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VX T TWO TAPESTRIES
rTTWO kings, virtually absolute monarchs,
j once met amid the splendors of the
fnost gorgeous tapestries the world has
ver seen. Corpulent Henry VIII of Eng
land and long-nosed Francis I of France
fraternized. Jousted and feasted on the
Field of the Cloth of Gold In 1D20. The
pcene 'was perhaps the most gorgeous sham
in history. In a short time each of the
two shifty monarchs had changed sides,
nd all their protestations of affection
Were turned to gunpowder.
Kft Tapestry Is still playing an International
F3 tt)Ie. but this time It tynines passionate
lncerlty as well as mero elegance. The
woven Bcene, which Is to be sent through
the French Ministry of Fine Arts from the
" unrivaled workmen of St. Cloud to Phlla-
3elph!a, will unquestionably be an artistic
$em. It Is, however, tho loving idealism
which went Into the arrangement of each
trand of the textile picture which prlmar
tjy makes It precious.
We know now that the tapestries of
Henry and Francis symbolized a farce.
The gift from France which Philadelphia
Is proud to receive will bo reflective of
' 1 higher typo of drama at once the most
terrible and the most glorious In human
chronicle.
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The news that the latest German stand
ard cigarette Is "awful stuff" confirms us In
the belief that her offensive material Is going
' , MOTOR CASUALTIES
TKTATI.Rn lists nt rnnnnltlps frnm thn
ES -' hlchwavs and bvroads whereon auto-
P?r , "
Kij, moblllsts disport themselves on Sunday
tsj, are regular features or the Monday news-
'papers. In almost every case of serious
ecldent the driver of the machine proves
irto have been experienced. Beginners hav
jfe'!;ne enough to be careful.
p' TJie moral is easy. Most automobile ac
cidents are due to overconndence. That
&j- . $t&s the disease that afflicted the Kaiser.
; And any one who goes about the country
v jfya. Saturday afternoons and Sundays has
onen Deen ame to ooserve mat a toucn
Of the imperial mania afflicts some auto
mobile drivers and makes Itself manifest
fil more ways than one.
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Pershing is said to have demanded bet
"ter music for his troops. Perhaps some Tank
' Whistled "A Baby's Prayer at Twilight" once
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K FHATFP1VITV
tN ARRAKQIICf fnr a nntrlntli mnrl.
iff tonight the National Congress of Fra-
lS.( nal Organizations, now In session in
ithU clly, has done the expected thine.
;j-""It Is estimated that the delegates pres-
1 eni represent a memoershlp or 20,000,000
S, men and women affiliated with the varl.
-v bus fraternal societies in ,thn rmmirv
'Mi They realize that this war Is raging now
5 to make the great fraternity of democracy
m. woria-wiae institution, ana they would
'fcjiave been false to the principles of
Rjr-liroUierhood which they profess if they
j;r viad not arranged to give a visible demon
ic' "stratlon of the faith that Is In them.
&.f Therefore, the crowds which will line
fitfhe streets tonight watching the parade
R5?'wrin see in it a type and a symbol of
K-irwiiii. Kicaier pniL ui traiernity vnicn Is
tr tp move the whole world when peace
-cornea.
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gs-- - vwn ywfiD mm ui ucoyair, says a
JBeaanne. And despair Is the worst sort of
JftHSd substitute.
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K.TUDGB BONNIWBLL'S determination
Pfey that the issue between the "drys" and
SiuiJ?' -"wets cshall be clearly drawn does
jWrredlt to his courage.
K&Cf. Ho Is determined that there shall be no
K$ffeetacle in the way of any voter sunDort.
b'3j ing. him as the frankly "wet" candidate
P..!? ' governorsnip, xnis Is the purpose
:-:.' nis latest move for the nrmniTaMn.
tM?-" Part wlth hls narne at the head
iviiui MCKet, lonowea by the names of
fauam. other candidate n nm in B.mnn4i.u
-"-T --v "" ..w.-.-- ..u .v in DI11I1MI J1V
3JM(hvhts purposes. He probably assume
S:yihi( many Republicans, objecting to pro
& atMUon, would hesitate to vote the Demo-
L,t.jBTBHo ucMi, ii mey can nave otrered to
f IhiTiii an fnHenni1ent ilrlrnt V10 ..
