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PHILADELPHIA. MOISDAV, JANUARY 3, 1916.
Np one has a monopoly of Ihr making of
keys to the door "of success.
Tho open season for wntcr-wngon Jokes
boslns today.
Tito war cxpert'B old friends, Styf and
Btrlpti, nro coming hack on tlio wings of a
now Russian advance.
Germany
Headline.
Pleased by Austria's Note.
Glad that some one In pleased.
The Paris Matin Insists that the Kaiser
has cancer. Hut the only way It can prove
It Is to have n war expert say so.
Tho Baseball I'laycrn' fraternity expects
to pass a prohibition rulo this year. A new
Federal League may be expected nny day
thereafter.
If Billy Sunday wants to make n hit In
Trenton ho should devoto his flrst sermon
to tho Brlp, persuading the unwelcome visitor
to hit the trail away from that place.
J William Waldorf Astor was granted a
)J barony In the same list of honors that gavo
Henry Jnmcs the Order of Merit. Ex-Americanism
Is looking up, but money still has a
safe lead on art.
A careful reading of nil the Now Year's
messages sent to the men on the firing line
by tho Knlser, the President of France, tho
Czar and the King of England convinces us
that they will all win tho war In 1916. It Is
to be hoped that they aro right about tho
1916, anyhow.
Tho Brown University football team trav
eled 3000 miles to Pasadena, California, to
play tho team from Washington State Col
lege and lost, 14-0. It traveled about 100
miles to meet Yale and won, 3-0. Intersec
"llonal football at such a prlco Is doomed
when good pickings aro so near at home.
Secretary Lansing's proposals for Pan
American peace, It Is understood, Include ar
bitration of boundary disputes and prohibit
shipment of munitions to insurgents. The
Central American republics, Haiti and some
others will ask Mr. Brlggs to draw a cartoon
with tho Spanish for "Somebody Is Always
Talcing tho Joy Out of Life" as a head.
To tho younger generation tho death of
Commander Tommaso Salvlnl was a ehoclc
because they did not know that he was still
alive. Tho names of Rlstorl and Salvlnl,
linked for their fathers nnd grandfathers as
vivid memories, were only regrets for them.
Booth, who played logo to Salvlnl's Othello,
Is another such memory, and the uncurlous
mind naturally assumed that Salvlnl had
long ago played his final appearance on tho
pot mortal stage.
How tho ends of the world have been swept
Into this war Is shown by the sinking of the
Persia. Until the event tho Peninsular and
Oriental Line was known chiefly as the "P.
and O.," through Rudyard Kipling's repeated
references to It. In his mysterious song,
"The Riddle," from the "Just-So Stories,"
ho wrote that "China-going P's and O'a, Pass
Pau Amma's playground close," and he re
corded, also, that Dick Heldar, before he went
blind, could tell each of tho P. and O. steam
ers by their outline. Today the P. and O,
la on each man's lips.
Al Rlngllng, oldest of the five brothers
who rose from a brass band and concert
leader to control of "the greatest show on
earth," Is dead. His was the flrst portrait In
the slanting line of faces which has ap
peared on virtually every billboard In Amer
ica. In the development of the circus from
an essentially provincial amusement to a
great business, which found a large part of
Its Income In metropolitan centres, the Indi
viduality of the promoters was soon lost.
Barnum and the Rlngllng Brothers were able
to withstand the deluge of their own pros
perity. The voyage of the French liner Lafayette
will be watched with apprehensive Interest
by Americans. On board the steamer, besides
the Dlaghllew Russian ballet, are a number
of citizens of this country, and some of the
latter have received intimations similar to
those "sent to the manager of the Empire
Theatre when he sailed from New York." In
these guarded terms' a dispatch makes ref
erence to Charles Frohman and his ill-starred
voyage on the Lusltanla, exactly eight
months ago. The Lusltanla affair Is not yet
settled, and this sinister warning, whether
It result I" disaster or no, Is some indication
of how precarious our present position Is and
how dangerous it mayj at any moment,
become.
