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To sport would be a tedious at to
work. Shakespeare.
The Now Torlc Trlbuno's article on
"Tho Dccllno of tho Lawyer" docs not
refer to fees.
When Mr. Hughes breaks tho sl
lonco ho makes a nolso that can bo
heard from tho Atlantic to tho Pacific.
Thero Is a widespread opinion that
tho reason for tho removal of tho Stato
Entomologist lies beneath tho surface.
Tho President's acccptnnco speech
will not bo as long as Mr. Hughes's. In
th"o words bf tho dlmo novel, llttlo ro
mains to bo Bald.
Tho ladles who play golf on the
Cobb's Creek courso ought to know that
high heels oro as much out of placo thero
as sport shoes In a ballroom.
Provost Smith evidently struck flro
when ho said tho Unlvorslty needed
$20,000,000. Tho Alumni Association Is
planning to ralso a quarter of It,
Philadelphia Is building ono new
garogo for every ten now houses. Now
that a touring car can bo bought for $360
It Is likely that wo shall build ten new
garages for every slnglo now house.
'A Spanish woman crops up In tho
news as tho villain In a bandit raid. It
1b only a few days slnco tho Spanish
undo fraud worked right hero in Phila
delphia. Roland Morris admits that the his
torical Democratic tariff position was
wrong. Tho country had condemned It
so many times that tho wonder Is that ho
did not discover this long ago.
A phenomenon to which we are
not qulto reconciled Is tho unanimity of
opinion among the Allies that they will
Win tho war. Tho only thing which gives
us the same hopeless feeling is tho
unanimity of opinion among tho Central
Allies that they will win the war.
Are thero any storage houses for
munitions In or near Philadelphia? Aro
they properly guarded against accident
or intention to destroy? Is every safe
guard for tho city being taken? Is tho
law being scrupulously observed? These
aro questions to which an answer may
be given now. Otherwlso a very definite
answer may come later on.
Tho Deutschland starts on her
hazardous voyago homo with nothing but
good wishes. She has stayed long onough
In our port to make us feel friendly
toward her. We wish to'seo hor again,
and many of hor fellows. We cannot
forget, on command, that her stepsisters
havo strewn the scaa with our dead. But
we are willing to wish her bon voyago
and to wonder how much longer Ger
many will hold out In the war which
drives her commerce undersea.
By a, singular oversight nothing
appeared In the papers concerning the
fall of Verdun, which took place yester
day. The American press Is so dominated
by the Entente that It refused to take
the Crown Prince's word for it. It ia
true that the Crown Prince missed it on
April 1, and on several dates since. But
he Is a gentleman and a member of the
Infallible, dlvlne-rlght Hohenzollerns. The
"Fatherland" ought to look into this
serious case of lese majeste.
The Senate caucus did well to cut
off all extraneous amendments from the
child labor bill. The fate of that bill
must be decided definitely on its own
merits, and skilful as politicians may
be they are not justified In placing the
Immigration bill with its Intolerable
literacy test In the same offering for the
President's signature. A Republican and
a. Democratic President have vetoed the
literacy test. It has no standing. And
the certainty that President Wilson
would veto It again was the motive for
attaching It as a rider to, the child labor
MIL The trick Is a bit too low, evert for
such a time.
The explosion In Jersey City on
Saturday night has been followed "by the
usual demand that a law be passed to
make such things Impossible in the
future, as though explosions could be
prevented by a few words printed on a
piece of paper. There Is doubtless law
enough already to compel the exercise ot
jumper caro In the handling of explosives.
What Is needed, more than new statutes.
It a proper realization, of the risk In the
business and the exercise of constant
vliiance. They say that the explosion
Via caused by a Are In a barge tied up
to th pier where It had no right, and
tfcat the barge was there because Itr
tntr M H wt to pay a fee of ?$
tcr IMkttnm or $ ee soswrtWRr of
t wH navir? kb tavst!aH3 1
to discover tho truth; but, assuming that
there was no plot, there was carelessness
and neglect somewhere- or the thing could
not havo happened. Tho punishment of
those responsible) for- tho neglect will do
moro to prevent a repetition of tho dis
aster than can bo dono by tho passago of
a wholo volume of new laws. Every ono
familiar with the subject knows that ex
plosives can bo handled with safety If
proper caro Is exercised. Tho explosions
In tho munitions factories hereabouts
havo been caused not by careless
handling of tho completed product, but
by some accident In tho process of manu
facture The armies abroad havo handled
millions of pounds of explosives without
accident. Thero Is no need of any city
working Itself Into n panic of fear.
