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INSTALL THE WATER METERS
fTlHE principle of "pay for what you
ise" Is grounded In equity. It Is, more
over, a persistent nntldote to waste. These
signal virtues alone are sufficient to com
mend an adoption of a sound business
policy to the dispensers of Philadelphia's
water supply. The Bureau of Municipal
Research has called for a compulsory uni
versal metering system. There Is every
argument for Its establishment nnd none
against it.
Philadelphia can be a clean city without
squandering Its water. The consumer
hasn't the slightest cause for protest if
he pays In proportion to the amount he
uses. A meter system Is modern, eco
nomical and fair. Nobody expects to pur
chase two loaves of bread as cheaply as one
or 200 kilowatts of electricity as cheaply as
100. Water, the cost of the delivery of
Which to the homes gives It a marketable
value and differentiates it from "the gentle
rain from heaven," ought to command a
Just price, based on the quantity used.
The city should scrap Its old, outmoded
water-rent system as quickly as possible.
The Czechs of Bohemia will be protested
by no one except the German sympathizers
RUNNING TO COVER'
THE chase Is on. Bapaume and Noyon
fall in a single day. Ham hears its
liberators knocking at the gates. The
surge drives toward Peronne. Thrills over
the fast-expanding victory in Picardy have
rich and tangible wairanty. The second
Allied offensive which began on August S
gains speed and force almost hourly. At
41... n......at ... nt .nnpwAn .t.n nnfrlfA tTI
iSeldenburs line will soon be placed in jeop
ardy.
Our hopes today are not fed on prophecy,
but facts. The Hun is running for dear
life. Foch gives him no rest. Apart from
all rhetoric or speculation this is the sim
ple truth. Don't be afraid to cheer. The
triumph is assuming a scope and grandeur
unmatched since the war began. Most
eventful moments In the titanic drama
seem to be immediately at hand. Exult
and watch for new names as the victory
map pushes east.
The French are insistent that restric
tions on the Hun's war menu must involve the
surrender of Ham.
WHAT ABOUT THE PRIMARY VER
DICT? T IS rumored that the Democratic State
Committee. Which mppts In UnrHQlirn
$& I next, Wednesday, will demand that Judge
MS . VBonnlwell withdraw from the ticket as the
iMuy uijiuiuaio lur tne vjovernorsnip.
''tfut who gave the State Committee au
thority to override the expressed will of the
voters at the primary election?
The Judge appealed for support on a
"wet" platform. He received It by an over
whelming majority. The voters are eager
for Thlm as their candlCate. They have
frankly said that their party is the whisky
party. The State Committee cannot dodge
the, Issue. It has been put squarely up to
It by the voters whom It is supposed to
eerye. If it tries to frustrate the will of
the party It will be up to the party to elect
a Btate Committee that represents its
sentiment.
The elusive Salus brothers may have had
helr detractors, but Uncle Sam at least is
Convinced that they should bo rated A-l.
NOYON'S HISTORY MILL
mHE chief product of the little town of
f-Noyon. which the French have just
retaken, is not specified in the gazetteers.
They record manufacturing conducted on
modest scale prior to the war. But
Koyon's true specialty thrives on strife.
JrhJs major and ever-increasing output is
rk4story. Noyon has been making it in
Rjbundance for nearly two millenniums,
.-ana her contribution of 1918 bids fair to
';" a masterpiece. All this month until
ywterday the cathedral town was a pivotal
$gw popft back of the German line. The fruits
v ru winuDens victory are likely, there-
Kit .;fore, to prove exceedingly rich
KaSfi NYfln is used"to being so i
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conspicuous.
feFrom 1914 to 1917 It occUDled in tho f!Br.i
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ir'iSBftn line the angle nearest Paris. His-
WSfoty making surpassed all other activities
Ajai tha nlafA tint aa ft ril.1 .l.nr. f-.u,
..? f.t-wv, J..,- a . u,i ni.cn v,!iaric
f-unagne was crowned there in 768; when
"jfugh Capet, elected a centurv latpp.
M' founded a, new line of kings there: Just as
i'-iHt'tt." dld- when erratic TYancIs, J made up
L" w.jtjj a kaiser of "his day. Charles V of
v aerraany ana epain.
