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T..S'1 doll-re per year, payable In i ' ifi 'forelcn countries or.e (lit dollar per ... .fei-SubcrlbM wlarmr address chanced BU' w cl(1 w11 as nsw address. KEYSTONE. MAIN J008 KH Sobri.3" 'ommunlfodoi'S fo Ki-rnltio- i . ' ItseiideliCe Bquart, Philadelphia. ' i ears iJUter lH.LMBuP'S ur r 'ic In her rmi.DiLrril roTorrici as ,, sxcoxd-clxss mil. uattmb , in? the "rrost nl,j,pj1,t rrld.y. S.plfn.lr SI. 1917 le clique . . masiwi' PROUD TO HIDE THE ieha.evv TRUTH omely gli 'UUdle. J!NkCome to ts and say: "Why print amriy- fltoenruth about conditions In l'hlla- "hWiT v Whv wnah our dirty linen In 4(1 S 37 ' ... I. ,1nnc Knrm tcfttiork 5,lc o uu llofc Beu -lla "w " "iltdljf c3iClty U hae It heralded throughout YeJ-flolrtand th,at Philadelphia la 'corrupt CSV tO tL Mn.nMn'. .!.. mnnlDi ntiil tittle?. ,V are the weapons of partisan politics, contractors rule the town and era- fo ty the money of taxpayers to enrich inselves? Is It not better to put on tew h, , t WttvPcaal nn(1 trust to tlmo lo curo A' ct In all' Let us follow tn Historic ast Impv-rr.Onlteys and 'co In tfn hear no evi. 'think no evil. lit Ull 4 parenP U"l?fa'n"d the stute of mind ? unsuivcs such counsel. It is not new ln de3p:i8 not strange. While patriots ear-old zm t yoley Korge young iCllque tK - . 'who ma danced In Philadelphia with Brlt- clpal anders, anc) men of education and note iol the fofed" the theory that tho Contlnen r'r fo an assemblage of hoodlums not untenanced or Indorsed by people .i," i,.ans and culture. But what those th wlillerom Vajley Korge did changed the - -les of continents and prepared the Tid for the alliance of many nations ila day and generation to preserxe i k X.rrintcrnatlonallzc the principles those KloUi iJiums" fought and died for. There of en w Bhut thelr windows when hoi. t passed through Chestnut stieet !MrfC'f''' to 'lls flrst lnauBuratIon at CU. Jigtpn because their oes, they nl'nej 'could not stand the sight of him j Ahey dl(l nt wish the atmosphere In f C. In frl' Le fnm c"i tfley lived to be polluted. But ' lyiof those men finally died in sup- 'l. Mhen"'rtne Po'lcles fathered by Lincoln, Miie mimany of them lived to bow their 'fin- snij when the body of the murdered isMler It. r'was returned from Washington 3 A "fruit Jast r?stlnS place. "Vho ever cured Inen shower,ease by looking it It and doing noth- Hi', k tlnrL ur sreat men have not feared to jailf delle,ose social cancer when they found it, 3. aP exciso " Tlev wero Brest bo l!j tleauie they did not fear to bring the ""' keil truth into the daylight 'j,ttA'niJ wny should we, who Know und the Sdi'e, Philadelphia, fall In our duty to re- tt how to ye the stains from her raiment? Para na open 4A,, fedie lth a ing the President, we say that there Itch, and It i ,h a thing as a city being too proud The. J'atternjfraia, Bucn a tnm& as a cUy belnK rTarrv!Ud t0 hldB ,ta fauUs 8Uch a thlnB Iking- of llp)iy b8,nB so glorious in the sum these jjjlta achievements, that it can ex- ylvis stilch ff political vices to all the world jlialf-doublgik merit, not demerit, by so doing. V off thB the redetT,PUon ot Philadelphia le wt.tea has become a national problem. n the frofe shamed not by our efforts to be made , popular government, but only by -."''"llure to do so. It is not those who ""ue trlmr . if tltcbesut BSalnst Intolerable conditions ' el one incbjlB,dlsffrace " the community; it rirjth whltpwho bring about those conditions tirork t'Snspfro'to maintain them. Tlda ever? wiu. .. I Prestige of Philadelphia requires tvl rpwe f cV &Xry- ratewasn' ThB fame ot tne C"V does ?" h,n 't on a foundation of lies and fraud. jpp$?tTO 'arn k, ancient and sturdy, on one ""fT"r? ""'whose trunk rot has set In. She Import '"i ' ..... , . , Ward if ?vn- iijij10 doctorlntT. in a political The -'-"- ?-'--"iB ,a eoins to get it. Pitiless avenue" workJWand more pitiless publicity Is on .ii'-i' '"'J IrAn rrt ,tla sunlight that kills the tuberculosis. The truth need e fully appreciated by citizens to rise In their might, as they ne before, and drive the corrup- .out. Certainly no newspaper devoted to the service of the com- r jwlll fail to do Its duty and expose t iBgr need to ue remedied. JSK)N AT THE FRONT '"t sea vision in the trenches. tlmea a, wellducated jnan. in no. "sees life steadily and tees perhaps for the first time, nnrt poem Jater to be quoted around rid. Borne Imes a plainer man liwace . a woman and -writes I Istte iui this qne to the New Yprk Ir. I years front, nav.r toaflort with mother or i wr oeran. Twice