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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH and Peace Penetrability to Change War bow can : draw aq they department imaginary line at any point without: our borders, over land or water, and1 cause invisible forces to practically an-- ! nihllate any number of men or 9hips Intending to invade us, declares Law-so- PENETRA&TtlTY AHNIHUATeD TH6f1.AU. n. ; : YX7ASHINGTON. Penetrability Is a newly discovered force of nature by which the fleas on a dogs back, the mosquitoes In New York, or an army battling at the gates of a nation, may with equal ease be annihilated. In 30 years of study, Alfred W. Law-so- n of Milwaukee, inventor of the airplane liner, reached these' conclusions. He Is in Washington conferring with the .War department officials before whom he is ready to demonstrate the as application of penetrability means of national defense.' I have shown engineers of the War Broadcasting stations would be em-- . ployed to hurl the deadly energies or, currents Into the enemy, it seems. Ac- -' cording to Lawson modern warfare would be revolutionized. Penetrability Is the cause of all movement," he said. Energy is an effect produced by the penetrability of A substance of heavy substances. density passes through that of lighter density, thus creating currents. I have discovered the means of harnessing these currents and- - producing force which may be applied to war or commercial pursuits. , Commercially, he explained, penetra-- , bllity may be employed In thousands of ways. It will exterminate bugs. It will help grow crops. Daylight may be eliminating storedp for use at night,illumination. the necessity of artificial Uncle Sams Policy on the Near East By the Eternal, this Is a man for the ages . . . The world cries out for such; he is needed and needed badly the man who can "Carry a Message to Garcia. Elbert Hubbard. iHE Messenger to Garcia has arrived which Is to say that Lieut. Andy Itowan has been given by the War Department the Distinguished Service Cross which he earned by delivering the Message to Garcia in the . that was twenty-fou- r years ago and the "fellow by the name of Rowan is now Lieut. Col. Andrew S. Rowan, U. S. A., retired and living in San Francisco. Why, many of the young fellows who fought in the World War were not born when the Maine was blown up in Havana barbor. They say putting it across or something of the kind and havent the least Idea what their fathers meant in saying carrying the message to Garcia." Well, the job brought Rowan deathless fame. And Its a story well worth retelling so here it Is for the benefit of the young World War that . is . ! . ), own , story: ' ' . effect. At this point Colonel Rowan allows himslf somewhat more freedom of style. In this connection, says he, Major Wagner referred to the case .of Nathan Hale in the Revolutionary war and Lieutenant Richey in the Mexican war, both caught with dispatches on them. He goes on to tell of his arrival in Kingston and of the arrange-- ' ments he made while waiting, for further instructions, and he continues: April 23 I received the cipher cable dispatch: Join Garcia as soon as possible. At 10 a. m dressed as an English hunter, I left Kingston and crossed the island of Jamaica, reaching St. Anns bay about 1 a. m. Here I boarded a small sailboat, and by daylight I had passed beyond the neutral waters of Jamaica and bad entered the Caribbean. By nightfall (April 3, 1898) our small craft (manned by three Cuban sailors, one orderly, assistants and myself, and carrying some antiquated small arms of various types intended for the Cubans) was approaching the territorial waters of Cuba, habitually guarded at that period by the enemy (Spanish) lanche patrol. We kept well off until dark, and then, under full sail, made the best of our way to the nearest point of the shore, coming to about-1p. m. in a small inlet about fifty yards out. The next morning I proceeded througli the forest. About noon, May 1, having crossed the Sierra Maestra range of mountains, I reached Bayamo, the Insurgent headquarters: Colonel Rowan, you see, is distressingly matter of fact. And anybody who has not traveled across country through a Cuban jungle will have difficulty in filling in the details. Anyway, Rowan proceeded to deliver the Message to Garcia," which was to the effect that .