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London Timet SUIIftCIUl'riOS TK11M1 The KrtMNO IVniu I.Rinni l serv-d to null frlb.ru In rhllad.lphla and surrounding town at the rata of twelve (l-! nt rr wk. pa) aide to tha carrier. . Itr mall to points outside of Phlla leltihla In tha United Htatea. Cnnada or Unite 1 Ntatea i a'aalona, pnitaae free fifty nftl rents pr mon.tn l (!) dollara per rnr, parabla In adirince To all foreign ountrlc one (HI dollar per month. NnTICK flubarrlbera mailing dd" han-d mut give old a well an new address BELL. S000 WALNUT kKYTOM MAIN V0 CT i(tIrr oil commiiHfcoflom lo Firulvn I'uMtc J.rifijrr, larfrprailrncr Snnrr I'Mfiidrfnwia rNTCTtn at Tiir pinunrtiiiu i"T oilier aa ascosu itaaa Mail, MTTit. PhlUdtlphll. tlorJij, Apill SO. IMS LIBERTY DAY IT IS difficult to summarise ttuths so great and so various as thoe to which universal attention Is ln Itetl bv the Prcsl dent jn his proclamation which de-lgnutes April 26 as Liberty Day and an occaslo i for special Interest In the Libert Loan. The home keeping man might ark mm self. 'on Liberty Day whether he has .in actual concern with all thoso men who turned from the easy w'ajs of i a e to stand between him and a consumltiK lire Ho mlRht B8k himself Whether he Is toady (o declare, In his inner consciousness a brotherhood with the men "who loi.tlj. died," smiling, at their nuns until the enemy flood passed oxer them Or, If his Imagination Is not adequate to realize the higher meaning of the Llben Loan, It might occur to him to wondci whether he Is wlso In a failure to lnest his money In the safest and most profitable of securities and thus to provide for his own prosperity In the future peace which the sacrifice of others will ussurc for him Perhaps If spies wno tried b iouri martial they would no longer bo treatnl as our honored guests WE ASK FOR WHEAT AND GET A LAW THE rejection b the House of the ben ate amendment to the agricultural ap propriation bill fixing the price of wheat at $3 50 a bushel does not bring uh any nearer a fair price The House thinks that $2 20 Is enough The Henate proposi tion for a higher price Immedlatelj led the farmers to hold their wheat out of the market All discussion of price iKIng has the same effect. Tarmera will not sell If they think that the prco Is going up They ought not to be expected to sell No other business man sacrifices a prospectie profit even In wartimes We are told that wheat cm be raised for $2.20 and that no higher price th.U Congress might fit would Increase the acreage this year1. That is true at this tune, for the wheat is all planted Uut it wae not true last fall. A single Instance will shqw how untrue: A Delaware farnur had 300 acres plowed and hnrrowed ready to puL In wheat, but the price then fixed by the Goernmcnt was so low and labor was so high that he could not raise the crop and come out ccn He planted some thing else We ask for wheat and the Government 1 giving us a law "What hao I not done to pieacrve the world from these horrors?" tho Kalsei Is said to liae asked ns he looked oer the battlefield In I'lcardj. Ask us something hard, Billy, That is too easy AFTER THE WAR ONE thing certain Is that Philadelphia will be a vastly changed city after the war. The great4 concrete piers which the Government Is to build as part of an em barkation station at a cost of 520,000,000 'will be devised for future as well as for present needs The new shipyards will hum endlessly, since all the ships that the submarines have sunk will have to be re placed. Nowhere In the world Is there a community so likely to be permanently stimulated by the aftermath of war Meanwhile the war offers us things In finitely more Valuable than all this, Infi nitely more important Kvcrj where in Europe the men of the armies our own and the others, as well as the n embers of the civil population are demonstrating a Dew devotion to high principles Eveiv where in the world a new Idealism, a new con cern for humanity and common huma-. alms. Is reconstructing tho minds of men It we are unable to readjust our own minds, if -we are unable to soar or fight or strug gle to higher standards In ethics, Jn poli tics and In all thoso relations