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It Is harvest tlmo for gratters when
tho nation is nt war.
Tho Senate Is In favor of moving
clocks forward ono hour. Anything to
gain time!
Thqso thousands of dollars a year
(or oxpert advlco on publicity may bo nil
right, but most "of tho newspapers have
been giving both the advlco and tho pub
licity for nothing.
Party lines do not nmount to much
row Hero was Hoosevclt trying to prove
that Brynn was right when ho said nn
army of a million volunteers could bo
raised ovor night.
The Uttlo tasto wo aro getting of
Prusslanlsm In putting ourselves In shnpo
for war should bo emphatic enough a
reminder to everybody of the necessity of
overthrowing Prusslanlsm.
Why somo Representative from
Texas does not propose tho confiscation
of all profits wo do not know. Fortunately,
the extremists nro overreaching them
selves, and common senso will reassert
Itself In tho Senate.
Tho announcement that tho United
States Government will fln.inco tho relief
of Belgium and northern France, ad
vancing $12,000,000 a month, beginning
July 1, to feed tho peoplo of this occupied
territory, is extremely gratifying. Of all
the money we can spend, nono can bo
better spent than this.
The fearlessness of Itcprcscntatlve
Moore makes his special articles in the
Evevwo I,EnaEn, qulto nsldo from their
intrinsic merit, of great value. Ho gen
erally sees straight, nnd tells what he
sees. His nrtlclo clsewhero on this pago
gives a splendid view of tho confused
situation in tho capital.
Tho revenue bill now pending Is
undoubtedly causing soma hesitation in
Dusiness, particularly as men nro in
clined to delay until they'get definite in
formation. All of tho billions to bo raised,
however, aro to bo spent tjulckly nt home,
bo tho money will speedily find Itself
again in tho channels of trade. This
moans enormous prosperity, greater than
any the country has heretofore enjoyed.
It is a wlso citizen who plans his future
.accordingly.
Germany has been scofllng nt tho
Allies' plans for disposing of Constanti
nople whllo that gatoway to Asia re
mains in Turkish hands, but tho report
that Prussia is contemplating turning
over part of Alsaoe-Lorratno ns a bribe
to Bavaria savors also of selling eggs
beforo they aro hatched. A part of
Alsace has been In French possession
since the early days of the war. Will the
Kaiser's mollifying gift to his tributary
Teuton kingdom embrace that corner of
the frontier province where the tricolor
Is now flying? Even a Hohenzollern
cannot give away what he hasn't got.
Naturally wo are pleased when
such friends of ours as Bolivia and.
Liberia sever relations with Germany,
but tho action of Honduras in following
their example means something moro
than a mere cordial compliment. The
antl-Teutonlsm of the Central American
Ttepublio will be of genuine service to us
In routing out possible U-boat bases on
the Caribbean coast. Cuba, fully our ally,
guards the entrance to tho Gulf of Mex
ico, and Guatemala, who has dismissed
her German envoy, keeps watch on
Carranza'a uneasy land. Honduras now
makes matters easier for us. Nicaragua
U bound to us by many ties and Costa
jnica has granted the use of hor coasts
to the American navy. Altogether the
United States Is now admirably protected
against German intrigue In Central Amer
ica. True to his ancient tradition of
' self-sacrifice and unselfish service, the
physician Is quick to answer the call of
modern war. The first contingent of the
first United States medical unit reached
England yesterday. Almost simultane
ously. Philadelphia's first Red Cross unit,
j'epresented by the personnel of Base
Hospital No, 10, left this city for the
front Twenty-seven doctors are In this
party. The demand that they aro answer-
inc la immediate. The celerity of their
jrqfHn is rather taken for granted by
w It ms hardly to be qti-
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" 9'Ja-..Bl7aBH .1 .- L-Wri
This general acceptances of the physi
cian's willingness to serve Is the penalty
for his consistently paid and unswerving
allegiance to humanity. The wholo history
of ths profession from Aesculapius, Oalen
and Harvey to General Uorgos Is one of
consistent honor and Idealism. And now
In this most terrible of wars tho service
of the doctor transcends In Importance
even that of tho fighting man. All honor
to theso first groups of humanitarian
healers, whose mission Is to save life, not
tako It. All honor, too, to the unselfish
cohorts of physicians who will loyally
follow theso early contingents to tho
battto lines.
