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Philidrlpltli, UrdnrJa;. Julr :i. 1918
iTMiGiirnEroR?i:
fNE of the first things which a -visitor
J to Philadelphia in rummer hears is that
It Is one of tl hottest cities in thecounti
This Is pardonable as an e.pieMon of
local pri4e In the climate but it is hardly
In accord with the fact--
Men who !ige li ed in other cities di
Coer nf'ei a tca'-on or two here that
Riiladelph'a pride in its torrlditv is un
bounded Boston van Kie It cards and
i spades, so fai a heat and humidltj are
Cncerned onl iheu belt it New York
On a. hot ilaj makes Philadelphia seem like
t cool grove on the hank of a lunnliiB
fcrook, nnd ChicaRo well, the less -aid
bout Its summer climate the better
General lit II Is one of the leading com
Wndcrs of tlic German armies in France
PrhaPs his Kctoi is th." rheniin-dPb-Damns
THE COLOiNEL"S MISSION
"tOLOXEJ, IIOOSUVKLT. in decllnins to
' become n candidate feir the Roernor
ship in Xew York, has without doubt
strengthened )umt,elf with his jiart in that
gtte. n attempt was made to use him
to defeat Goernor Whitman for lenoml
natlon The Governor has heen lndoised
by a larse maJoiit of the leaders of his
'arty. The Colonel was asked to run bv
men who have been his bitter political
enemies Ho has refused to be theli cats-paw-,
but in such a diplomatic w.i that
feW cannot be offended and the friends of
Trhlttnan must inevitably be Brateful.
t .would be eas to say that the Colonel
was jilaying politics. But we prefer to take
bis letter of declination at its face value
ind to credit him with the expressed dp
Ire to devote his whole lime and energies
(0 consideration of the wai, the lntu na
tional pioolems of peate and the social and
lpduEtm! prqblems with which we shall be
Confronted when the war ends He is a
leader of great force and he is evidently
prerJarins himself to lead In the reconstiuc
tlon work of the near future The states
Rien of all parties must be engaged in the
same kind of study as that which is now
Occupying his attention if we are to meet
the problems with intelligence when they
must be solved.
We do not huppose the Colonel haibors
arty delusions about the presidential cam
paign of 1920. He may even agree with
the view- eMuessed lecently b Mnjoi Gen
eral Francis V Greene that the successor
of Woodrow Wilson is now commanding
ome military unit great or small in
France.
The opening of fire hj drants to give tho
Children a chance to get cool In the poorer
districts may cause a "waste" of water but
yen tho fuel administrator would lurdly
eomplaln against such 'wastt "
SHARP SHOOTING AT BIG BIRDS
THERE are in General Pershing's army a
lot of joung men who have handled a
rifle from th-lr early outh and can hit the
bullseje nlmost ever time So when a lot
of German airplanes began to rt low over
.their trenches one of them a iked permis
sion to take a shot at the airmen He
aimed his rifle and the airplane came tum
bling to the ground like a stricken bin!,
With Its pilot dead. Another nllleman in a
neighboring companv seeing what had
Happened also took aim and brought down
another plane, and the rest fled to a safe
distance.
The Germans have a lot to learn about
the Americans who are fighting against
them.
The 10 pir cent iniomc ta
worry the men getting Kss than
year,
will not
JL'OOO a
WAR CRAFT AT LAST
$ T5ESTILENCE on the one hand and graft
sjsj on tne otner used to be twin scourge'
,., t most armies in times of war Science
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i demies that used to menace toldlers in ii
St iwS'v. fio, out even science is nelplesa for a
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A memoer 01 tne council or national De
f?,t,, lB under arrest charged with par-
iJ ucipating in a evstem tnat supplied hun.
t? MAm nf thnilKTinrls rt itnr.hu... ...
