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),,- rhlladelohla. Thursday. September 8. 1 9 1 R
St DEMOCRATS IN A CATACLYSM
V tVHE lightnings of wrath that A. Mitchell
lb " .Palmer loosed at Judge Bonnlwcll from
hx "the meeting of the Democratic State Com-
nfr trstttt VAotaprln t llltimlrifl tail onmra Hnnl.'
rvk, kV. , . . . ...iui ,
r il taWTin nnn pasanr rnrnpra in inn mini ii-ii i
. .... - ... .... .--
,aomlciles of Pennsylvania. Mr. rainier
W has learned much In Washington. His
!'. I atrnteev n-as of a larco and dreadfully
, Hv
j ilinciuoivo sun. il lo aiu mm uuui$u uuiuir
Cj. 'ijWCll, O.IIU lio IlKllua "till V" wvw ,ok ...0..b
aVftA'fi.Hno- IIUo Ttplelum nr llkn the folk on
(the far side of the Hindenburg line. That
fim ,.... II ! U TU Ulnar that tinllt trio ntt
feitlR"" '"" uc "" w ' ' ' "
KS l MarrisDUrg yesieraay was suaaen, siu-
J4 ''pendous, swift,
i,,: uCif tho Knpnlfln nprnKntlnns mad bv Mr.
S- "i Palmer, of his charges that Senator Pen-
?? mm and trtA T.lniior De.ilerH Association
,w..- .. .
controlled and even paid Judge Bonnlwell
&S& from the start, It Is necessary to say noth-
Zf & 4nfl, Dnnnln.All nnd Ronntnr TVnrnqp Rhnll
Wiif W,.a Um Anne An fanta nn nnnrtltlnnu
3vTkr easier to read sometimes than the
t p printed word. The bipartisan arrangement
Eirjl -Wierrea to ty air. faimer is a laminar
ne. But It Isn't a nice thing to talk about
' In a. house of mourning. And that Is what
J-the Pennsylvania State Democracy Is to-
',i Obviously the big Democrats of the coun-
lyjfoftry do not want Judge Bonnlwell as a
USaf conspicuous figure In their party. The
p national Democracy is In Its white robes.
B f It cannot go upon exalted missions with
ff.itne aemon tor company. Ana ai mis
Vrr'llriB- Ttonnlwpll nnrl his bottled friend
X j.
eem as good as eliminated at one stroke-
sr ... . .
tjSi Ventilation ot the reenue act in
reenue act in the
House
ot Representatives seems to have
itaade that legislative chamber perceptibly
'WHonalry.
fHy01
ENLIGHTENMENT!
P- h Th fact that this summer we hae
Mput masses of armed men Into France Is
r, - primarily aue to senator unamDenain ana
n senators ot Dotn parties who nave
acted with him.
"' The fact that next summer we shall
f,'tL tnmen up unericun irouiia vivil iiit:iiuau
Kk airplanes will De aue primarily to senator
y ., Thomas ana nis associates. uoionei
feJtooaevelt.
uoL,urt;i-p colonel!
We had supposed that these achleve-
dtVtB were due to General Wood and
.lOutzon Borglum!
m - :
l&t Evidently it ta'Kes more tnan a switch to
JftJ r&14 HHIKB XCI1U1 itUIIl.
Lkv . .
f t 3AVC IHtJ MU3rilAL,3
J'TTMIE shortage of doctors In the hospitals
'Vs at home lB an inevitable handicap oc-
L&,K;casl0ned by the war. The great humanl-
Bai!S& KfH tnB,ll,lnnD nf TJV. Mo A .Tl, ln -
S heroically making the best of a serious
"actuation. They are therefore richly en-
to a hearing respecting burdens
vwhlch patriotic citizens are capable ot
MfUag.
.The Pennsylvania Hospital's ureent call
ISafi orderlies, porters, cleaners, kitchen
pt firemen and maids Is coupled with the
BjiJI .ysorintti.ioii inuL auiiiiitr i:uuuiiiuiia uuroaa
IjiJSjvfere met by volunteers of all social
I'fft passes, who realized that the battlefield
lOSii" "ot the exclusive scene of loyal sac
I, ;!.' rifle.
