w t I- t.i if. 'ffi gnnm "Mm , . 'jl mm" 1 I'' CURTIS. PmtiiwiT, riea jrreeiaenij ainnn -, nrrl Phllln ft. Collins, TUllams. John J. Spmtton, Directors, ,i .JSDiTUlUAU XJUAJli"! CUBS It. K. Ccira, Chairman IX.8MILET. .Editor tC MARTIN. i..anrl Business Manater Jul rfallr at Pcatta Lroara Building. tUpmdenea Square, Philadelphia, SaSiaii...,. Broad awl Chestnut Streets I Cm.. Press-Union Bulldtnc i.i. UQ Aievropoman j owrr r. ,,.4.k. ... ..UJ j-ora iiunains BMm.. .100 Fullerton Buliainr st,f iuz xnouno uuiiainz . E. Cor. Fennsrlranl A. and 1 Ith St. K ttnsuu..-..-Lnn dw jiuuamK BDXUV... .London Ttmta SUBSCRIPTION TERMS i'JCtwino Puauo Limes la served to sub-ra-ln Philadelphia and surrounding- towns i rata et twelve (tz) ccnta per k. payable i carrier. 1 mail 'a points outslda of Philadelphia. In nttee, statea, canaaa. or unueo. mates po na. Matata frea. fifty (53) cents per month. dfollara per year, payable In advance. Ma.il lorcian countries ons eu uvuar va u re Ruhnrrlhera wlihlnr address chanred I tT old as well as new address. 'MUX'. JOOO WALNUT KEYSTOME, MAIN Jooi) tgT Airft all communications to Evenlni; Publla jsapvr inaepmarncs aa.uare, rfliiiwtf"i"i it ih rnn.iriit.FHM tost orrici it second cms sua nun. rku.d.iphii. Tueidir. m.j :. iu Hflft j5l:.rtALL DEPENDS ON WHO RUNS THE W RAILROADS! pUfTTARD conditions have forced the Gov- $P -lernment In Washington to abandon Its ;'jp?sfcmagoglc attitude of recent years on the L subject of railroad rates ana to consider Ktl Kl on Its merits. lt .. VWIth a RtnizlA su-ppnlnr movement of the ph&'ajpohge, Mr. McAdoo has wiped out the old OKitWO-cent-a-mlle theory and the Middle- KWest'FopulItt teachings, that the railroads &,(; must, carry freight and passengers at a &&?,' low raio regaxuieaa ut tin? turn. t-i nit: s-n-Kf.'se. This has happened In less than live SlMOnths after the Government began Its jSjsittempt to operate the railroads. fy The Government discovered that the SywiaHa f-milt nnl hn malntnttmrl nnd onprnteil i. under the conditions by which they were JR.'hampered under private management. The K."ff. .....!...... .1 .nln .Win ...H .4n t.O k!ti '" UIIU (CfiflJID nils jcfli tna ..n EV. rirst radical act. The railroads had been K$,eirnandlnK for several' years such an In crease of rates as would make It possible to raise the money to make the needed repairs. But the Interstate Commerce Commission, cowed by the political attacks on' the railroads, refused to consent to the Increase. rjfoW Mr. McAdoo, by a single decree, '-raises the rates for freight 13 per cent and 'fixes the minimum passenger rate at three t cents a mile Instead of two. This will In- Ijcrease the revenues nearly $850,000,000 a pifj.year. Of this sum 300,000.000 will be tJaVJp 1QUCU lu H" ttl HK-'caou in "Ubca ftiminrt-i jStto the employes. About $450,000,000 will iS'.be needed to pay the coal bills, which have SS&inereased that amount over the sum re- -?',iulred in 1915. The remainder will be re- E"?SiiuoDlies. M7 VThe danger In the present crisis Is that ffViMt, McAdoo, confronted by the necessity 2iV',- . .. .. .. .. ...... JrOT' rtinvigorating tne rauroaas mat nave j'i2Utin starved for years, will overfeed them ISyHl penalize the users of them .by increas- litWitt Mia iukq luu lliuvil. ., cr ate oil cu,ei Wl'r!.'wln the war that we will submit to Eabuses which we would not tolerate In j-iHrtttme of peace. But we have a right to peci uisi .tr.icAuoo win correct anuses tjA, fast as they are pointed out to him. ElS?- And, Incidentally, we also have a right to Eftuexpect that he will correct the abuses In Kx'ratejsi that have grown up through the dis- E A? J'5"7 ' ne ra'lroads fr the rights of JV'T tti" different Atlantic coast cities, most of which have suffered throuch the nnxietv of Kr.tlje railroads to favor the port of New York. &W fe'need look no further than Philadelphia Spsb "' Clear case or sucn discrimination. &p, j. (. win cose f.? 10 Kei irom .New iorK m1-? . ij .f h1tar1Tnhlu atltf Tuna in V.,,, I, In Rt'wlrth. it. E.. TKf r R V "A " st -.. ,tyS'- TWn?r who mr tissrn 3.mfr .. -ww . v ...... ..o.l. J2vKBIj'' tlJe world cherishes a great and . :a,eiftfirefc affertlnn for thn ti-hn Viln It n -- " .... ..w.. ,. ... Mtt !ta conventional troubles. Anna a, woo is aying in iew York, never "Mii anything to wisdom or science. She y -'uivi.g. Bnyimng 10 w J ajjaKovered no new i 3;,V philosophies. . country and founded And yet flowers are fcy? wateowerlng in on l&rr'-tVtsje country. her from the four corners Rnl hv mn anA n.nman . '.wh'os