very tbanVfuii i 4 M dmHfcer xu fiti4 " aaaaaaj Of rn.iil ' - '-f?; SS4.1 oijaai iaTefj in. flBBatSBK theaCJr ifflg (rJaVW onoaaai heVasST SBBan 'CsflsK nro MsW WltBtY rr If only by existing. "Some lady," three thousand miles away, whom he will never see, this man would have speak to him a, tho representative of all her sisters. The trench Idealizes woman, teaches through her that tho war has a meaning, as Dante learned through Beatrice that all life had a meaning. It Is not gushing sentimentality that produces these ex changes of letters. Every woman who knits a sweater la sending a message to some one. CLEVELAND TEACHES A LESSON WIS WEUE able to publish yesterday an authoritative account of the transit situation in Cleveland, written by tho Secrotary of War. Mr. Baker as a citizen and later as Mayor of Cleve land took a prominent and active part In the achievement there of existing condi tions. A three-cent fare with universal free transfers does not fit In with the pro posal for slx-ccnt fares and exchange tickets in Philadelphia It will be noted, too, that in C1e eland the adjustment of fnres Is automatic and not dependent on the findings of a State commission. The control of the system Is vested In City Councils and an official corresponding to our Director of City Transit. The car riders have averaged for six years an annual saving of $4,000,000. They have paid that much lest than they would hae paid under a five cent rate. It Is not necessary to draw deductions from the experience of Cleveland. Citi zens can decide for themselves Just what the lesson Is for Philadelphia at the present time. THE BATTLE OF ATTRITION THE hurricane of fire that Half has hurled upon the German lines In a new offensive cast of Ypres need not bt expected to jleld much ground. Ground gaining Is no longer the chief aim of the Allies. The destruction of enemy de fenses and combatants with the least pos sible loss to the Allies Is the prime neces sity. Geiman ieseics are neat ing the vanishing point The grim mathematics of attrition cannot go on forever. A na tion that Is calling upon flftcen-year-old lads to olunteer must soon consider an other btralghtcnlng out of Its lines In "stiateglc ictreat" In order to hold any lines at all. On each side the actual number of men in the trenches at any one time Is about the same. It is superioiity In num ber of resenes that counts. Already the English and French leserves far out number tho Germans, and every Ameri can regiment that goes to France In creases that resei e margin. Vivid proof of the scarcity of tioops Is glen by the failure of the Germans to do anything more to distracted Russia than stage a theatilcal occupation of Riga. For, If it has heen the Prussian policy to encour age pacifism In Russia bv refraining from attacking hei, why was Riga taken? Ana if that policy has been abandoned, why Is not the whole Russian line attacked? The natural answer Is that theie are not enough German lesenes to do more than barely hold the lines east and west. ALL THE 10,000,000 DRAFTED WHEN the President said "universal liability" he meant It. Every one of the 10,000,000 drafted men Is drafted, and there was no gambling In lives when the numbers were diawn from the Jar. The War Department has Just empha sized this fact b lequestlng funds to provide for a total force of 2,300,000, and It is said that plans look forward to a possible total of 5,000.000. On that basis, with those Justly eempt thrown out, every able-bodied man of -the 10,000,000 whose family can take care of Itself will have to serve, whether his number was the first drawn or the ten thousandth. There Is no favoiitisin In the draft, not een the faorltlsm of 1'ortune. THE TAMMANIES "rOES not everj American feel that L' assurance has been added to our hope for the future peace of the woild by the wonderful and heartening things that have been happening within the last few weeks in Russia?" asked Mr. Wilson In his war speech. Does not every American feel that as. surance has been added to our hope for the future peace of our cities by the wonderful and heartening things that have been happening within the last few months in New York? It seemed as impossible to dislodge the Tammany autocrats as to dethrone the Czar. To many it j.eems impossible now to dethrone Pensose, McXichoI and the Vares. But it Is possible It Is possible by keeping everlastingly at It. It Is pos sible because anything that men believe is possible does eventually come to pass. But they must be ma i. Docs any one suppose that If Joha Punoy Mltchel