,riOfcTU? 1 UI4 U.HU WCttJ-y UliB lO
Koyon. Some of its most terrible manl-
W fsntations have been made there Roman,
yayian.- Spanish. .German. History can
rd'tp sbJt up shop there. Robert
"SUyenson thought that it had when
I x down the Olie and the Verse
jlaiMl'.Voynige.'v The peace and
WANTED A SUPERMAN
No Mere Journeyman Ambassatlor WIH Do
for the Court of St. James
AN AMBASSADOR to England in the
Jlx next year or two will have responsi
bilities nlmost as weighty as those of
President Wilson himself. Statesmen,
who are already tottering under their
burdens, cannot look forward to shorter
hours. Tasks heavier by far than any
they have yet endured will descend upon
them at the instant when the war ends.
The man who is an interpreter between
America nnd Great Britain from this on
easily may make himself felt as a power
for good or evil not only in the countries
that he serves, but in all the ways and
byways of civilization.
England and America will emerge from
the war with new powers nnd widened
horizons. They will be the chief bx
poncnts of those high causes which alone
make this war endurable to sane minds.
Will they be rivals for leadership in good
works or will they go along together?
'Shall their concerns and their aims and
their purposes and ideals be adjusted
without strain or irritation, and are the
bewildering problems of a dislocated and
disorganized world to bo settled in a way
that will deepen the friendship of the
two peoples? These questions seem easy
enough. But they aren't as the new
ambassador is sure to learn.
Through her navy on the sea and her
armies on the land England has contrib
uted most to tho fighting weight of the
Allies. Tho spirit and patience and
strength of the English have been, in
truth, the saving elements of the war.
While we hesitated, while Franco was
being overmatched, while Russia was
going to pieces, the British remained, a
stolid and dependable force, between civil
ization and Germany. America entered
the war late.
But she entered as a deciding factor.
And as the price of a service that is un
selfish, vast and splendidly conceived, we
have declared a new doctrine of interna
tional relations that is opposed in many
instances to the accepted thoughts and
traditions of our most powerful ally.
Thus, for instance, the Irish question is
involved with the principle of self-determination
promulgated by President
Wilson on behalf of the American people.
So, too, in a pinch, are some of the States
of India. England, or rather that part
of England which can make itself heard,
has not been able to rid itself of a de
sire for the German colonies a desire
that is founded logically enough upon a
pride of British achievements in like
fields elsewhere and the wonderful record
of constructive government that the Eng
lish have left behind them in their ad
venturings about the various earth.
It is no secret that even now British
and American theories and purposes are
not reconciled in Russia. President Wil
son was opposed to a military expedition
in Siberia. For all that any one knows
or has reason to believe he is still op
posed to that adventure. IV t the ex
pedition is afoot.
The warlogic of the other Allies viewed
an army in Russia as an imperative
necessity, and the movement was most
fervently supported in England. A thou
sand new complications may yet arise
from military intervention in Russia.
But this is no time for active disagree
ments, and the question of Russia, after
all, has swept almost beyond the power
of human reason to understand it.
Here, however, are suggested some of
the surface difficulties that are sure to
cost our ambassador in London not a little
sleep. Even greater puzzles will have a
subtler origin. England will come out
of the war transformed, and not at all
the England familiar to other ambassa
dors. Tho country is soon to be a labor
atory in which new and revolutionary po
litical and economic theories will be
tested. Women are being enfranchised.
The youths in the army have been en
franchised. Women and girls are running
the industries and doing more than 70
per cent of the physical labor of the
country. Labor in England has largely
eliminated the caste lines of trades union
ism and has mobilized solidly as a po
litical force with a common purpose.
This movement is gathering force under
the direction of Arthur Henderson, an
Internationalist, and it is broadly sug
gestive in many aspects of the idyllic in
ternationalism preached by some of the
more imaginative Russians, whose hopes
aie now in the dust.
British labor is likely to prevail
against many of the institutions and
philosophies that were considered as the
very bedrock of familiar England, It
may change the color and the whole
temper of the Government. And it is
idle to suppose that reactions such as
this would not affect America or oper
ate for good or ill in relation to joint
enterprises of the sort that are now dimly
conceived as inevitable to the two coun
tries. The new ambassador will have to
be a seer of sorts able to judge tho force
and value of these new movements and
to interpret trends that are novel and
dynamic in an extraordinary degree.
Misinterpretation under the circum
stances might easily bring stress and
confusion.