names she doesn't even know. Tele fjmruna of sympathy arrive In a constant :j)6J. She helped people to laugh occaslon syaliy, That was all. ,.5conomisis witnout numDer, explorers, kstprlans, scholars and the like, die and "?thr great populace Is not moved" to nnrrnn-. - "41 -, -- .. . wjjScience is concerned with projects to make Kl-Cjjkma, happier, and better In the future. orjtnoso wno nappen aiong to mane lire hap- jtCer In the immediate present are richly iwarded when they live and mourned .rtfr. they die. And that is about as It ' ajKHiId he. .TJhe Mayor says he smelled a rat In the czroage Dia. .s mat a new term for wantract Juggler? r&r ;;4 JpOOR EXCUSE IS WORSE THAN NONE w-,,TrHEN Senator Gerry, dT Rhode Island, : r .ITi seconded by Senator Saulsbury. of jSriaware, urged the passage of a bill jsfigklng bribery at the election of Senators si: VL 4Qr? nuuBo ui iiepresenia- Hsjn. a crime, Denaiors tiarcrwicK ana tfrinna objected to the consideration of SBfttfm''m3n1irA. t& JV'ftaev said the hill did tint rn far nMi.h fibij.r. .j:: :: .". . : ... r hiso inai me tasK oi arauing an ade- "corrupt practices act was so eompli Ifthat no one had yet succeeded in rrlL. These gentleman may be right. bfl impossible to draft an ideal , But the Gerry bill, favorably by the Committee on Privileges tlons, ts so simple and direct that apllshes what Is Intended, namely, rtflcatlon of bribery at a Federal I' m a, crime and the fixing of its Y Is unpunished in both Delaware Island, according- to the Eena- those States. There is no Federal which It can be punished and courts refuse, to enforce the Fwtoufre of Hardwtck and Gronna for f jn uerry oui is so poor that ai peuer nave onerea none. The 'ta.be pawed, for the protection ii.tbl year, Then when the succeeded In drafting; a i ,U4N4J. . . iJl T.J- - ?dER;TQTHE UTMOST ,v Freptr.ng to Tax, tho Rich nd the Toot According to Their Ability rpHE reasons the President advances for the immediate consideration by Congress of a new war-revenuo bill are convincing. In a sentence or two he sweeps aside the petty political con siderations which the party leaders had been urc;inp; against immediate action. They wanted to ro home to work for their re-election. But, says Mr. Wilson, "politics is adjourned. The elections wilt Bo to those who think least of it, to those who po to the constituencies without ex planation or excuses, with a plain record of duty faithfully nnd disinterestedly performed." The duty to be performed by Congress is to provide money for carrying on the war. There enn be no doubt of this. It obtrudes itself in every phase of war activity. Neither ordnance nor ships nor munitions nor man-power can be pro vided without money. Money is mobile military power. It is the ways on which armies travel. It is the motive force which constructs and explodes every shell and fires every rifle and machine gun and sinks every submarine. It is the master key which throws the bolt in the lock on the door in the wall of steel that Germany has built about Central Europe. The duty is so evident that, as the President says in his line phrase, we know it is there, nnd even though our eyes are closed we cannot help feeling its presence stark and naked before us. How it is to be performed is a matter of detail. Four billions more must be raised by taxation and a bond issue larger than any that lias previously been offered for subscription must be floated. The country cannot adjust its financial muscles for bearing this enormous burden, says the President, unless it knows in advance where it is to be placed. There is sound sense in this view. The taxes arc to be levied on the business of the current year, beginning on the 1st of last January. And the bonds arc to be floated in the autumn. It has heen suggested that $,000,000,00n is to be the amount of the loan. As soon as Congress begins the prepa ration of the new revenue hill we shall know in a general way what taxes are to be ir.ci eased. The President has already intimated that incomes, war profits and luxuries are to lie most heavily taxed. This means that the Government intends to take back from the men with war con tracts part of the money which they have received from the Federal Treasury, that the incomes of those men whose busi ness has been made prosperous indi rectly through the war are to be mulcted for the general good and that those who have the money to buy luxuries must pay to the Government a fee in the shape of an increased cost for the privilege of spending their money