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STRIKES: A PARALLEL
EUROPE aflame proves that war ia the
costliest and clumsiest means cxer
devised for the adjustment of human
affairs. Every reasoning mlml was con
vinced lonpr ago that this war must he
fought out because It Is a fight against
unreason grown to madness. No or.e who
has not stopped thinking altogether doubts
that mankind hereafter must settle Its dis
putes by patient arbitration
Strikes are a silent war Strikes v. era
threatened by the police, and Councils re
fused to accede to the demands of Justice
and reason. And now the Delaware River
front and all the industries crowded there
are without adequate protection became
Councils refused to pay the crews and
pilots of the ftreboats decent wages.
"Ike" Deutsch may hae learned yester
day that a man is often Judged by the com
pany he keeps.
VICTORY MADE IN AMERICA
THE Entente Allies all admit that they
are depending on Ameilca for the final
victory. But It Is admitted now thai
America was more largely responsible
than has been supposed for the success of
the Italians In repulslne; the Austrlans.
A concerted system of backing up the
fighters was adopted before the Austrian
drive, and for days the cable between Italy
and the United States was crowded with
messages sent by Italians, Czechs, Slovenes
and members of other nationalities to their
fellow countrymen in Italy, telling them
that America stands behind them to the
last. This kind of propaganda heartened
the troops and sent them into battle with
confident courage.
We are about to engage In propaganda
In Russia on a more extensive scale, and
Germany will find before the war is over
that we can fight her with her own weap
ons and beat her at her own game.
An Incurable optimist Is one who con
tinues to hope for a revolution in Germany.
HEROINES AT HOME
MRS".
fRS-. BRIDGET KENNEV. of 2414
'averly street, who has sent three
sons and two sons-in-law to the war and
Is supporting their families while they are
gone, has In her heart the kind of quiet
valor that Is a rock for the fighting men
to lean on. The live soldiers who look
back on her as home will not worry about
the health and happiness of their de
pendents. Mrs. Kenney said she would
csre for them, anfl she will. "Born In
Ireland and my name Is Bridget," she
Bays. "I've worked hard all my life and it
hasn't hurt me yet." And she adds that
be doesn't think the is doing anything
particularly worth praise.
But the stout courage and frugality of
such mothers must not blind us to their
hard, grim sacrifice. To these women the
community owes more than it can ever
pay. The World must be made safe for
them as well as for the mothers of Poland
and Belgium and Fiance. That Is why
decent men feel a swimming In the blood
and an Itch In the right hand when they
hear of the foul tricks of profiteering.
Mrs. Kenney and thousands of mothers
like her are facing every day the hard,
sordid, difficult barrage of rising prices.
lack of fuel and the Intimate difficulties of
life. What are we doing to back up these
heroines In their fight for democracy''
, They say that silk pajamas are to be
faxed as luxuries. But what self-respecting
wan ever wore silk pajamas. anyay?
AS TO VACATIONS
THIS is the time uf jear when men, who
have been hard at work all winter and
t apring. begin to fidget and think about a
vacation. Their minds are running upon
aun-warmed sand beaches (so hot on the
a auriuvc uuu yei au uooi wnen you oig your
jfS toes down an Inch or so) and the lap-lunk
fj 91 water on tne Deny ot a flat-bottomed
?f, skiff and the soft pungency of wood smoke
- r drifting throi4 pine trees at dusk.
'' A common fallacy Is that a man can get
T the equivalent of a vacation by a series
Cf week-ends. Into each one of them he
will cram such an intensity of relaxation
that not until Tuesday morning will he
regain the customary harness of toll. But
the true vacation Is a. complete severance
of (he customary tissue of lif?.