The world is going along in the set
tled belief that a unity of purposes be
tween England and America can alone
avert future wars. This is probably true.
And any ambassador will fail, of course,
who cannot help to make the way clear
to some such end.
Some things will be in the new am
bassador's favor. The English and the
Americans have, ceased to entertain prej
udices against each other. Those who
fight and suffer together usually re
main, friends. Much of the pedantry and
pUHe,Vtteh of the spurious pretension
ttariJftA?n.wwth brat-ik.
democratic theory, is being burnt away.
Governments aro being subjected to re
finement by travail. .
But tho fires aro destroying much that
is good as well as much that is bad, or
else the most competent observers are in
error.
So the new ambassador to England will
have to bo a good judge of new things
as well as old. He will have to be able
to appraise the value or the permanency
of new and sometimes amazing theories
of government.
To be ideal as the central pivot in a
rapidly moving world of his own kind,
the ambassador would have to bo con
servative and liberal, wise and yet in
genuous, old in intellect and young in
henrt, fixed yet mobile. He would have
to be, in a word, a mixture of Solomon,
Job, Galahad, Lincoln and Charlemagne,
with a dash of Bernard Shaw and Walt
Whitman for seasoning.
Mr. Wilson's search for a properly
qualified ambassador therefore suggests
again that the presidency is a difficult
job in more ways than one.
Vorwncrts Is beginning to wonder why
Germany has no frit nils. Its wonder Is likely
to turn to amazement before tho Entente
Allies finish their work
INCREASE THE PAY OF THE POLICE
MEN TimiliE Philadelphia was talking about
"' the Importance of increasing the pay
of policemen earlier In the summer, New
Yoik was adding from $100 to $150 a year
to the pay of all policemen who received
less than $1B00. The increase liecamo ef
fective on August 1. It affected only one
fifth of the men on the force.
Now tho New Yoik Board of Estimate
has decided to add $130 a year to the pay
of tho men receiving $l,i00, making the
pay of the first class men approximately $5
a day.
This Is the figure which this newspaper
has been urging upon Councils as the
proper rate of pay for the local policemen.
Councils is still enjoying Its summer vaca
tion, and the policemen aie still working
for their inadequate pay. The first duty
of Councils when It meets next month is
to vote more pay to the police as a matter
of hlmple Justice to faithful and hard
working public servants who earn every
dollar that they receive
Now that the Main Line doctors have
raised their fee to $E, having a headache may
be as costly as a seat at the opera. Doth
may be procured for the one price, accord
ing to the alleged views of tho tired business
man.
READY FOR THE SIGNAL TO START
rpHE boy scouts are on the Job. When
they were told that they would be asked
again to assist in floating another Liberty
Loan a lot of them went forthwith to head
quarters an.viou.s to begin soliciting sub
scriptions at once, and were disappointed
when they learned that they wero not to
be sent out yet.
A list of twenty-five persons, however,
has already been prepared for each of the
6000 Boy Scouts in the city to canvass for
subset iptions when tho campaign begins.
This makes 150,000 persons who will re
ceive vi&its from the enthusiastic youthful
patriots eager to do their bit. Tho house
holder would better begin to nvike u.i
their minds to subscribe when the boys
begin tlipir c-.nvass.
The record which this national organi
zation has made In the sale of Liberty
BondH is splendid. It has sold bonds to
one out of every twenty-thiee inhabitants
of tho country in a total amount of $203,
000,000. Its members are worth their salt
to the Government and much more.
There are the heads
of sixteen goats on
the capitals of the
Did It Get Your
Goat?
columns at the street
entrance of tho P It. T. terminal at Sixty
ninth street. The company must have had
some one In authority able to get them.
As a ruler of the "in
One, of the again - out - again"
j:iliermerldae type, General Hor
ath, whose dictator
ship of Siberia collapsed in one day, has put
even the ex-Mpret of Albania in the shade.
The news that Ice
land, following a
friendly agreement
with Denmark, Is to
Anil the Ire Trust
Doesn't Care, Hither
be free in December somehow doesn't moe
us the way It would have done during the
tropic days early In this month.
Acting Police Superintendent Mills, who
has refused permission to Kugene V. Debs
to speak here, ought to remember that the
Constitution prohibits the Infliction of cruel
and unusual punishments. To cork up Debs
is to subjtct him to torture.
