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Philadelphia, IMtntD at Tn FniLADEt-rnu toit oirirx aI r r.. - V . ...- .-. .- rii. -.rr-rivri rr.iii (ir. uittid Phlladlpliia, Monday, Jun 3, 1918 ;M?I)1RECT0R WILSON SHOULD GET OUT isSWAPTAIN MILLS has shifted police lieu -.JVrilfVX VJ . . a- ll. r-al ..- a VV " , -spnis irum posi 10 men yirprun L-i. i. Wllenil nfotn-HArl ttiBtn M'hmi ri. tnH z& "... 'r"b"c" """ . !&?$ wnetner tho Director apprenprt nls ntts ne kftj-J ' racllrjd. "All T ran ua l that flip ordpr pri? I -r..-, rf T. V-sUnfls." And he said the Maor author ' V lean h m tn mat bii. h . h.irpM n. lift ,V'- - "- ".. -.-.0 - ,ww nt. Director Wilson sas that the chanses xwere made after consultation with him ae that no chanses can be made without hU sanction. JK.iX These remarks came a day or two after p Captain Mills had admitted that he wai a ' vuhnrrtfnntA nf Tlr.ntnr UMknn and th.lt rKjSram must obey ordeis. g, yU. la evident that there can be no ad ' "L"'lnl8tratlon of the Dollce deDartment In TU'S, hlch the public has confidence t.o Ions I m Director llson remains at. its neaa I''' However fine the Durnoses of Captain Mills I" f aunerior officer The cit has no conll- i df nee In the purposes of th it superior to uvorce tile punue irum puiuirs uuu iiuiu the Incidental partnership in the protec tion of the vicious. General Foch la confident therefore the II' remainder of us need not be downhearted. COAL ipSYCHOLOGY is an Important science. Though many people neer een take Ltfca trouble to think of what psychology HMans, It Is felt In every human reaction. It has much to do with the question of Almost every man, in weather such as 1 this, finds It almost Impossible to convince , klmself that there ever was such a thing Intense cold. He forgets that he once I ' aklirafi4 In iamnoradtra I.Atnnr .- Tin Tevsauvtoa ou iviiviuuitj uviu rt .ct Ui ill; OTKets last winter or remembers It as an m dream. Such a man is not master of LHwn Dsycholoev. He will not order his Siil now. The need for coal seems to be , If off. "trlaji Tnftn aren't nrrierlnir thlt innl Of. .. .. . They ordered It a month aco They 15 not be In the bucket lines next winter. tjy will not be cold. The chap who lets J Jweather direct his mental processes will cold. He will hae a cold In the head. CS wife and children will hae colds In tit head. And he will get een for his 'i'ry by criticizing tho fuel admlnls- xion. Today Is King George's birthday, his f-thlrd. Many fcappy returns' 0 THE WAY TO DO IT fOST satisfactory evidence is coming from Hoc Island that business and It sal Dolltlcal methods are beln? emnlmeil la the solution of the shipping problem The task before the men in charge there !! to build ships to set men and supplies it'll France. The men w ith large industrial s.'aalperlence hae arranged that Hog Island a.'iall-.Ytn s irreat frelchf tennlnnt na vtll 'rmT-' -o..- - U aa a trreat shlpjatd Cargoes are to be I" tnariri nn the npw shine as vnnn as the j wr-'rv- w" " "'- -' - WtfDUHS are in snape to receito mem, ana rnen me snip is uninea it win siart lor France at once. We aie told that this arrangement will put every thip on the ocean two weeks eailier than if it h.id to 1 ro to another port to receive lts cargo SgLBuch methods as tliebe aie merely an Rtenslon or tne svstem aao.nea tiy the Sfgreat Industrial enterprises when they are K ruining an order to tompletion They are ItiKaWt to be confined to Ko Island B an - unprovemeni in tne metnoas. oi loading and discharging cargoes the ships at the 1 other ports are to be saved every possible hour of delay and are to be kept con i tinually plying from France to America. ' This. Is the way to win the war IV. . ; ly one of tne Degt aiuiuotes for tn nuig- lute; German line is tne nmging; American rar cnest. 14 lVFAIR PAY FOR THE LITTLE MEN- IB Mayor wrote like a mechanical nputatlon machine rather than like t .fcailian being when he protested by letter llrman Gaffney. of the Finance Com- of. Councils, against any increase In t pay of city employes at this time re than half a million dollars would ,edd to pay the increases he writes tjha proper time, any way, for raising cs is at the beginning of the jear sot In the middle. lut the cost cf living has not waited on .calendar to go up. It Is increasing all fcftime. The low-paid city employes find osslble to keep out of debt. It Is , for a community as rich as this to one to work for less than a living fc'Jt la possible to find the money to increased pay to the little men. And rw liloa-B WI1U auuuiu wo luiioiucivu any event. 