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Philadelphia, Saturday. Auaiiil 17, 1911
AN OLD CURSE REVIVED
fTK) PHILADELPHIA, It appears, belongs
i- tho credit for reviving an ancient and
mipposedly outworn system of patronage
under which tlie military service was made
l dump for tho Jobless friends of politi
cians In less onllghtcncd days.
The appointment of Granville S. Jeffer
son to a lieutenancy In the quartermaster's
department, as well as a number of other
commissions recently awarded, makes this
conclusion Inevitable. Jefferson was
ousted from tho municipal service for
cause. Ho was commissioned In tho
naval reserves and was ousted for causa
from that service after a trial.
But ho has friends, among whom are tho
Brothers Varc.
It begins to appear that a slaiktr raid
for Senators may have to he stalled before
tho necessary attendance Is provided for
consideration of the new man-power bill.
POSSIDLE WAR LOSSES
TRAFT BOARDS in tho near future
-' will be required to exercise good Judg
ment and nlco discrimination If America
at large Is not to suffer damage oddly
like that which reacts from an actual In
vasion by armed enemies.
Uncertainty relative to the future of the
Philadelphia Orchestra illustrates the situ
ation clearly. The colleges, the schools,
the orchestras, the organizations for opera,
the agencies that teach and help to en
lightenment through music and literature,
have a relation to tho life of the country
not" unlike many of the things that have
been destroyed In Franco and Belgium.
Tljuy were created at great pains, at great
'expense. They sprang In many cases from
Inspiration. They cannot bo easily replaced
If onco they aro permitted to disintegrate.
,iAnd they are essential to the life of the
country becauso they help us to feel and
to think and to understand.
Any divergence from formal rules and
any1 decision In Washington or by local
boards which will maintain such Institu
tions free from the disturbing efforts of
the war will be generally applauded
"President has outing" says a headline,
but nevertheless it -would be hard to con
vince a batch of German prisoners that
his inning doesn't keep up simultaneously.
INDIANS
SECRETARY McADOO'S lltllo daughter
has been adopted by the Shoshone In
dians under tho namo of Sacajawes. She
Is granddaughter of tho President, whoso
wife la a descendant of Pocahontas. There
are men with Indian blood in their veins
In tho Senate and in tho House of Repre
sentatives. Richard Croker married an In
dian chiefs daughter. The lato Senator
Quay was an Indian chief and was said
to have had Indian ancestors. One of
Otis Skinner's early grandfathers married
a squaw in New England.
In another hundred years the Indian
tribes will bo fo completely absorbed into
the population of tho country that wo
are likely to have Indian merchants In
"Philadelphia living in magnificent resi
dences and admitted to tho best clubs, if
we have none such at the present time.
Tho Indian stock Is mado of pretty good
stuff and it Is proving its valor on the
battlefields of France, whero It has gone
to fight with the Caucasians for the sup
pression of a barbarism worse than any
practiced by the race which resented the
Invasion of this continent by the w bites.
peoutly do wo pray that tho twenty-
Vi eight new coal district heads Just appointed
, a-.. . d.i.ij mi ..
i rv ' uotior uur.ic.u win prove Bomemint; more
man just, uarn iue. manuffers.
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WHY ARE BRASS KNUCKLES TAXED?
33 KNUCKLES uio regarded as a.
necessity by some persons and as a
'''luxury by others. It depends on the occu-
-patlon and the place of residence.
&iF . The country w.111 await with some im-
S$. patience the explanation of the theory on
vyiutil lilt? iv a a uuu t.cuils LUIIlimuee
70 has decided to Include in the new war
&&, revenue bill a tax of 100 per cent on such
-utensils. Other luxuries, sum as platinum
Jewelry, are taxed at a much lower rate.
LSBut those who wear platinum do not ordl-
I ,'-narlly mingle In the same social circles
LV... ., i.- i i i ... -
Wlio luose who wear urass nmicities.