that con stitute, existence, then all else that we shall Inherit from the conditions of war will profit us little or not at all When dealing with women spiea the Government ought not to forget Kipling's re marks about the female of the species. THE GOVERNOR FUDDLES AGAIN "tTTHENEVEn Governor Brumbaugh goes I'Y about tho business pf his personal politics he shows a hand oddly clumsy, Inexpert and ungracious. The discharge of Norman D Gray, of UTest Chester, who, after a service of fifteen years, has been forced from the i'L. a8t t Assistant State Librarian because he rofused to circulate petitions for J. Benny O'Nell, lit disagreeably reminiscent of the episode of Hanking Commissioner Smith, Each man ?an pimlshpd because of scruples which made It difficult for him te become a part of the Governor's politi co! machine, j rumor 1 that the Rev . "llly" Sun oftr fa to campaign In Pennsylvania for r. O'Nell. Thl" H at least an assurance U novel lntrryal In the fining ftght. Ouud&y'p oq3 of ethics requires a afss - gi.yyyy.a,r MR. PRESIDENT, HOW BIG AN ARMY MUST WE RAISE? Tell the People and They'll Do It TXTAN-POWER Is tho specific ngency -1'1 that Is to win the war. Just how much of our man-power we must mo bilize we do not know. President Wilson, who is in the confidence of our hllie abroad, has the infoimntion. He must iaVc been told the number of men "" ance and England arc still nblo to put in tne field. He must have been told how large a force is necessary if victory is to be assured. U is about timo that he took the na tion into his confidence. If there is an urgent demand from the Allies for fight ing men ho ought to say o. If we cannot supply the demnnd without extending the limits of the draft age, he ought to make that fact known. There is no need of letting the Militniy Affairs Committees of Congress feel out public opinion by talking about the subject in the open. We ure committed to tho war and we are ready to fight it to a finish. What we want to know is, how fur we must go. The people do not know now. They have not been told. The newspapers do not know, and if they have been told any thing they have been ordered not to print it. We ennnot i.iise a great army behind closed doors. The people themselves must l aise the army. They must do the fighting. It is their wai, not the war of any little gioup i.i Washington They have a right to know the tiuth and the whole truth so far as any one knows it. Nothing would serve so well to till the nation wit'i grim determination and reso lute courage us a statement from the White House that we must be prepared to send nn nrmy of 10,000,000 men to Europe and must make our preparations accordingly. The Piesident has said that he is dis illusioned, and that the war must go on. This con mean only that he no longer hopes for a negotiated peace, that he has abandoned the optimistic view that Ger mnny can be frightened by the announce ment that we have begun to arm Noth ing but superior physical force can bring Germany to her knees The rest of us know that now, even if we hnd hoped otherwise a few months ago. But how much force is needed? That is what wo want to be told, that we may prepare ourselves for the sacrifice. Mr. Bnkcr can give the President the latest information, but when this was written the President had not seen his Secretary of War since his return from Europe, although they talked over the telephone hardly nn adequate confer ence It ought not to be too much to ex pect that lifter Mr. Baker has made his report to the President there will come a statement from the White House il luminating the whole situation and lay ing down the lines for the guidance of Congress in the necessary work of mo bilizing the whole national power. Mr. Piesident, how big an army must we raise? Tell the people and they'll do it. Only tell us. Mho .Sanscrit professor of llaivjrd ho has been discussing rational tpewrlter Key boards uould be a public benef-ictor if ho could tell us how to get a tjpewrltlst who can spell THE LION'S HEART fTUlEHE was an unnecessaij note of --chagrin and grim sorrow In. the words of General Mauiice, the nritlsh general director of military operations, when he said of the