'ehould not be'Burprlsed if Chairman y said as much to the Mayor. If he It do o he vvpuld be supported by bt, sentiment of the city. And If he me reconuneaqnuoi! ui 1110 prcai- l't the CJvJI Service Commission, that itvplacea be abolished, that money W'lound to y a, Uvlnjr wage, he ;JS'i,ntry.'For tn super- Wetter be working nuiuuas) jv THE HUN DRIVE AT YOV Can the Germans Repeat Here and Abroad the Tactics That Won for Them in Rusiia? JN THE smoking cars, in trolleys, in restaurants, on the streets, wherever crowds 'forgather, persons have been asking: why the Germans weren't stopped in the south of France. Men berran to inquire querulously why the French didn't do this and why the British didn't do that. Every one who naked himself or nny one else such a question was outwitted by the Germans. He had permitted him self to be surrounded, ns the soldiers say. He had surrendered. The Hun jreneral staff wants you to ask such questions. They want the Biitish to doubt the French. They want the Ficnch to doubt tho British. That may be what the drne ts for! If the German can make America doubt, if he can make you doubt, he will, by the mere exercise of ingenuity, have achieved a triumph which he has found impossible with guns. The British Tommy, fighting against hopclesi odds nt Rheims, unfamiliar with the larger strategy of vvar nnd the mental traits of the Geiman command, cannot know that the French gave up territory and peimittco even Faris to be menaced in order to save Britain by keeping the north lines secure. The French poilu, wondering why the British reserves didn't flood down from the north o hold the Germans back, can not know that the life of France now de pends upon the safety of Britain. Tho people driven fiom their homes in the occupied territory cannot reason it this way. Neither can the avetage commut ing strategist who likes to dnect tho day's campaign by newspaper maps on his way into town. It was natural for the wearied British legions in the south to wonder why the French reserves weren't thiovvn in before the Marne. It was natural for the French to wonder in bitterness why the English didn't come to help in some of the grueling battles that they lost. Such doubt as these, if they were made ycneial, such friction of sentiment, would be more valuable to Germany than captured Paris, It is apparent that the German staff has attempted to utilize the psychology of tho nations to its own purposes. If bitterness and dubt distrust cai be engendered among tho Allies and their forces the present German drive will have been successful to an extraordinary degree. This menace was made clear in a lecent notable dispatch from Clinton W. Gilbert, staff coi respondent at Wash ington for this newspaper. The Ger mans knew that many of the British divisions in tho south were worn out with the recent fighting further north and that they had been sent down there to rest. They might have been relieved by French reserves. But had Foch left the northern line in danger for a day by any such withdrawal ho would have endangered not a battle line, but the entire world. 77ic northern line must be kept solid. The Germans may actually have had a double motive. If they could tempt the reserves down from the north to defend the Marne they could have had greater advantage in a decisive action against the line which defends the Chan nel ports. And if Foch outgeneraled them, as he seems to have done, they could use the occasion to foster irrita tion among the soldiers and even among their officers and in the nations behind them. They could cause it to be said a hundred times that the French might have done "this" to save the British or that the British should have done "some thing else" to help the French. This is the familiar German method. When Russia was a menace the Germans didn't fight them with guns. They wrought with words and rumors upon the pride and the weakness, the Jealousy and the passion of the people. And they broke Russia down. When Italy was a threatening factor the Germans played in the lear upon the passions and prejudices of the civil popu lation. They aimed at the minds of the soldiers and they bioke Italy down for a time at least. Now they are trying a similar method upon the Allies, and if they succeed they will win the war. The latest drive was very largely for a conquest of opinion in the Allied coun tries. How many