DRIVING TOO HARD
W;
1TH the recklessness of buccaneers,
Congressmen, albeit they nro patriots,
nlded and abetted by some members of
tho Cabinet who ought to know bettor,
seem Intent on driving business and na
tional credit on tho rocks. Tho placing of
a twobllllon-dollnr loan ought scarcely
to have caused a ripple,' io vast Is the
wealth of tho nation, yet tho hysterical
determination of tho Houso to rnlsc co
lossal sums by Immediate taxation, with
somo Congressmen strutting up nnd
down declaring that this Is the accepted
tlmo to drive tho spear Into successful
business, 1ms aroused throughout tho
nation a spirit of doubt, has caused ft
weakening of confidence, has made men
skeptical nnd lias actually rendered It
necessary for tho Secretary of tho Treaa
uary to gallivant nrnut the country In
ordor to stir up enthusiasm for tho loan.
Tho Intense nnd sncrlflcinl patriotism
nf tho country has ocerpted without pro
test almost any proposal from Washing
ton. .Men who think were nlarmcd at the
proposal to rnlso Immediately by taxation
so much as $1,(500,000,000 In excess of
normal revenue, but they took tho opti
mistic course nnd said nothing. Now, over
night, It Is proposed to add hnlf n billion
to this taxation. Tho wholo Government
seems to bn Intoxicated by tho immensity
of its own proposals nnd to have lost nil
reckoning of the meaning of money.
It may bo worth while, howover, to
point out that borrowing billions nnd
raising billions by taxation nt ono nnd
tho samo tlmo Is reckless financing, likely
to strain tho rcsourrcs of even so vast
a nation as this. And of what value will
It bo to our Allies, wo nsk. If blundering
methods succeed In weakening our finan
cial strength, when wo nro tho only ono
of Germany's enemies left with any
financial strength worth talking nbout?
It is vital to tho Causo that our resources
bo ndmlnlstcrcd with supremo skill.
Tho next worse thing to not doing any
thing Is trying to do too much. A billion
and a half In excess of normal revenue
would bo a sufficient levy on tax
ablo tesources In tho first year of tho
war, and omplo to curtail that Inflation
of which tho Administration seems to
stand In so great awe. Let Washington
remember that local taxes continue as
usual. There are cities which tequlio its
much revenue as tho National Govern
ment boasted at the beginning of tho
Civil War.
In tho financing of tho war It is Im
perative that the Senate take a. hand and
seo to it that extremists do not have
their way, to the lesser glory of them
selves and tho greater discouragement of
tho country. At a tlmo when patriotism
Is "falling over Itself In a spirit of laud
ablo sacrifice It behooves Washington
not to drlvo too hard, but to bo guided
by sober common sense and a deliberate
appreciation of tho fact that money does
not grow on trees, now that we speak In
billions, nny moro than It did when a
million seemed to bo a largo amount of
cash.
NO SUPPLIES AVAILABLE
The bigger tho blow America Is able
to deliver the sooner Bho delivers It
tho quicker will tho war end and tho
now order of things be assured Urd
Derby.
THE temperaturo of national enthusi
asm considerably coolod when it was
unnounced that It would bo September
beforo mobilization of the army to ba
organized by selective conscription could
be begun. Thero are no supplies a all
able, we ate told.
GlItAIU) THE FAKSIOHTED
STEPHEN GIRAItD. tho anniversary of
whose birth Is the occasion for this
week-end h celobratlon nt tho great in
stitution ho founded, was a sailor at the
ago of -thirteen and captain of a ship at
nineteen. Tho famous Frenchman who
did so much for tho early American
merchant inatino was mora fai sighted
than three generations of Phlladelpluans
who came after him. For In that "sound
education" which his will prescribed he
included navigation as on u par with
reading and writing, and put it above
Greek and Ijxtln, which, he said, "I do not
forbid, but I do not lecommend."
It Is only now, when tho overwhelming
Importance of navigation is being brought
home to every one by the ravages of the
U-boat, that Glrard's wisdom is fully ap
preciated. His college Is to take his coun
sels more seriously, and city and State
are also, wo trust, to go In for training
young navigators. The speedy building
of ships to mako the future of this coun
try safe can be successful only In so. far
as wo provide trained ofllcers and men to
take the Bhlps to sea.
THE YELLOW STIIEAK
THE report that Japanese troops are
fighting beside the Russians In, France
brings to mind the fact tharit was the
Kaiser who Invented that nightmare
phrase, 'The Yellow Peril," It la poetic
justice that the man with the yellow
treak who tried to rriake everybody else
afraid of Japan to further his own ambi
tions should now be the only ruler who
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CONFUSION IN
WASHINGTON
Politics Beginning to Creep Into
Wnr rinns Both Parties
Guilty
Special Corroponitence Evening Ledger
WA3IHNCJTO.V, May 18.