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oats to our troops In France. Geneial
.Wshlng has reported that the coatu fell
part after they were exposed to a few
?Taewers. Disclosures of wholesale hrlherv
fTMOong Government inspectors, of the in
timidation and bribery of Quartermasters'
3jPctrs and t political meddling ore
'T&The men who didn't care whether our
V.sWIrs suffered with tho cold and rain so
.jfZkiqift as they themselves could wring ex.
i Of pliant proms out 01 ma situation snouia
jU1 treated as enemies of the country. And
p gko' Pepartment of Justice can brace itself
! fa meet the cumulative anger and resent
fjp'tnt of tho country if such men and those
M, aided them are permitted to escape
Un maximum of disgrace and punishment.
least deserving of consideration are
jAimy officers who may have permitted
'AMERICA AND ENGLAND'S
MAN-POWER PROBLEM
Political Situation Which Gives Rise to sn
, Extraordinary SugRcstion
iN AIR of icstraint nnd repression
A was in Chmlcs H. Giasty's cable
report to this newspaper yeatciday rela
tive to on impending inteinal crisis in
England. This vVas due not so much to
the censor, perhaps, as to tho col re
spondent's exacting legard for a situa
tion which he recognized as uncertain
and pciilous. His dispatch icfeircd to a
movement of opinion in England for the
incorporation of Ameiicnn military con
tingents for ni(fci'('' ncrunl' as parts
of British commands By some such
means, appnicntlj, Llod Gcoige and
his associates vvould hope to relieve the
confusipn which has followed upon their
recent handling of the man-power issue
at lioue and in Ii eland.
The British Piemicr is unquestionably
facing a situation not of Ins own ci ca
tion. He is caught between opposing
foicrs fn English va- politics. And it
is lcmotely conceivablf that he really
might tutn to the United States in this
way ,t3 a last leso't, with the hope that
we, bj some unpiectdtn'.cd gestuie of
self-sacnfico, might help in solving the
question of British man-power.
Englishmen and Englishwomen in the
mnss feel about the war us Americans
do. They have fought and endured in a
manner too noble and too magnificent
for piaisc for a cause which they ton
sidoi univeisal and above the inleiests of
any one poition of the community.
There is an isolated opposing group
which still picseives the lemnant of its
foimer influence in England It speaks
as a lule through thp British Boaid of
Trade. Tin., gioup still iepird war as
a mattei of tiade mules nnd sp'.ieies of
commercial influence. Millions of dead
men and cripples and a continent in
flames have not served to mitigate its
logic. And so, while virtually the whole
of England is waning to vnnquish Ger
many because Germany is a menace to
civilization some of the men who have
membership in the British Board of
Trade aie out to vanquish Germany
because Geimany has been and may lie
again a dangeious competitor in foieign
commeicc.
The British Labor party has waged a
fuiious waifnre on this point of view.
Lloyd George, himself a Liberal, has felt
the necessity of holding all the spiritual
and material resouiees of the countiy
together. He has done his best to please
all inteiests. That has been his gieat
eiior, since he has been unable wholly
to please any.
An isolated group of influential indi
viduals in England, whose piestige has
been heightened because the Government
lequiied and accepted their services, has
managed by insistent interference in
public discussions to fill the mind of the
Butish workers with suspicion and to
confuse the nlicady colossal tasks of the
Piemiei. A certain section of Butish
labor has opposed the new man-power
bill because it was looked upon as an
effott of the reactionaries to force more
women into the English factoiies and to
eliminate for all workmen under the age
of fifty-one the wage benefits that they
enjoy in the war industiies. The Gov
ernment was at once placed in a false
position which made it appear antago
nistic to labor. Lloyd Gcoige is still
thicatening labor and. labor is still
threatening Lloyd George. And the
Allied nations at this critical- phase of
the war must support the piesent British
cabinet or face tho alternative of a new
Government dictated largely by the
British Labor paity, which will hold the
balance of power at the next elections.
The piesent British cabinet is ex
pet ionced and conseivativo. A new Pre
mier, were he to 'be named or helped by
Aithur Hendoi son's labor organization,
would lie a Liberal of internationalist
tendencies. But the Butish Labor party
has agitated consistently fqr a state
ment of aims such as Piesident Wilson
has always suggested and it has declared
for a war to the end along such lines.
These aie some of the outstanding
factors m the political problem which
faces Lloyd George. In all fairness they
ought to bo thus stated as a coiollary to
Mi. Grasty's dispatch. They explain
why such an extraordnuiy suggestion is
made, even if it is only as a "feeler" of
American public opinion.
