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Show 3iWbMSa: J diy -- Thursday,- THE JOURNAL Lyric Theatre VlUUaHkD -- nil I" fUr6 At 1 The Strength of Orgamzation UV EARL AND ENGLAND PUBLISHING COMPANY. yi AIGCSTU8 ecmOON g.'.. An I. - . EDITOR .e Office Jwry Da? In tte WmI, At Laeut Ai Second Clase Matter, Us Port StUiM JUPTION HATES y BY MAIL, PER MONTH. In Advance BT CARRIER. PER MONTH, la Advance... A Discount of 11.00 Per Tear Will Be Given Except iundsy, , .0e 'Oc For A drawee Payments lor a Full Tear.. MEMBER OF A8SOCI TFI PRESS The Associated Frew la exclusively entitled to the use lor repiblication of all newipatchee credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the lacol news published herein. All right ol republic&tlon of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Advertleing Retea Furaiahed oa Applicatio- n. r-n- rrr- V' !HJI. NATIONAL SERVICE COMMITTEES a movement on foot to unite the conservative, safe) and sane element of American citizenship in an united effort' to restore normal conditions throughout the nation ; hence th2re; has been established a nucleus designated as the Committee on organization, of which Harry Chase Brearley is at the head. As showing the need of such an organization, the following ohserva-- ; tions are noted: ruigTKe pisrTevTlnohthsJpuI)EcTiaTeen" orhatTa dozen minds in regard to the nature and degree of the menace,' offered by the extreme radicals who have been known under, anarch-- 1 W. W.V 'Bolseviks various names as 'communists-T- . ists 'socialists and reds. There have been periods of alarm followed by periods of skepticism as to the existence of a menace. Theap in turn have given way to renewed concern - when ome-fresh occurrence or rumor has seemed to justify it, Out of the entire confusion the following facts seem to be emerging: First: there is a definite menace in the present situation' one that it would be foolish to ignore or to I ERE U " tf 4 , - N---w I mostly experiment telephone perfect of all mechanical devices. Engineering has mastered count less problems involved in the distribution f service. Construction has carried the telephone into the most remote corner of the country, pper-- stive skill has oombined the efforts of executives, scientists, engineers and commercial management. . Teg ether with vision and foresight these ere the powers whieh, united, have made possible the accomplishments of the Bell g , ' -s- tf XQ.DAY 2:30 ,wteJSecondtheJ ? " ng tff i. CMpVfr fairiy.well financed, numerous and, as regards a large law-abidi- Continuous fcnra( b r self-sacrifi- ce . J r, - j darstricirttHews-w,w-"tVfrvtdnr1- indivfid8baficairs-.-Nowwbmnc?"Hi- - nl'1ih fwouted wl-- -- The Guard !s and so tauKhed away to Uko a leaf tdowu Irafra the a storiu. At the same instant up fcbere rede uu with the reddest face that etpr I saw upon mortal man. You tnnt sfop em, nr we are citizuis. Let us state the proposition very simply: - The situation demands the efforts of an organized America, but America already is organized in its essential parts, and if done, he cried to General Adams, go these parts can be put together as they were during the war that aU our emftpan? cOuld bear hint, 4Bow Is It gwlngr ashed t lev genPresto! there is an organized nation. eral. The premiseassumes that our problems are not primarily Two weak squadrons left out of sly political or economic, but are rather spiritual, since they reglmeuts of heat lee" said be, aud be-ra- organized effort upon the great patriotic, reasonable body of the nation, to solve' our problems and stiffen the general morale. The Committee assumes that there exists in the United States more than eight hundred national and inter-stat- e organizations of commercial, industrial and professional nature, and that the majority of the membership are loyal citizens.' It is proposed, therefore, to organize national service committees Inugli man whose are oortrutig. "Perhaps jou SnnId care to Join Itrnur adtanee. Pray consider jrour-aequite one of us, nald the general. bolng and smiling a If bo were ask. ing hiui to a dih of tea, T aball liave tnu h pleasure, said the other, taking off bis bat, ami a moment afierward our three regiments ykfeq up and the luigade tohaneWj In lf Prcscncr JNt drop the egg in the all. keep will I liquid Thats They from ten to t welvcf months. Oaej will prel quart serve thirty dozen! eggs. In pints,! quarts, J half-gIons pnd gaBdi at , al Ritjr Brc r e w- - had soon th I deep-mouthe- d 3- ) ;tilhr,he"; l" Wf Hll ho:j.2jt brH-swo- rk cauiioii-Kmok- - lere j -- f 1 Rrt mm GRAIN BIDS - j n pmea Egg 4 - j aule-deomi- p to inour Gd Uh tj,.. t;,lard u umiing: summer prices kjr putting them up) blinked their eyes. Drug Col As motion cameras the picture Ihtletoflr to bo o?n Rexa started to grind, someone apflow hiily ibo red bobbing of the jrnn n.tshnu ipnefely out of the cloud bank, plauded and as the new arrival