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FIVE DOLLARS A DAY WILL DO IT
f i . - ......... . . ..
ivZ.i-fi MitiUB, acting superintcnaeni
wican"b done to prevent the men from re-
wj!h a. tfisninB
r,f '; aaamlnr. Thev are lfAVlncr the force at the
w, '"rat oi four or five a day. rive hundred
, already resigned to secure employ
JVmamr r hiftei- nav The nolleeman's wase
g.... , r
B-.ila not hlirh enoueh to keen the men on the
ftfullMCe ave In the case of men who have.
SSWly'a few j ears jet to serve .before re-
&.JJ&W-UtWn on a pension.
.-T . . .. ..... ..- -- ..
iff- jafie aimcuuy can ds removeu as suuu
W IS . day. That Is a living wage. It will
fwattraet intelligent and loyal men to tne
Mp "verj- patrolman. It will do more than
V1- UU ul" lJ"-'-a "j it.ii.ia it'c i.'iv- ......
irJn who are too Inoepenaent to do tne
'dtrty work for any ward boss. And It
would fill the eligible lists with men wait
ltir tor appointment, so that whenever
an officer dies or resigns his place could
be filled over night. We could then have
police force big enough for the needs of
the city, instead of 500 men too small, as
at"prnt.
If tovlets were edible,
Russia would not
hunerj-.
" GOOD FROM EVIL
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II ItJUv-u, i"B one lUUIillJ Ull 1111U U1W
- of the world that nas remainea siuo-
li:.& W to
te)ftily under the spell of an aitlftclally
ni'tMantvaJ ni.n.iArniAn cariHmonr Is show-
IpB&fcMP, S'Ens of an awakening. President
SP-aaar-rariyn tn cynrpRsilnfr an ardent desire
Piisfcr' more sympathetic relations with the
E&SKiTOBKerl States. The labor leaders in Mex-
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Jtouare heartily supporting a plan for a
EJftt
Nif ' eon-entlon of Mexican and Amerl
S&'enib.
labor representatives
proposed some
fiSf'Cttme ago' by the representathes
of the
IXvA.i American, r eaeration ui, xauur.
igJYlle3Clco is seemingly disposed to follow
vtae lead or soutn America, wnicn is jusi
lAKlBeriectlns a speaking acquaintance with
ftvSthe United States. And most of the nco
ffiptojn the United States are only now be
i?C54 enmln? awaro nf the size, imnortance and
&uvr?T .... ..... .
'iiyniKh potentiality of Latin America.
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-VA .VlAinflaii nlViax Kit thrtco rtt rma tA
WW. ttolni? -won hv the United States. Pan-
li!ii ; -
K4 (Bermanism, when it is wiped from tl.e
;fes,wono, win ieae one gooa resuu Denina u.
&!Chat 'will be a sound and progressive
ff'&jPaa-Amerlcanism.
&SS&, -The High Cost of Living I.hs md. the
vtj&bh ence-proud dollar look like thirty cents in
h.?V. value, at least
6&M.S
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.CET READY FOR PUBLIC WORKS
KCTFa.THE public works here, abandoned
jfiA'teCause of the war, are to be resumed
jr-tlMf In authority will do well to con
iWlar the suggestions made in the latest
Pliulletjn of the Bureau of Municipal Re-
S ." je. LYir . . a.
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!p" Tne bureau reminds ua that Illinois has
l;SKpttted a program for
Dpftl1 10.000,000 on good roa
me expenditure
roads after the war,
J!iUM'the Secretary of the Interior is work.