SIDE-SWIPING THE COASTAL
TRADE
THE Administration ship purchase bill,
conceived by Mr. McAdoo under con
ditions which no longer exist, If they ever
did exist, has been amended Into a hybrid
eort of thing which has fangs without
vonom and is likely to provo as useloss
as It Is unnecessary.
It has offered tho Democrats, howovcr,
an opportunity to nchlovo by cunning a
thing which thoy havo been endeavoring
for years, directly or Indirectly, to accom
plish. Thero Is a law which prohibits
any ships oxcept thoso built In America
from engaging In tho coastal trade. For
generations that law has stood on tho
statuto books, its inspiration originally
having been ho oxpcrlonco of Great Brit
ain and other marltlmo nations. Although
this Inhibition has prevented no man or
sot of men from engaging In tho trado by
conforming to tho requirements of tho
statuto, tho Democrats havo boon pleased
to bellevo that a monopoly existed nnd
that It behooved tho party, In pursuance
of Its wrecking policy, to drive this mo
nopoly out of business. Thero was ono
sure way of doing It, and that was by
substituting a foreign monopoly, for it
was apparent that opening tho trado to
any ships, no matter whero built, would
drive natlvo American Industry off tho
coast, Just as American shipping was
driven off tho high seas by tho fatuous
policy of administrations, Republican and
Democratic, which wcro fooled Into be
lieving that tho way to rovlvo and nour
ish shipping was to hobblo It. But tho
American peoplo wore too shrewd to bo
decelvod. If everything else was lost,
they still did havo their coastal ships, and
thoy Intended to keep them. So they re
fused to sanction legislation devised to
dony tho coastal trado that protection
which for decades it had enjoyed and
under which it had flourished.
But now tho cunning of tho Democrats
asserts Itself. They havo seen in tho
shipping bill an opportunity to attain
their purpose They have Inserted a
seemingly innocent clause authorizing tho
Government to purchase foreign ships not
only for tho foreign trade, but also for
tho coastal trade. Tho plan Is so simple
An Amorlcan citizen cannot buy a for
eign ship and use it in tho coast trado,
but under tho proposed law tho Govern
ment could buy such ships, lease them to
tho private citizen and so accomplish the
ono thing against which American senti
ment and policy havo been set for a cen
tury. The President has declared that tho re
habilitation of the American merchant
marine is a prime necessity. Leading
members of his party havo so expressed
themselves. There Is not, wo believe, any
American opinion which Indorses an op
posite course. Yet hero we havo a scheme
to strlko at the very heart of what marino
we have, to drive it from the seas and
destroy the nucleus around which must
bo formed the new marino wo are so
anxious to get. The ship purchase- bill,
tho very thing which is supposed to have
as its purpose the restoration of tho flag
on the oceans, is being used as tho instru
ment for the prevention of that identical
purpose. If It is not trickery, it ap
proaches it very closely,
Unless the Democratic party Is to con
vict itself of bod faith, or even of double
dealing, it must Join with the Republi
cans In excising from the pending bill
this wholly indefensible and inexcusable
clause. The President could not, wo be
lieve, knowingly indorse it otherwise.
Nor should our local trade bodies be
backward In forwarding their prompt
protests against this legislation, for its
text is a cipher that spells ruin for the
American marine and for American ship
yards which havo only Just begun to
thrive.
HUGIIES IS FOR EQUAL SUFFRAGE
TUTR. HUQIIE3 has placed himself
1VJ. squarely in favor of woman suffrage.
He has not dodged the issue as Mr,
Wilson has done by Baying that it is a
matter for the States to settle. He has
raid that the Federal constitutional
amendment should be passed by Con
gfitpB, submitted to the States and rati
fied by them promptly.
This declaration will doubtless bring
to his support all the ardent women
voters In the Commonwealths where the
right of suffrage has already been
granted, and It should lead all the male
voters who favor the reform to unite In
his support In the States where women
do not vote.