Store I and thejdsitk tiitures. stooping, smiiu-tt- i StTe Six ' entered fthe ,obby jammed with moppintr, apoi'stine. working like s. J. of cheers dotils and at tletllNb work lint delegated, a burst through tho tloud Hint rattle and whir shook the building. A band AS rose louder and louder, with a The struck Star up Spangled rooms where he was quickly :hea - rayed the crowd gasped, sbontltiif and the stamping of The excitement was tbnii'.n'ds of loot Then there came a Banner. , broke ap chuckhdarfd finally seiged by newspaper men. broad Idmk blur iluougb the hare, whieh darkened and darkened, until wU. U,S'ine fast and in,nd we could bee that it was a hundred men abreast, nierobine swiftly toward He was escorurt to a suit ot " ,hai ns, with blah fur h.it.s lU'orl tlliir hsids r. 'sunrowniUiig the SL Praam HiiiTly ti!f:(i'i of oer (lielr A petition signed by lbus- - tel was thronged with ! Jfll! After bBi almeat Mtallr lipowi. Andhplmifj tht bundml came ands of women asks congress to!an fo4 . to obtain a glimpee happily another hundred, and behind that auluxuriant growth of Mlk of n ljlr,iu ttiat k wl th ra her. and mi on. Coiling and writhing divert a part of the money spent 0f the fet fot WM president mj out of the like a mon- on largo armies and big navies' ' ten bay frvt? bif ? The visitor was not, Wilson,! thui out vow thra, ttwA strous snake, until there seemed to tie in channels more calculated tohowever- He was Qeoy; no end tQ the mighty column. In front benefit the masses f the piple paiiknr ' an actor who bears a! ran a apray of skirmishers and bemencis mire remarkable likeness to An( hind them the drummers, sod up they 95 the presi k!Kd and wha was th wiOi the otbeers clustering 1 . under Marshall Nielans dl-- 1 at iin the sides and their ,,lRAr waring ,.J . . U tnot proper to lift a baby rection in $ SOT s B cbserlna. Therw war a NatJonal !ao.i thMtea mounted men, too, at their front, u y the back of the neck.. j tion called Go and Get picture all shouting together, mid one with his i Before Faulknrf could in- -' jit form the newspaper men of tiethe point wbom-Trench array, fi As he us be roared out tn Knglish: ("r You can eat eggs next winter at , dre-i'-e- d - ' EGGS j enmnmnrmmtTTmi or M. m -- . with a new; confr(lnt emergency, the perfectly plain lesson of this war organization seems to have been strangely overlooked by the many patriotic movements that' are trying to amuse and to organize 11P. ! SHADOW - ,,, The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co. GREAT- band-playin- g TO within these organizations to concentrate and solidify true) tssnrgTnrtrDf ep&lbppoituii-- j to for none; the square deal, and the all, special privileges ity permanent defeat of the forces working for our destruction. We quote the conclusion : Movie Actor Its most immediate application would be of course, defensive. Let people say what they will, there is now in progress an attack Fooled Them All upon our national ideals and our form of government. It cannot be smiled out of existence but it can be manoeuvred out of existDelegates to the Democratic ence t h rough. Oi k a nidation. The best way to avoid serious disare still orders is to show a degree of preparedness and an emphasis of National convention intention that wilt render the attack nugatory. talking about the thrill they renext but few the months, ceived- wffiead President WiWtr "That, specifically, is the task for such an organization as we have in mind has its bigger and more supposed to be directing his polipermanent work in constructive efforts for a better America. It tical affairs from the White is the application of the old maxim United wre stand; but House at Washington, suddenly When-w- e or class-- 1 appeared fit- - their midstinSan' become self-f- e divided we fall. and Francisco and created a ser.sa-ar- e of nationalism our centered we lose the dominating sense no longer conscious of our American ideals. Then we begin tin. . to think in terms of politics and of economics; then we lose ourj Just about the time everyone, hold upon spiritual principles; then dangers multiply and pro-- j was talking about the presi-gie?- s sickens. With the lessons of the war vividly and freshly dents control of the convention, in mind, we are convinced dhat tb most urgent need and the most the very imageof Woodrow potent safeguard of the present and the future will be found in a Wilson, ,ike a bolt from the blue, restoration of our national consciousness, freed from emotion drove up to the St. Frances hotel in an automobile. He was surandplaced upon a basis of practical, efficient organization. rounded by a group , of . plain clothe 'meff&fid The w the hollow four lino- and In oat und delegates bad lulu newspapermen all smnuY, .THE flag-wavi- tmiwo 25 and 50 Cents, Plus Tax for the public good. - , a good deal of crying wolf but baek of it been has There 'all there is a wolf and it is unwise