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Si wJio spends Jits time fooling may discover
that when he mould be earnest ho
, knows nothing but folly.
Conscription!
THE dramatic reorganization of tho British
Cabinet spells one word conscription.
Of tho long battle lines In Franco, English
troops hold but 30 miles, whllo tho French
troops hold moro than 630. All Franco Is
given to heroic sncrlflco in tho great strug
gle, nnd to Its successful prosecution tho
wholo. nation is passionately devoted. But In
England trado continues much tho same as
usual. Football and tho races go on. Tho
difficulty of recruiting becomes greater nnd
greater. Although tho most gigantic battles
ln tho history of tho world aro being fought
tipst within sound of London and hostllo
& craft Under sea and In tho air havo visited
tno injuria itself and its environs, it seems
. to bo utterly impossible to make tho English
rVasses comprehend tho crisis which con-
u fronts tho country.
; Lincoln mot a situation of a similar sort In
, this country In tho only way possible, by
conscription. That is what tho British Gov
ernment must do and what it undoubtedly
Intends to do. That there will bo draft riots
is probable, but they must bo faced. England
Is lighting for her Imperial existence. Ger
many cannot bo defeated as a sldo Issue. Tho
Very heart of England and of every ono of
tho other Alllos must bo put In tho balanco
and every asset utilized. Tho English Gov
ernment must convlnco the people of Eng
land that they havo a real war on their
hands and that enormous sacrifice by tho
whole and united population Is necessary to
bring it to a successful conclusion.
Wilson's Two Enviable Tasks
WOOD-BOW WILSON is blessed with the
enviable privilege of learning how to be
a grandfather and how to be a. President nt
the samo time. Ho has been President
about two years and ho has acquired In that
tlmo two grandchildren, apportioned nmong
tho sexes with greater fairness and Justice
than any political apportionment on record.
Opinions may differ as to tho relative dif
ficulty of his two tasks, but ovcry one will
turning
I f,nBr00 that learning how to bo a grnnd-
p.ainer is a mucn moro satisfactory occupa
tion tnan learning how to nil any political
office in tho gift of tho nation. Ofllce comes
from tho people, but grandchildren aro the
L gifts of tho gods.
Talking Peace Means Thinking Peace
T IS not expected that tho International
Peace Conference at Lake Mohonk will
bnd tho war. It Is an unofficial nnd purely
voluntary gathering 'of men and wompn whn
think that peace is better than strife.
Borne of them ore wiser than others. Tho
wlso ones understand thnt wn. win n i,
If abolished by any arbitration treaties, or by
'" "ivuhuuii oi any weapons moro deadly
than those now in use, or by any petitions to
tho Powers at war at the present tlmo. Thoy
know that peace Is a state of mind brought
about by a desire for Justlco and a willing
ness to make concessions In thn lntnmf ne
W International harmony and human progress.
war win continue so long as there remains
farvy considerable body of men determined to
Wive their own way. regardless or th.
of others.
But talking peaco does no harm. Indeed,
Jt may do some good by encouraging tho
iablt of thinking about peace and nbout the
conditions on which it muit be based.
BoJnR Business With South America
SOUTH AMERICA is ready to enter Into
closer business relations with tho United
States, It must look to us to finance many of
. srem enterprises ir tno European nations
continue to use their fluid wealth in warfare
nnd keep on killing oft their workers in the
trenches
The South American statesmen understand
the conditions. The Argentine Ambassador
has been going about the country telling our
business men of the splendid opportunities
that await them south of tho equator. About
0 delegates from the South American repub
lics are to meet In Washington on Monday to
discuss with representative American busl.
I esa men the financial needs of their coun-
jtrjes, waorsing tno statements of the Argen
tjne Ambassador. President Wiisnn fa .. .e-
r,ress them and the Secretary of the Treasury
,! prauue. -a no uovernment In Washington
lit cooperating With the South Amort
tTierhaps not to the best of Its ability, but it
iiwveivco iHB opportunity and Jt is taking
formal notice of It.