The name of Henry Ford, never long absent
from the news, appeared In three separate
Items yesterday. As the apostle of peace
Mr. Ford returned to this country, broken
in his high hppes, yet winning a readier
sympathy from his fellow-men than was
granted him when he departed At tho same
time, compilations of automobile statistics
indicate that Mr Ford's factories will pro
aiice next year 50 per cent of tho total num
lr ul motorcars jrade In 1915. That total
vs over a million u significant fact In Itself
wad next year there will be 600,000 more
Fords fyr Jesters to aim at- Finally, the city
' j0 petrolt surpassed. Its recu-p; of marriage
iivejise. largely Qja account of the fact that
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married men share to a greater extent In the
bonuses distributed at the Ford works, it
he falls In one way, Mr. Ford certainly suc
ceeds In others ns a beneficiary of mankind.
MAKE GOOD, MR. SM1T1II
WILLIAM J. OAYNOIt. when elected
Mayor of Now York, was denounced by
all the reformers ns n crenturo of the ma
chine. They said he could not have been
nominated without making a bargain with
Tammany, nnd Insisted that ho would betray
the people to reward tho bosses.
Mr. tlaynor did not make that kind of
Mayor. He was hh own master. He had
Ideals and ho ftrovo with all his might to
govern In accordance with those Ideals nnd
not In tho way tho machine wanted him lo
govern. Men who had lived In the snine city
with him for twenty years did not know htm,
but when they had nil opportunity to see him
In action In tho City Hall they apologized
for their ante. election attacks.
They discovered that a ninn nominated nnd
elected by tho machine could be n good
Mayor.
Gnynor. however, was never a machine
man, even If ho wni elected by Tammany.
Thomas K. (Illroy, who was Mnyor a few
years before him, had always been a Tam
many ninn.
Ho bcgiin olllrcholdlng ns the clerk In a
police court. Up proved that he lind politi
cal ltiHtlnctH nnd more Minn ordlnnry ability
nnd was appointed or elected to several
olUccs of Increasing Importance till ho finally
became Mayor The Evening I'ost, tho paper
which Joseph H. Choato oncp said made
virtue repulsive, declared that the city was
humiliated by the election of n mere "Tnm
mnny heeler."
Gllroy was the product of tho Tnmmnny
system, which Is based on the survival of
tho fittest. Ho wan a Tnmmnny heeler, if
you please, but ho was a man of long train
ing In handling public business. Gllroy had
the qualifications which George Whnrton
Pepper last summer confessed thnt he did not
possess when he declined to hecomo n candi
date for the mayoralty nomination here
Mr. Pepper then said that the Mayor should
be n man with preliminary training In ofTlcc-
holdlng, or In the study of municipal ques
tions In their practical relations. Although
the rcformcra did not take back what they
snld of Gllroy, he made one of the most
capable Mayors New York ever had.
The success of tho machlno Mayors of Bos
ton has been the despair of the opposition.
Fitzgerald, who was Mayor twice, did so well
In his second term that the Hack Hny ama
teur politicians confessed they did not know
how to oppose him when ho was doing so
many good things for the city.
Chicago has had a similar experience.
Carter II. Harrison, a machine man, knew
what the city wanted nnd needed, and In hht
numerous Administrations ho proved that
expert knowledge Is as useful In governing
a city as In running any other business
Reform Mnyors often have failed because
of their inability to understand that It takes
more than good Intentions to succeed In pub
lic office. They have trampled on tho sus
ceptibilities of tho public. They havo not
been trained In the arts of diplomacy nnd
havo not known how to got on with people.
Seth Low, ns able and high-minded n man as
there Is In Now York, wns ono of the poorest
Mayors that city ever elected.
Tho Blankcnburg Administration here, in
so many respects one of tho most brilliant
the city has had, would have been much
moro successful If there hud been more prac
tical politicians In high places In It, not to
play politics, but to handle men.
The mnchlno Administration which comes
Into ofllco today will succeed In places whore
the Blankcnburg Administration failed. It
has an opportunity nlso to succeed whore Its
predecessor succeeded. Thomas B. Smith de
sires to be a good Mayor. Without any
doubt "ho Intends to servo tho city to the
best of his ability. He has announced that
ho will not play politics, that his appoint
ments have been made not to reward ono
faction or another, but because tho men
selected aro capablo of doing the work ex
pected of them.
Mr. Smith, however, wns not nominated
to be the kind of Mayor ho has said that he
will bo. Ho was picked by tho machine be
causo It thought that it could use him. Con
ditions were such last summer that the ma
chlno thought it could elect a yellow dog. A
much worso mnn than Mr. Smith might have
been nominated.