Necessities, such as cigarettes and gaso-
-KBe.are let off with a 10 or 20 per cent
b' n Tr hroaa 1m,nllaa art, t n ho n, Ih
'J,y! " " """-"iv-. .w o rut in
t Be, same category it is Ulllicuit to uniler-
ataad why they are taxed so much more
eyereiy,
,JBut really we aro afraid that the thlnk
jjmtc, , machinery of Chairman Kitchtn
siPd a cog- when he permitted to appear
f;:i'tli bill a 'provision putting jso burden-
"a (ax on one of the commonest pos-
of vrMinct plugugltes in thoso
"ot fw York jina Pouth Carolina
pt, at the
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LOOK AT THE MAP !
That Once-Inttttent German Injunction May
Now Be Profitably Observed by Her Foes
rpiIOSE excellent map makers, the Ger
mans, have lone; been justly proud of
n useful talent. Sometimes within the
last four years they have even suggested
their skillfully drawn productions as food
substitutes. When bread ran low, "Look
at the map!" rang like a clarion through
out the empire. Handsome specimens of
cartography were displayed. The gen
eral staff stuck some of the finest speci
mens full of pins, while humbler but
still carefully wrought copies exhibited
their bulging boundary lines to an
underfed populace.
Just at present those German master
pieces would have for us a particular
charm nnd interest. If their virtues have
been correctly reported these woiks are
nt onco detailed and comprehensive.
The fake frontiers and apocryphal mon
archies which such maps attempt to
define need not bother us. We could
scratch them out. It is the genuine facts
revealed which interest us. Teuton land
charts are said to bristle with them, nnd
in the immediate whirligig of tho war,
especially with respect to Russia, any
authentic detail may be of prime import.
Since, however, access to the gems of
Hun draftsmanship is at present out
of the question we must fall back on our
own resources, and equipped with them,
the conceit that we have a goigeous
German map of "Eurasin" spread out
before us may servo as a mental stimu
lus. The real task begins in trying to keep
our supposed model up to date. Topo
graphically, what was once the Russian
empire will be quite tho same tomorrow
as at this writing. Politically and mili
tarily, the dotted lines, arrows and
shaded portions aro likely to wriggle all
out of shape in an instant. The safest
plan is to confine ourselves strictly to
the facts of August 17, 1918.
Far up to the north and pointing from
Archangal to Vologda, which lies about
half way between Moscow and the
Arctic, we enn insert a little arrow. It
represents an Allied army. Drawing a
white circle around the Kremlin city can
indicate that the black stain of the Bol
sheviki has been effaced here. We
reserve an ink spot for Kronstadt,
alleged present refuge of Lcnine, Trotsky
and fleet manifestoes.
To the east, backed up against the
Urar rampart, is Ekaterinburg, occupied
by the much-traveled Czecho-Slovaks and
worthy of another significant dart indic
ative of pro-ally sway.
Now take a scrupulous glance at that
vast low-lying inland lake, called tho
Caspian Sea. The inhabitants of its
shores struggle against a climate almost
as irritating as Philadelphia's scorching
in summer, bitterly 'frigid in the winter
months. But that circumstance is imma
terial. The supreme interesting fact
about the Caspian littoral is Baku,
center of an oil country second only in
productivity to western Pennsylvania.
This inland seaport has direct rail con
nection with the Black Sea and posses
sion of this vital line virtually insures
control of Baku's chief export. And the
English, dramatically appearing from
the Persian table land, have reached
Baku.
We outline another arrow for another
army. (Observe closely that all these
military darts point inward toward Great
Russia, almost tho only section of a vast
continental domain which has not yet
entirely overthrown the anarchic Soviet
rule.
Outside Muscovy proper it is also pos
sible to sketch in vivid scenes. General
Otani's army and some Philippine troops
are at Vladivostok, and their presence
warrant? still another arrow. Around
Lake Baikal, in Central Siberia, dark
shading can be made to denote the Bol
sheviki's lingering presence, but threat
ened by another knot of Czecho-Slovaks.