Hrltlsh aimies In Flanders that they nre fighting another Watwloo and waiting another Bluecher The Intimation was of glorj prepared in advance with matchless pain and sacrifice for one upoa whom it shall fall as a matter of loutlne The .nemory of the British In Tlanders will staj like u shining1 banner in the mem ory of all the world so long as the world continues to esteem vulor and fortitude unutterable No Bluecher, no matter how spectacular his advent may be, can ever lessen the wonder of Vpres and Messlifs Ridge and the terrible campaign before Amiens It was the Lion's heart that stood between civilization and disaster in those sleepless dajs, and in the things it endured mado all epics ever written bcem poor nnc futile In origin And it did not break And it was not afraid Was there an nngel at Jlons that turned u rush of German cavalry back from the survl.ors of a desolated British company' Soldiers on both sides say there was. Does Joan ride with her sword before the Trench In their bitterest hours' Trench soldicrd say they have seen her. Tain and loneliness and sacrifice may lift the-o muddy warriors to a new state and to per ceptions sharper than ours Or It may be that they have seen only some sign of the great wishes of the world that nre with them alwavs, some wonderful hope that follows them like a thing of light. Chump Clark is understood to have sent word to thf Governor of Missouri, who is to appoint a successor to the late Senator Stone, that llarkis Is wlllln', not at all discouraged by the reply of the Baltimore convention to a similar message. GASOLINE MOTORED FREIGHT THE gasoline motor Is rapidly Increasing Its claims to glory and general esteem rising to an exalted eminence among me chanical things more rapidly than any other device of the generation On another page of this newspaper the other day It was possible to read no less than fourteen dif ferent advertisements which, with lyric In terludes In celebration of the burly prowess of one or another machine, described a rapidly developing motor-freight system that Is linking Washington and New York and every Important community between. This Is the year of the motortruck's tri umph. War has been made more efficient by means of the gasoline motor. But the things that motors are doing on the battle field are not more notable than their achievements In the arts of peace. The truck lines now established between Jthls city and New York havto relieved business largely pf the hardships that followed freight embargoes. They suggest a new era of convenient freight deliveries. The roads systems of the country were not ready for the truck But the truck arrived nevertheless and will hereafter compel the M.blUhment of good roads'. Thus they wsruiz mannoiii Mneiii8 to an people. fifi '?' -W.W, MM. traffic were made along tho coursos nqw followed by the pioneer motor freight cor ners The trucks are merely following the way of tradition In blazing new vvajs for the business life of the countij The order that the police must be taken out of -politics nugRstn tho famous gibe of Hotspur t Olendower. who boasted that he could call spirits from the vasty deep "Why, ho can I," said Hotspur, or so can an) mnn.'btit Will they come?" SILVER SANITY AT LAST "linilTIJns on economics will point In ' tho future to April 18, 1918, as one of the most Important dats to bo noted In tho history of American financial legisla tion. On Thursday tho Senate passed without a division a hill directing that $350,000,000 in silver dollars In the Treas ury be melted Into bullion to be used In tho piyment of trade balanns at Its bul lion value Such a proposition would have been hooted dowp with derision In 1896 when Mi llrvan wns tunning for the Presidency on a free-coinage platform Tho theory was then wldel held that it was within tht1 power cf Congress to make fifty cents worth a dollar, provided the flftj ?ents wcro silver. We have learned much slr.ee that momentous cnmpalgn, and one of the things Is that the mone) metals are worth their bullion value and no more Tree coinage has Mine gllrnmeilng down the wind with n lot of othei economic heresies The fact that since the war silver has ilsen in initio