.r SW''&iry&G J SEPTEMBER; iflfcr ' rv912Atx Pwin$s&m$tx .,.- lUBtTC( LEDGER COMPANY V. ctntis lr. k. cunTis, rmM.vT at i "C.. Martin. Herrttiiry and Trurri I'hlllp H. It i Collin. John II. Wlllltmi, John J. Brurge,on, P. . . II. Whale. D rector.. r.i t 't . ' - Sh w S-v- '.v , EDITORIAL HOAHD! Ctica II. IC, CciTis, Chairman. r. H. THIALKT. Editor JOHN C. MAUTIN.fOenfral Huilnti.ii Munactr I'ubllitheri dally at TtinLic I.kinikr nulMlnp, ' Indeprndenca Square. I'hllaJtltilila. I.snoKn CrvmAr.. inroad nr.l ClK-Mnut Wrt ATl.iTIO I'lir. . . rrraolnlaa nulhllnil flaw York.. , . .. SOB Mftrurwlltan Tower DRTRniT 4113 1'or.t IlulMlnr Rr. I.iil.u , ,, ,,..,inn Kuilertnn JlulMIn Cuiciuu UUS Tribune Uulldlni .BTC8 BLTIHAUS: WAKiHMiTiiy lHaiuu. 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No great advocnte of libernllsm trppcnrs In ttny putt of the inhabitable globo th.it hlx doings nie not n matter of Intcicst to this nation, nnd the proponents of liberalism aie soon as well known In the United States as they ntc In their own invltons. In the period when Lloyd George was the target for nil the nhttse-nnd vituperation the property-owning classes of (lient Biltulu were able to express, he was win ning moral support In this countiy and among all In his own country who Rm pathlzed with American Ideals. That this man, so hated only n, few years ago, hould now enjoy the fullest conlldcnro of the clabses then most hostile to him Is not so much a miracle as it is nil evi dence of the clailty of thought that Is In fluted by periods of stiess and sacrifice. When the mcro Incidentals of life and government cease to have much meaning and the essentials. In principle and char acter, become of supiemo Importance. 'America has never known defeat," declares Lloyd George, "and on this oc casion, too, she will tilumph." Theio Is no man better acquainted than is the British 1'iemler with the unprepairdness for war which characterized our national organization four months ago. He knows as well as wo do that even our legular army was untrained for the particular kind of watfare that has been dewjoped In this conflict. He appreciates every one of the dlllicultlcs we have expeilenccd and will experience In bringing our full might to bear ngalnst Get many. Hut he also knows, better than we do, how Eng land's position nt the beginning of the war paralleled our own. Ho hns t-ccn the Kmphe draw from their chairs and coun teis her accountants and clerks and weave them into a magnificent army, an army probably superior to that of the Germans themselves, for, decl.ned tho Premier some tlmo ago, "tho I'.rltlsh army Is now Invincible." When, therefore, the "Little Welsh man" places his supreme trust In the ability of America to make good, ho is not merely coining phi uses to piomoto en thusiasm. He knows whereof he speaks. He knows American initiative, the Ameri can genius for organization, American determination and the devotion-of Ameri cans to their own Ideals. We do not doubt that ho has been amazed by the progress already made. Theie ncie Englishmen as well as Get mans who doubted our ability to put an uimy in tho field. Yet an expeditionary force of real power is now in the. shadow of the trenches and our transport Is of u char acter to thrill every citizen. Not only are gread quantities of supplies- being rushed to our own armies, but there Is no failure on our part to furnish our Allies with what they treed. In the ton tructjon of autotrucks, alipl.ines and hips, three vital necessities, we havu vast programs under way; so vast, tu fact, that the mere suggestion of them. as possibilities would have been laughed to scorn three years ago. The nation Is giving cveisy evidence that It knows how to measure up to the requirements of thlg epochal crisis. It Is. however, with humility that w receive the confidence expicssed In us by our associates In this great war. We havo yet to pay our sharo in sacrifice and heroism. We know that It will be icur privilege to be the decisive' factor In tho war, but the notion Is not in -any way deceived as to the enormous price n , In blood and treasure It must pay. ft js b because Lloyd George realizes not only . our capacity for accomplishment, but be- BTvV 'cause he also appreciates the Invincible Vij UOICIHHHOWUII ll, IIJO AlUCril'Un peOpiO t-'Tf .,! .ll .1.