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The philosopher who saw how men make tear
vowed thereafter tn consort with beasts.
The Supremacy of Astu!(h
THE storm which hitH been browitiB In
England for several months lma broken
at lust. I'i'lmo Minister Asfiulth has bent bin
head before It nnil Is tnkltur pains to prevent
It from deatroyliiK the unity of the British
people. There has been serious discontent
With tho wny the Government htm managed
the war, particularly In the Admiralty De
partment and In the Department of Finance.
Hut tho Opposition leadcrH have been most
patriotically silent In public, IhotiKh they
liavo expressed themselves freely In private.
AVlthln a few weeks tho Opposition newspa
pers have begun to say in the open what
many people have been thinking.
Now comes tho resignation of Lord John
Fisher as a protest against the policy of
Winston Churchill, tho Klrst Lord of tho Ad
miralty, and no ono can ignore the situation
any longer. There is evidently to bo u re
built Cabinet, and tho Conservative leaders,
ho have patriotically supported tho Gov
ernment, nre to be asked to take office and
,'work with tho Government In solving tho
. great problems of national defense. And
Asqulth is admitted to be tho prlmo lender
fitted to guide tho nation through this crisis.
Italy Crosses (he Rubicon
Italy la likely to prove a decisive factor
In the war. The Italian attitude Is not en
tirely materialistic, for there Is soul be
hind the national aspirations. A practically
Impossible task confronts the magnificent
German war machine.
IT WOULD bo idle to question the impor
tance of Italy's entrance into the war. Tho
peninsula had held, as It were, tho destinies
of Europe In its hands for months. Had
Homo clung to tho old alliance nnd Hung her
nrmles at Trance, tho storm could scarcely
have been weathered by tho Allies during
tho early period of the struggle. But that
would have exposed the Italian coast to tho
navies of France nnd England nnd would,
perhaps for ever, havo ended the dream of
Italy for tho recovery of her lost territory.
All of Italy's Interests lie with the side she
has taken. Opportunity has been knocking
at her door tho opportunity to tako her
ancient place among tho first Powers of tho
globe. It Is no wonder that the mobs havo
clamored for war and been restive under the
Interminable delays which wise statesman
ship has counseled.
It la Inconceivable that a war machine,
even so formidable and perfect as that which
German genius has created, will bo ablo to
stand against tho allied troops that now
encircle it. Thero is no ono of the Allies that
Is not powerful by Itself, while Austria is to
Germany almost a liability instead of an
asset. Tho Austrian troops seem to be help
less except under German direction, and the
protection of the long frontier fastens on
Germany a herculean task. Thero nto vast
. armies against her to the east nnd to tho
west, and now a new fury Is about to spring
from the south. Turkey is of no help, except
In attracting allied troops from Europe, and
may become a tremendous liability In tho
event of tho fall of Constantinople. It Ib,
Indeed, one of the miracles of the world that
at this stage of the war thero Iff scarcely a
hostile trooper on German soil. Never In tho
history of tho world has a nation, in a purely
military way, given such evidence of thor
ough efficiency and magnificent capacity.
That Italy has looked on this great ndven
ture In a materialistic way Is not surprising,
yet there Is, too, national longing in her nttl
tude and no lack of soul. She Is certnln to
hasten the end of this revelry of blood, and
the quicker It does end the better It will be
' for humanity.
It Is our Italy, the land of poetry, the
pppressor of the world for centuries, the op
pressed of Europe for generations: Itnly, In
whoso glory all nations share nnd nil human
ity exults, mother of artB nnd civilization, In
Whoso bosom genius has been nurtured, the
holy of holies of history, whose soil has red
dened wth endless romance and whose fin
gers have touched tho strings and brought
therefrom Invisible beauties of sound! Who
can he without a thrill as once more she arms
herself and marches In solid phalanxes again
to write history in humanity's great book of
records?
