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ESPRIT DE CORPS
THE conviction of Policeman Auerbach
K.JAfr. Hnt Worttt Ttrhn te n n'lttiaaa In 4lin ntnr.
,i tfon-day murder trial has not been fol-
lowed by the suspension of thp officer
from the force.
There Is an esprit de rorps. In the police
bureau that phrase will deicrlbe It as
harmlessly as any other which seems to
Impel the men In authority to stand by
the, officers when they Ret In trouble. The
burden of proof Is on the people outside of
the force when an officer is nccusd
But ordinarily esprit de corps is sup
posed to Inspire the men in an organization
to be so proud of Its spotlessness that
they are the first to Insist on the expul
Ion of an offender against Its standards
and traditions.
Can It be that Auerbach has not violated
ny of the standards of Hie bureau?
General Pershing ban on beards In the
army still further extends the doctrine of
"safety" first.
THE BRITISH-AMERICAN DRAFT PART.
NERSHIP
rpHB most slRnln,cant and substantial ei--
dence of the complete co-operation and
confidence .existing between this country
and Great Britain Is the new draft treaty.
It Is certainly one of the most remarkable
Instances of International governmental
partnership that has ever been planned.
By this treaty the United States will be
empowered to draft Into our own army
British and Canadian subjects In this coun-
e3W4."y within the British draft ng
je, twenty
r "i.l. Amp A(t.t,iiiai Aaia Innlnad'A
1 ! OUT ivaij'tvui jtmo iiii,iuoi Ci
Similarly all
Americans In Canada and Great Britain
within American draft ape twenty-one to
thirty-one will be subject to draft for the
British army. Americans In Canada or
Great Britain and British or Canadians In
this country may leave to serve In their
own armies sixty days after the treaty
J shail be ratified. Exemption may be granted
SV certificate Issued by the diplomatic rep-
iW resentaflves of each Government In un-
are exempt until British conscription Is
applied In Ireland.
-&' This Is one more step In the complete
military union of this country and Great
5ts .omaun jor me purposes or mis war. it is
V'pKfl the logical sequence of the brigading of
,, "WjJJ " English and American troops In the same
1)Sft un'ts 'n France. It may bo In order to
. 'Jlfw'i auarrest that Berlin naners rnnv hut wo
L ftsfaS oubt whether they will care to.
3iTii Naturally the standard of White rtussla
lIMi"3 mnn be the fla8 of truce.
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'$ THEY CARRIED ON!
"VH i .. . .
J$r M " cuppea pnrases in which General
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rfikSi ciiiuif. i ci'ui ia iiit- uvvaiu ui uisliu-
KKZ BU111CU DCI1RD LlUOBCa IU ClOVCIl Ui HIS
,'aen tor extraordinary valor on the battle
front nearest Paris nresent thn tniA nn-
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ip adorned picture of modern war. Brilliant,
exhilarating Impacts are rare. The Ameri-
JW "J"""" """ -""B "- ........ .c ray,
'ji&j .Sttle of the poetry of war. Their Held
(?. of operations was swept by Are much as
.14.. i . nainai nrnn nisnnr'n snon rnamaa niaa rrrm
B t.,1 k city street Is swept clean by a rain tor-
('r'-W'Ttnt, They experienced something of the
B BSfS nra mai iuus upon a solitary man
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Wn'ii? Some were wounded and unconscious.
rfS-aSj'But they pulled themselves together and
SgS'sjifent to the aid of the wounded. Others,
i'TM'isjrho must have felt in their momentary
Isolation as If they were the last men alive
sttn the world, calmly dropped Into shell
iioles and fought off superior forces until
vViav aura rplleiveri Amniitnnro Hplttara
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Jfvjwent forward over shell-swept rpads and
SJwere shot. They continued, found the men
jYrtgwho needed them, returned and were shot
JWHagain when their cars weren't blown from
Rounder them. Officers and enlisted men were
equally gallant. No one can say what
mystic ngni leaus sucn as mese. A voice
i'lai within them. That Is all. N'n Anirlpm
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-: ei-sists to Illumine the world.