home strategists will be ready to admit that they were among the first prisoners taken by this method? Why dont the coneervatUn experts take the w eather man In hanf'rhe way he has recently permitted the Mercury to run all over the thermometer is both wasteful and wilting to the collar HINDY, GET YOUR TUNING FORK TTE HAVE a very strong and sure faith ''that some time soon no man can reckon it to the daj. but It is coming the German armies In France are to be in dulged with a grim surprise. The full moon that silvered the fields of France last weelt looked down on many a bloody and terrjple scene She seemed a German moon Indeed But have the Germans for gotten that Diana has another face? It Is a face they have not yet seen, We write this not so murh thinking, for the moment, of the struggle that hang3 In that swavlng dagger head pointed by the uncrowned prince toward Paris We are thinking of the memorable and touch ing picture drawn by Philip Glbbs the other day of the American troops in Flan ders. As they marched on the hot, white roads, powdered with dust and loaded with heavy equipment, they still carried with them their mandolins, violins and guitars. The American army has frequently been described aa one that sings. In billets, In the cobbled squares of little French towns, at & pbtmgicmM the highways, thejr and Informal music that so welt expresses the heart of this nation. A company sons Is so much more a military asset than a hundred bombs dropped on a hospital. An army whose ioul is kindled with the melodies of home Is an army to bo feared. Our minstrels of glory may be a painful surprise to the Great General Staff. Even Hlndenburg, on his rumored tvphold pallet, may ljears echoes of "K-K-K-K-Katy." Principles of furniture making to the contrary notwithstanding, the (helving of Wood need not necessarily strengthen a cabinet. MOTHERS AND WAR TTVER so much Is written nowadajs by -J clever men and women who try to tell of the great new part that women aro plavlng In war. Rarely Is there a sugges tion of the truth that the real burdens of war rest almost equally on mothers and their sons. The news that 1,600,000 letters have been received from the men In Trance for their mothers, here In this country sug gests another sort of commentary. If Mr Burleson's men should go about after the-e letters nro delivered, collect them again nnd put them In a book, we should have n new sort of history of war a new knowledge of Its true and Inner meanings. Them would be the Insistent reflection of good wishes that travel over seas and never are lost in any storm. There would be echoes of pravers said In loneliness. You could hear the heart of the nation spesking at last You would know what war actually means to those who give most And joti would perceive, too, tint there is alwavs In the world at least one person more Important to the soldier than the girl he left bthind him and one thought that guides a soldier as surely as the forward-moving flags of his regiment It's easy enough to order that coal home Find It Hard Tlio Americans demonstrated that In pronouncing ( antlgny they put the accent on the (list three letters The substitution of Or nrrnklnc; 'The Stag at Eve" Home Tlee? or 'The Broken ritcher" in the frames once surrounding many a handsome liquor llcenfe Is now In order in this city. That Junk is the principal Ingredient of Junker Is proved every time the Crown Prince wcarB a new Ilohenzollern star Tho Art Allance Is An Allanre getting ready to build Willi nn Untentc its projected new home, for It has bought the- two houses In Bltlenhouse square that occupy the site of Its planned Shakespearean structure. The alliance Is JUBttfvlng Its existence. The hundred liquor dealers who have gone out of bu ilness are now- free to do work which will really help win the war. "Americans are like The Itelort ihampagne." said Mr. Alcoholic . Schwab, 'and English men like old claret " "And both have their merits," replied Lord Reading, thus challenging the views of the prohibitionists and .arvlng the famous say ing about whisky that Is good and whisky that Is better The next ten weeks must be wheatless, according to Mr Hoover, but thanks to the supply of other grains they need not be eatless General Swlnton, who Keep Pushing Invented the tank, savs that the idea of It came to him befoie the wr began, but th-it It wns not until October, 19U, that the British engineers were able to give serious attention to developing it The