Using More Money Than There Is
TT WILL take more actual money than
X there is in the world to pay the bills If
the war lasts for four months more. The
total world stock qf gold money Is about
J7,POO,OOO.O0U there s about 13.650,000,000 of
silver money and 3,660,000,000 of paper
money, Including banknotes. This amounts
to a little more than $13,000,000,000. The war
rins countries have already borrowed $9,613,
400,000 and the fighting has lasted about
nine months. They are spending about a
bfllfon dollars a month. In four months the
enormous sum of J13.600.000.000 will be
Iguimtug
r reached. Thla is more, than half as much
fS alj the wars fought r the world from
179fc4p 1913 have cost, even when there la
included the economic loss due to the de
crease In production occasioned by the use
of men for fighting Instead of for creating
wealth.
Aa much has been borrowed already as
all the wars cost between 1793 and H0,
The total number f men engaged in fight-
C 1BK in the last century amounted tq only
r lteWJW. or a, number little, Jn excess of the
if wwbf now actively engaged on tha con-
tlnctit or soon to he engaged it I ns It rt
the fighting for A. hundred years had been
concentrated in ulna Wnths and an If about
rtll tho money that it hnd taken to pay for
the past wars had been gathered logotlfcr
nnd thrown Into tho trenches to ho burned
by powder nnd blasted by dynamite nnd
melted by tho flerco explosions of tho bombs.
The sum Is so vast that It Is Incompre
hensible But it Is less thnn tho warring
nations have spent In maintaining their
nrmles nnd navies for tho last thirteen
years while they wcro getting ready for tho
conflict. Great Britain alone spent halt n
billion dollars In tho fiscal year of 1913-14
nnd Itussla had to use $140,000,000, nnd tho
amount spent by Franco, Germnny nnd
Austria-Hungary brings the total for a sin
gle twelvemonth up to $1,500,000,000. Kit
rope was staggering .under the burden of
preparation. Germnny has already borrowed
nearly 6 per cent, of her total wraith,, nnd
tho wholo group of nations havo borrowed
about 4 per cent, of tho value of nil their
property of nil kinds Included within their
boundaries
This fearful iltnln on tho resources of tho
nations cannot continue without bankrupt
ing the treasuries nnd piling up burdens of
debt which will weigh upon tho shoulders of
tho people for generations to come. Tho
ccnnomlc nrgtiment for penco is ns strong
ns tho economic argument for temperance.
Oct Ilusy ami Authorize Digging
When the city of New York determined
to establish adequate rapid transit facili
ties for public service the existing com
panies procrastinated and withheld their
co-operation. The city, however, pro
ceeded to design the lines and actually to
let contracts for their construction before
nny provision for the equipment and opera
tion thereof was made. The result was
that tho existing companies Joined with the
city and entered Into a contract for the
equipment and operation of the city-owned
lines, for they could not have survived the
Inevitable competition which would have
resulted from their equipment nnd opera
tion by a competitive company. Director
Taylor.
TI1I0 way tn got rapid transit Is to get It.
Tho people have voted, by nn over
whelming majority, tho sum of $15,000,000
with which to begin work. Not u dollar of
thnt amount Is authorized for any subway
or rtevnted that, is not a constituent part
of tho comprehensive Taylor plans. To ob
ject thnt no work should bo begun until
provision Is mado for tho construction of
tho entire system is. In tho existing circum
stances, to obstruct rapid transit ns such
and play directly Into the hands of thoso
Interests which, for one reason or another,
nre resorting to nny subtle plan which Is
likely to Induce delay.
Councils, which Is the Organization, Is
In a peculiar position. Ity tho hrnnd-mlnd-edness
of Director Taylor In accepting n
proposal different from his own, since It
offered the only chance of beginning work
promptly and did not nullify his own com
prehensive plans, tho Immediate projects for
consideration nre Councils' own projects, to
which it Is dedicated by tho obligation of
paternity and against which It cannot turn
without pillorying Itself before this com
munity as a body which trifled with a pub
lic purposo and proposed its own modus
operandi as a red herring and without any
expectation whatever of ever putting It into
effect. Thero is no nlternntlvo for Councils.
