WBS ' ,t. (Hf.'ySPf'T'iv ' s rMK" ' "' 1 -1. i n m. c 1 ,. .'"TO ' iV ' " ' r- EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHIL ADELPHfA, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 11)18 &L.1 v ?T i ". .A . ... j . ntnt Htthltr Mnir i v.1?',-..-.1- . W rUBL.lt; LLUUttl lAJMrAWX 'h,.Ctn3U H. i:. CURTI8. FatainitNT . CltNM M. LutMngton, Vice Presidents John C. mm. laaratary and Treasurer! Philip S. Collins. paVa. Wllllami. John J. Spurs-ton, Directors. 'l" EDITORIAL BOARD: To-t-t (CnssH. K. Crani. Chairman cATn. iiflLKT Editor MBf C MARTIN.... Otnsral Business Manacer V'- ANa4 dally at Fcauo T.rnan Bulldlnc. .waepenaence iquare. l'miaaeipma., 11 CiiTllL,... Broad and Chestnut Streets Jrno ClTT ...iPre-l7nlo Bulldlnf Toast.... , ...:0 Metropolitan Tower rr.t.v,.. ua i-ora Huiimna CIS.... 100ft Fullerton Bulldlnic 0. ..., i . . . 1202 Tribune Building b 'Si anna vunuus: irnK K. "cfr. Pennsylvania A... and 14th St ........ .-... ('A,r J Eciuli ..The Sun Bulletins 'sV SUBSCRIPTION TERMS ittfiV-th XTaniNO Peine Lihk Is served to sub- (T?Vftffcra In Philadelphia and aurroundlnr towns SSftalt te rat o twelve (U) cents per week, payable jSIJ to tha carrier. fw ? wr mail "o popus ouisiaa or rniisaeipnia. in KT k7tlnltd states. Canada, or United States cos. 9'sjiMlona, aostaia free, fifty (Si) cents ir month. ,vit.y T all farelan countries ona (tl) dollar cer EM w blWorici Sobcrlbers wlshlnr address chanced ?f- muai lire 01a as weu as noT aaaress. &.t ; !'- mi ma .t 1 ,,.. ,- w.,..lui. th,KII. if"" ,Ldfler, iNtepernJmre aauore, i'ilIodcljiWa. frC.. '.. .. .TWO,?-" sreoso class hail Ultra. Al FhllasMplila. SilurdaT. June I. 1918 ut .'"'- .; """" $f - ' AMERICA AT THE FINISH iKi laflERMANY and the battlefront nnd Penn- S.4tJ ftvlvanlft on 1lnl?fi4 Ir.nlnrnW- In thn aaf r;;.;. -::" "::'":. ,-- irawn vi 1110 iiiumRiu irom vauous sourucs Vt. .- r, T....I. .. Jtj.ife about to put a query adequate to jo , tar tie America. They will ask presuma- t$V'a Wy with a view to enllghtenlriB the German M .ftJople why the submarines permitted m OO.OOO Americans to be landed In Francfc v'hlj, 0ara! Peyton C. March, chief of staff J? ,t the) United States arpny, said in an ad-iJ-driS at Easton that the American ol tft Urs itransported abroad in May exceeded s .th total number of our men in France u ii-last January. fSa, The developments of the German drive g$pf and the suggestions of stupendous efforts $ifi by the United States In mobilizing a huge l&-artny abroad make It apparent that the JP Allies are waiting for us to help definitely M"and upon a large scale to a declsl e lctorj . H The more cxtenshely we participate in g? ,the war the greater our responsibilities will IS??'6 when 'l ends- Tn point of lew of fvWashlngton will be a deciding factor In the JcSs problems of foreign najjons. We shall tf have to aid In re-establishing European jrtM civilization. We may even ha e to re lse RT?a,our own manners and institutions to con- pH"conn to new conauions and new meals else- Shre In the world. yi. m Cltllt I. T3hr. 1. nnn .Un nAnl .. SI UUili III i C11I1QJ l tlllia. IIIO LJCUUIO DtlUtY BO Interest In politics. i?Y A .-a vara 'n n.anm. (hat .hi C.n.A n v. A .fit -'.- -W ..... . J J imfi ciiy are sun conieni id regciru waru JT politics as an adequate training school for rthe men who mil have to face and solve &&. stupendous questions of the lmme- ?5Ute future? 5 jH While many saloons are closing here g&JMMause of poor business, It might be ob- y4rvd that the only hanny tank nowadays Vi'-'lSithe one that runs by aasoline. $pg , CANT BE FOOLED WG'iajjiiniAiTJK i'lsriKutjei explains tnat tne :w3ik Independent oters did not go to the a-r7i,T tnrial laha aA ,n y- that lis9it tpnile n nuM siiy """" " ' """ "" "" v.-.u i7ii be. challenged. If they had voted, Beldle- . fannn Hrl nf fifnii unnM na A parcf.il tVila r.rdty, In his opinion. 5" ' Tt would ho Interesting to know w hat the Independent voters think of this theory. L-tT YITjk mtm nrinlii tr t lira iim a rtAllnv tf S&4olighnut that they do not agree with the j ..ienator. 