"ITAH Is not smooth sailing for tho WIIon
VV Administration. Tho demand for war
nnd the excitement of preparation have
helped to concenl political bias for the
tlmo being; but politics crops out In one
form or another, nnd will totitlntio to
plague, the Administration, notwithstanding
tho prevailing demonstration of patriotism
Shall Mr. Wilson, who Is now classed with
WaHhliiRton and Lincoln, bo forgiven for
past Democratic blundering, nnd ullt ho bo
excuped fiom criticism for mistakes non
being mails nnd which are lne liable In the
future? This sort of tmestlonlng Is frc-
qui nt In party circles In Washington,
despite the desire of everybody to mako
the wnr with (Icrmnny n success. The
week Just dosing has given play to more
free talk nbout political condition than
we have had slncii t'ongres was called
together In extraordinary session Repub
licans have wondered whether they nro
expected wholly to forsnko party lines,
while certain Democrats, under Mr. Wll
win, aro taking good care of their fences
In every direction. Debates In both Senate
and House, for several days past havo
shown somo Demrcratlc restlessness also,
duo to the new military conditions.
The Roosevelt Monkey-Wrench
Tho Itoo.sevelt Invasion of tho Adminis
tration stronghold has given point to po'".l
col gossip this wtok. The case with which
tho departments, under Mr. Wilson, have
been ablo to secure money for vast ex
penditures and tho IndeflnltetiPss of many
of tho lump-sum appropriations giving tre
mendous expending power to Individuals
have tended to chill Republicans who were
experteil "to do their lilt," but who felt
they wero "putting their heads In n noose,"
nnd many of them, beginning to tiro of the
"go-nlong" policy, freely reversed their
action on "the Roosevelt army" question
and supported It ngalnst tho wishes of the
Administration. It Ib conceded now that
no more embarrassing situation has nrlsen
slnco tho second Inauguration of Mr. Wilson
than tho renewed prominence of Mr. Roose
velt The latter has been steadily for war,
holding tho President up to criticism when
his cour?n seemed doubtful nnd praising
him when ho finally came forward with n
war declaration. The President has heen
ndvlsed by tho regular army staff, but Con
gress has so Injected the ltooseolt Iden Into
tho plans of tho stnff as to make It dimcult
for tho President to decide upon tho proper
cnurso to pursue. Ho must recognlzo tho
Colonel and give him n nhaneo to fight
abroad, or ho must Ignnro him and bring on
n contest at home. That Is tho way folk
hero now regard It.
Sisns of Trouble Abend
Tho regular army naturally desires to
keep regular and It has Its own set views
as to tho conduct of tho war The army
oillcer Is highly trained, and having a lire
tenuro Is not Generally susceptible to po
litical Influence. Therefore, he gags nt tho
Roosevelt Intrusion. It Is charged In some
quarters that the regular staff Is doing Its
i-est to load up tho army In every branch
with men picked for social and collegiato
reasons. Tho !toosoelt method of picking
men. though many of them may como up
to tho regular nrmv standard sorlally nnd
otherwise. Is not popular with tho army.
Therefore, trouhlo Is brewing and the Presi
dent Is likely to bo a storm center before
tho dloputo Is ended.
Congress Is shedding no tears oer tho
situation, because It has been forced into n
position whcie It must furnish tho nrmy
with money without getting much Infiiima
tlon ns to what It Is to bo expended for. It
Is admitted that a separate Tjrnot expe
dition would bo ery costly; hut enough is
also known nbout tho Colonel to satisfy the
public that Information as to what he' dues
or what ho spends will not he hidden under
a bushel It Is tho publicity nttachfil U
tho Colonel's efforts that Is not entirely
Pleasing to the settled policy of the regulur
army.
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Is the Presidency nt Stnko?
So dlinctllt of solution Is the Roosevelt
status at tho White Houko that many
Washlngtonlans profess to heliee that the
presidency Itself Is nt Make Many mem
bers of Congress sincerely believe In the
expediency of sending Colonel Rooseolt to
Europe. They hold that his appearance in
France would. ho an Inspiration. Thev Wlo
(ieneral Joffro ns nuthorHy for that belief.
A few who otcd In favor of tho Roose
velt Idea, however, jocularly admitted that
they did so, thinking it would he tho end
of Roosevelt Interfeienco In American pol
itico. In good humor they tuggeHed that
tho Colonel could do his country a political
serxlco b lemaining In France Hut the
public undercurrent In Washington has en
couraged tho thought that If the Colonel
should go to Rut ope, to act the soldier for
two years or more he would como back to
America In such a blaze of glory as to
piesent an unanswerable claim to tho
presidency of tho Unltijd States. Many of
our modern statesmen have been slyly hint
ing that "with Wilson a Wnr President
no ono clso could beat him but Teddy."