Cili;"AH service ranks the same," said
Qi4.'3fcownlng. Americans view the war from
Iys.j'narrow angle if they dispute this truth.
lbb,l(M IIIUiaIUWItC VMUb 1 1 J UL k.Ill, nuu
m r-jiaiepi xorwara 10 relieve me laoor crisis in
$stiie (venerable Pine street Institution will
S&lMf'exemplIfylng a high type of patriotism.
pa.jTh'e hospitals deserve the full measure of
,'? assls tan ce.
y. -o,
The glories of the Czecho-Slovaks have
Pffl?5questIonably restored the hyphen to a post
intr'"'"'
&Sv . ,.. .m n.n,.
'-'JraWTIHEJ old guard dies but never surren-
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wfja'ierB!' seemea somewnai too stuaicu
iv'JaV.we a bona-flde battlecry, and it was a
net relief that Victor Hugo, among
dispelled the legend. "Don't give
i .the ship!" carried Us Implication of de-
ait; nobly- but haplessly borne out when
-Jtrve Captain Lawrence, of the Chesa-
Alrsake, struck his colors to the Shannon.
f TThy shall not pass!" bespoke Iron de-
wsd. "For Harry. England and St.
roeorge!" though romantic, was conven-
Moflal; "Remember the Maine!" harked
kiick to a tragic past.
lit -cut that friiv!" Innka ntprtK- In th 1m.
, iv M. a'- ---.- --- -- -
ate future. The bronzed Pennsylva-
some two dozen of them who ar-
l u Philadelphia yesterday are reported
ve raised that rallying cry at Cha
rhlerry. Solssons, Rhetms and other
i hallowed by American valor.
jaialgnlflcant slogan. It rings true.
'and energetic slang is concretely
of American military purpose.
fhytgoe is precisely that of the
laamticr ill uioiv&aiu vi. cic
to make "Kultur" balk
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WEALTH TO THE UTMOST
i
The Nation Will Grit Its Teeth and Pay
the Stupendous Sum to De Levied
by the War Revenue Dill
rpHE war revenue bill now before Con-
gress levies taxes which it is esti
mated will yield more than eight billion
dollars.
The stupendousness of this sum would
have appalled the statesmen who made
the plans for financing the Civil War.
In no single year of that conflict did tho
ordinary receipts of tho Government from
taxation exceed half n billion dollars.
We are planning to raise in one year
sixteen times as much, or a sum equal to
the total receipts of the Government
from 1850 to 1882, .including all the ex
traordinary revenues of the Civil War
period.
The Civil War expenditures reached
their maximum in 1865, when a total of n
little more than a billion dollars was paid
out in the fiscal year.
It is planned to spend twenty-four
billion dollnrs in the coming year. One
third of this sum is to be raised by tax
ation and the other two-thirds by the
proceeds of a loan.
The ability of the nation to raise these
enormous sums would not have been ad
mitted by any financier "fen, or even five,
years ago. When men talked of the
possibility of a general European war
they were wont to say that it could not
last six months because it would be
waged on such a scale that it would
bankrupt the nation before six months
had passed.
The war has lasted more than four
years and, so far as any ono can t-ee,
there are available financial resources
enough to carry it on for two or three
years more.
All the predictions of the financiers
have been proved false, for the mobility
of the wealth of the warring nations has
proved equal to all tho demands upon it.
This is the most astonishing material
fact established by the tear.
Within its realm it is as great a reve
lation as the awakening of the nations
to the spiritual meaning of the conflict.
We were told that this was an age of
materialism, but the people about whom
the commentators thought they knew so
much have proved that they can be
moved by an ideal and that they are
willing to make supreme sacrifices that
this ideal may be realized.
The mobilization of the wealth of
America contemplated in the revenue bill
and in the loan soon to be floated would
not be possible if the American people
were not persuaded that they are fight
ing for something greater and more im
portant than mere material gains or than
mere physical comfort. We have the
money. The Treasury Department esti
mated that the wealth of the nation in
1913 amounted to a hundred and eighty
seven billion dollars. The experts of the
National City Bank of New York esti
mated it in 1917 as two hundred and
forty billions, an increase of fifty-three
billions in four years.
When we consider this enormous ex
pansion in material possessions in so
short a time the task of collecting eight
billions in taxes seems easy. And the
plans to float a loan of sixteen billions
will involve merely tho investment of
the expansion of the national wealth in
Government bonds.