'hfUS Tha.lndenendent voters wo staved awav V w.m m nplm.plea .11.1 en liA,.aliA rtn nhninm jt,-, jras offered to them. Beldleman and Scott SM-re both tarred with the same political TV 11 tl a 1W rttlnnnllvtai ntrj1 iy,'lielther stands for those things In which the X-'Jndependents are Interested. ,-' T l tMnnB.tMa tn fnnl tViA nannla TTTnan J,,. AU ..fc.fc,V0.U.0 . w. ...- ,-..w ....... j leaders arise who fceea? nrst tne good or Fetne Jjomrnonweaun ine people wm recoe- ''ionize them on sight and will fall in line, fe'provlded the leaders are men of force and MlcharsCfcS'' capable of carrying out a reform !&S)JSrofrarn. They do not care about a mere .V.austiaKhlf. for offices. i.i i;ei w KS& 7 Acting Superintendent Mills has re Wf?i? pulsed another drU on the Police Depart Krowent and the enemy Is said to be growing kj short of food. IfTHERE ARE VARIOUS WAYS OF DOING 7 uun uii R. McADOO says that the railroad shop men at Alexandiia, Ya., who walked wt in order to force the payment of iJjjMJher wages e idently forgot that they are S'BOW employes of the Government. .sTHe says further that there has been no $k Strike of Government employes hitherto uq ma. h BiriKc 111 111a prracjii. crism would be an extremely unpatriotic act. ft There is no doubt of the correctness of ihls point of view. The pay of all railroad -'iii il 11.. I... ViAAn lnipaaa,l anH iKtA )nIIVJ.. .WO ..V... ...... .U....U H..U ... fralrht and passenger rates have been f? "raised to provide the money, The country Alphas accepted the situation. It expects the 'wpmen and all other men engaged In any :?Wnd of railroad work to help win the war mVf AVM;nlie, .. CV"i.i ..v. Kiijreui n triotlsm ought not to be made In vain. 1 r -- tv:. rr: . . jgSWTWre are Kieis ana Keeis Americans ilttly prefer the latter, and the prize are doing their best to make them more popular. if! ',fj THE WHY OF THE COW a, judicious business man in the Ml ef his senses pays $16,000 for 'mw eh fnAMinf pannnl n r.iacAH k -, .... - r-"- "J ut a search for a general moral. The ftotr has Just been bought In i almost Oriental-peace broods'upon the Cows do, a great service, but they jrsMsr.agentlLtiTChey-do not crow, .r Ti'M.-rfz...- ur-.--.-it.i.c.. .- flej"Vff&? tporjf snsAlBf' WtfcmVjerliiS5PiLby'vJt9 mad hMi.5iny.."eWe'sll-rreen tttisis)wt:ysy;-1mlnd,"and the (pMiwtlUiifeBtloJto their vlr' wtjfclfresai-aifrf.iiipon f"a' world WORTH HALF A MILLION MEN The New Austro-Gernian Tresty Ju'tlfici the I'urpofe of the Enlente to DeMrny Prufinn Milllarimi rpHE new treaty between Germany and Austria deserves consideration from two different but allied points of view: one from its relntion to the Mittel Europa conspiracy nnd tho other from its effect on the non-Germnn populations of Austria-Hungary. A treaty was negotiated with Turkey some time ago which made that country virtually n vassal of Germany. This agiecmcnt brought the Asiatic part of the Berlin-to-Bagdad plan into tho realm of the practical, assuming that Germany is victorious in the war. The new treaty binds Austria-Hungary to Germany for a period of twenty-five years and solidi fies the central part of the great Euro pean empire which the Kaiser is trying to create by force of arms. It pledges the two rulers to employ the entire strength of their peoples for military purposes, and to treat the armies of the two coun tries as one army, dominated by the German commanders, with the subordi nate officers interchangeable. It makes the military supplies of each nation avail able for either nnd it provides for the organization of industiy for military purposes. The treaty expressly states that "the allied nations shall devote all their care to have their armies enter into an eventual future conflict fully prepared and at a maximum of their strength." It continues: "Only thus will the future war be of brief duration; for had the armies of both the allies been in this condition in 1914 this war would have been ended long ago." There is here formal notice to the world that if by any chance the Central Powers should lose this war they will fight another one and strike so hard at the beginning that they cannot be re sisted. It means that Mittel-Europa is to be established by force of arms; if not now, then in the future. It sends glimmering down