(he United States had declared war on Spain and answer to the questions which wanted a hurry-u- p Rowan would ask. Bearing in mind the danger of letting any documents fall into Spanish hands, Rowan and Garcia hit upon a very simple expedient. Instead of trying to send documents, Rowan was to take back with him peopfe who carried the Information in their heads. They were General Collayo, Colonel Hernandez and doctor Vieta officers on Garcias staff. Rowan left at once with his inforIt was then five in fhe afternoon, and mation. by dawn they were swimming the Cauto river a few miles above a point at which Spanish troops were embarking for the coast. To quote from his veterans: To begin at the beginning, in 1895 there was a Cuban revolt against the Spanish policy of which had resulted under General Weyler in the suffering and death of thousands. American sympathy was strong. February 15, 1898, the American warship Maine was blown up In Havana harbor with the loss of 266 officers and men. Uncle Sam issued an ultimatum to Spain: Get out of Cuba. Spain didnt go. Uncle Sara declared war April 25 and by August 13 had whipped Spain to a standstill. It Is the fashion nowadays to speak of the Spanish-Amerlca- n war as a successful skirmish, or words to that effect. It was tVort and sweet, to be sure, but it was an important war with results. For one thing It reunited the North and South of the United States. The fighting men of both , sections fought under the Stars and Stripes. It drove the Spaniard from his last foothold on the Western Hemisphere. It opened the eyes of the world to the quality of the American fighting man. Lieutenant Lee, British military observer (now Lord Lee of Fare-ham- ), saw the assault of San Juan Hill. It Is magnificent," he gasped, but it is not war. The Spanlrds put it another way when they said, The Yankee pigs should have turned and ruu, we fired such volleys. But they came on and tried to catch us with their hands." It put the American navy on the Seven Seajs. Europe expected the Spaniards to whip us on the victcrifes of sea. It gasped over the clean-cu- t Manila and Santiago. It made us a world power in spite of ourselves, ll.sough the acquisition of the Philippines and Porto Rico and our relationship with Cuba. Of course the blowing up of the Maine meant war and naturally Uncle Sara wanted to know the military conditions in Cuba. Now the Cuban revolutionists were under command of a certain General Garcia, buried somewhere in the Inaccessible interior. Incidentally this rebel leader was a Cuban patriot Calixto Iniguez Garcia (1836-98who bad rebelled against Spain in 1880 and had been captured and imprisoned in Spain for fifteen years. In 1895 he escaped and got back into Cuba. So it was decided to send a message to Garcia. Here are some of the questions to which answers were wanted: How many Spanish troops were now, 1898, in. Cuba? How were they distributed? .How were they waging war? How were they armed and equipped? How clothed? How fed? The condition and quality of the Spanish forces? The character of their officers, especially the commanding officers; what of the Spanish morale? What were the topographical conditions, local and general? The character and conditions of the roads jthen, and at all seasons? Similar information regarding the Cubans and the Cuban forces was also wanted. How were the Cubans armed, equipped and fed? What was needed In the way of placing the forces In a condition to harass the enemy while the American army was mobilizing? Qn April 8, 1898," says Colonel Rowan, telling years, I was on duty the story after twenty-fou- r Once arrived safely In Washington, Rowan reported to the Secretary of War, Russel A. Alger, and Introduced his personified information" to ihe commanding general of the army, Gen. Nelson A. Miles. This officer wrote to the secretary of war: I recommend that First Lieutenant Andrew S. Rowan, Nineteenth Infancy, be made a lieutenant- colonel of one of the regiments of immunes. Lieutenant Rowan made a Journey across Cuba, was with the insurgent army under Lieutenant General Garcia and brought most important and valuable information to the government. This was a most perilous undertaking, and in my judgment Lieutenant Rowan performed an act of heroism and cool daring that has rarely been excelled in the annals of warfare. Very respectfully, NELSON A. MILES, Major General U. S. Army. Lieutenant Rowan was made a captain, sent to the Philippines (where he won further commendation for bravery) and then forgotten. Colonel Rowans comment on bis belated award in the office of military information, A. G. O., War Department, Washington, D. C. At noon of that day Major Wagner, in charge of the office, informed me that at a conference between President McKinley and Secretary of War Alger It had been decided to send an officer to eastern Cuba (Orb ente), in case of war, to ascertain the military conditions existingjn that region, which was likely to become the theaterN of war, and that I had been selected for the job. v Major Wagners Instructions to' me were delivered orally and were, in brief, to proceed to Kingston, Jamaica, by