The conference ought to result in a better
understanding here of the financial needs, not
only of the governments, but of tha publlo
Kfrvice corporations and of the men en.n...H
irr private busfneas, for there Is to be a dis
eUMlon of the amount and character of the
puhllc bonds outstanding and of the bonds
tiaued by the railroad and lighting companies
" m rwji ana me amount held In
mtope. Ana an estimate is to be made of
if noMKjni or money required at present to
care ox ins necessary expaniJon of busl-
Wkm they have dUcovered how manv bun.
r drd wtfUtpn can be uted to advantage tho
mwix0im wm iurn neir attention to the
iiio trassportatlon. They already
W if J, u Jton U by way of Lfver.
is - -.aujii..ii v,a , :.
"V,u S14 to 4tve!nnlnr.
i&ir
EVENING
direct trade with them. They will dlacover
that the last Congress passed a shipping law
which ha already Compelled some American
shipowners to arrange td transfer the regis
try of their vessels to somo other nation or to
abandon tho shipping business entirety. Tho
shipping laws of tho Bouth American coun
tries may bo liberal enough to attract Amerl
can shipping mon. If It shall be disclosed Jn
tho discussion of tho transportation question
thai steamship lines financed by American
capital nnd Operated Under the Argentine or
tho Brazilian flag couid be operated profit
ably, wo can hope for tho development of
moro direct communication between tho two
continents. But It la futile to hopo for It
under tho Stars and Stripes as tho laws now
stand,
Patriotism That Stands for Something
THEnE is no lack of patriotism In Amer
ica, but patriotism that la unintelligent
is almost as bad as no patriotism at all. It
must translato itself Into accomplishment.
Tho country needs that sort of patriotism
now, a patriotism that will bo cvldont not
only In times of excitement, but all tho time,
and which will manifest Itself at tho polls
and elsewhere In an insistent domand that
tho United States shall be put In a 'con
dition of thorough preparedness ngalnst
armed attack.
Events in Europo have demonstrated that
there Is no rcllanco to bo placed on improb
abilities. Tho things which woro considered
tho most lmprobablo havo been tho very
things to becomo actual. Thero may not bo
a throne left In Europo whon tho war Is
over. On tho other hand, thero may not bo
a republic left. One thing Is certain, and
that Is that our great wealth will stand In
vivid contrast to Europo's poverty. Wo can
not foretell what machinery of war may bo
launched against us. Wo havo seen how
easy It is to find pretexts for wars.
It behooves each patriot, thercforo, tomako
tho national defenso a point of real im
portance in his political policies, to Insist
that tho men ho votes for will favor ndo
quato preparation and will support a def
inlto program designed to assuro us a might
on sea nnd land commensurate with tho
vast Interests to bo protected. Wo need
statesmen with a world vision, who can
take their minds off "pork barrel" projects
and devoto their energies to assuring tho
stability of this nation in the affairs of
earth.
Adequate preparation does not mean a
second-clas3 navy. It means a first-class
navy, homogeneous and complete in all its
units, powerful enough to deter any enemy
from desiring to attack us and mighty
enough to assure tho defeat of such an en
emy if he should in fact venturo to movo
ngalnst us.
Is the Fnmily Bankrupt?
WHEN Doctor Shawke, Superintendent of
Public Instruction of West Virginia,
told tho Schoolmasters' Club In Pittsburgh
thnt tho family as a social Institution suffi
cient unto itself and its noeds Is fast becom
ing bankrupt ho Bald only what a great many
other thoughtful schoolmen havo beon think
ing. Somo of them havo been so bold im to
oxprcss tho samo view.
Tho principal of the Brookllne, Mass , High
School told a church club not long ago that
tho family had ceased to perform its func
tions as a religious Instructor of tho chil
dren. It has surrendered this duty to tho
Sundny schools, and whatever teaching tho
children get they recelvo not from their
mothers, but from young and inexperienced
women, many of them with no children of
their own A generation or two ngo every
girl used to learn how to sow and to cook
and to attend to tho ordlnnry domestic
duties by practicing these things In her own
homo. But, said tho Brookllno observer, tho
schools nro expected to teach sewing nnd
cooking, and oven how to make a bed. Tho
homo Is delegating Its duty to tho State.
And there Is n widespread demand that tho
public schools shall teach to the boys and
girls the elementary facta of sex hygiene,
which used to be taught, when taught at nil,
by tho fathers and mothers In privacy to
tho children whom thoy loved and who
trusted them.