When on Wednesday last the Senate con
ferees finally agreed to tho House notion
raising tho pay of enlisted men nnd carry
ing the Roosevelt provision Into law, this
feeling was Intensified.
Checkinp; Up Our Finances
Tho J1.800, 000 000 war tax bill, with
which tho Houso has wrestled nnd concern
ing which the Secretin y of tho Treasury has
expressed a "desire for more." becauso it
now develops that Jl.80n.d00 000 will not be
sulllclent to meet Immediate needs, has pro
voked discission on hoth sides of the Capi
tol This Indicates that the country Is be
ginning to realize what war taxes mean
In severnlof the House nigmnents It wus
men suggested that If hulnei.s was to bo
destroyed by taxation" It would hao been
better not to begin the wur. l'loas for the
consumer, who will surely bo reached by
the tax, were general, and earnest sugges
tions were udvanced that the rich and poor
should stand together in support of the
Administration. The argument was never
enthuslastlo and sometimes so critical ns
to forebode disaster to tho bill. Taken with
Secretary McAdoo's declared intention of
touring the West to str up Interest In the
"Liberty Loan." the future now seems to
hold no promise of a popular grouudswell
for Increased expenditures. And yet It is
freely predicted that a new tux bill will
bo forthcoming In December. Apparently it
Is unavoidable.
All Uila will have an Important bearing
Upon future Issues of bonds, as It must In
volve additional tax considerations, The
1'resldent recommended direct taxes and
the Ways and Means Coinmltteo has' been
proceeding with a view of raising war funds
by bonds and taxation In equal parts The
bond advocates contend that the burdens of
this war should be passed oq to future
generations, while those favoring direct
taxes Insist that an Increase In bond Issues
will tend to prolong the war Meanwhile
the Treasury estimates to Congress are
pnvum m wjr ior grwicr expenditure.
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LEDaiSR-PHlLADELPHIA, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1917
Tom Daly's Column
77;: riu.Aan vqut
Whenever it's a Saturday
In Mnv
An' 1 am far away
From where It moit dcHyhtcth mc
To be,
Mu taiKliip eye can cc,
Throuoh jealous miles that Intervene
Ono necnr
That is forever green.
The door-yaid lilacs, big wilh Moom,
Perfume
My eastward sleeping room;
The brcrtcs lift their sweets at iclll
And spill '
Their plunder on my sill.
A tlp-toc sunbeam creeping by
To pry
A Hlumhcr-Hddcd eye,
Surprised to find that snowy nest
I'nprcMctl
Hy my old head at reit,
Huns, quivering, up the bedroom ICall
To rail
His fellow'sunbrams all:
"Thlt creature's absenre, friends, is Queer;
1 fear
Snmei myUrry is herd
Thli man that should be new elf rest
Son est;
It bodes no good at best.
l'or always on a Saturday ,
In May
lte loves at golf to play,
An' thlt indeed he may not do
'Til through
ft? search for ttrtfj that's new.
Long since he should have left the hay,
l'or day
Is well upon its way.
The cook is up; I hear the Mir
Of hrr
Soon something fJJ occur.
Ah! roffcol flnt of smells
That swells
from rralmi where TlreaUfasl dwells.
I'p! brothers, all. an' look about.
Hun out
An' find the lazy lout I"
All this is true as true! can be
To me:
As plain as A It C.
77io?p sunbeams wilt beyond a doubt
Seek out
Thlt homcward-ruihtng lout,
I'll look, from Lehigh Valley's gem,
On thrm
Xot far from Udhlrhcm.
I'nr when It Is a Unttnday
hi May
I love at golf to play.
Slater of th War Diamond.
What's that? Tho Irish convention?
fill, yes, tho boss nrrnngpd for It before
ho wont away, didn't ho? Well,Just step
lnsldo tho border hero nnd you'll bo nil
by yourselves and not disturbing tho
neighbors.
Now, wo'ro not charging nny rent for
this hall, but tho boss left word that be
foro nny ono elo was given tho floor
theso two paragraphs should bo pre
sented: Thero was room for a dozen or moro
signatures on tho form sheet headed
"Petition to tho President nnd Congress
for tho Independence of Irclnnd" .ent to
us by nn earnest uontrib. "I know you
will sign It," snys ho; but ho doesn't know
us nt alt. "yon see," ho continues, "I am
giving you a fresh new one, sn your n.iino
will appear nt top, where, of cours-e, it
ought to bo." Nope! wo'ro a slacker. Wo
rnfuso to lead our squad of gallant pen
men In tin nssault upon tho enrely
harassed I'lesitlcnt nnd tho somowhnt bo
fuddled Congress of theso United States
It's nono o' their business. This strugglo
for Irish independence, ns wo understand
it, Is nn Irish fight nnd not open to tho
general public.