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, The shipping chiefs are worried about
finding enough names for the esxels they're
launching. You provide the ships, boys, and
i'H keep, the dictionary busy. Kven If we
va to steal a few names from the Pullman
THE WAR IN NEW YORK
SW YOBK Is still meditating on tha
I . possibility of a bombardment by air
sts or submarines. And it is observ-
that New Yorkers are not flustered
t,th prospect. They have endured much
at are ,trench-hardened. They have had
(fjtaten to Mayor IJylan's speeches and
'rBroadway musical shows. They stlli
about, undisturbed, wearing their funny
ei, speaking their curicus languages.
their fantastic food. - Secretly the
; tiwellers may yearn to be bombarded.
ia a plague of summer in the lnea
le city. ,
iild4he Hun begin to pop bombs at
vJTorlr, clever theatrical managers are
M wing to suaaen ricnes ay beiiiim
(of .tUmlMlon, And in that ovent
ifr- who rush over ana see
n UI' be noanbelled, o doubt, to
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PRO-GERMANISM'S LATEST
The Nonpsrtlsan League Debauched by
Self-Seeker to the Purposes of Un
American Propaganda
THE disbanding of the German
American Alliance has not left the
Oermcns. without a powerful propa
gandist organization in this country.
With a subtlety characteristic of all
their conduct they have been converting
to their uses the Nonpartisan League,
which was organized in North Dnkota in
April, 1915.
The league is supporting Charles A.
Lindburg for the governorship in Min
nesota, where its organizers have been
indicted and some of them convicted of
violation of the espionage act and with
interfering with the draft. Lindburg
opposed the entrance of America into the
war and in July of last year he published
a book in which he charged that this
country was forced into thd conflict by
the capitalists for their selfish ends and
that the young men were asked to fight
nnd die that the rich might bo made
richer.
The league in the beginning was or
ganized as a protect by the farmers of
North Dakota against the control of the
State by the railroads and the grnin ele
vators. Its founder is A. C. Townlcy, a
man who raised flax and was for a time
known as the flax king of his part of the
State. There came a bad year, his crop
was poor and he failed for $80,000. He
and a few other men, who charged their
misfortunes to the railroads and big busi
ness, met in Bismarck and planned an
organization of farmets, who should con
trol the Legislature and pass a lot of laws
similar to those which the old Farmers'
Alliance demanded and others which tho
Populists favored. They wanted the
State to take care of them. They wanted
State-owned elevators to handle giain
not only in North Dakota, but at tide
water. They wanted stock yards, pack
ing plants and cold-storage houses owned
by the State. They wanted State insur
ance against damage from hail, blight,
black rust and other things which injured
crops. And they wanted farm improve
ments exempted from taxation.
They succeeded in electing a maj'ority
of the lower house of the State Legisla
ture in 1916 and they passed a law pro
viding that farm improvements should
be taxed on an asessment of 5 per cent
of their value, and that the property of
banks and railroads and other "capital
istic" enterpiises should be taxed on a 30
per cent assessment.
This was gratifying to the farmers and
the league began to grow. It has ex
tended into eleven States in the North
west and its agents have been busy in
Pennsylvania, New Yotk and New Eng
land, where they are attempting to bring
about a union between the farmers and
the labor organizations for the election
of members of the Legislatures pledged
to their program. It has 200,000 mem
bers, who pay an annual fee of $8 for
the privilege of belonging. The organ
izers are securing between 1000 and 2000
members a week, and receive 54 of the
annual fee from each new member as
pay for their services.
As originally planned, the league was
one of those wild socialistic organizations
which have been popular with the farm
ers of the West for two generations. It
was Bryanistic in its economic ignorance
and in its humanitarian idealism. The
belief of some of its members that this
was a capitalists' war and their hostility
to capital evidently suggested to the Ger
mans that it could be used for their pur
pose. Here was an organization ready
to their hand through which the war
could be made unpopular.