It wrapped Itself up In this $6,000,000 loan
originally nnd offered It ns Its own. It can
not repudiate its own proposals without ad
mitting treachery. Tho Organization does
not usually play tho gamo so poorly ns to
permit Councils so to brand itself in the
open.
By tomorrow night tho city will havo an
inkling of where it stands and how It Is to
bo treated. If the Organization wants to
make its fight In November on n platform,
tho principal plank of which would be this
betrayal of public Interests, so bo It. It Is
the kind of challongo nny self-respecting
community knows how to meet.
There Is No Need for More Commissions
THERE aro commissions enough ultcady
without creating nny more. This is true
whether tho municipal Investigating com
mission proposed by Representative Wilson
Is Intended as a Vnro and McNlchnl club
to bo used on tho Independents In tho
mayoralty campnlgn or Is to secure Infor
mation for the guidance of tho General As
sembly in futuro legislation.
Tho resolution calling for tho appointment
of tho commission provides for a blanket
grnnt of power to make Investigations not
only In Philadelphia, but In every city In
tho Commonwealth. No community would
bo safe from Its visits and no polltlcnl
leader not in sympathy with the powers In
control of the commission could escape tho
Inquisitorial examination of hostile men.
It is ensy to argue that nn Investigation
of many cities Is needed for tho good of tho
public, but no ono has any confidence that
that would bo tho purpose of this Inquiry.
We have had some experience with a mu
nicipal Investigating committee, and overy
one knows thnt ns soon ns the latest ono
began to get near real disclosures It was
called off and shipped out of town between
days.
The Governor must veto the bill. His un
prejudiced friends feel that If he consults
his own best Interests ho will not tie him
self up with nny permanent Inquisitorial
body capable of great mischief.
These are the days when every floating
log Is a periscope.
This Is said to be a war of engineers, but
neutral nations are doing the surveying.
"Order again restored Jn Lisbon." The
first thing we know it will be Manuel.
A little less Churchill and a little more
action might riot do the English navy any
harm.
Everybody is for the President when, the
President does what everybody wants him.
to do.
Some of the baseball fans are wondering,
why Connie Mack does not draft the North
east High.
A Convention Hall almost anywhere Jn the)
vicinity would be better than no Convention
Hall at all. ,
' "I Mil -l
The President saya ho k'npws what Secret
tary Daniels Is doing, but the Secretary does
not appear to be nervous.
Ji ipim a, ,ni
KJteheper would like to hear the British
parpdy the . famous Civil War tope, and
fins "We are coming, dear Britannia, 300,000
alrUs"
THE BUILDERS OF
A UNITED ITALY
Steps in tho Making of rt Nation Out
of Numerous Republics, King
tloms nnd Principalities Nation
al Spirit Grew With Disasters.
By WILLIAM A. McGAHRY
GIUSEPPE MA5555INI, nn eloquent Geno
ese, who founded tho Society of Young
Italy In tho early thirties, Is honored by pa
triotic Italians throughout tho world ns- tho
prophet of tho national unity later achieved
through tho effort nnd leadership of three
men. It was Mazzlnl who first said, "Italy
might and must some day exist ns ono freo
nation." 11 was Mnzzlnl nlsn who wrote to
King Charles Albert, of Piedmont, shortly
nftcr tho Inttcr's accession to tho throne In
18.11 n letter containing tho prophetic stnto
ment, "Vott will bo hailed by posterity ns
tho first nmong tho heroes or tho last of
Italian despots."
The tin eo men who fulfilled the vision of
Mazzlnl vero King Victor Emmanuel II,
Garibaldi nnd Count Cntnlllo Benso dl Ca
vour. Jlazzlnl, Garibaldi nnd Cavotir wcro
natlvbs of the old kingdom of Sardinia. Theso
three patriots, tho prophet, tho warrior and
Hie statesman, all working toward a. common
end, were frequently nt cross purposes. Yet
without tho help of I hem Victor Emmanuel II,
the grandfather of the present monarch, would
never have accomplished tho unification of
his land nftcr centuries of troublo and op
pression, in which nearly every nation In
Europo had tried Its hand nt governing
Italy. Tho actual building up of tho modern
nation extended, It may bo said, through tho
years from 184S to 1S71.