Even In wartime It Is well to take
a vacation. This war Is to be won by
brain and hand and muscle in tight
and well-strung correlation. It Is to be
won by those who are fit and In good phy
sique. A vacation Is not slacking. It Is
'i-aWf . as essential for the civilian as the en rcpos
:Asn ' for the soldier. And we don't blame Con-
'J$4 Wresi a bit for getting a little peevish
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The Danger of Fraud IV Not Great Enough
lo Prevent the State From Borrowing
Money for Improved Highways
rpHE state of the roads of a nation is
an index to the state of Its civiliza
tion. Turkey is roadless. So is China. So
are great parts of Russia and South
America. As fast as Rome extended its
power over barbarian countries it built
great highways connecting them with
the city which from its seven hills domi
nated the ancient world, Over those high
ways civilization spread its beneficent
tentacles, lightening the darkness and
dinwing men out of ignorance into
knowledge.
The condition of the highways in this
Commonwealth mark Pennsylvania as
one of the backward States. New York
and Massachusetts an! New Jersey are
far in advance of us and they will bo
further ahead of us each year if the
Stat3 Grange succeeds in defeating the
constitutional -mendment empowering
the General A..-- -."bly to authorize a loan
of $50,000,000 for improving and re
building the highways.
That nmendment was defeated five
years ago through the influence of the
Grange, which is supposed to have dis
trusted the honesty of the Highway De
partment. It is useless to discuss now
whether the department was honest or
dishonest in 1913. Thr representatives
-f the people in two succeeding sessions
' 'he General A5cmbl;- since 1913 have
readoptcd the constitutional amendment
and authorize' its -tbmis:Ion to the
p.-opl"
It would be a calamity if it should be
defeated by the people again.
No argument is needed to prove the
n:cess'ty for good roads. The prosecu
tion of the war is made difficult now
because of defective highways. Motor
trucks have been called into service to
supplement the railroads because of the
congestion of freight. They are run
ning from this city to New York and
Washington and Lancaster and Harris
burg. But the roads are in such a con
dition that they cannot make so good
time as they should. They are running
from all the great shipbuilding and
munition factories into the adjoining
cities. Roads have had to be built for
them in many instances. Plans are
under way to establish a motortruck
service between the mnrkets of this city
and the farms within a radius of forty
or fifty miles in order to bring the farm
ers nearer to the consumers. This serv
ice cannot succeed unless the roads are
in proper condition.
There is nothing the faimers need so
much as hard roads over which to haul
their produce. Good roads make possi
ble larger loads, reduce the cost of dis
tribution and save money n many other
ways.
These facts carry their own argument.
The farmers should be the most ardent
and persistent advocates of good loads.
Every dollar of taxes which they have
to pay in order to meet the interest in
road bonds will come back to thera ten
fold in increased returns from their
farms and in increased comfort in get
ting about.
And the farmers will have to pay only
about one-half of the interest on the
bonds issued to build the roads that will
connect their farms with the neighboring
cities. The assessed valuation of the
real property in the State is $5,300,000,
000, of which 52,400,000,000 lies in Phila
delphia and Pittsburgh. The combined
assessed valuation of Scranton and
Reading and Wilkes-Barre and Erie and
Altoona and Allentown and Lancaster is
certainly great enough to raise the total
wealth of the cities to pay the road tax
to at least one-half of the assessed valua
tion of the whole State. And when the
bonds aie redeemed one-half of the prin
cipal must be paid by the cities.
One would think that the farmers
would j'ump at the chance to have the
cities build their roads for them on such
a basis. The cities arc willing to do it.
Indeed, they will be glad of the oppor
tunity, for they realize how important
roads are for the development of busi
ness. Unless we mistake the attitude of
the State toward the good-roads ques
tion, such a realization of the impor
tance of improved highways has come
about that the farmers, will be willing to
run -the risk of fraud in order that they
may have provided for them an easier
way to market.
Karl Rosner Is evidently
handy man about the house.
the Kaiser's
A TRUE POET
AN E
rlhac
ELDERLY poet in New York, who
had bought a $100 Liberty Bond In
Installments, knew that his death was ap
proaching. From the hospital he wrote to
a friend, asking that the precious bond
be used to defray all his funeral expenses.
He added, "Oh. the glory of dying an
American, with a Liberty Bond your death
shroud."