The reports from Minnesota indicate
that its membership there is made up
largely of the pro-Germans and that the
first members obtained by the organ
izers in new communities are the Ger
man sympathizers. And the nomination
by the league of Lindburg, who says in
his bosk that "we have been dragged
into the war by the intrigue of the specu
lators," confirms and justifies the suspi
cion in which the organization is held.
It is at best anti-war and is part
of that movement In which Mrs. Rpse
Pastor Stokes was active a movement
which the judge who sentenced Mrs.
Stokes described as a systematic pro
gram to create discontent with the war,
disagreement with the causes and jus
tice of the war, loss of confidence in the
good faith and sincerity underlying the
conduct of the war and its ultimate aims,
thereby to cause withdrawal -of support
at home and relaxation of effort and
effectiveness in the field. At worst it
is anti-American becaute pro-German.
There are doubtless' many loyal and
patriotic Americans among the members,
who joined because they wanted the State
to help them. But; there is no doubt that
many of the men directing the policy of
the league are disloyal.
The Attorney General will fail in his
duty unless he warns the honest farm
ers of the country of the nature of the
society which is seeking their member
ship and unless he takes steps to prose
cute the guilty among the officers.
Yes, the good old five-cent 'piece of Ice
has returned once more. But how changed !
OUR FLIERS OVER GERMANY
AMoK'Q the wr. reports from the front
.Is a brief bulletin which tells of the
first all-Amerlcan air raid of a German
city. This particular cable Is one that
will be generally read with mingled emo
tions. Civilization hesitated long before it
consented to a war of reprisals. But Ger
many made such a war Imperative and
now she 1b In a way to learn how terrible
the wrath of the patient can actually be.
It may be worth remembering that the
jsaoptaja the German ""city Jhat haav,Jutt'
KB mmm w.wwyf .i-jw.yhi.iii
airplanes are the same who sang and cele
brated when the Lualtanla was torpedoed.
It Is the ghost of that ship that has re
turned to hatlnt them In the air. We In
this country know only a part of what has
been achieved In our own air Bervlce. Ger
many may realize what we have done be
fore we ourselves are able fully to under
stand or appreciate It. It Is from the air
that full retribution is likely to fall 'upon
Germany. And the Germans already have
cause to remember that Nemesis usually
travels with the speed of wings.
Uncovered refuse In summer Is evidence
of a "fly" program whose progress Is much
more of a scandal than a complete break
down would be.
MOBILIZING LABOR
rpiIE necessity of securing labor for all
the war Industries Is admitted. It Is
up to the Government to secure It. Every
time it has suggested conscripting labor
there has been strenuous objection from
the labor organizations.
Tho Governmenthas evolved a new plan,
to go Into effect on July 16, which It hopes
will accomplish the desired end without
stirring up any hostility. In brief it Is
that all unskilled labor needed by war In
dustries which employ more than 100 men
shall be obtained through central bureaus
In each State nnd that there shall be no
bidding of one Industry against another.
This much has been decided. The War
Policies Board of the Department of Labor
Is considering the standardization of wages.
Whether It will agree on n fixed wage be
fore July 15 Is not 'known. The board also
Is considering the extension of the plan
to skilled as well as to unskilled labor.
If the war Industries are short of help
the non-war Industries are to be asked
to give up their laborers that the demands
of the shipbuilders, the munition factories
and the rest may be supplied. And all labor
Is to be obtained through the Government
emplojment bureau In which the men are
to be registered., It Is assumed that the
men will willingly go where they are sent
nnd will continue to work at the Job found
for them by the bureau.