He has an opportunity to prove that he Is
big enough to compel tho Organization to
co-operate with him In giving to the city the
kind of government that It should have. The
leaders will undoubtedly co-operato with him
In executing the great program of public
Improvements for which plans have long
been making. He has tho power to prevent
grave scandal in tho awarding of contracts
and to see to it that the city gets value re
ceived for what is spent. It remains to be
seen whether he has tho Intellectual force
nnd tho moral courage to exerclso that power
to the full. The Evening Ledoer hopes that
he has. It will bo tho flrst to commend him
when he does well and not tho last to con
demn him when he does ill.
If Mr. Smith is the kind of man he thinks
he Is, he will be the kind of Mayor he hopes
to be.
IT MUST END!
AT THE very moment In which Baron
A Zwledlnek, noting head of the Austrian
Embassy to this country, asks America to
suspend Judgment and promises a satis
factory explanation of the Persia's sinking
the news comes that another liner has been
sunk In the Mediterranean. The British
steamer Glengyle, carrying passengers,
Americans among them, has provided an
other bitter commentary on that recognition
of the rights of humanity which the Aus
trian note avowed. No lives. It seems, were
lost, but the policy of frlghtfulness still
continues.
It Is not necessary now to know the full
facts of the case. It is impossible now for
the guilty nation to shift the blame as
Germany shifted the blame to Austria and
as Austria may to Turkey or to any other
nation not yet "sufficiently" Informed of the
American demands. Our flrst note to Ger
many was a declaration to the world, and
every submarine attack since that time has
been an Impudent Injury to this country,
If the Administration Is in earnest It
must make it clear, with a fatal precision,
that no reparation for murder can be made.
If the blood lust of Europe, If the endless
massacres, on the field of battle have dis
torted official minds so fur that death itself
seems reparable by payment of money, it
remains for this country to insist that noth
ing can repay for the loss of life and that
the murder of another American will And us,
under arms if necessary, ready to resist.
We ask for no satisfactory explanations, be
cause no explanation pan satisfy. We de
mand not reparation, but an .immediate
termination of thesa Msasslnatlopa,
om Daly's Column
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MY LORD OF ABTOR.
Some of tho Klng'a advlsera entertain the. belief
that Mr. Astor'a honor will b especially pleaainr
to, Americana. ruelfo Lttoer.
Ol ves, indeed, rrtj Lord, we're glad
Your watchful waiting is at last o'er!
And what a deal of It you've had,
My Lord of Aslorl
My Lord or should we say, "Your Qraet"t
We're quite delighted that your waster
lias given you so fine a place,
My Lord of Astorl
The old folks here, from Maine to Xome.
Who deemed you doomed to dark disaster,
Rejoice that you have found a home,
My Loid of Astorl
And is our Joy as vast a thing
As we'd have felt If your old mailer
Had won you back from (leorpc, your Klngf
My Laid, a vaitcrl
Why, Austria denrl
jotl ngnln?
Must Papa ppcnk to
Society
The note said: "Mr. Sonndso hns been
entet mining Mr. Hlnnk, of Scrnnton, over the
week-end." The society editor of tho E. L.
called up Mr. ao-nnd'so to verify tho note.
"How long was ho with you, Mr. So-and-so?
One day?" "Ves, one dny; say, how much
cost?" "No cliargo nt nil." "Well, then, say
two dnys."
The
"For-It-Was-Indeed-He" Club
xviii w. p. w.
On a wild Christmas
Day
Once, up Kensington
way, Uanta Claus stepped
nsldo and gave
place to a bird.
'Twas the stork that
ho snw
With a gift in Its claw,
And this lad at your
left Is the thing
that occurred.
On tho day he was
brung
Ho wns husky of
lung.
But ho hadn't a tux. or
frock coat to hla
name.
Tet ho waxed and
grew fat
And acquired a hat.
And In dun course of
time all tho other
thlncs catne.
W P V.
Now, denr render, ho owns
Chickens, dlnmonds, colognes,
Squirrels, snnlls, ferrets, goldfish and other
such pelf.
Mr. Wood. Wlllinm P.
For It was Indeed ho
Sells the pots, but reseres the colognes for
himself.