had been a Philadelphia)) he would have put up with this nonsense ' The respectable New York Tammany men are deserting In droves. The re spectable Philadelphia Tammany men will desert in droves as soon as there Is a determined leader. The Vares appear to have won Pyrrhic victory. Weather forecast: Storm, followed by clearing atmosphere. Philadelphia may be excused if it Is getting to be a "terrible tempered Mr. Bang." Maybe the police and thugs were sent Into the Fifth Ward "for strategio reasons." Serious riots are reported in four German cities. The leaven of democracy Is beginning to work. French Cabinet members are re placed with startling frequency; but that is because France insists upon having only the best men available, HJndenburg says that Woodrow Wilson does Germany good. That Is his purpose, as the followers of the Kaiser will discover sooner or Jater. Doctor Stoko-vskl, it would seem. It making the- Philadelphia Orchestra free from, Prusslanlzatlon. At least he Is coins! to give American composers a chance to do their bit this season by Hovmr t"if 1 1 1 1 mm wr jreiaLwe; vj EVENING LEDGER-PHlLAftELX'HlA, FRIDAY, INDUSTRY'S CALL . TO BOY WORKERS Advisory Board Expert Says Demand for Skilled Labor Must Be Met By JANE HILL ATLANTIC CITY, Sept. 20. ORDER to meet tho demand for "I N skilled labor, wc may hae to gle the boys, and perchance girls. Instructions on Sunday afternoons In the arlous trades they deslro to follow," says U..U Miles, chairman of the section on Industrial train ing for tho War Emergency of the Advisory Commission of tho Council of Natlonnl De fense and chairman of the State Board of Industrial Education of Wisconsin Mr. Miles has been spending the week nt the Traymoro attending the War Emer gency Convention of the National Chamber of Commerce, and It was there he consented to be interviewed about the part Industrial education, on which ho Is one of tho finest authorities In the country, will play in help ing soho the economic problems "And why shouldn't children spend their leisure on Sunday afternoons learning some thing that Is useful?" ho continued. "For religion Is applied serIce and doing Is the purpose of life. Etery essential thing Is noble, and Is there am thing finer than teaching children to be useful, happy citi zens? "I remember being In Cincinnati on a Sunday afternoon. A group of bos were being taught a trade, nnd taught in so In teresting n way that another group of boys, who were about lo have a baseball match, were so curious and so fascinated by uhat the other boys were doing that they dropped their bats and came peering In at the win dows to sec what was going on. "Kuropean countries are much in ad ance of us In the care of children. No where In the world, except ' Russia. Is there such a neglect of childhood as In Eng land nnd In the United States. In the city of Munich the children recelxe some reli gious training on Sunday mornings, and In the afternoons they go to the trade schools Fifty different trades are taught In that city. Vocational Training Needed "Vocational education Is not teaching oc cupation only; It la the making of men and women We see ocntlonal education too gcnerallj. In the concrete, wc think of It In terms of carpentry and the machine shop Ecn better than we hao commonly tnught these trades, we must teach that of the butcher, the book printer, typesetter, lithographer, photogiapher. tinsmith, barber, jeweler, merchant cook, tailor, druggist, watchmaker upholsterer, decorator, milliner, garmentmaker, etc English, hvglene, safety and citizenship are common to all student-!. This kind of instruction, and this kind only, should be taught In common "Educated nnd cfTlclcnt mechanics, farm ers salespeople, homeinnkers are wanted for the nation's sake, for the sake of each nnd all ot us. and they were neer wanted quite so badly hr they arc today. "From BO to 60 per cent of the bojs and girls leave school nt fourteen. In the State of Pennsjhanla from 30,000 to 40,000 leave under sixteen with only from a first to a fifth gadc education, nnd the great majority leave because they want to do something. The 'three R'a' ceaso to Interest them. Think how much better citizens they would be If they were taught to do some one thing well, that would fit them for their position in life, not only from an economic, but from a social standpoint as well. No Skilled Men in Jail "Do ou realize that there aie no skilled mechanics In the prisons today? Men with a good Job seldom get Into mischief. It Is the man who lives by his wits who goes astray. It Is the right of every child to be given an education that will make him or her efficient and reasonably happy, able properly to maintain himself and meet various obligations of life and citizenship. lmost as well deprive a child of life as to deprive him of education In the funda mentals of right living, accomplishment nnd social service The children ot our democ racy must have as fair opportunity as their brothers In the monarchies of Europe. "Some of the employers have recognized the economic value ot giving training to employes and setting aside certain hours from their work for study. Unfortunately, the training given Is not always along the wisest lines. 