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THE NASSAU POST, FREEPORT, N. Y., FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 111* P**e 2 ■! $[* C/UIS TO OUR COMnW YOUNG MEN Never Was Need Greater to Carry Flag to Foreign Ports. By HENRY HOWARD, Director of Recruiting Service, U. 8. Shipping Board. The *pn'n call to onr crnintry'* yonth tfxlny I* rlrnr and ntrhng. At no other period of our national life has need been greater than now for fearlea* men to carry onr flag through atreaa of war and atorm to foreign porta. The American merchant mariner of today taken rank In the grenteat of all war*—the ultimate atruggte of lib erty with force—healde the honored brother* of the army and navy, an ex emplar of the ntrength and plenty of thin free and chlvalroun new world. In bln handa we tm a t our trader, but more than thin, we truat our honor, too. Neither ahall perlah no long an our marlnera aall the nenn. Their call ing In n cherlahed legacy from God fearing forefather* who In their day nailed hard and fnr on errnnda of peaceful commerce, while ever ready to fight for freedom. The deacendantn of auch men do not fall In their duty when the nea call* them In thin time of war. The ways of the sailor may have been lost to them In generations of peaceful land pursuits; but the salt In In their blood, and with eteady pur pose they nay to the sen: “Take me and teach me what you would have me do.” This rcaponae, from shore to nhore o f a mighty land, makes possible the new, great things America Is doing on the *en to end the war. On a thou sand new ships now taking shape upon our shores American merchant sailors by ten* of thousands will go forth, without feaf. Veterans In sea service will have trained the newcomers to the fleet—and so will be wrought a strong, close-knit, all-American per sonnel for our reborn merchant ma rine. NATURE OPENS INLET Storm Brings Improvement Farmers , Had Sought In Vain. In a few hours nature has done for the rich farmers along the Indian river In Delaware what congress has failed to do In more than fifty years, when the recent storm cut an Inlet 300 yards wide and eight feet deep where the river and bar flow Into the ocean. For several years the Inlet has grad ually filled until navigation has been stopped, and bills before congress for appropriations to build Jetties have al ways failed. Several times farmers have at tempted to dig the opening larger, but to no avail. When It closed even smaller this winter and no fish were coming In another attempt was made, but the sand shifted as fast as the farmers dug It out. Then storm came and In a few hours scoured the Inlet so that a two-masted schooner can pass while the fish are swarming into the quieter waters of Indian river and Itehoboth bay. SAW DEVIL IN RED HAIR But the Preacher Wee Smsehed and Fined. Rev. Frank I,. Johnson, pastor of a Pentecostal church st Chico, Cal., saw the red hair o f Walter Rempleyy In hid congregation and mistook It for the red challenge flag of the devil. Oraaplng a chair near the pulpit. Rev. Johnson made a wild da*h through the crowded pew*, crying a* he sped; “There’s the devil within a red- haired man. The divine *plrlt tells me to drive out the sin with force I\ And leaping over or brushing aside all obstructions, human and ntherwt*e, the pastor reached Kemplery, and hy means of the chair began converting him to the ranks of the blessed. Rut Kemplery took his turn at see ing red about that time and Instead of the devil he made a flank movement and sent an artillery blow Into the midst of Rev. Mr. Johnson’s front-line trench. Furniture was pretty well banged tip and the rest of the congregation were worse than panic-stricken when the police arrived. Roth Johnson and Kem- plery were arrested and taken before Judge Ramefl, who fined them $10 each. FIND BURIED MONEY It Wai Hidden Years Ago by Pi oneer. While boring a post hole on his farm, located on the old Oregon trail, near the Little Rlue river, a few miles northeast of Deshler, Neb., William Reckman struck an obstacle which proved to be nn old kettle In which were a number of pieces of money, how much nnd of what denomination the lucky finder refuses to say. The old kettle and a few of the coins were brought to town end placed on exhibi tion. The find Is thought to have been burled by a Mr. Jules, who owned the place years ago. He sold out to “Buf falo Rill\ (William Cody) and Capt. Lute North, and was afterward killed hy the Indians. Tradition says that before the Indians raided the place Mr. Jules secreted a large sum of money, and treasure hunters have searched the