-1.. ..l.-. . .. clove, tu iu,k until inc.! uujeci is at tained, that lie pledges his hope for the pjtoi. ft uture on America's participation lu tho . "w - v THE NEW SOCIALISM ; k klallam did not get Its mor- fhn the parly in ,the tneLWari nor when say, "Well, we're nil .Socialist nowadays, aren't wet" That was tho birth of the "New f'oclol lsrn"( an obscure beginning, but all Ideal ism Is horn In u manger. When people realized that Kcclallsm was lilcnllsm and not t real political party they said "8ure," and .welcomed the best of It, "what was good In It." Hu .Mr. Hpargo Is coming to meet us hulf way, In nuninmcliig that a new Socialist party Is about to nrlse, he simply accepts "what Is good" In dc mociacy generally Hut when ho calls his Idealists 'n new political party, we must warn hint not to expect to poll more than tho few hundred thousand votes which Mr, Debs or Sir. Horizon usually drew. Such n party Is like the Prohibitionist party, always doomed to defeat, standing aloof from city reform and nil practical betterment, "for it principle." A new political party Is Indeed forming, to de mand that the gains of tlemocincy In the war bo coiiMilldated and letnlned In pence. Socialists would do well to help foim It, for this new party must hair Just that International view which Socialists stilw for, combined with it broad statesmanship which tho old Socialists Ignored, a neglect which has left so inanv of them hlrnndeil In tin1 quicksands of pacllNm. PITTSBURGH'S HOPE IN WOMEN'S FIGHT AGAINST GANG POLITICIANS Suffragists Willing to Work Even With Foes oL! Their Cause to Clean Up the City A HANDFUL OF WOMEN " flnil ten ilihlrniti within thr cUii, thru ulll I .iimic nit the phtrc for Ihrlr antics, Thli Li thn last of n itcrlm nf five niflrlr? ln n xtnfj tcprcsrntatlfc of the Jtvenhm l.cilucr l(7io Unit matlc n scrintn utmlil nf )nUtlvut rnntlltUini 7'lfM biihjh, which me almost irlthattt precedent in thr hlntntu nf the Gimmonircalth. y SAMUEL McCOY 0 Nl! hopes that this series of nrtlclen "HOLlElt THAN THOU" rniii-: rmii warn h nuu.t noubu. J. again. Yeats ago Its habitues earned It th title of the "Illoodv Fifth." rind self-respecting citizens In suburban villas thanked God that they weio not such as these. The 1'lftlr. they thought, was a blotch on tho otherw! , beauteous face of the city. Good doctors know better. An eruption In one place means that the whole system Is dlseastd. They do not Worry about the symptom. They Insist on doctoring th"1 whole man, however ho may protest that ho U otherwise lit. So it Is with Philadelphia, iind so It Is with Pittsburgh as tho series of at tlrlcs on tills page, which cIuscm tnd-iy. has shown. Hespect able folk In Pittsburgh have grown cyni cal about the wretched political conditions which pa it of the population Imposes upon another, part. Ilv s.tylng the. are cynical they incur this. "We icsprctulilo people aie so much better than the gang steis that we cannot cotieeho of their ever ilslng to our level." They iiiuld cast out the olfendlng member, following one tet. lint we can icply, with an equally good let, that the whole body must be born anew. Cynicism must be i ejected as a form of mental suicide. It leads to apathy and sometimes coii to pat tlcipatlon In tho spoils of olllce Hvery batch of newly graduated l.tujers lllustiutcs this. The see leudeis of the bar nml Judges backing the Organization. .Manv of them "go along " . U-BOAT PROBLEM IN A NUTSHELL rpifi: Mor. told b olllcers. about ?een -L T-boats nl tacking a coinoed fleet of twenty-two merchantmen, while peihaps not altogether accurate lu Its details, seems to contain the gist of tho subma rine piobUm in its pirscnt status. Warship iouvojs of merchant fleets ha,vo led the I'-bo.its to go In fleets, too. We have come to that predicted pass, "the "trenches of the sea." It means slower tinnspoitatlon, because those twenty-two ships could go no faster tlr.tn the slowest ship among them could go. Four of the meichantmen ate repotted sunk, but the other eighteen and'the war ships filled the sen with such a shelling that thiee of .thn seen U-boats went under. It was a fairly even bieak, but It is Just an even bieak that we want to keep with the Getmaus till the. wear