the wind all hope that disarmament can follow this war and that the world can have a period of peace until and unless the military power of Germany is absolutely destroyed. If any have doubted the imperative necessity of defeating Germany by force of arms and compelling upon her such a peace as the sense of the civilized world demands they can no longer have excuse for entertaining such counsels of weak ness. Tho probability that this treaty will defeat its purposes does not make the defeat of Germany less necessary. The non-German races in Austria-Hungary are restless. Some of them are already revolting. Bohemia is seething with revolutionary activity. Every Bohemian and Czech and Slav and Croatian and Slavonian and Serb in the empire knows what the military dominance, of Germany in their country means. They have been deprived of their liberties by the Aus trian Germans, but the cruelty of the Austrians is mercy in comparison with that of the Prussians. As the nature of this tieaty becomes known to the people they aie likely to rise in rebellion. And they will have the sympathy and co operation of the nations of the Entente Alliance. Austro-Hungarian regiments have already deserted to the Italians and to the Russians and are fighting their own country. Civil war would, of course, bring into Austria-Hungary German regiments under the treaty which makes the armies of the two nations one army. Such war would hasten the victory of the Entente. However great a triumph for the Mittel-Europa idea this treaty may seem in Berlin, it is worth half a million men or more to the nations fighting for democracy and peace. It steels their purposes and justifies their determina tion to destroy militarism and it plants in tho heart of the conspiracy the seeds of destruction by aiousing every instinct of self-respect and independence in the non-German races subject to German rule. Airplanes thMe days are making more noise than Mr Borglum. ART AND OUR UNCLE JOE "CtROM the tumult and hubbub of wartime In Washington Uncle ,loe Cannon is snatching Intervals to have his portrait made. He Is to be done impressively in marble. And everybody who has sensed the subtler Implications of American life will observe with a pang of regret that Mr. Davidson, the sculptor. Is sculping him without his Immemorial stogie Grave and serene as Cicero, Uncle Joe is to look down upon posterity' This Is Fad. Art Is short vlsloped here. The lank black cigar o the Cannon heyday is, in a way, as character istic of Washington as the dome of the Capitol. It !a more. It has been a land mark In our political philosophy. Who will not remember the old days and the tumult above which that stogie rose like a beacon of hope? Political factions were turning turtle, Theodore ran a-wild. The muckrakers walled in the streets and screeched of cataclysm and wrung their hands. Bolshevism was abroad in the high places. It was stylish to hit out at anything or anybody that suggested money. Business, big and little, was gassed con sistently for vears. Nonchalant and grim and contemptuous. Uncle Joe withstood the uproar. His stogie, tilted high and un qulvering, was one of the few valid signs of 1)P i thing that cheered despairing eyes. Bubbling sophomore Jn government learned, to shrink Into silence when It tilted a little higher to the battle" ang e. It be came a wand that ofjert quieted jiysterla.' Misfortune beat upon Uncje Jo at last'. ,But he remained the undlsmaye and un despalrlng prophet of common seine to the last. He was a rock in t'ortny seas. And yWjSJW9 ot dfjJilWQvaiKipj '"taiPBRr :.'