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M.y 15, MIS y4' WILSON AND HINUENBURG "JliOYD GEORGE'S assertion that Wilson wJLJ.and Hlndenburg, America and Ger- Erawtny, are at this Instant In a grueling fieer, or nerve and sinew to swing victory i-e vay or another mny properly have KfcMeazed those who read it. fegAetually, the British Premier did not Sjnean that the other Allied armies are at Bjny serious disadvantage. His reference Pwa3 to the newer strategy of the war. ISjWhat he riad in mind was the newer determination for swift, sure and over- Wheimlng victory, which has been borne MM Virion thft rnnerlnntKpea nf nlt-IIWrvMnn K?lf VteAltfrK raf avn.rt.tii lwlfli Vi vlrtlant insanities of the German In diplomacy,' f?tBthe air and in the field. Svf, There must be no further mistakes in S.tlie, ,AHJed strategy, no further risk of rTdefeat. ,Thls is why the Premier's plctur iWBeque sentence actually suggested the bald truth of tl)e situation. There was an epic aiJLdness In the easy phrase. Europe has s8Tifferd. Europe is willing to see us go XMrj'.'and decide the finish of a war that it KfiHaa, carried on with matchless courage jryana sacrince. ine occasion is too serious ij"lYr thoughts of mere glory. NWell. America has never failed in any P (enterprise that reftilred strength nf body ana soul. v e nave never lost a race, though we have run some hard ones. Commencement commences earlier than ittaual this year. iTHE WONDERS UNDER THE LID srratB War Department has lifted the lid iiii ,-"oln Its army transportation activities jgjUld let. us see what Is beneath. Sffijt, tells us that .800,000 men are now in sFrance, that 1,000.000 will be there on rJuly! af?d that they are going across at Ktfca rate of 150,000 a month. yt'ru.w average 01 .wuu on a snip and Sthla 'means that fifty transports a month HB-'Wre. crossing the ocean. They are not B&awUlnE separately, 1jut In vast convoys; r?yer tney are going at the average rate of MlMriy two every dav. nrorfiirlnir lhnt iirldce of ships of which we have heard tinuch. hNo nueh stupendous transport of troops fwas ever before attempted In the history SOt, warfare. If no other evidence were .AValla.hlA. the) Rlirrrfit: nf thfe rvr-Aot mnv.. stKf," . : " ""r- ffjiBeru wouia prove marine uerman sub LArine camrjalcrn has f.il1frl. nut thie io thinly the beginning. ,Perhaps the attacks on Hd Cross hos- U1b are the only way the Kaiser has of ! the morale of his troops down to the iuiretl Prussian zero. f(.TESTING THE LIBERTY MOTOR riGHEIt In the, air than any Congress- PX''' '" .w....w u, ma lyings Ol iiHterla, to altitudes which no temnera- "-.man ei'r I'antitra rn .1... ...I . fBnul sculptor may reach even by a lively HKlffielnat!on, went the Liberty Motor In the l.'jjrt'rtW flights over the mail route be- .iwreen Bustleton and New York. oThe' 'engine, drove a heavy mall machine jfKj about a hundred and thirty miles an eur through fog and rain. Those who IrJieard'the Liberty Motor come bellowing Ifyer the landing field say it didn't seem Hke b motor, It might have beeh the wild Mcrt.of tempest tamed for the moment to w".J)e,; amiable business oj carrying people's itrii and tneir invitations to dinner. tffijteutenant isawara Klllgore, who drove MM first mall Jilane equippf d with the new ijqr. preaicifB xnai in a snort time he ijtm'ake the flight between here and TCew cH In thirty minutes. He carried four Bclrea and fifty pounds of sand in the Sine. fijmiat's. for ballast." said - he. "This Hetpr doesn't 'travel at -Its best without a MAvy load. Tou need the sand to hold ffi,4pwnl- i'.,uie lieutenant ana nis plane seem to v(i answered Mr. Borglum. 5,mT . I?"' Ct..... UI.4..I.,,.. V.- V. ,, . ,.. ..c.. .Mii(,ui6 i.n.3 urcjl iiuea wim ete and sunk as obsolete? IDTY CULTURE AND MR. COOKE Ef JAY COOKE, food administrator - Philadelphia, decided that the sugar yjinuai DB.conservea, ne struck at the art, or tne matter in his appeal for' tnce, l'Be miter cried he 'pas my, addressing all men, who are .said V srairai, consumers or sugar, rthlnt". (ln, the mind of Mr. Cooke rwas the Hg that every tat man cherishes a Akiira .fo.be.elfln. The .appeal might urged upon the community that 'eetralnt In the use of sugar t y making all men thin, render life ft't in, trolley cars and theatres In e'le p. and at the movie. It might even IclKMn argued with truth that were I' Ml b aboHehed entirely the world pajonger hayeao. shftnlc from the cto, of, a. fat .roan with diamonds on piurap Angers eating buttered as- admlnUtratfon,, 'knew, tjutt .all