Jv.asT r "
I'.'af.lhakeneflt- of
the returning soldiers, that
tp Hj?t4atlonalv commission is studying the
S&yiiWnas of readjusting the industries of
lJ&tkt country to the needs of peace and that
ftpaay cities are planning public works to
t""iu"s soon as conaiuons raaKe it
S)Kr!Here at home, so far as Is known,
-Oletliln.T U
being done. We hae simply
Wt & AMWM4AJ1
everything that could be post-
,mi-
We shall find oursehes handl
for years by the lack of lmprove-
jsaWMrta' which ought now to be underway,
!$$kIB$!?P we Bet out at once t0 arrange to
jjjjMajHBe work on those on which It has
?& F wj'i'cu ttnu io tompieie plans ror
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,';WM tne armies are disbanded there
i4jbe plenty of labor, both skilled and
. It Is Important that work be
for Jt with the least possible delay
: that the men may he absorbed
into the civilian productive dodu.
lichen thev lav aeM vaIm ....,
fr' , .
F?ral March" seems to be the com-
MM omctr in every one of the advancing
if armies.
CIUMJJLING BOLSHEVISM
cornea, from Russia by way of
tlln that Lenlne says the soviet re
ef. Russia la crumbling. - If we had
t to the word of Berlin for this we
'doubt It, but evidence Is accumulate
'Mat the Bolshevlkl have miserably
Mat their attempt to set up a stable
nt.
I puecMa of the Czecho-SIovak armies
1RC order from Vladivostok in
k to,'Wmblrsk In European Russia
mm 9 that condlaioni may so far
tutu taw, fffooa of .the coatmualon
WE CANT' ESCAPE
A SHIPPING SUfeSlOY
Whether the Government Operate! the New
Merchant Fleet Afler the War
or Sell It to Private Concerns
IITE ARE congratulating ourselves on
' the splendid fleet of merchant ships
building at Hog Island and at the other
shipyards, and arc expecting grqat things
from them after the war.
Mr. Hurley told the South American
diplomatists the other day that the ships
are to be operated for the benefit of the
whole world when peace comes. As he
said, the ship1? are intended primarily to
serve civilization in the great war emer
gency, but "they will serve civilization
a"? well in the enduring peace that will
bo born out of the victory of the Allies
and America."
The question immediately arises in the
mind of every one familiar with the
decline of the American meiclnnt marine
and with the recent legislation govern
Ing the employment of seamen: How is
this great fleet to be operated profitably
in times of peace?
It3 first cost, we know, is enormous.
The ships are being built regardless of
expense. So much money will be in
vested in them that no private corpora
tion can take them over at cost price and
operate them profitably. Neither can the
Government do it. We are confronted,
then, with the fact that when considered
as instruments for peace-time commerce
these ships have been built with the aid
of an enoimous public subvention, a sub
vention so great that the sums which the
British Government has paid to the
Cunard Company to enable it to build
gieat passenger ships becomes tuning.
The nation must decid", therefore,
whethei these ships built at public ex
pense are to be opeiated by the shipping
board, as a bureau of the Government, in
competition with privately owned ships,
or whether they are to be sold or leased
to private corporations. If the Govern
ment operates them and charges such
freight and passenger rates as will
enable them to compete with the subsidy
fed ships of Gieat Britain, France and
Germany, to sav nothing of Spain, Italy,
Holland and the Scandinavian States,
there will be an annual deficit to be met
out of taxation ijt is impossible to
escape the conclusion that the money
paid to meet this deficit would be really
a subsidy, how ever great an effort might
be made to cieate the impression that it
was something else.
And such a system of operating steam
ships under the American flag would
duve every privately owned American
ship from the ocean.
But if the ships are sold or leased to
private companies at a figure which
would make it possible for the purchaser
or lessee to hope for a profit we would be
unable to compete with the Government
assisted shipping of other nations.
It is impossible to find a shipping man
in the country who will admit that the
new merchant fleet can be operated in
p?ace times without Government aid of
some kind. Lack of Government aid is
what forced our flag fxom the seas We
were willing to protect other indu3tnes
by a taiiff, but it has been impossible to
bring Congress to see the importance of
doing anything to protect our ocean car
riers. Half-hearted expenments have
been made, but they did not go far
enough.