The object Is to mobilize labor so that
It can be sent where It Is needed. The
plan cannot succeed without the hearty
co-operation of both employers nnd em
plojes In non-war industry. If it does suc
ceed, according to Louis F. Post, the So
cialist Assistant Secretary of Labor, "by
the time the peace treaty Is slrfned the old
division between employers and employes
as distinct classes will have passed away."
No, Siizan, the passing of a bill In the
Holland Parliament to make the 7.uder Zee
dry Is not a victory for the prohibitionists.
DISCOURAGING FACTS THAT POINT
THE WAY TO VICTORY
NO CONTEST was eer won by over
estimating one's own strength and
underestimating the strength of one's op
ponent. We cannot win this war by shutting our
eyes to the strength ot Germany and by
concluding that we have an easy task.
The assertion of General Stein to the
Reichstag that the Germans outnumbered
the enemy In the recent battles Is now
virtually admitted In France, England and
the United States. We are beginning to
believe with General Maurice that General
Foch's reserves existed chiefly on paper.
The gravity of the situation Is admitted
by President Wilson, by Mr. Asqulth and
by the correspondents at the front The
fact that the correspondents are allowed
to write about It proves that the war board,
has decided that It la useless longer to
attempt to keep the truth from the public.
The Inability of the Germans to break
through does not mean that we are win
ning the war, nor do the reports of starva
tion in Germany which have lately been
sent out of course, with the knowledge
of the German censors Indicate that Ger
many Is really starving. If the Germans
can persuade us to believe that they are
on the verge of -a breakdown at home they
think they can induce us to slow up In our
war work and in sending troops to France.
Germany Is suffering from lack of certain
kinds of food, but she has enough to keep
her people alive and in fighting condition.
We must act as though this were abso
lutely true, even if it be 25 per cent false,
and we must prepare to defeat a' vigorous,
enthusiastic enemy by hurling our whole
strength into the battle line. We can win
In no other way.
Evidence that the Pe
A Hitter l'lll ruvian bark la mild
' compared' to Its bite la
now afforded Germany by the way the liberty-loving
Latin republic has finally fol
lowed up a 'severance of diplomatic relations
with a seizure of the Kaiser's merchantmen.
All that we have heard
Too Costly 1 about the exorbitant
cost of the necessities
of life In Germany Is lerlfled by the state
ment of a Socialist in the .Reichstag, who has
Just declared that Iron crossej are now pur
chasable at forty cents each. ,
"I am not opposed to
General Hancock the Rtatue because
Found Oat Buchanan was a
Southerner or a Demo
crat." said Senator Lodge. "He was neither."
In thus running counter to history with re
spect to "ten-cent Jimmy's" political affili
ations, was the gentleman from asachu
setts Implying that no President could really
be at the eame time a Democrat and a Penn
gylvanlan? '
"That lying German
The Orcheatraj
Will Now JMur
(ha AntU Chorus
general with his tune
about Allied losses Is
giving grand opera a
good boost, anyway,"
"How's that, Mr, Bones?" "Well.jjist natu
rally; any one who knows theHru'th turns to
Hammersteln."
The best way for the "melancholy Dane"
to cheer up Is to let Uncle Sam buy ythat Idle
fleet.
. ,
The present period of Germany's drive
Beems to be entirely ot the orthodox "full
stop" variety.
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A correspondent says he saw a huge ship
shiver. Even when It Is wrapped In a blanket
ot fog and being rocked In the cradle of the
deep? Unbelievable!
The first thing we know Germany will
be sore on strife of any Kind. Her business
men are now lamenting ittve prospect of a
future "economic war," wnue ine present
matlv ona la ao dlartsatef ui .to her sansrils I
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M.'smilslt " "T 'J vitf'iV jptfc
THE HIGHWAY BUILDERS
(Arthjir FVII
rnona Ensileh
clared that h
chairman of tha
Hou of Com.