.w Is MJ1 to JWoFtnl iw?hS-l plate Uncle Joe with gratitude, to return him to eminence and ponder upon the source of his wisdom. Sometimes nn answering hint rings In the speeches of the sage. Then it seems that the soil has touched him In the deeps of his being. To understand him jou must look around upon life rather closely. There nro some, for Instance, who seem to be lieve that the spirit of America Is Kitten house Square. Others hre as fttsurcd that It is Chicago or Broadway or Wall street or Colonel Itoosevclt. Mr. Vare has mo ments when he seems to bellevp that the spirit of Ameiica is sanctuarled below South stteet. The Honorable Cannon Is one of the few who appear now and then to sense the truth. He has realized that the nation everywhere still lives most actively in tho soit nnd In the things close to tho soli, in tho people and the beliefs, the woes and the ecstasies of open country. Even In his moments of diversion tho free earth reflects Itself In the utterances of this elder states man Once not long ago It was his pleasure to speak of the troubles of western Con gressmen "The people out my wav.," snid he, "have too much faith. They think you nre om-' nlpotent. They come to you for help when the crops are laid by the storm or when the sun shines too long and there is drought Thoy come when the wife falls 111 to die and when the bo leaves home at Inst when t'.le weevil gets in the cot ton, when the sun doesn't come after the rain, when the prairie dog gets at tho wheat and when the rnln falls in hnrvest." In this short summary of the elemental troubles of most of manKlnd there Is some thing of almost scriptural truth and dig nity. Uncle Joe In this Instance sensed the chief concerns of the larger America poignantly enough. The cities have trou bles quite as deep and unchanging But we do not know what they are becauso there Is no L'ncle Joe to speak for them. Germany always did enjoy herself marching to tho Marne. It's the return trip that is painful THE WOMEN'S PART MUST take our hats off to the A American housewife," said Herbert C Hoover, national food administrator, in this city jesterday. "She alone deserves most of the credit for feeding: the armies abroad " -Mr. Hoover's reference was to the cheer ful and tireless and efficient co-operation of American women with the food admin istration in Its conservation program The stupendous exports of food reported by the food administrator show how much has been saved on tho average American table. More than 300,000,000 pounds of pork has been shipped to England and France and Italy. And yet there has been no discom fort or complaint In America, though other commodities have been sent abroad In equally vast quantities. Mr. Hoover's picturesque phrase suggests no more than a Just appraisal of the situa tion. Women have done marvels In silent co-operation with the Government since the war began. It may be that they read more closely between the lines of the wr news than the average man. For It must be plain to everybody that food Is still as essential In Europe as ammunition. The Germans have consls2ntly tried to break tho morale of the civil populations in the fighting nations abroad. They have depended on hunger and hjsteria The civil populations sup port the lighting armies. They must have food. In an emergency they could supply their own ammunition. But most of the meat and grain necessary to sustain them must go from this side of the world until the war Is over Now we shall have summer weather till the third of Jul. Congi cssmen who have Just Inspected Hog Island are bald to hae been loud In thWr praise" it must have been easy for them to be loud blnco they practiced m In-sls-tently In their blame. The cables report a Sound Reasoning serious condition in Turkey. If conditions in Turkey are merely herlous, they must have Improved within the last twenty-four hours. More In pity than In anger be It said that, the Finns, now almost completely under German domlnat.on. are a nation of poor fish. Mr. Hoover ajs there So Thrj Pay ttfe. 10,000 wavs of preparing food avail able In this country But a boarding houto cook knows how to make stew In more ways than that. Some of us may not be nblo to fcay Cantlgny In correct French, but no Ameri can need hesitate to pronounce It a victory. Judging from tho dls. Klated b Surceas order In Finland tl e In Ireland Germans must be try ing to endow a Slim Finn. Candidates for the role of Roger Case ment please apply at the box office, Berlin. What Is the difference between a High Majesty and a High Apostolic Majert) ? The difference between an ace and a Joker, "Regulations fcr or- Vhy Austrian ganlzat'on cf the nl- Kalarrs lied (I n German and L,eae Home Austrian) troops shaM be drawn up according to