Opinions may differ whether this failure of
tho homo to do what It once did constitutes
bankruptcy or not; but thero aro no two
opinions about the failure. And many school
men have misgivings about the ability of
tho teachers to do for the children what
was done generally In tho old-fashioned
home, nnd what Is still done In such homes
as survive.
Passing of tho Mahogany Bar
ON THE same day that tho Chicago Dry
Federation began a campaign to abolish
tho 7000 saloons Jn tho city a billiard tablo
company, which manufactures saloon fittings
as a side line, announced that It had closed
down Its barfurnituro department nnd would
employ Its cabinetmakers on billiard and
pool tables and talking machine cases.
The spread of prohibition may not have do
creased the consumption of liquor, but It has
certainly decreased the number of saloons nnd
hns reduced the demand for bar fittings. The
money Invested In mahogany countors and
ornately framed mirrors, such as adorn tho
typical first-class saloon, might better be
spent on billiard tables to be set up in places
where liquor la not sold or be used for buying
talking machines in cases that match the
finish of the room in which they are to stand.
The company which is going out of the saloon-fitting
business has read the signs of
the times and interpreted them with rare
wisdom,
Tet his friends will say that one with
Barnes is a majority.
No use to Lexow if Jfa going to be a
boomerang, think the "leaders."
Chairman Walsh may not know where he'n
going, but he is certainly on the way,
It would bo a splendid thing for the early
peace of Europe if the Kaiser's diplomats
were put In chargq of his armies,
A Delaware County Court has decided
that a servant can sell his master's riding
boots if he cannot get his pay in any other
way. But what is the servant to do Jf his
master rides in puttees?
The RIggs Bank case seeing to show that
personal animosities cannot be settled with
any satisfaction in the courts. But the
RIggs Bank U not likely to contribute, of,
slly or otherwise, anything to the Demo
cratlo campaign Jtuad r.extt yV
CBP&HB-PHirAPBLPBlX BATXTBD'AY.
ITALY'S POPULAR ,
KING AND QUEEN
They Aro Known as Friends of
tho People Family Life In tho
Qufrlnal Royalty on tho Human
Level.
By EDGAR MELS
VICTOR EMMANUEL, now 45 years old,
has ruled Italy slnco 1600, when his
father, Humbert, was assassinated at Monza
by an anarchist. On his accession to the
throne tho Prince of Naples proved himself
truly a king in strength of mind if not of
body. For Victor Is only 6 feet 2 Inches
high, of weak physique, who for a long tlmo
felt that he could not marry, as ho feared
to glvo a race of weakling Kings to Italy.
Tet he Is a soldlor of more than ordinary
nblllty! ho Is a master in electric science,
and speaks German, French and English
fluently.
Trained to succeed to a throne, Victor did
his, utmost to attain physical vigor. Long
walks; long horseback rides; long hours of
study In tho fresh air of tho Alps; a keen
interest in scienco; a deslro to accomplish
things worthy of a monarch, made Victor
Emmanuel a kingly figure desplto his dimin
utive stature. And now comes tho strangest
part of tho tnle victor Emmanuel mod
eled his llfo nftcr that of tho present German
Emperor. An lntcnso admirer also of Bis
marck, whom ho compared to Epamlnondas
In creating a giant Stnto out of a small one,
Victor Emmanuel Imitated tho Kaiser as
best ho could, oven to tho brusqueness of
manner affected by tho German ruler at
times. Tho Italian King feared ridicule of
his slzo to such an extent thnt he has never
relaxed what he considered kingly dignity
except when In tho company of fellow sci
entists or fnr awny from tho court and Its
rcstrlotlvo etiquette. But ho has outgrown
this feeling nnd In private llfo ho Is a charm
ing companion, utterly without polso or af
fectation: meeting every ono on a frankly
human level.
A Chapter of Romnnco
Around tho nnmo of Elena of Montenegro,
Qucun of Itnly, cluster fnr moro romantlo
associations. Many a talo has been written
nbout this rcgnl beauty from tho fastneesos
of tho "Black Mountain," her homo land.