Personalities
NEWSPAPER readers search their fa
miliar pages regularly these days to
read of the adventures of Thomas Edison,
Henry Ford and John Burroughs, the ven
erable naturalist, upon a traveling picnic.
Everybody hopes they are having a good
time. The average citizen will feel an
unexplalnable personal interest in these
three men and a sense of fondness for
them. He couldn't explain the drift of his
sentiment if he wished to.
There are perhaps greater scientists in
the country than Mr. Edison, greater me
chanics than Mr. Ford and more accom-.
pllshed naturalists than Mr. Burroughs.
But on the way to eminence they have
lost bomething that Ford, Edison and
Burroughs jealously retain. That is a
fellowship with the common man and a
governing concern for' the little man's in
terests and welfare. AH three were once
poor. When poverty left them they re
tained the best gifts that poverty carries
in her thin hands for those who have
eyes to see. They achieved kindliness, a
sense of humor and tempered hearts.
Millions of people educated In the same
hard school or still subject to its disci
pline see bits of themselves reflected in
the Fords and Edlsons of this world.
Therefore such men are always esteemed
above the merely great. Roosevelt has
the gift of fellowship with all mortals
high and Jow. The old-fashioned, in
genuous Middle West saw Itself mirrored
in JBryan and, it loved Jba even for his
fai
PRUNES AND PRISMS
ITVIE British teem to have attached a
J- substantial sinker to the northern end
of the Hindenburg line.
You May
Dear Socrates May I suggest to the
headline writers that as tho Allies are
now encircling Ham, that section of the
front be called not a pocket, but a sand
wich? TERRIBLE TERENCE.
"Why is it that when two poets meet one
of them always feels it necessary to pre
tend not to be a poctt
If you sec a man cth a handkerchief
in ccry pocket, you need not assume that
he is a shoplifter. Far less fortunate, he
may have hay fever.
Lleutcnnnt Schwclgcr, tho man who
sank the Lusltanla, scema to have a bad
case of Hindenburg death.
It is said that Thomas Kelson Page tell!
auccrrcf ll'nHcr Vines rage o? our out
bassador in London . . . iroM Jott
call it turning over a new leaf?
When tho war began tho Royal Acad
emy In London was exhibiting a largo
painting of tho Krupp directors by the
famous artist s!r Hubert von Herkimer.
We have often wondered whnt happened
to that picture, c-rjecially since It pre
sumably Included at least one gentleman,
Dr. William Muehlon, whose phiz we would
bo glad to bo acquainted with,
TYc look forward with unconcealed eager
ness to see what sort of smelling salts the
Kaiser will hold under the noie of the
German people while he cxplaini to them
that the llindenbittg line is the best of all
places to natch the lovely autumn tints
in the landscape.
Among other axes that Austria is anx
ious to grind we might mention the Slov
aks. It isn't really necessary to enjoy your
self. The important thing is that other
people should think you are enjoying your
self. Thoughts on Clinton Street
Sometimes nfter lunch we stroll along
Clinton street, which is a quiet and shady
little byway running west from the Penn
sylvania Hospital. Wo often wonder who
is the well-conducted person who lives at
No. 905. His initials seem to be T. A. O..
for he has had a sundial carved upon the
front of his house with those letters above
It and the date 1911. And his Initials have
sent him back to the Chinese Tao phil
osophy, for under tho sundial ho has in
scribed these words: "I follow Tao trie
seasons are my friends." Even so, how
ever, we note that this philosopher has
had the prudence to leave town during the
hot weather, for the front of No. 905 Is
boarded up for the summer.
Tao, we believe (or should we say the
encyclopedia believes for us?) Is a Chinese
word meaning "the way," and Taoism is
the philosophy said to have been founded
by tho great Chineso teacher Lao-Tse.
Lao-Tse would have made a good colyum
1st, we feel sure, for he was a man of
quiet, meditative and modest life, some
whnt accustomed to kidding the high
brows. The important thing about wise
men, he said, Is to restrain them from
putting their wisdom Into practice.
Lao-Tse, however, did not underestimate
the valuo of college professors, whom he
calls "sages." "A government conducted
by sages," said he, "would free the hearts
of the people from inordinate desires, fill
their bellies, keep their ambitions feeble
and strengthen their bones."
Some meditations on thoe topics are
sufficient to keep tho pedestrian out of
mischief as ho paces down tho quiet pave
ment of Clinton street. And then, when
he turns north on Tenth street he will
find himself in a neighborhood which will
bring another great philosopher to his
mind, namely, Booker Washington.