the first available transportation, and there make arrangements to get Into Cuba upon receipt of a cipher cablegram to war. Spanish-Amerlca- n To be sure XXTASHINGTON. The attitude of the United States government toward the Near East problem was made plain by Secretary of State Hughes In a statement concerning the proposals just made by the allied governments to the Turkish nationalists. This government believes any permanent settlement of the straits problem should provide for the freedom of the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmora, and the Bosporus, and It also hopes that pending a final settlement the straits will be kept open. The United States furthermore is In entire sympathy with the allied proposals for the protection of racial and religious mi' norities Mr. Hughes declined to comment upon those phases of the Near Eastern problem which involved questions of boundaries or other matters of a purely political nature. The American government, said Mr. Hughes, is gratified to observe that the proposal of the three allied governments seeks to Insure effectively, the liberty of the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmora, and the Bosporus as well as protection of racial and religious minorities. These points of the proposal are clearly in accord with American sentiment. This government also trusts that Why, I never thought I deserved any special reward. It was only my duty. I did only what was commissioned to do what I was paid to do. - Its just the same as If there Is a squad of men in a trench. The shell comes from the enemy. Someone dashes out, picks it up, casts it aside . and saves the squad. That Individual Is doing only his duty. Though the War Department may have forgotten the man who carried the message through Cuban swamps, fever and the Spanish lines and returned with the information desired, the world did not. For Eibert Hubbard made his name a household word. Elbert Hubbard in 1899 was conducting a periodical called the Philistine. It was a lively sheet and 'its readers were many. So he proceeded to print an editorial in the Philistine about a fellow by the name of Rowan, who landed off the coast of Cuba from an open boat He began his and disappeared In the jungle. editorial with the words: By the Eternal this is a man for the ages I This editorial by Elbert Hubbard has been reIt was produced In most civilized languages. estimated in 1913 that over 40,000,000 copies of the story had been circulated-- " Looking it over, one Is instantly struck with the remarkable fact that Hubbards conclusion, though written In 1899, fits almost exactly the present conditions. Indeed, it sounds as If it might have teen written today, so in keeping is it with the 'present hour. It reads: Have I put the matter too strongly? Possibly I have; but when all the world has gone I wish to speak a word of sympathy for the man who succeeds the man who, against great edds, has directed the efforts of others, and having succeeded, finds theres nothing in it nothing but bare board and clothes. I have carried a dinner pail and worked for I have also been an employer days wages,-anof labor, and I know there is something to be said on both sides. , There Is no excellence; per se, In poverty ; rags are no recommendation ; and all any employers are not. rapacious and more than all poor men are virtuous. My heart goes out to- the man whs does his work when the loss Is away, as well as when he is at home. And the man who, when given a letter for Garcia, quietly takes the missive, without no lurking asking any Idiotic questions, and with Intention of chucking it into the nearest sewer, or of doing aught else but deliver It, never gets laid off, nor has to go on a strike for higher wages. Civilization Is one long, anxious search for such a man-ask- s just such individuals. Anything In every city, Is wanted He shall be granted. town and village in every office, shop, store and cries out for Such: he Is factory. The world needed and needed badly the man who- can Carry a Message to Garcia. ' From a mangrove swamp on the west side of the Manati inlet our sailor guides drew a small ships boat of about 104 cubic feet capacity, too small to accommodate all our party, who, reduced to six three officers and three sailors, must sit upright for several days and nights with our supplies under our seats and between our feet. Docsent our with .back Vieta was, accordingly, tor abandoned mounts, and at 11 p. m. W'e boarded our craft and made our way out through the narrow neck of this harbor, passing under the gfins of a small Spanish work on the eastern shje of. the inlet Here we again entered the Spanish lanche patrol limits, and at daylight were out of tight of the Cuban littoral