Yet the taxes to be levied cannot be
paid without a readjustment of the man
ner of living of many families. The
burden will fall heavily upon the well-to-do
and it will take a large proportion
of the incomes of the very rich. The
successful business man with an income
of $300,000 who has been putting back
into his business every year a large part
of his profits will have to pay to the
Government $165,000 as an income tax.
This will affect the development of his
business. But he must submit.
Must submit? It is morally certain
that he and the men with smaller and
farger incomes will pay their tax as part
of the price demanded of us for the reali
zation of the ideal for which we are
fighting. They will all respect the de
mands of the Government as the auto
mobile oivners respected the request that
they keep their cars in their garages last
Sunday in order that gasoline might be
saved.
"It comes hard, but it must be done,"
is what we are all thinking. We are
giving our sons and brothers and hus
bands, and we are giving our money with
a unanimity and a consecration of pur
pose the like of which cynics never ex
pected to see in this hardened old world.
We Just can't keep our eyes oft the map
of France these days.
THE HERITAGE OF THE MARNE
FOUR years ago tonight General Joseph
Joffre called Field Marshal Sir John
French into headquarters and expressed
his conviction that the hour favorable to
a general Allied offensive had come at
last. On the same fateful evening the
French generalissimo issued to his men a
general order concluding as follows: "The
hour has come to advance at any cost and
to die rather than fall back."
The next day Manoury's superb army ot
maneuver began to execute the plans of
the high command. The pressure ot these
troops on the German right wing was not
fully felt until September 8. By that time
Von Kluck, though skillfully fighting to
evade the trap sprung for him In the ter
rain nearest Paris, was obliged to thin out
his lines south of the Marne. On tho 'Jtn
Ferdinand Foch launched his thunderbolt
at the Hun's vulnerable center from Fero
Champenoise. On the 11th he vic
toriously entered Chalons-sur-Marne.
For the first time since Llgny, where
Napoleon repulsed Bluecher in 1815, Prus
sian troops had felt the sting of defeat. An
arrogant tradition of military superiority
had been broken, and the supremely
decisive battle of the world war was over.
Even after; four years of struggle, "Firat
Marne," foukht between 'September 5 and
geptetaber II, 1914, is still entitled; to that
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PUBLIC tEDER-raiLADELPHIA, THURSDAY;
description. Its anniversary this week is
the happiest that has yet come to civiliza
tion. Now moro than ever is it evident
that the first Franco-British victory
basically determined the eventual outcome
of the titanic strife.
Though Germany may swear that T.u
dendorff Is still In harness, tho rest of us
can prove Incontrovertllily that he has
retired.
AN UNSOLVED DRAFT PROBLEM
"M'O OUDER recently Issued from Wnsh-
' lngton Is moro praiseworthy than that
in which the War Department brusnuely
i refused the request of New Jersey farmeis
who sought soldier aid from Camp Dlx
for the harvest season. Farmers nml
even other employers of labor in various
parts of tho country havo been "hoping,
for tho services of the training battalions"
nt tho different cantonments In their
vicinities And nny ono who has bei-n
nblo to. observe the problem presented by
these training battalions will be relieved
to know that they have hoped In vain.
The man In a training battalion ut ono
of tho big camps often Is a victim of con.
dltlons which still puzzlo army olllcers In
Washington ns well ns at the canton
ments. Men who aro olnlously unfit for
military servlco havo been sent to tho
camps In thousands bccatiso ot tho refusal
of draft boards to be responsible for their
rejection. Camp surgeohs pass them In
tho hope that they may bo "reclaimed" or
"lehabllltnted" and made fit for some sort
of service in tho ranks. Great numbers
of men who will never have nny actual
puit In the war or even In a maneuver
aro held at cantonments everywhere.
They occupy their own barracks, drill
seldom or never and arc burdened with
much of the menial work ot the camp.
Tho unfit men are detailed. In other
words, to the graceless and disagreeable
tasks usually performed In every other
army and army division by fully qualified
soldiers on occasional assignment. Tho
war for them holds neither glory nor ad
venture. In a repoit recently made to the
War Department members of training bat
talions were described ns being at work on
buildings and piling lumber In company
with civilian workers who drew nH much
as seven or eight dollars a. day on tho job.