- - -- -r ... ....vv( ., ACO0UIIS,
V might be willing to vote for the
. of it while supporting the rest of the
blican ticket. This reasoning is valid
bls point of view.
-v mmone can odjbci 10 it. ror It is lm-
c,;Tsaari.nv. mm. ma Knumoni 01 tne State
1 wtfiatered on the issue. When Sir. Bon.
41 won the Democratic nomination in
1 .primaries as an avowed "wet" candl-
hs" put the voters of his party on
i. and he would be, false to them if
4k 4W;nojt Insist, on a frank acceptance
situation, py tne party leaders, and
.djtfault of that if he did not do his best
the question squarely up to all
in such a way that they could
aii coubW when the time
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OUR GREATEST VICTORY
Colonel Roosevelt and Mr. Hurd, of the
American Defense Society, Help to
Show Where It Lies
WHEN Colonel Roosevelt rises to dc
claim upon the affairs of mankind he
often exhibits a brilliant knack for being
right and wrong at the samo time, Un
questionably tho Colonel is tho best hatcT
we have. His magnificent impatience is
a national asset. And he hates the right
things pedantry, weakness, pretense,
smugness, complacency. Robust and vo
ciferous haters have been a power on the
sido of righteousness ever since the days
of John tho Baptist. It may be well to
remember that they do not always ex
pect us to Eharo nn enthusiasm that is
necessarily peculiar to them alone.
In Springfield yesterday Colonel
Roosevelt dwelt in a mood of fire upon
tho conditions that formerly made
America a "polyglot boarding house"
and demanded again the singleness of
allegiance and of purpose in all Ameri
cans which every one recognizes as n
necessity of tho future. So, he said,
must wo be protected from wars after
the war. For tho theories of internation
alism the Colonel reserved his bitterest
disdain.
It is possible to admit tho justice of
such views without altogether sharing
the Colonel's hatreds and fears. Wc are
too deep in internationalism in France,
in England and in Russia to disregard
altogether tho principle of this new rela
tion between peoples. Tho new man
power bill was passing tranquilly in
Washington, even while Colonel Roose
velt spoke, to show, as tho other draft
bills had done, that we are a polyglot
nation no longer.
There are possibilities of future wars.
In the next newspaper column to
Colonel Roosevelt yesterday was Rich
ard M. Hurd, of the boycott commitoe
of tho National Defense Society, who
clamored to know whether we could ever
again grasp tho "blood-stained hands of
Germans" in business.
We should like to hear Colonel Roose
velt discourse with Mr. Hurd.
We shall not have to shake the blood
stained hands of the Germans if we are
willing to kill them all. If we do not
wish to annihilate the Germans com
pletely we shall have to live with them.
Even though we refuse to live with them
others will not refuse. And yet, even if
such philosophy as Mr. Kurd's were to
reach its logical culmination in a power
ful group of nations lined up behind a
Germany expelled from western civili
zation, it is doubtful whether any group
will ever in the future consider n war
upon America. The reasons are becom
ing plain.
We have become the most powerful
nation in history and our strength has
nothing to do with our material achieve
ments. It rests deeper than.that. Since
the war began there is hardly a Govern
ment in the world that has not felt its
foundations rock at one time or another.
The ground under our own feet has
grown firmer meanwhile at every step.
Men and women and children even
those of the sort that made us a polyglot
nation have suddenly developed a new
sense of nearness to their Government.
They have learned to see their Govern
ment as something that they have
created out of the best that is in them.