raociui. uuui, j-cani va pe anna. Uon.. the colored hatband; r and! the .necJnfie .Muert" ( veu ji'pasaj WHJ ,?., CONSdftlPT OR V6LUNTEER? It It Up to Capital to Decide What Role It Will Play in the IWecution of the War rpO WHAT extent must the Govern ment conscrfpt capital for war pur poses In order to force it to serve the nation as labor is servlnp; it? That the banks are -aware of what is expected of capital was indicated by the remarks of John H. Mason, of the Com mercial Trust Company, at the Penn sylvania Bankers' Association meetinc in Atlantic City, when he said that if they had not co-operated in floatinp; the last Liberty Loan they would have found themselves in the sam position as the railroad men: the Government would have virtually conscripted them. E. P. Passmorc, govcrnorof the Fed eral Reserve Bank of this city, indorsed the views of Mr. Mason when he said nt the same convention that the hanks must Ip ready to -participate in much more strenuous financial campaiptns. If the State banks and trust companies join the Federal Reserve system they will put themselves, in Mr. Mason's opin ion, in a position to co-operate with the Government much more effectively than if they selfishly remain outside of that system. Conditions may arise which will force the Government to bring them into the system. We know what the resources of the nation in man-power are, for when the conscription law was passed enrolling all those between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-onq we were told that there were more than twenty million men of military age in the country. We know that the national wealth is more than one hundred and twenty billion dollars. But few, outside of financial circles, are aware that the banking resources of the nation amount to nearly thirty-three bil lion dollars or that they have increased in the four years from 1012 to 191G by about fourteen billions. This is only one form of the national wealth, but it is the form in which the mobile part of it is assembled, that part which can be used for new industries, for providing capital for enlarging old in dustries and for underwriting wnr loans when such loans need to be underwritten. We have not yet reached the time when it is necessary to call on the banks to underwrite the loans, for the people themselves are subscribing for the bonds out of their own capital. But there is talk of the necessity of "conscripting, capital" in order that it may bo put on the same basis with labor. Now, what would "conscripting' capital" mean? The Government takes a man from his occupation, puts him in uniform and gives him a gun ancj pas him a wage which is not much more than enough to support him. It assumes the right to have him killed in battle that is, to be destroyed. But we should re member that it does all in its power to preserve the man-power of the nation by taking care of the wives and childicn of the workingmen at the front. A cer tain percentage of the conscripted labor will be destroyed, but it is not taken primarily for the purposes of destruction, hut for the purposes of protecting and preserving the lives and liberties of those who stay at home and the liberties and lives of the future generations. It is necessary to take vast sums of money for the prosecution of the war. The sums taken by the taxing power may be likened to the men who arc killed in battle. It is destroyed beyond recall. If the great body of invested capital should be seized, or a large part of it, we should have confiscation and not conscription. But if the Government finds it necessary to use its power to compel the banks and trust companies to lend it money at a low rate of interest it will adopt toward capital the nearest possible parallel to the conscription of the man-power. Capital has volunteered thus far, the capital of the banks and that of the private citizens, just as the mas3 of the men have accepted the draft law as a just method of apportioning the burden of fighting among the population of the different States and among the men en gaged in different occupations and bear ing varying burdens in civil life. The realization of the bankers of what is expected of them, as manifested in the Atlantic City speeches, suggests that capital will continue to volunteer so long as the war lasts. Jfow Is the time for men over draft ago to show tht they aren't too proud to play baseball. JUDGE BONNIWELL"S FIX THEIIE is nothing in the dispatches from Washington to indicate whether the new classification of useless