'Th,ose who receive the lowest wages are usually most expensive to the employer, and those who receive high wages bring In most profit to the firm, so skilled labor Is always In great demand, and there should be established In every community con tinuation schools wherein the children of fourteen to eighteen years of age now In the Industries shall be Instructed in the science and art ot their respective Indus tries - nd In citizenship, to the end that such education may be made available as soon as possible to every child who needs It. In fact, there Is no reason why facilities should not be provided so that a man may go to school from the tlmo he Is bIx until he dies. In Wisconsin we have made that provision. War's Effect on Women "One of the big factors In winning the war Is In supplying skilled labor. In the coming Industrial contest with northern Europe for neutral markets our country needs leaders In technical skill quite as much as it needs capital and management. We must teach our boys and girls the dignity of labor and make the study of their tasks so Interesting that they will love their Jobs " ' 'The loss ot so much man power be cause of the war Is going to bring women into the shops and factories to take their places. What Is the section on Industrial training for the War Emergency going to do for them? Is it going to give equal pay for feminine servicer I asked. "Undoubtedly there will be equal wares for services equally rendered," was Mr. Mlles's reassuring reply. "The big problems brought about by the substitution of feml. nine for masculine labor are being very carefully considered. Above all things, we are going to see that the women are safe guarded from any physical defects brought about by the work In which they may be enraged. The three factors, employer, em ploye and the social welfare worker, go hand In hand. They cannot be separated." "And after the war, what then? Do you think there will still be places for women In the Industrial world to which they are now coming by the thousands r was, my parting question. , Mr. Miles regarded me with a merry llttu twlnkl In his eye anal mi, "TMm ) Tom Daly's Column Twenty years ago, before Hurst nnd Lisbon streets were wiped off tho mnp of Philadelphia by the Christian League's effort to ellmlnato the slums, wo know Jimmy Carey as an efficient special po liceman, who kept the mixed pickles of that neighborhood In pretty good order. Ho was guide, philosopher and friend to many a fuzzy-bearded young Interne from tho nearby hospitals, who felt an occasional slumming trip a necessary part of -their education. The denizens didn't mind tho doctors, but they had no love nt all for newspaper men, so whenever wo went hunting for news there Jimmy wont with us and called us "Doc." Wo got Into the habit of carrying liver pills and sundry strong remcdials of like sort wltli us, that we might livo up to our character. After a time wo worked up such a reputation as a healer we got scared and had to quit frequenting tho district. If Mr. Hoover will plcaso look this way for a moment It might pay him to focus his reading glasses upon this: Sir mr daly It would be to ou no trubbla and to all other people maybe Borne good for to make poetry of dees what 1 wheel told you It Is about tony Hcarpono that work for mr tvndale wecth a farm by Frazer Pennsylvania ralerode where he have got plenty pig for make the porco and ships for give the wool for tho make of the pants for the man and the lady the skirt. It Is not of the ships that I would speak for tho ships cat the grass only but It is for the porco that tony Is collecta tho garbbadge. Now It Is like this tony have a strong wish that ho could be marry and he have the girl selecta from town ho is born and he Is send to her people plenty mone enough to brink her with New York but when sho Is come to the New York there Is something sick with her eyes