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Cor Pennsylvania Ave. anil Hlh St. sif Vok lliur.ir The .sun llull.lliie onpo.n Bi'REiti Lomlun Times sfnscniPTtox tkhms The Evkninu I'lrlio l.Enir.u la servcl to sub scribers In Philadelphia fttiil aurruuiulhie tmvns at the rata ot twelve I1.M centi ter week. paable to the. carrier. Ily mall In tilnt nutble of Philadelphia. In the United Stale. Canada, or l'nlt,.l Mate pn, sessions, postage free. flft IVII lent- p-r tnoilth. filx ($0) dollars per ear. pa.alile In ndmnce. Tn all forefltrn immtrleM nn, l.tll tltilliii tier month. NoTlcr Subscribers uishlnir mMress changed Inust tlve old n well ns.new address. BEtX. 3000 Y4AIMT Kl YSTOM'. MAIN J0O0 lET" .trfdrr.ii all coimmiim Lettoer. hulrjientlrtic icntioas to .'t'Dinii PubUo Square, I'hltatltlitliia. Member tif the Associated Press THE ASSOCIATED I'HHSS is r.rru tlvely entitled in the use for lepuhlleittwn of all neics dispatches creihietl tn it nr nttt otherwise, ererhtrit in this jxiprr, mvl 050 the locat cirt nuhlishril thririu All rfphtx of republication nf special itls pritehes herein m-e aim rcirri etl fhiladrlpliia, tri.lav. Au;til 21. 11IS A FREE SHIP FOR FREEDOM WprtAZtl,." snirt fionfral Mnn-li In sum- -' marlzine tlie tr.innpiirtntum sit na tion, "cave uh (ino ship for two ttipo vitli out nny compensation at all. anil so fnr as I know thnt Is the only ship we not that wn ' The chief of stuff had the advantni;" of the American public, which certainly ha.? Up to now been unaware of the commis sion of this tjeneroiis act. It seems un gracious to rjrazll anil lnunusiiWiite to Americans in her iMH that tins news should hae been nietely Im-ideiUitllj and tardily disclosed. It Is worth a whole pence treaty with our gallant southern neighbor, a whole portfolio of fulsome .illlrmatlons of offen sive and defensive alliance. The fids con cerning so sisnlflcant and uii-elltsh an evidence of affectionate idealism should be Riven the full llslit of international publicity It would be intPiestliiK to inquire what the Hun foiced to pay even his friends the Bolshevik! for the ships he took over, would think of this tribute to liberty. We can afford to pause for a reply. "The Hrest-I.ltosk puice,' declares Herr Solf, Urrmnn Secretary of State for the Colonies, "Is a framework and the picture which is to appear within is unly sketched In rough lines." "Itnueli" is the word. CI'RI! MRKETS ANV ONK who drives an automobile in South Jersey knows how advanla- geously fruits, vegetables and even butter ; and eRKs may be purchased at the road .Bldo stands set up by businesslike farm ' ers. The buyer has the novel experience ""TiOf tlndintr farm and dairv produce fresher ndlng farm and dairy produce freihei If: " ' .- ..... and better than anything his home mar- W?$fi,:r-Tsf nPrr,,-! t'all,KI., ..t .il.iuii Jri cu.. ,..,t . . ... Deiow laminar iirices. UA t The curb market established on College avenue yesterday through the co-operation of the food administration and a group of farmers is merely an effort to bring the roadside stand to town. It is not logical to assume that all of the middleman's profit can be eliminated bv this ptooess. The farmers must meet the expense of transport. And et purchasers at yester day Vi curb market found fresh fruit and vegetables available at prices that ranged from 10 to i"0 per cent less than the rates at the corner Ktoceries. In a great many Pennsylvania towns and cities the matket square is still a blooming and highly efficient Institution. -The farmerh dne in twice a week to sell their produce direct to the consumers. b The square on market days is not only fStJL,- picturesque It Is a tremendous aid to thrift and good living. V It Is too much to epect that the food , administration will ever be able to revive i- the' public markets In this city or to re f. create the habits of direct purchase which ; vanished almost completely when laziness, f.' a taste for luxury, the telephone and elab jTrorate delivery systems conspired to In b. fi crease the overhead charges of every re j, tall business. Hut the curb market opened here yesterday was valuable as an indica- V, ." tjon of what may be done, in a pinch, to reduce the high cost of living. No matter how much the Germans have altered the appearance of the fishing trawler, which they are now using as a coast raider, it would be wholly Infelicitous to describe it as a "converted" ship. SHMNC AT IIRASS TACKS CONGT tlons s'GRESSIOXAI, delight in investiga- 1s not infieqtiently tempered by any suggestion that the essential heart of A subject be considered. The suburbs of a theme make a favorite rostrum in Wash ington. The House of itepresentatives is just now engaged In frothy language concern ing several million young men proposed Ar as registrants in September. Amid all the lf?' YnltV,1 ,nr.t-n I ,, ...lint In ... 