machine Is merelj a development of the tractor. Its military use Is to push Instead of to pull, and It Is llkelv to be effective In pushing the Germans across the Rhine AN AUSTRIAN CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES Apolouics to ft S) Foreign Children TITTLE Highlander. "Yank" or Gaul. J Panaman fiom Asplnwall; Little black from Timbuctu, O! don't I wish that I were you! You don't have to get a pass For the right to use the grass In jour games, and furthermore You're not always planning war. Such a life is very fine, Not the same at all as mine, Did vou ever, as vou laughed Think of children In the draff I have curious things to eat, You are fed on proper meat, You have ships to sail the foam. Ours are alw as anchored home Little Highlander. "Yank" or Gaul, Panaman from Asplnwall, Little black from Timbuctu, O' don't I wish that I were vou! Time to Rite AN EMPEROR with jellow streak .Made obeisance very meek. Cocked his weary eve and said, "Are there not enough of dead?" II T C READERS' VIEWPOINT Get Buiy With Coal Tn the Editor 0 the Evening Public Ledger: Sir I read with great Interest our ar ticle. 'Where Is the Schwab of Coal Min ing," and thought, would that every paper In Philadelphia would place It on the front page of every edition until the authorities would awake to the, dreadful conditions that will certainly exist next winter unless some thing is done during the warmer summer months Please stir them up constantly. ALBERT FITZGERALD. Philadelphia. June 1, America Forever! To the Editor 0 the Evening Dublin Ledger; Sir Here Is a little remembrance from the bovs from S.xth and Pike streets to the boys from this bunch who have been or are nor In the service of Uncle Sam; LACY BERMAN JONKS BIBKHEAD BRIENG NICHOLSON MAGEE HOFFER HOFFMAN BAXTER KLEIN HARV1BON BTJ5NGI , W-MNaa KeVM-l-i I BEEF, IRON AND WINE IS IT unpatriotic ct ui to feel annoyed every time we see one of thoie parade day American flags tinseled with a gold fringe and tassels? There may be regula tions atAhorlzIng such decorations, but It seems to us that the Stars and Stripes needs no trimmings. It Is said that the President Lincoln carried with her to the bottom a bronrj tablet bearing the words of Lincoln's Get tysburg speech. It will make good reading for the U-boats that are so plentifully scat tered around In Herr Davy Jones's locker. Our Military Correspondence It Is an honor to be associated In this war with such men as are here In this camp and all over America. I wish I might write about this, but it Is beyond the power of words. I have nothing but the highest gratitude for the men at the head of this Government and for the men and women who constitute this people. With God's help we shall win this war and soon, for In the quietest possible way, even with much Joking, American man hood Is consecrated to this cause. I could npt write these things white I was a civilian, but I can say them now. Let Ger many beware of a people that comes laugh lng nnd singing. Already In the rough and tumble I have glimpsed beauty that Is a levelation of what I have always known of the manhood of America and of the womanhood behind "It. All these men are Inarticulate, and so am I, b" It Is the silence that bides In the whirlwind All along I have said to mjself, "The Allies must win"; but now I know as well as If It were accomplished that freedom shall not perish from the earth. We are nearer than wj know to the harvest of brave martvrs. And out of It shall arise the regeneration of the nations in the spirit of the living Chrlsti WILLARD WATTLES, Comptny 11, Depot Brigade 164, Camp Funston, Kansas Tho writer of the above Is a poet, and a very good poet. There are a lot of poets In the American army, Including our Phila delphia singer Donald Evans, who sas it is souls, not guns, that will win the war. The Germans had better 10i out, for If ever a human belfry was the Inadequate crate for a howitzer soul, 'tis Donald's. All poets are bitterly familiar with re jection slips, and now they are off to hand the Kaiser the biggest Rejection Slip In the history of the world. Thunders of Silence If all the other papers will promise to say nothing more about Garabed Glragos slan and his "free energy" we'll fall In line, too Desk Mottoei Dear Socrates The beauty of desk mot toes Is that no one expects jou to live up to them. When I lose my temper I al wajs remember my motto, which Is this: Doest thou well to be angry? Jonah, iv, 4. CAPRICORN. The