I do not know how you call and she got to go home again Well tony he have hcllof a time to made her peo ple pa back home half of the money he give. Hut never mind It Is alright he say to mr. tyndalo I got a nother one and 1 a in send for her Hut wait I aska jou tony j.ay mr. tyn da. 8 how can vou spend .o much the money for a wife when I know I only pay you 30$ dollars tho month for the wago how much can It cost you to live. Now Is come In the part about tho porco. It cost me about une and a halt dollar the month tay tony nnd mr tyndale say what hnpossable IJut tony say no It Is true when I am collecta the garbbadge I find very plenty food Is too good for the pig and Is not bad for me for look I ask ou am I skinny. So please write a poetry about decs. Your friend, S. ROGGIO. OUR own Henri Bazln passes this back to us from the fiont trenches, where it was written by tho modest singer whoso Initials only are given: HILL 119 A hundred years from now, when summer nights Aie deep and still nbove the dreamy grain, When moonlight on the mossy village roofs Falls In a flood, and whitens lawn and lane, Some lone belated peasant, quick with wine. Or weak of wit, or weary unto trance, Stitggerlng up the road, will see, perhaps, A vision of the curse that fell on France. A hundred )ears ago; the quaking sky Will crash and sigh and moan In agonies ; A fiery tossing host will trample down Village and grain and grove and poplar trees.- Once more the pitted hill will shake and groan; Once more, through eddying smoke and claps of fire, The long thin .ne will struggle up the slope To perish In the thorny webs of wire. And then the sight will fade; the moon will smile As tranquil as before on roof and bough. Only a midnight shudder of the leaves Will stir the hill, a hundred years from now. P. S. M. Pastor One C. King to Save Soles The Rev C King wishes to announce that he has moved his shoe shop three doors east on Aspen street where he will be glad to meet old customers. Hender sonvllle, N. C, Hustler. To relieve the T. D.-um of the colyum here comes a message from our lad Shan felter, who Is "over there"; Et vous, mon cher Boss, comment vous portez-vous ce matin, Tres blen, J'espere. Pardon, M'sleu, but this blamed Under wood has a French keyboard and the above slipped out before I knew It More over, It's no use without the shou.der signals. You may believe me when I say that never did Sarah Bernhardt have anything on the simple v iage maiden of her native land trytp to get Into communication with an eager but tongue tied American doughboy. There are more gestures In the average French sentence than there are "Pauses" In the Congressional Record. Mais, e'est la vie. "And we won't dome back till it's over over here." C. C. S. We withhold our blu pencil from this free ad. baeauaa of our affection for John Blodffett, Philadelphia manager SARA TEASDALE has brought out, through Houghton Mifflin Company, "Tho Answering Voice; One Hundred Love Lyrics by Women," but her modesty, un fortunately, prompts her to leave out her own rich voice. Where Is there a lyric of sweetness more compact than her eight lines, "The Look"? Old Art Samuels has set the gom to muslo and we've heard and read the lines so often we should be sure of them, but -we're quoting from a treacherous memory and this may not be absolutely correct: THE IX)OK Strephon kissed roe in tba sprint-, Robin In the fall, Out Colin only looked at ma And never kissed at all. Gtrephon's kiss was lost In Jest, Robin's lost In plar, Rut the kiss In Colln'a eyes Haunts mc nltht and day. JOE CONNOR reports the discovery pt a near relative of the Toonervillo Trolley In the neighborhood of Camp Hancock, Augusta. A B'en In the car reads: "White passengers ' leave by the front exits." "Now," sez he, "since the rear exit Is only for entrance, can't you see the smoke pouring out of the windows?" YOUNG Nicola was a bit under the weather while the D'Ascenzos were sum mering in Provlncetown and Nicola, the papa, was hard put to it to select a phy slcian for him. The nearest was D, Cof fin, A little further on was J. Fltts. He Anally selected P, Cast, hoping the 0aajajaaaai ' " I J f Lat kkSa far ksiavefaur. aalat a"'i " -s-.. SEPTEMBER 2iv ,;i917 -t HEROIC PRIESTS OF FRANCE Monseigneur Baudrillart, Vicar General of Paris, Tells of Sacrifices Made by the Clergy in Aid of the Soldiers of the Republic By HENRI BAZIN Staff Correspondent ot lie Kt'fntno Ledger in France. PARIS, Sept. 1. MONSEK LAIlT, IGNDL'R ALFRED HAUDRIL- orator and author, Vicar Gen eral of Paris, honorary canon