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In Jnlted States, Canada, or United Ststes ron tons, postage free, nfty 1501 cents par month. X)9) dollars per year, parable In advance. "GUI sucxisn cuumrien vile u uuuar tti Subscribers wlshtnr address chanced Ve old aa well as now address. ,.JW VALNUT KEYSTO.Vt. MAIS 00l) Jrtfis oil communications to Eitnlno TtiMlo can Indeventlenet Eavart. Philadelphia. m- ' . vw.a it the rniLiDsLrnu rosr oinci ji ' ! ' 1CC0ND CL1SS S11IL UilTIt !,',. ' I : .'? - . ,.,) ;, rnusaslphls, Mondir, Mtr 27, 19IS r,.WTr,t,TC Ttm -rt,"T,--t-r",-f WERE Is not an unbiased and well- informed lawyer In the State who &n 'needs a, radical revision Se bankers of Pennsylvania at their re- Reconvention eald that the bankintr laws. Sited by the constitutional icstrlctlons, re out of date, and that the Constltu- tSahould be amended so as to permit isricV to all classes of banks. tow Ions will the politicians refuse to the demand for a constitutional con- wtfon which shall throw the present dent of shreds and patches Into the fcTacard and draft a modern Constitution (frilch ihall be a declaration of fundamental Indoles and a grant of power? ijLlhere is no more Important task before he, General Assembly to be elected in No- aber than the passage of a law providing the creation of such a convention. m Js Ve are waltli.g every day to hear who rill break the rivet record next ft1" ' ' CAN WOMEN FIGHT? HE temptation Is Irresistiblp to start an rareument with Mme Maria Leona totchkarova, lieutenant colonel of the tunslan Battalion of Death, nho has lust fL" "' t. . ., j. , .,., J eu Mxyiiig &ume ureuuiui inings auoui he futility of women as fighters. To a ?ew York Interviewer JIme Botchkarova ivM the women of her battalion didn't fight fell. They showed the white feather. ihey cannot be organized ?? Books enough to fill a library might be ittcn upon this particular nuestlon and tithe matter wouldn't be settled Women fnt" good fighters with swords. Mme tchkarova might have known this at lie i beginning-. By temperament and traln- r," tradition and disposition they are the eervatlves of the race. But what Is to Hsald about the battles they fight in lie without the stimulus of flag or ifm? V.. woman will remain faithful oer a rjUleT (tnd she will keep lonely vigil at a fcen hearth under circumstances that puld drive the most valiant of hrass- a'nd warriors to suicide in the first a all- i river. Women surely cannot be denied or. afd devotion in all tho subtler causes lt, have been theirs since the beginning aey fight for the permanent things and elr concerns are often lifted high even ovo the concerns of nations. Pmc-w ,., . ... ify ife ar v. aesi, anipaign w ui so on uniu i quota is reacnea EMJl lliiuli 1UUH fULKblUUUK ltLAUY IETHER Congress proceeds inime- Ltllately- to the preparation and parsage spUl Increasing the war taes or delas Da until the autumn Is a matter that Ts only those Representatives who . to fret home thla summpr In InnU nftpr iitl T..i ... k political lences. ww ut ua XV1IUW II1UL LilO Ulil 1IIU&L -!,.., .. , ., ea ana inai congress nas ine power ke the taxes a burden on this year's And we do not care a hooter for pj?pffect on the political fortunes of ;man or that. tfls announced that the Treasury De cent wishes to raise six billion dollars Incomes, war profits and Inheritances. ,e-rder to do this It will be necessary to nee the limit of exempt Incomes and in- se the rate, perhaps double It. PjThis will bring the war home to every eehold by making It feel the burden. ('nation Is in the mood to pay tho taxes eylded it is satisfied that they are equl- Yf- apportioned. Kiiries are also to be compelled to ' hvier taxes. No announcement of ,is to be Included In this category has tn,ade, but we are likely to discover fiWa a most flexible term and can be bed almost without limit. We all 'come to regard as necessities many which our ancestors would have , the height of luxury. There was no ablng in Washington's residence at nVryernon. Gas, electjic light, the tele- , the street car, were unknown to 3'Hls generation would have called ee things the refinements of an ex- cant civilization. Ill be well for us If we consider what Hi real necessities in advance of the fJWj: laws. Then we shall be In a bet- Kion to understand ine ineory on new taxes are levied ) , r- 4Bniergency Fleet Corporation lived ERJURED GERMANS rman, always a German, may ('doctrine In Berlin, but it Joes America. Following the action light, of the United States Court .in Tevpking the naturalization German who said he hoped that would win the war, the Pepart- Uc ha$ drafted a bill providing terms that disloyal utterances st ground for Invalidating nat- ?