Tho selective sen Ice Is Intended to
create an army. Every army In tho field
or at homo has been able to operate and
exist and perform Its functions and win
lctoiIes without conscript labor. Service
with the colors should be a servlco of
pride. It should not at any time or under
nny circumstances linolve conditions
humiliating to the man In unifoim. There
are enough able-bodied men In the United
States to give the army any strength it
needs, and the army will be Ideal In oi
ganizatlon only when It pel forms all Its
own work, as armies always havo done
automatically, without the addition of
Isolated working groups leniinlscent of
ancient Rome or modern Germany.
The whole problem Is likely to become
larger and more Irritating when the new
man-power bill becomes operative. If the
Senators and Representatives In Wash
ington actually havo a patriotic lather
than a party motive in their periodical
attacks on Secietary Baker they will
busy themselves in efforts to foire a
solution of the problem of the unfit man.
That solution should bo easy. There should
be no really unfit men In the army They
should he at home In civil occupations.
Conscription was not Instituted to provide
special labor for camps and farms or fac
tories. It will not be tolerated for that
purpose. General Hugh I Scott, the com
mandant at Camp Dlx, Is said actually to
have favored the employment of the unfit
soldiers in a pseudo-voluntary set vice on
the farms. He wished, we are told, to
make the cantonment a "benefit to tho
nearby countryside." That Is a peculiar
point of view for a military commander,
who should have known that his respon
sibilities, like his nuthoilty, end at the
limits of his cantonment.
1" -.elusive restaurants
Menus V Ml lie In will be In an al)s
lllndustunl mal fix when the war
ends and millions of
Americans return home with a working
knowledge of French. How can a restaurant
remain exclusive with menu cards that pa
trons can read and understand?
We seem to remember
Knrlldenn from our school-day
Keery geometry that a lin?
Is defined as an In
finite assemblage of points Which seems a
fair description of the Allies advancing with
fixed baonetsJ
About the only mem
One German her of the Prussian
l'roilnre Snf rojal family who has
not been picked for a
new throne Is too busy bossing hades to as
sume lesser responsibilities.
Ixmdon already has
Not Improbable a railroad terminal
called Waterloo.
Some day she may have another ono named
Cambral or St. Quentin.
Judging by the send
off Foch is gi-
It Will
Ing friend Hlndy in
France, the next Liberty Loan campaign
ought to so with a wallop.
Hertling. the Hun
Arslnr KapUlly Chancellor, Is seventy
five, and reading the
dispatches from the western front doesn't
make him feel any jounger.
Germany now begins
Inexcusable! to realize that all
those bells she rang
when the Lusltania was sunk are likely to
act as a boomerang,
France has long celebrated one of free
dom's red-letter days with a Fourth of
September street parade in Paris. Haig's
great victory now entitles London to honor
an Immortal date In Blmllar fashion.
The alleged slacker may well profit by
the Shakespearean tip to "speak by the
card."
Rupprecht is said to have advocated a
withdrawal of the Hun line In PIcardy. Halg
seconded the motion. Such concord of oppos
ing generals Is almost suggestive of a peace
augury.
We know of rfo pleasanter way of spend
ing an hour these cool, clear evenings 'than
In listening to the nightly concerts of the
Police Band on the north plaza of the City
Hall. They will, continue every evening
UBUIJSeptewoer It. ,
SINCE YOU INSIST
A Talk With Ajax
tSTTELLO, Socratcsl" exclaimed our
friend Ajax as we met him crossing
Market street, "Where do we go from
here 7"
"Underneath this motortruck, unless you
look sharp," replied Socrates; "I am sot'ry.
to Beo that you cross tho street without
waiting for tho cop to turn the sema
phore." "I know a nearby groggery," said AJav,
"where I w'lll blow If you will condescend
to Impart somo ot your philosophical con
fusion." "No man ever needs to speak to me
twice in that tono of voice," retorted
Socrates, and tho pair made their way to
a modest cathedral down a by-street.
AJAX Well, my dear, throw your lip
over this! What havo you been doing?
SOCRATES How can you usk? (Here's
luck!) Watching tho map. The British
aro only seven miles from Cambral. In
fact, they are said to havo reached tho
Brebleres-Mocuvrcs switch, as the military,
writers call It.
AJAX A few moro of those switches
and Hindenburg will bo backed Into the
roundhouse.
SOCRATES How I envy you your high
spirits, Ajax.
AJAX Wo all havo our weaknesses,
Socrates.