What happens was shown by the Con
gressional Commission on the Mci chant
Marine when it leported, in 1905, that we
attempted to hold trade on the Pacific by
paying a steamship company less than
$5000 a year for carrying the mails
while Japanese steamships receiving
$600,000 a year from their Government
were running on the same routes. Japan
today controls the cairying trade of the
Pacific. A few years ago an American
vainly sought aid from Washington for
a steamship line to r,un along the west
ern coast of South America. Great
Britain saw the commercial advantages
of such a line to her and established it
with the aid of a subsidy. And yet we
wondered why our merchant marine was
disappearing'
Mr. Sehwab said at a luncheon in this
city a few weeks ago that he was in
favor of a progressively decreasing sub
sidy to make it possible to operate the
new ships after the war. But Mr.
Schwab is a Republican and a believer
in the protective tariff, it may be argued.
Yet Mr. Schwab is first of all a business
man of wide experience, whose judgment
on what is necessary to make a business
enterprise successful is uotth the opin
ion of a whole toomful of theorists. Mr.
Schwab, of course, assumed that the
ships were to be operated by private cor
porations. If however, we are to have Govern
ment operation df steamship lines, along
with Government operation of the rail
roads and the telephone and the tele
graph lines, the subsidy question takes
care of itself, for subsidies will have to
be paid out of the public treasury or the
ships will have to go out of business and
be sold to whatever foreigners will buy
them. y
Not even the most rabid "dryg" ran pre
vent the French from returning to Cham
pagne. STRENGTHENING THE PEACE TABLE
THE solidity of, the "green baize peace
table" at which statesmen will somo
day meet to restore liberty and security
to a war-torn world has already been ap
preciably! enhanced by an agreement be
tween Italy and Greece settling differences
of long standing.
It Is possble that a good many Ameri
cans do not feel Intimately 'concernert'wlth
this rapprochements news of whlcn has
Just reached tha Italian embassy In Wash-
inftoti.i Nwtbwterv Epirua, unlike tha
glows for us with direct and thrilling per
tinence. It may be observed, however, that
Sarejevo nvant nothing at all to our citi
zen"? until It set the world aflame. It Is
well, therefore, to consider Eplrus and to
reJotee that the disposition of this temrte
region is not to be an Issue when the
great diy of International equity arrives
Questions of this type were the'very
ones that pjajed such hsvoc with the
Vienna Congress of 1S14 and placed
Hip Allies of that, period In such em'car
rasslng and conflicting" situations that the
return from Elbi was mndo possible. The
peace table of that fateful jear was a
ramshackle structure largely because of
so-called "mlnorriuestlons" That ghastly
pxpose of diplomatic cross purposes must
not be. repeated
Italy and Greece, obviously aware of the
danger, are heartily to t)& congratulated
on the broad statesmanship with which
the Hellenic monaiehj's claims to a more
extended frontier province and the Italian
aims In nearby Albania have been ad
Jnsted Tho subject has been causing la
mentable friction ever since the second
Balkan. War of 1913 and was doubtless
partly responsible for the long hesitancy of
Greece (n alltrnlng herself with the Allies
Its disposal now is an encouraging In
stance of peace plans that raav be profit
ably undertaken while the conflict 13 still
in progress
It is the "cloud no bigger than a man's
hand" which has often brewed some of the
largest torms In history, Eich new dav
all the Allies work together under clearer
skies, mil the permanency of sunlight for
nil the world thus becomes more and more
dfinltelv assured.
"Duke Frederlch Accepts Finn Crown,"
s'n s a heidljne A fishy monarchy if there
ever mis one !