Channel- tunnel committee.
rrtmmllts. ns-
h thought It would lm practical
for a. throuch railway to b constructed from
T.nnSAn tn i'nnstnntlnnnl with vfanlnia In
Calcutta, Cape Town and Pekln. London Dis
patch.) ARTHUR FELL, you'll lend diversions
-To the futurists' excursions
On tho day
When your most ambitious plan'll
Bring n tunnel through the Channel
And the way
Will be open to Rhodesia,
With its diamond mines to please you,
And a train
Will be whizzing toward Colombo,
With its elephants like Jumbo,
Eating grain;
And n Pullman seat you seek in
Through expresses clear to Pekin
Or Madras;
And the bridge that's born of hope'll
Modernize Constantinople,
And you'll pass
Through tho hills of Asia Minor
In a well-appointed diner;
And the chap,
Who takes "dejeuner" in Dover,
Will be catapulted over
Half the map,
Till at suppertime he'll have a
Fleeting glimpse of tropic Java
Singapore,
Mandalay or Sourabaya,
Or perhaps n Himalaya;
And the door
Of the Ea'st will be so handy
That n trip to Seoul or Kandy
Will be done
With such ease that leaps to Cairo
Will seem travel f,or the tyro
Just for fu..
This we'll grant you, man of vision
If you'll paidon the incision
That we make
With reflections disabusing
To the rnrrent of your musing
As avc take
This position: rail nor skywny
Holds a candle to the highway
Or a pin
That humanity is clearing,
Ever dauntless and unfearing,
To Berlin! H. T. CRAVEN.
THE ELECTRIC CHAIR
The Leviathan
rpHERE is something peculiarly satlsfy
- ing to us In the thought ot tho Levia
than, which used to be Germanj's crack
liner Vaterland, painted smoky gray and
running back and forth between here and
France loaded with troops.
The other day we were efosslng on the
ferry from Jersey City to Manhattan.
There was a spanking breeze hustling down
the Hudson; those leaping sk scrapers all
stood. tiptoe in the danling sunshine; com
muters were busy holding down hats nnd
petticoats. And then, far up the liver,
looming over the Hoboken dock roofs, wo
saw the three dark funnels. The Levia
than was In, taking on another load of
soldiers.
It gave us a thrill. It keeps on tingling
every time we think ot it. An ocean liner
Is a heart-bustling sight anyway, as she
comes sliding in from the blue, immeas
urable sea; but When jou think of the
Leviathan, the Kaiser's own pet, slipping
quietly to and fro, putting a crimp in his
plans. It gives us a tremulous little throb
something between n laugh and a prayer.
God bless the Leviathan and good luck
to her! Ships; have an honor and a mys
tery of their own, and we Imagine she is
proud of having a hand in punishing the
men who smirched nnd fouled the ancient
tradition of the sea. When we Bee her
we think of another queenly ship whose
lovely profile was once familiar In New
York harbor; a ship with tall red funnels
and a ruffle of white foam at her stem.
S.hlps, as we said, have an honor of their
own. Youjwill notice that no ono has ever
called those shark-boats "ships." And the
Leviathan is the avenger of the Lusltanla.
She has a great heart In her, that fine
ship; a heart that not even the Hoboken
spies could corrupt. She is an instrument
of honor in the hands of true sailor men.
When .we sce ner Bra' funnels they 'seem
a kind , of sjmbol of nil we fight for.
She thrilled us a year ago when we first
saw the Stars and Stripes at her stern.
She thrills us still. She always will.
Doctor of Immortal Boyhood
PRINCETON did a genial thing In con
ferring an .honorary degree upen Booth
Tarklngton. Tarklngton has become a
legend at Princeton. He was Teputed tho
most debonair and delightful undergrad
uate of his day (class of '93, wasn't It?).
Then he wrote "Monsieur Beaucalre," one
of the most delicious bits of romantic
prose this continent has Inked, By the
tlmo the public had sized him up as a
whimsical doer of trifles he started serious
realistic novels. And then, upon an un
suspecting world, he burst the laughing
gas of Penrod.