out. ' Thus the laud deadlock, wldch saes both ni rules fiom annihilation, is to bo duplicated on the ocean for the same reason. In every phase of this Industilal war the slowlng-down piotess Is at woilc as the chief Allied policy. We speed up industries and slow down the war, tr,Ing tr narrow tho struggle to one between Allied Industry and Get man industry. For the time must come, as it came for the South, when the nimles aie still all right, but the chain on the supplies behind them Is more than human natuie (an stand. HABDENINt; UP rpin-: men nf the .Vatlonal Army now -1- at last in camp or on their way theio aio said to lie, as a rule, traveling light. The man who travels light has left not only cumbersome baggage behind De lias left eaie behind, too It is tho piivllege of the Mildler to have eeiy thing made easy for hlur, to have as much fun and iWuxutlou as can be, just so he can do one very haul thing eiy well. These men will be m-i to work harden ing up at once. Theto will be the ten rnlle march and the blisters, nml then tho twenty-mile that seemed impossible with the blisters, and finally the calloused feet so Incredibly llieless fiom the civilian viewpoint and the haul calloused hands, able to dig for bonis While their muscles and skins aie hard ening up, the brums and nerves of those who stay behind must harden up too. Abroad the "Tomnile" uml the pollu bay, "All will be well If the folks back home keep their nerve." Our soldiers ought to know th.i they need not s.iv that of us. All tho Allies have to do Is to fur nlsh their requirements; wo furnish th. money. Not everybody knows what spelter Is worth, but If the Government has ordered U',OUO,000 pounds of It It must bo worth something. If, a tepotted, theie is some chance of the aviators lifting warfare out of the trenches, theie Is a correspond ing chance for an earlier decision mi tho west front. Trench warfare Is Penelopo weaving. The President of France Is not clothed with the enormous powers given the President of tho United States, but he represents In Iris own person the heart and soul of the French nation, and his visit to the American expeditionary army was an event of historic importance. The Union won two or three vic tories of one sort or another that tiro populace acclaimed heartily; but Abra jram Lincoln had an uncanny ability to a wlHKCeiQPhanUWBW.ha.sftw.one. ness that, If theie be any matters In Pittsburgh which do not redound to the ciedlt of that city, tho fault cannot be laid at the door of the so-called political "bosses" so Justly as nt the door of the eltl.cns of Pittsburgh hh a body. Whv smitiM iiiin one find fault with n political boss? Ceitalnlv not those who llnd the Ihisb'h burden easy and his oko light. After all. the cjnloal observer may my tho boss does make ti return of Mime material sort to his followers, while tho "reformer" never so much as gives a Ikii beetle for the voters who rallied mound his Ideas, So, when a boss promises his people that ho will give them biead as well us games, they tire apt to believe him. And, most Important of all. they become, each ime of them, tho spreader of tho bosses fame. "lie's li good l-'ti.v." they wry, turning nwny from the hall where be has made his violent attacks on his opponents and Ids bluff, hcnity assuitinces that "theio's a good time cumin'" foe "" 'i Mippoit him. "Ile'lj slip Miiiicthhi' to the boys, nil light, all tight." And, In u manner of speaking, he dors slip something to them, lie makes good." And his sup poit spiends in widening ripples, ns the ensv classification, "a good guy." spreads fiom mouth to mouth. Cohesive Power of Public Plunder With the reformer It I-i dlfl'eient. He has no tangible favors to distribute. It Is haul to llnd men who will go about shouting otir pialses simply because, as Mavor. you see to It that the city's mom-vis spent wisely and can-fully and cleanly, as a oitv 's money should be spent. The benefits of such an udmlut.stiatlon me dliTiucil too wldelv uniting a million citi zens to cotiveit an.v single one of them into a filrnd who goes about his neigh biirhood to shout your pialses in season and out of season. The leform Mnvor has no special privileges In distribute. And, with our easv-going habits of eitlrenslilp, It Is only the lecipient