Even the dullest men, even the laziest
minded, will respond to a revelation of
truth and beauty. Scoundrels have been
known to turn from their infamies to
help a quest for these things. There is
no one who does not now understand the
purpose of America. It is a purpose
that fills the skies. And in his Govern
ment the man in the street does not see
the President or Congress. He sees him
self, his own familiar faults and his
familiar virtues. Ho sees more. He sees,
indeed, his bettor self sublimated, freed
somehow from common inhibitions, out
upon a far enterprise that is at once
perilous and noble and infinitely touch
ing. It is easy for him to sense the
faults of his Government. Are they not
lis very own? But to know the integrity
and validity of his .Government's purpose
he has only to look within himself to
ward stray lights that shine in the ways
of memory, toward far moments when
he as evary man has done endured
sacrifice and felt the lift of purposes
beautiful or brave or charitable or
blessed.
Here, then, in this thing that he thinks
of as the Government, he can at last per
ceive only his own spirit as he has inter
preted it in deeds, struggling upward with
slips and difficulties, with doubts and mis
steps, toward the eternal light. It is not
too much to say that some such con
sciousness in a hundred million people is
in reality the greatest of all consequences
of this war. The' new relation of the
people to their Government is a wonder
ful thing, more mystical and more beau
tiful than many suppose.
Your average citizen munched his war
bread and then he gave up his business.
He gave up his sons and now ho is pre
paring to give himself. He turned from
his home and his piople, his land and all
his familiar ways, and did all this with
unquestioning faith because the Govern
ment asked it. He obeyed not his indi
vidual impulses, but the will and the
miraculous idealism of his own kind
pperating as a collective force. He -will
criticize his Government and hate or
fight any ope else who does likewise.
The. 'uproar that rises in many a man
when his waiter stiffly denies him a
coveted spoonful of sugar In his coffee or
when his business is taken away sub;
sides in a sense of placid co-operation
when he realizes that "the Government
desires it." In his heart he feels that
things might be better. So, too, he will
tell yew, .might all people. His Govern
ment wWilH pobler and more efficient
EVENING P.tltofe'EDOl
only as ho grows more noblo and, more
efficient. His Government is he. It is
ho nt his best, reacting altogether more
proudly than he could act alone. Even
tho tioap-boxcrs realizo the truth of this
and they, too, are getting in line.
Can wo ever bo n polyglot nation
again? The various nnd sundry names
in the army casualty lists would suggest
that we cannot. The sacrifices that have
made our nrmy seem to have disposed
of that difficulty. What we havo done,
in fact, Is to justify, in a way singularly
noble, tho whole theory of free govern
ment. And that brings us back to Colonel
Roosevelt and Mr. Hurd. In France, in
England, in Russia, in Italy, in those
hard driven corners of the earth where
tho people kneel reverently to our flag,
they are beginning to know how nobly
we linvc justified it. Is it too much to
hope, in thinking of war after the war,
that they shall yet realize, something, at
least, of all this in Germany?
On account of the Increased cost of
paper for the Congressional Record the Sen
ate has been urged to talk Irss. And thus we
see that much which U Intrinsically worth
less may become coMly in these freakish
war times.
MR. McADOO'S RAILROAD DEFICIT
rpiIB outstanding fact in the summary
L of railroad revenue expenses for the
first six months of Government direction
Is that the net Income av.1ll.1blo for pay
ing tho guaranteed dividends and other
returns on the capital Invested is about
J22S.000.000 less than will bo required.
Of course nn explanation accompanies
the publication of the figures. It Is that
the payment of Increased wages dating
back for n considerable period consumed
the revenues that had been earned before
passenger and freight rates were Increased
to meet the Increased charges, it Is hoped
that the earnings for the next six months
will be big enough to meet tho fixed
charges for that period. If not enough to
wipe out tho deficit of the 'first six months
of Government oporatlon.