employments Is intended to include candidates for office on the Democratic ticket in Pennsylvania. Yet fate seems determined to make the toll In which Judge Bonnlwell and his asso ciates are engaged" appear the very symbol and essence of superfluity. Neither of the big parties will know how to take hold of life again until the war ends. That Is obvious. Old Issues are either dead or dying. But the situation is hardest for the Democrats. Judge Bonnl well had no sooner hoisted the flag of the Demon's cause to a conspicuous place than Congress began talking of the elimination of beer and light wines. Simultaneously the order of Provost Marshal General Crowder was issued to sweep the Bonnlwell terri tory of all Its sprigbtliest bartenders. The moral effect of,these departures will be, of course, cumulative and immeasurable. There Is a' tragic significance, too, In the fact that the blow falls In Pennsylvania with the, sanction of the great fathers of democracy at Washington, The spirit of the Democratic party, in other words, no sooner lifted Us head In this Btate than something hlt'lt in a vital spot, The blow had the force of'the larger democracy behind it. Democracy, it would appear, means one thing In Washington and sqmethlng vastty dlffe'rentin Pennsyl vanla. ' There are some advantages In not .being a railroad president STATUS OF PJROHIBITION IOUISIAN'A Is the first State to reject the J Federal prohibition constitutional amendment, .New York did not .adopt It, but itsr.VLefffsl&fure refrained from voting b tb''quitlo.! Eleyerr sli(e have n- xm o jtyfcW-.r:Th1:tit.fai ton. will meet. If twenty-five of them vote favorably the amendment will be adopted. In the meantime the House of Represen tatives is attempting to force prohl'oltion upon the country for the period of tho war by executive decree which shall forbid tho use of food, grains or fruits In the produc tion of alcoholic drinks. It has Inserted an Item In the agricultural appropriation bill netting apart 6,000,000 for an educa tional livestock nnd grain production cam paign, none of which may be used unless the President Issues' the decree Indicated. The pernicious practice of putting "riders" on appropriation bills was never leri excusable than in this instance. It Is within tho war power of Congress nnd the President to conserve tho food resources of the nation. If Congress thinks that wo should have wartime prohibition it ought to have the courage to say so directly In a measure that will have to stand or fall on Its own merits. N'n German a later can slerp on a moonlight night-until he has bombed a Red Cross hospital A LESSON TO THE FOOLISH VTOTHIN'O but satisfaction can be felt - ' at thf conviction of rtoso Pastor Stoke3 for violation of the espionage' law. It Is not necessary to go Into her motives. She may be ns loyal an American as we have, but she has shown that t-lie Is an unsafe person to be nt larsc when the world is on fte. She has exhibited about as much Judgment na n haby with a box of matches In a powder factory. There are persons who do not belle e In war and there may b a few sane native born Americans who do not believe In this war, but most of them hae the good sense to kopp quiet. They are not fcttlng up their Judgment against the Judgment of mankind in a great crisis, nnd if they cannot help they have the go"d sen'-e not to hinder. Perhaps Mrs. Stokes wished to be a martyr and she mny regard herself as such, but the rest of us will he charitable pnouch to regard her as a misguided nnd mistaken woman who is safest just now under restraint. . t'nultl it have been the prevalence of strikri in bapfball which Think fnrrfully, .V'flll ! caused it.s nrtwts to be rated as nonproducers by a w.ir-ginled Government? It Is odd to think that Terhnps rie Morel Senator T. I.am I ro would have to win four more libel suits agnin-t Mr. Berry before he could ohlaln rlnmages adequate to buy a ride on a P R T. trolley. If Hoover Is tnklng tlin rice out of the wedding ritual, how about th rlre porir on the noses of the bridesmaids? We're getting tired of being told that every successful German war Invention was stolen from some American Imentnr. They'll steal chewing gum from us next. fieimany's latest Flog.in. "Hamburg to Herat." must br fully a- Inspiring to war worn troops struggling to keep a foothold In Plcardy as was that other iri-ent an nouncement that a prime object or the Teu ton drive was to perure a "sphrrr of influ ence" In Madagascar when the pi ace treaty is signed. THE ELECTRIC CHAIR ROSCOn