There Is a deep and moing meaning In
those simple words. To millions of humble
and modest homes, what a personal and
vital significance lives In the one or two
Liberty Bonds they have scrimped and
saved for! They are not only the gathered
and ennobled efforts of the wage-earner or
Jhe mother who has planned and scanted
her household purse to meet the weekly
payments; those bonds are, In a very real
sense, the blood and breathing of loved
faces that have gone far away on the peril
ous and urgent adventure. And they recall
hot and weary hours drudged over the
washtubs, or coveted excursions projected
and sacrificed, or extra work at night when
body and brain cried for recreation. To
those who have struggled to earn them,
Liberty Bonds are (In the President's fine
phrase) "of the very stuff of triumph," for
they are knit In our hearts with effort and
devotion, with stubborn hopes and losses
too fresh for words.
We are sorry that we are not familiar
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nVrty, who (kcd.ttiai hltlbVrty'wrWb.
hit shi-oud. But no one will forest tha
pathos and true poetry of his last request.
He knew what many of us have dumbly
felt, that a Liberty Bond Is a holy and
sacred thing.
The V. M. C. A. wants 4000 men for
work In France. .Vow's your chance, you
men oer draft age.
AN OPPORTUNE ASSASSINATION
TyronE than one assassination In history
has been turned to political advantage.
German statesmen aro fully posted upon
the effect that can, be gained cut of such
a killing as thnt of Count von Mlrbach, and
It looks as If they were Instantaneous In
moving to that end.
The light of the All-Highest countenance
has been withdrawn from the Bolshevlkl.
MIrbach's slaying Is the ex-use. but the
truth Is that they have served their turn
and can now safely bo discarded.
It was the assassinations at Sarrajevo
which were used to begin the onslaught
against the rest of Europe and the world.
Ergo, how 'easy to argue that CIermany'3
army must now overrun disarmed Russia,
overriding recent treaties, In order to pre
serve law; hunt down the assassins and
prevent further attacks upon great-hearted
German friends of the Russian people who
enter the borders of that confused land,
professing to bring the bounty of their
Imperial lord and master, but really to
weld the Teuton shackles tighter.
MIrbach's tragic death Is opportune for
the Kaiser to throw down the smiling
mask and become the glim tyrant oppor
tune If the Russian people are not awake
to the perils of the situation. The task of
the Allies is to be sure that they are awake,
and the moves now In the making at Wash
ington In co-operation with London and
Paris Indicate that speedy action may be
confidently expected to checkmate the
PoUdam plotters.
The man who murdered Mlrbach will be
shot If he Is captured And the Kaiser, who
lias caused the murder of millions, will be
his Judge and executioner.
THEODORE AND A BELOVED ISLE
TRELAND Is a place singularly dlstln
- gulshed. It Is beloved even by Its
enemies. It has won through endless loss.
Its tears of farewell are never dry and
jet It sings! Those who leave that green
country to fight, to strive, to adventure, to
achieve, seldom return. The possibility
that Colonel Roosevelt may go to Ireland
In answer to a passionate lnltatlon Just
cabled under the sea is, therefore, the more
stirring. The world may be arrested by a
circumstance similar to those that wrung
lordly epics from Homer himself.
Iphlgenla returning nt last to Greece
after ages of bitterness In another world;
Menelaus on his homeward way, trium
phant yet filled with sorrows, suggest no
such culmination of life's mysterious ends
and purposes. One must go to Ulysses. Upon
the gray shore of Erin the most Impulsive
of Colonels might, Indeed, round out his
spirit's stormy odyssey. It Is easy," now.
toJmaglne him lost and wandering through
the ages and returned at last to quietude
and peace under a green tree at the place
which at one time or another must have
been his home and his beginning.
For the Colonel Is Irish fn effect, at
least. The appeal Just sent to him by
Colonel Arthur Ljnch, Irish Nationalist
M. P., sounds like a cry from brother to
brother flung out across dim centuries. It
is splendid in its way. Colonel Lynch
talks of high and brave things like splendor
and faith, work and magic, devotion and
fidelity He would have Colonel Roosevelt
visit Ireland to sway and reconcile and
persuade and inspire a troubled and divided
people. The Colonel may go like one
homeward bound. For, If there are seven
teen strains of nationality In him, Erin
may be said to have won a sweeping
victory on at least one hard ba'ttleground.