A Good Home in the Suburbs
There are a number of empty apart
ments In the suburbs of our mind that we
shall be gjad to rent to any well-behaved
ideas.
These apartments (unfurnished) all have
southern eposure and are reasonably
well lighted. They have emergency exits.
We prefer middle-aged, reasonable ideas
that have outgrown the diseases of In
fancy. No Ideas need apply that will lie
awako at night and disturb the neighbors,
or will come home very late and wake
the other tenants. This is an orderly
mind and no gambling, loud laughter and
carnival or Pomeranian dogs will be ad
mitted. If necessary, the premises can be Im
proved fo suit high-class tenants.
No lease longer than st months can be
given to any one Idea, unless It can fur
nish positive guarantees of good conduct,
no bolshevik affiliations hnd no children.
We have an orphange annex where
homeless juvenile ideas may be accommo
dated until they grow up.
The southwestern section of our mind,
where 'these apartments are available, is
some distance from tho bustle and traffic,
but all the central points can be reached
without difficulty. Middle-aged, unsophis
ticated ideas of domestic tastes jyill find
the surroundings almost ideal. ,
For terms and blue-prints apply Janitor
on the premises.
New Yorkers are very shaky on any
geography west of tho Brooklyn subway.
The other day the New York Evening
Post published a dispatch from Detroit
under the head of "foreign correspond
ence,
AVe hope it won't spoil Hank Ford's va
cation. We hope the Kalserin's illness is not
due to Wllhelm's failure to send her more
flowers picked on victorious German bat
tlefields. Why didn't we think, last spring, to put
into the Kaiser's mouth the following
words of Macbeth:
This push
Will cheer me ever or dlsseat me'now.
And now the chance to do so is gone
forever.
Hindenburg summoned to western front.
News item.
Poor Hindenburg will hardly recognize
his own line when bo gets back to it.
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THE GERMAN MADNESS
By Christopher Morley
BEHIND the famous Hindenburg line
Germany has prepared another Devil's
Ditch. She calls It the Wotan line, after tho
all-powerful Norse god of warfare. This is
highly significant: the very name of this
deity comps from an old word-root meaning
madness or frenzy. Germany thus advertises
to the world the ery spirit and essence
that have Inspired her long battle for domin
ion. It Is not a Line of Tiuth on which
she stands for her final ngony. It Is not a
Lino of Valor, or a Line of Democracy, or
a Line of Good Old German Gemuetllchkelt.
It is a Line of Wotan ; In others words, a
Lino of Fury, a Line of Blood, a Line of
Madness.
bv:
T day by day Germany approaches
her ine Stable nemesis, and the line more
potent than any Hindenburg or Wotan re
doubt: the dotted line where her rulerj will
onco and for all sign away their pretensions
to crucify the world She has conducted her
war under the rruel sway of madness and
falsehood, and her retribution will be those
that await those twin frenzies The nemesis
of madness Is that it always turns Inward
and destioy.s what Is most dear to the
maniac. Germany, In seeking to defile and
crucify other lands, has shattered and filthled
herself Where can thoughtful and honor
able Germans now look for comfoit? The
sorrows that other nations have had to bear
In this war have been glorified by an uncon
querable sense of honor and Justice. But
what healing Is there that the Germans can
lay against the bitterness of their losses?
AND tr
t falsi
ihe nemesis of falsehood is that the
falsifier can no longer recognize Truth.
Germany is no longer deliberately false, as
she was when she entered Eelglum in cold
blood, protesting necessity. She has been so
maddened by the withering and ungovernable
mania carefully inoculated and tended by
the Prussian theory that Timth speaks to
her In vain. Doctor Muehlon, a Bavarian,
and a former Krupp director, a man of In
finite kindliness and a seeker after facts,
kept a diary during the first months of the
war In which he put down 1i!r thoughts with
out fear or distortion. With an aching heart
he descrlhed the brutal and Insane storm
of passion that swept over Germany. There
is not a line fn Muehlon's journal that dfoes
not bear unmistakable stamp of sincerity and
honor. But what Is Germany's reply to these
words of candor and soberness when they
are published? The Vice Chancellor explained
to the Reichstag that Muehlon had suffered
from nervous breakdowns, and that his
words were those of a diseased mind. Ger
many's leaders have long been color-blind
to Truth ; and If that is not madness, what is?