PEACOCK tells us that the man who Invented Jazz music Is in town. But we hesitate to give the inventor's name and address, because we. have always opposed lynchmgs. Carriages and Wagons Baby carriage manufactuiers, in com en tion at Atlantic City, sav that there is going to be a shortage of those husband propelled ehlcles. There may also he a shortage of motte power for infant bug gies if all the young husbands ate going to be drafted. What if the .vivos had to push them themselves? But Atlantic City needn't worry. It has those Boardwalk rolling chairs to fall back on, better known as chicken coops. If the OeriTMns call a tank a Schutzen grabenvernichtungsautomobil, what would they call a baby carriage? A Maenner kraftstoszenkinderfahrwagen? And speaking of wagons, an ingenious friend of ouis coined a name for a Eport which is very common these riavs. He called it hydrohamaxatics, which students of Greek will perceive to be our old friend the science of water wagoning. Looping the Lunch You say men are not graceful? The most beautiful rhythmic motion Known to marklnd Is the Immclmann turn with which the hustling business man glides and spirals himself into the lunch room chair, so that he won't upset his coffee and the little covey of baked beans nestling on the arm of the chair. Shall we call It the nose dive? DOVE DULCET. The Mtue at the Ballot H. T. C. says we are a pretty poor ver sifier if we can't find a rhyme for Bonnl well. Here's his: The sports who want their tickets to be "wet" And find "Here's how!" refreshing and "bon-tonny" well May find It worth their while to be discreet By casting votes for Mr. Eugene Bonnl well. i ROOM TO LET Third story front va cant, unfurnished. Tenants wanted. Es pecially desired, some quiet, well-behaved Ideas as to the successful future of Pius elan militarism. Southern exposure, gable roof, fine view over devastated cathedrals and Red Cross hospitals. Any congenial ideas wanting permanent lodging without crowding, apply KRONPRINZ, Behind the Lines. A .Reported in Berlin Another British Itrqclty; German avla tor placed in Red Cross field hbslttl ex posed to our bombardment. Once In a wh)le we (eel theffe?lra to get up a, controversy about something, It doesn't much matter what. One of the things that annoy us is to have people abbreviate dates-thus, 241S when they mean February , 1918. It should be written thus, 4218, The only lMBcal wy ls ta wr" "t the diy, lV'jJ j-iaj ihWib. ar'. t' . t .. . IN PRAISE OF BOOBS Dear Socrates I am not jaflsficd by your definition of a Boob, Will loit please discuss the subject a little more 1vlllf Per haps I'm a boob for asking but I'd Ilka to know. CYXTHIA. He Friendly The Boob, my dear with Uonbs Cynthia, is Nature's device for mitigating the quaintly blended Infelicities of existence. Never be too bit ter about the Booh. The Boob 13 you and me nnd the man in the elevator. The Rnnb is As long as the Humanity's Hope Bool, rato rcmatng high, humanity Is safe. The Boob Is tho last repository of the stalwart virtues. The Booh is faith, hope nnd charity. Tho Booh is the hope of conservatives, the terror of radicals and the meal check of cynics. If you are inn over on Market street nnd left gtoanlne under the mailed fist of a flivver, the Bolshevik! and I. W. W. will ho watching the shop window?. It will be the iloob who will rome to our aid, even before the cop gets there. lG5n Jf you weve to dig Ronbs a deep and terrible pit In the middle of Chestnut street, and Illuminate it with signs nnd red lights and placards reading DO XOT W.l.A' 7.V?'0 77? 77', 1053 Boohs would tumble into It during the course of the day. Boobn have faith. They are eager to plunge In where an nngel wouldn't even show his periscope. The But that does not Rnnb Ratio prove anything cred itable to human nature. For though 1G"3 people would fall into our pit (which any Rapid Transit Company will dig for us freo. of charge! -(" -1 IS would cautiously nnd sus plclntislj and contemptuously avoid It. The Boob ratio is Just about 1 to 16. He Limits It does not pay to fur Angels make fun of the Boob. There Is no malice in lnm. no insolence, no passion to thrive at tho exuenso of his follows. If he sees some one on a street corner gazing open-mouthed at the sky, he will do likewise, and stand there for a halt hour with his apple of Adam expectantly vibrating. But is that a shameful trait? May not a Boob expect to see angels In the shimmering blue of a May heaven? Is he more disreputable than the knave who frisks his watch meanwhile? And