Each red corpuscle of that restless being
hoists a green flag. This Is plain In the
robust hatreds which rear In the Sage of
Sagamore at the -scent of meanness. It Is
manifest In his refusal to know defeat, In
his refusal to fear men, gods or devils. It
Is written In his passion, in his gusts of
tenderness, In his plentiful mistakes.
Shall we hae a dispute of arms with
Ireland'' Or shall we let the Colonel go?
We need him here badly enough. If there
Is one man living who can save us from
the looming peril of complacency Theodore
Roosevelt Is that man. Should our guide
and mentor go to Ireland he will have rich
rewards. The sagas that he once Inter
preted will, some day or other, have a new
beginning. New chapters will be added to
them. New heroes will be glorified. And
as the Irish are a people of infinite Im
agination the new hero will not be
neglected. The literature of the Blessed
Islo would Inevitably be enriched with an
O'Roosevelt or, perhaps, and for all you
know, a Teddy Machree!
When you are tempted to have a grouch,
think how much worse you would feel If you
were the Kaiser.
The Kaiser seems to have designs on the
White Sea and the Black Sea, but he'll have
to go some to go surf bathing In the Red
Sea. Too bad he can't round out his color
scheme.
The Fifth Ward defendants are to be
tried together. That Is the proper way to
try men charged with conspiracy, even though
tome of them are afraid that they will be
damaged by the testimony against the
others. '
It would not have been
necessary for Director
Wilson to pay the
faithful pilots and en
nirector Wllaon'a
Pay Guarantee
to the Police
gineers of the fire
boats the difference
between their official salary and the wage
which they demanded If Councils had been
big enough to rise to the occasion and han
authorized a living wage. The action of
tho Director In advancing the money from
his own pocket. In the expectation that he
will be reimbursed, Is sufficient proof ot his
belief In tha importance of Increasing the
salaries. It may be taken as a guarantee
that something is to be done about a wage
Increase for all policemen when Councils meet
In the fall.
tfHEElEVXfdk
THESE are days of great adventure'
In the elevator shaft;
All the practiced operators
Have been taken by the draft.
See the cars flit by, erratic
Down they drop and up they soar
For the moke can't seem to stop them
On a level with the floor.
The passengers are hung aloft
A yard above the 'sill;
And sometimes they drop far below
And peer up through the grill; ,
Or else, with bump and wheeze and clang,
With shivers, Jars and Jolts,
They rush down to the basement,
Where the dynamo makes volts.
Small wonder, after many scares,
stairs,
the
climb
to
prefer
some
That
It looks as though Lenlne and Trotsky
are getting ready to do a r.ose dive.
Medical Notes
When the Germans say that their
soldiers have "Spanish Influenza," Is that
Just another word for hunger?
; . .
A curious epidemic of truth-felling seems
to break out among German officials as
soon as they get safely to Switzerland.
Does the Kaiser call that Swiss influenza?
The disease for Lenlne and Trotsky to
look out for Is Finnish Influenza, or Mur
manla. Or perhaps the Bolshevlkl have
Lenlnfluenza?
Another ailment widely observed In the
Central Powers In Rosner's fever. The
patient writes rapidly and In all directions,
frothing at the pen. The only antidote for
this distressing seizure Is a funeral at
Imperial Headquarters.
Our New Word
Terrible mortality may be expected
among the highbrows now that a certain
word has scaled the beetling cliffs where
they live. In a recent essay by Paul
Elmer More we find the following:
"This introductory camouflage, to use our
new word."
It will be a terrible thing' If the blue
stockings pick up a lot of new words like
barrage and cootie and ot'er the top.
Literary Criticism
The other day we were standing looking
over the ten-cent assortment at a second
hand bookshop. Beside us were two young
women, hunting for "something nice." Then
one of them caught sight of the five-cent
counter near by.