1m .1... . ...... J1. fcwK V"..- v . iiitih ,,ii ,.i ,u uf tile D141.US Of these youths in the draft their own P'Yoices are unneani. I'erish the thought that any ot the obstructionists of the Dent 'type would ever discuss the matter with first-hand authorities; with, for Instance. iJome of the young men most concerned ' With the nature of the hew bill. Terhaps, even if Congress could hear j them, these "mere boys" would still pre ffer to remain silent. Their actions, how- Soever, have been speaking for them for jome time. The Government records are !"full of instances of young patriots who P4,'Jrave sought to hide tho truth about their ;ages in tln'jr zeal to enter the service. iLyGeneral Cniwder fan testify that so many jg'-Si of the twenty-one-year-olders of the last .June registration nau previously volun- 1; Jtejreil for the army tliat the number of -new soimers uvapauie was only bdoui two- W-fa'tfklr&s of what had been forecast. fi " ..plainly, from Chairman Dent's stand- Int. )t wouldn't do at all to consult with i possible registrants of the new lower k-'Mwits., "That would Involve the of- .'"ttj e,UKH,. to, brass tacks. FOCH'S WAR MOSAIC It Deign Is Taking Form in This Eventful Month of August rpHE conservation of wnr communiques would undoubtedly be one of the most unpopular policies ever instituted by the prenernl staff of nny nimy. Often within the hist four years there have been times when two oflicial bulletins a day seemed nn insufficient allowance. Mnny persons find the temptation to scrutinize every line of each fragment of war news abso lutely inesistible. If the Rritish, French or American almies took the notion to dole out their information as seldom as once .1 week a fine bowl of protest would arise. It would bo justified, too, for nations giving their lifeblood for liberty have assuredly n right to be kept in in stant touch with events, Just at the present time, however, a "skip-stop" system of communiques would embrace ceitnin compensating ad vantages. Frugality would be rewarded by thrills. The daily nibble whose sig nificance is often hidden fiom the lay man would bo converted into the weekly bite whose meaning admitted of no iw plexity. Both the first and second battles of the Mni lie told swift, dramatic, easily comprehensible tales. Each momentous action in its turn .saved Paris and was undertaken when a defensive policy by the Allies had approached a critical point. The sudden surge of Matigin and the French and American troops in Champagne had something of the stir ring, theatric quality of Sheridan at Win chester. Subsequent events are best appie eiated if consideieil on something more than a daily basis. It is true that Haig's terrific, wide-front blow, which recovered tho whole Montdidier region, relieved Amiens and was even acknowledged by Ciermany as "the first defeat," was a rapid "full-dress show" on a crashing scale. The Hun could scarcely avoid lecognizing its virtues, .since it was con ducted somewhat after the "grand man ner'' of his historic attack of March 131. Since August S, and a few days after, however. Marshal Foch has introduced a novelty into the war. His operations are neither of the tedious sort which made tho first battle of the Somme so pio tracted in 191(1 nor of the tremendous type of the Marne engagements. His evident aim is the dislocation of the German lines in Picardy, the intrusion of a salient near Xoyon compelling the Germans to fall back from tho Vesle, where the second Marne battle came to an end, and the intensification of pres sure now at one point, now at another, along the whole front so as to necessi tate the foe's withdrawal to the old Hin denburg line. Incessant action, distributed at various points so as to profit by the viitue of surprise; short, sharp offensives, not so ponderous in scope that they cannot be resumed after a brief interval, are ele ments of this policy. Its fruits are already superb. Haig struck on the Avre, Byng on the Ancie, Humbert to the east of Xoyon, Mangin to the south of that important base. In all these movements it is not the gain of three or five miles sepaiately considered that is fraught with meaning, but the whole broad scope of this vigilant strategy. Paradoxical as it may seem, the re tirement of the Geimans in driblets is a definite sign of Allied activity. The foe dare not withdraw quickly in one move ment over a wide front because the Allies are right at his heels. It is con ceivable, indeed, that the Germans, now developing a major defensive plan under Von Boehn, would much piefer to fall back at once to the