SOCRATES That Is true. I myself
cannot trim the nails on my right hand;
I havo to get Xantlppe to do It for me.
AJAX I seo in tho paper that tho
Crown Prince has given the German peo
plo a new definition of victory. He says
that the word victory means "that wo In
tend to hold our own and not let ourselves
bo vanquished."
SOCRATES He seems to speak with
tho convincing assurance of a suburban
husband returning to his wife after an
evening at the club.
AJAX But, Socrates, I did not buy you
a drink merely to hear your light waggish
iipss. Savo that stuff for your column.
Do not waste It on me.
SOCRATES What Is on your mind,
dear boy?
AJAX I have been wondering whether
humanity is ically competent to solve the
pioblems thut confiont It.
SOCRATES Of course not. My friend,
if you ever find Immunity a bit boastful
nbout Its ability to conduct Its affairs, Just
refer It to tho Lost and Found department
of any newspaper. Do you not think that
Is a sufficient Indictment of modern civ
ilization? AJAX Ah, Socrates, you give the mat
ter a sprightly turn. But It is the lost
hearts and hopes of humanity that trouble
me; not the umbrellas and mouse-traps
dropped In the subway.
SOCRATES My poor fellow, you have
been riding in tho subway again? No
wonder ou aro depressed.
AJAX Not at all. I have been think
ing what I bellee must havo uomo to many
men recently. You know I am Included
In this new draft, and as I havo no chil
dren and my wife is well provided for I
do not doubt I shall speedily bo called
upon.
SOCRATES And quite right, too.
AJAX Very true; and I shall be glad
to do my part. But what I have been'
thinking Is, how little we appreciate the
beauty and Interest of our dally life until
we are about to part from It.
SOCRATES No man appicclates tho
discomforts of home until he loses them.
AJAX Please don't misunderstand me.
Neither I nor any able-bodied man will
he sorry to do bis duty In any way possi
ble. But now that I realize that I may
be taken out of the habitual routine of
my llfo It saddens me to see how pitiably
I missed the lovely and entrancing and
fascinating phases of existence that were
all around me and which I took as a mat
ter of course.
SOCRATES My dear Ajax, I think you
have always paid beauty tho respect that
Is due it. I remember your telling, me
how charming the profile of your stenog
rapher was when sllhoueted against your
office filing cases.
AJAX I look along the streets, I see
life that flows about us, infinite In color
and form. In Joy and perplexity, and I tell
you It grieves mo to think how pale and
shallow has been my appreciation of It all.
Do you realise how many aspects' of beauty
surround our humdrum life? Think of the
bluo flame of the kitchen gas burners!
Never, until last night, did I understand
their hilarious beauty of color. And the
silver-green shimmer of water In my por
celain bathtub (there Is a big poplar tree
Just outside our bathroom window, which
lends a green 'reflection to the water In the
tub) how tnarvelously beautiful that Is!
I watch the shop windows and the faces
of people In trolley cas, and think with
poignant regret how much of the signifi
cance of life I missed.
SOCRATES It is very unfair to Pro
vost Marshal Crowder If you go and get
yourself In a morbid state of mind Just
before he drafts you.
AJAX You are very unfeeling. But
there again Is a thought that troubles me.
You know I IoVe my wife dearly, but we
havo had our little squabbles. I should
hato .to think, If anything happens to me,
that her second husband might treat her
better than I have.
SOCRATES It is you who aio unfeel
ing. Would you have him treat her worse?
Besides, think of the handsome pensions
paid to soldiers' widows.
AJAX Conversation with you never
reaches any helpful conclusion.
SOCRATES My function Is not to reach
conclusions that aro helpful, but those
that are true. But seriously, Ajax, I am
glad to find you In so thoughtful a mood.
It Is all the moro commendable because
a man so puny as you will hardly be put
among the shock-troops. And now, as we
are bo close to the end of the column, I
think I will take the train home to Xan
tlppe. Even it that bullet fired by "a young
girl of the intellectual class" had never
touched him, Lenlne would have been re
ported dead. Isn't there something sig
nificant in that?
It is reported that there are more
Greeks in the American army than there
are In tho tymles of Greece.
And they will also be more trouble to
the Kaiser than the Greek Greeks have
beemii. ...,. ... SOCRATES,
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WHO ARE THE CZECHO-SLOVAKS?