"Come on, Katie," she said; "let's get
one of these over here. They're only five
cents. They must be twice as good."
They say that the Boss Weather Man In
Washington was dropped because of pror
German sympathies, but certainly there
has been nothing Hunnlsh In the recent
magnificent weather.
The Pipe of Peace
What Is the magic
of a corncob pipe?
No matter how peevish or
Irritable my husband may
be, when he Is smoking his
Missouri meerschaum he will do
anything I ask. Couldn't something
about corncob pipes be put in the
marriage ceremony?
ANN DANTE.
The Harp That Once Through T. R.s Halls
T. R. haR been lnxlted to go to Ireland
to hasten recruiting News Item.
Ochonc and Acushla and Hullabaloo!
With T. It. In Erin, what would the Huns
do?
The leprechauns, leaping to don the King's
coat
Would grab up their blackthorns and hunt
William's goat;
And all the shlllaleghs
Crack skulls for the Allies,
Sinn Felners would leave off shamrocklng
the boat!
But It's a long way from Oyster Bay
to Tipperary. SOCRATES.
When your fifty-trip
Mutterlnsa of ticket Is going to run
a Commuter out the next day, ana
pay day Is still two
days off. and you think you'll have to hock
a Liberty Bond to buy that new ticket, ana
then "Bill" Jones calls you up and offers
to shoot you home that night In his car
oh, boy! ain't it a grand and glorious feel
ing? Now that the Govern
Yea ; Inquire ment Is actually pre
in New York paring to take control
of the wires, would It
be proper to ask who pulled them?
To the Profiteers
Believe me, if those profiteering young charms
Are proven, the folk of this land
Will take certain Industries Into Its arms.
Something besides meat will be canned.
The draft board at Fort Worth. Tex.,
In ordering Rogers Hornsby, star stortstop
for the St. Louis Cardinals, to work or fight,
put major league baseball-In the list of use
less occupations. Some of us who have other
clubs In mind will feel that some such deci
sion was due years ago. 1
War for a Holy Cause
To the F.dltor of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir Is If not timely to protest against the
prevalent misuse of the word holy in eon
nectlon'wlth the war? War Is, per se, un
alterably unholy. It Is a primeval Institu
tion, and none but a Cain could have con
ceived It. But a fine distinction In the use
of terms will recognize this Important and
Incontrovertible fact that this war represents
a holy cause the cauee Is essentially holy
the defense of freedom. Justice and honor.
It does not follow that because the cause
Is holy the means adopted In support of the
cause, bloodshed. Is holy; It Is fiendish and
barbaric, a renouncement of the laws of Ood
and of man. A holy cause Is this, and I hope
that every Hun will be given a dose of his
own medicine force, FORCE to the last
Hun's extinction If no recantation is heard.
But, Mr. Editor. I object to seeing the word
holy linked with war. God Is of purer eyes
than to behold death and murder and slaugh
ter and pain unspeakable. It la regrettable
that war Is the only way to be taken, and
that the holy cause must be allied with war to
make .democracy safe for the world, bur-our
Tresident pursues the right course when he
Is Inflexibly uncompromising with the enemy
of our holy cause.
LOBING n. FULMER.
Philadelphia. July I.
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The. Oppressed Czechs and Slovaks
By E. JORDAN
Professor at the Sorbonnc
THE Czechs and Slovaks come Into history
In the second half of the ninth century.
At that time they formed a part of the great
Moravian empire of Swatopluk. They were
already coming Into collision with the Ger
mans. It was a German Intrigue that caused
the failure of the great scheme of St. Method,
the apostle of the Slavs: to glvo them 11
national liturgy. In conjunction with Rome;
to make of them a third branch of the Uni
versal Church. Owing to this failure, the
Slav world found itself condemned to reli
gious dismemberment.