The British have given immeasuiable
aid to this Government in fuithering our
plans for war. Without then assistance
in slapping in aircraft and aitilleiy, to
mention only a few items of the count,
the Vn ted States could not have made
the remarkable record it has.
Theie j no doubt that the mas3 pur
poses of the British and the American
people in this war are identical. It is only
the political expedients which get in the
way. America stands ready to hupply
all the man power necessary to win a
victory on the westein fiont, without
stint or quibbling. But it is too much to
suggest that we supply deficiencies in the
British ranks indefinitely. If Lloyd
George dare not raise the necessaiy
levies for fear of crippling the industrial
war power of the nation as well as, per
haps, upsetting his own ministiy, the
British lines may be conti acted and re
placed by American re-enforcements
as they arrive. Americans, following the
customs of all nations for centuries, will
insist upon fighting under their own flag.
Why all ihls railing about humidity?
It keeps the tobacco nice and moist.
MEN AND WOMEN
fTIHE practical men In business and poll-
X
tics who used to nnd endless diversion
In reading florid accounts of the demon
strations made by English suffragiBts in
variably pointed to Mrs. Kmraaline Pank-
I hurst whi
when they wanted to Drove that
?Zg'K
& poti
they said, were too emotional. Didn't Mrs.
Pankhurst's methods prove the ancient
theory?
Mm Pankhurst is In this country now.
She Iihs forgotten suffrage for he time
being. She has ndvlted nil women to cease
agitating in self-interest or for the suffrage
principle and to forget utterly their own
concerns until the war Is won.
It would be Interesting to know how
many of the practical men who do not be
lieve In suffrage have found themselves
capable of a viewpoint as enlightened as
hers and as unselfish.
Now It Is reported that Hlndenburg has
been 111 for a. vear The news from the Marne
will make him sicker if thnt be possible. .
HEARSTS CANDIDACY
fTIHE decision of W. R. Hearst to attempt
-- to secure the nomination for the gov
ernorship of New York in the Democratic
primaries to be held on September 3 Is
natural and logical.
He has for vears advocated government
ownership of lallroads and telegraph lines
He has supported woman suffrage and pro
hibition The Democratic party has come
siotind to his views. Its leaders have In
dorsed piohlbltltm and woman suffrage
and a Democratic Piesident, acting under
nuthoiltv conferied by a Democratic Con
gress has taken over the railroads and
will take over the telegraph and telephone
lines a week from today.
Heal st Is the logical candidate for the
New York Demociats on these Issues He
will carry his peculiar brand of radicalism
to the furthest extieme possible and line
up his ptitv with tho i nellcal Issues -o
that no one can mistake where it stands
Yet tliere seems to bo lack of enthusiasm
for Heal st among the Democratic Ieadeis
now meeting in Saratoga Spilngs to adopt
a platform and to Indorse candidates to be
voted for at the primnrles PioMblv it is
because Hearst has been repeatedlj and
mphaticnllv accused of pro Germinlsm and
Iukewannness In his support of the Piesi
dent But no better thing could happen
for the countr.v than to have the New
York Democracy put itself on record on
the issues which Hearst personifies
It is etarifvins to have It definitely
stated that candidates must be tested to
discover not whether they nrc lojal to the
t'nlted States and to Its official head, but
whether the are lojal to the political and
peisonal foi tunes of Woodrow Wilson
We doubt, however, whether Mr. Wilson
will he gratified to learn that the issue has
been stated so baldly at Saratoga.
The Government ownership Issue for
which Hearst stands Is one on which the
Democracv must express Itself definitely,
and the sponer It does so the better. Three
members of the President's Cabinet have
jlifMdy said thev believe that both the
lallroads and the electilc lines should re
main permanent Iv in the eontiol of the
Government. The rest of the country
would like to know- how the New York
Democrats stand on this issue. No better
wnv of testing its sentiment could be found
than for Hearst to be a candidate In the
primaries. If New York Democrats want
Hearsttsm applied to the conduct of gov
ernment, the rest of the country cannot
learn the truth too soon
rhlladelphlans should
N'ntliliiB lave no difficulty In
.f accustoming them
selves to the "skip
stop" method of running trolUj cars Thv
learned all about the system during tho'e
bleakest davs last winter when the trolley
cars seemed to skip all stops during the
homeward rush hours
"In every second In
this cltv a cigar Is
made in everv second
till t Tliej're
nt Made Hrre
a loaf of bread Is
baked H J Cattell. Clt Statistician
Rut Mr Cattell forgot to enumerate the
safetv match that Is struck every second
and does not light.