one principle, the Initiative of which shall be left principally to Germany " (From the new German-Austrian treaty ) German and Austrian troops are to be "educated" to mutual esteem, love and ap preciation. What a havaae state of brotherly love must exist between them! It the good were only clever. And tho clever were only good, The world would be This Is Our Faorlt? Poem, not Who Wrote It? better than ever We thought It possibly could. But, ohl It is seldom or never That things happen Just as they shou'd: The good are so harsh to the clever, The clever so rude to the good 1 'is not the draft reaching large enough, proportions to be called a, gale? The Kaiser will think so, at any rate. Does Mr. Bryan Know It? To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger; Sir A letter In the Kvenino Pubmc Idoer, entitled "Th IJquor Party,," has' ailed,' Im tarvpMtta. Dtinlayv1 itnrriHiaiitl ? t,a Fwmw PMi't ?i-,u auuiiiviivi Al Ull f. certain emocrauc reaueuri, unaware untljjj this mo, V,ttUiAlt,Jrown-6r'atri It jtiim ir-TrTu fstffljilljjiilTil rT mini; U f talH, W4?mfKw?,' 4fmtm .kita..-!-- I . 'xi .... ."v KBHiea. THE AUSTRIAN CHILD'S GARDEN OFJTERSES Ax it mifiht bloom in a Berlin planned Future (With apologies to n, L S,) The new treaty forced upon the Emperor Carl by the Berlin Junkers places Austria under the complete military domination of Germany for twent-five years, during whis'i time, preparations for 4 future wars" shall be incessantly conducted by every class In the population. Happy Thought THC world is so full of the plunder of things, I'm sure we can all be as bloody as kings. The Trundrcr TtTHEN Carl, the Kaiser, moves around, His shackles make a curious sound; Enmeshed in pitfall and in gin, He trundles feebly to Berlin. My Bed Is a Tank jlTY BED Is like a little tank, J.VJ. Tho Germans force me to embark; They stow me w here the air is rank And leave me in the dark. And sometimes things Inside I take. As hungry soldiers have to do; Perhaps a slice of garter snake Or sandwiches of shoe. All night we plan "eventual war," And when tho dawn Is near The Junkers have not ceased to roar. The ofHeers to snaer. Looking Forward WHEN1 I am grown to man's estate I shall be forced to Hght and hate. And with a gang of servile pals Bomb children In the hospitals. H. T. C. RUBBER HEELS An Ecstatic Tribute She does not whistle, shout or hum, And watch the clock all afternoon; She does not chew Incessant gum, She does her job, nnd docs It soon. She keeps the calendar correct, She does not tangle up the files; She gives the boss no disrespect, Nor plajs tag in the stockroom files. She does not wear Ink on her fas?, She Is no fount of endless nolso: Our office Is a different place Try office girls Instead of boys. HEXItY PLJVNTAGENET. Our Own Baccalaureate Sermon AN OLD tradition, so old that not even .the war can shake It, was faithfully ob served when It rained at Haverford'on Commencement Day. But It would tnke more than rain to daunt the spirits of Socrates, escaped for one morning from the keyboard of his typewriter, observing in his unobtrusive way the delights of a green campus. It Is well to know that even In the thunder and terror of the present day there are still these quiet Islands where outh may continue the eager pastime of trying to throw salt on the tall feathers of Truth. Colleges try to be as kind as possible to their seniors on graduation day. Many a pleasant form of words Is devised to con ceal from these luckless oung men the bitter fact that a week or so later they will be working for their lllng. As we watched President Comfoit, of Haverford, awarding diplomas to his grad uates with the customary and humorous phrase, "I confer upon you the degree of Bachelor of Arts, with nil the rlght3 and privileges pertaining thereto," we could not help wondering just what those privi leges are The possession of the diploma is no longer the mystic sacred dignity that It once was. This is not the Middle Ages, when Merchants and drl' ers of motortrucks unhatted themselves wnen they met a learned Bachelor on the street. The bac calaureate diploma conveys no boclal rank; It cannot even be exchanged for a commu