An Inheritance of Dcfcnt
Perhaps the finest tribute that may bo paid
the Knllnns Is that they profited by their
reverses, making their defeats, by tho state
craft of Cnvour, pave the way to later vic
tories. Victor Emmanuel II, succeeding his
rather to tho throne, Inherited defeat. Ho
was compelled by Austria to disband nearly
all his troops and to pay $60,000,000 In
demnity. Tho young monarch gave Count
Cavotir almost undisputed sway, and tho
two turned their attention to rebuilding.
Cavotir saw a chanco to gnin tho favor
of Franco nnd England in 1S53. All Itnly
opposed him and protested, but Cavotir was
looking nhead, nnd in spite of objections, ho
put through in that year treaties with both
nation''. Tho wisdom or this course was
demonstrated two yenrs later by tho Cri
mean War. Cnvour reasoned thnt If Pied
mont proved a valtiahlo ally in thnt conflict
It would give her n volco with the Powers.
Ho know this to bo essential, nnd accord
ingly ir,000 Pledmnnteso worn sent Into
Crimen. Her soldiers ncqulttod themselves
so nobly that In 185G Piedmont, as Cavotir
had foreseen, was Invited to participate In
tho Congress of Paris.
With at last the moral hacking of Franco
and England, Cavotir felt strong enough to
arraign Austria nt this congress. Ho ac
cused her of breaking treaties, nnd succeeded
In ct eating a strong public sentiment In
Europo for an Italy 1'nltod. Thus ho mado
possible, a treaty with Franco In 185R, tho
latter country agreeing to Intervene between
Austria nnd Piedmont If Austria were tho
aggressor. Count Cavotir thereupon sot out
on a course Inter tnken by Bismarck with
Franco. Within n yenr he had provoked
Austiia to declare war.
Louis Napoleon, in accordance with his
treaty, joined tho troops of Piedmont In
May of thnt year with 12,000 French troops.
Tho French monarch did not want tho war,
but wont Into It bocauso of tho influence
exerted over him by Cavotir. llo joined tho
CO.OOO soldiers of Piedmont, nnd sev
eral victories followed. Just when tho
Allies hnd Austria nt their mercy Franco
suddenly concluded penco with Francis Jo
seph without consulting Italy. Again, how
over, misfortune roused tho people of Italy.
Garibaldi was disgusted and nlmost heart
broken with the penco which his country
had to accept, but ho shared In tho martial
fover that swept over tho nation, nnd in
I860 was deep In tho conquest of the south
ern States. Here again the friendship of
England proved valuable, for tho tost of
Europe did not look with pleasure on Gari
baldi's success. The annexation of tho Papal
States was especially objected to. England
stood by Piedmont when action was threat
ened tn destroy tho empire which Cnvour
was welding together out of tho results of
Garlbnldl's victories, and Victor Emmanuel
was proclaimed King of Italy In 1860. Home,
iheld by the Pope, with tho support of
France, nnd Venotla, hold by Austria, wero
tho last of tho Italian States to Join tho em
pire. Count Cavour did not live to seo that
day. Ho died In June, 1861.
Foreign Help and Hindrnnco
Tho outside Influences against which Italy
always had been forced to struggle In her
years of building up wero never more of an
obstruction than in 1862, whon Garibaldi,
with a volunteer nrmy of 2500, started out
to mako Homo and Venice politically Italian.
Franco halted Garibaldi at Asprlmontc, and
ho was defeated und wounded. All Italy
proclaimed him a national martyr. Publlo
opinion In Europe turned In fnvor of Italian
unity. The power of Franco In Itnly began
to wane, so much so that In tho September
convention of 1864 France agreed to with
draw gradually Its garrison In Borne.
The next big step In Italian unity was tho
treaty with Prussia In 1866, pledging mutual
support in enso of war with Austria.
Austria tried to break away by offering to
give Vnnetla back to Italy, but Victor Em
manuel was loyal, more so than Prussia,
which concluded penco with Austria July
22, 1866, not waiting for the consent of Italy.