The declaration of Mr. Hughes In his
telegram to Senator Sutherland Is the
kind of a statement that was expected
from him. He does not believe In dodg
ing the Issues. He dodged none In his
aUmlrable speech of acceptance, and he
Will face the muslo when he begins his
campaign on the stump. If the country
doea not know now where ho stands on
All the vital questions it will know before
Ua VQUajr besta
EVENING ;LEDGERPHILA013LPHIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST1
. . .- , i -- - 1 1 - '
Tom Daly's Column
HEIMWAERTS
Good luck to you, Deutschlandt
May your journey's end bo all
your
gallantry dcservcsl
But It's too bad you didn't havo' room
aboard for nil your friends hero who do
ungrdlant things In tho dark.
WHEN wo wcro in Portland, Me., tho
Dthcr day wo saw 4ind heard ono of
tho great organs of tho world. It Is tho
Kotzschmnr Memorial Organ, installed
In tho auditorium of tho new Portland
City Hall by a promlnont Phlladelphlan
whom wo shall not mention by name,
Blnco wo do not wish to bo called down
by tho business department for advertis
ing htm; nnd wo might easily bo con
victed of such a desire, being, as wo are,
tinder obligation to hint for a very pleas
ant bontrldo recently.
Wo may say, however, that after listen
ing to the organ for an hour wo wero
convinced that It beats tho Wlster Park
Accordion Band all hollow.
H. Shanor endeavors to nmnago tho
Ledger Athletic Association. Ho hat his
own troubles. Bill Cooper Is ono of his
pitchers. Bill Is n graduate of the Penn
sylvania Institution for tho Deaf nnd
Dumb. Shanor Is not, but ho has to
know tho sign languago In order to tell
Bill how rotten ho Is and how often.
Shancr Is rapidly learning tho language
Tho other day Bill was particularly 11m
burgor. Sltnncr told him. But Bill
Hashed this nllbl on his weary lingers.
"Say, I know I'm somo bad today, but It's
llko this: My arm's dead becauso I had
to address a deaf and dumb mnss-mcet-lng
last night."
Editorials In tho T. R. newspapers on
tho speech of nccoptanco yesterday morn
ing reminded us somehow of dear old Jim
Riley and his poem about tho "Squldgy
cumsquccs 'at swallor thclrsclvcs."
OUR most distinguished contrlb abroad.
Dr. Maurlco Francis Egan, Mlnistor
to Denmark, sends us thl3 sonnot written
on tho occasion of tho Shakespeare cclo
bratlon at tho Castlo of Kronborg, Elsl-
noro. Fine I Come again, Doc.
Vrcdcrlk haa gone, strong Christian and
the brave
And hardy soldiers that kept well this
place,
Sons ot the Vikings! facing that proud
race.
The icarUKe Stccdest No longer on the
icat'e
Ships fear thts fortress; peaceful rip-
pies lava
The strand where English James was
wont to pace;
Here young Prince Hamlet showed his
morning face
Uefora he saw the Shadow from the grave.
This house is Hamlet's though he never
trod ,
Its stairs, or saio Its figured tapestry;
Sect here's Ophelia's violet, that sad
flower
She loved so well, and from the tender sod
It springs, u7icrc. fair and unpolluted, she
Immortal lives through the great rod's
power.
MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN.
Handing It to the Neighbors
(Ad In Hulmevlllo Delaware Valley Advance )
I, Leonard K. Cox. a citizen of tho
norough of Ynrdley, wish tonotlfy tho
residents of said borough that I am at
tending to my oun business, and that It
keeps mo busy, nnd when I rcqulro tho
services of any resident to attend to any
of my personal affairs I will so notify
them.
This nottco Is published In response to a
persistent rumor that I am to be married
on July 20. I nlso wish to ndvlse tho gen
eral public that If I do get married It Is
none of their business and that I am per
fectly capable of managing my own affairs
without assistance from tho residents of the
boroUBh. LEONARD IC COX.
Yardley, Pa, July 19. 1916.
EDUCATION INCOMPLETE
The fellow xcho brags of his college
And all his great learning's a bore.
The man xcho Is proud of his "knowledge"
Is badly in need of some more.
A avouch.
Next to reading the efforts of n "for
eigner" to write Irish dialogue, the thing
that wearies us most Is the stock story
of the Irish soldier who "surroundered"
twenty or more Germans single-handed.
Go Down Amonjj the Flowers
Will you not go down among them?