Holders of railroad securities, students
of tho problem of public versus private
management of public utilities and the
traveling public will await with consider
able Interest and curiosity tho appearance
of the report of a full year's operation of
the roads by the Government.
The traveling public has been conipelled
to pay a flat three-ccntsa-mlle rate for the
tickets, with the war tax added. And
shippers have had to pay Increased freight
rates and have been compelled to pay in
advance when they shipped any goods. In
stead of allowing the freight to be col
lected at the point of destination. They
have submitted with such grace as they
could muster, because tho nation Is at war
and because they were told that the In
creases were necessary as a war measure.
The students of government ownership
will criticize Mr. McAdoo severely for his
wholesale Increase of wages and whole
sale Increase of passenger and freight
rates, the Increase of wages as a political
measure and the Increase of charges In
order to compel the public to pay the bills,
when the Government had refused for
j ears to permit tho railroads to make
slight increases in charges In order to meet
the Increased cost of operation and to re
place worn-out rolling stock and to make
necessary extensions.
The security holders are not seriously
worried at present, for the government
has guaranteed to them dividends equal
to tho average of a pre-war period, which
will be about 5 per cent.
The showing for the first six months
Is certainly unsatisfactory. Unless it Is
ery much better for the second six
months theexperlment will be condemned
for economic reasons, whatever one may
think about It as a war measure.
Prince Rupprecht, it Is said, Is about to
take the Prlncesi Antoinette of Luxembourg
for better or for worse. Meanwhile, the Allies
are greatly reducing the significance of the
first alternative.
THE ROOSEVELT "BEQUEST"
TTTERB it not for the intrinsic nature of
' a document, made effective only by
death, the act of drawing up a will should
be wholly pleasurable to a man of gen
erous Impulses. A testator enjoys special
privileges. He may apportion praise or
blame with unchallengeable freedom, dis
close all his personal enthusiasms, honor
and particularize all his personal friends.
But tho knowledge that he will never
live to see his plans and benefactions
bear fruit unquestionably reduces his de
light In frank expression. Tom Sawyer's
longing to "die temporarily" echoes a
human sentiment.
Very much alive and kicking, Theodore
Roosevelt has lately penned an interest
ing document reading liko the will of a
wise patriot, but happily unshadowed by
tragedy. In a long letter to Congressman
James A. Galllvan, the Colonel reveals his
disposition of the Nobel peace prize, which
he won for his share In ending the Russo
Japanese war in 1907.
The sum In hand, now amounting to
more than J45.000, was originally turned
over to Congress for the establishment of
a peace commission. Nothing was done
with the money, however, and following a
recent congressional resolution the win
ner regains his peace prize nnd proceeds
to make It count for something In a
world rent by war.
The pleasure of making such discrim
inating "bequests" must have been keen.
The Colonel has remembered a host of
worthy individuals and undertakings.
There are legacies for the relief of Bel
glum, Rumania, Serbia, Armenia, such
parts of Russia as are still sane, the
Czecho-Slovaks and even Uganda, with Its
big game memories. The Y. M. C. A. and
Ulndred associations are not forgotten.
The generous ex-President must have
had a bully time dividing up his prize.
His disposal of it suggests that It Is un
necessary to die even ''temporarily" jn
order to enjoy exclusively the best fea.
tures of will-making.
The Bolshevlkl, It
QualllTlnt now- appears, went
from the place where
the Czar of Russia was executed and mur
dered the Czar's fourteen-year-old son. If
the Reds can And a plentltude of younger
children to slaughter they may yet qualify
adequately for a complete alliance with
Berlin,
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THE CHAFFING DISH
Did It Ever Happen to You?
Every now and then some one turns up
In your offlco whom you can't quite place.
You know you have seen his face before,
but Just whore 7 You don't daro ndmlt
your predicament, for ho seems to know
you very well. Can it be yotjr father-in-law?
Or a rich uncle?
You determine to play safe.
"Well," you say, "how's everything?"
"Fine," he says. "You're looking pros
perous." This sounds dangerous. Is he after a
loan?