for things that are not necessary. There will be an undouhted disposition to force the rich to pay to the utmost, but Congress will make a mistake if it neglects to make the new taxes demo cratic in the broadest possible meaning of the term. A lowering of the limit of income-tax exemption i3 desirable in the interest of fair pla'y as well as in the interest of increasing the revenues. Au thority to levy an income tax was con ferred on Congress for just such an emergency as now confronts us. The rich must be taxed according to their ability to pay and the poor according to their means, for only thus can the money be raised. Hlndenbuig Is dying peacefully of ty phoid The Kaiser withes, doubtless, that he could get out nf it so easily. THE DRIVE AT THE outset of what some observers r believe to be the culminating action of the war, Germany Is menaced at the rear as well as upon the front. The Germans have devastated merely the soil of France and Belgium. But the desolation visited by the French and the British, America and Italy, in various ways, upon the common enemy, has gone deeprr than the earth. The spirit of Germany has been given to Are and tears. The Kaiser and hla keepers rule a sick land, a land weak ened by fear and hunger and sorrows un speakable. Despair has crowded Into every home. The soaring horrors of disillusion ment shadow the lives of all thp people. Reassurance nf some sort Is essential to keep Germany In equilibrium under this burden of affliction. The people have long perceived In the Potsdam element nothing more than n clique of ridiculous liars. Governmental brag no longer serves as a means of stimulus for the disheartened Hun. A military victory is Imperative. And the victory must look Impressive In print. This may explain the renewal of the drive in the general direction of Paris. Such an advance might fairly be plotted for moral effect rather than for any Immediate military advantage. Xo advance In the south could possibly bring about a decisive victory. Paris might fall and yet the great menace of the Allied armies, In positions as strong as those they hold at present, would remain. An advance carried far in the north, however, where the British are holding, would actually involve huge bene fits for the Germans. Some such action may be developing In connection with the extensive blow on the Rhelms-Solssons line In the south. An army such as Marshal Halg com mands In the north of France requires a great deal of free ground in its rear for purposes of transport and maneuver, for the disposition and maintenance of re serves. A glance at any map will show that the British have about fifty miles of lapd Intervening between them and' the sea on the line running from Ypres south to Amiens. They need every mils of that ground, A forced retirement, any action, that might' crowd them back for any con siderable distance, would endanger their entire system of transport and place the. line and reserve armies In danger of rout. The movements of troops necessary in bat tles so vast as they must fight would no longer be easily possible or sure. There fore, It beesta logical, to expect that fth ts nli.ll wss full force of the German thrust will ulti mately b delivered north oi Amiens. Near- ly every military man who has studied the problem of the British has agreed that an extensive forced retirement, if once begun, would be swiftly continued until the Allied armies were re-cstahllshed on the line of the Sommc River, from the sea to Amiens. Such a retirement would give the Germans the Channel ports, Calais and Boulogne, and would permit them to realize their ancient dream of a bombardment of Eng land. Hlndenburg or Uudenrtorff. or whoever Is directing the German strategy, doubtless would be willing to sacrifice men with the utmost ruthlessncss to such an end. The situation Is clearly understood .hy Allied commanders. The British have commented upon It with consistent nonchalance. The prediction of awful fighting made recently by the arlous generals seems to have been based upon a knowledge of German difficulties at home. The German army must win and win quickly, or dig In to await slow annihilation tinder the tramping feet of astly superior forces in the days when America has her mighty armies ready. Meanwhile, the people at home in Ger many mutter In pain and die of slow starvation. They will never revolt unless the army turns against the Government. And the nrniy Is mt llkelv In turn agnlnst the Government mi long as it is well foil and thoroughly