If the Kaiser still
spends h's spare time
picking flowers on the
Flower That Hloom,
Trn l.a
battlefield", he is not
finding anv violets on the Marne front. The
onl) blossoms he can pluck there are burrs
and nettles
l.udendorff thinks the
That Gfrman soldiers talk
Fatal Word loo much Which may
be the General's gentle
way of saving that from his viewpoint too
man of them are saving Kamerad!" aove
the Marne trese davs
"Dog dass" are al
most as unpopular
here as they are In
France with the Ger
speak of them over there
A Might
Difference
mans Onl they
as 'Teufel Hunden" davs
"Go West. o u n K
On ilie man " Is not a popu-
Lontrnrj lar slogan with Amer
ica's j oung manhood
during the war
hen General Pershing told the wounded
soldiers that the American people were proud
of them he was delivering a message which
he had received by p) etiological wireless
from ivcr thinking person on this s'de of
the ocean
"The armies have reverted to the classic
mles or war," sajs a dispatch from the
Marne The classic rule being, of course,
tl at the fellow- who badly needs a licking
is likely to get it
The Kaiser's chief complaint about the
"shell game" being worked on him by the
American artillery is that he Is getting more
than his monej'i worth.
The plans for wage standardization pro
vide for standardizing wages upward. This
will mean standardizing prices and the cost
uf living In the same direction.
The Government lias taken over the Cape
Cod Canal, but It took the sinking of some
coal barges using the outside route to force
It to action.
No matter how proud we are of the
work of the Americans we must not forget
that the French and English are also
fighting
The Johns Hopkins doctor who died of
blood poisoning contracted while niwed in
experiments for the Government was as truly
a war hero as any of tr men who have been
j mito,Yk it a. ukus
ffiriii
THE ELECTRIC CHAIR
Infractions to German Editors
Isfued by the Imperisl Bureau for Preparing
the German People for News of
Another Victory
Great General Penquarterc,
Somewhere Not. Too Near the Marne,
July 24, 191E.
Whenever a German victory occurs
which for reasons of strategy It is Inadvis
able to explain too fully to the public, the
following course will be pursued:
A special article will be supplied by the
imperial Mouthpiece for Dissemination of
Chit-Chat, Herr Karl Rosner, This article,
which will be uniformly cheery and gos
sipy. Is to be given prominent place on the
front page.
The strategy of the latest movements in
the Marne sector Is to be explained ac
cording to the following formula: "Our
victorious troops have compelled the re
luctant French to advance across the
Marne. This was done by the French en
tirelj against their will, and is in pursuit
of General Ludendorff's theory that It is
well to encourage tho French now and
then, or they would quit altogether and
the fun would be over."
If the public shows any disposition to in
quire too closely Into matters that do not
concern It, It will be well to diert atten
tion by another announcement of Hlnden
burg's death and a graphic description of
his last hours. General Hlndenburg has
given permlsson for this to bo done, nnd
the announcements will bo Inserted on the
following schedule:
Week of July 22 Hlndenburg dies in
Berlin.
Week of July 20 Hlndenburg very ill
In Vienna.
Week of August 5 Hlndenburg burled
in Hrest-Litovsk.
Week of August 12 Hlndenburg con
valescent in Bavaria.
It mav be convenient for the next few
weeks to avoid mention of the Marne alto
gether. If this plan Is adopted by the
Bureau of Helping Along the Facts duo no
tice will be given to all editors.
A seiies of designs and fashion plates
illustrating the beauty of the new paper
clothes are being prepared and will be sn
dicated to the press.
Similarly, this bureau will continue the
distribution of the very popular series of
comics entitled "1001 Ways to MakeTur
nips Fascinating to the Fastidious." These
are to be run on the women's pages of all
newspapers and will take the place of war
news whenever there is an important vie
toi j to be concealed
Until further notice, absolutely no men
tion is to be made of the following:
The Crown lrlnce
Chateau Thierry
Doctor Muchlnn
Mjxlmilian Harden
Spanish Influenza
Devil Dogs.