Whllo Ireland's to tho foro we want
to iovImi some of tho hard sayings wo'vo
been making nnd tho harder thoughts
wo'xo had of John SlcCormacIc nnd his
money. Wo read with delight that half
tho (into icnllzfil from bis benefit con
cert In New York on Sunday night will
go to tho poor in I1I3 uativo town of
Athlone.
Now, then, go ns far ns you llko and
nobody will bother you.
l'AHADlRl UmAINVD
I'm a thing they call a "sttvydoro".
Though ionic has called mo worse
An' I'm slavln' hnc ttlong the shore
Uo fill a shinny pui.ic;
l'or it's Utile that the wages arc,
l'or all the counthru's ftec,
An' my hopri o fortune still aro far
As heaven is from me.
Still, though far away it seems,
There's a heaven in mo dreams
lllcsiUl paradise 1 had nn' lost, but hope
again to win,
An' It calls mo from tho breeze
That blows In ucrat the seas
"Whin a ship comes in.
y
"Sure, it's hell to be a stcvydore,"
The lads lesule me say;
Hut it's purgat&ry an' no more,
Rlncc somo may wln.aicav,
An' it's not forever that I'll slave
Within a stuffy hold,
For. the pennies that 1 make an' save
Will turn at last to gold.
O! the heaven that I knete,
7ff.iIi' green above the blue
Ulessld paradise I had an' lost
dreamed so much about
'Tis mesel' wld joy will see
On a day thafs soon to be
Whin a ship goes out.
an'
SAY nossi
They don't want land, they don't seek
gain,
But it seems to me it is very plain
And just as clear as broad daylight
What the Irishmen want is a f goSd
floht. II.J.W.
What remedy, If any, Is thero for this
sort of thing? At the movies Old Glory,
wlnd-tossetl nnd In, full panoply of natural
colors, la suddenly thrown upon the
screen. Tho children old nnd young
burst In rapturous applause, which as
suddenly stops when the flag Is "sicklied
o'er with the pale cast" of George AL
4.q - jBti.urtairs.
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BOCHES WORSE
THAN BEASTS
A Proposal That Samples of
Their Work in France I?e Pre
served Under Guard Lest
Wo Forget
Hy HENRI BAZ1N
Iteclplent of the Croix da (luerre. Member of tho
Hoclete ,1i tions elcn I-itrea and special
l'orrciinndtit nf the Hicmvu
f.Kix.cti lii I'ramo
PARIS,
April 10.
headquarters automobile with a staff
-L oil
oillcer I havo mado tho third trip In
eighteen days to evacuated and reconquered
devastated regions, visiting that which bad
been flvo prosperous towns and twenty-two
contented villages 'of tho Alsne, Olso and
Snmme country What I saw In a threo
days" journey of SCO kilometers from ParPi
to Paris beggars description. A very lord
of languages could not phraso Into sentences
and paragraphs the deliberate, liorrlblo de
struction perpetrated by tho Hermans. Ono
must see to grasp Its frightful reality, as
ono must talk with tho aged." tho only In
habitants not driven llko cattle to slavery,
to understand something of the Inhumanity
and brutality to which theso poor peoplo
havo been subjected. It Is moro than In
human nnd brutal. It's Incomprehensible.
It's beyond adjectives! Nothing llko It ever
beforo occurred In tho wot Id's history.
If you will Imagine the district from
Hroad street to tho Schuylkill River nnd
from AVhnrtnn to Poplar street In Philadel
phia n razed mass of crumbling brick nnd
stone, with nothing to obstruct tho vista
over tho entlro section have hero and thero
a bit of Jagged wall five or six feet high,
you will havo a plcluio of not one hut four
of tho towns I visited, towns that boused
beforo the war from 12 000 to lN.noo per
sons. In slightly less area, the Identical com
parison applies to twenty of the twenty
two villages I raw on this hip alone.