of special pilvl lego who becomes a ''fan." It is this which makes it mi dllllcult a thing to mouse nny community to notion against it bosser. The reformer does not appeal to the Imaginations of the great mass of voters It Is only when, like Itoosevclt. he tides bucking bronchos and nails big game as well ns Hlg llusl ness, or when, like Woodrovv WiHon, he shows himself n baseball "fan" and a President who walks on foot ammti; the people, that they begin to spiead the word, "Say. he's a tegular guy." Somo such situation as this exists in the present mayoialty campaign In Pittsbuigh. Its citizens who would like to see a better Pittsburgh haven't as yet been able to set in motion a spit It which will spiead from house to house like a Maine. Thev haven't "sold" their wares. Their advertising campaign, as dealers in decency, hasn't departed sulllclently fiom old and iiiilusplilng methods. They have not given thought to the meielian dlsliig pioblem which has been expicssed In thes-e in tides, by some of their own citizens that the public to which they look foi suppott has been so dulled and drugged by jear after ear- of political arguments of the same tenor that It can not now mouse itself to Interest. The Women's Crusade One slender attempt to meet this need for n new sort of appeal does exist In Pittsburgh, howevet- n tiny flame glim irierlrrg In the darkness of tho general npathv of the olt. It is the campaign conducted by a little group of women. Tho group Is frankly a gioup of woman suffiago leadeis so far. It Includes such women as Mrs. .1. O Miller, Mary 1.. Day, Mrs. Julian Kennedj. Mis. Mary Fllnn I.awiemo and Mis William Thaw. Jr. Although the sultiage issuo does not enter Into the pie-ent majoialty light, these women have gone Into the battle because they have Income convinced that they can hop? for no suuevs In the Stuto Legislature until after thev have elimi nated fiom municipal politics the bipar tisan machine Inlluences which they acknowledge as lespunslblc for the defeat of the hiiffuigc amendment at Ilarils buig. Thev have nor asked that any one who chooses to fight with them In thn majoialty campaign for tho elimination of machine couiml should also go on wli them to fight foi equal suffiage in tho future. The would not refuse the help of untl-suftiagMs in the pieent cam palgu, one must believe, for the pioblem they are now training their guns upon Is one which can recruit the suppurt of any. Irrespective of convictions us to the pio prlety of th" equal franchise. The audacity of their attempt must cnminiiud admiration. With a pitifully few thousands, of dollais, got together with whlc'i to pay h printer, they aie Issuing a tiny four-page publication known ns Publicity. Publicity is Issued only once a week. It accepts no adver tisements. The number of Its paid sub scriptions Is negligible, but ten thousand copies ate printed weekly and dlstilbuted. THE VOCAL COCOANUT Modern homo comforts me not exactly familiar In Stilu Islntiileis, according to u repuit published by the Society for Klec trlcal Development. "While In the Government employ In Hie Philippines," bays this writer, "I was sta tloned on tho Island of f'asllan, vhlch Is a small Island In the Sulu archlpelugo. "We frequently had them entertain us with their native dances, and In turn would fill them with wonder and awe with a pho nograph which we had In our outfit. We found It necessary to put up a telephone line between two buildings that were a little distance apart, usjng two magneto sets. pn day I found, u rather Jargp .coooanut under, a tree nwir the bmlxutafcawiV II HUM i UM tt WMMPII v They aie sent to lavvvets, doctors, school teachers, mlnlsfcis, business men, Judges nml to till soita of pel sons. An Unholy Alliance To tell the truth, it does not seem to havo nindo much of a vldble Impress on the great body of voters as j,nt. It can not leach them directly. Those persons who do receive the publication (iro not or the l.vpo which puis approval into notion by going out ami spreading Its spin k among othets. 1 In-inl "f '" effort on tie part of business men, mlnlster.