In mentioning American troops great
care must be taken not to exaggerate the
numbers of Americans in Trance. It mav
be admitted unofficially that General Per
shing and his personal staff have arrived,
also a quantltv of baseball bats, but It Is
well to add that owing to a gross mistake
on the part of the American navy most of
the American troops have been landed In
Africa bv mistake.
Dining the continuance of startling suc
cess on thp western front it will be well
to avoid ovei encouraging the public by
turning their attention to more seemly
topics, such as the hot wave In America,
which has caused the death of millions of
prominent citizens; and tho brutality of
the Washington Government, which com
pels American citizens to continue their
tasks as usual, Just as though they weie
not terroiized by U-boat raids along their
coast. (Signed) VON BUNK.
Deputy charged with the task of Interpret
ing disagreeable matters.
We Svmpalliize
Doctor Davis, formeily the Kalsei's den
tist, savs that Wilhelm said to him, "You
know, I simply can't fight all the world
and have a toothache too"
How often we have felt exactly like that.
If they are going to douse all the lights
In Falrmount Park, may we call the Park
way the DarkwaV
EUSTACE. THG MALE FLAPPER.
An Opporlunit) for Philadelphia
The question of giving to streets and
squares In American cities names inspired
by the present war will soon become a
timely matter. It would be pleasant If we
had the graceful genius for names that la
so Instinctive In France. It would be natu
ral for a Frenchman to feel himself at
home and genuinely stirred In thought on
a stately avenue named "Boulevard of the
World Made Safe" or "Street of Our Glori
ous Allies" or "Street of Undefeated
Armies." Even half-savage nations outdo
us in a sense of the noble .suggestion of
words. Who has forgotten the "Road of
Loving Hearts" that the Samoan chiefs
built in memory of their loved Tusltala,
Robert Louis Stevenson?
Perhaps no American city would feel
quite comfortable In namlhg a street "The
Lllystan Fields" or "The Street of Peace,"
as Paris has done. And yet, why not? It
would be no mean thing if we, too, could
accustom ourselves to a little more poetry
and imagination In the names of our high
ways. Philadelphia, where so many streets
aio charmingly named after trees, would
be a good city to take such a step.
It seems to us that this city has a beau
tiful opportunity for such an act of grace.
The Parkway will in future jears be one
of the noblest thoroughfares of Philadel
phia. Now the word "Parkway" is an
accurate and terse label, hut It lias no par
ticular significance. Why not give it some
memorable name that will svmbolizo the
deeper meanings of this war, that will le
call for all time the loves and passions that
have fired men's -souls in an era of many
pangs? The Road of Lasting Teace, the
Street of Al' Humanity, the Street of the
Love of France thtse would be names in
the French manner. Perhaps they are too
flowery for our brief and busy utterance.
If so, why not simply Marne avenue, re
membering that river that will always live
in our hearts and where our own men first
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drowned while sailing a boat oft Leghorn,
wltli a co).v of Sophocles In the 1 and which
ought tq have been buj with rope and sail;
and Mary, who was not only the wife of a
genius, but the daughter of a philosopher and
Mar Wollstonecraft, the earliest of suffra
gists mi'ltant, had lived a life the vicissitudes
of which might well cause her to pine for
the society of Hose whose greatest conspicu
ousniss lies in their llkenes3, each one to
every other
CONFORMITY bids a man to "watch his
step ' and tread as the man treads before
him There is almost as strong a counter
Instinct which Is born -at the Impulse to be,
at all events, different. There are the two
human motives which correspond to the
force of giavltatlon that holds rock or
cabbage to one place, and to whatsoever
power of locomotion may be Inherent In
man or beast, the will to go, to crawl, to
swim, to fly. to soar. Conformity demands
the maintenance of the tjpe; the impulse
to be different Insures not only the life of
the Individual but the improvement of the
race. Conformity demands that a man look
like his neighbors, behave like his neigh
bors, go to the schools, to the polls, to the
grave as his like, proceed in all these mat
ters, even that he make his way to heaven
by a predetermined route, well-guarded with
unmistakable signboard dliections. Con
formity makes cowards of us all He Is a
bold man some would call him a bad man
who will wear a cut of coat not sanctioned
by the sartorial consensus of the moment;
and it is often as difficult and dangerous to
maintain an opinion against the current
mode of thinking in conduct, politics or
patriotism.