-JfeUfch acted on the theory tbit inha.d obtained his natufaUzi- ueriury, as when he professed to . kla Allegiance to the Kaiser he 1 greater loyalty t6 Germany ilea, aa ws proved when he htwu Tite.puLor tna we- a.Ju-.utw.nllS. -44t r !scvws aww- , inn ws ffafaajv, .,1 1. WrreAiiCE'" It 'Thtt Great Land to Become a Free Democracy or a Citadel of Idiot MllltiHim? JP THE Russian people are left to fall' in this crisis of their experience, if they arc abandoned to the shame and agony of German exploitation, Ciriatfart civilization will have falltd in the triitial test of il3 iharity and it philosophy. In Washington a great plan of restora tion and reconstruction is being con sidered. It is based upon a theory of American financial aid to the existing agencies of government in Russia through the purchase of immense sup plies which otherwiso will inevitably fall into the hands of Germany. The next move by President Wilson may deter mine whether Russia is to become in the future a great citadel of freedom or a looming, growing menace to every prin ciple for which the war has been waged. Gradually, as the truth emerges, it becomes plain that President Wilson's diplomacy was never swifter or farther seeing than in the first great appeal to the confidence of Russia. When the President said recently in New York that he would "stand by Russia as well as France" ho was clearly aware of the soundness of his original policy and awake to the overwhelming importance of Russia of her fate, of her state of mind, of her present and her future to the general cause of the Allies. This war is being fought for the future. And as Russia goes in the future a great part of the world will have to go. At the present moment Russia is tied to the heels of Germany. Eastward the Germans have gone unmolested into Fin land, into the Baltic provinces, into Poland, into the Ukraine. As they have advanced the hopes for which Russia fought bitterly have been put out like flickering lights in darkness. For the Germans have not allied them selves with the people or based their hopes upon any thought or aspiration of the masses. They have made their appeal to the rich cliques of natives who have fattened for years by terrorizing and exploiting the poor. The German appeal has been to the blackest of the reaction aries, handfuls of men in each great community. The armored idiots overflowing from tho German madhouse are slowly cut ting and plotting a way to the heart of Asia. Should they realize this last wild dream of the pan-Germaniacs one result will be inevitable. Japan, now linked in sympathy and in material interests with the cause of the Allies, will finally be forced into an alliance with Germany. Such a departure, though it doubtless would be postponed until the end of the present war, would be, for the Japanese, an obvious act of sfelf-preservation. Xo culmiration ever suggested since the war began would present so terrible a menace to all the rest of the world. Whatever military oligarchy rose from an exploited Russia under German in fluence would remain unconquerable. It would be a permanent menace against which the rest of civilization finally would have to fight itself to death. No one has ever questioned the ardent decency of the Russian masses. Their generosity and idealism, their native intelligence, their eagerness for peacs and the opportunities for development, their fine faith and kindliness, are as familiar to those who really know them as their valor. One of the great mis fortunes of the war was the codp which thrust a few fanatics forward into a position which obscured the great body of sane Russia from the eyes and the thought of most of the world. Out of the chaos of an embittered and disorganized Russia the Soviets the councils of government elected by the people are creating a nucleus of order. Money is needed for railroads, for con structive work, for medicines, for the reorganization of business. It surely would pay the Allies to meet this need. It would pay America to meet it. Japan has been ready to intervene. But the Russians remember the Japanese as the race that