sup pns,e he (fes see an angel, or even only a hlue acre of sky Is that not worth as much ns the dial in his poke? lie Sees It is tho Boob who Tlirni Is always willing to look hopefully for angels who will see them ultimatPlv. And the man who Is only look ing for the Boob's timepiece will do time of his own by and by. He Rears The Boob is con- No .Malice vinced that the world is conducted on genteel and friendly prin ciples. He feels in his heart that even the law of gravity will do him no harm. That in why he steps unabashed Into our pit on Chestnut street; and finding himself sprawling In the bottom of It, he bears no ill will to Sir Isaac Newton Ho simpl.v knows that tho law of gravity took him for some one else a strect-cleining con tractor, perhaps. A A small hoy onco Definition defined a Boob as one who always treats other people better than he docs himself. , He Is The Boob is hope- I'nsuspiclotis ful, cheery, more con cerned over other people's troubles than his own. He goes serenely unsuspicious of the brick under the silk hat. even when the silk hat is on the head of a Mayor or City Coun cilman. He will pull every trigger he meets, rcgatdless that the whole world is loaded and aimed at him. He will keep on run ning for the 5:42 train, even though the timetable was changed the day before yes terday. He goes through the 1 evolving doqrs the wrong way. ' He forgets that the banks close at noon on Saturdays. He asks for oysters on the first of June. He will wait for hours at the Chestnut street door, even though his wife told him to meet her at the ribbon counter. His Wife Yes, he has a wife. But if he was not a Boob before marriage he will never become so after. Women aie the natural antidotes of Boobs. Receptive The Boob is not " quarrelsome. He is willing to believe that you know more about it than he does. He Is always at home for ideas. He Is Of course, what Happy bothers other people is that the Boob is so happy. He enjoys himself. He falls into that Rapid Transit pit of ours and has more- fun out of the tumble than the sneering 26,418 who stand above untumbled, Tho happy simp prefers a 4 per cent that pays to a 15 per cent In vestment that returns only engraved pros pectuses. He stands on that street corner looking for an imaginary angel parachuting down, and enjoys himself more than the Mephlstophele3 who Is laughing up his sleeve. Nature's Nature must love Darling the Boob, because she Is a good deal of a Boob herself. How she has squandered herself upon mountain peaks that are useless except for the Alpen stock Trust; upon Violets that can't be eaten; upon giraffes whose backs slope too steeply t6 carry a packl Can It be that-th'e Boob, la Nature's' darling, that she Intends him to outlive all the rest? A Brief Be sure you're a Maxim Boob, and then go ahead. In But never, dear Conclusion Cynthia, confuse the Boob with the Poor Fish. The Poor Flh Is the Boob gone wrong. The Poor Fish Is the cynical, sneering simpleton who, If he did see an angel, would think It was only somt one drtsed up for the movies. The Jtooc rith Why Boom Utv Ham ENVIOUS EYES 'v yffl"-,"-. - , ' Ar.fc.v'Nritt.;-J &, l' ""'. ' :" -"$ : '-"'-'"wJT S ..--rr?M'---.rrv- :.:-- , How to Stand Up By SIMEO.V CLERK OF THB ('OLTIT (reading): "And It Is hereby charged, asserted, deposed, maintained and asseverated that the defend ant did r'.se, crt m his feet, lift himself from his chair and In other divers ways assume an erect attitude, posture, position or em placement at the banquet of the Amalga mated I. W. W. and did then and there utter, pronounce, declaim give vent to anrl In other ways put into circulation the follow ing vvoids and sentiments, namely, to wit, viz: "FlrFt. That the laws nf this country were framed entuely for the protection nf the posresslng classes against the dlslnher.ted classes; that legislation Is purposely couched In obscure and ambiguous language, so that the rich malefactor, under the guidance of expensive counsel, might evade the Just pun ishment of his tiansgresslons bv lak.ng refuge in the technicalities of the law; that the true revolutionist, theiefoie, has neither use nor ier,pect for the legal verbiage of our capitalistic society, and proclaims h.s defiance to the death "Second. That the unjust war in which we are now engaged has been forced, upon the country by a Oov eminent in control of the prnfiteerr ; that our soldiers have been sent abroad to Elve their lives for a cause they do not understand ; that the Hed fioss Is camou flage and the