TI1D instinct to be different, on the other
hand, often lands us In strange places:
Simon Stjlltes on the top of a column,
Diogenes in a tub, Bunyan in a ptison. even
greater and loftier souls at the stake, on
tho cross Itself. For the Instinct to be dif
ferent may be only a trivial bias "of disposi
tion that loves that murmur of praise that
accompanies surprise like the shadow its
substance. Or it may oe tuo spur oi a
divine difference that raises among men the
leader, the prophet, the seer, a difference
which gave the world a Mahomet, a Shake
speate, a Lincoln.
THE GOWNSMAN has an Ingenious friend
who has allantly maintained that all
human progress Is the work of rebels;
whether he would agree that the greater the
rebel the greater the progress, is a point
on which Information Is lacking. However,
it H obvious that from things precisely as
they are we can hope for no motion forward.
Nature attends to It that things which do
not move, If they have ever been vital, on
ceasing to move begin to rot. On the other
hand. It Is' conceivable that there may be a
condition of movement so Incessant and so
violent that the normal growth Is Impossible.
Catacljsm and dry rot may be alike de
structive, only dry rot Is more tedious. The
Bolshev Ikl have been as successful architects
of ruin with their semi-Ideal, wholly Ignorant
blundering aB has been the molderlpg rot
of a hundred jears of autocratic misrule.
A man may die a violent death, or he may
linger In misery and fall off ripe In years and
corruption. If nations, like men, must have
an end, something may be said for the
Bolshevik! hara-kiri In preference to premedi
tate MofcswUfa. outrac jwetaata' wr
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BUT is ;
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all 1 uman progress leally the work
rebels? The Gownsman must confess
that his Ingenious filend makes out a strong
case, from the novel project of tne Tower of
Babel, which was Impel tlnemlv nralnst all
precedent, to the rebellious hand -hat drove
the money-changers from the temple and
expiated an unheard disturbance of things
precisely as they are on the cross for the
redemption of mankind It should be Im
possible for any American to question the
divine rlgl t of rebellion, however he eavll at.
the brand of divinity which Inspires the
actions pf llohenzollerns and their villainous
like on earth Moreover, there Is such a
thing ns direction oven in a disturbance of
the status quo. The Impulse to be different
ma lead us out of stagnation, hut It may
likewise lead us straight to a very disagree
able place which cvtry decent man should
shun If for no better reason than that It Is
now so certainly overcrowded with Germans.
TNI
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THIS matter of conformity to the exist-
g present versus that discontent that
makes for change and progress we can
appeal, as so often successfully, to the an
alogy of the laws of nature. Gravitation
holds us fast to the place we happen to be in.
If that place Is not already the lowest, gravi
tation will drop us a step further. After
all, our suplnest standpatter Is only obc
ing the law which governs the stone; there
is something In llng too low- to fall. Con
trastedly we see what happens to the shin
without ballast, to the man without balance,
to the philosopher who Is only heavy at top
with overplus of brains, to the "reformer"
who is light, not as the beacon is light, but
"as the down of thistles which the wind
bloweth where It lUteth " We can no more
subsist on giavlty alone than on bread alone.
But it Is better to be vvheatless than to have
no weight to hold us to this lovely planet
which wo are so wasting and desecrating;
for without the tractive powers that hustle
us hither and thither, that leave us rest for
neither body nor soul, that keep us moving
and, therefore, living, trts earth might be
come, even without the help of the Germans,
a thing as dead, as hopelessly of the past, as
the astronomers report to us the condition
of the moon.
TO INVOKE the scientists once more, we
arc told that the direction of any object
acted on by various forces is a mean some
where between them Man Is a shuttlecock
In this haphazard world of ours, battered
and bandied about by strokes upward and
downward, forward and backward and we
know not even tl o hand that holds the
battledore. In the complex resultant lies
such progress as we make.