until the amount of It In a dollar is worth about 100 cents may rr haps hivo mado the passage of the bill a little lazier, but that does not lessen the significance of tho recognition that the real test of tht value of a silver dollar In international trade Is the amount of l!vei It contains The lmmedlutc reason foi the passage of the bill lies In Great Britain's need of silver for India We have the metal and we can use It in paving our debt to British merchants and they in tuin can use It in their Indian trade We thereby conserve our supply of gold The bill fixes $1 nn ounce as the price to- be paid for sliver to b lecolned but that Is about the pres ent market pi Ice for bullion. It was sell ing for S6f8 cents an ounce on Trlrtaj. It has fluctu-ited In iccenl jears between 48V4 cents and $1 18 The. price fixed Is fall nnd is likely to remain so until poaco comes Look oat for Double In Austil.i on Ma 1 That Is the date fixed for peace demon strations bv the fcocl-illsts There nre non socialist Austrian ni do not relish tho pi aspect of Prussian domlnutlon, and they mi) demonstrate also THE GREATEST SCHOOL QnCRETARY BAKER'S reference to the ctliclencj of the training svstem in the new nrmj written Into hli letter of fare well to the men In Trance, was Inspired by an Intimate understanding of the remark nblo work accomplished bv jouthful offi cers recentlv trailed The versatllltj and native ability of the men who graduated at the training camps nre being demon strated dally In a hundred wnjs There is another side to tho matter. The armv cantonments are undoubtedly the greatest schools ever established In America. Kverj man in the new army can learn, whether he wears stripes or not. One learns discipline by enforcing .t, Youthful officers without number who hac entered the ami) fiom the aloof region that used to be called "the higher social plane" are constantly saving that trey learn as much from their men ns the can teach Tho unli ained, undisciplined and unlet tered men who have been thrown Into closo association with their more fortunate comtatrlots are not the only ones who benefit by the unusual condition. They are enabled to perceive tho advantages of svstem and systematic thinking and the Infinite value of books and of n disciplined character At the same time, many of the better educated soldiers and officers are permitted to realizo for tho first tlmo how much of strength, of charm and even of nobllltv often lies hidden under a rough, uncouth and unpromising exterior Iluy another. Patriotism begins in the kitchen jou watching jour garbage pall? Are HlmienburgH tactics In Flanders suggest that he might be spoken of as Hlndcn- No; Say Hrhlndenburjr burglar Mr. Daniels savs that lupr irnirralln? Mr Taft wouldn't hesitate to wear ntir. alls If It would help to win the war. Aye, aje, sir, but are they made In that size? They are still charg It'n In the trig extravagance at lliarsei, Too Hog Island Extrava gance seem3 to be ono of the epidemics of the time. The Mayor has detec- Alas, .obodj-! tlvos to watch his detectives But who will watch tho detectives who watch the detectives? The German navy Is II ho llrrr fttlll boasting that It Doubted Iff has crippled the United States by means of the submarine. Now wo know that the Hun Is crazy. Reports of the food IVronir Aralnj It administration say L'puldo Down that the price of flour has been kept down. This probably means that the price of flour has been brought down as a crushing weight on tho consumer. Nobody seems to know BaUlne Just what the Red Helilngfora Guard and the White Guard are up to In Finland, but as long as they can keep a few of the Kaiser's men bUBy. we're for them. Three baseball dla Real mondn are being laid Koipltallly out In the Bols de Boulogne, the Fair mount Park of Paris, for the use of the A. K F Great days when the American soldiers try to explain the game to the Parlslennes. . We Never Knew Philadelphia Is tha centfj of tha , xoldnh ralilnr induitry of the world. News Item. We knew we were famous for scrapple, Our spring chicken Isn't so bad; Of Liberty we are tha chapel. We've bost-rule and shipyards and shad. But now we've a claim for our booming That