Quern lleua ult perilere, priu. dementut.
Whom God would destroy. He first makes
mad. The Prussian Valhalla is a madhouse.
DR. MUEHLON'S diary (published -under
the title of "The Vandal of Europe")
deserves the careful scrutiny of every
thoughtful American. It is a series of clini
cal notes of Germany's distemper, set down
with the Bame care that a physician would
employ In recording the fever of a dangerous
disease. It Is the hospital chart of Ger
many's bloody and self-destroying manlit.
It is infinitely pathetic in its unconscious pic
ture of a brave and high-minded man en
deavoring (In the midst of passion and preju
dice and hatred) to ascertain the truth and
cleave to it. it Is all the richer for ono con
fession of momentary weakness:
Yesterday evening the news came that
Liege had been taken by storm. No
one of us would have thought it possible
that the first quickly mobilized troops could
take such a fortress off-hand. I , was al
most tempted to an Involuntary piide over
this exploit. But the frightful crime apd
the frightful sacrifices Involved forbid such
feeling.
Doctor Muehlon shows unforgetably in his
Journal how upon the outbreak of war Truth
spread her wings and left Germany. His
arraignment of the Prussian military beads
is scarcely more bitter than that of the pros
tituted press and the rough mob spirit of the
Btreet crowds. In the publlo gatherings for
patriotic demonstration he found no trace
of exalted or significant spirit, nothing but
hoodlumlsm and instinctive brutality.
OftE sees In these revelations the great
t liuman tragedy imaginable; a vast
inn dklbtrately.trtaked'snd cozened into I
f JaelUof aa, wmnMssrywar by leaden
GOING, GOING,
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s
who pandered to tho baser passions that all
mobs have. No 3lncere observer of human
nature believes that there is quantitatively
more personal dell in a German than In any
other man. The true and representative Ger
man character is kindly, orderly, Industrious
and obstinate. It has taken years of kultur
to groom the Germans Into the enemies we
now face And yet, despite the horrors we
have had to endure In our death-grapple,
with them, there Is still In the minds of
French and English and Americans the same
blend of pity nnd amusement (when we con
template the frenzies of the Oerman race)
that ono feels In entering a madhouse and
observing the tragic oddities of the inmates.
That, perhaps, has been to thoughtful Ger
mans the most painful feature of the war.
They have not only made themselves unl
ersally despised and hated. They have
mad themselves ridiculous.
THE terrible frenzies of Germany in her
struggle are certainly partly -due to a
ery simple psychology that I have never
seen pointed out Germany knew very well,
from the moment she crossed the Belgian
frontier, that she had done a ghastly and In
defensible thing. And, as every one knows
who has ever been thoroughly and utterly In
the wrong In a quarrel, the very conscious
ness of guilt is so maddening to the spirit
that It drives one to worse and worse ex
cesses. People talk Kllbly about the sus
taining power of a consciousness of virtue.
It Is nothing compared to the quickened
energy that arises from a consciousness of
sin, which is the beginning of madness. Noth
ing Is so provocative of fury and excess as
the clear knowledge that your opponent Is
right : especially when you also know that
your opponent Is weaker than yourself and
cannot prevent you from wreaking your lust.
Then It Is that the Fiend speaks most loudly
in human affairs. The body of every Belgian
baby and the whito fare of every French girl
were to the German invaders ghastls-' tokens
of their own wrongness. A nation confront
ed for four terrible years with the fruits of
Its own crime is necessarily Insane.
MR. B. F. KOSPOTH, tho correspondent
of this newspaper In Switzerland, in
terviewed Doctor Muehlon In June at his
retreat near Berne. Doctor Muehlon long
ago gave up all hope of a redemption of
Germany while she Is controlled by her
present' rulers. What this great German
then emphasized was that Germany was
still united In her mania, and that Bhe
had ngaln flung doubt to the wind and
staked everything on the great Ludendorff
offensive of last spring. "Only reverses of
fortune can drive this poison out of their
systems," he said, "They are bullies, and
will give In surprisingly soon once the for
tune of war turns against them." And It Is
because the rulers of Germany are so totally
and unspeakably in the wrong, and know it,
that they will neer give in until crushed
by the only weapon they can understand
military force.