' If you will tnlte any section of West
Philadelphia nnd blow out tho fronts of
houso nfter houso In every row nnd every
street for ten tnuarcs each way you will
havo a plctuio of such villages as aro not
literally lazed to tho ground. If you will
take any Montgomery County oi chard of
npplo tiecs and Imagine each and every
Individual tree cut off two or threo feet
from tho ground, tho tieo lying vvheto It
fell nt tho last btroko of tho nx or tho last
cut of the saw. you will havo a .picture of
tho'oichards of applo, pear, plum and apri
cot liees of tho Homme, tho Alsno nnd tho
Olso country. If you will imagine all the
forming Implements nnd wagons In South
Jersey thrown Into numerous piles, each
bruli-ed, broken nnd burned by dviutmlto
explosion, you will havo a picture of that
to bo found in every vlllngo I saw on the
threo trips
And If. on top of all that, you will Imagine
every well of drinking water and every
spring In Cheater County befouled with
the carcass -of dead domestic animals and
stnblo refuse, or poisoned with arsenic and
other drugs, you will have a picture that
portt ays every well and every spring in
theso latitudes. If you will Imagine every
house In Darby tobbed of every chair,
spoon, bed or whatsoever may bo the part
of a comfortable or necessary household
equipment, you will have a plcture'of every
houso not completely destroyed In tho areas
I havo covered
And, finally. If you will Imagine any ward
In Philadelphia devoid of every living soul
save the, very old and feeblo or the very
young, you will havo a picture portraying
the population found by the French and
Kngllsh troops ns they entered evacuated
territory.
Attila tho Bocho
In the Bols de I'Abeye near Kallowal I
Baw and mounted to a little one-room house
built rustic fashion of native unbarkod
birch. Over Its entrance was carved "Hu
burtus Haus," It stands upon a high ele
vation and commands tho country for miles
around. It was here that Kltel Fritz the
KaUer's second son, passed his leisure' nnd
observed. The railing around the porch
shows his name in shaped rustlo birch let
ters, the name of this son of the Kaiser
well named. Indeed, since Kltel signifies'
AtUla. From the porch of this house Isaw
St. Quentln In the distance. The cathedral
was Intact, "but the faubourgs or suburbs
of i and were In names.
At Coucy. and Coucy le Chateau the
Joined lower and upper towns leading In
winding road to the ancient chateau hleh
upon the crest of Its hill, a glorious monu.
ment of the Middle Ages built In 1325 and
now a mass of crumbled stone lying Uvau
like along the slope, of the hills elevation
there 1 but one' uninjured hn.. i..
I jthlLWi l.1th4h.jMotf;rrth: nt.
mSXkl ' ' ssfeW
' X X 5vStH r- -- . 'VEV.n-jTi Jr'.uTVfll OUVIAr
'SS OC -X--. 3ij X bfJr)f, LVKLrfll IZVJS SS
v' vt3. .v ,ij tjt v.. ;e3fess xvrmwvjxx
nWfF Tpffll
IN BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE
blown away. And according to a Rocho In
scription upon tho only uninjured houso. It
was niared because In Kcptomber. 1916. tho
Kaiser "honorefl'Mt by lodging thero for a
night.
At tho nearby vlllago of Cuts, attached
to tho country seat, n circular garden ex
isted, defined In a wall twelve feet high,
ngalnst which grew en espalier 107 peach,
pear and apricot trees, with hero and thero
an ancient vino of the grape None was
less than thirty years old. from Its diameter.
Kvory ono had been cut off a few Inches
from tho ground. Tho sap had risen ns If
in protest and a traco of budding green was
vlslblo at tho tips, tho last breath of llfo
beforo tho death to como Over the well
In this garden, painted in black upon rough
lioaid. tho sign "Keln Trlnkwnsser" still
remained. An old man who was not of tho
deported told mo that when tho Roche de
filed a well he put up such Mgn In warning
to tho troops coming through and that tho
asi naiiaiion removed It. This one bad
been mlssod. I detached It nnd havo it bo
foro mo ns I write.
Worso Than Beasts
I heard harrowing tales of suffering from
tho old and feeble They havo been driven
together to Indicated points and left ex
posed to tho weather as their houses were
blown up Indignities unbellevablo were
perpetrated. In one case an nged woman
who called tho Roche a "Prusco." tho namo
given them In 1870. told mo with a flash in
her nged ejes how sho and her daugh
ter, boii-ln-lavv nnd eldest granddaughter
had been tied to chairs, ranged against the
wan or a loom in her house, nnd compelled
to witness the maltreatment of her younit
cst granddaughter, a girl of seventeen, by
a Rocho oillcer.
In another case nn equally aged woman
told mo ono of the Roche boldlers who
spoKo a littlo French had come to her
and. saying he was under orders, was
obhamed to take everything from her house
to destroy or pack for sending to Germany.