-i or lnvvvcrs, while 1 was In Pittsburgh, to do nctlvc campaigning among the great body nf voters the only tort of cam paigning which counts at the polls. Theto are, nf course, mich organiza tions as tho Voters' League nnd tho ntbens' Pnlltlcnl Union In Pittsburgh which might add their suppoit In the ciy, uttered so bravely if so feebly, by this handful of women. Tho president of tho latter organisation, .lames 11. Giny. nn attorney, said, while 1 was In Pills buigli: "Pittsburgh is suffering from nn un riiiiselnmibli) alliance of her most power ful lliinnilnl Interests, Including most of tho new.spnpcis. with a polltlcil machine which iinhesltntlnglv violator everv elec tion law on the statute books, nnd makes use nf tho liquor party, the vice ling and every possible evil, self-seeking Inlluence to mull nl tho pin chasuble voter and to confuse and tilck the well-mennlug voter. "The llnancieis provide the cash, the newspapers piovldo the publicity, for their chosen candidates unlv, all others excluded; the machine disti Unites the cash bioadciht, paying little attention to the laws. "Tho payroll and their friends aie dilveii to the polls. The nrm.v nf paid wutcheis Mil-rounds the voting places. The icgulai ballot m-iiker matks twentv thht.v. Ilftv ballots lu a distiict. And the right-minded people, who foim the 1,-nge majoilty of our population, wake up to find they have divided their strength be tween two factions of the Organl?.itlon. and that In the melee n group of a half doen or so professional Oigani.ntlon politicians, noted only for being lu poll tics for their own pockcthooks, like t'loker of Tammany, rule the town." Hut tin-so charges of Mr. Gra.v's were disseminated only thiougli the pages of the women's publication. Publicity, and can scatccly be expected to leach what Mi. Gray calls "the great mass of self lespcctlng, honest, fiee people, who can not be bought or Intimidated." What Has Been Left Undone What effort has been made to establish the truth of the lepoits, so widely our lent on the lips of Plttsburgheis. that theie exist hundieds of gambling clubs, speakeasies and disonlei ly houses which pay n revenue for "protection"".' What effort has been made to divide the city into distilcts equal lu to, or smaller than, the election distilcts, and to have a house-to-house canvass for votes made b.v clti.iens who mo more iuspiicd by a dislio to see their home town a clean city than by any inomise ol "lew aid"? What study of municipal undertakings and finances has been made and inter pieted into phrases which will bring their significance down to teims which will lie understood bv the men of each separate block of homes In the city'.' What effort to hat her the "self-respecting, honest, tree people" of the city Into a living, active, implacably fighting fed eration which will Insist upon knowing what lies behind each of the men who ask for Its votes'.' Tho answer must be "None'" It Is hopeless, say even thoso who wctild like to see thc-e things done, to espect them. , Theie is neither time nor money with' which m do them. It is only a gioup nf Idealistic and aggiesslve women who Would have the temcilty to suggest them. I met some men In Pittsburgh 'who told me that this was no time for any p.itilotio Pittsburgh citizen to be muddling his head about local politics. Tile United States was nt war. they orated, and tlie thing 'for good men and title to do was to .see to it that their town furnished Its full quota of tioops and to denouiue all slackeis and pacifists and alien enemies i"ii round, unmistakable terms, uml that the pioper duty of women was to mil hospital bandages and to, feed tho boy that go through town-on the tioop tialns nnd to pay no attention to city politics. Hut I talked with otheis who held the view, pet Imps a little old fashioned, that upon a foundation of cities which uio ruled by nutoeiacles, and whose citizens aie too used to having others think for them, u stiong Republic cannot be built. If Pittsburgh's own people aio content, who shall meddle with their sleep? See ing which apathy, two 'purring factions In Philadelphia aie Increasing their pun I. ness until they aio likely to split their tin oats with delight'. Their gods ore good to them In Pennsylvania; if theie Is a full plutter ut their eastern end of the State theie Is also u happy hunting ground In the west. tJSSSSB , i2H SNOWED UNDER "; .a, JMUl ' L. - Wl "- r&rs mm wr, . ' & )MH fH ' t y- ': ?fh (-1 i i. m and hung It on the outside of the hnui oi)oslte the phone, ho arranged that we could put the receiver through the K,,,.M wall and drop It Into the cocoanut. "We Invited some of the natives to see the wonderful1 cocoanut that wo could muke talk, arid with the aid of an Interpreter at the .other phone who understood their lan guage, we had a lot of fun. Some of tho natives were so frightened they left the village. Next day a delegation returned and directed u to destroy the talking co coanutv under penalty of Immediate attack They did not like to have so uncanny a thing arour,d. There was much rejoicing when we consigned It to the flames. There- (,"( t'r """irwvMi uu"v,yerjrt,runs we. .usa. iiiinan.inai , r .. T'T '""""' - w, ii i HMfUsW 1 Hi ii riii Jali la J ,1.iVT .' THE PROBLEM OF EXEMPTIONS Enforcement of Conscription Law Intended to Re Uniform .vi.ihiI ('our .portdoife nf the IXcmnu l.tilorr WASHINGTON. Stpl. T. IT HAS been d'flk'U'.t to mal; eirrir t' the people gcnrrnlly the full l-;ii!l'n'iri'o of the conscription law When It was uii(lu' discussion many membeis uf I'nnsicis opposed It on thr ground that conscription was a term fraught with dlsho'ior. That argument, hnncvir. wan llnall.v overcome, and even the reluctant voted for cotiv rip tion, helleving it a duty tn supiit thr President ar.d give liiin mm to d-jht o rr battles, whether they v.cie v.-il'irij. to vol unteer or not It was tho uiuler.-t:iii(llng or ev(rj iriaa who voted for the law that It was to lie uniform In Its ap:diiatlon and that theie was to be no favorlthm iindei its teims. Tho conscription age was tlxod at between tvveiit-orin and thirt.v years, both Inclusive, ri that only .voung men would bo taken, while older iiicu leiualncd on guard and contlnuid their cuitoniarj work at home Causes for exemption vveie specllled. but no disiliii-tlon was made betvvren ihh men's suns and the mhis of pool men, or between lolltgn graduates and woikrrs' lu the mill. All of the eligible age wi-ic to be Heated on equal terms and given an equal chance tn serve and to be piogiotrd for efficiency 01 for gallantly, If the oppoilunlty jire scntrd itself. A Uniform Law As the law came uncxprctedlj and was certain to upset the future arrangements of many industrious and woith.v young men. p is not ui pitting that iiian of them who have been cuught by the draft are socking o.unptlon : but It is not so easy for thoso who were urged, upon patriotic grounds, to p,,ss ennscrlptlon law to com prehend full the reasons why manv men whose patriotism hus been generousl pio claimed should seek to make fish of one class nf citizens and fowl of the other III Hie matter nf exemptions. The law was niado unlfoim puiposely It was to apply in all without favor; even bounties, the cause of scandal lu the Civil War when men with means were able to buv their way out of tho service, vveie expressly forbidden It may be that the trained men of the army and nav seek to select, for the higher positions, applkants possessing exceptional educational qualities and that some favor itism may have resulted lu consequence of this tendeno. but the law does not contem plate or Justify It It has been said that college men were preferred In the aviation service, and this has also been asserted with respect to some of the training camps for officers. This may. and probably does, account for the grievances of some other of our sturdy oung men who are not of al lege mold, but who are and have been specialists electricians, machinists, drafts. men, englnecr. and the like who now have no other lecourse than to take their chances with the draft In some Instances, where young men ot this type have been drawn Ipto the ranks, it haB seemed like u waste Of good material, but the departments are giving notice that enlisted men buck ns these will have an ample opportunity to demonstrate their qualities for higher service and that they will be treated accordingly. There Is that element of cheer, at least, lu the enlist ment of a SUOO-pei-Hiinuin engineer for- a $30-per-ruonth Job carrying u rllle. A Claim for Medical Students In spite of the pre-war activity of many of tho colleges and the seeming preference which some of the departments have shown for college-bred men, Washington Is n re ceipt" of