Hindenburg line, saving virtually their entire army and its equipment, as they did in 1910. Under present conditions their men are con stantly exposed to captuie. Mangin, for example, bagged some 15,000 within the last thtee or four days in his fiery drive toward Noyon. In Albert, which fell yes terday, the British took 1400 men out of 5000 captured in a two-day drive. An inevitable letreat under such cir cumstances has been turned by Foch into agony long drawn out. It is hard to imagine a more effective way of batter ing down the enemy's morale than that which the ucute bruin of the great mar shal has devised. The sum of such successes now of almost daily occurrence seems certain to change the whole complexion of the bnttlefront. Artillery pressure fiom the triangle between the Oise and the Aisne can ue directed both northeast and south west. It may be forecast that the line Chaulnes-Peronne-Roye-Noyon will soon become untenable. The German posi tions on the Vesle will also be seriously menaced and the picture of a withdrawal to the Chemin-des-Dames can be drawn without undue optimism. On the northern end of the Picardy bulge General Byng' threatens Bapaume, has already crossed the railway between that place and Albert, and taken the latter town. The furthest point of his advance is not many miles from the line where the Hun stood before the spring offensive. General March announced in Washing ton the other day that the Entente bat tlefrontTiad been reduced fifty miles. It is evidently Foch's intention by vicious bites and nibbles to reduce the protuber ances caused by the German drives of 1918 until his armies have room to ma neuver on a scale far greater than has heretofore been adopted. Just at present he is engaged in wiping out old scores. There is an excellent chance that those registered when the German military power was at its height may be effaced this autumn. It will be easier to under stand Jils strategy when August is com pleted and wc are enabled to survey that eventful period not by days, but as a whole glorious month. Were it possible to confront any one who had been deprive! of wnr news with a summary of recent weeks considered in the large aspect, it may be predicated that the thrill nf that super communique would be hardly second to that conveyed by the announcement that Foch had struck the foe at La Fere Chnmpenoise in 1914. . A Merchantvlllo i woman, caught In hoarding, now promises thnt she will eat no more sugar during the war If she Is not sent to jail. Whatever the law derides, It Is quite evident thnt she will hereafter have to con fine her.elf to Ihe sweetness of adversity. FRUITS OF t NPREFAREDNESS fTIHE aircraft leport of the subcommittee of the Sen-ite Committee on Military Affairs Is a shining exhibition of what happens when a nation enters wnr with out proper pteparatlnn. It charges that Jfi-IS. 000,000 has been virtually squandeied since April of last ear In nn attempt to produce airplanes. In the first place, there was divided re sponsibility. Then, there was no care fully thought out practical plan. Time and money were wasted in experimentation. More than K'OO engines of one type were built before nny one found out that they were dangerous. They had to lie dis carded. Orders foi one-seat planes were given and then countermanded, though it was later leirned that planes of that type were in constant ue at the front. The lives of several men wete sacrificed in fl!,lng a type of plane which was defective, but SB.ilOO.OOO was spent on these planes befoie they were abandoned. The fallute of the program is said by the committee to be due tn the dependence of the Government on automobile manu facturers who- knew nothing of neionau tical ptoblcfns, to the Mihnidination of ever thing else to the production of a t pe of motor suited to all kinds of planes and to the neglect to adopt the policy of re producing at first the most approved types of Kuropean machines m as great numbers as possible while the work of Improving the type was cm ned on at the same time. This is tlie dink side of the pictute. The committee has found that we are soon to be in shape to begin qirintity produc tion of acceptable planes and that 001 craft were shipped to Fiance up to Au gust 1 and that on August 7 a squadron of eighteen of them Hew over the Ger man lines. The dispauhcs fiom France ye-teruay reported that theie was a strong feeling of satisfaction among our men at the arrival of our airships and at their participation in the fighting. The country hopes that the time nf blundering has passed and that from now on we shall hear that the air forces on the other side aie increased periodically by the at rival of hundreds of machines made heie. The