says to all others, Q.plehl We're the shrine of that Wet. unassuming AM ftmtaVfe t, tk fpqpu THE CHAFFING DISH J Adventures of a Poet HEARING that tho American Philo sophical Society was in town. Dove Dulcet, our own subeallbcr poet, seized the opportunity to lay before It a problem that had been bothering him. He wroto as follo-ws; .ItncrfcflH i'HoiopMcnl Soclci: Gentlemen A problem, peihaps trifling in Itself, has ngltated mo lately. Is It possible that fate has marked me for Indi vidual persecution? Every time I go to a restauiant I see others getting helr orders correctly filled. But some perverse Inlluenco ssems to sur round rne. I ask for beer and cabbage and I get rice and ralsns; I order chitterlings or beefsteak nnd ns likely as not they surve me with Ice cream and ladnngers Xovv, what I want to know Is, why do these things nhvajH happen to ME? If any one's feet are trod on In n street-cir, why must they alwavs be MINE' If a homoless cinder Is seeking a vacant eye, why Is MY eve always Its asvlum' If in the Inscrutable purposes of the unlvciso, somebody's pocket is to bo picked, why does It have to be MY pocket' Why Is this always ho Will vou klndlv Infoim me as to the philosophical truth In this matter? DOVE DL'LCi.T. rpHIS communication created a sensation - In tho Philosophical Society, which Im medlatclj went Into secret session and appointed a committee to study the prob lem Prof Seneca Shamble, of Harvard, ProftGsor Snlpt, of Yale; Piofessor Twlt tei, of Cornell, nnd Professor Numb, of Princeton, composed the committee The first thing to be done was for these Gentlemen to secure leave of absence from their respective Institutions, as the Investi gation might take some time The studen's of all fiur colleges offering no objection, this was aaslly arranged Wr: Qt'OTE ficoi the lepoit of the com mittee, which Is signed bv Piofessor Shamble Ho says: "Mi. Dulcet's problem is i puicly prag matic ono nnd g!es rise to several Inter esting lines of thought Our first task was to subject him to exhaustive psychical tests to nscertnln whether any degree of hallu cination was present It Is well known that many mlnoi poets are bubject to hysteria nnd delusion at the sight of food. Mr. "julcet passed the tests for vegetables and breadstufffi fairly well, exhibiting only nor mal reaction, but when faced with a well-done beefsteak his blood pressure rose nlnrmlnglj . and when he was blind folded nnd a whiff of beer was passed under his nose his reaction shattered Professor Twitter's sphvgmometcr. This showed us that his condition was ronormil nnc we did not venture to put him through the buckwheat cake tcst- "We found that his pulse showed pe culiar agitation In the presence of baked beans, which he explained satisfactorily, however, by telling us that one of his books of verse had been published In Boston. rpiIK nct step was for the committee -- to accompany Mr. Dulcet to the res taurant which he has been In the habit of frejucntlng We took our instruments with us, viz 1 A Harvaid College beanmeter "2 A low-pressure barometer foi testing the mentality of the waitress "3 A vacuum gauge "4 A pulmotor. ' .i A blood-pressure frauf,e "b Split pea forceps "Mr. Dulcet showed considerable ner vousness ns wo followed him, canning the3e Instruments. At first he seemed tranced and led the way to a low saloon, but then iccoverlng himself with nn effort, he darted up to a policeman and begged to be taken in charge We explained mat ters to the patrolman, and then Mr. Dulcet led us to a restaurant ncarbj. Professor Twlttsr and Professor Numb bat on each side of him, Professor Snipe and I vere across tho table, "We set up our Instruments and ex plained the situation to the waitress, who registered minus 18 degrees on the vacuum gauge "Tho blood pressure gauge was attached to Mr Dulcet's left arm and he held the split pea forceps In his right hand, In case any vegetables should seek to elude him. He ordered beefsteak and gravy "To our nmazement, the waitress brought lentils and a bowl of rice. "We immediately tested her with the split pea forceps and found her condition normal, -pROI'KSSOR NUMB here made some - remarks," savs lrofessor Shamble, "which