niany reports concerning exemp tions, Jt Is not that, the colleges have not furmnneo ai imh quuea or, omctr una mn .v. mi-.r?" :?i i"hb been a particular demand for the exemption of medical binder ts a rd much i-omplaint of the Judge Advocate General and the Seietniy of War because they would not arrive to permit ellg.ble medical student!) to remain hi collcg" nt this Hire. Dr. Theodore Hough, of lln University of Virginia; Dr S. S. Golilnatei-, chair man of the New York .Mayor's Committee on Hospital and Medical Fuc'lltlcs: Dr. Walter I!. James, president of the New nik Academy of .Medicine, and many other mi dlcal rvierls urged the exemp tion of these student.i l-Iven so eminent ii suigcon as Dr W. W Keen, of Phila delphia, who, desp'to his service In the Civil War, again offeTd his t.ervlccs for the prcicnt war, was quoted as favoring these exemptions It Is said the War De partment did not grasp the Importance of keeping the medical student i nt their studies On the other hand, the Secretary of War, having approached IMo subject very cntcfullj. irmlmlcd tho advocates of ctcmpiion that Cnrgies tpeclflcally de-il i lined to sanctljn It In tho matter of medl.N eal students "1 lav tug had pirs.-ol upon my attention man. sugge-ld class exemptions.'' said the SeirMary. "and heard vciy earue,It arguments In favor i f many of them. I confess I do rot see how Congress could have taken any other course, nnd our prob lem theiefoie Is to deal with the law ai It Is." The SciiMar.v further pointed out to the medical fiaternity c-eeklng thn exemption of students of Its class "that a need cor-los-pondlng In kind If not In dejree. exists for the continued tialnlug of eng'necrs. technical experts competent managers of industry, agriculturist.! and skilled work men Admittedly many of these professions and tailings require less tlmu for the complete training of their output than does medicine, and yet one of the grave problems presented by this war has been to avoid the losses which some of the nations en gaged sustained In the early months of the war b. a more or less uiidlscrimirr.iting Mtciiflce of their trained men to acceptance In the military service." Exemptions Not Favored Department officials also call attention to the fact that the men who are diafted are necessarily young men While lu the case of the medical profession It Is true that many of the old'er men have been accepted for the service and have gladly gone Into the army, a like condition prevails In other professions If physicians are likely to be fewer for work at home, It Is contended, other professions will be equally disorgan ized. Tho case of a successful young physician whose ervlces aie badly needed at a hos pital where he Is a specialist, is In point. This phytldan, being popular with the In stitution, was held by the homo authorities as being of mote service there than he could be at the front They were inclined to think that It he went Into the service at all he should go in as a commissioned ofllcer. The reply of the department was that inasmuch as he was within the draft age and had accepted a commission lu the .Medical Re serve Corps, ho was subject tu the orders of the department and must report for actlvo duty notwithstanding his exceptional qualifications for hospital work. In this case the department added that his chances for promotion would denend upon the quality of his service and that ho should serve long enough to' enable his supeilor officers to Judge as to his oualiP. cations, It was one of those cases which tend to aggtavato the person directly concerned, or Ida friends, but It lllubtrates the leveling process of discipline which must be mala talned In war times. One more case In point. Many young men, some of them from college, aie engaged as structural works diaftsmen In the various navy yar,is It Is argued that the Government solicited their services and needs them now more than eve,r In the haste of uhlp construction .Some of them huve been drafted and others are expected to be. A request of the de partment as to the release of these men from draft to continue their seemingly nee essary war work brings this reply: "The matter of claims for the discharge from the draft of draftsmen nt navy yards Is placed (rr the hands of the commandant of each yard." "l Th.o draft has gone stilt further than that. It has penetrated the Samtt. n,i ,,'?.' pfflcy buildings In Washington and taken some, ot ,Ubest2, secretaries and dark. i -." What Do You Know? QUIZ i. hrr.it ttlfM proportion of tlie (if rman p I.Uls. iifp I'ms1!. i. lVhft ( t.Ttn mein'ntr if Hip nliraai ' rcjlmo' n m! to vim I rrRlme do I iiM('i)l refer." 