The latter country benefited, however, be
cause Austria was compelled in the settle
ment to yield Venotla to France, which Im
mediately ceded It to Italy.
France In I860, before the outbreak of her
war with Prussia, sought an alliance with
Italy, but refused to withdraw her troops
from Rome as tho price of tho alliance,
Later, after her early defeats In the war In
1870, her garrison at Home was needed at
home and was withdrawn. Victor Em
manuel sought to have the Pope surrender
his temporal power In 1871, but failed, The
monarch's troops then marched Into the city,"
the Papal soldiery offering only perfunctory
resistance, and in July, 1871, Victor Em
manuel established his court at Home.
THE DEBUTANTE
I have a little question
I'd like to put jn rhyme;
They say the pace of living
Gets faster all the time;
But shouldn't you Imagine
It Blowed down quite a lot.
When mother loved the galop,
While I'm content to trot?
Corlnne Bllia, In Judje.
MEN OP INFORMATION
As a genera) rule, the roost successful man
In life Is the man who has the beat Informs?
t,!on,i-I) Israeli.
BEST THOUGHT IN AMERICA
DIGEST OF THE
(1) Hearst's' Magazine, "Overhaul Your
Own Heart."
(2) Scientific American, "Typhoid
Fever."
(S) Forum, "Modern Medical 'Sci
ence' "
(4) Life, "A Matter of Expense."
) Cosmopolltnn, "Tho 55cal-and-52cst'
Man."
MEDICAL SCIENCE
IT IS tho "personal touch" that Insures
popularity. A story Is bound to hit, It it
Is so vividly written that It reminds each
reader of noma person, or somo Incident In
his own life. It Is this snmo universal per
sonal application to one's own Individual
heart, liver and lungs which gives lechnlcnl
medical articles their promlneneo In tho pop
ular magazines.
Mcdlcino in tho abstract is quite as ponder
ous nnd remoto ns law or higher mathe
matics or esoteric Buddhism, and yet several
of tho magazines make n fenturo of popu
larized medlcnl articles every month, and,
on tho average, mcdlcino probnbly overbal
ances other professional and sclontlflc sub
jects in a ratio of four or llvo to one.: It's
tho personal touch that explains It. A good
example of the general Interest of theso
lechnlcnl articles Is found In an account of
the heart by Dr. II. S. Williams, in Hearst's
Magazine (1). Its opening sentence Is
strangely reminiscent of "Hilly" Sunday.
Is your henrt nil right?
It should be known that there are more
deaths now In the United States from orgnnlo
heart disease than fiom nil forms of tuber
culosis or consumption. President Elmer K.
mttonhoiise, of tlm I.lfo Extension Institute,
points out: "In .10 years tho mortality from
these organic diseases has Increased In Massa
chusetts 86 per cent.; In 15 American cities 91
per cent."
In theso days of automobiles every ono has
somo knowledge of power transforming motors,
but few of us perhaps ever stop to consider
that tho most wonderful of nil such motors Is
tho pumping machine wo call tho heart. This
amazing little motor, only ns big ns your fist,
is tho nearest npproach to a perpetual motion
machlno of which wo havo any knowledge. It
begins throbbing when tho embryo that Is to
ho a future organism Is scarcely mnio than n
fleck of protoplasm, nnd It never stops throb
bing during the entire life of the organism.
Jlr. nittenhonso estimates that more than
300,000 people lli prematurely from proventablo
or remediable maladies of the henrt nnd cir
culatory system. The causes may bo
educed tn a slnglo class namely, erinrs of nu
trition. Tho particular error of rllot thnt Is
most harmful Is the Ingestion of excessive quan
tities of protcld foods, of which eggs nnd lean
meats of all kinds are the typlcnl examples.
Food of this type leads, among other things,
to a tendency to hardening of tho arteries, and
it this proceeds very fnr It complicates tho
problem of proper distribution of tho blood.
Tho Scientific American (2) wnrns against
typhoid fever, and, In splto of the recent
success of Bernard Shaw'a satirical attack
on .ill forms of Inoculation In "Tho Doctor's
Dilemma," takes a strong editorial stand In
advocacy of vaccination for typhoid as well
as smallpox.