I Include In my notes. His conclu sions were reached by Intuition rather thin by logical processes of reason; but they seem to possess a certain validity He said: 'The solution of the problem Is sim ply this: It s a vegetarian restaurant No matter how often Mr. Dulcet orders beefsteak here, he will never get It TTWEN so," concludes Professor Sham- -LJ ble's report, "this docs not solve the problem of tho cinder In Mr. Dulcet's eve, or the 1 envy foot on his toe, or the light finger in his pocket TI:o committee feels that It Is its duty not to give up the in vestigation of this curious case until some authoritative data can be tabulated Therefore we have decided to accompany Mr. Duiceti as a kind of philosophic posse, until we can annotate sufficient facts to form the basis for accurate speculation Not until some definite law can be oV served to underlie apparently random phe nomena may any conclusive hypothesis be advanced" IT IS sad for science to have to lecord that after leaving the restaurant' Mr. Dulcet, by the exercise of supreme In genuity, escaped from his committee of philosophic analysts. He cried with a loud voice as they were passing a news stand; "Look I The latest copy of the Hlbbcrt Jovrnall" And while the profes sors were scrambling for it the poet leaped on a train for Obesity and was gone. SOCRATES. Circus Is coming soon, circus posters to appear sport. Waiting Tor the Is our favorite AH the canons of newspaper English would be shattered If a yieloiu resort were call aBytbln bv a "den." u FOR WE MUST NOT SLIP ! J Ills -'- "'--U!--.. ""-J """.,'-,'--4;-. 'X'r.7rfW-r0:. ONE INCH TO THE MILE By Simeon Slrunsky TN T JLwar THBSIj nervous das we need more ar experts like Williams Williams said he failed to understand why so many per sons should be downcast about tho situation on the west front "If we were onlv nssured about the British reserves and Foch's army of maneuver,' I ventured 'Reserves and maneuvers have nothing to do with It," he said 'The trouble Is that persons fall to read the oHlclal bulletins In connection with tho nature of tho terrain" ' Vou mean the lay of the land? ' I said 'Well, perhaps jou might call It that' Williams said, 'but I prefer to speak of terrain It conveys the Idea more precisely. How many persons do ou Imagine take tha trouble of looking up on the map tho terrain around Bnllleul, not to mention the topo graphical features and the contours " He thought a moment and repeated "contours." not without a certain touch of pride Such a study of the map would show how uttcrlv Inconceivable it is that the Gcimans should wla." "It's splendid to hear jou say that." I replied, really encouraged "But as a matter of fact I have been looking at the map And what does It show' I.ook at that awful bulge from where the Germans started a week ago" "I call It a rotten imp ' said Williams. "What right have they got to spread a map all oier tho page and make ever ineaslv advance by the Germans look like a hundred milts? And besides, docs it sho-v an thing of the terrain, or of the topography, or the contours'' I had to ndmlt that it did not ' Bxactly, ' he replied "Now let us look nt this map of mine, which does show ou tho terrain and the contours " And ho unfolded an enormous chart, which he must havo bor rowed from a friend on Halg'B general stafT "Hut see here," I sild, ' this map Is bigger than ever. It must be nt least an Inch to tho mile; and seo how tho German salient would stick out" "I use this map only for tho terrain, he said "For the distances covered by the Ger mans I consult Rand & McNally's vest pocket atlas " 'Oh," I sild "Now, look at the lav of the land here around Ttailleul Pardon me, I mean the terrain Here you have a cnain oi neignis sweeping around from Messlnes Ridge west ward through Ballleul to Hazebrouck The heights, with a trifling exception, are held by tho British The Germans are down In the lowlands nnd are being pounded by the Hrltlsh artillery You can see how easy ll was for the Oermans In their first ruBh. The had level countr ahead of them Also ihv wre dead anxious to get nt Ballleul, which Is an Important railroad center. But now they have the high land to negotiate, and