West of all our inscribed interpola
tions one may descry Central Europe,
which first gave us the notion of look
ing at the map. Its Kaisers are now in
session planning rickety thrones and
hypothetical kingdoms, while their west
ern armies aie being pushed back toward
the "fatherlands." Time was when, sa7e
for the sea chart, we felt disinclined to
thrust a map under their infatuated
eyes. There would be some zest in such
an act now, especially if the lflasterpiece
of drawing were of Teutonic lucidity and
duly amended by the annotations and
embellishments herewith suggested.
However remote the victory over bar
barism may be, we are no longer atlas
Bhy. Map study, once the German spe
cialty, may now be pursued by us with
profit and on occasion with something
nkin to glee.
Henry Ford wants to run a factory by
water power. Water is getting qu'te popular
these days.
THE COLLEGES AS TRAINING CAMPS
rpiIE plan for organizing college students
-- Into army training corps, adopted in
June, is not likely to be seriously affected
by the new draft bill reducing the age
to eighteen years. The plan was made
by the same men who have advised the
reduction in the age, and it may bo as
sumed to be part of the general program
to provide trained men for tho various
branches of the service.
Tho students, eighteen years old and
under twenty-one. are to be enlisted In the
corps and are thereby to become essential
units in the American army, subject to
orders when they are needed. But they are
to continue their studies in college and are
to be kept In college aa long as possible
in order that the supply of men trninon
in engineering, chemistry and medicine
may not be exhausted.
The college student, therefore, is subject
to a certain degree of exemption from
active fifrhtlnc- duty while ha la nnn.
inghlmself to serve his country. The
attention of their constituencies to thil
fact in order that tho young men who
have contemplated carrying on their edu
cation may be encouraged to enter college
this fall ns if there were no prospect of
a reduction In the draft age limit. The
entering classes of such institutions as
have mado arrangements for organising
tho nrmy training corps should be ns
largo as in peaco times, if not larger,
for tho young man by going to college
puts himself In the way ot becoming bet
ter fitted to sene his country when he Is
needed and to serve it more effectively
than if he merely carried a rifle.
Although Germany may think otherwise
It Is L'ncle Sam's firm belief that the best
trlng for a submarine debauch Is a good
chaser.
PATRIOTS AND PATRIOTS
IT IS-Interesting to read that Charles M.
Schwab was "wildly applauded" when, In
an address to the Hog Island workmen,
ho turned a volley of derisive epigrams
upon what ho called the ballyhoo school
of patriotism.
Talk will not win the war.
Mr, Schwab seems convinced that tho
talkors will not win it, either. la bin
references to the relative futility of mere
speechos and slogan-making ho suggested,
by implication, ono of tho looming duties
of tho hour. Plainly the time has come
when It is worth whllo to look twite at
tho more voluble patriots and ask them a
few questions. It is apparent that some
of the definitions of patriotism no.v gen
erally accepted are, in truth, sorely in
need of revision. The smptoms ot that
high vlrtuo need further analysis.
Research, for example, would probably
show that the men who tried to swindle
tho Government In raincoat contracts
figured conspicuously, at some time or
other. In what we are accustomed to call
patriotic rallies and puffed out their chests
and raised their voices In song at (las
raisings. Tho men in Philadelphia who
aro accused of prostituting tho processes
of free government in tho Fifth Ward
know how to thrill holiday audiences with
familiar metaphors founded on the starry
banner.
It may bo that a great many men of
tho ballyhoo school are not conscious hypo
crites. Often enough they ( are fooled and
hypnotized by tho sound of their own
voices. But as the war goes on It Is ap
parent that a good many scoundrels are
seeking their accustomed refugo behind
tho flag.
The workmen at Hog Island must have
had somo such conviction somo remote
feeling of doubt about the too rhetorical
patriot or they wouldn't have applauded
their big boss as they did. Only a man
of Schwab's dimensions would daro to
question tho professional flag-waver openly
beforo a mixed audlenco, since, the flag
waver Invariably Insists that the attack is
not made upon him, but on tho colors.