deceit ed. unless severely defeated. The drle may fall of effect and leave only a more acute social crisis to brew in Gcrman.v. or the Allies may suf fer another setback, re-establish themselves further soutn and still wait for the moment of the Inevitable Gorman defeat. The Allies may retlie. But they cannot lose. Germany may advance, but she cannot win. In Austria they are exhuming cofllns to rip nut the zinc lin Inirs for military Ufes. Hul II Mn l.lneil With Aslieilo. Hon about llie ratafalnu" of th late Fran els .In.eph" Thin might 1" make a deadly projectile Indeed. Stnre likely to flivver. Mr. M develop Adon spoke any a neve affection man Is for his i let many has agrfln e x p r e s s e il warm friendship for flu'sla Onl.v l,ennnn' Enemies Are nfe And simultaneously the official newspaper of the Dolshevikl has said that Russia should imept milltar.v aid from the Allies The Holshevikl ale learning. .Iudc Boiinlwell demands a State chair man svmpaihetle with hi, ambition.'. How would .Veil Bonner do? Would jou ay that MUhl the police who have i I'lnrh stopped motor spoon III ing nn the Main Linn rnads have taken the merry out of Mertnn? THE ELECTRIC CHAIR Billet Doux a McAdoo ME, If those commandeering T ELI EVE --' young charms Which have raised fares to three cents a mile. Should compel us commuters to walk from our farms We still will have courage and smile; You may do what ou wish to the heads of tho roads. Tour tariffs go hitch to a star We commuters will carry the heaviest loads If you'll Just keep our Bonds above par. While Mr. McAdoo Is commandeering all public utilities, suppose he should take it into, his head to federalize the Electrlr Chair? Would he pay us three cents a smile? Prescribing for Hindy Wlien Hlndenburg feels sickly His case Is hard to chart: this like up per- tern- His pal- hls heirt. And tales Pi- . too spi ts His ra- queer; tion His pulse uneven running Poor Hlndy's learning to his grief The Very High Cost of "Hunnlng. Ring for the Pulmotor Hlndy called England's first expedition ary force a contemptible little army; per haps he thinks typhoid Is only a contempti ble little fever. First Hlndy had a special kind of Iron Cross soldered on to him; then he was dead; now he has typhoid. Is It possible that a hot dry climate doesn't agree with him? Germany Is always prepared. Hovr she is getting ready every possible excuse in advance for the failure of the new drive. We are expecting every day to hear that Tlrpltz has hydrophobia, which will ex plain the reluctance of the German fleet to get wet. Perhaps they're refitting those German dreadnoushts to operate on land as super tanks. They don't seem to be much use on sea. At least the Kaiser's fleet will never get barnacled from too long voyaging on salt water. a But to return to Hlndy: Perhaps hla trouble is Pershtngitls. The symptoms are annoying olive drab spots dancing across the retina. The sad feature of Pershlngttls Is that it gets steadily more severe. .Or perhaps Hlndy's ailment Is akin to the Kaiser's. The Kaiser has aj withered arm; Hindy a withered army. SOCRATES. Introduction to an Epitaph for Prussian Militarism GERMANY in annexing Russia will have about as easy a time as Jonah If he had tried to swallow the whale. a There Is n very comfortable analogy be tween Jonah and Prussian militarism. Jonah was told by the Lord to go nnd re buke Nineveh for its wickedness. He didn't relish the assignment nnd fled on ship board for Tarshlsh. Tarshlsh Is supposed to have been somewhere In Spain; "to go to Tarshlsh" was perhaps a slang phrase of that day meaning to Indulgo In pleasant dreams, like our "building castles In Spain." Tarshlsh wan a distant land of blue sky and orange groves, a land where one's am bitions would be nmply fulfilled. The Tarshlsh of the Prussian militarists was the vision of world domination. It Included a four-track, heavily ballasted elsenhahn to Bagdad, nnd Texas presided over hy Carranza. nnd England niled by Sir Roger Casement. The German mili tarists, like Jonah, (led trom the presence of the Lord. That was on July n. 1914, when the Kaiser held his great council at Potsdam. The war was cut and dried In ad'ance from that date: or so they thought, Germany took ship for Tarshlsh. "But the Loid sent out a great wind Into the sea. and there was a mighty tempest In the sea. so that the ship wa. like to be broken." By and hy the mariners spotted Jonah as the cause of their trouble. Anil Jonah, al ready somewhat queasj with the motion nf the vessel, admitted it. "1 know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you." In this Jonah was more honorable than the Prussian military clique which has not yet admitted that It wax its cynical con trlvincs that have shipwrecked Germany. "Nevertheless," the narrative continues. 