to shut ones eyes to perfectly plain facts- - Documents and other evidence now in the possession of authorities indicate a purpoJfddttoiT thFpprf of a determined and dangerous minority to attack the American ideals of Libeity, Representative Government, the Supremacy of Law and the Enlightened Rule of theMajority. Therefore, questions of way and means for opposing the organized and purposefuFminbrity with an organized and purposeful majority become immediate and important. We have only to turn our minds backward for two ox three years to recall af condition which has not been sufficiently emphasized in the present discussion. When the United States entered the war is found itself confronting a greater emergency navy, but by the entire nation by its industries, its transporta-waiqt as a nation but as a collection of American units, big and lltilerftnd this fact cost us many months nf delay in attaining any degree ! efficiency. A very important truth soon manifested itself ; namely, that the war would have to be fought not merely by the army and navy, but by the entire nation by its industries, ta transportation, its agricult ure.Jts mines, its finance, even by its newspapers, churches and schools. When we had once grasped this fact we began to organize every resource that the nation possessed in order to make it effective. There probably was hardly an industry 'or a profession or an interest whieh did not form its War Service Committee, charged with the duty of organizing for war purposes) 8y . its particular-lin- e of activity. These committees worked in dif-- j CONAN DOYLE A, ferent ways for they had very dissimilar tasks to perform, but they ad had one fundamental and unifying purpose namely, AnflMraf that of winning the war, and the Government itself acted as the Wm ASoaBtwaa JUwrioc Beimel coordinating agent. By the middle of 1918, we had pretty well passed through and the stage of our patriotism and Copyright by A. Comb Doylo. had settled down to such definite, systematic and tkisely organized And be pnke we a Minnie a tut w'orlrthat America might literally be saidlo be fighting as a thins. A i rent liman, 8Wr of huMsirv mine galloping tosingle, vast, unified organism of almost immeasurable strength. ward ns on a little lm lira-lie By the end of 1918 however, a process of disintegration1 "a triune u ie m live io h of Ids tulips, width set in because the war had been won and people, industries and Roll at tht hpits us to ,ii that be " !l 'U'" ,l niu professions alike turned back to a consideration of their own I c great Nothing less than the finest loyalty, the most untiring devotion, the recognition of the great importance of their task, a fixed determination tq serve faithfully; nothing le3 than this unified strength which has been so wonderfully displayed by the men and women, engaged in the buaineea of rendering telephone service could have carried the system through the great strain which , begaawith the war and-- which baa nbtyet Seldom, if ever, has public service required so long and so severe a test of a business organization, And never has an employe body responded with more hearty, united and loyal support. And they are still carrying on. M&RYPICKFQRD xrtTollyinjtf under-estimat- e. part of its membership, dangerously sincere. Third: general public conditions of social and industrial unrest, including the high cost of living and the uncertainty as) io future developments, offer favorable soil for the propagation of radicalism. , Fourth: the presidential campaign iA "always more or less a period of excitement during which dear thinking may be obscured by appeals to prejudice. The present campaign presents jarge possibilities in this respect. Fifth: in spite of these reasons for concern, it is undoubtedly true that the great mass ofthe population is patriotic, intelalso that it is capable of ligent, industrious and ... ? , organ- -, v, of forty years scientific advancement has brought ' NtheTHE RKIEf span to one of the mo et from a crude actHMd it adianccd. So wer sa closely did tneyi.(r march, that ccd iilat pi und ybtthej and tlj, vry Tedder 'and uric acld trou WeV mistake it was necessary for the j hotel management to send in 1 call for police reserves. When the crowds were inform ed that Faulkner wA net tfce insisted presidentrthey they were being fooled, and patiently flatted until the supposed presi- - 1 J For Prices k And Terms Apply to thnmgh ten file of them, close.) up! and came W wfifes swh.g and da ali that wan fine t . Their head a turned Mra.ght ' Thex Democratic lur ours..ve, while the Ninety-fifth Tb NiUontl Rt , c4 Hcan . lot ily painted ' , ,1 oterbiiijied them on one tide and th HOniinatiOU S IOf and coton ndont4 b? j oh the other. au mu. a druggiats, hum aissa. Go and Get It Richmond open Gkt Mstkl wry .t (To bo continued) v hfn I aulkner so appeared at ,, i Griffiths S ! r . Cantwell! And Co. & SnuthfcUl |