Political Muse Dear Socrates The perfect rhjme for Bonnlwell? The candidate ou cannot quell. L P. M. A 1000-room hotel Is to be built In New York, called the Marne, after the river to which humanity owes so much. That seems to us a very graceful tribute to our Fiench allies Now who will build a Hotel Joffie or a Hotel Foch in Philadelphia? Wall Whitman Again Last Friday was Walt Whitman's birth day, and by a curious coincidence on that very day there called upon us Mr. William Mcintosh, the artist and sculptor, who made a bust of Walt back In 1884. Mr. Mcintosh, who was then a very young man, had been struck by the photos of Walt and was eager to reproduce his features In plaster. So he began to hang about the Camden ferry and soon spotted the poet. Mr. Mcintosh says that the ferry hands of that day used to take great amusement in watching Walt's naive way of riding free of charge. He would step on the fei ry with a twinkle In his eve and evidently was a privileged character, as he often staved on board several hours without being asked for his fare. Mr. Mcintosh found the poet very easy of access and used to call at Vila home In Camden for sittings. Tho bust lie made showed Walt with his famous sombreio on. Apparently he was much attached to that hat. "I used to wonder whether ho rlept In It," savs Mr. Mcintosh Mr. Mcintosh adds that Walt was al most an Ideal subject for a sculptor. His features, wjhlle strong, were very refined" and sharply modeled, His hair was very white, his complexion florid His nenllge habit In dress Is, of course, we.l known; but the sculptor savs that the post gave a strong impression of great personal clean liness. His hands, his linen and his clothes were alwajs scrupulously clean. Mr. Mcintosh's bust was cast In plaster by John Cassenl, then one of the clevuiest "plaster men" in' the country. It was sold to a collector whom the artist only remem bers as "Mr. Potter." As this was prob ably one of the earliest busts of Whitman, It would be Interesting to know vv'ial tuts become of 11. The Finest Sight The finest sight a Journalist ever sees Is a truckload of big rolls of print paper being delivered into the basement. What would be the fun of writing editorials and , paragraphs and poems . , and junk like thts " if there was nothing to print It on? What is the most amusing Book In the English language? Wa vote for "Tha Wrong Box," by Stevenson and Osbourne. We have read It once a year for the last ten years and It gets better every time. Tha second-best arousing hook la "Tha ComplaU v Peatteal Works of Ray, John iXfraeaMrgvPa.; but ha, MADAME CARRIES ON IN PLUG STREET By LIEUTENANT LEON ARCHIBALD British Royal Engineers This mi written before the recent recapture of Ploegateert by the dermans Kdltor Uvemso Pinna I.edoi. rpHE war has been the means of bringing -- to the surface In countless thousands of civilian lives a quality which beats a marked resemblance to that sterling trait known as bravery, so abundant and so eminently essential in the composition of the perfect soldier. Many people whose peace-time vocations made few or no de mands upon their ability to engage nnd overcome a supreme difficulty today find themselves as truly deserving of a world's profoundest approbation as does the per sonnel of our magnificent armies. In this connection I have In mind some folk who live behind the lines in Fiance and not so very far behind, either. AS A rathei suitable illustration, allow . me to mention the case of Mme. Der ouard, who kept the little shop In Ploeg. steert, better known perhaps as "Plug street." Since the beginning of warfaie on the western front till, village, vlth Its Immediate environs, has been a fiontseat observer of bitter, wearisome strife. Once a picturesque and comely hamlet of cob bled, shady sticcts, tiled cottages and the scene of plavlng children. It Is now a blasted, blackened lutn, where the senses are assailed by jarring detonations and an atmosphere heavily burdened with the foul odors of decaying flesh. Each day there rises from this molderlng pile of ruin cloud upon cloud of blood red dust, as war's messages of cruel hate arrive; the surging tide of soldiery which hourly ebbs and flows from rear to front and back again across this tortured, ever-wasting wieckage Is wont to feel relief when some kind whim of fortune relieves them of Us guardianship. BUT In spite of all this Mme. Derouard's little shop strove valiantly and suc cessfully to live up