THE TRUTH ABOUT AIR FIGHTING
ITrHEX you hear people talWng of dark
V' enlnsr the sky with airplanes, of drop
ping a bomb on everj square j trd of
Germanv, and of flvlng 10,000 supet planes
acres the Atlontic next spring to blow
Beilln off the map, keep jour head
Lucian Carv In an article In Collier's
last week pointed out one very simple and
lucid fact that is to be kept In mind In
anv cilculatlons concerning airplanes
The De Havlland plane (a British model)
equlprd with the Liberty motor seems
to have. been adopted as the machine for
qtiantltv production in this country Thero
are now four large factories tuned up for
rapid production of the De Havlland
planes, the Wright plant nt Dajton, the
risher Body Corporation at Detroit. Cur
tlss at Buffalo and the Standard at Eliza
beth Mr Cary, after careful inveulro
tion, believes that these four plants could
produce 50,000 planes between now vid
nct June But the point, tersely, is thl:
We can build more planes than we can
ship, and we can ship more thin wa tan
flv. and fly more thin we can land.
Thiec squadrons of fliers (eighteen ma
chines to a squadron) need a flld neaii
a mile long in which to lind safely. Al'ovv
sixty machines to a field, Mr. Cary sivj
and a third of a squaie mile to a field and
it would require more than 300 fields to
land 20,000 machines That is, moie than
100 squire miles of level space Ju be
hind the front lines How many '.aboieis
and how much time would it take to flnrt
300 such fields and level them' The ulti
mate check on darkening the sky with
airplanes seems to be the pace to land
them in.
Let us remember, also, that th De
Havlland plane eats up thirty seven gal
lons of gasoline per hour. If we irrt to
have 50,000 planes, or even 10 000, we
shall hive to do something about the
gasoline supply will those who talk
loudest about darkening Berlin's hbrizons
with plans step fotward and lav off their
pleasure cars?
Recent summaries of
They Never Lose! the various declara
tions of war against
barbarispv since July, 1DH, have failed to
include th principality of Monaco, of which
Monte Carlo Is the capital Nevertheless,
that tiny nation quite nituiallj took up
arms nearly two jears ago The directors
of its famous Casino foresaw a safe gamble,
and current events are proving that they
took the right chance
Almost any one who
Tlila Is Onljr returns wearily home
rasnable after two dajs of
, ,hard toll at the busi
ness of Sundaj vaoaclahlrg is usually in a
mood to realize vthy the Hun jet will be
celebrated as the most conspicuous weak
ender In historj.
Uncle Sam is to ljlst
o Talk on Tick? that all telephone bills
be paid on the first of
the month He vv 111 stop the serv Ice if there
is any delay Perhaps he would like to have
them paid in advance as demands on freight
bills.
Siberia has declared
They Would for a herself independent of
Square ileal the Bolshevlkl, and
probably Lenlne and
Trotskj' would be tickled if they" could wash
their hinds of the whole business
AVhile eliminating mi.
Kxempted Luxury ptrfluous lights to
save fuel, It might be
well to abolish the spotlights In which so
many little big men like to bask.
The Kaiser's praise
Em6arralnt for for William Bayard
Mr. Hale Hale suggests that His
Hunship found him a
Hale-fellow -w ell-met.
With 150 or 200 tons of bombs being
dropped on her every week.bv Aliiort nim,'
surely Germany will get top heavj-, nnd we
may gei mat uermin revolution after nil.
t
Hlndenburg is a regular epidemic in
Germanj. No sooner stamped out and
buried In one spot, he breaks out ag.iln
somewhere else.
Mexico is said to be betting fed up with
German propaganda, and to be gradually
swinging toward the Allies. More power to
her.
And now regarding Mexico. Carranza
himself says "Walt!" Can this be a grace
ful compliment to another President?
' Coal, famine thoughts become alms;
I TtfE CHAFFINGWSH
THE CHAFFINGWSH
On Burning the Candle
at Both Ends
IF A man devotes the same Intense pas
sion to his work that he does to his
pla-, he Is said to "burn the candle at
both ends." Almoat nil philosophers, and
some Employers, decry this.