The Gleam
Philip Glbbs, whose war dispatches seem
to many of us the best now appearing In any
dally newspapers, wrote a book about the
war back In 1015, and In It the sentence:
If, as nmo ilui1nt of Uf hold, war will
aluau happen because Ufa Itself Is a con
tinual warfare, then there Is no hope all the
dreams of poets anil the sacrifices of scientists
ar uttterly vain and foolish, and pious men
Fhmild pray Ood to touch this planet with a star
and end the folly of It, ,
A cynic might say, Isn't He, perhaps, doing
just that? Kut the rest of us know that
there must be a world after the war, too.
And for the sake of that New World w
must keep untarnished some pf the Ideals we
are fighting for; w-t must not loss sight of all
the contrasts we used to note between the
German mentality and method and the mind
and method of Prance, or Britain, or our own
country. If, as French citizens proudly pro.
claimed lit Its opening jear, this Is a war
against war, let us not forget It Collier's.
Clicks On, Clicks Ever
Four llghtles-t nights In every week
Doo Garfield, doth, proclaim,
But the gas me'tnr down below .
Will click on just the same. '
There never was a law as yit
To make wild meters tarre,
Brooklyn Standard Union.
Oh, CUh!
Vft shall have rati (
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TO UNDERSTAND
By Grant land Rice
Lieutenant, 115th Field Artillery, A. E. F.
HE SAW long lines of khaki form
In ciuiet order, clan by clan;
To drive against the blood-red storm
.Of flame nnd steel beyond their span'
As one might gather for a gamo I
Of two-base hits or tackle runs
Until the zero hour came ,
Amid tho thunder of the guns.
And some looked out with eager ejes
Bejond the gathering barrage, '
Unmindful of the sacrifice
Or service of their final charge;
And some, with faces drawn and gray,
Stood ready for their final night,
Still dreaming of a vanished day
And ono who waited through the night.
He saw them forming, row on row,
A line that raw hell couldn't stop;
Until, against the dawn's white glow (
He saw their bodies clear the top; '
And then, across the shattered loam
From smashing shell and shrapnel sent,
At last three thousand miles from home
He knew what Flag and Country meant.
Copyright, tots, by The Tribune Association,
Evidently l.udendorff meant to take
Paris on the cash and carry basis, but he
can't seem to get away with It.
Feminine Fsncies
A woman never quite gets over the idea
that she. can cure her husband of anything,
from liquor to dandruff, by putting something
In his coffee without his foreknowledge.
Ohio State Journal.
IIo Hum!
Speaking of
Blushing brides.
We saw one
,
Yesterday.
She had just
Stepped on
A roller skate
Which a little
Boy had left
Out in front
Of a store
On Cherry street
And turned a
Back flip-flap.
And that's why
She was blushing.
Macon Telegraph.-
What Do You Know? ,
QUIZ
1. Where In Tamn Hancock?
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'i. What Is a chef?
3, Who 1 1 Admiral inn lllntie?
4, What are tho capital and the metropolis ot
Man land?
5, Nome the nuttier of "IUns Brlnker or the,
Silver (Skates."
Ml.. I-. "llnkflllM flnv"?
1. What Is meant by p. "metropolitan" la aal
errlchlaatlrai sender ,
x, Vtlio Is Major fieneral jjudcllffe?
o. Where Is Albania?
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Answers to Yesterday's Quit
I. Crareiltfh: the title aniilled. during the lot'
nerlal rrsime in jiuasi
to the heir to lbs
throne.
1. (,'Mit Ozletliorpe la In (Jeorala, not far from I
hattanooga. Tenn. ' . I
S. lre Admiral von i'aneiie is the Oerman Mln
I .ter of Mrlue He succeeded Crand Ad
miral von Tlnilll. a
4. Columliii l the ruultal nnd Cleveland the
lara-est city of Ohio.
S. "The Prairie." cue of the Indian romances.!
Monaatlrt on et. ""J?!.0 Important Interior
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ritlea nf Nerbla. Till Us capture
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filled possession.
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l're.ldents of the United Mates are tnai
raien on jiarca it umrsa 11 vails
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