Beautiful Elena, known In her cnrllor days
as "lo mademolsello Montenegro," had
dreams of ascending a real throne long be
foro sho beenmo tho consort of Victor Em
manuel. Her father. King Nicholas, has six
daughters, all beautiful, living in something
Ilko royal poverty on $50,000 a year. Onco
on n time tho family pnld n visit to tho
court nt St. Petersburg. Within a month
Grand Duko Peter NIcolaievitch had becomo
tho husband of Mllltzn, tho eldest sister,
and In another 30 days tho Duke of Leuch
tenborg had married the second sister, An
astasla. As for Elena, the entire court fell In lovo
with her, nnd It was common gossip thnt
Alexander III sought her hand for his eldest
son, tho present Czar. But Cupid had his
own plans, for neither tho Czarevitch nor
Elena could bo Induced to consent to a wed
ding, and tho project wns nbnndoncd. Then
Elena fell In lovo with tho llttlo Italian
Crown Prlnco nnd ho with hor, and so thoy
wcro mnrrled in 1806 nnd have lived happy
over after.
Tho nuptials wero celebrnted with great
pomp In Rome on October 24. The streets
wero thronged with a. tremendous crowd to
seo tho bridal procession. First enmo tho
civil mnrrlngo nt tho Qulrlnal, whero tho
bridal couple signed tho marrlago contract
with a gold pen set with diamonds, pre
sented ny Italian patriotic societies. Then
tho wedding party drove In open carriages
drawn by six horses to the Church of Snnta
Maria degll Angell. whero tho rollgious sorv
Ico wns celebrated by Mgr. Plsclcolll.
Privnto Life of a Royal Fnmily
Slnco those halcyon days, four daughters
nnd a son havo como to bless tho House of
Savoy. Italy, too, has blessed the ruler and
his consort, for It is doubtful If thero is a
moro popular royal pair In Europe than
Victor Emmnnucl nnd Elena, his Queen.
Ever alert to tho noeds of their people; first
to succor them In need, when tho terrible
forces of nature destroyed Messina and dur
ing days of horror following the moro re
cent earthquakes at nil times, the King and
Queen hnvo been humnn beings first nnd
rulers afterward.
Elena loves children not merely her own,
but all children. She arises at 7 o'clock that
sho with her own hands may help them
with their morning toilette, sho amuses
herself by making for tho little ones such
dishes as are given to the children of her
natlvo land. Montenegro, and tha Princesses
go Into ecstasies over their mother's cook
ing. Only latoly did the King permit Tolanda
to b0 photographed; ho did not wish the
postal cards to be blazoned with her por
trait. But one day a lady of Queen Mar-
gncrua-s palace told the Princess' grand
mother that the people were gossiping about
Yolanda,
"They say, your Majesty, that the King
does not wish the Princess photographed
because sho is not perfect, physically."
"Your tongue Is too long, my dear," re
Plied the Dowager Queen, But after that
Yolanda was photographed and Mafalda,
too, with her mother.
When Marconi was feted at Rome, be
cause of his discovery of wireless teleg
raphy, Queen Elena, on learning that his
mother was In the hall, sought her out, and
extending her hand to her said, "How happy
you are to be his mother. Does not the glory
seem to be doubled when It comes from our
children?"
Queen Elena does not interest herself In
politics. When a lady asked her if she
helped the King to expedite current affairs
she answered:
"I content myself with putting sand on
my husband's letters."
When she appears in her carrjage in the
Corao with the King all the fine ladles there
outdazzle her In splendor of dress. She
often wears a violet dress and is seen so
often in it that a lady of her court ventured
to say:
"Your Majesty seems to be very fond ot
that dress."
"I like it because the King prefers it " the
Queen answered simply. "Why should I
change It?"
These then are the rulers of Italy, very
human beings, with human likes and dts-
kes-human fallings - perhaps not so
royal '-in one sense of tho word-aa the
Kings and Queens of other lands or more
courtly days, but closer to the peopi, and
more humanly understandable and gympa.
thetlc than oma of them,
SELF-CONTRADICTION
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VEXATIONS IN
Adventures of a Devoted Reader of Their Enticing Pages Some
Benefits Derived A Question of
Pronunciation.
By WALTER PRICHARD EATON
THE most immoral play I over saw acted
was "Rip Van-Winkle," with Joo Jefferson
as Rip. The most immoral pieco of literature
I over read wns nny catalog from a first
class seed house or nursery. Joo Jefferson's
Rip was Immoral because It mado you sym
pathize so entirely nnd passionately with a
lazy loafer, and not nt nil with his poor
abused wife, who wns really tho ono that de
served tho sympathy. (In this respect llfo 14
somotimes almost ns Immoral as literature.)