3 .lii"t vl.ere ! Maten Kin ml? 4. WIhiI Is President UlNun's poHioi i N HiML'Cy A. Tun idir.ihr. nr knoun to errr Amu 'ltucMt tn t'.u (uurHe uf human tttiti.1 mm "Wo, tlie people or the l Mint. i 'i uliut (lorunifnu ot i ore it? G. tn u h it t.t'e fif the I iiKed SUtrt 1 i ii Hour ArrniihopH reHlile? . Uhat U the t'tle of the ntTIrer Mho acton te.iucr ur uie lloiiho or l.oru.7 8. 1 1 on uftpn U Ihu piihiin tnkrn? 1). An nnrlV'it nltilpi U punrtrf tn ' Jnripnl rniuh tcrther In the broad J thin un mtifTrrn it(lilctf rould nu le.m ANMinilni; tint the rrrord Ii f rctt. .nut oim iimtlnn of I ins phenom tuuir.ui.i mjRKeiH itsfir; 10. Who m rrrs uml lion fliould tfa b no pronui:mcJ Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1 I. Lufiucttp f2i:ch( In the battle of the Bran nine 'i AInrle Antnlncttc as nn Austrian. :t. I'olh ns I'relc!fnt 1HI5-I0 4 Keclitrathin September II or Lt quallBnlj otLT tu wto In the prlnurr rwn e;)inirier iv ,nu trie jrenfrai tin ofm'jcr 0, A. '"I.c limit' m.rnn (lin frUndi." Trent It elide the ln-t letter o iiltX' tnuhl Iute honmled II Up thUt "UT p"j mee.M JJ.it tho true il inatloo ptm inril Iti fh'tt Ifntirl ll.tvln. I'lnlnc Lrf rorr-iMindiit. .iiireptttiii tli ue tf rt tieneral rerhlnc who Imlumfd It" roou iiKuname. . TlKimnH IJrirl;rtt ("Tom") Reed, of,U :iw fieeied neaner of Hie iioue iku.i ana lH'JT. 7 ChrfMopher ColupihiisN nachlti wai I uruei ..intu :urLi. K, The Ire tire the edimrnt, or Artu.i N tint U. A premier lerform.uue fornmnre. 10 "I Bet 530 cA and rnkri." In thtr slanc. uonlrl menn thut much ft ulth food thrown In, THE AFTERMATH OF THE FE AI.THOrcil the Philadelphia Tories I XTL lleed that the recall of Ueneral Ho ai official blundering of the worst V London saw the matter lu Iti true 1 mill DlftfA.l n .l.n l.tl.illt.lllU flr-lltltl reel-. 1 In America, of course the conilemmW of the Ml3chlan7.a wa3 ien more Inws Xlen who had half starved at Vallty F railed at the rich folk uho had dined I wined tho Htltlsh oflicers In the w, and unrlnc of 1T7T-S. Thev heard discust that. In the Mlsclilauza fet ' Mav 1 R. whilA ihtt Atnat-lnmi Roldlert f lecupera.lriK from their awful winter, ft covers were laid, with 1200 dUliei. "Ouke" Wharton'H ruanlon. Toward I end of that fet a herald and his tr ers had appeared At the toa to the KIiir all the " arose and sanir "Cod S.ivb the Wing. lhllo Wnshlnirtdn was viiwlnc to fl&M 1 eer. thoucli ho inlcht have to leadiJ" beaten army to tho mountains of vmWJ Mrslnla to wane u cuerr 1 a warfare" should keep up from generation to Ij linn Until Amorlnn yvn 1-rf.flf AftCf .- supper some of the company ieturnedW"J ballmom, where tho dance continue" " 4 o clock In thft tiHiriitnc- Some Pleni ' nlEht over the wine table, while "" eambled tho whole night Tiwoy at cl" Thus ended this burst of sham eior In thlrlv iI.ivm th 'WitiTlitH" were In ' retreat across the sands of New Itrtjt wun wasn neton m nurauit. " WliAti fJAtiiiPtil Arnnlrl aaQitnlPrl COmH of Philadelphia. It was Immediately reoW by the Krench and American officers Klve a creat hall "In thn voune ladles - hail iiinn!f.Ktrr tliMln ntlni-hnieut t9 cause of virtue and ficedom by ac.r"!a every convenience to the love or ' r-rimitrv ' Tli.t tli.i-a 'Ara uAV-f-ral TttH why the Tory ladles should be lnH too, one or which was that Arm"" fallen Itl InvA Willi rAirev Shlppen.i of the Mlfcfilania ladles, who was a tg inrr toast of the llritlKh officers. xi et invited and soon all Jealous fl But It was not foreotterr by the ol2 lllA IlllttlA hf Urnni.miitri In .1 lllV. P "Tell those Philadelphia ladles whoji tended Howe's assemblies and levcexjJJ the heavenly, mveet, pretty reacoaw. accomplished gentlemen of the eur"1! grenadiers, have been humbled on wi of Monmouth, The Knights or tne Hose and the Burnlne Mount have I their.-laurels .to Jlebel officers, .wli lotm k (ivi uwse.vrrtu
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