committee has not touched on the charges of misuse of funds which led the l'lesident to call upon. Mr. Hughes to make an investigation under the direction of the Attorney General. If there has been anything vvoise than gross incom petence Mr. Hughes will discover it. We can await Ills loiicliisinns with confidence in their fairness and justice. But if we had begun preparation in time for participation in the war which the Adminlstiation knew could not be avoided, much of the bungling in the production of aircraft could have been prevented. When the final tecjioning comes the wasting of more than half a billion dollars will be i one of the counts in the indictment against the men in authority. In the meantime the men in cliaige of the aircraft produc tion are expetted to avoid the mUtakes of the past and to get the machines to Kurope faster tlun thev ate needed. ".Metal will win the A .Mellleime w ar. .Mr. Interlocutor." Fellow "Well. I suppose it will, Mr. Hones." "Had you any paitietilar kind In mind'."' "Well, yes, I bad. Of course, I may be wrong, but it did somehow occur to me that the Flench were winning their latest victories with Mangin-ease." The Huns in Xojon Keeplnc Voitttl have been enveloped, and all that Is now necessary is tor them lo be stamped upon. In other word, the mailed fist Is to bo 'mailed. The beauties of the crash and parry sys tem are being dally exemplified in Picardy. AIo MiimhIi and Tarry liven the Hun's most carefully compiled statistics concerning the declining popula tion of Fiance have been upset. The repub lic now contains nearly a million and a half men who weie not there a little more than a jear ago. To cheer up his countrymen, Herr Solf, the Hun Colonial Secretary, quotes Kant. And yet the significant sound of that word is what particularly distresses them whenever they think of i'aris. There Is a delightful paradox In the fact that while the new street market at College and illdge avenues curbs the food, it has quite the opposite effect on our enthusiasm over I educed prices. The lecent defeat of General Dernhardl suggests such absorption In "Germany and the Next War" that a little thing like'the conduct of this one has been neglected. It can be mathematically demonstrated that the winter quarters toward which Foch Is driving the Germans wll comboae m ex ceedingly uncomfortable hole. RUBBER HEELS Adventures of a CaMial of the Sea rpilH writer of the following dispatch (exclusive to Itttblicr HeeU) in tlrevis Jankers, a jyoiiti TUttch sailor icio has hreu at sea xlncr he u-as thirteen. Drcvl.i Is an old friend of William McFee, the author of "Casuals of the. Sea," and has srrred on shlpi where Mr. McFec teas engineer. Those who have read "Casuals of the Sea" trill be Interested tn know that Drevln Is the. hlne-eyed Dutch sailor-boy "Tommy" of that story. Brooklyn, N. Y., ISth August. You will be surprised to hear from me so soon, after me telling you that .1 was going as second mate on the M to Brazil. Well, I surmise you have allready read thnt we got submarined, didn't you. We left Sandy Hook on the I lth Aug. and on the 14th at 7.20 AM we were shell fired. The first shot was fired over the poop and Just missed the chief officer by a hair. I happened to be In my bunk fast a sleep, and did not hear the first shot but the second one btirsted 12 feet away from my bunk in the ship's side. 1'p I Jumps, looked around and hear was tho third mate (who was sleeping In the top bunk) dressing, and 1 then realised what was the nritter. I slipped on my panls and my coat, grabs my papers and ran fnr my license which was in a frame, and knocked It clean out. Then I cut the boat's lashings and low ered the boat away, and while doing so an other shell bursted right next to me, splinters flving around my ears, oh it was some picnic believe me, The enptaln, A. B. is his name, ordered the wiieless opeiator (a navy man) to call for assistance and was allmost the last man In the boat, After we got dear of the ship's side the submarine i ame sneak ing slowly under the M 's stern, and fired two shots in the stern, but still she would not sink (for she is a strong wooden vessel only a .war old) so they got on the port side rind filed two more shots In her foiehold which caused an explosion and put her afire, and then the submarine went around her bow and cleared off. When we wcie about 4 miles off the M tinned over to stniboard and went down stern first for she had two big Fair bank motors in her. The last we saw of the M was her bowsprit and she sank in !o foot of water I estimated the submarine to be about 'JfiO feet long. T am sure it could not be much mote, for when she was alongside of us we could see that she wa not much longer,' for