It is a fact, nevertheless, that no single
slogan nor any of the speeches that have
become familiar nowadays begins to ex
press or even suggest the ends, alms and
purposes of this war. Too many men ap
pear to regard the war and the national
anthem and the flag Itself as incidents in
the largo scheme of their own self-sufficiency.
Yet the man who Is truly honest
seldom resorts to tho trumpet to advertise
his virtue. Truly great men aro always
the la.st to admit their own greatness. A
man whose experience has been such as
to lead him to the spiritual state wherein
patriotism begins, who sees his country in
the large and feels all of Its greatness
and its mystery and sensti tho obliga
tions of his citizenship, isn't likely to
resort often to the "patriotic speech."
The subject is too big for easy utterance.
It might be said that patriotism begins
with a sense of afflnlty with tho soil that
has been so kind to everybody and so
productive of high and noblo things as
to compel reverence, fidelity and endless
devotion In those it has nourished. Pa
triotism, too, involves pride and rejoicing
for the youth of this land, for the things
it has done and, more particularly, for
the shining things It hopes to do: It is an
inspiration to unselfishness.
Really great patriots serve for the most
part in silence or even in secret. They
see their country in the future. They do
not brag. It Is not by what a man says
that you may Judge his patriotism. It is
by the way he vote3, by the way he pays
his taxes, by the manner In which ho
says good-by to his son In uniform. Faith,
hope, charity pride, strength, generosity
and fidelity mako patriotism. And these
are virtues that never can be properly
interpreted In brass-band oratory.
The Kaiser is getting
How To ready to appoint somo
Spell It moro near-kings, but
it might be well for
candidates to remember that there are two
nays ot spelling throne.
Any one with a few
Keep the Soap soap boxes to spare
might, send them to
LenlriB and Trotsky at Petrograd, Kronstadt
or points east. It is said the Bolshevik lead
ers fled Moscow without their valuables.
Germany's implication that the " d
eklns who helped whip her recently on the
Marne were drunk Is In a way good Sloux
ology. Any member of tho animal kingdom
sufficiently Intoxicated with tho Ideal of
l.berty becomes a dangerous opponent.
Automobile owners who have many
friends and much tire trouble on these warm
days will bo disposed to feel that the Ways
and Means Committee of the House was
tottering on the edge of Insanity when it
put the motorcar in the list of luxuries.
How many Phtladtlphlans realize that
klmost every night there aro uniformed men
who have to sleep on pavements or In the
parks becauso there are not enough beds
for them? Where Is the hospitality this
city was once famous for?
Let us hope that the old deflrltion of
faith as "believing something that you
know ain't so" is not applicable to onr
confidence in the tale that a Hun U-boat was
sunk off Cape May.
At first glance a Labor Day holiday
and the drastic work-or-flght order seem
a' most Irreconcilable.
The boches don't seem to can; for those
"whippets" as pets.
Call
fHE ELECTRIC CHAIR
"Street Cloied"
BARBARA'S heart, like a busy street,
Teems with a throng of little loves:
And each holds onward.wlth stubborn feet,
Jostles his neighbor, pushes, shoves.
BUT all congestion would swiftly stop
No crowd could travel that thorough
fare, If only I, like n traftlc cop
Could be forever on fixed post there!
SCRIPTOR IONOTUS.
Some pood people arc troubled because
the "Star Spangled nanncr" teas ttrlffeit
to the music of an old English diinklnp
song, of a not too delicate sort. Tint the
fumes of that ancient tavern illltv have
long since evaporated ; and if bnccianalfnii
nlr trill speed us on toward the Rhine,
here's to them.
Trotsky's Lament
On the Cossacks Having Crossed the Don
(Kilts by n. Hurn )
Te banks and braes o' bonny Don,
How can yo bloom sae fresh and fair?