'the men rowed hard to bring It to land, but thev muld not: for the sea wrought, and whs tempestuous against them. So they took up Jonah and cast him forth Into the sea." No men on earth ever rowed harder than the Germans have in attempting the im possible. But the se of mankind wrought, and will wreak further; and by and bv the Kaiser's shipmates will do to him and his cllijue what the mariners did to Jonah. But in one respect Jonah was greatly more fortunate than the Prussian militar ists will be. There was n large and capa cious fish waiting for Jonah, to save him fiom the fury of the waves. There will bs no whale waiting for the Kaiser. SOCRATES. ! The Historic Reconciliation milE following verbatim report of an af--- fecting scene enacted at the Blackstone Hotel. Chicago, last Sunday has heen re ceived In thii otllce. The language Is some what surprisingly phrased, but the prin cipals In the episode seem to have acted In i haracter and the eraclous flavor of the sentiments expressed Inspires the re flection that our correspondent has scored a heat on a lot of other reporters. Here is his stenographic record: R t Vou have done that you kIiouUI be sorry for. Was that done like T t? T t I denied you not. R t You did T t I did not He was hut a fool that brought' my answer hack. R t hath rived my heart. A friend hnuld bear a friend's infirmities It t Be angry when you will. Do what you will. r T t. you are yoked with a lamb that carries anger as the flint bears Are ; who much enforced shows a hasty spark, and straight is cold again T t Hath T t lived to be but mirth and laughter to his R t. when grief and blood ill-tempered vexeth him? It t When I spoke that I was Ill-tempered, too T t Do ou confess so much? Give me our hand. R t And my heart, too A bowl of wine ! T t I did not think you could have been so angry. R t O T t, I am sick of many griefs. Give me a bowl of wine. In this I bury all unkindness. T t' T t My heart Is weary for that noble pledge. Kill till the wine o'erflows the cup. I cannot drink too deep of R t's love. R t Our cause Is ripe. There is a tide into the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and In miseries. On such a full sea as we now afloat, and we must take the current when it serves or lose our ventures. T t Then with your will, go on. R t The deep of night Is ciept upon our talk. Thre is no more to say? T t No more. Good-night, n t Noble, noble T t. good-night, and good repose. T t O my dear brother. Never come such division between our souls. Let It not. R t. R t Everything is well. T t Good-night, my lord R t Good-night, good brother! Our correspondent insists that the fore going conversation Is accurately chron icled and he explains the occasional thea trlclsm of the language with the observa tionwhich he claims is original that "all the world's a stage." He adds, also, that he has written good thirty-seven plays a statement hard to credit. In view of the fact that none of the managers seems anxious for them. Costa Rica has taken the plunge Into the war for civilization. Who's next? Mexico's chief kick seems to be that full enjoyment of her chronic crises Is hampered by Cuban respect for orderly government Bernstorff Is said to be behind the Ger man plot In Ireland, but he seems to have been too far behind to do much with It. The kind of an Independence Day cele bration that the world Is looking for will be staged in Germany when the peace treaty Is signed freeing the oppressed people from military junkerlsm. MOTHER GOOSE ON WINGS SING a song of airships, ' Like birds up in the sky; ' Taking mall to Washington; Sea them soar so high! I was in the garden Watching a sweet rose. Heard the engine humming, I called oyt "There he goes!" And a kiss I sent him, A man I never knew, And prayed that God would keep him Until nla journey's through. S. CONSTANCE BOEHM. ,, i '"! ' " i C ri -fi " TMiTTAff x M4s&&&S2aBSG&i ifrmfasmxisi&! Elsewhere the Night Was Quiet Hy ui:im:.A!r leo Archibald British Royal Enginerrs HOW MANY of you who read yesterday's news from the western front, sitting nn your porch In the golden hush of a long summer evening, ever give a passing thought to the almost dally appearance In your favorite paper of such words as these: "G. H. Q. in