place in vain for years for what Mr. Beckman bored Into last week. HAS SIX SUPER-SUBMARINES Germany's New Boats Have Cruising Radius of 10,000 Miles. Information received in nn official quarter In Washington credits Ger many with having completed the con struction of six super-submarines of 1,500 to 1,800 tons capacity, with a cruising radius of 10,000 miles, and that six more U-boats of the same de sign are being rushed toward comple tion. Germany has designed the newer submarines, It was said, to be superior to destroyers. It was said that the allied admiralties have known for more than three months of the actual con struction of these super-submarines, which, it Is believed, follow on general lines the construction of the commer cial U-hoats, one of which, the Deutsch land, visited the United States. RE-ENFORCEMENTS By MARY FIRRY KINO of The Vigilante*. Stand f»*t, onr Aille*! Hand In hand, A bleeding hnt exultant hand, Each for his own beloved land. And all for Liberty, we stand. Majestic England, glorious France, Belgium, who led the brave advance, And all the knighthood of romance. Have summoned our uncovered lance. i The weal and woe of Home and Right— The threat of Darkness nnd Light— The need to hold the Truth with Might— These a re the watchwords of the fight. From town and country, field and mart. We come with pride to hear our part, In every breast the bugles start The fanfare of the high In heart. To serve by land or sea or air. With any weapons, any wear, Take hut onr manhood strength, and where The fight la thickest—put us there l GAS-N0X Women n.< well as m e n are human beimr* —human in the sense th a t they c* n rise to height ->f education and culture if given a chance. Keep a supply of (1AS-N0X on hand for hubby. Dad says: “ I t cures that grouch that some husbands have at breakfast.\\ “Try GAS-NOX for happiness.1' l^tiy a man has sp r u n g to the greatest honor and fam e from th e most sordid begin ning. K e e p a supply o f GAS-NOX in the medicine chest and they will help you In the struggle b y keeping y o u r stomach in good condition. A retentive memory is a wonderful thing but the ability to forget is a token o f true greatness. Remember GAS-NOX and forget that pain in the stom ach, over-acidity of the stomach a n d intestines, acid mouth, irritated conditions of the stom a c h and intestines, headaches caused hy over-acidity of t h e stom ach, etc. They are very pleasant to ta k e and are sold in all first class drug stores. If yvur local d r u g g ist cannot su p p ly you we will be very glad to send you. prepaid, o u r trial size at tw enty-five Cents or a generous bottle for one dollar, with the distinct understanding that we will return th e purchase p r ic e as cheerfully as we take it from you, if you are in an y w a y displeased with e it h e r our selling m ethods or the tablet. None but a house of assured reliability would offer drugs in this w a y . There a r e about 15,000 digestive tablet* on the m a rket a t the p r e s e n t time and I know how most of them taste and act; som e of them are b e tter than others, but I have put GAS-NOX on the m a r k e t because I knew it* merit would keep it on the market. A t this time there are upward of 6,000 physicians using this tablet in the practice of th e i r pro fession, a n d up to M a rch, 1918, it had never been sold to drug stores or the laity. The physician* who bought and used this tablet repeated th e i r purchases to such an extent that I bought the form u lae and registered the name GAS-NOX in the P a t e n t Office a t W ash ington. a n d since M a rch 30th, m o re than 20.000 bottles have been sold. The sales of this tab let last year Were approxim ately 1,500,000. 6.000 physicians use a n d endorse them . 1.600.000 sold last year to physicians. Money refunded if you are displeased. Price tw e n ty-five cent* and one dollar. All first claw dnig sto r e s or sent direct, prepaid on receipt of price. Regent Sales Co., Inc. 553-555 Macon St. . BROOKLYN, N. Y. WE HAVE NEW and USED FORDS T o u r i n g , K u n a b o u t , C o u p e le t, T o w n an d B u s i n e s s C a rs For Sale or Exchange ChaslH, $400; R u n a b o u ts, 8 4 3 5 ; T o u r ing, $ 4 5 0 ; C o u p e let,8 5 6 0 ; Town, $<145; Sedan, $00.5; Truck, 8000. We carry and constantly have on hand a large stock of all FORD parts TOOLS and MAN Make the World’s Greatness W E EMPLOY T H E MOST CAPABLE A N D RELIABLE MACHINISTS We maintain a machine shop equipped with modern and up-to-date machinery, and having a capacity to do any and all work on or about an automobile SUPPLIES OF ALL KINDS