Liberty Loan Is a Wall street game, and thn we pledge ourrelves to leslst by everv means in our power the establish ment of autociatlc methods in these United States " The defendant will now plead. Counsel for defendant 1 admit that the sentiments, as recoieled in the Indictment, were utteied bv the defendant at the place and time designated. Before entering Into greater detail, however. I move, on behalf of my levolullonlst rbent. that the Indictment be dismissed on the ground that the stenog rapher has omitted an "s" from the word -possessing," thus making it "possesing" ; furthermore. In hyphenating the word auto ciatlc at the end of a line the stenographer has made it "autoe-ratlc" instead of "auto cratic" ; furthermore, that counsel has been supplied vvltlT only two carbon copies of the Indictment Instead of three, ns laid down in the leading case of Juggins vs. the Interna, tional Bed-Spring Corporation Ar.z. Rep., XVI. 423. The Court Motion denied. Counsel for defense Then I move that the case l)u transfened to the circuit Court of Pango-Pango on account of the presence of a red-hulred Juror in the box and that the trial be set for tho summer term of 1023. The Court Motion denied. Counsel for defense Then I move that be fore proceeding with the case the Clerk of the Court be Lalled upon to read aloud to the court the throe Nolumes of Karl Marx's Capital," In order to supply the necessary background. The Court Motion nenieu. iue iiamte. Attorney will please proceed (The District Attorney, having briefly out lined the casa between 11 a. m. and 5:-30 p m., court was adjourned till the following day. when the defendant was put upon the stand.) DISTRICT ATTORNEY You admit having ottered the words recorded In the Indict ment and at the place and time specified? Defendant I do. District Attorney That Is all, Counsel for defense'may cross-examine. Counsel for defense I thank my earned colleague. , The cross-examination of the defendant by his own counsel then proceeds as follows: Q How long Is It since you attended public school? A Thirty-four years. Q. Did you regularly sing the "Star Spangled Banner" In class? A. I did, Q, How far did you go, as a rule? A. Half-way through the third stanza. Q. That was a record, was It not? A. Yes, No one else in class ever got beyond the first two lines of the second stanza; thereafter they hummed. Q. We will now turn to the matter Imme diately in hand. When you referred to "the unjut vvar in wnicn we are now engageo., you meant unjust on whqee part? A, On the part of Germany, of course, Q. The Juror with the red hair will kindly take' notice of my client's reply, And whep you said that the war "has been forced upon the country by a Qoverpment In control of the prpfiteers, did you mean that' you were opposed to any form of government, or did you Intend only to c6nvey the lmprlen that you were opposed to th present Artmlnlstra- tion- Minwac.iia nww w,umw .pvm for One's Faith STRUNSKY reel hair in the Jury hox arul state distinctly what vou meant by "a Oov eminent tn control of the profited s." A. I meant a ftovernment which had the profiteers under firm control. Q. I will now read from the indictment: "In control of the profiteers; that our soldiers have been sent abroad to give their lives for a i-ause they do not understand"; to whom docs "they" refer? A. To the profiteers, of eourse. Q And when jou spoke of the Red Crors as camouflage, your meaning was what? A. I used camouflage in its precise sense of "protective covering." I meant that the Red Cross was protecting our soldiers and cover ing our wounded with the mantle of charity and compassion. Q. The members of the I W. W. present at the banquet were all college graduates, were they not? A. They were. Q. There was not the least chance, there fore, of anybody understanding your use of the word camouflage except In the sense you intended to convey? A. Not the least chance. QNOW explain the words "the Liberty Loan Is a Wall street game." A. I had In mind the fact that the Government has put the Wall street gamblers out of business and that the brokers whq once spent their lives fleecing the puhllc now pass the time In games of various sorts, such as tlddlc wlnks, mumblety-peg and, among others, Liberty Loans. Q And when you spoke of resisting by every means In your power the establish ment of autocratic methods in the United States, you were alluding to what? A. To the conquest of the United States by Ger many. Q. I will now read to the Jury your speech before the I. W. W.. not