the M Is 240 feet. She had two guns. The forward one was six-Inch and the stern one was it looked to me a qulckfiring gun; a conning tower and over it wireless, from bow to stern. We nil were scared that she might turn tint gun mi the lifeboat, but fortunately they did not. We wete in the boat for 4 hours, when we were picked up by a Norwegian fruit boat, S.S. F of Krlstmnia. and landed the following morning In X. V., bear footed. Naval authorities came on board and asked our heads off how everything happened. When we got ashore all hands jumped on captain for money, and he shouted back "What am I going to do!" he phoned up the owners and they told him to get the men 10 dollars each till Mondav, so tomouow vv will be paid off. but our pay seized as soon as the ship was sunk. All my clothes are lost and we won't get a cent for them for we did not sign on for that. 1 had at least over 200 dollars worth. Oh ain't this war hell! I now wish it wns all over. Tomorrow we are all going up to tho office to see if they won't allow, us some thing. 1 came across a friend of mine who had joined the navy, so he gave me his suit. I forgot to tell vou where it happened it was -- miles S.S.W. of Winter quarter Shoil lightship, just miles of Norfolk Well, I have told vou all that has happened lo me, please write me as soon as you get this story. DRKVIS JONKF.RS. I'.videntlii the. Germans were not an choied to the Ancre. Doctor Solf, the German colonial minister, a"seris that Germany has won tin- moral light to be a colonial povvei --News Item. What Germany wants, evidently, Is Snlf determination for her colonies. Those loud detonations you hear aie not necessarily depth bombs or spies siynal ing to U-boats. This is the hay fever season. Keeping Them Cheerful The German High Command says that German soldiers simply must write more cheerful letters home. Civilian morale has enough to fuce In the way of turnips and paper garments without having to tend despondent and grumbling letters from the front. The following foim letter might be lecommended to boche troops that want to give their families the Huutruth: My Dear Minna We have been enjoy. Ing lovely weather and ou will be happy to hear we are getting neater home every day. No use to tell you where we are at this writing, as by the time you get this we will be some distance away. We have seen a lot of plctuiesque retreats, but we do not stay long In each one because we aro hurrying to catch up with our com mander. General Bernhardi, who Is said to be on his way back to Berlin to write another book. The recent actions have reduced our fighting line by fifty miles and about fifty thousand men, so there Is nqw plenty of food to go round. We have very kind officers; .they keep behind us so as not to Interfere with our view of the enemy. They told its they would not Insist on our going to Paris because French culture had been contaminated by the Americans. The Americans are a queer lot; they seem to be commanded by a general called Attaboy; at least they are always calling out his name. They fight as though they enjoyed It, which Is not fair. Our commander keeps on telling us that our real future is In the east, and judging by the way we are moving it must be so. With love, and expecting to tee you soon, THY FRITZ. The well-known servant problem la no longer referred to as a problem, IV a an enigma. SOCRATES. A GOOD " .---" p.-.CV".5v2? S'isZ-.-T. sr.;r--7s.W"- fj.v '' ...;' i""" '''" '&' HAS GERMANY FORGOTTEN? Facts From American Military History Hy Samuel Abbott PHIL SHi:r.II)AN was with the Prussian army in 187" as military representative of'lhe United States. As the French sur rendered at Metz lie watched the proceedings from his saddle at the side of Prince Charles. If any man then living was qualified to pass judgment on the fighting quality of the vic torious German army. It was that same fiery Phil who but five years before had led thou sands of Union sabers In their victorious sweep around Hichmond. It is on recoid that Sheridan turned to Prince Charles and said, "Give me two divisions of the Sixth Corps iSedgwick's) of the Army of the Potomac and I could cut my wuy out lliroiiKb 3 our rriihsluti urni.v' HAS Ge events iermany forgotten.' i ertain recent Is piteipitated by American boys III khaki on the French front should cause the German general staff to turn to pages of its war histories and lefresh Its memory as to the fighting stuff that was in our fathers of the Blue and the (iray. For the backbone of our army today is the collective spine of the boys who are lineal descendants of an in fantry that tanked among the wry best that ever marchrd and fought on this globe. That is a pretty tall statement, and we will but tress it with facts. Here are the percentages of the casualties of the victors In six of the world's severest battles fought on European soil: Korndnrf. 