"Oh, well," you deprecate, "a man has
to keep tip appearances. All camouflage.
The seat of these trousers "
He seems afraid of sinister revelations.
"Family all well?" ho asks hastily.
This convinces you he must be some dis
tant relative. Lonj, ought you to invite
him to stay at tho house?
"So so," you reply. "Wo haven't any
cook Just now. Mary often asks after
you, but she's been terribly hard pressed "
This seems to surprise htm.
"In times like these ono owes his dear
ones every consideration," ho mumbles.
' You agree. If that Is so, he will hardly
expect, to be Invited out to the house.
His faco takes on a solemn shadow.
"One ought to make every, provision for
them," he says.
"Quite right," you say, wondering what
on earth tho gink is at. "But sugar is al
most impossible to get," you add politely.
"Let's sec," he muses; "how many chil
dren havo you now?"
"Just the same," you parry. "How about
yours7"
"Oh, I'm not married," he says. "Wish
I were a little younger, I'd be in France,
not on this kind of work."
"Same kind of work It used to be?" you
Insinuate.
"Yes, same old thing."
This doesn't seem to be getting you
much further and It's a busy day.
"Going to be In town long?" you ask
gently.
"Till tho undertaker comes round, I
guess," he replies sadly and pulls his chair
closer In a confidential sort of way. "Been
here twenty years now,"
Who the devil can It be?
He pulls his chair still closer and clears
his throat nervously. Your off hand seeks
silently for the buzzer under your desk.
Perhaps he's a nut.
"Look here," he says briskly, "how about
that policy of yours? Don't you want to
take out about Ave thousand more? Ought
to provide for your dear ones "
(Curtain.)
Vicary
I can sing.
I can sing in notes
Pricked from a child at play.
I can wind
In pipes of the choiring trees.
I can thread
The wood bird's throat.
I can trill
In treble quavers of the flowers;
I can chant
In the diapason of the marching and
counter-marching corn.
I can lilt
In accidentals of the sibilant rain.
In prestissimo octaves of lightning.
I can sing In colors:
Red of bugle blast,
Nile green of the lisp of waters,
Mauve of the twilight cadences of Insects.
I can sing
In the muted chord of lovers' handclasp;
I can sing
In a mother's smile.
I -can sing
Who am dumb.
STANLEY KIDDER WILSON.
Poverty
Poverty Is always pathetic!
I passed the house of a certain poor man
And looking through the window I saw
Persian rugs, crystal chandeliers, a ma
hogany talking machine,
Cut-glass bonbon dish, pearl-Inlaid tables,
porcelain bric-a-brac,
Platinum ash trays, silver toothpick vase,
morocco bound telepnona directory.
Gold-plated peanut sheller, electric Pom
eranian dog-washer,
And not a single book.
Is there no charitable organization
To help this poor pauper?
- DOVE DULCET.
Standards of beauty are so variable
there are times when an egg fried
on ono side looks more lovely than a
sunset; and finding a clean patch on the
office towel nmazes a man more than the
aurora borealis. SOCRATES.
THE READER'S VIEWPOINT
How It Seems lo Paris
To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger:
gr jjertha's voice Is not agreeable. Small
wonder if nt times It gets a little on the
nerves of the musical Parisians, but that It
cannot "take their nerve" what a bitter
disappointment to Bertha's backer!
When the long-range bombardment of
Paris was resumed August 6, after a silence
of about three weeks. La Liberte announced
it something after this faBhlon:
The Supcrcannon
Bertha has found her voice again this
morning. But If she fires on us It is, not
so much on our account as on theirs.
It is no longer a question of upsetting
us, but of reviving their own spirits.
it was against our morale that the gun
used to be fired; it has not succeeded in
breaking It down, nit even In touching It,
not in even grazing rt. And new it 'is to
sustain the morale of frightened Germany
that it fires.
