 4 it will rot knowingly publish one on tin line tl that Stilt t In any tor w wu a u aft the th food soma name m b bow boot w of ol ab U 11 lr lolled llod States of a lb loyal loiel men who bo tr Ir it at t the lb h hem hm m of ot lb On cc Letters to the editor must be written only on one side of the paper they cannot be used and will be thrown I In n the waste paper basket I NO NO PROXY PATRIOTISM Editor Telegram Proxy will never twin win this war The Th man who attempts to show his patriotism by proxy is about bout as useless to America as a person can be Every American has got to get right down to business and make good on oni I his own account As to the bearing of arms that is be beIn beIng being be- be I In ing g taken care of Desire to serve America in the great struggle for democracy runs high ins the breast of I Ithe the average man and woman And select se- se seI se-I I lect bet service will give enough the opportunity op- op for that service in a military mill mili OP-I OP tary way way But what about wealth I Congress just now is trying to devise a wa way of bringing wealth Into service And we are confronted with the I amazing spectacle of strenuous and rather unexpected opposition on thee the part of ot wealth I Not Kot all by any means but too many I of great wealth are intensely I patriotic when it comes to requiring requiring f the service of ot somebody else or somebody somebody some some- some some-I body else else's s wealth But Cut when it comes right down to an I individual case of ot Samuel digging digging dig dig- i ging up some of ot his own gold reserve dam bam am is la shy and retiring as a schoolgirl schoolgirl schoolgirl school school- girl girlIn In a little committee room in WashIngton Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington they come one after the other telling why they should be let alone Theother The other fellow ought to be taxed but we cant can't stand it really they say one after the other lI This ls spectacle is disgusting and disconcerting dis dis- dis- dis I concerting The young manhood of the nation is ready and anxious to give its life blood I Ifor Ifor i for foi Americas America's c cause use I I I I CUPIDS CUPID'S RECRUITS Editor Telegram I Speaking of famous generals theres there's Cupid Probably you jou ou are mobilized In his army Maybe you ou volunteered maybe you were conscripted No exemptions is Cupids Cupid's order Very few enlist for a short campaign However only the married regiments are in for the duration of the war But no matter where you are enrolled nor for how long you must have discovered discovered discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered that the weakest spot in loves love's regulations has to do w with ith his training camps Cupid takes care that his re recruits re- re I are always handsomely uniformed uni- uni formed and splendid drilled for review j j I but he forgets to give them sufficient practice in trench digging Love sets up his training camps at ever every summer vacation resort and amusement park parI He makes maes a drill ground of every ballroom floor And his rookies 1 fecklessly with the ammunition of ot flirtation smiles flirtation smiles and sighs bushes and kisses But after the real battle of life has ha i commenced too many of loves love's legions prove themselves in i lacking the morale by which soldiers survive to become i veterans No man has hed himself properly properly properly prop prop- erly for the battle of life If he cannot pay the rent on the bun bungalow alow No domestic domestic domestic do do- trench is safe if its occupants forget to use those small endearments I which made pre-nuptial pre drill so Wake up Cupid I Put your training camps In to kitchens as well as In ballrooms at the washtubs as well as at the bathing beach Desertions Desertions De De- De- De fr from m your ranks will decrease the known as divorce will wili disgrace your records less l when YOU vou drill your troops more for defense than for the parade M I. 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NO WHITEWASH FOR ENGLAND Editor Telegram J One of the most m most st inte Interesting things about this w war r has Chas been the manner in which England has has' r faced cea the grim grins grimand grimand and bitter truth about her disasters Every time Ume there was evidence that thai someone had greatly blundered resultIng resulting result result- resulting II ing not only Y in in ln the loss of a camPag campaign n but in the useless away of lives and treasure there has been a searching investigation In each case the responsibility wasI was vas fixed the men guilty were named and I the whole report published for the Information inI information In- In I formation of ot the people of ot the to lie empire I I There has been no whitewash bucket After the lle disasters at Gallipoli a report rp- rp port pott was issued which fastened responsibility responsibility responsibility upon people in very high places So in the latest report on the first and futile Mesopotamian campaign which resulted In in the ignominious surrender at K el Kurt The blame Is placed not only upon certain generals but ut also upon a former viceroy of India and a former member of the British war cabinet That is one of the beauties about a It isreal real democracy There i is no one sa se sacrosanct that he must be shielded no noone noone noone one so powerful that his bunders handers must be shifted to some scapegoat scapegoats J. 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