SINCE the tenth century Bohemia, under
her national dukes of the rrzmyslld
familv, has been subjected to German In
fluence. She received from Germany Chris
tianity according to the Latin ritual, partly
under compulsion; for Germany, religious
propaganda has always been a means of
political domination. The dukes felt the
attraction of a civilization then superior to
theirs; In exchange for the title of king
they allowed themselves to be Incorporated
Into the empire. Such was tho policy,
dynastic rather than national, but otherwise
brilliant, pursued by the great ITzmysllds
of the thirteenth century Ottakar X (110'
1230). who definitely acquired the royal
title, and Ottakar II (1253-1278). who con
quered Austria. Styrla, Carniola and Carin
thla. But Bohemia was becoming halt Ger
manized. At the court, and among the
nobility, German customs and speech were
the fashion; the towns were filling with
German merchants. Bohemian ethnology
was beginning to assume the aspect which it
h.iB preserved. Some degreo of national
spirit still persisted, however, and Ottakar
II contrived to uppeal to it when setting
out upon the struggle against the founder
of the house of Austria. Rudolph of Haps
burs: Witness his alliance with the Polish
princes, founded, says the treaty Itself, "upon
Satire and kinship of blood" ; witness his
appeal to the Polish nation; : " Bohemia
your DUlwarK, is tiii' ?J . .
Germans will stretch out and seize you too
with their greedy hands."
THE foreign dynasty of the Luxemburgs,
which was French as .much as German,
favored a Czech revival It chUny the
tmrt nlaved by Charles IV (1346-1378),
SePman Emperor. Although, by the Golden
Bull, he sanctionea me hicu.i""""-" -' ""
hernia Into Germany, he also sanctioned her
autonomy; In a word, he raised Bohemia to
the first rank.
UNDER his successor Wenceslas begins the
HubsIU movement, about which It Is es
sential to state that It was national as much
as religious. It began with a reform of
t"he statute of the university, in which he
Czechs obtained the mastery and (mwhldi
the Germans emigrated. Huss was the
creator of Czech literary prose. And it w as
racial hatred, as much as zeal for ortho
doxy, that drove the German crusaders to
faU upon Bohemia. "What cause have they
tor war?" said a manifesto Issued by he
1 k.hii.ntK of Prague, "unless it be the
.tn.l hatred which ihey nourish against
""untortunately tho Czechs proved unable to
nr.erve a national kingship and In 1526 the
Sues of the kingdom elected as king Ferdl
nand I of Hapsburg. brother to Char es V.
A woeful day, which marked the beginning
ot denationalization!
FTRDINAND I himself proclaimed his
crown hereditary, and Independent of the
utotea That was nothing, compared to the
events' of the seventeenth century. .In 1618
nVhemla rose up against Ferdinand II. The
Pauer lfter"a"nlng the victory at the White
Mountain Tin 16J0. Inflicted on the rebels the
most terr ble repression. Twenty-seven
rTobles were beheaded. 669 others were ex
Red; all their possession's were confiscated;
adventurers came and formed a new no
blllty : the middle classes being also ruined.
STczech elements found them.. Ives reduced
to the level OI ine."" ''"Z.lV..., ' .i
Constitution estabiuneo
..nireii official standing
absolutism and
to the German
language, concurrently
preference to) Czech.
with (and soon In
AT LEAST, Bohemia still, remained Bohe
mia a State united to the other domains
of the Hapsburgs by a purely personal tie.
The pragmatic sanction of Charles VI. Maria
Theresa's act of 1749, the centralizing and
Germanizing reforms of Joseph II ami the
adoption. In 1804, of the Ijrnperll tjtlei ot
Austria tended to deprive her of this last
remainder of Individuality,
National consciousness was becoming ob
literated. Those patriots who still survived
despaired of tho future. In 1817 Jungmann
could atlll exclaim; "We shall have had the
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sad fate of being witnesses and accomplices
of the annihilation of our mother tongue."
