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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
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and better than anything his home mar-
W?$fi,:r-Tsf nPrr,,-! t'all,KI., ..t .il.iuii Jri cu.. ,..,t
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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-
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." 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-
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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
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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
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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.
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