The world Is grateful to -Mr. Tarklngton
for Penrod. Not since Tom Sawyer "and
Huck Finn Has there been so faithful, so
laughable, so utterly true (and therefore
so utterly amusing) a portrait of the intri
cate world wherein boyhood plays its grave
pranks. Every one has read about him,
and read him again, and read him aloud.
He Is become a national figure. Not even
the marvelous portrait of Willie Baxter
In the throes of male ftapperhood ("Seven
teen") has banished Penrod from our hearts.
Penrod and his "limited bachelor set" will
live as long as trousers (both short and
long).
We don't know just what kind of doct6r
they made Mr. Tarklngfon. But he is most
endeared to us all as the limner of Penrod.
We hope that degree was Doctor of Im
mortal Boyhood.
Battle Hymn of the Kaiser ,
II IN the, midst of battle
In my motor carnage rode,
Where the deadly telephones rattle
And the bulletins explode.
I, I In the midst of fighting,
Where the "field) kitchen stands at bay
.And,thetff their nails are biting,
ISM GHaUBUaaVHUSYtt ,. -
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When New York
By Our Special
THERE Is ono good thing that the sub
marine scare has done for us. No one,
except Those Wo Really Love, will come
to visit us at our apartment any more. Per
honally wo h.tve always suspected that
what appeared to be popularity was teally
only the apartment, and now we are sure.
When wo first moved In and people came
In for luncheon and stayed for tea and
dropped In for dinner and thought nothing
of running in fiom farthest Jersey to
spend the night with us and demanded
eggs for breakfast when there 'weren't
any in tho houso we were thrilled nnd
flatteied. But later It developed' that what
they really craved was our couch by the
window,, f i om which you gain a peerless
view of Gramercy back yards and fnt
cats slttl: on the' tops of fences. There
Is a bieeze, too, that sweeps across the
chair, and we are mercilessly adjacent' to
tho "L" and the subway.
B
UT recently
all this has been done
aivay vvitli.
Our Invitations are con-
stantly declined nnd there is every proba
bility that wo shall be able to sleep In-our
respective beds during the summer instead
of taking the front room so that guests
may have them. When tho word passed
that U-boats were lying in New York har
bor our families Evelyn's lives In Pennsyl
vania and our own further west bom
barded us with telegrams to seek shelter,
to give up our Jobs, to go to Connecticut,
to do anything but remain In New York.
And we. fatalistic with tho melancholy se
curity of,' a three months' lease, only
laughed' bitterly and by expensive night
letteis sent C. O. D. bade them hush.
B
UT Tuesday night things really looked
us to dim the lights and gave minute and
depressing details about siren whistles
which would blow at stated Intervals In
case of danger. We vyere Instructed to go
Into the cellar and to open all the windows.
Evelyn, who has a scientific mind, said this
last was to guard against concussion or
percussion, I forget which. Anyway It
seemed a rash thing to do when thieves
might so easily break In and steal by run
ning up the lire escape. We have a dozen
Bllver knives and foiks that the family
yielded up when It seemed obvious that we
were not going to marry after all and
hence would not need a regular trousseau.
Had we locked tho flre-esijape window so
faithfully these many nights only to have
our morale broken by a possible German
airplane? We decided not.