IF MRS. GREENE PICKENS should ask
her husband when he goes home tonight,
"Who aro the Czecho-Slovaks?" Mr.
Greene Pickens would doubtless reply
without hesitation: "They are the people
who live In Czecho-Slovakla, tho country,
you know, whose independence Secretary
l-anslng has just recognized In behalf of
the United States.
"Where is Czecho-Slovakla?" Mrs. G. P.
might insist.
"Oh, don't you know?" Mr. G. V. would
counter. "It Is over In Russia some
where. Get Johnny's geography and look
it up. You know the Czecho-Slovals have
been fighting the Bolsheviks In Russia for
a long time."
THIS Is about as near a guess as the
average man would make. We know
that the Czecho-Slovaks have been doing
marvels in Ruisia. But only the man N.Iioso
business It is to Inform himself on such
matters is aware that this force Is made
up of the Bohemian and Slavonian
prisoners of war taken by the Russians
while they were fighting Austria. After
tho Brest-Lltovsk treaty they were re
leased, but they decided not to return to
Austria-Hungary. There were about 80,000
of these soldiers. They wanted toajoln the
armies of the Entento Allies and started
to get to the western front by way of
Vladivostok. But before the whole force
could reach that port they found they had
to fight the Bolshevlkl re-enforced by the
German and Austrian and Hungarian sol
dlers who had been held as prisoners by
the Russians- Their achievements have
been as heroic as any credited to Xeno
phon's Famous Ten Thousand.
T)UT Mrs.
Greene Pickens is still in
JJ.c
Ignorance of the location of Mr. G. P.'s
Czecho-Slovakla. And so Is Mr. G. P., for
that matter.
THE Czechs and the Slovaks are both
Slav races. The Slovaks live on the
southern slopes of the western Carpathians
and extend southward into the great Hun
garian plain. The Czechs constitute a ma
jority of the population of Bohemia and
Moravia, two provinces in northwestern
Austria. There are about 6,500,000 Czechs
and 2,000,000 Slovaks living in a district
approximately the size of Pennsylvania.
There are about 3,300,000 Germans in the
same territory. If we should call the
Czechs Bohemians their radial, identity
would be clearer.
THERE was a time when Bohemia was
an Independent kingdom with its own
native rulers. When the line of its kings
ran out a Hapsburg king was elected tothe
throne In 1B26 and he pledged himself to
maintain the independence of the Bohe
mian kingdom. But the Hapsburgs broke
their pledges. They refrained from being
crowned kings of Bohemia In Prague and
gradually destroyed the independence of
tho kingdom. It was a revolt of the Bohe
'mlans against the Hapsburgs in 1618 that
started the Thirty Years' War. The popu
lation of the country was reduced by this
bloody conflict from 2,000,000, when it
began, to 700,000 when it ended. The sur
vivors meekly bore the Hapsburg yoke. In
the latter part of the eighteenth century
there was an awakening of the national
spirit among the Czechs, which developed
into a desire for'lndependence. It had at
tained such proportions that a Pan-Slavic
congress was held in Prague, in 1848, which
provoked an Insurrection that had to be
put down by force. The Caech leaders at
f--M. .Ar,,, . , t,4-
AMERICANS" German Crown Prince
In 1868, and the demand for autonomy, if
not for independence, grew in spite of
concessions made by the Government In
Vienna. From this date until tho opening
of the war the Czechs have' fought
In tho Austrian Parliament for the recog
nition of their national rights. The ex
tremists demanded complete independence.
The moderates wanted a king of their own
crowned in Prague. They were willing to
accept the Emperor of Austria as king,
a the Hungarians have accepted him, but
they wero aone with the extremists in de
manding recognition of their national
rights.
A S those rights had been persistently
denied they entered the war In 1914
with a real grievance against 'the Haps
burg dynasty and ' tho , German-speaking
Austrians. It was tho possibility of realiz
ing their national Independence through
the assistance of the Entente Allies that
led the Czecho-Slovak soldiers In Russia to
refuse to return home and fight Austria's
battles for her. It Is the same feeling that
has been leading tho Czecho-Slovak regi
ments on tho Italian front to desert and
hide themselves in the mountain forests
and prey on the surrounding country.