conquered and humiliated them fifteen years ago. A bold stroke of imaginative states manship is needed in Russia. President Wilson is bold and he is imaginative. It may be hoped that he will meet the crisis adequately. The remedy might be a joint military force, including representatives of all the Allies, about which the fighting energy of Russia might be rallied. Under such circumstances the full aid of Japan might be utilized. If some such plan can be inspired at Washington the United States may yet be the richer by the affection and active sympathy of one of the greatest democracies of the world. Judging by tome of the photographs of German prisoners, it is boy-powar rthtr than man-power that is ktepinr the Kaiser going. re,.;., -ti TRUCKS MUST HAVE GOOD ROADS mHE motortrucklng business cannot be -- developed properly so long as ther is the present conflict in State regulations. Every business man is, therefore, inter ested in the demand of the American Au tomobile. Association that Congress piss as a war measure a law providing for the unifying of regulations for motors used in interstate commerce. The convenience of he motortruck for hauling freight has been demonstrated. The number in use )s Increasing every week, for the motor can provide 'a service that is beyond the ability of the railroads. For example, the omee equipment of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, part of which Was moved from Washington te this city on Saturday In a fleet of trucks) arrived to that, It c)ld bidillvered within A day of its departure and with onlyoni handling at each end. The raplfily grewing bU4M'0f Ht txU4fc t&it Aie rusBlag b '&"' ' ' 'MT, (i u ;.,' - , . - i. ..t -', ?, 'tween this city and 'Mew Tork and Balti more it only in 1U infancy. But the heavy trucks are tearing the roade to pieces. Uniform regulations for Interstate motor transportation will not be enough to protect the new business. We must have better roads. Through a mistaken notion of economy the State voted down the constitutional amendment which would hae permitted the Issue of bonds for building new highways a year or two ago. There may be some compen sations In this error, however, for we know now that the read which woutd have been regarded adequate Mr the traffic It must bear In 1916 Will not Stand up under the heavy trucks that are now on the high ways. Mr Sprout Is an advocate of good roads. No one should be surprised If In his cam paign for the goernorshlp he pledges his support to a constitutional amendment which will permit the State to bond Itself for as many millions as are necessary to build an up-to-date system of trunk roads throughout the State capable of carrying ten-ton truckB. Such roads will be expen sive, but they will pay for themselves In a comparathely short time Saving fuel may be a war measure, but If the price continues to go up It will be for most of us a measure of necessity. The emphasis on the Ten Mean Delayed first three letters of offensle becomes stronger ech day that lllndenburg delays If Hlndy isn't really dead, the news that there'll be a million doughbos In France by July 1 will do much to push him over the sill tr The projected revenue tii on the mouth organ suggests that the Treasury Depart Farewell, Then, to the Trombonel ment may consider Congress a luxury The first brick has been laid In a Hog Irland housing operation it the Fortieth Ward And let us hope that the last brick has been thrown at It Th German junkers Ther Will Perluli who now live and sus- of nyspepsln tain their delusions on a bean or two a day will b able to enjoy a filling meal hen the time comes for them to swallow their pride THE ELECTRIC FAN TvO THE bakers call Mr Hoover's wheat -' regulations anti-loaflng laws' The coming month, said Lloyd George, will be a race between Wilson and lllnden burg We bet on Wilson, because he runs on the level, while Hlndv ha9 to leap so many hurdles One hurdle old Hlndy knocks down every time he jumps It Is Truth. And the next is Hun Power. When Germany divorces the Hohenzol lerns, will she pay them alimony' There's always room St Helena. for one more on Now that they're going to draft the use lessly emplovcfi, we hope that the hat check bandits will be utilized as storm troops They ought to capture many Hun helmets. Dog Heroes The Blue Cross, a humane society or ganized In England to rslleve the suffer ings of horses and dogs In the