Among those sweet living things whoso
new courage, sprung from the earth with
the deep color of heaen upon It, Is start
ing up In strength of goodly spire; and
whose purity, washed from the dust, Is
opening, bud by bud, Into the flower of
promise; and still they turn to you and
for you, 'The Larkspur listens I hear, I
hear! And the Lily whispers I wait,"
John Buskin (Sesame and Lilies) 1819.
The devil is mortally afraid of roses and
larkspurs and lilies given to us for joy
and tho healthy love of the out-of-doors.
Go down among the flowers, my children.
McTAVISIL
I work and sweat, my clothes all wet;
For goodness sake It's hot I
I cannot wo whero cool winds blow
Such Joy Is not my lot.
My winter's dope was full of hope
Of summer at tho shore.
But many bills and sundry tils
Took all I'd saved and more.
So still I slave and try to save
WUh tbrl(tlness and ears
Front every pay to send away
The sneclcols 1 can spare,
Far from the heat of city street
Tho wife and ktd have fled:
When they set back, alas, alackl
x tear msy-ii una mo aeaa.
Vf L. Bacrey,
TOUNQ MAN -wanted for outside work, who can
row a boat and make himself aenerally useful
on sentleman'M summer residence on Toms
lliver N 1. APDly this evenlnz. etc
Where Is the young man to row the
boat on the gentleman's residence? In
the gutters? Q. W. D.
Amputate Ankles Close to Ears
Sir One pf our children came in the other
day, craxy with the heat, and asked me if I
wouldn't please prepare for dinner:
oiled bunions,
pawed sUars,
petnon He
chewed etlcken, -
cozen frusUrd. , - .
What would you do? i ?
AUXIOOa MOTHER.
mm ,k rtMmxM.
JlP I ik 0f wMmm9
MILLIONAIRE FOUND DEAD IN BED
Although His Lawyer Was Convicted of Murdering William Marsh
Rice and Then Pardoned, the Cause of His Death
Is Still Unexplained
By JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS
THC autumn of 1000 William Marsh
1 R
Rico, a millionaire Texnn, 83 years of
age, lay 111 In New York city. IIo was
attended by his regular physician, Dr.
Walker Curry, a practitioner In high
htnndlng. Rico died nnd Doctor Curry
Issued a death certificate, giving bron
chitis and senile decline as the causes of
death. Tho body was embalmed In tho
usual manner with a fluid containing
formaldehyde. Thero was no hasty burial.
Indeed, tho corpse was held for 45 hours
after tho embalming.
Rico left about J8.000.000. Two wills
wore found. Ono had left tho estate In
trust to a man In Houston, Tex., for tho
founding of an Institution In that city for
tho education of negroes. But Just before
Rico's death ho drew a new will in tho
presenco of two witnesses, both of whom
havo slnco sworn that they saw him sign
it. This Inter will changed the trustee
ship of tho estate, giving It to Albert T.
Patrick, a young ' New York lawyer,
whoso father had been freight manager
of a railroad In Texas owned by Rice, at
whoso advice the young man had como to
New York.
The Valet in the Case
Tho morning of the old millionaire's
death Patrick appeared at tho bank of S.
M. Swlnson & Sons, New York, and -pre-sented
several largo checks purporting to
have been signed by Rice. A defect In
one of the checks caused suspicion, and
Rice's home was called upon tho tele
phone. Charles P. Jones, Rice's old valet,
answered nnd stated that the check was
genuine, but the bank Insisted that Mr,
Rico should give his verbal approval.
Then tho bank was Informed that Rice
was dead, and an Investigation followed.
Tho trustee under the first will came
to New York and interrogated the valet,
Jones, a weakling, whose contradictory
answers caused grave suspicion. Jone3
was arrested, given a third degree, and
under that ordeal stated that Patrick
had killed Rice by the administration of
corrosive sublimate and other poisons.