of Notre Dame, rector of the Catholic Institute and Fccond highest dignitary of the Roman Cath olic Church In the French capital, received me today In his study In tho ancient build ing of the Rue Vauglrard, which for up ward of 150 jears has been a Roman Cath olic Institution of learning "I am very proud," he said, "of the part played by the Roman Catholic clergy of Franco In this terrible war. Nearly 25,000 p tests have been mobilized since the early August dajs of 1914. More than 18,000 are now serving the country and the army in one of three capacities, and about 7000 have given their lives for France, "In all, our clergy hao been cited In more than 7000 orders of tho day, and many have lecivcd the Croix do Cuerro, the military medal, and the Legion of Honor, with more than 900 receiving the entire three. I have a fund of personal records, each a story in Itself, that, when time permits, shall be combined Into a book showing the heroic, the simple, the beautiful, the Christian deeds of these ordained men, either under fire or In circumstances of exceptional char acter. Some G5 Years of Age "Educated for the practice of n pacific profession, many ery humble and un known save to their bishops and In their own communities, they have each and all risen to a height of sublimity and Christian heroism; risen In countless ways during the last two and a half years. These serv ants of Christ, and servants, too, of France, are divided into three mobilised classes chaplains attaohed to battalions and regi ments, priests serving as nonoombatants in hospitals or some essential administrative capacity, yet under military Jurisdiction, and the fighting priests In uniform. They are of all ages, from twenty-one to sixty. hve 'The chaplains, or aumonlers, have been constantly under fire, aiding In bringing In wounded men from a field of blood to a poste de secours, consoling morally, mate rially and spiritually the soldiers of France, and performing their religious duties under circumstances without precedent, In many cases celebrating mass In the open or un derground. Their Influence upon the men about them has been high and ennobling from every point of view The fighting priest Is in the ranks, a simple pollu, a noncommissioned officer, or graded. Some companies have as many as four. They exercise a genuine moral Influence also, and as soldiers are the equal of any In other walks of life. Believe Cause Is Just "Both as a Frenchman and a Catholic priest, I am one with them and with France that the war continue until victory comes to the cause of right and Justice to the Allied nations that fight without sacrilege. I say this realizing the essen tial mission of a priest Is paclflcal, to love peace, to guard It, to aid In re-establishing It when It has been ruthlessly violated. War In such caso Is Just, Just for both priest and layman. V 'The maximum Injustice against the citizen is to take his life when he has been guilty of no wrong. But there Is even greater Injustice In ravishing a State, In menacing Its life, because- a .State, un like its citizen, has not the consolation of, a lite to come. Hence when a State Is so attacked the war It wages, in defense of its life is Just and deserves the full sup port, moral, spiritual and physical, of the priest whose mission Is paclflcal. Never since the world's beginning has so great a volume of Justice been with a belligerent as is now the case with France. I support It as a Just cause, as every priest, every soldier, every citizen of France supports It. So wo can sincerely pray God for the success of France In this war. Tou can not sanctify a sin with prayer and you can sanctify Just war. God's own words, sanctlflcate bellum, tell Jis ,so. France Always Christian "Many in forelrn lands had Judred wranm before the war as a nation having censed to be Christian and Catholic. These J many also naa accepiea uermany as me reverse, at least In the first sense. "France has always been a Christian and Cathollo nation. I make this -statement flat, and since It would Involve too much detail of statistics to demonstrate it. to show conc'Juslvely that during the twelve years preceding 19H, despite the separation Of loi sne jxniaincu bu, i nan you iu permit roe to Jay statirtjes aside n4 ) th sitmt purely won WINGS OF FREEDOM the army and their countless deeds ov sacrifice, Catholic devotion and heroism. They have witnessed tho attitude of hun dreds of thousands of French soldiers at tending Christian services, serving at the mass In the open. They have witnessed the true Catholic