France announces that last night on the Arras front there was pronounced activity from the enemy's artillery, elsewhere the night was quiet"? THE ARRAS front represents perhaps one-thirtieth part of the British line of trenches in France and Belgium, and .et along twenty-nine thirtieths of that hun dred odd miles of heavily garrisoned front jou (el; yourself "There was nothing doing". On the average, your summary Is Incorrect, as the following Illustration will set forth. ON THIS particular night I ehall take you with me to an area some fifty miles to the north of Arras. It Is our first night "In," after our customary four days' relief; and after following our activities for a brief portion of this night you will perhaps henceforth be better equipped to translate the word "quiet" as applied to warfare of the modern type. This is but one of six, or maybe ten, nights of our turn of duty, but each night will see staged here a "show" and, furthermore, a performance with a similar purpose is very probably being enacted in countless other theatres along this same circuit, which will coptinue nightly until we shall see the curtain rung down on the last scene of the last act. SPRING IS approaching and with It Is coming the Inevitable spring offensive. That much we are certain of. But where will the blow fall? Tonight we are going to see If those opposite can assist us In solv ing this highly important problem. The "committee of investigation" on this oc casion consists of two parties of bombers of twelve men each, both In charge of an ofllcer, and 2 a. m. Is the time set for the Investigation to commence. At 1:30 are seen to slip over the top Into the inky blackness of No Man's Land an engineer officer and a sapper, carrying between them a curious yet harmless looking object, at tached to which are two slender threads which might be wires. At 1:40 the sapper returns and reports to one of the bombing officers that all is in readiness. AT 1:50, at two points In the trench some .fifty yards apart, two parties of men crawl noiselessly over the parapet. Their faces are blackened, all regimental badges are removed, and a white patch of cloth about half the size of a handkerchief pinned to the middle of their backs. There Is also an ominous looking bulge In the pockets of their tunics. Walking, creep ing, crawling, these two parties proceed along converging lines of tapes to within, a few yards of the enemy's wire, where they come upon the engineer ofllcer. No words are spojven. None are necessary. The brigade artillery is co-operating, and as the second hand reaches the division, on the luminous dial marking the arrival of 2 o'clock, a thunderous roar crashes out of the night, and simultaneously a blinding flash and heavy detonation In the enemy wire immediately In front. Salvo after salvo of high explosive la delivered from our guns Into some enemy trenches a hun dred yards or so to our right. This artil lery action la but a diversion, calculated TRY. TRY SOME MORE YET Jc to make Fritz look for an assault In an altogether different locality from the one we have selected. Curiously enough an Instant later there streams through the air above our heads and from our own para pet a thin thread of Are, which bursts abovo the foe trench Into a dazzling ball of light, and where had appeared the blind ing flash In the entanglement of wire Im mediately in front, there now lies open n cleanly cut path ten feet In width, leading right through to the parapet of the trench. Ql ICKLY and still silently a rushing body of kilted and blackened-faced men swarm up this path, and with a roar are "over the bags" and Into the enemy trench. Here the body splits Into two parties again, ea"h surging and fighting Its way In oppo site directions along the trench. Each man has an appointed taslt to perform, all ex cepting one, who merely comes as a spec tator and with the intention of annexing a souvenir or two. He Is the engineer officer, whose duties ended with the sudden appear ance of that neatly cut path through the tanglefoot. SUDDENLY a whistle blows. It Is the signal, and although the watches Indi cate seven minutes past two. It seems that but a minute before we were scrambling in through the gap. Down the trench from both directions come panting men In kilts, Their faces are blackened and they wear no badges, but from the pockets of their tunics havo disappeared those peculiarly shaped bulges. Some of them limp, others have to be entirely supported, while others of them urge along In