THEN vve inspected the cellar. This was
rather difficult, as It was full of beds
left by tenants who had taken the bull by
the horn, so to speak, and had automat
ically banished guests by banishing the
beds. There were so many of both tenants
and beds that there was really no place to
stand. No ono admitted to being nervous
and we talked lightly and laughingly on
'ther topics. The sound of our forced mer-
Iment seemed to Irritate William, Ihe col
ored boy who runs the elevator. William
has an Inkling that vve are connected with
the press and he probed us with questions
as to how soon the'Germans might be ex
pected to attack the city and. If worse
came to worst, how would they treat a'
poor colored boy? We told William coldly
'that vve were not, acquainted with the Im
perial Government's view of the race prob
lem. BUT we were worried, none the less, and
drew the shades down tightly while'
we ate dinner. Tuesday was a hot night,
it you reraeirdjer.-and there was. soraet.hlp
l4i.etirruyAapU the ,whj
EVERY RIVET COUNTS
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Doused the Glim
Correspondent
pressed excitement had begun to get on our
nerves. Evelyn wanted to go too, but we
told her that a woman's place Is In the
home, and sho was persuaded to write let
ters while we sallied forth In quest of
ndventuie. The Metropolitan Tower gave
us an unpleasant shock; It was so very
near and there was no doubt about It being
a good target. Near us was the Children's
Court and a hospital, a veritable happy
hunting ground for Huns. We made
straight for the newspaper office, knowing
by experience that if anything were afoot
they would know all about it. All the
reporters were there In shirt sleeves and
thousands of editors they are sometimes
used In emergencies and high above the
city desk hung the cheerful slogan:
"In' case of airplane raids members
of tho staff are' tequested to telephone
the office."
WHY, wo :
what to
demanded, and what for and
were, wounded what then? No .one seemed
to know exactly and their vagueness only
made us the-more uneasy.- A friend asked
us to the movies and normally we should
have accepted with alacrity, but there
seemed something like fiddling when Rome
was burning to go to the movies on such
a night. So vve went Into a drug store
instead and had a chocolate malted milk.
Two officeis of the Brltlsl) navy ordered
pink Ice cream and all the sailors and the
subway guards were Clad In Jaunly white
suits. It .suggested a scene from a comic
opera. Once we thought we heard a Zeppe
lin, but It was only a mall truck, lumbering
up Park Rovy. So we went home again.
WILLIAM was on the front door step,
gazing at the sky. We assured him
there was nothlng'ln It but stars and asked
him kindly to Illuminate the elevator.
There is nothing more undermining than
an unllghted elevator. He yielded momen
tarily, but switched off the globes Imme
diately nnd sank to the ground floor. Eve
lyn was still up and had grown discour
aged waiting for an airplane, so had put
up the shades again. We rebuked her
sternly, but she said what difference did,
one window make when all thestreet lights
weie on and atiy Intelligent. German could
find his way around, rpartlcularly,slnce they
were nearly all North German Lloyd stew
ards before tlte war anyway and knew New
York like a book. We decided .to sit up"" all
night In case there should be an attack.
It was bad enough to be bombarded, Evelyn
said, but to be killed and never know It
would be hideous." So we lay In the dark
listening to the cats In the back yard
there are some twenty otthem who sere
nade us nightly and to somebody's VIo
trola, and once we thought wo heard a
siren, but lt was only a fire engine going
peacefully to a fire.
"ITTTE READ the next morning, in the
' paper that airplanes had patrolled-'the
city all night long. They '-were our own,
of course, but still It was humiliating not
even to have heard them! B.- W.
Um tle Price
There Is probably no truth In the rumor
that the Kaiser Is so anxious to' get to Paris
that hq was seen recently buying tickets
ffom speculators. St. Louls-PostDlspatch.
Viewpoint
Probably about the hardest thing of all
would be to persuade a candidate for some
minor office that nothing matters now but
winning the war. Ohio State Journal.
Flaying the Numbers
This telephoning game I grtjat,
It's something like roulftte.V
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In the Milwaukee Sentinel.
A FOOLISH SONG
AS I was going along, going along,
ilThe sky was blue, the meadows,"!
bright,
The river, too, all flecked with light! .
I smiled upon the pretty sight
As I was going along.
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Am T n n fvlnav nlAnn tYnlftsir1 rm.las.aAts
fxa X ntvj Buiiie, aiunbi sums .&,
There came a mra, mere came a preeze, j.
The thicket stirred with melodies
And never songs were sweet as these.
As I was' going along.