An Ounco of Prevention
Typhoid fever Iioh fourth placo on American
mortality lists, coming only after tuberculosis,
pneumonia nnd cancer. It is contracted In ab
solutely no other way thnn by swallowing food
and drink (the latter mostly water or milk)
contaminated In various disgusting ways, Dirty
fingers and the filthy fly aro the chief Inter
mediaries. Scientifically speaking, nothing can
be simpler than the prevention of these Infec
tions. The application of the principle Is, how
ever, of great practical difficulty. For exam
ple, there Is the cook Typhoid Mary, a carrier
of the germ, who, although film declares she
never herself had the disease, has, nevertheless,
In the migrations from family to family pe
culiar to her caste through a number of years
disseminated the Infection to some score or
more of sufferers.
The best Insurance against typhoid Is, after
all, to get Inoculated against the disease, as all
sensible people are now vaccinated against
smallpox. Specially la this well to do when
there are typhoid epidemics; and for commer
cial travelers, motorists, tourists and vacation.
Ists. Deaths have been alleged to be due to
such Inoculations, but In every case the death
has been found by the authorities on autopsy
to have been due not at all to the Inoculations,
but to some disease In nowise related to or
affected by this anti-typhoid preventive
measure.
The caso. against vaccination nnd against
much of the modern preventive theory of
medicine Is presented by Helen S. Gray,
writing In the Forum (S),v
Jenner Introduced smallpox vaccination n
1TH Carnegie names him as one of the 21 men
who have made the world move. He made It
move-but backward, not forward, it Is al
leged that vaccination affords protection
sgalmt smallpox. In the German Empire the
vaccination law is very stringent, and Is rig
orously enforced, Boasts are frequently made
as to haw thoroughly vaccinated the whole
country Is, that ''smallpox Is never seen In Ger
many except as an Importation." (Health Com
missioner Goldwater, of New York.) Notwith
standing, an epIdemlQ of smallpox occurred In
Maulbronn, Wurtemberg. about September. 1912.
and practically the whole county was quaran
tined, ykclnatlon Is required In the United
States army and navy. But a year ago an out
break occurred on the Ohio. The official re
port state that there were 2? cases and five
deaths.
For years smallpox has been the Murobo
Jumbo of the medical profession, bocey with
KEEP SHOVELING
MAGAZINES
which to crcato a panic. Smallpox panics aro
worked up ostensibly for tho public welfare.
Often they nro duo to tho dcslro for petty
aggrandizement of a health board onicl.il. Be
sides, thorn nro Millions of dollars invested In
tho making of vaccines and scrums, and It Is
not to tho Interest of tho manufacturers and
stockholders thnt business should decline.
While There Is Life Thero Is Hope
Ono of the most prominent of tho journals
to tnko up tho causo of nnti-vlvlscctlon, I-lfo
(4) prints a bitterly satirical protest on the
subject, signed with tho Initials of Ellis O.
Jones.
In Massachusetts recently they have been
trying to tako the dog out of tho clutches of
tho ,vlviscctor. Doctor Cannon, professor of
physiology at Harvard, was ono of thoso who
opposed tho bill thnt was Introduced In tho
Legislature for thnt purpose. Up said that tho
rabbit and other smaller Inferior nnlmnls havo
orgaiiH so flno thnt experiments do not bring
tho same results ns do thoso on dogs, while tho
monkey Is too expensive for ordinary experi
ments. No room for sentiment there. If, therefore,
expense Is tho most Important thing to be con
sidered, why not uso orphans? Orphans have
no friends and enn bo hnd for nlmost nothing.