Conceive the reasoning of Ludendorff:
"I bombard Paris, then I am before Paris."
The retreat? Strategic maneuver with
out Importance. Lo Marne. L'Ourcq, La
Vesle, l'Alsne? Geographic points of a rare
Insignificancy. Solssons? Let us not talk
of '' ,.
And the thickheaded Teuton reading
this evening the boche communique an
nouncing the recommencement of the bom
bardment of Paris, perhaps will say to him
self: "Then, nothing Is changed. Hoch,
Hoch for the' victorious German armies.
Nach Paris!"
That Is all that Is wanted by Luden
dorff, who apparently knows as well as we
do the simplicity of his countrymen.
But It there are still some Berthas on
tna other side of the Olse, there are" no
more Germans on this side of the Vesle.
L. T. PENNJNQTON.
Philadelphia, August 27.
When the relief expeditions get back
from Russia wo might send them to the res
cue of the Mayor and City Council, who
seem somehow to be suffering great oppres
sion.
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NOW THAT WE
How the Red Cross
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FROM the very beginning of the European
war it has been tho children of Belgium
and France who have made the most Impera
tive appeal to America; the Red Cross Is
doing its utmost to express America's answer
to that appeal.
ACROSS France, from Nesle In the Somme,
. now again in the hands of the Germans,
along the frontier of Meurthe and Moselle,
and to Marseilles In the Mediterranean, cen
ters have been established for the medical
care of children to assure for them the
chance of a healthy and happy childhood,
menaced as they are by the drag of war upon
the whole civilian population and the over
Intimate experience of the war which hun
dreds of thousands of children from the
frontier towns havo suffered. Wherever a
demand has come for aid In meeting emer
gencies, the Children's Bureau has answered
In so far as its personnel and resources per
mitted. Hand-in-hand with this immediate
work has gone a far-reaching campaign of
public health education which promises much,
for French children of the future. The health
of the coming generation cannot safely be
neglected, een In wartime.
rlE campaign began last January, when
an automobile camion loaded with pam
phlets and postcards and lantern slides pre
pared by the Rockefeller Commission for the
Prevention of Tuberculosis In France nnd
the Children's Bureau of the Red Cross left
Paris and plowed through stormbound roads
to the towns and villages In the departmen;
of the Eure and Loire. In the cities and
large towns mass-meetings were held In the
municipal theatres or town halls, and smaller
meetings for special groups of persons ;
moving pictures. Instructive as well as
amusing, were shown, and an exhibit of
panels, posters and pamphlets was placed
In some central building. In the villages the
program was simpler ; most of the work there
was In the schools. During January, Febru
ary, March and April 41.000 persons visited
these exhibits; the applicability to France of
methods of public health propaganda which
had been successful In America was proved.
Two such traveling exhibits are now on
their wandering way one In Brittany, one In
Touraine and a third Is planned for the
Midi.
Lyons, the second city of France, was
chosen for the first of a series of large-scale
child welfare exhibitions ; and when it opened
on April D representatives of the Ministry of
the Interior, of the city of Lyons, of the
army, the Church, the medical profession atyl
the Allied Governments Joined In celebrating
the occasion.
THE exhibition opened at a time when all
France was breathless under the strain
of the German offensive; fears were ex
pressed that it would be a failure; but
during Its first week more than 60,000 per
sons passed through the turnstile Into the
huge pavilion which had been erected for
the automobile exhibit at the Lyons Indus
trial Fair and later lent to the Red Cross.
France was awake to the menace to her
future.
How to feed, clothe and bathe a baby, how
to care for children of two or three or four
years, what recreation a child should have,
how Its teeth, should be brushed and allied
subjects were demonstrated by American
specialists tn the various booths that lined
the wall and In a glass house about which
hundreds gathered thrice dally to watch the
model toilette of a real live baby, loaned for
the occasion. In three playgrounds outside
the pavilion one for boys', one for girls and
one with tempting sandboxes for children
under eight playground teachers played
American games with French children, while
admiring rows of older spectators lined the
picket fence to watcn. Moving pictures ana
Punch and Judy shows graphically Illus
trated health maxims. Every morning
school teachers brought their classea to see
the exhibit, and the afternoons were crowded.