How can ye . charit, yo Czecho-Slavs,
And I sae weary fu' o' care?
The Cossack sits on tho back steppes,
The Soviets nre wearing crepe
The Allies now aro on tho roof;
Lenlno, we'll try the Are escape!
Red grow tho Soviets, red grow tho Soviets,
Tho sweetest hours that e'er I spent
I spent amang tho Soviets.
Watch This Ono Carefully
Now that tho British havo got to Baku
they can sit down and enjoy a smoke.
Is It possible 'that the reason for the
failure of Lciinc and Trotsky Is that thev
did not wear Sam Browne bcltsf
Isn't It curious that thoso who struggle
to make tho world safe for democracy
seem to enjoy It so much moro when they
are fortified by a strip of brown leather
along the Sam Browne diagonal? Even the
Czecho-Slovaks wear one. We aro waiting
to hear that the militant suffragists havo
ndopted it.
Even the lltciary world lias Its massifs.
Think of Irvln Cobb.
What docs the House Ways and Means
Committee mean by classing an electric
fan as a luxury? And Is The Electric
Chair also a luxury?
Tho obvious Is alu-ajjs the thina that
the other fellow simply will not admit.
Arc there anv laws in Philadolnhla about
opltting on the pavement? We often won
der. In compliance iclth the Government's re
quest for conservation of energy, wc shall
hereafter open our mind at 10 o'clock and
close it promptly at :.10. Any Ideas arriv
ing after that time will find the revolving
doors locked.
For Butler Fans Only
One of the duties of Intelligent people
Is to read Samuel Butler's novel "Tho Way
of All Flesh" before they get too old and
unsophisticated. Many a man's mind has
been kept artificially alive for some
months by reading that book. It is a
kind of pulmotor for dying senses ot
humor.
There are a good many Samuel Butler
fans In this city, and these will be in
terested to hear that Alfred Emerle Cathie,
Butler's famous man-servant,, Is still alive
and living In London. Cathie had fifteen
of Butler's drawings, hut as his home in
Canal road, Mllo End, Is on tho route of
the air raids, he has disposed of them,
selling thirteen to Henry Festlng Jones,
Butler's great friend; and giving the other
two to St. John's College, Cambridge, But
ler's dura mater.
Read This Before Dinner
Every now and then some one asks us
if we like vers librc, and we always reply
that for those who enjoy a little prose
with their poety, free verse Is lovely.
Our favorite free-verse poem, after some
of Dove Dulcet's, is by Robert Carlton
Brown, and here it Is:
I know a nice, affectionate girl
Who goes about
Patting beefsteaks on the back,
Running her fingers fondly through the
beards of oysters.
Holding hands for hours with breaded veal
cutlets,
Rubbing noses with pork chops
And 'having affairs with boiled onions.
Her emotional eyes light with amorous
Interest
In the presence of food;
They fill with great glistening tears
When the plates aro taken out
And sho sits despondent,
Weeping gently into her coffee.
The Germans are complaining that their
beer supply is scanty. Taking the vat out
of Vaterland?
; Lenlnc and Trotsky really believe In
self-determination, why don't they try It
In IlusslaT
And If" the Russian people want a good
Jury to try Lenine and Trotsky, why not
ship. them over to West Chester?
SOCRATES.
THE READER'S VIEWPOINT
Palm Beach Uniforms for the Cops
To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger;
Sir Your suggestion that summer uni
forms bo provided for the policeman appeals
to me, not so much because I sympathize
with the policemen, but because It makes me
uncomfortable to look at an ofllcer In a
tightly buttoned blue uniform of wool stand
ing In the eun on a hot day.
Now If the ofllcer wore a Palm beach suit,
white shoes and a Panama hat and carried
a club made of bamboo It would be refresh
ing to gazo upon such a spectacle of cool
ness. He would be like an oasis In a desert.
Of course, he would be cooler than he Is
now, but the Bpectacle of his comfort would
make all the rest of us more comfortable.
Cannot something be done about It?