As I was going along, going along,
I met a maid who led a lamb,
And I delayed fool that I am!
For her eyes In limpid laughter swam
As I wna going along.
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As. I was going along, going along,
1 thought of breeze and bird and maid, .
The Bunny trees, the tender shade,, j
And out of them a song I made
As I was- going along.
Paul Scott Movvrer, In "Hours of Frarice.'J
Significant rhrases ty
Every great war has its striking ana "
- ,,t ..i v.. .. ri..li itf.H .-!...' ?
rigni u oui on mis line u u lanes au buih- t,
mer" and "The colored troops fought bravely" ',
stood out prominently. The "I regret to "j
report" of the South African war Is well vf
remembered. In the present war. and'U.
especially since 'tho beginning of the great'ii
uerman onensive in aiarcn, tne pnrase tnaiyvr
most often recurs in thej news dispatches' 4f
from tha front is, "The ground was littered i
isfWVs. hatno rt flaVMBn 4 a nit I TVi alavnlfl. "TK
rflncfl nt this Is. for the time belntr. lost on -'
the ceoDle of Germany, who are kent in
ignorance of tnelr terrible losses, but It vn
wait Ifnntun in tha nannlli ftf the a11la4 ss.ni.n ""'KM
V "Iiw"" w " sr-"- ; WUH- J1m
ircB. iji upeiiH liid uiiiiuttie ueicai una coi t
lapse ot tne rrussi&n military system.- -2,
Sprlnefleld Union. L
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useless uccupauoqs -
luuiltllll mo uutca ill owioa vuccan, ff
Counting chickens before the incubator's ,V-
bought. . &
v,wmikinsi Ui. alec
Countlne on the weather balnr a-nnn fori m. -w.
rjlcnlc. I
Counting the gray hairs in one's head.
vuuiiuuB mo pennies, unpins ilia uoil&rvt 1
will take care of themselves they won't. ""J
Counting on a cron without working tor
It. Farm Life. I
Well follow Suit - -i '
King George announces that he Is not
having any new clothes made this summer.
That gives us some distinguished company, r '
Detroit Free Press.
Blood Will Tell
Cnrinlnti aH T 1HT W an A ulnar An Amll
kjs.tu.s-it ., lit s ssu nim. v a 111,111 a X
A Bolshevik, who can even go so, far some "ri
times as to speak the Russian language. .lt
Y3 Issasrsli-Kvlia v A tva TTapalrl irt,l
Ominous for the Hun Hordes
Fpch Is. fully as talkative as Grant was JajVg
ot, iiosion iieraiQ. VifM
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Who was Cardinal da RetsT
X. What la tha 'capital of VlrsinlaT
S. Who la Secrclarr of Coonntrce?
4. Where la tha Ourcn Blterf
B. Whst la the real meanlns of "A. E,
V As-al
what I th
hi mannlnaT aUimMlma ar4wanV -!
fl. Who Is In command . of the United Btatat V
' fleet In foralsn waters? iTJv
1. What Is a pourbolraf
t. Whrra Is Camp MrClellanT
S. Whtu waa tho battle ot Bunker HlUt
10. Who Is tho most celebrated American essaj;
isaj
r Answers In Saturday's flute
1. The Marseillaise la tha national air of JFraaoa.'VJ
iXnar Day. Juns 14. Is the annlvcrsarr of".,
June 14. 1771. when Conrress adopted tW'.J
latlnnut banner. i M
3. -Western Bescrto University Is jit CIweA-:
land. O. ?J
4. Khaki, a dost colored cloth frequently twos):
for military uniforms. 7 '""i
5. Tbo dollar mark Is usually explained as a
suDcrlmpoalllon of tho letters "U. 8." i ,
. Charles V. Morphr I tho chlst o( Tamsuay '
sail. r i- m
T. Gasoral von Hater,, ana of Uo Oorau oaaos
tendon In fH CM drttt, '..'
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