In the three weeks of the exposition the
turnstile registered 173, 00 admissions.
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KB of the first appeals which the Red
S3 answered after Its arrival In
France was mat oi rrsreci airman, or
Nancy, to whom the care of several hundred
young children from the gas-bombed villages
hehlnd the lines suddenly waa Intrusted.
The Red Cross acted In co-operation with
the" prefect and the American Fund for
French Wounded In establishing a refuge
for these children in a former barrack at
Toul. From that beginning In July a center
for children1! work' ha grown which mv
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reaches more than 2000 children each week.
At Toul Itself a hospital of forty beds was
opened late In October: the capacity was
soon more than doubled and a maternity
ward, opened In March within a few hours
after word had been received that the ma
ternity ward at Nancy would have to be
closed because of the danger from bombard
ments, now has sixty beds, making a total
of 160. In connection with the refuge, which
has been enlarged to shelter about 460 chil
dren and fifty mothers of young babies, there
are general and dental dispensaries, and a
traveling dispensary goes from Toul, Nancy,
Eplnal, Lunevllle, Neufmalsons and Gerber
vllller to villages where clinics are held tn
factories, schools or town halls for mothers
and children who have comparatively little
medical aid since the physicians were mo
bilized In 1914. Prefect Mlrman made a
special report to tho general council of hl
department In April, generously appreciating
the Red Cross aid, and has asked it to take
charge of foundling babies who need special
care. .
"The American Red Cross is carrying on
a work of special lmpoitancc from which
the public health of Meurthe and Moselle,
notably that of women and children, will
derive Inexpressible benefit," he wrote to the
members of the council. "It would have been
Impossible to combine more competent serv
ice with greater devotion or to render service
to others with better grace."
FURTHER west, in the capital, American
dispensaries, doctors, nurses and food are
helping to lessen the strain of war upon the
children. Paris and Its suburbs have nine
Red Cross dispensaries for mothers and
children; In addition Red Cross physicians
hold clinics for children in a dispensary
established by the Rockefeller Commission,
another dispensary Is operated Jointly by the
Red Cross and the commission, and special
clinics for children are held In the general
refugee dispensary of the Red Cross.
"They need food, not medicine," Red Cross
physicians said after examining a number
of children from poorer districts of the city.
In many of these wards, or arrondlssements.
the mothers are wonting in tne munition
factories or other war Industries, and the
children must take the noon meal Impor
tant In the French family regimen In a
school canteen. , The menu in many of these
canteens Is now being supplemented by
American beans, meat, flour. Jam, sugar and
other supplies. In one ward war had niade
It necessary to stop the afternoon "gouter"
of bread and chocolate which had been given
to the children. A little bakery over which
floats an American flag and a Red Cross
flag. Is now busy turning Minnesota flour,
Louisiana sugar and French milk Into "Red
Cross buns," which are as good as they are
sclentlfla In their composition. From report
of the Department of Ch'H Affairs, American
Red Cross, France.
Why Not, "Yankee?"
What are we going to do for the American
soldier? Look down our BrltlBh noses at
him and say "Ha' d'ya daw?"
Perish the thought I We are going to give
him the gladdest hand the girls will see to
the "glad" eye that was ever outstretched.
Wo are going to say, "Shake, Sammy 1"
Hang our native reserve! We can't kill
the fatted calf because the food controller
won't let us. But we can give them a truer
hospitality, a real, heartfelt welcome Into
our most Intimate circles.
Every club in Britain ought to open Its
doors to the men In American khaki; every
home ought to take them In and make them
feel at home. Don't let us shift our respon
sibility on to the broad shoulders of the Y.M.