war, Is ar ranging to sell war dogs that have been wounded In action to animal lovers In this country. If you are Interested In the idea of buying a dog that has been wounded In action, Socrates can put you In touch with the people who are raring for these dogs Stanzas Written in Dejection When I read the poems of greater bards, Their music, grace and wit, Their deeply blended sound and sense, The melody they have writ. Then I am smitten with sharp chagrin And envy chills mv ink: Why can't I think the beautiful thoughts The other poets think' Why Is my Muse so weak of wing, My bag of rhymes so light' Why can't I write the thundering stuff The other poets write' A Suggestion If they want to keep up the morale In France there isno better way to do It than to take us over there to talk French to the populace. When we were In Paris citizens fainted in swathes along the side walks Just from the sheer Joy of hearing our Jargon. The most complicated political tangles in the French cabinet could be soothed and mollified by a half hour spent In listening to our maltreatment of re flexive pronouns Poilus on leave. If given an opportunity to hear us emancipate syn tax, would go back to the trenches with tears of relief. Why not appoint us gen eralissimo of all the French irregular verbs for the duration of thi war? Don't say we didn't suggest It. The Pullman Company has Invited col lege students to take Jobs this summer as the conductors of Pullman car? That seems to us a good idea, especially If the young men are1 well posted In Greek lit erature. When we ride on a car called Clytemnestra or Hecuba or Cassandra we always want to kno Just who the lady was, and it will be handy to have some young shelltpee there to ttll us all about it Did anybody ever eee a Pullman car named Socrates? Germany is making her small change of zinc, saving the nickel tor military use. (Should that be added to the list of U-boat ilnclngs? More About Boobs Dear Socratfs Thnk yeu for writing that esy on Boobs. But there is one thing you don't make plain: It one Is riot a Boob, can one bJcoipe a Boob? And is it profitable to be a Boob?' Tour friend, CYNTHIA. Certainly, Cynthia, any one can be a Boob if he reilly wants to. petin by al ways doming in through thi door marked "exit." U'e" have followed that course tor many years. A man can, by taking thought, add one boob to his stature. The world must be made f' for Boobs; and it will be, becat-se the Boob relishes Hie so keenly and Ukl his buffets with such good humor the world simply has to be nice to him. By all means, be L iobb. Wi'll help you all -tve aa. 0CRATS. .- , ,i rT....... ., , ,.. ja ,.",. COLORS OF SPRING By IP alter Prichafd Eaton I REMEMBER reading somewhere a statement by Maxwell Parrlsh that there was Just as much color In the New England landscape as In Arizona, only we are habituated to It and It Is not spread In such large masses, so that we do not see It. I remember, also, hearing Sarolla, the Spanish painter who exhibited in America a decade ago his hot pictures of bathers on the Spanish seacoast, tell an astonished and somewhat skeptical audi ence that the light of New York or Atlantic City on a clear day was almost exactly the light he painted In, and If there was hotter color on the Spanish beachee It was simply In the costumes. rpHE8E recollectlohs have come back to' -- me during the last few days, tor spring has been coming up from down Philadel phia way to our Berkshire hills, and I have been watching, with an admiration and amaze which Is fresh ev erv year, the sproad of the color pageant Autumn may be more showv on our hillsides, but It is certainly no more beautiful, and In spots It Is no more vlv id Once you hav e accus tomed yourself to look for the color In our eastern country as you look for It the first thing when jou reach Arizona and the Grand Canyon, jou will, I fancy, be astonished at the feast that is spread, the tapestried loveliness, the dally (even, on a warm day, the hourly) changes. T7KR Instance, part of my own land runs up a mountain side, pasture at first, then n belt of some twenty or thirty acres of graj birch (or povertv birch, aa It Is often called), and then the real mountain forest of big canoe birches chestnuts, oaks, pines, hemlocks the t.vpical mixed stand on a wild mountain side Only a few days ago this broad belt of gray birch was a pionounced lavender, and when the sun light hit