He had therefore put a mattress In the
r.nla.r f!,,.s ,0 mlBht havo " l,cd to lie upon.
Hut, M slcur, ns ho told mo this, the
I rusco reached over nnd took my watch
and chain from my neck, saying ho wanted
It as a souvenir."
I could tell twenty talcs equally as sig
nlfliunt of what the Rocho to Tk... .....
cHIIm , ...... -'rrtj IHII
.-....,.-, j,,,,.-, mitj individual
case that I
vermeil. I had heaid
Itl two tmvna L-..
meters apart that little children had picked
,., -""V l""1 wmen seemed like
fountain pens. Upon opening, they exploded
nnd tore away childish fingers. I saw per.
sonally ono child so mutilated. Her Brand
mother gave mo the. address of tho hospital
wrl'fier W"Cr0 th 'nCredlble
I saw a number of Docho cemeteries In
many eveiy case near an old village ceme-
ry in 70 per cent of the cases tn? anc em
b ones over tho ancient dead had been take?
their nscriptlons defaced and the "stones
elected with new l.ibcrlntlon ,.. ".?"!."
over "I
he grave of a Bocho who had .lied
no Fatherland." I kn, .,.',., ' ,eu
"for tho
nun front-line trenches that a few weeks
back I had looked upon from lhn iv.
front line They weV nuT bh flReen
kilometers from the firing line t .
caws they wero being " ea' bnSch.
?.??"", .lrm t"elr "meaner Z
would nnt linvA maWn.i i- .. . . "isar
And then.. ." ; .J.." "' lne" mouths.
And these weie of the
i,. .i.i . . v "
men who had done
"lo ""UBS nan seen, which In hut fi
part I hero attenmt i ,i. '" " ln Dut ,lny
The lamentablo thing in humans h
lattlcularly Latins, Is that they are oron,
o forent In n ,l.ra,u . ",e. "re Prone
pat
Government may decide to'reUln . exaclw
their nresent cnmlitinn n -."-- eacuy
o torget in a decade I p,.ay th vZ:"Z
i.overnment may decide to retain In exactlv
their present condition a series of vmaVes
Buch ns Julbsy and Uulscard ..h,.
like Chauny. encircle them witls, &
walls and put them In charge of mutilated
soldiers after tho war, that the S,
It comes to France may Tee with Z W S
eyes the sort of evil that has h,.Wn
tlced by ciermany. amy Th ' . T
vandalism barbarity, of which , the '"
and Olso and Alsne country is nn Bu?mme
should In some part be kept as a S"M'
object-lesson of The crlme'oflhe ag"','-""
France, e, perpetrated u'tne Sffi?,
A GOOD WORD FOR SIBERIA
"Dostoyevsky railed on mo on. n,
noon." says Madame 0:ga Novlkol? in' ,?r"
book, "Russian Memories ? '," her
talking of his life In Siberia and 5?., 'P"
fully beneficial effect iikli ; wonder
We were iStea'bj?' flhfnaT" M'
dandy, just arrived from abroad. ntlUn.8
tcrerf animatedly about his lmn? chaU
various ballets ana theatre. iPSrS!f uGf
would never stop, and felt rlt u,ht h
Dostoyevsky. however, listened l.V ?.nBri
his wonderful dark, ve vVt es wn'n".1
deep expression so peculiar i.lth ths
kindly on the gosslpeAfTer whln""'1
marked: 'I am Interest what v' re
There Is life In you artlstle inii,yU 8ay'
good nature, if Jyou iuia ,pSM ,an1
years In a Siberian prlVon a r hJ "llr,tMn
It would be most benffloWtoVa K? d?18'
What Do You Know?
Qutries til general interest will ba anautrti
in this column. Ten questions, tht answers t
which event u.elHntormed person should krtmt,
are asked ciatrj.
QUIZ
1' A .'."im"'.1? ""burnt ' be inl to Frunee
with tho engineers. What are the duties
. .of , toreMry regiment?
f?,it".!'i"i' .1,rrbff w"? "?" tlmt America's
i v- '"" "rlKht. could end thn war?
'VJ ,"l"rl'es, describe the Italians u
whl!SVor.h",ril on ty l9onz0- "hat a
a M-i H"trB ' the lbonzo?
4. Win a Ilorneef
nSL-V1''1 d0 'Sra"n " derive their
llUhJt oiled ."the World's Oreatnt
, ,,.. orksliop" nnd why?
s lihSi'i ,1'n"'a, Mllllam M. Work?