devotion of tho very great majority of the Inhabitants of France. "And then, Iok without rancor, without passion, upon Germany; see the sacrilege of which she has been guilty; the conduct of her armies In desecrating the houses of God. "Both these things are sufficient. They prove which nation is Christian, which has close to Its heart the greater glory of God. Ad perpetuam rel memorlam. Defend Homes From Thieves "The classic doctrine of the Church Is based upon. In Its application to Just war, four Ideas that combine all theology Jus tice, right, pity and charity. The first Is the deep essential that a war should be Just In Its motive and consequently always a war of defense at tho beginning, as one would defend his hearthstone from the thief that comes In tho night and, after a strug gle, overpowers him. Such we are waging: such our priests are helping to wage, and Tor such more than 7000 among the alumnt nnd student body of this Institute are offer ing their lives. And all these men of whom I speak are Catholic Christians, as are hun dreds and hundreds of thousands of others wearing tho uniform of France Truly then, France Is a Christian country, and In the great majority of Its population a Cath olic Christian country as of old, 'the eldest daughter of the Church." Monseigneur Baudrillart Is a prollflo and able writer. His books number more than -00 upon many subjects, among which moral philosophy, moral science, the Church and the history of the Bourbons rrom m, perspectives predominate. His literary work has been thrice laureled by the Academie Francalse. and he has been horfored by the Kings of Italy and Spain for literary merit LAND TORPEDOES The submarine torpedo Is the most de structlvo weapon of the sea. Then why not a land torpedo? a cheap vehicle could be made to carry a hlgh-exploslve mine a huge shrapnel, or a missile which would be a combination of both. Where necessary EVW?.th Vf Cle Wlth tn5ar "wheeta LWh a wlre"cue'- nd dispatch to ward the enemy, over shell craters and through entanglements Into the oppos" g UCHeS- 7re th8 char could b.S! oiaseedd?ntdoohbuvrnn PrPerty w,thln fT?iinrilr.lnffor ,hls pIan S Felix Sabah, of Philadelphia, whose Idea, as he has con ground of "No Man's Land" being flat ordinary gasoline automobiles of small size' are used. In them the charge Is carried consisting of.about 1000 pound! of !"ortvt mounted on the crutch-like frames The firing wires, which lead back to the el .!, frnltlng colls, project from the rear. The outposts telephone the order to Are The rtEctL,t0B pr'"ed-the" lastly de! And the enemy? Has he no defense? No Aouht . HI -M.T'" "" 'en.' and blast huge craters. Caterpillar wheels however. tvnnM h . -i-i. ?' r w"eeis. . m..Vi.: " ""'. ?"'"-riUCT? carriers nt:i rnnnraia, coming the craters. The use of nercuaainn caps which would Ignite the toriedJ H on striking the walls, would be one way f smashingthrough them. y or . ust forget that once we am get ifViftfdJ,Mith,M th; rMt wl easy. If nothing else can be used, timefuses sunt" 0ft th Char" at the PW S" The other military considerations In Tolyed In the practical application ot the project are much more simple. There will be no difficulty In constructing the ihrht type of automobile that would be required In fact, the' plan would provide the means S..BLTl.nc J"a?y an, ""fluted automobile whjoh Is about ready for the Junk heaD its opportunity for making Its last eatriflce. From the shipping point In Europe th men' of the "Land Torpedo corps" could each ride an automobile directly un to h front, thus relieving the railroads of ih burden. Here the torpedo charges could be mounted, tests could be made and every thing could be planned for a concentrated assault To launch the torpedoes on this drive, competent officers would have to set and lock the steering gears. Throwing open a clutch from the rear of the machine the automobile leaps ahead audaciously, 'The Tltal parts being armored, the enemy will umM (0 damaf It mvi ly when ts r K ..n Nitfr ,-, I ,- What Do You Know? QUIZ 1, What well-known enlftode of the Apocrypha linn formed the- theme of piny, poem and motion picture? S. Who Is the Snnllsh Minister to the United Males? 3. What I the fierman Crown Trlnce's un official nutnc? 4. One of the lnreeat maaonrr structure" In the worlil Is In Hlerra County. N. M. It forms part of nn Irrigation aystein of Rrent extent. Yihat Is the structure's niune? 5. Tihat portion of London has been noted s u residence renter for artists nnd literary men? 6. Does the t'nltrd Rtfltes GoTernment main- tnln lerer colonies? 