And yet burning the candle at both ends
hns Its advantages. If a man takes his
recreations seriously enough there Is al-vvaj-s
a chance tint his seriousness rail'
cany on, by a kind of momentum, Into his
work at the office.
Consider the notable examples In the
world todsy of those who have attained
fame and fortune by burning their tallow
both east and west simultaneously. Hln
denbuig, for Instance There' Is no other
man who has made such a success of
being alive and dead nt the same, time.
Whenever Foch makes a gain. Hlndy Is
ljlng doggo, dead as a curate's egg. But
when the Germans advance a little It Is
aluajs Hlndy who gets the credit.
Let vour intellect beam for an Instant
upon Lenlne nnd Tiotskj-. Their situation
has been a difficult one: they have seen
so manv round robins and so few square
meals (Bolshevlctuals are scarce In Rus
sfci ) But by Insisting on both eating their,
rake and having it, bv offering non
resistance to their enemies and declara
tions of war to their friends, they have
successfully burned their taper both top
and bottom If they aren't smothered by
the melting wax they may yet come
through Tearing that Russia would be
displajed before the world in a "state of
undltrnlfled dlslnbllle, all the Allies have
Ibeen hustling to hook her up the back
(preferably sompwhere in Siberia), but Le
nlne and Trotsky seem to think the game
is hardlj worth the scandal.
And of course the Kaiser! His candles
are Roman candles They eject all manner
Of colored stars, firing from both ends,
but Generally singeing the German people
no matter in what direction they are
aimed The Kaiser's method of double
burning his candle was to be both pacifist
and militarist in the same breath Drill
ing his enormous armies and preparing
them to feed on the raw and bleeding
flesh of other nations he also proclaimed
himself the greatest peacemaker In the
woild He lemlnds us of SSf. Chesterton's
remirk about thieves It must not be
supposed, said Chesterton, that thieves
have no respect for piopertj-. On tho
contrarj. he cried (roaring with mirth),
they wish to make It their oyn so that
they maj more perfectly respect it.
So with Wllhelm. feeling In his bosom
this flaming zeal for peice, he wishes no
one else to have anything whatever to do
with her except on his own terms He
r.ees n lslon of so peifect a peace (passing
all Anglo-Saxon understanding), a peace
so eloquent with gutturals and good disci
pline and grain from the East, tint he Is
willing to sot the eaith In fl-imes for,lts
consummation Surely as he" has sacri
ficed more for his conception of peace
than any othei man In the world, he maj
logically call himself the prince of pacifists.
v
There Is a joung poet Miss Edna St.
Vincent Millay, who has whimsically given
expression to the beauty of the double
candle phllosophj-. She ssys"
My candle burns at 'both ends;
It will not list the night;
But ah, mj foes, nnd, oh, my friends
It gives a lovely light!
That, in a dogged and subconscious waj-,
Is Just what the Kaiser feels. The Ger
man people and the German Gott are
only the guttering wax of his ambitious
candle He is burning it out furiously,
both East and West. The fact that the
illumination Is provided by the anguish
of a world in flames bothers him not at all.
He likes light, both lime and cannon
Why We Do It i
Everybody knows that the elevator boy
pajs no attention to the bell, but everj--body
loves ringing it. Jt relieves the blood
pressure
Probablv the real reason for the recent
U-boat raid on this co-,st is that the- hos
pital ship Comfort has not sailed jet. .A
hospital ship untorpedoed is a personal
affront to Tirpltz
A Dream
I fell asleepv and dreamed a dream
Beside the soft, slow -swinging sea:
That j'ou. across the jellow beach,
Ca"me walking back to me
I saw jour feet upon the sand,
Your head against the spray;
You smllfd and waved a beckoning hand,
Then turned and walked awaj-.
The ripples mo-ved their furrowed fronts
Against the burning sky
I woke and saw them, there was left
Only the sea and I.
BEATRICE WASHBURN.
The Kaiser complains that the German
people are not patient enough. After
four years of careful observation, we rise
to remark that the world Is littered with
the results of their patience.