to the motto, "Business as usual," which had been chalked above her door by some admiring customer in khaki. ' How she did it only Madame Derouard, if she would, could tell you why; why shi did it only Madame Derouard, if she could, might explah-f. I can merely tell ou what I saw. ACROSS the street from Madame's shop la the church, or what Is left of ita Jagged heap of broken bilck and mortar. Behind the church and almost opposite the store still stands a semblance of the house of Pere Le Grand, the village priest, who tarried In the desolated village as long as one brick of his church remained upon another. At last, with widely scattered flock excepting one; with house of wor ship ciumbllng Into dust, he, too, was forced to wander off behind, to let time and his wondrou3 faith make whole again a wearied, broken heart. Only fifty vards abovethe little store is the Inter section of two important arteries of traffic, upon which crossroad stands a signpost, whose face, pockmarked by shrapnel, bears words like these: "Do not halt here. Liable at any time to shell fire." f EARLY in the fall of 1914 some German high explosive, the first to visit Ploeg steert and obviously -intended for the chuich, smashed all tha glass In Madame Derouard's stoie. Just about this time her husband, a reservist, went to fight. Her empty sashes were very promptly filled 1 not so the rent made In her heart. Again, and but a few weeks later, some bursting shrapnel necessitated tha glaaler'a return, t A mason and a plasterer could also have been used to good advantage. Fcur times that fall and winter tha win dowa of tha shop wara broken, whlla heavy detonations and Jacftd iron splinters tor oft the tiles tw4 farced tha hum; trail tJkj Dm xeaj-VM.jM last JJ HE BOMBED ANOTHER RED CROSS at mtf't a Vsa"i1aala I ' fl ' se . tu. -istr -wm si"fHi . . - 1 ""aassasaTaraw n for the keeping up of appearances in the face of all this opposition was playing heartless havoc with the profits. One day old Pero Le Grand was forced to pay a visit to Madame to tell her that her husband had gone under. Her one and only son, Maurlw, a lad of seventeen, be came a man and soldier overnight, and little madame pioudly showed us his last letter from Verdun. TTIACH day for months our journejlngs -J from our billets to the trenches took us past tho little store with bioken win dows. Within an easy arm's length of the sidewalk there dally met our gaze a neat assortment of the stock In trade. So utterly incongruous did the business seem that one day our curiosity led us In. Push ing open a street door that was gener ously perfoiated with shrapnel we entered a hall well lighted from an aperture above which no carpenter had ever built. To the Immediate left another door, with bell at tached announcing the ai rival of a cus tomer, gave Into the shop Itself. , Almost before the bell ceased to tinkle, and much before we had time to take tn the situation comprehensively, Madame herself arrived and smilingly Inquired to what she owed the honor of our visit. On the tables were cigarettes, chocolate, chewing gum, boot laces, a pyramid of oranges and a dan geiously tempting row of pastries. Inten tionally we spent a longer time about our purchases than their Importance war 1 anted; but the purpose of our visit was twofold and well we were repaid. Our question as to why she temalned in stricken Ploegsteert when every minute of her stay was fraught with evil conse quences wa's answered by her own rather disconcerting query as to why she' should depart. rpHE scars upon the walls, whose full -L significance we undei stood, were pointed out to her, together with a hint that It was possible, and eminently probable, that In stead of being content with ordinal y wood and plaster, the angry, jagged shell splin ters might vent their hate upon another target. At last she grasped our meaning. Calmly fixing us with eyes of pity sho -told us that we well might save our per sonal concern for others who were more In need of It than she. Was not Monsieur Derouard a soldier, and had he not laid down his life for France? Did not her son do likewise at Verdun? Just then some men In kilts swung by the window. Point lng to them Madame continued: "Those biave men there they stay. I also have no fear and I do likewise." The Golden Fleece Another uncomfortable statistic for winter use Is the report that each of us has tor his share only fourteen ounces of wool. The chauffeur who wears a coat lined with