The case was called before William Trov
ers Jerome, then a Magistrate and after
ward District Attorney, Patrick was
held and an autopsy on the body of Rice
was ordered. This autopsy was conducted
at the morgue by Dr. Edward J. Don
nelly, Coroner's physician, and the well
known poison expert, Professor Wltthaus,
later examined the viscera. Nothing un
usual was noted in the body except two
small patches of "consolidation' at the
back of one lung. According to sworn
testimony, the Coroner's physician, after
examining these patches, stated: "The
old man must have had a cold," and Doc
tor Wltthaus, on being offered the lungs,
stated, "They are of no use to me." After
Professor Wltthaus had taken the'vlscera,
all the other remains were cremated. Ac
cording to the testimony of Robert Au
rich, the attendant at the morgue, a phy
sician connected with the prosecution had
remarked: "I wish I knew more of micro
scopy. Then I could make a pot ot money
out of the Rico case,"
After bis examination. Professor Wltt
haus reported an absence of poison In
the viscera and a few days later the story
of Valet Jqt.es was changed. He now
swore that Patrick had not poisoned Rice,
but bad smothered the old man with a
FINDING THE RANGE
I ,1 ri X
pillow, but when cross examined tho valet
again changed his story, stating this time
that ho had, at Patrick's Instigation,
placed over tho faco of the sleeping Rice
a towel containing a sponge saturated
with chloroform.
Medical Experts Disagree
Patrick was brought to trial for tho
murder. Coroner's Physician Donnelly
and Dr. Hnmllton K. Williams, who had
nsslsted with tho autopsy, went on tho
stand and sworo that only tho vapor of
chloroform could havo produced the ef
fects noted In tho lungs. They wero
backed by the testimony of two other
physicians, but wero contradicted by that
of a dozen medical men.
Patrick was sentenced to death. Four
and a half years ho languished in the
death houso at Sing Sing, nnd 17 times
during this terrible period ho saw fellow
convicts pass tho grating of hl3 cell to
entor tho death chamber. At the time of
Rice's death tho young Inwryer had been
engaged to a woman whoso confidence
In his Innocence Induced her to marry
him in the Tombs Prison after he had
been sentenced to death. Thenceforward
this devoted wlfo waged an untiring battle
for his freedom. Like a veteran criminal
lawyor, she sifted all of tho evidence and
presented the facts to specialists. One
of these, Dr. William Smith, of KIrksvllle,
Mo., a stranger, who had not known Pat
rick, volunteered to help her and circu
lated In Patrick's behalf a petition, which
was signed by 250.000 persons. Mrs. Pat
rick charged that $2,000,000 of the fund
left by Rice for the founding ot the negro
Institution in Texas had been spent In
the endeavor to send -her husband to the
electric chair. As the result of her fight,
Patrick's sentence was commuted to llfo
Imprisonment on December 20, 1906, and
six years later he was pardoned by Gov
ernor Dlx", of New York.
Valet Jones mysteriously disappeared
and remained in hiding for three years
after the commutation of Patrick's sen
tence. Copyrlrht.
"FUTURES"
Pity the schoolboys of I960, who will
have to learn by heart the history of the
present decade. The 196 drastic notes alone
would stump a regent. Albany Knlcker
bocker Press.
SOLITUDE
Happy the man whose wish and care
A teif paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.
Whose herd with mik, whose fields with
bread.
Whose flocks supply hint with attire;
Whose trees in summer yield him shade.
In winter, Are.
Blest, who can unconcem'dly And
Hours, days and years, slide soft away '
In health of body, peace ot mind.
Quiet by day,
Sound sleep by night ; study and ease,
Together mixed, sweet recreation.
And innocence, which most does pleai
With meditation.
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlaojented let me dies'
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I He.
e-Alexander Pope.
1916-
What Do You Know?
Queries of acneral interest xcill he answered
(ii this column. Ten questions, the answers to
xchich every well-informed person should Know,
are ashed daily,
QUIZ
1. Mint Is a enssonnr)?
2. Vmler tliore rlinrcn Is the Washlneton Na-
tlonnl Monument
3. Who Is the I'ulillc Prlnler?
1. Is AiU-lln.i I'll HI still nlheT
B. Vilmt Is u trliet?
0. Whnt l beclinniel anuce and whj U It eo
nillril?
Wlnl Is tlie "Murder Inrne of Ilrlton"f
About lion lone ago did Goethe live?
Who I lliji .Chief Secretory for Ireland In
tho llrKKIi Cnblnrt?
Vtlio wild "(lle me liberty or elve me
death"?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Cantor oil In o rnllrd from Its rcnemblance
to ctstnrriim. n secretion of the bearer,
the t.rrrrf mime for vihlcli In kastor.
2. A cutnrart or u waterfall la n chlcnon nnd
n chlcnon Is larse, bun-slmped mass of
nilr urrjncrd In n net ut the buck of the
hciul.