So many of the dispatches In the Ger
man papers should have three little let
ters printed after them Adv.
V
Five hundred members of the be3t fam
ilies of Bangkok have been trained as
aviators to fly for the Allies. Every time
the Rhine cities hear those 500 joung
Siamese dropping bombs the suggestive
ness of the name Bangkok will be Im
pressed upon them.
But we must not overestimate our re
sources. Remembering a famous pair of
twins, perhaps the news from Bangkok
means only 250 ne'w aviators,
The Weather In France"
Fere and warmer.
SOCRATES.
The Germans fear the
lite Hhrme moral effect of a re-
of Victory treat, announces .a
headline. . It it not the
moral effect so much as the military effect
that they really;far- Retreat rhyme vrkh
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War Is Making the World Smaller
By WALTER PRICHARD EATON
LTY GREGORY once wrote a play called
I "Spieadlng the New,s" which is an ex
tremely amusing little comedv, and its
application Is not confined to Ireland I
have alvvajs knon, for instance, that right
jn our own village a little, tiny story could
start out from In fiont of tho postomce at
mall t'me, ro Jogging down our countrj'
roids past the ftrmhouses and fields nnd
reach Brush Hill or the old North Parish a
great, big, whacking, Juicy story Its accumu
lation of authentic detail and spicy Incident
on the trip was alwaja astounding
BUT I never quite realized, I think how
rapid the process of growth could be
until tho Franco-American drive began above
the Mime Then 1 saw the procts3 of
spreading the news In all Its beautiful per
fection, and ultlmatelj arrived at the definite
phjstcal law vhlch guides the matter This
Is the law ' The number of German pris
oners varies d'rectly as the square of the
distance from the drug store."
I LIVE, for instance, three miles and a half
from the drug st,ore
We get our soda, tobacco, daily papers,
water-glass, writing paper, postcards, candj,
snow shoes, novels and gossip at tie -drug
store f we get about everj thing there except
drugs What has become Of the old-fashioned
drug store that used to "put up pre
scriptions"? .
Now, the square of three and a half Is
what Is it' Wait a minute till I ask mi
wife Oh, j-es rl2H. Accord
lnslj when 4000 German prisoners are cap
tured, the first farmer "out from the village,
or the first one who comes past the .louse
who has-been past the house of somebody who
had been to the village, pull UP his team
and asks me if I've heard the news. The
Yankees are through, yes, sir; got the Huns
on the run, captured more" guns 'n they c ut
count and 40,000 prisoners , (Actuallj-, he
said 40.000 I fear according to my law he
should vhave said something else, but I'm
not enough of a mathematician to reckon
what It's a good law, anyhow, and It's all
I remember of physics.)
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YOU can imagine, perhaps, the effect on
my feelings when, at 9 o'clock In, the
morning. Just as I am about 'to start opera
tions in the potato field, a man comes by and
tells me the Allies hsue broken through and
rolled up 40,000 prisoners' Do I, stop to
consider the source? I do not. Dg I stop
to consider the welfare of my potatoes? I
do not. I droR the spay, I crank the car,
I make a record trip fo the drug stor for a
copj' of the morning pap"r; J
And then I find the news most gratifying,
to be sure, but distinctly not up to local speci
fications. The Allies have not broken
through; they have merely pushed In. They
have not captured 40,000 prisoners, but only
4000. pn the way back to, my neglected
potatoes I reflect that ray. Informant ,had
still two miles to drive, and ,1 ,wonde how
many additional thousands of yHups he
bagged on the way! ,If he woultl only drive
to the next town there wouldn't be anything
left of the Crown Prince's army, '.,
THE very next morning he went y a(galn.