tation ticket. And nowadays, we think, the young graduate no longer bothers to have it framed in gilded walnut to hang In the parlor. He spends his money on thrift stamps instead. And et that diploma still symbolizes a very precious privilege indeed, and it Is well that our young Bachelors of Arts and of Sciences should understand It. The "privileges pertaining thereto" He behind the parchment, not in front of It. They are in the past, not in the future. They are completed, not Just beginning. c . The privilege of the diploma Is that of having been allowed to work for it. Of having been for four years exempt from the ordinaiy responsibilities of mankind; of having enjoyed a serene and care-free apprenticeship In the difficult art of living. The privilege of undlstracted opportu nity to make an acquaintance with the thoughts of great teachers; of having viewed (even from a distance) the great and shining edifice of systematic specula tion that men have reared despite the Uughter of Time. The most satisfactory college education Is one that so Influences a man that after he has been ten years (or twenty years, or thirty jears) out of college, he feels him; self Just reaching the point where he could really benefit by the college Courses. In other words, a college education, like most other things In life, is cherished not so much for what It gtves us as for what it might have given. Even the Kaiser, you may have noticed, feels that he might have got more out of militarism if he had gone Into It more thor oughly. He says he will do, better, next time- That is a very healthy frame of mind; but, unfortunately, In the Kaiser's case It is directed to a wrong end. Young men and women of the graduat ing class, the world which Is about to em ploy you, salutqsr youlj roubjJteulbsVf? had vo.uiijj tvaWtjteni tv-.t:rMjsf vith IMr l&atfl in flM,bdt MVfU Ju W "NOW EVERYBODY'LL KNOW WE AGREE, u-!;:. ., r - . - - a-tL'-n-j ? '- THE GREATER HATRED By Simeon Strunsky A MAN may light his enemy without hatred. A man cannot fight pollution without loathing. Assault on life nnd limb may be more easily forgiven than assault on one's faith In our common humanity It is this greater hate that Kalserlsm has been Invit ing nnd receiving In full measure, Kalerlsm Is not only embnrked on the en terprise of subjugating human freedom; it lias proclaimed war against the spirit; It Is cheerfully practicing the one unpardonable sin. It has broken through the third and last defensive line of those who grounded themselves In the creed that there are limits to evil. Are there still persons who say. Though he slay me jet will I believe.' Kalserlsm Is apparently decided to go on slajlng until humanity ceases to believe In humanity This Is the hour for the hard-headed man outside of Germany who never took any stock in nil this Idealistic nonsense His "I-told-you-so" Is very hard to answet If he reminds us of his. warning against Germany long before the war, what is one to say at first thought? What Is one to &av when he Insists that after the raid on Belgium there should no longer have been any doubt of the German rulers' wlll-to-evll, and that the Lusitanla, the U-boat ruthlessness, the airplanes over London and Paris, the poison ga, the bombarded hospitals! and hospital ships, the lies of Bethmann-Hollweg and Cierntn, tho assassination of Russia, could have been scientifically predicted? To have believed otherwise was it an) thing but what has been called weak-mindedidealism? PERHAPS It was weak-mindedness. Yet It was a disease to which our hard headed friend was not altogether Immune. He, too, had the fundamentals of a faith Kor a long tlmo he consented to a distinction between the German people and Its rulerB. He was Idealistic enough to believe that murder on land and sea. pillage and perjury wero not the creed of 70.000.000 souls; at least In their normal condition. The chorus of popular rejoicing In Kalserland over the Lusitanla murders he was willing to explain as a temporary aberration,, as the expression of panic and poison cunningly Instilled into the veins of a people by a ruthless Govern ment. It was not only the "Idealists" who were anxious