175S Prussians and Austrians, 37 per cent. Kylau, 1807 French and Russians, 28 per cent. Borodino, 1S12 French and Russians, 24 per cent. Waterloo, 1815 Allies and French, 20 per cent. Vionvllle, 1S70 Prussians and French, 22 per cent. Plevna, 1877 Russians and Tuiks, 8 per cent. SINCH F.jlau no single battle In history has equaled In percentage of losses the American casualties at Chickainauga. We give the percentages of losses of the victois lu three gieat Civil War battles: Antletiun, 23 per cent; Gettysburg, 20 per cent; Chickainauga, 27 per cent. 0' NH should note as a side-light, an im portant one, that the typical Euiopean snuggle of major Impoi lance usually ended in the complete lout of the vanquished army. The lllght of Napoleon's army from Water loo Is the classic example. In our Civil War, after Hull Run. there was virtually no rctieat of a beaten force 111 confusion, l.ee was leady, almost willing, to Invite a Union at tack after Gettysburg, either on July 4 or 5, 1863. Time and time again a defeated Fed eral or Confederate army stood In its tracks leady for more punishment, sullen and awfully dangerous. Hilary Herbert, an old Confederate, said that the one mental at tribute of the Army 'of the Potomac that' aroused the admiration of the Army of Not thern Virginia was Its steadfast courage under defeat, its willingness to try and try again, to storbi Impregnable Intrcnchments, to light to the last bayonet thrust, although for months It did not know what to expect from Its leader or who that leader would be on the moriow. THK men of the Blue and the Gray were "shock troops." We. see with us today a few white-haired remnants of those wonder ful boys of 18tl-6G, and we forget' that 1,151,438 enlistments In the Union Army were mere striplings eighteen years old. But what terrific fighters those boys became In the red ordeal of war! An historian of the Battle of the Wilderness tells us that the average age of the thousands of soldiers that lay dead and dying Blue and Gray side by sidf during that mournful night in '64 was under twenty years. They were "shock troops," for they knew but one way lo tight, and that was at close quarters, after the loar of muskelry, with bayonets and clubbed litles. An Englishman, Captain Cecil Bat tine, Fifteenth King's Hussars, said a few years ago, "The Americans still hold the world's lecord for hard fighting." HAS Germany forgotten? We Invite her, to turn to the records of losses in battle suffered by Federal and Confederate regi ments; The' First Minnesota lost 82 per cent of it men on the' second day at Gettysburg In DEED IN THIS NAUGHTY fifteen minutes. And, Kaiser take notice, this loss represents killed and wounded. There was no man "missing." The Twentieth Massachusetts, at Fred ericksburg, lost fiR.4 per cent lu one day, and again there was no leport "missing." The First Maine Heavy Artillery, at Petersburg, lost over 70 per cent of its men In seven minutes of fighting. The Hist Pennsylvania, at Gettysburg, lost 75 per cent of Its loster of officers and men. VJOW for the boys lu Gray. All four of ai me peicentages tnat follow represent actual losses In killed and wounded, with not a man "missing": First Texas, Antletam, 82. 3 per cent. Twenty-first Georgia, Manassas, 7ti per cent. Twenty-sixth North Carolina, Gettysburg, 71.7 per cent. Sixth .Mississippi, Shiloah, 70.5 per rent. To give one an Idea of the savage Intensity of the fighting during the closing ear of the Civil War. It Is recorded that l.ee, with 55.OU0 men, disposed of lil.ouo of the Army of the Potomac before he was crushed into submission, LET us go back to July, ,1863, and Imagine a great Northern dally appearing with th6 casualty lists of Meade's army alone, with no mention of Lee's sacrifice at Gettysburg. It would require all the columns 'of the LVENiNO Public I.kpokk to give the Union names. Has Germany forgotten that story ot heroism" And those furious weeks in May and June, 180), when for clays the two armies were locked In bitter battle near Richmond, days that shape themselves In- the words "The Wildnerness," "Spottsylvanla," "Cold Harbor, when shadowed In the names of the boys in Blue and In Ciray that went down never to rise again, should make the shiver of fear chill the marrow of the most Prussian of all the Prussians. For America repeats herself under the Stars and Stripes. GERMANY may have forgotten the years of 1861-C5. But the sons of the men who shook hands at Appomattox will write a chapter In the history of the world that future Prussians wilt read .with awe. "He