7. Yiho was Andrea Orcarna? 8. Nnmo two hlatern who ncltleved nlmont equal repute In Kncllsh literature. I). What Is il "Nam llrowne belt"? 10. In musical nhrnseolory what Is meant by n cljisade? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Marda lamp tike their nnmn from Aliura Miizdn.. th IVrfclnn mil nf llsht. Mtab- llftheil ns the supreme deltv by ZoroaMer. Krnhaestiis was tho Greek sod correspond- ini nff to the Itoman Vulcan. The present ruler of Monaco Is Frlnce Al bert. 4. Alaska, now n portion of Amerlcnn terri tory, vi as once owned by KuHln. 5. "Jerusalem Liberated." nn epic poem. It the chief work of the Italian poet Tasso. He lived from 1511 In 1S0S. 6. "Philadelphia Maneto" ("Let brotherly lore continue") Is the motto of this cltr. 7. Salnt-Cyr is the Trench mllltHrv academy correspondlnc to our West Point. 8. The Doc Star Is also knonn as Slrlus. 0, Thomas Nasi was nn Amerlcnn tartoonlit whose drawlncs were lanrely responsible for the overthrow ot "the Tweed rlne." 10. Tortla. In Shakespeare' "The Merchant ot Venice," said: "God made him and therefore let him pass for a man." IN A CAVALRY TRAINING CAMP A cavalryman must learn to drlvo by the pressure of his legs so both hW hands will be free to fight with, for a cavalryman Is a regular armory all to himself He car ries a pistol, a rifle and a saber, and he must bo able to use them freely without being thrown from his horse. There's something very romsntlo about the cavalry, something very thrilling about the thunder ot hundreds of horses' hoofs, something that makes one's heart leap with joy or terror, or a mixture of both. For myself, If I were "the enemy" I believe I'd much rather face a maohlne gun than a cavalry charge. But somehow the cavalry has not proved practicable in the present war, and as France and England can fur nish about all that might be needed, most of our cavalry are to be mads into artillery because of the great need of artillery. In fact, all the new cavalry regiments are to be trained as artillerymen, while the old ones are being trained as Infantrymen, al though they will all keep their designation as cavalrymen. This gives them a double dose of training for they must be able to drill equally well afoot or on horseback as well ka a double lot to learn. But they all Insist, to a man, that they're not Infan trymen or "doughboys" and "leather necks," as they derisively call them but "dismounted cavalry." And so be It, since they ore so terribly proud of their branch of the service and so loyal to It, There 'were fully as many, or more, of these "dismounted cavalrymen" up on the hills going through regular infantry drill as there were cavalrymen astride horses hundreds of them, olive-drab units march ing, marching everywhere among the wheeling, circling horses, making one dizzy Just watching. And standing about on lone prominences were various officers, silent, alert, their horses like statues jf statues could switch angrily at files their keen eyes watching, very critically, this army of these United States grow, picking out the mistakes and flaws in underofflcers and men. It gave one a strange, comforted feelinf a strange Impression ot a -determination to see to It that all these hundreds of boys were perfect In all the tricks of the Jrade so they could take care of themselves. And how young the most of them seemed! Slim, smooth-cheeked boys, their faces Just grow ing up to the square manliness of their trim shoulders, for the cavalry takes younger boys than any other branch of ihe service. Mary Woodson Shlppey, In South' ern Woman's Magazine. IMPROBABLE STORY A man In Memphis who wished to escape the draft, according to a special dispatch from that city, told the authorities there that he was one of the crew of the Ger man raider Kmden; that he was with (that daring craft while It was playing havoo with British shipping and got separated from it In a Porto Rlcan port, where- he overstayed snore leave. The Emden October 2S. 1914. destroyed tho Russian cruiser Zhemtchug and the French destroyer Mousquet In the harbor of Fanantft It operated only In the (Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean, destroying much, liritisu commerce, un PtovemDer iv, 1914. It was destroyed by an Australian cruiser In those waters. It was not within 10.090 miles of Porto Rico. nOBir hmw a9ut m ifc p?j, .v'ji' eaMaaah aBBaaafiaaEraBaViaap ' 'aw C IM IMS. ia.''ana tt vmmtof tw'w & u ajrttneHM ttKttflMMHe v ) OK.tr, . . f i 't Tr ; TLTDfTi
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