to see the truth about the war brought home to the German people. But to believe that the Gorman people only needed to know the truth about their rulers In order to divorce itself from their Iniquity was Idealism after all. The question of Idealism or weak-mindedness, as we may choose to call It, was there fore one of degree aside from those, of courso, who were hard-headed to the nth degree, who had no illusions at all about human nature, who belleve'd that at all times man Is to man a wolf, and the chief pursuit of man Is to be there first with tho punch. But with a great many It was a qustlon of degree. Soma of us came down to solid earth after Belgium. A great many gave up- hope after the Lusitanla. A few may have persisted nfter the prolonged Bernstorff Hollwcg comedy had its denouement in the declaration of unrestricted frlghtfulness on the seas. Even after America went Into the war it vvas still a question whether that war ought to be waged as against a ruthless caste dominating a misled people, or againut a people whose conscience w-au temporarily sick. The answer came after Brest-Lltovsk, when Russia was dlemembered and Its new born freedom stifled, and there came from' tho German people a murmur, a feeble move ment of protest, and .acquiescence. WA8 It weak-mindedness to have kept up hope through three and a half years of disillusionment? Perhaps; when one Judges by what might have happened to the vyar if every one of us had seen as clearly In May, J 9 15, as we did in January, 1918. Hut the question is whether, embracing the truth In, May, 18I5t we could have held It as firmly, as free from doubts as we do now after three years' endeavor to believe In the fundamental human conscience even In Germany. The fervept Mr. Creel, In his usual large-typo manner, did speak for a good many of his countrymen when he declared that our golngi Into the war ufter Ions hesitations and unpre pared wan something not altogether to be ashamed of. (Mr. Creel put it more emphati cally, but that was jto be expected,) What he meunt, and 6aldafLM70,ueh''W8t and -(BK1sfla "t"of on ffikjt nqtuaraTone om auca. " 'n. i TV J ini .VS,U Hl iDUUfWjaauai! . TM? .. r- i-. -s-jj" ,i--i. - - -- .-.nrl-- - -j fi- '"L f -'.jCtVSC'.J- versy. It is enough that there was such a state of mind In this country. ft may be said, of courso It has In en said that the moral conscience which needs three and a half jears of crime to stir It to action Is a sick conscience, and that the judgment which needs three and a hilf years of disillusion to find the truth U a very feeble judgment. The words poltroon and Imbecile have also been used; but of such words is tho language of controversy. Yet there are some who will not regiet that up to the last moment the did hold to the fajlh In common humanity, who believe that the handicap we have thus Imposed on our effectlvcnesj In bilnglng the war home to the Kalsei may be partly compensated by a clearer understanding and firmer convic tion, once the decision has been made, Or by a greater hate; to which Colonel Roosevelt certainly will not object. I T SHOULD not be difficult to urove that this hatred of Kalserlsm and Us works hums more Intensely In the hearts of a good many belated converts thin It docs In the shrewd, hard-headed person who knew tho Kaiser's Intentions from the very beginning, from before the beginning If jou have believed from tho beginning tl'at Germany was bound to act as she has acttd, whenever the opportunity offered, then nil that Germany has done can hardly be a shock to ou, though It may be a nasty prob lem. You cannot be disillusioned when you set out with no Illusions. You cannot be Indignant when jou are prepnred for tho worst. When j-ou have held to the faith of humanity organised on the principle of get ting in the first blow, tho other fellow's flist blow may bo a peril, but It can hcarcely be called an atrocity. In moments of rhetoric jou ma' speak qf Germany as the enemy of mankind, but what jou mean is ouly the various nations thit make up mankind Its. geographical divisions. You do not mean humanltj'. IT IS Kalserlsm's assault on one.'s' faith in humanltj' that has brought n