Mr. Hearst Answers Colonel Roosevelt; Suggests Joint Debate at Proper Time H jER. ROOSEVELT has sent to the Senate ■Y l ten thousand words of denunciation of the President of the United States, of Secretary Baker, of Postmaster General Burle son, and of the Hearst newspapers. He has caused this diatribe to be printed in the Con gressional Record and distributed broadcast among our people at the very moment when the war is reaching its most arduous and most critical stage. I very sincerely believe that Mr. Roosevelt is making a grave mistake in endeavoring to d is tract our leaders, dsturb the machinery of our Government, and of our military operations, and spread doubt and distrust and dissension among our people at this serious time. This is the time above all times for the sac rifice of our personal aspirations and antagon isms. It is the time for the exercise of our utmost combined endeavor, for the exertion of our most vigorous, united action. It is n ot a time for discussion a n d dissension and detraction. All loyal Americans, individuals and institu tions, should Join together, regardless of per sonal or political prejudices, and work harmoni- ' ously to help our President and our people to win the war. This the Hearst publications have earnestly and consistently endeavored to do. From the very first day of the war the Hearst newspapers have believed that victory would be won by the united effort and energy of all ear people, and not by the bickering and fault-finding of a few of our people, The day before war was declared the Hearst papers said that the MANAGEMENT of the war shoifld be confided to the Executive; that while deliberation and many counsellors were good in peace, undivided authority and respon sibility were necessary in war. The day sifter war was declared the Hearst papers urged “ an army of a million men,” “ the largest increase that could possibly be made in the navy” and “ innumerable aeroplanes and seaplanes.” ' The leaders of both parties in Congress op posed universal service, or any form of *'se:ec tive conscription.” But the Hearst papers cir culated petitions from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and collected more than 2,030,000 sig natures asking Congress to pass the Selective Conscription act. “ Only by using the full strength of tho na tion, AND EVERY STRENGTH WHERE IT IS MOST NEEDED, can the full power of the nation be exerted, was the definite, verbatim expression of this petition. I myself went personally to Washington to urge my former associates in Congress to vote for selective conscription, and on April 27 p u b lished a four-column signed article in the-Wash ington Post advocating it. After the fight for the selective draft was won, the Hearst papers called for the conquest of the air. More than twenty editorials, some of them full pages, urged the appropriation of the $040,000,000 for aeroplanes and aviators which was finally secured. Another urgent need was merchant ships. FOR TWO YEARS BEFORE THE WAS the Hearst papers fought with vigor and persistency for a Government-built merchant marine. But the bill providing for i t was killed by a filibus ter, in which Senators Penro e and Oliver, Elihu Root and Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massa chusetts—all friends of Mr. Roosevelt—joined. But for this filibuster wc might have had at least a year ago the ships required to defeat the submarine. The selective draft, ships and aeroplanes having been provided, the Hearst newspapers next petitioned Congress “ for temperance d u r ing the w a r” ; to stop the use of foodstuffs f o r making whiskey. This legislation was accom- plished in sixty days, but the Hearst papers Kail been making a sustained fight against whiskey for five years. To aid the First Liberty Loan, 914 columns of news, editorials and cartoons were published in the Hearst papers alone. Many thousands of posters on the Liberty Loan, drawn by Hearst cartoonists, were posted in all the great cities of the country. One of them, published May 24, 1917, was so effective that R. W. Woolly, Director of Publicity of the Treasury Department, Washington, requested oqpies for every Federal Reserve Bank in the United S tates—7,700 in number—arid they were furnished free. “Your work deserved unmeasured ooromen- dation,” wrote the Government's Director of PuMqtty. To eld recruiting to the aevy, the mwriwm and the volunteer army, the Hearst newspapers erected and manned recruiting stations in the principal citiee of the Union. In New York City MORE THAN HALF of the enlistments were made at New York Ameri can