Also the diamonds, uhlch arc too numerous to
crond Into one stanza.
Wc Decline an Invitation
Sir The sportsmen nre enthusiastic nbout the
hunting nlong Chestnut street. Tho mixed grill
Is found on Cnrl Itltzton's flats, nnd the cocktail
Is nbundnnt nil nlong the Rlalto; guinea hen Is
flying low In tho Strellevuc-Brntford grill, near
the barber shop, nnd game beef can bo had
without any trouble at all. Tho wild snrdino
Is so common thnt you get tired flushing him.
I understnnd, from his favorite covert between
n couple slices of Kolbhofcr's broad. If you
want to enjoy iomo sport nnd bring n friend
I'll tnko time off nnd go shooting with you
nny dny. Yours, W. 11.
Thanks; but we have tho Curtis-y of tho
preserves and such like on tho top floor of
tho restaurant building, northwest corner
lith and Wnlnut streets.
To please at least six Germantown con
trlbs wc call attention to tho fact that many
men thereabouts go regularly to riug the
Barber. Ono other Informs us that Just a
few doors away, on tho corner of Cheltcn
avenue, one may seo tho sign of Doctor
Lawyer, Dentist.
Masculine, "Clothed"! l'emlnlne, "(iovrneil."
Sir Scene: Tho library, after dinner. My wife.
In a beautiful HleeeteHs. low-necked conn, pink and
filmy, on the couch. I In my deep chair. In n heat)
eruy buidneax suit.
My Wife Doesn't It seem cold to jou, dear?
I No, my dear; It doesn't.
M. V. What Is the thermometer?
I (looklne at thermometer on tho bookcase) Slity
seen. M. W. The thermometer must bo wronr.
I Possibly, my dear. It Is because I am fully
clothed that I am uarm, and perhaps It la because
jour conn
M. W. It seema to me, loe, that I am dressed and
well that ou are not. Won't you 'i'ase get my
ahaul for me. H. II, II.
YEA. I no.
Some guys has got more sense
Dan others an' sayl
De guys dat has horse sense
Knows when to say "Xclgh!"
A suspicious character that Is to say, a red
nosed man, who wore a button of the Antl
Haloon League claims to have overheard this
line of talk at a soda-water fountain:
"Tell me, Jawn, why Is It nt all that the
nations of Europe are called 'the Powers'?"
"An' why not? Sure, 'Powers' Is a good Irish
name." "But, man alive, they're not all Irish."
"Faith, most o thlm are glvln' a good Imita
tion of It this mlnylt."
"On the second floor was noticed a door leading to
an attic," a a police story In a Wilmington paper.
"This door. hoeer. was closed and fastened. It
belne unfastened, Sheriff Klrby ascended Into a dark
room, where for a few minutes lis could scarcely sea
his hand before him. After searching one corner,
which contained some potatoes, the other corner of the
room was searched, resulting In the finding of Wilson,
Ktretched on the floor under a pile of carpets, matting,
4c."
S. W. L. thinks and we agree with him
that this "really dark darkroom with only two
corners" should be given at least one more cor
ner here.
Maybe It's Frozen Custard Now
Dear Sir In Camden (acrosa the river) a Fed
eral street rentaurant announced, with a labored,
home-made placard:
BEEN BOUP
Aa an Innocent byatander, I cannot but wonder
what the result might be today, W, D.
Postscript Nlgbt Extra on the Doughnut
We thought we were through with that
doughnut thing, but here's William Allen
White In the Emporia Gazette, who simply
must be heard:
"The Gazette's position on the doughnut Is
being misrepresented by the conservative press.
The subsidized organs of tho big Interests are
making it appear that we are against the
doughnut. It Is also claimed that we are for
the public ownership of doughnuts.
"Far be It! We believe in the doughnut.
It is the bulwark of our liberties. But as a
breukfast dish It lacks gastronomic resiliency
and won't do.
'The esteemed Lawrence Journal suggests
that the matter be settled by the appointment
of a State doughnut bureau on a bi-partisan
basis. That looks reasonable. But In these
reactionary times probably a bf-partlsan com
mission would apportion the ring to the Re
publicans and the hole to the Bull Moosers.
We refuse to be led Into that trap.