new hatred upon '.ts head. Not so much what Kalserlsm has done to the people of Belgium, or. Fiance, or. Serbia, or Russia, or even wh,at It has done to the women and children of Pails and London, but 'what It ha done to the hearts and minds of the German people, It' began with befooling the Judgment nf the German people'by false dangers and panics. It has steadily warped and polsond and coerced until German mothers approved the slaying of French and British mothers fiom he skies; until German .Socialists betrayed the cause of their "brothers" everywhere outside Germany; until the German people has been won ever to a policy of rapine and domination. It has cast Its malign shadow over the spirit of a formerly great nation, Today the world's hatred goes out to the murderers of an Ideal. (Copyrlsht,) Dr. Alexander MetKle- The Truthful . John, president of Ami ' . Reader herst College, told aJ very pleasant story In his address to the graduating class at Haver ford the other day. ' It -seems that President Lowell, of Har vard, had just published, a new book,,, and had asked his publisher to send compllmenv tary copies to some pf his friends. By mis take, two copies, pf.the book were sent to pne gentleman,, who promptly wrote to "Doctor Lowell Us follows: "Your new "book reached me safely. I have read the flrsC volume with great Interest uhd am,' now half-way through the second." After reading' the "hew- treaty between "aermany and Austria h.' appears -that Karl, (s merely "the'-epu'thpaw of the Teutonic' team.' Shall we fallhlm the "withered ami" fof (he Central, Powers? Aw.New Order ' The Government controls the railroads, and now tho express companies are to.be united under Federal direction. Times have changed since the enactmept of the lawe to prevent trade combinations. Troy Times. Y.uj th EH? DARLING?" , .-" .?' Mr ipWW""1' SOLDIERS OF FREEDOM THEY veiled their souls with ldugTiter And many a mocking pose, ' These lads who follow after Wherever freedom goes, These lads we Used to censure For levity and ease. On Freedom's high 'adtentur r Go shining ove'rseas. Our springing tears adore em, Tliese bays at school and play, -Fair-fortuned years before them, Alas! but jesterday; Divine with sudden s,p'endor Oh, howNiur ejes were blind! In carele&s self-sun ender They battle, for mankind Soldiers of Freedom' Glamlng And golden they depart Transfigured by the dreaming Of boj hood's hidden heart. Her loveis they confess (hem And, rushing on her foes. Toss her their jouth Cod bless them! As lightly as a rose. Katherlne Lee Bates, In ' The Tribune." Uncle Sam's New School One of the queer results of the war is .that 2443 men at Camp Upton have been taught to Speak English. Some of thtm were well educated in their own languages, but many were Illiterate. A teacher was found In a sergeant who had a proficient knowledge ot French, German, Italian, Dutch, "Yiddish, Russian and Greek, aid among the soldiers he taught in his iVVty-elght classes were Chi nese Swedish, FiniThli, Hungarian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Bohemian, Japa se, Czech,' Let tish and Arabian Bciton (.lobe. Tealhered ltruism Every morning utt evening, out in the suburbs," the meadow Urk whistles, the- robin hallelujahs, the sqni; sparrow sings and the cardinal w'arbles his sweetest nojeB for US. notwithstanding we do not belong to tha Audubon Societj Toledo lilada. t Dhtovereil . Now we undersiand McAdoo. It's Increased wages and back n for rallroaH m .-a patched, pants for paragraphers Toledo M 10.117, Hardly Possible It Is said that a hrge number of farm erettes have stopped posing for their trtil tuies in on., ,, de,' e a lHtle time to farming -Clue's, d Pia Dealer Vint ( mntj The bo g,t ,e goMet) fhith,. ,lmi h the flame;' But it g,is thtre just the same, 0 Scranton Time What Do You Know? '" . Quiz , ... I' ha V"" rmi't t the unltsd fttaU t. Name t author of nn. vV . V.. 3, Wlo rover, pf ytv WkT ' '!' JJir"1''1',"tn,ath Collew loratedf v S. tVhit 1. the I'M fcu Ka-nat , 3. What Io the Wtl.l, D n !, 1 . ." IP. ,Vhen d ,. lAufc, fn ,;-,,, Answers t, Yesterday', Oufs ' i:;r,K.?i . 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