"Medical etiquette,'; a much-tnlked-of and
very complicated article, shrouds tho person
ality of most of our great physicians In mys
tery. But a few rise so high that they
figuratively speaking step off the top rung
of tho ladder Into n transcendental stnte,
whero it is even possible to write them up In
tho magazines nnd papers. Such a man is
Dr. Howard Kelly, who Is tho subject of an
article by nnother doctor, Stoddard Good
hue, M. D., In tho Cosmopolltnn (0):
As I camo Into Dr. Hownrd Kelly's surgery,
In Ilaltlmore, he wns In tho midst of n very
difficult and delicate operation, surrounded, of
course, by assistant physicians and nurses. Hb
was manipulating scalpel and necdlo Ith tho
doftness for which ho Is celebrated using cither
hand, ns I noted, seemingly without choice
but, nevertheless, ho entered at onco Into nn
nnlmatcd conversation.
"About tho only recent progress In this field,"
bo sold, "Is to make the difficult operations as
feasible nnd ns suro In their results as the
easy onos. Improvements in technlquo enable
us to do this.
"But, of course, no two operations nro just
alike, and no mntter how often you operate,
Homcthlng of Interest Is nlwnys revealed to
keep up your cnthuslnsm. Zeal and zest, doc
tor theso are tho groat words. Thoy are tho
only words beginning with 'i' except proper
names that occur In the nible. And they de
serve to stand by themselves. With zeal and
zest you enn move mountains, and have fun
in doing It."
This I tako It was an average 24 hours for
this tireless worker; five or six rapltnl opera
tions at home and hospital; tho supervision of
radium cancer patients; a conference nbout
Sunday sermons and social service; dictation
or voluminous correspondence; a few hours of
literary composition; a night tour of inspection
and advice In tho slums; a conference with
police officials, nnd a lecture on tho history ot
tho operation for ovarian tumors. "Zeal and
zest, I pondered, "whon coupled with a tire
less physique nnd a brain endowed with native
genius, they aro a marvelous asset."
AMERICANISM ON LUSITANIA
To the Editor of the Eicntna I.tdgtr:
Sir A crash, n cry and all Is silent.
Another crash, whether from the same causo
or otherwlso. Is heard, and the giant of tho sea
starts to settlo toward tho fathomless deep.
Hoarse commands aro given nnd boats leave
the side of the doomed liner. She lists heavily
and sinks. Many are thrown Into the turbulent
sea. Many are the hasty prayers offered and
many Imprecations are hurled at tho now known
cause of their destruction. Many find their
death and grave in the watery deep.
Their now glorified death shall over be held
as examples of the quiet and enduring heroisms
for which this country Is so proudly famous
and can so Justly boast. And their suffering
nnd sacrifice shall over bo held as representing
the high Ideals of Americanism,
And mnv ttin Tinier nf tlm frnliF.. .. .i.i
--""" . ... . . u. ..w w..;,ao uy JUIHU
the Ship of State that this country may secure
not vengeance, not retribution, but justification
for the noble course she has chosen to steer
For the unfaltering policy of neutrality and
for the grand example of aloofness In refraining
from participating In a struggle so permeated
by worldly lusts and desires,
JOHN LANDENTJERGEn.
Philadelphia, May 17.
JOHN BULL'S OFFENSES
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger;
Sir Would it not be a good Idea to cease
knocking the Gcrmans7 The thing seems to be
getting monotonous. You all tako England's
word for anything. It seems. Why not give
your opinion about the English outrages on
Innocent, defenseless German families torn
aeunder over In your Dear Old England? Seems
to me the entire press, almost, are toadying
to John Bull, our good friend of our own Civil
War (the Alabama case, the recognition of tho
Confederacy, etc.).
England's best weapon Is the poison pen and
her great object is to embroil us with Ger
many. Am sorry, Indeed, It Is too bad. What
did Germany ever do to usj These are my
sentiments. A. BECKMOU
Philadelphia, May 14.
EXPRESSIONS OF OPINION
To fi ifdttor of IA, Evening ledger;
Sir It amuses me to see the sayings of differ
ent "American citizens" regarding the war If
they were really American citizens they would
be careful the way they express their opinions.
To my mind, I don't believe any of them are
true Americans. The President of the
Uplted States sent messages all over the coun.
try at the beginning of this terrible struggle
across the sea, asking the neoDla to h ,,.Z,.i
ana noi express ineir opinions about tha war I
Yet It mcoA many did not do this, it lthe
hot-headed so-callnd "Americans" who cam.