"We hold to our original position, that the
doughnut as a breakfast dish must and shall
be destroyed. It has neither the sufficiency
of buckwheat cakes nor the felicity of biscuits
and Jam! It must until the noon meal
or supper."
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EXPERIENCES WITH
MIDNIGHT PROWLERS
The Subject of Ghosts Raises n Regi
ment of Questions, but Also a
Goodly Number of Ghost
Stories Haunted Houses
ARE there nny ghosts? Ask yourself, In
XX stead, If thcro Is anything moro real
than tho ghost of Bniunio, or Hamlet's
ghost, or tho ghost that walks on payday,
or tho ghost of a chance, or tho spirit thnt
haunts tho last hours of tho year, or oven
some of thosa numerous political spectres
like a one-term ghost?
Everybody hns n ghost story to tell somo
yarn of personal experience. That's how
wo know thcro nro ghosts. If the following
stories don't correspond with a strict Inter-
pretatlon of tho word "ghosts," why, then,
you'll havo to assumo a liberal interpret!!-
tlon:
The Castlcrcngh Ghost
Lord Castlereagh, whom tho historian
Fortescuo has described aa tho best War
Minister England over had, figured In a
ghost story. In 1822 ho visited Bulwcr
Lytton's father nt Knehworth. Ho was ns
signod to a room seldom used, owing to Its
being haunted by tho apparition of a boy,
which appeared to nny ono sleeping in tho
npnrtment, and by pantomimic gestures re
vealed tho mannor of his approaching death.
Castlereagh did not know tho legend. He
was tired after his Journey nnd sank Into a
deep sleep ns soon as ho went to bod. About
two o'clock In tho morning he awoko with
a violent start. lie saw hy tho fire a
quaintly dressed boy with long yellow hnlr.
As Castlereagh stared tho boy turned
toward him, glldec to tho foot of the bed,
nnd, drawing his hand three times across
his throat, vanished. Castelrcagh got out
of bed and mado a memorandum of tho oc
currence. A fow weeks afterward Castlo
roagh committed suicide. A biographer
says: "Whether tho Idea wan actually sug
gested to him by tho apparition thcro havo
been sovcral authentic instances of ghosts
having connU'ed at murder and suicide
must, of course, remain a matter of conjec
ture." A beneficent ghost pursued tho nuthor of
"Sherlock Holmes." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
was traveling In Switzerland and had oc
casion to cross the Gemml Pass. On the
top of It was a lonely inn which looks down
upon a populous valley on either side, but
is Itself entirely Isolated during tho winter.
He supposed that It was deserted at that
time, but was told upon Inquiry that
tho family laid in a supply of wood nnd re
mained thoro utterly cut off from tho peoplo
below them. The singularity of such a posi
tion arrested his attention and a story began
to form Itself In his mind. It rested on tho
desperate position of a group of characters
strongly antagonistic and reacting upon
each other, who had no refuge from each
other's company an3 wero Irresistibly Im
pelled toward black tragedy while the golden
lights of happy human life twinkled In the
valleys beneath them.
Doylo worked the story over In his mind
until It assumed fairly definite shape. One
day on his return Journey he bought a book
of De Maupassant's. He had never read it
before. The flrst story was "The Inn," and
In It was the whole of his own conception,
Doyle breathed a sigh of 'gra'tltude at the
thought that a guardian angel had impelled
him to buy at Just the right time the one
book in all the world that could saye him
from making himself ridiculous, For other
wise he would have written and published
the story as It had developed In his own
mind.
A New England clergyman relates that one
night he dreamed of being called to tho long
distance telephone and asked to attend the
funeral of one of his parishioners in a former
parish. For years he had heard nothing of
this parishioner. The morning after the
dream he was called to the phone, informed
of her death and asked to attend the funeral.
Nights in a Haunted Room
Robert Hugh Benson Is another credible
witness to Incidents and events that are
stranger than fiction. He wrote In 1912;
"The very house I am Inhabiting at this
moment has recently begun to Justify its
rustic reputation. When I acquired the
place four or five years ago I slept
each night for about two years In a
smallish bedroom at the top of the stairs on
the first floor. One or two small Incidents
happened on which I lay no stress; they are
easily explicable on natural grounds.