the hide of a sheep may be robbing a soldier of warmth It Is time people followed the lead of the President and substituted sheep for lawnmowera Brooklyn Eagle. AIR MAIL STAMPS Aero mall stamps have appeared and .the small boys with stamp albums will have to prepare a place: for them. Their grand children will be Interested to hear about the sensation which the first alr-mai) delivery created. . Gentle German's Methods In view of the German lease of the Ru. manlan oil wells for ninety-nine years aa a condition of peace, what should we expect Germany tf, demand of the United States If ahe found h'rself In position to demand' any thing? Would It be our annual cerea) crop, the output of our coal mlneu or the product of our copper mines? Instead of answering these questions we must make them useless. Put Germany where she cannot demand any thing from us.- Hartford"Courant. SSciet Cause , ! Mayfe K?rMj $'f&!, " rv ZltWWf'LfS?7?Tffi HOSPITAL "v.., Ktrbr. in the New Tork Worts THE MARNE rpHERE is one magic none can shake, One mystery of human pride; One shining memory to break The spear that wavera in her side. rpHUS far they come, thus far they came: And then their steel that snaps lika yarn! There burns with pentecostal flame The great tradition of the Marne. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY. "Spurloi versenkt" He Will L u x b u r g will go crazier than ever when he learns that Argentina, the land of his frantic propaganda, has just subscribed U'0,000,000 to the Italian war 'loan. Eggs a la Petroleum Jullen H Brvan, a Princeton freshman, who has been driving an ambulance In France, kept a diary In which he recorded his experiences, interesttnr and uninterest ing PsrH of It have been published In a book Following is the way he described his success in getting something to eat in spite of difficulties : . "Just before I started writing tonight, while I vvas rummaging around my suitcase for a clean, pair of undeiclothcs (I haven't changed since I wouldn't like to say how long), I found In tha toe of one of my socks an cpg which I bought for the party In juuecoun inrce wrens asu ana never usea. Immediately 1 decided to fry It. ,1 put some mahogany table legs on the Are (they make wondtTful coals) and borrowed Gilmore's shellcaslng dish to use as a frying pan. I had my Ford pliers for a handle. But Just after I had broken the egg I noticed that I had no lard. The kitchen was locked up securely and all the Ford axle grease was packed away In a White truck. Suddenly I ic-membered that I had a Jar of vaseline which I had brought with me from America. I dug it out of my duffle bar. rubbed It 1 little on the pan, dumped on tht caf .- if ; 11 on me nre to cook, two Minutes later l was munching the result, a crisp, savory egr. The slight oil refinery flavor made me homesick for Pennsylvania. But this In no way prevented me from enjoying it im mensely." Opposing Suffrage Stopping the progress of the suffrage amendment Is an anti-war proceeding. It puts a burden upon a high national Impulse. Suffrage Is bound to come, and merely holding it back weakens the effort of the nation to whip tha Hun It may not do It in a direct way, but Indirect way;, are often most ef fective. In resisting the good In one way we help the bad In many ways. W must be just to expect justice. We cannot shout down the woman's voice without shouting down our own. Progress Is no hesitation waltz. It Is a whole movement or It is nothing We cannot do our beat by simply omitting to do our worst. Little individual opinions have no right to set themselves up against manifest destiny. It Is high time statesmanship vvas learning the bottom truths of human experience, and avoiding the flurries of mere political objection which are now so common Ohio State Journal. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1, What Frealdent served en monthf 3. For whom was South Carolina nkms4f S. Mm, the author of "The Talisman." 4. Where Is Nleuport? 5. Where Is Tufta College locate!? 6. Mho wrote Uia words of "America"? 7. Mho was Joaephus? S. Mho la General von I.udenflortf? 0. What la the legend concerning tha nam af, "alrloln"? 10. W'i aatij "Forty Is the old are of rental fifty la the youth of old age"? Answers to Saturday' Quii 1, Thnmaa Riley Marshall, of Indians, la Ties t'realdent. . Wllkle Colllna. lultl.li noTellat. wrote "The a'oonatnne." S. rinirlea S. Whitman la OoTeroor ai Mow ork. 4. 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