Tho seed catalog Is Immoral for tho slmplo
reason that It makes n man spend moro than
ho can nfford; it encourages extra vngnnco;
it is tho arch-foo of tho coal man, tho grocer,
tho tailor and all tho army of moro or less
worthy nnd necessnrlly trusting tradesmen.
If It weren't for tho seed catalog I don't
say I would bo rich, but at least some other
peoplo wouldn't bo quito bo poor!
In respect to seed houses, Philadelphia M
a peculiarly Immoral city. I don't know
whether thero Is a conspiracy between tho
various seedsmen thero or not, but tho fact
remains that I once, in a rash moment, or
dered something from ono of them, and over
since I have been annually bombarded with
tho most enticing catalogues' from tho entire
lot at least, I trust It Is tho ontlro lot, for
If thoro aro nny moro I enn't mako out where
tho city Is going to find somo to expand.
It happened In this way: I was walking
along the street In a strange town, down In
Connecticut, I think, when over a fenco In n
pleasant yard I saw a long border of a pecu
liar bluo flower which looked llko phlox. Now,
as It was May, this seemed to my untutored
mind an Impossibility, so I walkod into tho
strange gardon to find out. It wns phlox, un
mistakably, This was too good to bo truol
I walked up to tho door and rang the bell.
The mistress of tho garden, having a true
gardener's soul, cheerfully Invited mo In, dug
a catalog out of a heap and showed mo tho
variety. It was, she said, tho only catalog
she knew which listed this early bluo phlox.
It was tho catalog of a Phllndelphla house.
After that, the deluge.
(The phlox, by tho way, doesn't stay bluo.
It turns a sort of magenta, rather ugly. The
lady of the garden didn't tell me that.)
Easy Enough in Juno
Buying seeds Is a good deal like drinking
rum most of US' don't know when we'vo had
enough. It Is easy enough to say, about tho
third of June, when you'vo transplanted all
tho annuals that your garden can possibly
hold, and given away all the seedlings your
neighbors will take, and thrown away the
remainder (reluctantly, and only nfter a last
despairing trip to seo If you can't Squeeze
em in somewhere) It is easy enough then
to say, "Therol Never again for mine! Next
year I'll Just order a few seeds of the most
necessary varieties and fill up tho garden
with perennials." Yes, It Is easy enough to
say this on the third day of June, when your
back Is doubled up like a Jack-knife.
But can you say it the next January, when
the new catalogs come in? In a word, No.
It doesn't matter in 'the least that you havo
filled up your garden with perennials, that
you bought Iris germanlca in vast quanti
ties (In spite of pro-Allies sympathy!) the
previous October, lured by a Pennsylvania
catalog which prints color plates of its
iris blooms that nobody can resist perhaps
the most flagrantly immoral catalog in
America! It doesn't matter that you put In
lily bulbs nnd narcissus, (hat you have two
cold frames, but then under the snowfall of
foxglove (pardon-dlgltallsl) and double hol
lyhock and campanula seedlings. They may
die, anyhow, and then what will you till the
beds with? You've got to be prepared! Ah
but if they dont die? Well, then, make
some new beds! That always appears feasi
ble when there Is a foot of snow on the gar
den, and all you have to do Is to g0 out on
snowshoea and say, "I'll have the wool
flowers here and the schryzanthua ovet
there."
Nor la It possible merely to order a set
number of the old reliables each year. Every
seedsman Is perpetually getting out some
thing new and printing a satanlcally tempt
Ing picture of n on his first page, and if
you don't try out these new things what's
the use in having a garden, anyhow? Be
sides, your neighbor had a bed of something
you didn't have last year and six wore va
rieties of sweet peas. That will never do,
Sweet peas 8 Sw here we are! They all
sound alluring. There is the Mary Garden
for instance. Surely wo must have soma
Mary Garden! Aa4 so it jeoea, till you
MAY 22, EOIfr
SELECTING A MESSENGER
SEED CATALOGS
have sweet pea seed enough for a 300-foot
row.