Since that date, when the room became a
guest chamber. H has, three times altogether,
asserted Itself in these ways. The flrst two
experiences were those of a perfectly fearless
man, who on two out of the three nights
when he slept there was aware of the en
trance of a tall old woman, who, after com
ing audibly up the stairs, opening the door
and entering pJf a pentence to him of
which he could not disturb, the word8
"STRAIGHT AHEAD!"
though ho underotod their senso. Ho was
unable, though qulto without any feeling of
torror, clthor to answer hor or to move. A
friend staying In my houso at tho present
time, a fow wcoks ago heard, from tho ad
Joining bedroom, stops como up tho stairs,
tho unmistakable rattle of the handlo of tho
'haunted' room, tho entranco of tho Energy,
nnd finally Its depnrturo ngaln n fow mo
ments later. I may add, first, that ho too
had no nonsatlon of terror; nnd, second, thnt
ho know nothing of the story; It was only
upon my repeating tho story to him after
wards that ho mado Inquiries and found that
no ono In tho houso had entered tho room nt
tho tlmo nt which, somewhero between mid
night and two o'clock In tho morning, he had
honrd tho sounds."
Ghost stories servo other purposes now
ndays than that of creepy entertainment by
the fireside. Science hns taken them up and
Is treating them with grent respfct. If my
own houso over becomes haunted from any
cause to which I nm a party, I nm sure that
tno ghostly sounds to disturb tho future ten
ants will cmnnnto from tho ccllnr. My energy
certainly has gono out, In no small measure,
In tho process, oft repented, of shaking down
tho furnace. It. H-
HOLMES USES "KICKED"
And Incidentally Inspires the Following
Remarks on Now Words and Old
Highbrows may weep nnd ultra-correct per
sons who believe the English langungo ought
to bo Immutable may wall, but "kicked" In
tho sense of "objected" has been recognized
ns a good word by no less a personage than
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, of tho United
States Supremo Court.
In an opinion handed down from his pen
nppenr theso words: "The defendant kicked
ngnlnst this." Whereupon those who would
have the English language less clastic thnn It
Is, or who frown upon tho occasional ncccpt
anco as good English of what but yesterday
was slang nro much exercised.
"Kick," according to tho dictionary, means
"to glvo a blow with tho foot," but It has
gained In the course of time many other mean
ings. It has long, been correct usage to sny
thnt ono kicked up his heels, or kicked up a
row, that nn Internal combustion cuglno kicks
or that a gun kicks. It has even been nd
mlsslble, on occasion, to say that one "kicked
the bucket," although purists would probably
say this was Inelegant nlthough sufficiently
grounded In usage to be understandable
But slnco Justlco Holmes used the word In
his decision thoro have been not a fow to
urge that only ns a piece of Blang ought tho
word to be written ns n synonym of "ob
jected." Tho Justice has not entered Into tho discus
sion, nnd probably will not. The very fact
that ho used tho expression In a decision of the
highest court or the land makes It certain !
what ho would 'say that by usago the afore- '
tlmo slang has become a "good" word, ns slang i
so often becomes good. Also It Is to be re- I
membcrcd that the Justice Is a son or Oliver
Vkcmieu noitnes, surgeon and poet, and that
he Is himself recognized as a purist In the use
of English.
Many students of literature will bo gleeful
over this demonstration of what they havo
maintained for years thnt the slang of today
is tho correct English of tomorrow, provided
It Is sensible nnd expressive slang.
It Is worth mentioning, however, that Mr.
Justlco Holmes Is not the flrst purist to uso
the word In this sense, or a hense very sim
ilar, at least. Tennyson. In "The Princess "
wrote: "Make nil women kick ngnlnst their
lords.' Thus tho Jurist Is In good company,
and it may bo safely said that "kick" has come
to stay, never mind how badly the kickers
may kick. San Antonio Light.
NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW
If the war opens our eyes to our trndo on.
portunlties. hitherto neglected, It will havo done
much more for us than giving us a huge trnn
slent business In the making of munitions
Boston Post.
nfW.ht,hTewi8 a. Pracal Proposition the future
of the Philippine Islands on an Independent
basis can be secured must depend greatly on the
outcome of the war and the subsequent drift of
world politics Springfield Republican.
The voluntary system should be ended now
wh(le we have the opportunity to establish a
proper system of citizen service In peace. Our
own history summons us to this duty pn.
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