BECAUSE Germany has been mad,
bestial and absurd. It Uf utterly neces
sary for us to be sane, humane and clear
headed In the hard days to come. The Prus
sian leaders who flung the world into this
horror must be punished in some manner
that satisfies the conscience of civilization.
Dr C W. MacFarlane, the distinguished
economist of this city, has pointed out that
aermany will be virtually hamstrung if the
iron fields of Lorraine are taken from her.
But whatever restrictions and penalties
civilization will agree to impose upon Ger
many, honesty will admit that we have got
to go on living with a great many million
Germans In the world. When Senator Lodge
says "No peace that satisfies Germany In
any degree can ever satisfy us," he speaks
in the wrong accent. Germany must have a
future in the world as well as other nations.
4 Doctor MacFarlane's suggestion for giving
her ennancea opporiunuy 4U ct"""" ci'n
slon in Asia, under stringent International
guarantees, fnust appeal to every far-clghted
student.
The most terrible punishment that Ger
many pan suffer will be a peace settlement
so sane, so broad, so secure in worldwide
understanding that her madness will forever
be remembered as the last and most dreadful
exhibition of a malign destiny In human
affairs, .For, the greatest horror that Insan
ity unasrgoea is the conientuaoon o: serene
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W"t-
HAD forgotten You, or very nearly'
ou did not seem to touch us very
nearly
Of course, we thought about You now and
then ;
Especially In any time of trouble
We knew that You were good In time of
trouble
But we are very ordinary men.
And there were always other things to'
think of
There's lots of things a man has got to think .
of
His work, his home, his pleasure, and his'
wife ;
And so we only thought of You on Sunday
Sometimes, perhaps, not even on a Sunday
Because there's always lots to fill one's1 '
life.
And all the while, In street or lane or
byway
In country lane, in city street, or byway
You walked among us, and we did not see.
Your feet were bleeding as You walked our
'pavements
How did we miss Your footprints on our
pavements?
Can there be other folk as blind as we? r
Now we remember ; over here in Flanders
(It isn't strange to think of You In Flan
ders) This hideous warfare seems to make things
clear.
We never thought You much In England
But now that wo are far away from Hng- .
land
We have no doubts, we know that You
are here.
You helped us pass
the jest along- the
trenches
Where In cold blood
trenches
we waited in the
You touched Its ribaldry and made It fine.
You stood beside us hi our pain and weak
ness We're glad to think You understand our
weakness s
Somehow it seems to help us not to whins.
'
We think about You kneeling in the Gar-.
den j
Ah ! God I the agony of that dread Garden ( 1
We know You prayed for us upon thej,,
iross.
If anything could make us glad to bear it I'
'Twould be the knowledge that You willed
to bear It
Pain death the uttermost of human loss.
Though we forgot You You will not forget
us
We feel bo sure that You will not forget us
But stay with us until this dream is past.
And so we ask for courage, strength and J,
pardon . Il
Especially, I think, we ask for pardon 31
And that You'll stand beside us to the last
L. W., in the London Spectator.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ ,
1. Who Is eommander-ln-rlilef of the grmr ani
navy of the United States?
2. What la a pallmpaest?
8. Wfaat Bourbon roral honae still rules In Eu
rope? ,
4. What Is hauls?
6. What la tho chief town In tho United State :
nosaessloh, tho Virgin Islands. In tho West -Indie?
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8. What la nnother name for the constellation of
tho Dipper?
7. What celebrated American traredlan was a ;
liilladelphlan?
8. What Is a dingle?
0. What musical Instrument is sometime callea
u "aweet notato"?
10, What la tho highest mountain on the AmerU
can continent?
Answers to Yesterday's Quit
1, In addition to their most familiar use. the
Initials U. 8. A. atand for tho Union of '
Houth Africa, a British dependency coua
posed of tho self-governing colonies of Capo i
of Hood Hone. Natal. tho Transvaal ana
tho Orange Hirer Colony.
1. Nashville la tho capital of Tennessee. M
3, "A thine of beauty Is a Joy foreier" Is the " I
John Heats. w H$l
4. The French words "table d'hote" literally
mean "host's table."
5. The standard coin of Italy Is the lira, par
lame miiB niurv man nupeiccn cenia.
6. Charlea J.
Oulteau assassinated FresMeat
Garfield.
7. Our system of numerals Is derived from the .-"
Arsm.
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Commune, lasted from March It, 17I. W-1
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