stations. Secretary of the Navy Daniels sent, un solicited, a dispatch saying: F o u r eo-op»ration in bringing th* Job and lb» 'm a n together ham rtndtrm d t h a navy opportune and im p o r tant aiiimtanem. Food control, the next great issue on the war programme, divided the country and Con gress. The Hearst papers, and I personally, urged ONE-MAN CONTROL, instead of a commission of three. On July 24, 1917, in a signed statement in my newspapers, I said: Thm Prmtidmnt dmmirmt o n e man, inmtaad of a commimmion of thrmm, to mKmrtiam the powerm o f food co n tro l conferred by the P o o d bill. Tha Prmeident it rig h t. * * • T h o clauee w h ic h requirem th e appointm e n t of a commieeion of th r e e , inetead o f a mingle individual, to co n tro l prom p tly and e ffectively the fo o d eup- plica fo r our co u n try and otrr allice it a mietahe and ahould be etrichen from th o bill. Individual a u th o r ity and retponeibility make for a la c r ity and efficiency in public tervica. A fter two months Congress passed the bill putting Mr. Hoover in sole control of food. The President's War Message, later his Re ply to the Pope, and hia recent Memorial Day Proclamation were greeted b y the Hearat papers as “ historic documents th a t should be pre served. '' They were published in colors on calendered paper and more them 100,000 copies of each were distributed free. The Government departments, Department of Education, New York P ublic Library and the -Y. M. 0. A. asked for more than 10,000 copies of these art reprints for their various branches, and these, like all the others, were furnished free. Marshal Joffre’s visit to the United States was commemorated in a handsome volume, bound in vellum and mounted in gold and en amel, containing the photographs, speeches and descriptive accounts of his visit, and souvenirs of many cities. This volume, officially accepted by the French Commission, was presented to Field Marshal Joffre in the presence of his staff in Paris by General Pershing in behalf of the Hearst pubtications. To promote the Second Liberty Loan the Hearst newspapers devoted 1,295 columns of news, editorials and cartoons, and to aid the Third Liberty Loan the Hearst papers devoted 1,910 columns of news, editorials and cartoons. The subscriptions of the Hearst publications and employes to the Liberty loans have been over half a million dollars; their contributions to the Red Cross have been over fifty thousand dollars. In all these matters the Hearst newspapers, “ doing right as God gives us to sae the fright,” have tried to be the most vigilant agents of the public interest by their ACTS as well as by words. Of Mr. Roosevelt and others like him, who find unpatriotic occupation in denouncing the Administration, and who seem more interested in their personal ambitions and political preju dices than they a re in winning the war, I would like to ask the plain question: W h a t have y o u done to g i v e you th e r i g h t to c r it ic i s e the A d m in i e tra ti o n a n d its sp le n d i d a c h i e v e m e n t s , or to ju s ti fy y o u in a s s u m in g su p e r io r virtue a n d value to th e H earei papere, w h ich h a v e c o n s is te n tly s u p p o r t e d the A d m i n i s t r a tion a n d co n s c ien tio u s ly e n d e a v o r e d in e v e r y Way to h e l p the G o v e r n m e n t w in th e war? As far as I can see, Mr. Roosevelt has done nothing but savagely and sensationally attack the President of the United States and his Cabinet during this critical war period, and has done this for partisan political purposes—and, what is worse, for pay. As far as I can see, one of the main objects of Mr. Roosevelt’s latest furious attack upon the Administration was to aid and advertise those magazines and newspapers which pay him and support him, and to reflect upon those magazines and newspapers which do not hire him or admire him. As far as I can see, no matter what the motive of these continued attacks may be, whether it be partisan and personal, or well intended and merely misguided, the result can only b e harmful to our Government, harmful to the spirit of our people, harmful to the morale of o u r armies, harmful to our country and our country’s cause. A fter the war is over, therefore, or, better, after this present crisis is over, I shall be glad to debate with Mr. Roosevelt upon the publie platform whether his critical efforts or my con structive efforts have accomplished the more toward helping America bring this greet war to a speedy and successful conclusion. WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST.