ALREADY, however, the work of rcsur-
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rectlon had begun. As happens with
many oppressed peoples, It was erudition and
literature, quicker to gain freedom lhan
political action, that, by seeking out In the
past the titles of tho race, as It were gave
it back Its soul. Dobrovsky, the creator of
Slav philology; Jungmann, who made Czech
once more a living language; the poet Kol
lar; Chafarlk, a Slovak, the author of the
"Slav Antiquities"; Talacky, whoso great
"History of the Czech People" began to
appear In 1830; these were the "Czech awak
eners." THEN" came the crisis of 1S48. This na
tion, which had so many grounds of com
plaint against the Hapsburgs, felt for them
no blind hatred. Against the tendencies,
pan-German, far more than liberal, of the
Frankfurt Parliament, the Czechs felt that
Austria was, In a certain sense, the condi
tion of their existence. Hence Palacky's
famous saying: "If Austria did not exist It
would have to be Invented." Bohemia was
rewarded as Croatia was for having helped
the Hapsburgs against Hungary. Austria
refused to bo regenerated by honest federal
Ism. Even her revert-es did not convert her.
After 185D came the centralising Constitution
of H6I, In which the electoral By.stem Is skill
fully contrived to ciush the Slavs. After
1860 camo the Austro-IIungarlan compro
mise of 1SG7, the spirit of which, as regards
the Slavs, expressed In Beust's brutal
threat: "Put them up against the wall";
and In his words to tho Hungarian delegates:
"Keep our hordes, wo shall keep ours."
SINCE that time Bohemia has worn her
self out with efforts to obtain Justice.
What she can expect from the Germans,
from an Austria who grows more and more
a vassal of Germany, it Is a great Teuton,
it Is Mommsen, who has said It, and his in
tellectual superiority only makes the venom
ous coarseness of his language more char
acteristic:
"Czech skulls do not understand reason,
but they understand blows. It Is a matter
or ngntlng for life and death."
Are the Czechs, to whom should be added
the Slovaks of Hungary, equally persecuted,
that Is to say, a group of abeiut 10,000,000
men, whose Intellectual activity and eco
nomic progress are brilliant, always to be
refused the right of free development? The
war as every one felt at once. Is to them a
terrible danger and a unique chance.
THE victory of the Central Empires means
the Germanizing of Austria. Their de
feat means liberation. Bohemia has shown
that she understood It. The manner in which
the Czech soldiers have behaved Is known.
The Austrian Government may stigmatize
It. In the name of a so-called patriotism,
which it has little right indeed to demand
of Its subjects. For our part, we shall say
that there are cases when desertion Is true
patriotism and the refusal to fight true cour
.age. With regard to civilians, the measures
which Austria and Hungary have been led
to adopt In Czech and Slovak countries ox
cced all that Germany has done In Alsace:
we need say no more. All political life
stopped, political parties disbanded, their
leaders Imprisoned or exiled, three-quarters
of the newspapers suppressed, more than a.
thousand persons sentenced to death (many
of them women), the systematic practice of
confiscation and seizure of hostages, radical
and wholesale Germanizing that is the nres-
,ent state of affairs-, that Is what must be
uone away vvitn.
More and I.eas
Vanderbllt Wlnthrop. seated on an Atlan
tic City pier, admired the skimpy, short skirts
that govern summer fashions.
An endless procession of girls went by,
and the sea wind made short skirts seem
Btill shorter.
"The 1918 skirt," said Mr. AVinthrop, "Is
more Individual than the 1917 or 1U16 ona,
Less skirt, you know more Individual." De.
trolt Free Press.
The big stores are to reduce their electric
lights and their elevator service 20 per cent
to save fuel. Now If the customers will
carry home their little packages the stores
may bo able to reduce the cost of their motor
car delivery service and save gasoline.
Albert Ballln, of the Hamburg-American
Steamship Line, for German Foreign Secre
tary? What does he know about foreign af
fairs? He Is merely a business man, Inter
ested in trade, Can It be that the Kaiser
Is looking for a man who can secure hos
pitable treatment for German shipping after
the war?
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ALCHEMY
Because of the light of the moon.
Silver Is found on the moor;
And because of the light of the sun.
There is gold on the walls of the poor.
Because of the light of the stars,
Planets aro found In the stream:
And because of the light of your eyes,
There Is love In tho depths of my dream.