A Fighting Chanco
I must admit, however, that I am gottlng
less trustful than I used to bo. Not that I
havo ceased to experiment. When I do that
I shall movo back to a Harlem flat! But I
try now to experiment when thero is at least
a fighting chance for success. I no longer
squander money on Ercmurus robustus seed,
for exnmple. And tho other day, when I
saw tho seeds of a certain extremely shy
wild flower, tho lovely fringed gentian, listed
In n cntalogue, I actually curbed my first
enthusiasm and wroto to Inqulro In what
sort of soil tho seeds should be planted
beforo I ordered any.
Tho seedsman wroto back that It didn't
mako tho slightest dlfforenco what soil I
used, I wouldn't bo able to mako tho plants
live, anyhow! Ho said ho listed tho seeds
merely because people naked for thorn.
So you seo that seedsmen aren't really Im
moral. It Is only their catalogs which
mako them so.
Thero Is ono great benefit which results
from seed and plant catalogs, however. It
enables you speedily to learn to call all tho
flowers by their Latin names. Unless you
havo learned to do that you aro pitifully
open to tho scorn of tho English gardeners
who manage the greenhouses and esta'tes of
your wealthy friends. Nothing Is so wither
ing as tho "Yes, they aro nico delphiniums"
of nn English gardener when you tell him
ho hns pretty lnrkspur. It is worth a good
deal to bo protected from that scorching re
buko of ignorance. Wo gardeners don't speak
of larkspur and snapdragons, you know. It
simply Isn't done. And to talk of cladiniim
with tho accent on tho penult, Is to commit
at least five of tho seven deadly sins. (Thero
wero seven, weren't there?) We uso tho Latin
plural, If you please, and accent the ante
penult. If you read catalogs enough, you'll
be poor In pocket, but you can carry on at
least a snap conversation with an English
gardener and not feol like crawling under
tho nearest flower pot.
"MOST FAITHFUL CITY"
Thus Triest Is Known in Austria A Busy
Business Town.
Triest is tha only great seaport of Austria
a powerful commercial rival of Venice and
Genoa, tho pride of Austria's Adrlatlo pos
sessions, and a city ns Important to Austrian
development as la New York In the develon.
ment of the United States. It has been an
Austrian possession for moro than BOO years
and during this long association it has earned
the title from the central Imperial government
of "the most faithful city." "nment
Situated at the northeast angle of the Adrlatlo
Sea on the eastern shore of the deeply T
dented Qui, 0f Triest, the port has been grow
Ing steadl y , importance as an outlet fo" the
oversea trade of Central and Southeastern !
rope. As a trade centre, Jt has long eclipsed H,
ancient rival, Venice, and it now pSS
the geographical JSL ITZITZ
vorable and Its enternrlsa h. k fa"
that ,t has -mlJSKSX"?
upon all the Inland sea. P n"
SJSr1 "l "-in,
harbor facilities are th' 'K"1 lta
technique can devi, L bMt that modern
dollars' have "beeTexp.nd TnarrTH, V
undertaking to conchuton. In iTi 8 helr
12.000 vessels, representing . . I ' nearly
Levantine fruit chief amomr th. l an1
-gar, beer, wool. JTSJ ' 17
of manufactured goods. R )8 worth 3'etIe
"Iderlng. n view of the dm. . h"8 C0TW
that th. opening p, ,. tt "
has accomplished much in diverting "9
1 My.mmm m
bers 220,175, of whom about 170,000 are of
Italian descent, 43,000 Slovenes nnd 11,000 Ger
mans. Triest sends flvo members to th
RcIchtTath, and It lo tho homo of the adminis
trative offices for the Austrian coast lands'
division, composed of tho crownlands ot Trleat,
dry. ZTnAlnnn nnd Tfrtrln
Vienna is 367 miles northeast by rail. Con- M
nnntlnna with Rntlthnnat riAfmn.., n.A .l.k iw
..ww..w..u ...... vu..buu uu..,.u.ij hiiu Willi
Austrian nnd Hungarian centres have been
much Improved during recent years. The old
town is a series of steps upon the hillsides,
whllo tho now town lies on a flat area that ex
tends around tho bay in crescent form. The
new part of tho city has been built largely upon
lnnd reclaimed from the sen. Its streets are
broad nnd straight and Its buildings are sub
stantial nnd modern In nrchltecture. Tho old
town, on tho other hand, consists of narrow,
Irregular, ill-scnllng streets, nnd Its buildings
prcservo many quaint architectural conception
ENGLAND AND CONSCRIPTION
From tho New Orleans Times-Picayune.