C, A, and similar organizations. The Amer
ican Is a lover of home life. It means every
thing to him. Let's make Britain' a home
from home Iri the real sense.
Borne one has called this Influx of,Amer
Icans "The Return of' the Mayflower." When
the old Pilgrim fathers landed on Plymouth
Rock the welcome they got was starvation
nnd cold and misery. Now they are coming
back In their millions, let us reverse It and
prove to them that there's something in the
old proverb about blood being thicker than
water. So Shake, Sammy! Shake hard!
From London Tld-Blts.
The way Hatg piled up captives at Bau
paums would suggest the crowing popularity'
ftt prutonars" base nowadays is' Hcaray.
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slain.
Could we, a land
With rushing strength in every youthful
vein
Behold your hand
Tremble, and strike again, and yet again,
And see your blood waste on the battlefield,-
And not to you as to a kinsman go
When that tense line of yours that will
not yield
Before the Impious dream-maddened foe
Braves every anguish for the whole world's
sake?
Could we still take
From the wide seas that wash against
our shore
The empty-handed children of the earth
And teach them freedom and equality
And bid them bend to tyranny no more
And breed their children's children from
their birth
To our own heritage Democracy
If for that heritage we did not now ,
With you, O England, vow
To bear all pain.
To forgo gain. '
To robe ourselves in black for heroes slain,
To give, to give.
Until we live
In the white light of a holy peace again!
From "Covenant, an Ode," by Zoe Alklni.
Rags and Riches -
Coal carriers and other laborers in Austria
dress tn rags and drink costly champagne.
They have pockets full of money, but cloth
ing is almost beyond their reach. A suit of
clothes costs from $300 to 1,400. He who
owns a decent Butt needs a burglar-proof
vault to keep It in at night, bo prevalent are
clothing thefts. Wages, are high. In fact,
a. master cooper was offered JIS.OOO a year
for his services, so great Is the need of bar
rels to hold the product of the vineyards.'
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Turkey's Chief Victory
Unless Turkey's censors are worklnr day
and night she Is resting full weight on
those Galllpoll laurels. Boston Herald.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What dlitlnrnlahed statesman of the dar ta
Known as "Tht Titer"?
2. What Tlctory In tho American ReTolotlon
has been rated aa one f the nftaen de-
rtahre battles ef the world?
S. What Is a "lamas calami"?
4. What la caisson?
5. 1 What are the color et the flac of Braxll?
0. What American rreslAent was known a "01
Rough and Readr"?
7. Who was Vlctorlen BardooT
8. To what nation does the treat Island of Mada--
raaear beloniT
0. Who said "Llbertr and nnlon. now and fsc-
rer, one and Inseparably"? ,
10. What la ambergris?
Antwera to Yesterday's Qnix
1. Senor Data It Frlme Minister of Spain.
2. Murrain la an Infectious dliaaaa In eattU.
"A morrlan en thee!" was acommaa oath
sereral centuries ass.
Flerra Charles IEnfant. a Xraneh otiaaaav
who had aerred In the KfTolottonarr War,
planned tne mr 01 lrssmncun.
4. Tha word candidal I derlred from the Latla
"candlUtus," used to describe a ' person
clothed In white. . In Roman times th
contestants for pubuo offices wore walta
tocas.
5. The Amazon discharass creator Tolome of
water than anr other rlrer In the world.,
9. Oaetana- Rapacnetto, I the real nam f
Gabriels D'Annunxlo.
7, Breadfruit, the product of the breadfruit
tree, which 1 natlre ta I'oljnesla and the
Indian Arrhlpelaco. Is n hlchly nutrition
article of food. The fruit la ml or apherU
cat In shape, somewhat smaller thaa a)
watermelon, and la eaten befor full mie
turltr. The pulp la theft white and mearV
and of a ronslstenrr surtettins both a ifef
.'Marshal nitslne surrendered th FrsneS
Franco-Prussian War,
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