SUFFERING MORTAL.
Philadelphia, August 16.
They're Ueing Them
Germany Is now discovering that when the
Russians laid down their arms they held out
on bombs. Toronto Mall.
,
Suggested Economy
We will even take -rains without thunder
and rainbows If we can get them. No un-
secsMtsary
tsaary Mrfnnanc. In thesehard U-m
NEMESIS ON WESTERN FRONT
By Simeon
IN NEARLY" all of tho old textbooks on
tho art of tho theatre, as wc call it now,
you will Hpd a sharp distinction drawn be
tween tho underlying idea ot modern drama
nnd the drama of tho Greeks. When I R.iy
tho old textbooks I mean thoso written before
1908, approximately. Since that tlmo tho
whole subject has been revolutionized by
English forty-seven at Harvard and the au
thor of "Seven Keys to Ualdpato." Text
books today coneern themselves largely with
such fundamentals of dramatic technique ns
(1) the relative advantages of a connection
with Klaw & Ei lunger or with tho Shuherts;
(2) tho u'p of tho telephone in the develop
ment of climax ; (3) tho relative advantages
of lighting tho r-tage from underneath, from
above or from the side; (4) timeliness of
subject, such ns tho war, sugar conservation,
womon ticket choppers and the like; (5) the
relative merits of character development nnd
tho "punch," with George M. Cohan laying
stress on character, and English forty-seven
at Harvard emphasizing the punch.
BUT I was speaking of the distinction
drawn by tho older textbook writers be
tween modern drama and Greek drama; and
tho distinction Is this; at all times the
essence of drama has been struggle; but
whereas In tho modern theatre struggle takes
the form of a clash of opposing human wills,
among the ancients It was a strugglo of
human beings against tho gods or fato or
Nemesis. This is a very rough way of put
lng It : you will no doubt find the whole sub
ject covered with precision and thorough
ness in the publications of the Drama League.
For tho moment, however, it may servo to
think of Nemesis as the Ironic gods leaning
down from the azure battlements with a
smile watching humanity's chickens come
home to roost ; watching human beings
caught in trnps of their own devising,
astrnnglo In loops of their own knotting and
in general being hoist with their own petard.
Punishment that is peculiarly appropriate,
that has the "come back." that turns the
laugh on the defendant at the bar, is ob
viously dramatic; It Is Nemesis.
FOR Just a month tho world has been sit
ting on tho edge of Its chair, swinging
from thrills to chills and back again, and Its
eyes on the mighty spectacle unfolding Itself
In the great proscenium arch between the tip
of the Marne salient and the tip of the Mont
didler salient. It Is drama on a scale the
world has never seen and of an Intensity it
has not witnessed since the French Revolu
tion : drama in the passionate Interest of
the theme: drama in the clash of will be
tween 4,000,000 armed men on either side
and scores of millions on either side behind
.v.. ,o,,i linn- drama in the Interests at
stake; drama, above all things, in me
tingling unexpectedness of the denouement
we witnessed during a short twenty-four
hours after 4:30 a. m. on July 18, when the
hunted quarry became the hunter, the hap
less victim became the stern and Just execu
tioner. Well, Mr. Cohan never
pulled a laugh out of a tear so handily, and
Bayard Velller never flashed a pair of auto
matics with quite such a complete effect ns
the trick Foch put over In those wonderful
twenty-four hours. , .,.,,.
"Hands up. Jack Dalton Ludendorff ! Make
your peace with jour Gott!"
Assuredly, the generalissimo was there
with the wallop. Ask the military critics,
who at once began buying seats ten weeks
ahead for the march across the Rhine and
Into Berlin.
It has been drama; but whjch kind, the
modern or the ancient? What we have been
experiencing these last four weeks has it
been a mere physical and psychic reaction to
clash and suspense and surprise? Or are
there those who havo been touched with a
sense of something like awe at forces higher
than human, of outraged, indignant, yet
mocking gods crying Finis to their sport with
the Impious transgressor and delivering him
to his fate? Has the history ot the last four
weeks on the Marne and the Somme been
simply dramatic or has It been Nemesis?