It and the white trunks gleamed a little through the tracery of twiggy tops It was like a huge flat amethvst. Above It the forest rose still rather somber, In gray and gieen, the dark green of pines and hemlocks "OUT two warm, bright days followed, J-' with a night of warm rain, and sud denly the belt of amethyst disappeared In Its place was for a day or two, a most delicate and charming effect that would only be possible In a solid stand of one kind of wood with a level, uniform top The lavender twigs were still there, but all the buds had pushed out Just far enough to show green, and as ou looked up from the house, 300 yards or more below, the vellowlsh stems to tho leaf buds, perhaps, were responsible for changing the nine thyst tone to a sort of snuff-chocolate Over this lay the haze of vivid green, as if an emerald veil were softly laid down upon a warm strip of velvet Further up the mountain the maples were red, the big white birches, with their trunks like white lightning stabs, were clothed in veils of almost Nile green, and the pines and hem locks were suddenly inconspicuous Their day was over for another eight months. rpODAY we took a walk along a road -- that skirts the edge of the mountain, with the land falling away to swamps and meadows on the lower side It was after noon and we looked across these meadows and swamps to the far eastern hills The immediate slope at our feet. Just beyond the gray stone wall that rose out of a garden of bloodroot, was the vivid emerald of new grass. At the foot ran a sedgy brook and this brook was bordered with cowslips they bloomed almost In a night a hot splash of glowing gold amid the green. Across the brook was a wild tangle of shrubby cinquefoll, which was a rich chocolate coloi , a row of willows which were tawny as a new-licked tiger cat, a grove of poplars hazed w ith foliage and Bhowind slender, upright trunks of olive color, and finally a stand of larches In their virgin veils of spring, perhaps the most delicate green In nature. Here and there a shad-bush made a splash of white, and then came the long wall of evergreens In the middle distance, broken by a single clearing of brown and green squares sur rounding a red barn. Far off to the east lay the dreaming ramparts of the eastern hills, a glowing amethyst now in the low sun, and over them the sky was belted with mother-of-pearl before clouds and colors melted into the clear blue of the upper air. THE scene fairly sang with color not, to be sure, the martial, blaring music of Arizona, with its cymbals and trom bones, but an andante of Mozart or Schu bert full of soft wood winds, French horns and delicate, dancing tunes on the violins I thought how many times I had rushed along this road In a motor and seen only a kind of familiar brown and green world, with a vague awareness of something blue overhead. But loitering along it on foot, all Its Intricate loveliness of color was displayed, a loveliness that belonged peeu liarly to the spring season, and would be In a few days, or weeks at most, not van ished, but changed into something different, something more lush and mature and both less virginal and lees subtle. Dedicated te the Batten Symphony Rid of the Muck That brought 111 luck And was ejected, Here's hope that good Be "in the Wood" At last selected. Captain Mills thinks that there are too many street accident. No one will dispute him. As President Wl'son Vf Will Ask Him must spend the Fourth somewhere, where bet tar thao In Philadelphia? Will the Weather Man guarantee u a good day? Botmiwetl and HoUteln may after AH be the Democratic ticket. Hblsteln is a Harris burg saloonkeeper, who IS running Logue a close race for the nomination for the lieu tenant governorship. Hi would be a more fitting candidate! than Logue on the whisky ticket. Half and half Js not popular with confirmed tipplers. They prefer the undi luted stun. Mr. Baker may not be Etsa CentratemenT a very foed secretary of a war, but he has Shewn sound sense in asking Congress to raise the age limit for voluntary enlistment from forty to ntty-five years. The men of the greater age can take the place In nonr combatant service of the younger men needed in the trenches. Mpy a patriot, past his first youth, will be delighted by thi oppor tunity to serve thi couatry if Co flirt granta the fiecf ettrya req.uet. t . ' ,ii -,''ii ,v..v.i .,t.i ,. tV.,,1- -to"wVCrfiiifteWr-i . fi-Siivi$wiSEr?i - '-" -Siz'-J, ART AND THE WAR Must the Painter of Pictures Take a Vacation? By ARTHUR EDWIN BYE il'XTOU art artists had better go on a vacation until ?fter the war." These profound words are attributed to a famous Mayor of one of our neighboring cities. When t first rend them I was struck Im mediately by their evident appropriate nee, but not until later did their deep significance penetrate me. As dajs went by. and I pondered over their meaning, I became more and more convinced that there was hero concealed some mystic truth burled in cryptic language, which my own dull Intellect was unable to dis cern. My ponderlngs have perplexed me. 1 am not often so bewildered, but I value the earnest thinking I have done, for the problem of art and the war Is a serious one, and must be considered at the present day whether we can solve It or not. WHAT is an art artist' Theie's the crucial point. The implication is that he is not a plain, straightforward artist, and yet the stress on the word art would suggest that he is. indeed, emphatically an artist. Is he, then, an artist who be lieves In art for art's sake' Does he wear big bow ties, corduroys and long hair like the Oscar Wilde type' Is he the ultra-temperamental the Whistler type? Regretfully, In spite of Its Importance, I leave the question unanswered, for one thing Is certain, he must go on a vacation But another question rises. Does this mean he must go on a holiday out to the countrjside, where he can dream under peach blossoms, smok)ng his pipe, seeking for visions In the perfumed sky? No, It is evident that during th? great war several hundred American men and women cannot go on a long holiday like that. They must do something useful, and since they must take a vacation from their art. thev are to become something else during the war that is, cease to exist as artists, Let us not mince words, the conclusion Is plain, they must die, 1 e., become dead, for the duration of the war. ITS hard to die, and naturally our artists are struggling against It. They are try ing to dodge the Issue by several com promises. For example, Mr. Bleshfield has told us. in a recent article In the New York Times, that thy are doing a great (JeaH of artistic war work. A host of them are making range-finding pictures, used by our Government In manj' camps for train ing soldiers to estimate perspective, and, la conjunction with maps, to acquaint them vjrith the terrain arid topography of the war zone. Many attlstfe are engaged in the Division of Pictorial Publicity' Of our Government, and these have already con tributed over itb posters. The numerous Liberty Loan posters are examples of the very high artistic excellence of this kind of patriotic work. There are many, too, who, clinging more tenaciously to their artistic life, paint pictures of the episodes of the war; these, like historians of con temporary life, aim to leave to posterity, for whom after all we are fighting, file- tortti aocumema or tne great struggle. BUT, when all Is said, such camouflage Is ueeleis. It artists muct die (tempo rarily at least) what if the use et hldinf under their War wdrk? Aft cannot, or must not, exist during a war. It .least, this is the tfeneralUtiion naturally Im plied In the Mayor's djctum. For un doubtedly the honorable Mayor has sime striking hUtortoai precedent for "bis de- .. -..,., "' i : E ALWAYS SAID mSAMIvWAS V, v . jf clslon. I have asked myself this question too: Did art In the wars of the past go on vacations? AGAIN the unanswerable, for there are . no precedents, It seems, for a war like the present one. But if there were, per haps no better analogies could be sug gested than those two great stiuggles for liberty In modern times (not to go too far astray into the past), the Eighty Years War between the Netherlands and Spain, when Holland won Its national and spir itual freedom, 1568-1648, and the Napo leonic Wars, when France, as well as Europe, was freed of the autocrat, the Kaiser of 100 years ago During the former period, even in its greatest stiess, there worked and flour ished Rembrandt. Van Dyke, Rubens, Frans Hals, Vermeer most of the great painters of the Dutch and Flemish school In the seventeenth centurv, and one of the greatest art epochs In history reached it3 maturity. During the latter period occurred the neo-classle renaissance In France, with David at the head, and while this move ment was doomed to