3. Sir Villllam Itumnny, who died last week,
is one of the most dlntlnculshed British
chemists.
4. Mnrndum imtement Is named from John I
Mnruiliini i hcotcli hlKliuy enclneer, who
Imrntcd It.
5. Theodore llooevelt nnd William II. Toft
lire the only lltlnc American ei-I'resl-dents.
0. Andrew Jackson Is Kenerally charted with
Introducing the fcpolls njstcm.
7. The l'rlo Canal was. completed In 1823.
8. I'aul s. Ilelnsch. of X Isconiln, It American
Ambassador to Chin ,
0. The Concessional Club, Incorporated by net
of Concros In 1008. Is un organisation
rnmnoiril of the wlten of men In official
...V ... ,, ,.B.....KIU,
10,
The.0rnenl,,r..'ht?,n.ut "" Theater etood
nt C0o-3 Chestnut street.
Exercise for Doxers
J?ifltor of "What Do You Know"! am
a boy 15 years of age and am very tall for
my age and I would like to bo in the best
of condition about two weeks from today.
As one of my exercises will be boxing I
would greatly appreciate If you would tell
me what time of the day I should box and
what other exercise I should do and what
foods I should eat. I work from 7 o'clock In
the morning until 6 at night. H. R.
Eat wholesome food, molding pork, veal
and pastry of all kinds. Milk and toast
are very good with meals. If you are
thinking of taking up boxing It Is necessary
to have good wind and this can be done by
long walks with occasional sprints. Keep
outdoors as much as possible and when you
breathe fill your lungs and exhale slowly. It
would be a good Idea to get a punching bag
for exercise and also light dumbbells, about
one-halt pound each, to use both morning
and night.
Population of Japan
Editor o "What Do You Know" What
Is the present population of Japan?
PACIFIC COAST.
The total population of Japan proper and
her possessions, Formosa, Korea and
Saghallen, Is 75.476,000, according to figures
In Financial and Economic Annual of Japan
for last year. Japan proper has a popu
lation of 51,283.898, or about 1000 to the
square mile. The increase has been mora
than 6.000,000 In the last 10 years; Korea
has gained 1.000,000 In the same period and
600 000 has been added to the total POnU.
latlon of Formosa. There Is a large nre
ponderanco of males over females in all
parts of the empire. '
Who Said It?
Udlfor of "What Do You Know" Can
you tell me who said this:
"Maidens, like moths, aro ever caueht hv
glare, " '
And Mammon wins his way where'seraon
might despair." seraphs
t, i. . CYNICUS.
Perhaps some reader may be able to help
this correspondent v
Tagore in America
Editor oj "What Do You KnoWHaa
Rablndranath Tagore ever been In AmVr
lcaT POBTlCug.
Tagore was in America four years wo.
He Is now en his way here from Japan
and ia expected to arrive la San FrSn.
ohtco la September, whence he will make
Wa way leisurely to the Atlantic coast.
FIRST THRILD 1
OF GREAT "WATS'
The Tourii 6f Steel on August 2,1
iyj.4, uave us a Tingle
Which Has Since
Died Out
AP TUB two years of war's omotlonijf
y which we now enn pass In reviewY
no sense Is moro difficult to recaptur:l
than the very nrst the swift, sudden
thrill or nuveniuro wmen camo over us
two years ago today. Tho later phases.
wo can reconstruct. Actually, in all the
lltcraturo of. tho war, nothing finer has'
been dono than Just this work, published
a year ago by tho subtle American hu
manist, Simeon Strunsky. Tho days of
tho Uhlans, tho phases of Von Kluek
nnd tho Marno, tho shifting passions and
confidences of tho world after tho middle
of August wo enn remember nnd record.
Rut tho earliest days aro hard.
They aro hard becauso after thotnld.
night misery of theso two years we are
not willing to confess how Joyously 'wo
met tho first onset of arms. Tho seem
ingly Imposslblo has happened in Amer
ica, for our wholo huge advantage frora
tho war has been vicariously taken. TV
havo not suffered, yet wo have beea
purified. Wo havo not fought, not died.)
yet wo havo been ennobled. From th
first wo undorstood our odd role which
was to bo not that of a spectator at a
ploy but of tho living prizo for which
knights engaged in battle. We shrank
from war, but it hold our eyes. Unaware
of tho vast forces which wero readv
spiritually unprepared for tho horron
which wero to come, wo breathed fast at
tho now excitement in tho world.