They don't think; thoy nro too Impulsive Mr
forefathers were tho last to air their opinions
and they wero In all tho wars In which this'
country ever participated, In the United m....
army, loo. They wcro respected for keeplni'l
quiet until tho last minute. Think of the thou- $
e.iuuM wiiii nn uiiumrucu Kravcs'
Think of tho women left widows wllh small i
children to support! Maybo theso mothers'
havo no wny of making a living and must"
depend upon charity. Think what this means '
to theml IIAP.P.Y W. CLAWSON ;
Philadelphia, May 15.
UNCONQUERABLE
From the Ohio Btnte Journal,
An ablo exchanco holds that William Krneit
Henley's poem, "Unconquerable," Is ono of thi
grentest poems In nny language. It Is really ;
tribute to mnuhood, nnd should bo read and re
read and committed to memory, for tho spirit '
of It Is tho soul of a true man. Hero It Is la .
full:
Out- nf Ihn mIitIi f- ilml -r-.t Af a m a '
UUk Ul til'.! 4Ilblll lUL-hb l-ultlO JIICt
Black as tho pit from polo to pole,
I thank whatever gods may bo
For my unconqucrablo soul.
In the fell clutch ot clrcumstanco
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under tho bludgeonlngs of chanco
My head Is bloody but unbowed.
Beyond the placo of wrath and tears
Looms but tho horror of the shads
And yet tho menace of tho years
Finds, nnd shall find, mo unafraid.
It matters not how straight tho gate,
How charged with punishment the scroll,
I am tho mnstcr of my fnte,
I nm the cnntaln of -my soul.
pnl.- l...,nlH-ttn,i nf tOKn ItllP-I 1.1 H Cllrft faf
A lie llinimaiiun -. .. --- ,
cowardice. They Inspire a man to meet tn i
disappointments ot llfo Willi a onivo neari. uj
. . - m . ....a t-TnntiH UI nninl 4
the article ncioro us "" " ...... fu
... i. i -.,,... t.,n.rt- Rnv it tn votirself: andit
muru it. hi "" -- -- -- .-- -
It will bo moio to you thnn all tho money In u I
n,n hnnks of tho world." Which counsel w.j
hero repeat. A few years ago wo stood at .MS
new-made grave of Henley In WestralnsuM
... ....i i.AUA i.,.-' llnon seemed to breuH
inrrey, ..nu .ih-ovj ,
unnn ns from beyond. 31
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nTTWVTJAT. .lOFFRE AS A PROPHET
, ."i Tntfrn imw i-ntii maud I nc the French
-. .1... tl-1.1 M'nt, i-inrln rnlpT nf ml
armies in mu ni-., ". -- ,
general staff In 1011. The next year. In one o(
mo jew imci.iuno ......... ..- -. - - ---
have with newspaper men. ho explained to,
. ..... ,.., tn li rmicht In wordll
UIO CUMIIIIK ' ....... .- ---- -- - -.
iviilrh events havo proved to bo piopnetli ay.
said: . -V.
"It will not lio tho commanding generals whs
will gain tho battles ot tho future. It will
, .... ..t..i- n.,,1 nvnn tho ntmnlo cantalns.
m. .,-., t nn. ...Ill nvtr.ii.1 mm 4(1(1 10 50v-
miles, nnd, under mioh conditions, the will oft
one man cannot uo maoo icu uvvu , .
thnio is but little opportunity for new com
binations and ruses. Tho rolo of the com
manding general will nearly como iu un w
the moment ho will have gathered at a
sired point In the lino of battlo all the forcel
that arc needed;, the rolo of tho colonels ana
tho captains wllf begin with tho first shoti
filed. They It will be who will decide the re
sult of tho struggle. The troops that win will
be those that hold out tho longcbt, that will
provo superior In efldurance, in energy and
In faith In the final victory"
MOTIVES
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Motives are points 01 nonor, i buiiijuoo. 'vmili
hody can prove mem. ueorsu tmui.
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