It's a different stor " "They have got Ballleul. however," I said dismally .. . , "My dear fellow , ' cried Williams "that was discounted several days ago Besides It Isn't railways that count nowadays, but motor transport " Tho reasoned confidence of the man sent my spirits way up. Just one lingering doubt asserted Itself "They have captured Neuve Kgllse and begun to climb tho heights," I' said ' To be BUre," he said "But now look nt tho terrain Between the heights around Dallleul and tho height around Hazebrouck there Is i big stretch of lowland Those flat lands are sodden with the recent heavy spring rains Can jou Imagine the Germans bringing their heavy guns across that kind of terrain?" It seemed obvious that the enemy would experience difficulties In the matter, and I told him so Nevertheless, It appeared to mo that the German guns from the heights might sweep the valley, and under ordinary circum stances defending a lower position against artillery that overlooks it was a rather hard task "Bven with men determined to fight for every Inch of the ground, as Halg's troops are doing?" ho said quizzically. "Can you look at this map of the topography of the country and seriously assert that a British army will run before a Oerman army?" lTrnLU now, run," I said "Who spoke YY' running? We know Tommy will always give a good account of himself. Dut It's this steady bucking process which the Oermans havo been keeping up for the last jfTfcat will sooa corns to s step," be seld. :- "". ' j ' 'J ;" ill. "?." "Look nt the map In this open country the Germans havo been nblc to dcpioy their col umns In solid formation " I was not sure whrtner jou can really deploy an urmv in solid formation, but his finger, resting on a grtat area of green on the map, convinced mo that he knew whit he was talking about "In solid formation," sild Williams "nut here guarding the npproach to Hazebrouck from the west, Is the forst of Nicppe If the enemy should ever get this far ho will find his opportunities for the mohllo deploy ment of bis forces gone It will be hand-to-hand fighting And as between British troops and Germans at that kind of game, jou haven't anj doubt, hive jou, now"' "None 1 1 the least," I said ' I should think not, after a mere glance at the contours of tho region," he said I suggested fighting hard J again against the good cheer which emanated from the man, "this kind of fighting is pretty costlj, no matter who comes out the w Inner, and with the British in Inferior strength " "But look at the railroads" he said 'Here jou have, radiating from Hazebrouck, n sjstem of railwaj lines toward the north, tho south and tho west feeding the British front Halg will bo fighting on Interior llneH, and jou know what that means" ' Indeed I do," I said, "except that the ground seems to bo prettj well cut up with rivers nml canals, which means a lot of bridges and culverts to protect" "If jou think that a determined and gifted commander-in-chief will let himself bo held up by a few streams of water It simply shows that vou haven't realized the geo graphical factors In the case," he said "If he has the men, yes," I said "Of course he has the men," said II llams "And behind him there Is Koch. Look at the railroad lines running up from tho north As many Trench divisions as am netded are now being rushed up, jou may be sure You don't Imagine that a few miles more or less would make a difference to Toch?" ' Whether It does make a difference or not, I believe him fully capable of finding tho waj," 1 said So jou feel confident, Wil liams?" 