a counter-revolution later in the century. It is undeniable that art was passionately pursued at the time. Today we are &pt to condemn David and his following as being archeological, but neo-elasslclsm brushed aside the decadent rococo art of the old regime and replaced it by a severe style consistent with the age, giving thus to art a healthy discipline which It much needed. T DO not wish to suggest that wars pro- duce art, or give to art a unique stimu lus, for It can be shown readily enough that oftentimes, as In the Periclean Age In Greece, great art accompanies the period of peace and prosperity after wars; while It can be shown, likewise, that a'rt flourishes Independently of wars or of periods of peace, as in Italy during the Renaissance. But I find no historical example 6f art, once flourishing, ceasing to exist during a war, save In the case of a eonqjered na tion whose civilization was utterly wiped out. For artists, in times past, have been trie to themselves. In the great rice they have carried on their torches. Had they once flung them aside, where would be our light today? But perhaps my own questionings have misled me. I may have misunderstood'' the Mayor. ""it may be that he referred only to art artists, not to plain artists, and that these latter may go on existing that hon est, unpretentious artists, unhampered by the restrictions of art, may linger in our midst. The Element of Doubt Conditions in Austria suggest the possi bility of a Charles Pethapsburg. New Y6rk Evening Post. Pertbing'i Popularity I , "Pershing Is a name to conjure with in m Paris Just now," writes Charles Graety. ID -mention nip ici o( naving come over In the earns ship with him Is euotlih to at tract a crowd. ,In a fruit store where I wis buying some cherries the proprietress, detecting that I was ,an American, said triumphantly, 'Oh. I have stert your general r I told her I had silled across the ocean with him. Her face expanded Into a cmlle, ifid she emitted a long 'I-h-h-h-h!' Then she tried te persuade me ta accept the cherries as a token of her regard for qnrl Per atunt la parUauUr ana Aaasrte. (a xeaeral,' MF . J&2 JUffsflbn ViAwwiSV . f , rsTra3aK?- .-" Sw Jr"'." . i "DENNIS'?f i Xfy. f -. jfc-a-...-,- Vr&Kic SHALL I GIVE? By J. M. Herman "CHALL I give?" That is the ques- tion that is running through my brain. Shall I help to fill the War Chest, till it heaves beneath the strain? Or shall I, my pennies counting, say, "I've given all I can; If they want to fill the War Chest they must ask a richer man." But a voice within me chides me, makes me hang my head in shame: "Dare you call yourself a patriot? Are you worthy of the name If you hesitate to help those who will shed their blood for you; Who will suffer all the plagues of hell before this war is through?" Ah, no! I dare not hesitate! I must in gladness give, That those who fight for God and right will thirst not while they live. For no poverty is sorer than the wounds they'll bear for me, And my life is no whit dearer than tho lives they give so frej! And when the war is o'er and they've) come home fr6m "over there," I'd like to look them in the eye and say, "I did my share!" So I'll help to fill the War Chest, fill it o'er and o'er again. I'll "do my bit," and more than it, to save our splendid men! Memorial Day in France The French have a faculty for doing things gracefully. Nothing could be finer than the action of the French authorities, military officers and people In perfecting arrange ment for observing Memorial Day Jblntly with the Americans. Every American grave behind the fighting front will be decorated, and appropriate exfrclses will be arranged. The occasion will be of special Interest be cause for the first timf Memorial Day fill bi observed In a foreign land-Troy Tiroes. Whit Do You Know? QUIZ 1. Where is Vale Calreralty lecitedr e. NSme the author f "A Tale of Tve Cities." 3. What Is the erlsin of the nam of UClSaaT 4. Whet three rreslisnU died on Indeneaitae Dart A, Who Is Sir Horara rinnkettr e. Whet la meant hr the Initials "V. 11. H. 7. What w the first SUU admitted into the Unler 5. Whit la a, cvBMrtar 9. Whet rMUu 'sxt settled Ctahr 10. Vthn.ssjd, "A tittle more' rraw. Cantab) Answers to Siturdey'e Quit 1. rokher ikher. a t of .Oeiwsn.alryref. trt plane, used eoelalTr fer aerial ''llraMse,'' 2. Thorn p e It? HI tWf ivTW s.iT-. 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