and well bn our way to Key West via Nassau, New Providence, Bahama .Islands. d high-hande- - 'T'HE best little in - sultable arrangements may be agreed upon in the Interest of peace to pra serve the freedom of the straits pend--, ing the conference to conclude a final treaty of peace between Turkey, Greece, and the allies. While It has been made plain In ut--' terances both from the White House and from the State department that the American government would taka' no part In the political activities of the allies in the Near East, no secret has been made of the fact that this government is deeply interested in developments there. - The ever increasing Importance of the United States as a commercial power, coupled with the expansion of the American merchant marine, make it Imperative that American ships should be unrestricted in their goings and comings. in the Capital Lid-Clamp- er this: much-discuss- . Best Little w- Wash-lngto- n thats Andrew J. Volstead, of Minneapolis, father of. the well-know- n prohibition enforcement law bearing his name. Volsteads proclivities have not been limited simply to clamping down the lid on the national thirst. He puts the lid on a lot of legislation, and he also keeps a lid on his own lips. It was as chairman of the judiciary committee of the house that Volstead gave his name to the prohibition law and thereby won a niche in history. And it is as chairman of the same committee that he is able to sink without trace the hordes of bills, resolutions and proposals of all sorts for repealing, modifying or setting aside the enIn forcement law. No pigeon-hole- s congress are more crowded with forgotten documents than of the Judiciary committee. And nO lid Is clamped more tightly against possible consideration and enactment Of dust-covere- d, measures disapproved by the committee chairman. Among the bills burled under the Volstead lid are proposals to amend the Constitution to permit wines and liquors of 10 per cent alcoholic content; to permit beer of 2 per cent alcohol; to permit the states to decide for themselves what constitutes Inv toxlcatlng liquors under the eighty eenth amendment; to provide a national referendum on prohibition, to transfer enforcement of prohibition from the treasury to the Department of Justice; to repeal the enforcement act, to amend the act and so on, by the v score. These bills were Introduced, referred to committee burled. The lid clamped shut on thlhi and they were gone I And if you try to tilt the lid,1 you find sitting atop of It a small but grim and very determined man who, doesnt argue or plead or waste time in words, but exercises the prerogatives of his position as committee chairman and the weight of the dignity that position gives him to hold the lid firm. He might aptly be described as The He is sixty-tw- o Little Gray Man. years of age, slight of build, unassumHis plain, rather ing in carriage. darkish-gra- y suit matches almost perfectly in hue the gray mustache and his hair, which in turn blend witij the gray of his eyes. Places for All Discharged Army Officers? A N AGENCY to aid regular army officers eliminated from the service through operation of the Jjjll requiring reduction of the officer corps to 12,000 by the first of the year has been established in the War department, it Is announced, with the statement that any business house seeking to employ such former officers can receive complete information of their qualifications by communicating with the adju- tant general of the 'army or the corps TRY (It TO AM YOU GET A JOB In connection with the effort to aid sucit, officers In. finding civil employment a special file of the qualifications of each man is being established and with the of commercial of organizations such as chambers commerce and commercial ' clubs, a eountry-wld- e survey to locate posts In private life for which they would be fitted Is to be made. ments. The War department realizes the They have served the government .or a, long peripd, some of them for 20 announcement said, that from the years or more, and have rendered very nature of their army sendee, faithful and efficient service. Tffie many of these officers have lost all United States governtnent Is indebted touch with home and home conditions o them and it Is only fitting that they and as a result may experience great hould be afforded every opportunity difficulty In securing suite!)! a attain success In civil life." area commanders, Of the officers to be separated from the service, it continued, many are highly qualified professional men lawyers; surgeons, chaplains, engineers, dentists and veterinarians. Mlmy, others are men of high attainments, qualified to fill responsible positions In commercial and industrial establishi, |