In the garbled form adopted by tht newspapers when they set up the speech verbatim from the release fur nished by your private secretary, but as It actually should be lead: "That the war against an unjust Germany In which we are now engaged has been re enforced for the country by a Government squeezing the life out of the profiteers; that our soldiers have been sent rejoicingly abroad to give their lives willingly for a cause tho profiteers do not understand ; that the Red Cross Is the guardian of our soldiers' lives and Wall street Is playing the game of Llherty Loans and that the United States will resist by overy means the Imposition of German rule upon American democracy." A. Precisely what i meant. (On the redirect examination) : The District Attorney It appears, there fore, that you really set out to deliver your speech before the American Security League, but that you took the wrong turn to the left and wandered in on the I. W. W. A. Ex actly. ' (Copyright) The Turkish Sultan's Hut nerlln Is recently reported cries Crying to Turkey for peace, vaguely ad dressed to the world, need a more specific direction. They should be forwarded right to Berlin, under whose orders the Ottoman empire was forcibly driven Into war. Th shortage of steel, lUblea Mint diminishing alike the Learn to Motor production of corsets and perambulators, at least Insures the American baby an Unrigld resting place when mamma picks him up from his tabooed vehicle. Nowadays In Wash It Souodt lngton when n man Jabber wocklih begins to talk excited ly and wave his hands some one Is sure to ask what he Is Borglum Ung about. Turbulent Prague fully establishes the. familiar line, "I'd rather live In Bohemia than In any other land," as a very palpable specimen ofpoe(lc license. -Doctor Knuen declares that lowing to the Increased need for labor the cost ,of killing mosquitoes has doubled since the war, Pead anopheles, however,' are cheap at 'any price, which l more than can 'be said for some .other things nowadays. ?-The boys who aren't quite sure of get. ting thlr C9lleg sheepskin hav.tn ay Kliw-jji Vi-1iwi MOONLIGHT By Christopher Morley "lyrOONLIGHT can never be the same, Shadow and shine in mystic tress; In that soft glow, with bomb and flame They wrecked the wards of gentle ness. "DORNE on tho evening's healing breath, With silver-dabbled wings they came Tears beyond tears, death beyond death; . Moonlight can never be the same. The Experienced Know How One of the unexplained social phenomena arising in England from the war Is the noticeable predominance of young widows at the altar. The Pall Mall Gazette has made an analysis of the marriage statistics and finds that while bachelors, widowers and spinsters show even more than their usual hesitation about seeking mates, widows of marriageable age are coming more than ever to the fore. This promises to rjesult in a greater number of "old maid3" tlian ever In 'the history of the country for two reasons. There are fewer available husbands and the widows are cornering the limited supply.- Portland Oregonlan. Crime of Xichoias Nick Romanoff is to be tried by the Bolshe vlkl for something, probably for having money. Toledo Blade. Betcha! To worry's foolish, I'll agree, 'And It will gain you nothing, friends; But oh, how rich some men would be If worries paid them dividends. Cincinnati Enquirer. Making It Over About the only geographical question school children can answer with any surety at examinations this year Is that the world Is still round. Rochester Post Express. The Best Judge The wife of a self-made man is often very much dissatisfied with his Job. :The Chris tian Herald. One Good Result The high cost of living in Washington is sending offlceseekers home. The optimists are right There's a bright side to everything. Birmingham Age Herald. What Do You Know? QUIZ -, & i. M Ae.L mill ! ..., . -a Who was the flrat Secretary of State ef th?J United States? J Name the Urltlio Lnonceuor or tne Ex-3 chequer. . '.ft What l the meanlni of the word "Masta-'aj chutetts"? ? Name the author of "JIaurt Muller." to Win wrote "The desire of, anpearlnc to b6 ..u nften nrerenta our becoiuhlir Bft" .. ..... nn.tll W...II.. (I d 7, iarntiiy uwvv -. 8. What U the difference between the two trues i of nronnlnt" (un of the American armrrj 0. What Is meant br "Mppony 10., What l tho rantheon? Answers to Yesterday's Quli 1. Tho title f .the heir to the .throne of Hoi- J land It I'rlurt (or Princetsl of urance. li S. 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