A HINT of superstition there, perhaps; but
I Imagine It Is In such Intense moments
that, the lasting superstitions of humanity
are born. It would have been Intense drama,
In our modern sense, If the German armies
had been smitten down at the apex of their
pride by any man along any1 fifty miles of
the western front ; If would have been drama
atl Ypres or before Arras or In the Cham
pagne or Lorraine. But when German hopes
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year i918 rehearses In detail tho story of
1914, nlth Its German plunge across the
Mnrno nnd tho French counter-blow from the
Ourcq, nnd the French center holding as des
perately around Ithclms as the French center
held In 1914 at La Fere Champenolsc, and
the sanio man who turned the Germans back
in 1914 driving them back hi 1918 why,
then, you havo something more than the raw
material of dtama; you catch a glimpse of
the finger of Nemesis. And that Is what tho
common man feels when he remarks that the
Mnrno air is not healthy for tho Germans.
He Is giving expression, lightly enough, to
what may be the beginning of a legend
among uturo generations of common men In
France, that tho Mnrno Is n sacred river
which tho Invader can never pass but to his
own destruction r though, perhaps, It Is too
Into for tho legend to grow up, ns it easily
would 150.0 years ago, that the Marno Is
under the perpetual guard of St. Denys and
St. Gervalse, whoso flaming swords may be
seen under favorable circumstances, etc., etc.
SO WE call It a dramatic thing today that
a notnblo part In Foch's victory, should
have fallen to the American armv; that the
first impor.ant rolo assumed by the despised
American army should have been In a spec
tacle of victory, Instead of defeat, as It
easily might have been without shattering
our resolution. But the nnclents would have
ngaln seen the hand of Nemesis In this vic
torious American nrmy brought Into the con
flict by a crime such as the Furies' under the
direction of the gods never failed to avenge
by the crime of the Lusltanla. For Nemesis
was never so thoroughly aroused to venge
anco ns by vaulting pride ; and an Insane
pride lay behind the murder of the Lusl
tanla: Germany's confidence In her own
moral Judgments and In her ablltly to Im
pose them upon the world ; pride of power
wMch could do what It will; pride of mind
vvLich could reason black Into white and
murder Into tho laws of war: not to mention
that narrower tribal p'rldo which had no diffi
culty In proving that It was better hundreds
of women and children should drown rather
than one German soldier fall n victim to the
Lusltanla's "munitions." To the Greek mind.
Chateau-Thierry would have been the gods'
payment for Kinsale Head.
BECAUSE Nemesis peculiarly loves to
abafco human pride, one of Its favorite
devices Is to raise up the bumble and make
them the Instrument of Its vengeance. It
should never be forgotten that tho turn of the
tide for tho Allies began not In France, but
In Italy: that the first shattering blow to
German hopes fell not along the Marne, but
along the Tlave. And what was Italy on the
eve of the Austrian assault? She was un
questionably In tho mind of the German gen
eral staff and likely In the mind of a good
many Allied military leaders tho next victim
of the irresistible Teuton might, after Ser
bia. Russia and Rumania. The Italian front
was to break on the Plave as It had broken
on the Isonzo. The spirit of the Italian
Deonle was to break, as It came very near
breaking last autumn. Italy was to be
fjreed out of the war like Russia and Ru-
.manla, or reduced to helplessness like Serbia
and Belgium. At tne very least, Italy was
to call to her help a good many French divi
sions that Foch could not spare.