This time, knowing that the drive vvaa on,
I had already been In to town and didn't
need to ask him the news, But I did, Just
for-fun. ' ,
"It'e goln' fine," he said. "They're 'pusl-in'
em back still, and rackln' in guns and pris
oners Got most 20,000, the' paper said "
Not a blush as he said this, for he had
not even a memory of 'his yesterday's state
ment, which has been based, I presume, on
an excited glimpse of a headllne."It .was
the perfect "unconsciousness of his exaggera
tion that vade it, In fact, such an excellent
example.
WHEN you come to think of It, the some
times' derplsed and abused modern news
paper has come merit. When the R, F. D
man brings, me my papers from the $6t
offlce the headlines don't change a bit ori
the road. If the, paper came oft the press
announcing 4 890 prisoners. 4000 It remains
until ItW jfraJciaMfoff t- HHIH;IV M
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and careful men between the event and It.
Nort, when vou stop to think 'that news
papers are, as time goes, mere Infants in
the world not two. centuries old, while their
distinctive world-csble service Is a matter of
two or three generations, and when j'ou
further .reflect tint before the advent of the
newspaper "service news was carried more
or less in the rrinner I have described, the
storj oftfn progressing from mouth to mouth
like a.fctlekv nowball rolling down hill, jou
can In gin to realize more cleat lv than befoie,
perhaps, one of the reason" why todaj' the
world Is much smiller tlan It isiis Ex
aggerated stories tumors, half facts, often
no knowledge at all, make foi Ignorance,
misunderstanding and national isolation
Accurate and swift world reporting makes
for increased understanding, wider interests,
the breakdown of natloml Isolations One of
the effects of this war. for Instance, has
alrady been a greatlv Increased amount of
reil European news printed In America, with
a consequent tremendous Increase of Ameri
can interest In and knowledge'of Europein
aTfalrs This 13 going to continue We are
going to see organs in America which will
not only give Us European news, but tha
tendencies and currents of European
thought. And It will al be bringing woild
federation a little nearer, something which
could never have been hoped for so long as
news had to travel by word of mouth on the
vyJngR of rumor.
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THE READER'S VIEWPOINT
The Italians Also Are, Fighting
To the Editor of the Eienlng Public Ledger:
Sir n editorial comment which appears
In todaj's Issue of j'our valuable paper,
reads- "No matter ho- proud we are of the
work of the Americans, we must net forget
that the French and English are also fight
ing." Slrce the purpose of the comment Is
to appeal to the American sense pf fair plaj
I feel' Justified In asking: And what about
the Italians' Nobody doubts that they also
are fighting Only recently tfiey have given
a splendid account of themselves against the
Austrlaps Their army In Albania Is now
steadily chasing the, enemy from the tesrl
tory he had overrun. In these very daj-s
4 the Italians are standing In front of Rhelms.
co-operating witn tne Aiuea soiaiers in De
feating the common enemj'. They were
fighting In France and repulsing German at
tacks in the very days in which their fl
ov countrj-men were defeating the Austrl
ans oh tho Plave
Ac a nation, Italj- has, contributed, and
stjll contributes in a verj' large way to the
war for civilization She has over four mil
lion men under the colors, fighting In prac
tically every Allied front In proportion to
her wealth and resources, she 1b giving more
than any other Power. Shall we keep on for
getting? Your paper has always been so very Im
partial and, I might say, so friendly toward
Italy, that I feel Inclined to attribute the
omission to a lapsus calami, or to add this
to the many other sins of the ever-guilty
.printer. C. MORETTI.
Philadelphia. July 27. '
(Admiration for the splendid work of the
Italians has frequently been expressed In
the editorial and news columns of this news.
paper, and it will be expressed many times
.more before the war Is over. Editor of the
Eveninq Public LRDOEn ) -
We Bow!
To the Editor of the Evening Public Lytger;
Sir The review of four, je'ars of war
which constitutes a feature of your paper
today Is exceptionally fine and deserves' the
highest commendation. AVritten by one who
Is evidently thoroughly 'acquainted with the
subject, t leajes nothing to be deaf red and
Is. In, point pf fact, a masterpiece in Its way,
'l.; .... PLEASED READEn.