Francis Carlln, In "My Ireland."
How the Airmen Talk
Ralph D. Paine, who has recently re
turned to America nfter five months spent
with the Allied fleets, has brought back soma
choice specimens of language as It Is used
af the front. He says that a dialogue between
men of th( royal naval air service sounds
something like this:
" 'I'm still on the same ganv old thing
sops, two-seaters and camels. We've got an
old tlnslde, too, for Joy-rld!ng.'
"louve given up the rumpety, then7
" 'Yes : I was getting ham-headed and mut
ton-fisted flapping the old things every day
felt I wanted to stunt about a bit. The
rumpety Is a wash-out.'
"'Have jou butted up against Jones
Needham?' "'Yes; he crashed a few days ago on
his first solo flip taking off tried to zoom,
engine konked side-slip nose dive. Not
hurt, though. Where's Seymour?"
" 'Oh, he tried spads, but got his wind up.
What about your new machine?'
" 'It's a dud bus. Too much stagger and
prop stops on a spin. Seo you tomorrow,
I'm flopping at dawn.' "
Strategy!
The Alabama negro soldier who lured Ger.
man dispatch dogs Into the American trenches
by dragging tho body of a fox across No
Man's Land hit on a scheme with great pos
sibilities. By dragging a llmburger sandwich
across he may land old Hlndenburg him
self. Macon Telegraph.
The Austrian Version
Little Tommy Tucker
Sings for his supper.
What shall he have?
You asked a mouthful that time.
Chicago Evening Post
News in Germany
Hamburg announced a whllo ago that
seven German submarines were operating off
the Atlantic coast. It seems now to have
gono home. Boston Globe. '
Confuiion
Oh. Mr. Cltyrube salutes
With Joy his garden fair.
He pulls up the potato shoots
And hoes the weeds with care.
Washington Star.
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Wliat Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Where l Vaasar College?
2. Who Is the Cmiieror of AuatrU?
3. Who Is General Tn Hutler?
4. What la the erlcln of the name of Connect!-
eut?
5. Who w"s the seventh Prealdent of the
United States?
A What la the cniiltnl of Tennenaee?
7. Who un "llr aelilnr the Mhmus of Dnrlen
von vim wreat the keia of the world from
Spain"?
8 Nome "' author of "I.a Dame ux Camel-
!la"T
0. Who was Mareu Aurellon?
What "Th. Old Ouord" In American
politic?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
J. Cardinal Richelieu fArmand Jean dii rioaals,
1B83-'04J). one or the crraest and anbtleai
of rrenrh atateimen, tha Mlnlater of
I,ou1a XIII.
2, Haiebrnnck: Imnortnnt. rnlln-nr eenler In
' Northern France. R ahort fliatanr from tha
ilermnna Flanders front. It l atrateiclcally
Important In relation to the Channel porta.
3, "The FalrMjIrt of Perth." a novel br Sir
Walter Pcott.
1. t'rlali Ileen. a jrrontinntlc. aiineraerTlreable.
hvnocrltlcel character In 'I)arld Copper
Held." who li ulnars emphaaUIng hla
"umbleneaa."
8. Army coram A main body of trnotia. folly
manned and eaulpned to end net nil an
rratlnna of war aa an Independent unit
Theoretically It "nnll of three Infantry
brlcaden. n cavalry brlrade. artillery, en.
sincere and rommUiarlat.
el. WnahliiKlan .". lieutenant general, not a
cenerat of full rank, contrary to tho sen.
eral belief. ,
7. Antlalnraft rum a specially detUed tvne of
ordnance, notable for apenl In flrlns at
varlnua Htislea und atoinur n making hit
at mobllo ohleeta. Developed alnce tha
sreat war heron.
s. Admiralty
some enuntrlea the eteeutlv
ueiiarimcni or onicera imvin? the iiraetlea
r lfflr llllllni. .ha ....... ial
conduct of and renerul authority urn naval
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llosrr llni-vn (ItM-ltDS). a inouk noted fur ' 2
Ills leurnlnr und Intentions. , . IM
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