And it fell to Italy, the weakest qf the Allies,
to shatter the entire German scheme of vic
tory. NEMESIS loves to punish with the crimi
nal's own weaoons. Germany made her
raid on civilization by taking advantage of
low visibility. Amidst the fog of perplexity
and panic that fell upon Europe with the
assassination at Sarajevo, Germany brought
up her forces for attack. She fashioned the
ultimatum to Serbia under a smoke cloud of
pacific telegrams to Petrograd and placatory
offers to London. But fate has seen to It
that Germany Bhall ba herself the victim of
low visibility. The murk and fog of her
own creation blinded her to the fundamental
factor) of morals and policy which will be her
updoing. Germany strangled Belgium be
cause she could not see Great Britain pulled
Into the conflict. She sank the Lusltanla
because she could not see America In the
war. She tore Russia apart because she
could not see the soul of a great people
waking out of a temporary sleep. Germany
surprised the world and finds herself sur
prised by the world; Nemesis.
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Judging by the amoupt of Hun propa
ganda current In Finland, Germany has
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MY PHILOSOPHY
SAY"! I'm glad Pm livin' such a glorlout'
day.
Makes me feel like dancln' two-steps all '
tho way;
Makes me feel as rich as any millionaire,
With a sure life interest in a world o fair. '
Diamonds In the dew-drops, sunshine drop
pin' gold, ;
Better'n all the nuggets Klondike moun
tains hold;
Sky a sea of azure, one white cloud afloat,
Sailln' soft and airy like a fairy's boat. 1
Lovely flowers a-fllngln' perfumes to thej,
breezo; ,
Little winds a-.qulver In the leafy trees;
Little birds a-slngin' like they'd never' .
stop '
Joy as light as bubbles comes right to the
t0P' ' .
Bumblebees a-buzzin' in the buckwheat ,
flowers, '
Haulin' home the honey lo the shinln
hours;
Rivulets a-lispin', as they flow along, '
Happy little secrets, trills of summer song.
All day long the gladness, loveliness and
light, e
Then the starry stillness o' the welcome
night;
All life -long the blesstn's scattered from
God's hand, I
Then the rest remalnln' In the Promised '
Land.
Heart o mine, be Joyful! Ain't no call for
tears.
Garner up the sunbeams all along th
- years.
Souls that seek for brightness And it manifold.
Heart o' mine, be Joyful! Gather In th
gold.
Lillian Leveridge in "Over the Hills
of Home."
Seasonable Suggestions
Madam, have you canned all you can?
Then eat what you can't, Detroit Fre
Press. "
German Honors
The Kaiser now has an opportunity to re
ward prominent subjects whom he does not
like, or with whose behavior he Is more or
less displeased, by appointing them to dlplo
matlo posts In Russia. Boston Globe.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ -
1, Near what rltj are Mexico's Taloable oil welt
located?
2, Who Is the new Oerman Minister of Marin. -
appoint to succeed Admiral ran Carxtrtf
3, Who first proDoanded tlio theory thai Fravax
'els Baron wrote tho plara ascribed to
rthakeapsart?
4, What was the rsar of tho Chleaco World's
Fair?
Sy Where Is tho world's thief soorea of naUssaj
0. What Is the erlrtnal meanlnr of tho Fioata.
word "eb.uTon"T
7, What Is the aonthernmoot possession of tkat
United BtaUs? -
1, What Is an lruanaT
9, What Is the use of tror wetfht?
10. Who was Richard OlnejT i
Answers to Yesterdav s Ouiz ..
1. Ferdinand of Dolcarlst Is tho only remalaUag'
Ciar In tho world. - ,.
2. Sixteen and a half feet make a rod.
S. Merctur Is the planet nearest to the sun.
4. Columbus died In Valladolld. Spain, la lo. -ii
S. Wllklns Mirawner, in uickens-o "pasM celt.
perfleld." was continually "waltlnc n
aalhlns) A.1 Aura not '
J, The word conduit fthonld bo pronounced $m$M,
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7. Tho Dpoman rarusmeni is cauica too tortoo -v
8. Tho ral pamo of Intwls Carroll, aatha-r er
"Alios In Wonderland." was Charloa Laj
wldgo Dodsson. . ?.
0. Massif Is a French word dosertblns a noatbfr '
of helfbts crouped around culaalaatlifc
MtlH.
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