died game. He had his ride in his hands, and there were seven dead Germans' In front of him," Is the message a Pennsyl vania boy sends to his father about his brother. This Is the kind of gameness that will teach the boche that Americans know how to fight. Jay Cooke Is still finding persons guilty of hoarding sweetness, hut ho has not yet arrested any of the pretty girls on Chestnut btreet. Chairman Dent, ot the House Commit tee on Military Affairs. Is likely to discover tliat obstruction of the Administration war program Is not profitable. In these days of imminent dollar hair cuts Delilah would probably be dismissing Samson with a resounding "Next!" The news that the French have taken Cuts may Impel Ludendorff to describe It as one of the unklndeut of all. Gone Wet IN NO MAN'S LAND he ilea today That you and 1 might live. With loyal heart he nobly gave "The best that man can give. Undauntedly he crossed the top And gallantly he fell With yearning eyes upon the fiag He loved and served so well. And though I sit at home bereft Of all I held most dear, Through the shadows of my grief One thought shines bright and clear. He followed but the precepts learned By him In early youth ; All glory to thejad who fpught For Hpnor. Right and Truth. CARRIE Y; FRAZIER. Ocean City, N, J Aug. 21. , WORLD Had the Kronprins . Wanted lo Translated from tho French of Theodore Botral. w Al) the Kronprinz wanted to, Lanturlu! Liege had been his without a siege, Lille had bowed to him, her liege, Any town that took his fancy. Rheims, Solsson, Verdun or Nancy, Even blithesome, gay Paree, Had borne his oke delightedly. Had the Kronprlnz wanted to (Can you doubt It, Dare ou flout It?) To conquer France eight days would do. : Had the Kronprlnz wanted to, Lanturlu ! France prone underneath his boot, England must haw followed suit; Two days, at most, for London town, For Cardiff, Dublin, battered down. For Britain overrun and shaken. Ireland German, all France taken. Had the Kronprlnz wanted to," (Can ou doubt It, Dare you scout It?) Kngland had been German, too. Had the Kronprlnz wanted to, Lanturlu ! Returning home, but not In haste, , He'd turn to the Carpathian waste; And atk, "Say, Mr. Romanoff, What's there for me In Peterhoff? "I think, Grand Duke, In retrograde, I'll rest a moment In the shade," Had the Kronprlnz wanted to (Can you doubt It, Dare ou flout it?) He'd licked the Russians black and blue. Hod the Kronprlnz wanted to, Lanturlu! The Balkans in his pocket, far It would not be to Africa; America, the ocean's Isles Had yielded to his guns and smiles, To China, Japan with a Jump, The world were his In one big lump. Had the Kronprlnz wanted to, (Can you doubt It, Dare you scout It?) "Lord of Earth's," his title due. All this the Kronprlnz did not do, Lanturlu ! And why? He could not let his star Transcend the glory of papa, "To you the victory, dear dad, And all the glory; I am glad, I For your sake, losing all, to sit Secure In Gils' deep bomb-proof pit." To humble dad was not his cue. Do you doubt It, Dare you scout It? But! had the Kronprlnz wanted to I Girl, It's a Serious Miller The scarcity of men at summr resorti used to hi- a joke, it Has passed that stag now. Birmingham Age-Herald. Happily the oystermen are promlslni that the way to bivalves will be made easy with reasonable prices. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1, Ot what committee In the Hour of Heart senutlven In Hubert Ient, of Alabama, tit chairman f ' 2, What l the nitanlm of Murdl GraT 3, Who was Clement L. VallamllnzhamT 4, What l a iiiurllne.ulke? 5, What In the dlttlntuUhlna; characterUilo Of mull catf U. Wl.ei-t i the Assouan Dam? t. What State U rulleU the "lirunlte State"? it. What In a bulbulr tl. Who was the muoe of tracedrr 10, What in the meunlnr of the I.atln phratf 'caiu belli? T Answers to Yetterduv's Ouiz 1. Lake llulknl li u birce bodr of frell waUr In Miutli rentrul Siberia. The TrantM ST Siberian Kullroud In built around the "I kouthern rout. , -it n t ........lulkl lu n onll,.! n nt nnhtu ana 'H uther atamiM. . . 3. Maurice Mueterlhuk la b birth a llllan. , 4. t'rliUy In derived from the old Knallih FrUediier. miined after Krl. the northern KiddeM. corresponding with Vvnu In Latlu in llioiocv. . l 6, Mark Twain, In "1'uddln' Head Wilton's I alendar," wrote "difference, of oulnMa oDlnUs i' makes home rare.' 1, A kcrniln la a. Dutch fair or carnlral, a .invM Ullmte. a lifted younc Amerlei 6m was killed In action, on tlit wsitero Inmtys on Ausmt I. e '-;iv. t. Cumberland' s the second tams(i cH la ID. Harmonica U anotasr Siva fa' a .' -i; ' ;l . 'lilt J" t T - .t,V & t, -T V --, , . , . 1-" .T .Vi -a ' A? .&. i-.
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