The Joy of Battle
Tho tlmo wns to como whon the air
wo breathed was stifling with gun.
powder, and later still was acrid with
tho seas which swept over tho Lusltanla's
dead. Of that wo wcro innocent. We
knew only that tho hcavcnB wero burst
lng Into gorgeous colors of fire, that the
hand of man had leapt to his sword and
tho bright blado shono In tho wild light
Wo read of American tourists hurrying
pell-mell out of Europe, and wo wished
.that wo might bo there. Wo should not
hurry. Wo should stay and see tho most'
magnificent spectacle of our tlmo. The
world had been full of n million little
things In which wo took a posslvo In
terest. A great wind camo up nnd swcpl
them away and our nostrils extended to'
tho blast. 1
Wo had been prepared for complica
tions tho mlnuto Germany and Russia9
camo In. and it was on tho second of Au
gust that wo know for fair that they
wcro In. Patrol engagements wero re
ported, Ambassadors had departed and la
tho west Franco was mobilizing her
armies. Thero was tho rub. With Rus
sia, It may bo said, wo had no sympathy,
Wo had had too much to do with her
revolutionaries, had sent contribution!
and protests for too many Klshlncffs, had
seen our only treaties cast nslde became'
Russia would not recognize American
citizenship complete. But Franco! We
could hardly forgive her alllanco with
Russia. Wo felt, In splto of many dls
agreeable things, that her proper alliance
was with us. And there camo back ifi
memory of Versailles In 1871, of that day,
whon William I was proclaimed Gorman
Emperor In tho palaco sacred to everj;
tradition of imperial and republican
Franco.
71
Wo did not order our sympathies, but
wo can separate them now. They were
with Germany against Russia and wltli
Franco against tho world. They might
havo remained so to this day.
Our First Sure Things
Ot two things wo were firmly con;
vlnced. That Russia would be snapped
back, broken and defeated as she was, ot
seemed to be, by Japan, and that Francj
would tight gallantly but unavailing!
n gains t the superior German arms. Ger
man efficiency was already beginning t
be a bit of a tradition. It was in the air.
In our vague speculations we turned to
England for assistance. We knew thai
England had the habit of fighting on tb
winning side. And this is what she gave
us on this day:
(Official) Tho policy of Great Brit
ain will not bo affected In anv wav by
the announcement that Italy jhas de- I
elded to remain neutral. i
Italy will have to settle later on with
her own partners as to the Justifies- 3
tlon or her action. Tne,
French Government has never been di
rectly or Indirectly led to believe that
Great Britain was pledged to any par
ticular method ot discharging her ob
ligations to France, and although she
will remain (adhere?) strictly to the
spirit ana letter ot tne understandings 1
his Majesty's Government have not da- M
elded If they will Interfere.
They have always reserved to them
selves the right of determining hovr
they Bhall play their part in the Triple
Entente.
From that day dates the distrust of I
England, which can be discovered under!
any number of layers of Entente synvl
pathy. It was the time before rainbow
colored hooks appeared justifying this orj
that. It was the time when wo had hoped
greatly that Sir Edward Grey might stop
the whole thing. At that serious moment
of secular history, when a nation had to
announce Itself to the world, we saw Eng
land weighing her chances, almost heardj
her counting coin. We know now that
she did come In, with a fine inthuslasrAJ
with high moral purposes which she care
fully explained to the world and to hert
self. But our trust was never hers, and
may never be. 1
A Joyous terror was our supreme emoj
Hon then, and we listened half-heartedly
to those who spoke of the awful sacri
fices, the carnage and the brutality which
must ensue. We laughed at agitators of
peace and at the Socialists. We flouted
danger to ourselves.' We felt, ir fact,
that this war was not the destruction.
but the saving, of civilization. It meant
that men could and would fight agaitufl
" "" uuttriin m our uiooa answeieu
still vicariously, tho calL It was not
noble feeling, but It was that on whlc
the spectacular glory of the earth's lonj
life was based. "
We look back at It now. Is it shameful
.u wuicu nisi we ata not carer re;
haps it Is, but our Indifference, to th
disasters or others was not altogetbe
that of self-certainty. We did feel thaj
if it were put up to us we should bav
done at least as much.
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