rpHE Entente Allies have seen the polltl---
cal value of recognizing tho claims of
these disaffected Slavs within the Austro
Hungarlan Empire. Their independence
as a nation was recognized by Italy,-
France and Great Britain weeks before tho
American Government recognized it. It
is true that we issued a statement express
ing sympathy with their national aspira
tions beforo Great Britain followed the
example of France and Italy in recognizing
the de facto government which has been
organized under the style and title of the
Czecho-Slovak National Council. '
"DEFORE August 1, 1914, the recognition
-' of the autonomy of Bohemia by Aus
tria and the consent of the Austrian Em
peror to be crowned as king of" Bohemia
In Prague would doubtless have satisfied a
majority of the Czechs. But events havo
moved rapidly since that momentous date,
and few Czechs will be content now with
anything short of complete national inde
pendence. IT should be noted at this point that an
autonomous Bohemian kingdom ruled
over by a German prince, preferably one of
the sons of the Kaiser, was included In the
plans of the Pan-Germanlsts as early as
March, 1914, when the arrangements were
making for the war which began four
months later. Austria-Hungary was to
be separated Into a lot of kingdoms tied
to Germany as vassals,
AN Independent Czecho-Slovak State, set
up un'der the patronage .f the Entente
Allies, would frustrate the plans of Ger
many. It would separate the Germans of
Austria from the Germans of Saxony and
Bavaria by the creation of a new Slav
kingdom or republic. It would place a
barrier in the way of Germanic control of
commercial routes between Berlin and
Bagdad. It would strengthen the Slavic
races in the south of Austria-Hungary and
Justify their demand for independence and
hasten the day of the dismemberment of
Austria-Hungary in the interests of' the
little nations, a dismemberment which the
Pan-Germanlsts planned in the Interests
ot German domination of the world.
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TO THE DOUGHBOYS
THEY told me the tempters 'twas safer
To Juggle receipts on my knee,
Right should'rln' a pen. In this war o' men,
At home with the Q. M. C.
It whispered a voice o' the' Devil's
You're makln' the fight Jes' the same,
Gettln' writer's cramp In a U, S. camp
An' It never can cripple or lame.
So I stayed (an' I scorned high adventure) ;
I'm six feet tall an' I'm strong;
An' ships of each sort sailed out o' the port.
An' I knew all the while I was wrong.
I knew It, this voice o' the Devil's ;
It promised home-comln's agen
Tho folks ne'er a doubt, put a service flag out
Oh, tho Devll-o'-Falnt-Hearted-Men I
An' finally, thlnkln' an' thlnkln',
An' watchln' the doughboys pass.
The gleam o' the sun on the steel o' the gun.
An' columns o' fours In mass;
A-steppln' so brave and so smart like,
Swlngln' on down to the dock,
A-totln' their packs, an' rolls on their backs,
A-grlppln' each gun by the stock.
How their faces shone, an' with reason,
Each lad with his head held high.
An" It gave me a start, for I felt in my heart
I was lettin' the heroes go by.
They're heroes, the grand little doughboys.
Each giant an' sunburnt runt.
So many will fall the world won't recall,
An' they'll all go up to the front!
They're heroes in hundreds o' thousands.
The Infantrymen of today;
An" It's fine to know they wanted to go,
An' I'm goin' thank God that way.
I watched 'em troop Into transports,
I watched, an' I saw an' I knew,
An" at last I'm one ; take a look at my gun
My transfer has Jes' gone through!
Charles Divine, in "City Ways and Com
pany Streets."
"Ordinarily. Mr.
The Dose Tambo, I am opposed
of Victory to drugs." "Natu
rally, naturally. Mr.
Bones." "And yet, Mr, Tambo, the French
are about to take Laudanum for so the
wise old Romans called Laon and surely in
this instance that is the right dope, is It
not?" "Mr. Bones, your madtery of syn
thetic logic Btlrs and thrills and even star
tles me." .
The Hun must have bought his much
vaunted "switch" at a coiffure's. 'Twas false,
false.
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What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Of what country la RuDDrecbt the Crown
Trlnce?
2. Who wa John n. Oouaht
3. How many masts has a brU?
4. Who waa "L'AUlon" and what does the
name meant
5. What was the "Trent affair"!
6. Who nai the Roman roddess of wisdom?
7. What la tha capital of North Carolina?
8. Who was the Democratic candidate for Frel
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1004?
0. Who WTote "Tha Mill on the Hi"f
10. What la a canard?
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