Great Britain hns never needed conscription
before, not even In Its long and savngo struggle
with Napoleon, although it practiced a form of
conscription in securing sailors for Its fleet; and
an order by which every man of military age
may bo called to tho service will como like a
shock to tho British peoplo; but It should not
be forgotten that oven in this country, where
tho conscription or draft Is even moro unpop
ular, It had finally to be ndopted during th
Civil War both by the United States and the
Confederacy, and in both Instances It produced
disturbances nnd rioting. Tho drnft rlota in
Now York wero of a most serious character,
causing tho loss of many lives and tho destruc
tion of much valuable property. It hnd been
found that volunteer enlistments nnd big boun
ties would not furnish enough men to crush the
Confederacy. If a people ns bitterly opposed to
conscription ns nro tho Americans found the
draft necessary In tho 'GOs, the peoplo of Great
Britain will probably conclude that they must
mako a similar sacrlflco In tho present world's
war, whero go much to at stake.
CONCERNED
I'rom London Punch.
Old Lady (to nephew on leave from the front)
Good-by, my dear boy, and try to find time to
send a post-card to lot me know you are safely
back In the trenches!
PERILS OF NEUTRALS
To tha Edftor of Evening Ledger:
Sir Tho world has been struck dumb with
the terrible calamity on the south coast of Ire
land, and wo all, of course, threaten due ven
geance on Germany. But It seems to me It la
another case ot locking the stable door after
the horso Is out. It will take a smart man,
indeed, to llguro this terrible calamity out, of
who was right and who was wrong.
Did tho passengers think for one moment
that Germany was throwing a blurt when she
sent tho warning? Thero Is a blockade estab
lished by Germany all around tho English isle,
and when any vessel tries to break or go
through a blockade wo all know what that
means. The Lusltanla knew fully what eh
was up against and took the chance, and in
conBequenco received a blockade runner's fate.
America prays for peace, and yet will
take millions of dollars' worth of contracts to
kill our fellow men across the sea. Can we
blame Germany when she turns these weapons
on us? if we want to help the Allies let's do
It right and not beat about the bush to do It
But let me say In closing, Germany is far from
whipped na yet. GERMAN-AMERICAN.
Philadelphia. May 18.
NOT A WAR OP NATIONS
To the Editor of Evening Ledger:
Sir I have read many letters in the papers
from "German-Americans" endeavoring to ex
cuse tho Lusltanla atrocity, and have been at
a loss to understand how men who are able to
compose a fairly rational letter In other re
spects can offer such utterly foolish and Igno
rant excuses as those with which they attempt
to Justify this crime against humanity. They
try io us; "Americans were warned." Are their
IdealB so degraded that they cannot see that
the deed would have been Just as dastardly
s ..eLe had not been an American, but only
JMigllsh, on board, or that, had the passengers
been Malays or Turks, It would havo been mur
der Just the same?
Then they call on us to witness that Britain
Is starving the children of Germany, Do the
not know that tho siege and blockade have
Deen practiced In all wars In attempts to starve
the enemy Into submission, and while it may
be cruel, so is all war cruel, but it Is not
niuraert
H(h?rmfy'. ?na adjudged guilty before the
tribunal of the civilized world of the viola.
ii ' Bacrid trcaes, of murder of defenaa
l!i f ,Ien a1 women, and yet has the audacity
rnf , .t,t0,emal" neutral. I tell you In a
case of this kind there can be no such thing
fh Thl8 ,s w tetUn
with w2!J?f Euro". but a battle to the death,
nil. a5 rls.m and p,ray against righteous.
cMUied i'' !Jd " ' th ot evsry
gaVdleas ?i, V"1 ,ev' ood citizen, re
in which whffr Btnd UP '" th8a W8
be n.Wbelleyj' ready t0 do whatever ahaU
GRIEF
NSV h'l? m.d. t0 weP r thee
.B"' ". thy silken hair!
5' ,the twffht memory,
The darkening dpalr!
Bit, then It is not thee I weep.
Thtilth9Uan,led:
Ai Wed yw Rre M lp
And weary thy dear head
I weep the silver dreams we wrought
r '.t"1 !ooS ya' o.
P suB-drow4 days that caught
Our drew u y wwt m