IV"", Is hlue smas?
trinit1."" vTK'l ", '? "Ported In the
Orkneja. What nnd where are the Ork-
10,
Ilaa the. nn.v of American soldiers been u
creased rreentlj?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
'' ""SSieaTT. nVtll.e'r?" and p,s,8' "
" in,;,midm.frn.11 W,'"an ". Sims la In eom-
r?....fi .Vi1," American torpedoboat d-
i ""?' ,,,0"ll' 'n Kiimpran waters.
' !",S2.9itu.u.."r9,r,".!e. In the northwut
.ii i.i.. ' .? 'ina or iiornei. when, lies
ivllli,,iw4,.,.,.,.,et of the l'hllinptnes.
4. 1
Si. Vi "umn nun") linker is ths
J, l. """"""n pf thn ,w Vork American
?'L" ""."""' "? Pins while Ph.
, nl',SrK.Ult'"""m'U'n'
aT,ih.'U,ir,,,i"til" .w2? he rr'n'h explorer
n ..?.' "'? 'Ilsalaaliipl Hirer.
,,.?malne ' Pronounced "toh-ma-ln" or
sjfhihTe' ah luctnt ' on ,lle Bnt
1. Frledrifh Ifrlnrlrh Alexnndrr von Ilnmholdt
ill.'' k ,,rirm"1 nnturflUt nnd attmn.
l brother. Karl Wllhelm von Hum-
man "" " rno,ar nnd ali0 n states-
8. Sriilllons nre kitchen aerrants, nsually
tlione who clean pots nnd pans. Srnlllons
r? , i ". or "pious that do not "bottom
n m,i",' '" ''l1 t,Llck tm Us" leeks.
0. Thl IlrtA Kuppa Is the oldest Greek letter
fraternity, it U nn honorary scholarship
nrtiinlziillon. fnnndnl at William and
llfllV (nllai l'liwlnln
10
G'rcr,,i. AIr'ff I". ommanaer-ln-ehIef of
the Ruskhin nrmles.
Spanish War
V. i: n American casualties In the
naval battle of Santiago Bay were one
hilled and ten wounded. The Spanish fleet
lost nbout 330 killed nnd 1700 captured.
Including Admiral Cervera. In the battle
of Manila, Ray six Americans were wounded.
I he Spanish losses In killed nnd wounded
were 634. In both cases the Spanish fleets
were destroyed.
"King of the Nickel"
A R. I.. Frank W. Woolworth. of New
ork. president of tho P. W. "Woolworth
company and head of a chain of more than
,oo "flve-ond-ten-cent" stores. Is sometimes
called "The King of the Nickel." The
til e comes from the fact that the great
business enterprise Is founded In a large
measure upon purchases of a nickel's worth
of goods.
Traveling Men
D. S Traveling men will be required
to register for selective draft by the fol
lowing method described by tho War De
partment: "On the sixth day nfter the dato of the
rresident s proclamation any one subject to
registration who expects to be absent from
ms home on registration day should go to
... .i.:i, oi me county where he may be
Sf lf, ' Is In a city of more than
30,000 population, the city clerk Is the of
ficlal to whom to apply. The absentee will
J ii 'lw ',? "S'ster nnd a registration
u.Y" b.VUled out' Tnls card mUst be
mailed by the absentee so as to reach the
registrar of his home precinct by regis-
niL-" a!;'; Tlle clerk to whom he b
sentee applies Is nqt empowered to Issue
I. ,e."b18e.we welstratlon certificate This
cdnct " registrar in his homo pre-
Divan
vnrt'nr""iDIVan"..,s a Persian -word having
various significations, being- used In the
nrnn,,a.mu"ter.ro"' M1ter of payment
or account or a place for the preservation
nnii "gls,?r! ani 't Is also applied to a
m ?f poms or BOnSa by on" n the
f..m..i Uth;0r ,D,lan meana ""t an admin
LV c" ,boa,rd : ,tha hlshest council of State
vun" ,?. 'X0?u s,cae "Divan! huma
oTJln i(TSt 11,ulrIous divan). Finally
divan Is the name for the state or reception
o?tm.lrnnnm,'n,al palacea- A,0"S the wall,
with r!.aro r1"8"1 low couches, covered
ion. w-arF"t8 and PWtawl with cush-
a k8.ndIoefnce?uchh?aaof9a:,11Van" " U"d "
U. S. In Sea Fight
nea'rSIn,n;T7nS.efMa,ry Dai"' as cabled to
Ins- th aI"1 WHn 8. Sims, command.
n Fu,nn.!!r,ca? de3'y now operating
was tru,T?,,,Jater"' Mkln whether there
the V.strV.'L' ?T' reiott tht on ot '
tnejestroyara had been In action with
action with
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