Philadelphia. July 27.
Ex - Chancellor Ml-
And Yet He Won't c h a e 1 1 s, discussing
i Germany's economic
situation after the war, declares that the
trtpl indemnity exacted from France after
the war of J870 did his country much- harm,
nd that, new billions after the presenUcon-
mmir' mays pa injurious. i that
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THE DRIFT ETERNAL
By Grantland Rice
Lieutenant, 115th Fitld Artillery, A. E. ti
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THERE'S a long dull hike down a dusty,
crusty road, ,"
And j-ou wonder how they are back
home; ' " -.
There are fifty pounds of packing forr tn
all day load.
And j-ou wonder how they are back home; I
There's a billet may be waiting where the;
floors are bare, ' "'
And a night wind lashes from the raw.'l
damp air, t K
But you never think about it and you
never seem to care, "
As j ou w onder how they are back home.
You've finished up your ranslng with" your 'I
guns In place,
And j ou w onder how they are back home;
The ghostly darkness settles and the rain
Is In your face,
Rut vnn wnnrtcr how thev are back home;
Tn.,'.. nH nlnnrr n , , S,tl4At. thrflllfl.il tfcl
XUU tC BCJIL ailil, juu. u.Lt.a i...wuj.. w.v..
shadow and-the rain,
And the guns have barked their messaga
to the Hun across the plain, v
But the echo's hardly settled to a breathl
' of a refrain, v
Till you wonder how they are back'honie.
CotvrlO'rt. 101S. oi The Tribune Association. "V
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Comforts of Home
It is to be honed there Is a plentiful supply
of sauerkraut on hand In the American UaeevNJ
to feed those German prisoners Louisville
Evening Post.
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Nothing But Carrots
Why does the Government keep on coining
nickels? They won't buy anything1 any.
more Kansas city Times. si
Slangy, But True
Another drive gone "on the Fritz." tttloa
Herald.
Optimiim v '
A handwriting expert claims Shakespeare
had to qui work on account f writer's
cramp Cheer up Maybe some of oar,
scenario writers will catch It. Macon Tele
graphr !
What Do You Know?
OUIZ
-I. Who la the British Minister ef I-aborT,
t. What la the capital, or MentenegroT J
S, nbi la Lieutenant General H.'M. B. Ysnntf
4. What la the Cadat nartr. and tha crista th
tne name, in noaaian noimraT .,
8. What la the title ef the hair t tha' IteUaa.'
. throne? r. vii
ri-Who was "tte Youns Prtnar"? '
S. W1iii t are the Unrest two cities IB Betk
AmeriraT V i -a
9. Mho la the Empreas of Austria? r A
10 Who said. "flo helnime! Mr earn ehlltreajt
have forsaken me"? x y
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Aniwers to Saturdsy a Quia r 4
1. Joseph DsUamo U74I-118S). a rharlaUn whK
tlaurea nromtnentlr In Dumaa's "Marie ATE .
tolnette" rnmanrea. He wna a nlrllien wee J1
assumed the title of Count .Catileetra, .
2. Trenton la the capital -and Newark the Ian-
est cltr ef New Jersey, 'j
3. Barratei a preparation fer aa Infsntrr r
ruTaur attacki U mar be br artlllerr i
(aa. . .j
4, The rooimteslon of national defense la sa a4A-.
vlsorv body of seven men, eminent la nni
one llnea of baelneat. Indoetrr and selenee,,
who wrre aa rensoltants fer the coanesu
5. The ITnlted Ktates declared war oa Geraasjarfj
April . 1917. Tn
6. President Wilson's fait name li Themes i
nwuivn ,. j
7. rere-n-Taraenon: an important
railway town abent midway hetwe
Alsne and Mama ana almost one
rhniean-Thlerrr. It waa a nlvatat
ami anpplr center of the Germans'
paiivm, . r
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