'Confident Is no word for it." ho said ' Mj dear fellow. I have spent long nights over this map, I have been over every Inch of the terrain, all these blessed flatlands, hills, forests, railroads, rivers and bridges, nnd It Is simply Inconceivable to mo that France, Great Britain and America should go down before tho Kaiser." "Williams," I cried, "I only wish we had a lot more war experts llko jou," and I In sisted on shaking his hand At the door he turned and came back ' There Is ono additional factor In the military situation I have overlooked," he said "When we havo oversubscribed the third loan, as we will, tho map will look better than ever The point is not to glvo v ay to the blues, but to read the bulletins carefully nnd watch the terrain, especially the contours " Copyright. The Dead of the Revolution When the revolution In Petrograd had got on Its way. says Florence Harper In her book, "Runaway Russia," Just pub lished, the bodies of the victims of the revo lutionists and the police began piling up In the morgues, churches and the public build ings. One mortuary chapel the author vis ited was almost entirely filled with frosen bodies, each body doubled up or crumpled Just as it had fallen, the men's bodies with out their boots, which had been stolen. People were coming In searching for relatives The author continues "I stood there watch ing, when a man and two women carne In. They searched among the bodies for a while, and then the man and one woman went out. I looked through the window and saw thtm standing In tht courtyard, crying. The other woman kept on looking and finally she found what she sought. It was the body of a joung girl, n girl who must have been very beautiful because, even bloodstained and dirty as It was, one could see that her face was a more refined and gentler type than one usually sees In Russia. With the help of a soldier, the woman pulled the body free from the others and found a place for It on the bench. Then she went out I followed her. The man looked at her She Just nodded Then suddenly tears came Into her ey, and ehe said, 'But she looks so ypuwr Jrt l a baby I' jp-ri. ju " -i.i 1SiSfm v. J?1 w v vJ7Ir" LJ"L CT IV - - . -TTInf5eJwaBsiis :-" - (.-- -" "- . " """. J The Sacrament of Sleep . a yl Thank God for sleep ' And, when you cinnot sleep Still thank Him that jou live ' To lie awake And prav IIIlll of His grac" Av hen He sees lit sweet sleep to give Tint vou may rise, with new-born ees J To look once more Into Ills shining fac, in sleep limbs all loose-laxcd and sllpt thea enains We draw sweet-close lo Him from whom our breath Has life in His sole hands we leave the III fullest fnlth trust Him for life oca death This sleep In life close kinsman Is lo dea,h! And, as from sleep vie wake lo greet the day.a bo, too, from death vie shill wltn Joy awake To greet tho glories of the Great V.fsay ' To His beloved healing sleep He gives And, unto all. awakening from sleep i.ucii uny is resurrecuun 11 wi inru j To nearer heaven and re-ireated earth-3! To nil Life's possibilities of good Or 111 with jojs and woes endured Till that last shortest sleep of all, ; And that first great awakening from LlfM thrall Thank God for sleep ' And when jou cannot sleip Still thank Him for the gran That lets sou live To feel tho comfort of Ills soft embiace, John Oxenham. in ' The Tlery Cross. It mav be ivonderJ. vinr villi fall when the nlasttr t Than I'laatrr gins falling from,ltl. walls t ruy nan. uhpthpr Kntf uim HUulmtPfl with MtVOI Smith because he couldn t read the hand writing thereon Oi'Laslonallv we feel The .Snnie Here i em irks the Ohio btate Journal, as converse who ovsi prominent military experts, llko boldly taklnf! the position that perhaps old Hals knof vi hat hen about Social Hanpcnincs in Pleasant View-. Harvey Stager and Irvln AVeaver took a auto ride on Sunday evening in .nr aunn tj nut0 nr. 1U .l ll,u llfirvnv Wimr 01 l"' I .,' . iT-An.A attrndtl marcs, ann miss winy ,,:..." --( church services at St John's ReforroWJ Ctiurcli, t-cuanon, on aunoay emu , Mrs J. Harry Brown was a caller at JM, n, i. u n.i fsemtf-h thp klndntM, XJIUUUIl 1 trmuvm. V Him u,-"- KAftSl of Mr. Amos Gingrich she was taken KJ to Lebanon In his new Dort touring car. . a vr i.. 1.n... tf,,Hcilrr lit I1CZI air una ius .ti'initniii ,........-. -r Halfway, visited Mr and Mrs Grant uuni on Sundaj Lebanon Dally isews What Do You Know? 1 QUIZ 1, IMio founded Mnirland? vii.... i. ,. Mi, tn.. of I.lhrrtjr Iixatra. 3.' Dlntlncidtli lietween (lie correct and Inforrf in of "locnte." 4. Mimn Ilie author nt "Tne rw- ,i 5. When la tho clonlnr date for najmepl '. ronio laxr (I, Identify "the najou Mate." 1. Where l SlMnlnes Itldnf 8. VI ho wer the Cruuder? a ilk. I. h. .! nf llerbf? 10. What 1 an oratorio? 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