no uncertain fashion frightened and battered looking creatures in gray uniforms. Back they go across No Man's Land to their own trenches, Tonight we are more fortunate than usual, for we have beaten the Boche gunners home by several seconds. Sometimes we don't. INTO THE eager hands of battalion head quarters go, on this occasion, six pris oners; while back to the "first aid" post there slowly moves the procession of our own wastage. Tonight there are but eight casualties and no "missing." Some of the wounds are slight, others are more serious one of the officers is minus an arm. But sometimes the record is different. Yet G. II. Q. announces next morning that "Last night on the Arras front there was pro nounced activity from the enemy's artillery, elsewhere the night was quiet." Stamps and War Liberty Bonds and taxation are tq be the methods by which the Government Is to raise money to promote the war, but there Is no doubt it can depend much upon thrift stamps, for by this means everybody, If he is anybody, gives something, and that little massed together will go a great way toward paying the expense of the war. Don't have It said back In the dark closets of your own conscience that you have not bought a thrift stamp. It is so easy to show one's devotion to the Republic that nobody can have the slightest reason for not owning several stamp. Buy thein, keep on buying theih, for It Is really the best way to supply the boys at the front. If we were going to question a person to sound, his patriotism, we would ask, have you a thrift pr war savings stamp? Ohio State Journal. t -" 1 , A Business Proposition Vers llbre fro.m the Little Rock Gazette: Oscar say' , That since the daylight-saving plan . Went into effect lie has saved About fifteen hours, Which he woulirllke to trade For a ham. or something. t THE CANTEEN By Phoebe Hoffman rpHE road to France is a long, long road -" Over mountains and sea and plains. But whether they're passing north c? south, "To France" sing the panting trains. 0 pilgrims to the battlefields, Crusaders for our cause, We can but give you food and drink As the snorting engines pause. We joke and pass out cigarettes And shake your eager hands, And wish you all "the best o' luck Out there" in foreign lands. We can but give you food and drink And shake your eager hands, But we are with you night and day "Out there," in foreign lands. The road to France is a long, long road Over mountains and sea and plains, But whether they're passing vwth or south We're there for the panting trains. Have Beaten Burbank The Germans have put one over on Luther Burbank, for they handed the Russians a perfectly good olive branch bearing full grown lemons. Hickory (N C.) Record. The Prussian Way Germany's Idea of self-determination Is to send efficient butchers to those countries which the Ignominious Bolshevlkl forced Into political bankruptcy. Savannah News. Then and Now The main difference between a modern Bolshevist and an ancient French Terrorist Is that the latter took a chance. Washing, ton Post. Theory and Reality It Is strange that our soap box orators don't go to Russia, where everything is so lovely under Socialism and where things only cost Ave times as much as they do here New Haven Union. No Wonder One of the American boys In Pershing's army writes home that he has survived six gas attacks. Ills marvelous endurance Is accounted for by the fact that he halls from Lincoln, Neb. Rochester Post Express. What Do You Know? QUIZ, c 1. Identify "the Kaie of Klnderhook." 2. What Is a err? 3, Name the author of "I'endennls," 4, What Is the distinction between aareasm aid Irony? s. Where Is IllsaT 0, Who Is f'olonel General Conrad von tioet- ' zendorft? fc 1, Uho was JlerrnrT 8. What Is the nermal and present raloe ot a Herman mark? i 0. What Is a "splrltoal"? " -i 10. Who la Ilerr ton Emmlnrer? - Answers to Yesterday'' Quiz I. Yale I'nlrersltr Is located at New Havso. Cans. 3. Charlfa Dickens wrsi "A Tala ot Two titles." 3. Indiana, Is trom a natlva word meanlm "Indians' Ground." 4. The- following thsea PresUanta died on In- dapendenee Dan John Adams.. Thomas Jefferson, In lata, and James Monroe I 18SI. . 5. Sir llorneo rianselt Is tho. leader of the asrartan rehabilitation af Ireland, l was rhalrman of tho recent home rala convention. 6. "V, Jl.ll. A." th-fawlllar apl.illoo for the Youni lien's Hebrew Association. 7. Vermont was the flrjt Slats admitted Into ' the union of -the thirteen orlslnal Ute. 8. 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