r.rr j- V , - - -it fi k . v ; EVENING PUBLIQ, LEDGERPHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 1918 V - P .! v'vssfSS ,; , " " v ,tv 'vv-rt-xti,-'- rj. r-" ' ' " iv ling public ttedger THE pwsmr. tfi rrmAPK IT ; ' ,-rf" " " " -- auuuvaf - Sfr v f PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY tfifi 'fTfnttR tt. If rftnTf ttilnrHf ClMurlfs H. Ludtntton. Vice President: John C. hn B. William. John J Hrunreon, Directors run,erreiarr ann Treitaureri rmnpn. iraiiin. P'lC editoiiiaij noAnti: ;, fn Crti H. K. Ccant, Chairman 'pAVtD E. 8M1LF.T Editor ft . tOHN C. MAP.T1N... General nmlneaa Munaeer (' ,-1 t uoitanea naur hi i'iblig LEnjbB uuMumK. 4. iV-'J Independence Square, Philadelphia. fv-: .'Moom CsxtsaI Ifroad n.1 t'heatnul strcela i. - AHixno Cltt ,i I'rraa-rnloB llullill ( 'Inr Tok, 20(1 Metropolitan Ton KBirioiT tin Kord llulldl Sv-.Fr- Loci ..loon Fullrton Iiuimi .-,, Ctlicioo.n... 11T02 riitianc llulldl uunm Tower mine Mine TT"'-W -"- ""- .- .... i llnllln '!&'. news nunEAUs. Bi-ripi"' N. E. Cor. 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J.'UU tT Address all communication to Evening Public t Ledger, Independence Square, Philadelphia. iA. fimtktr nf fdt Asftnrtatrl Prt ;', j THE ABBOCIATKD PllKBS is rxclu nSi 'mvelu entitled to the utc for republication ;?fN '!! neurj dl.,pa(ci?a credited to It or not ?M.;alirtclie crrdllcd In this paper, and also lift, me local nctcs vubllsncd therein. AH rtnhtjt nt rrniihltrntlnn nt anrnlnl HI. $" patches herein are also reserved. Phll.Jtlph'i, ftiJ.y, Srplrmhrr 1). 1913 HAVE BONNJWELL'S WIN(;S BEGUN TO SPROUT? "A CARBFUL perusnl if Juilr nonnl- n. well's dcfct.se of Ills personal and political Integrity leads one to the con clusion that he Is persuaded that if his friends should take off his roat and feel Carefully about his shoulder blades they . would feel his budding wins? protruding through his waistcoat lining. According to his story, he is the only almon-pure friend of the people, and Palmer, McCormltk and the rest are self eekers and political profiteers. , It Is a very pretty political iunrrel as Jt stands and one which Senator Sproul 'can watch with untroubled interest as it proSTesses. confident that as Pennsylvania has never elected a man with wines to the trovernorship there Is little prospect of Us breaking the precedent this year. It appears, at times, as if the wonnn Of Germany and Austria have more count Re than the men. So far they have led the only erious demonstrations in Hcrlln and Vienna. LOOK OUT FOR SUGAR PROFITEERS "GROCERS are to be allowed to snll U, V4' augar bought since Monday at a v a K higher price than that which prevailed last K?- week, but the food administrator announces Rji that he will prosecute as profiteers any IV.,'' jMtaller who puts up the price on the stool: Iaj which he had in reserve on Saturday night. I?. Sutrar at ninn centu n timmri thp nrl.'n jari wsi weeK is nigh enough for the aerai;u h&s; Ijaousehold income, but extraiydinary con- f.y anions seem to have made it necessary to KS,put the retail price up to a figure not tixceeaing ten ana a. naif cents. This leans that the householder must watch fij;L his grocer and sec to It that he is able to twj L ma uiu jn ilc BU lUIIJi ilrt lilt OKI HIUCK tests. There may be seme truth In the Knglish rumors which say General Pershing is to be Shifted. It may be that Senator Chamberlain Will go over and take command. RESTORATION POSSIBILITIES A PHILIP GIBBS dispatch to the Bvc.ni.no " Public Ledokh des.rlbes the ma;i- Vnnfl, tacl rt rODlnrlnn ..ln.. ...1.1. 1-. 1- the French are now confronted In the K battle-scarred regions. The undertaking KSjj. in battle cockpits like the Snmmc and Alsne districts is Indeed monumental. The work will bear fruit, however, as France has never yielded up the foundations. They are civilization and the zeal for free idem. Upon those firm bases she can be gloriously rebuilt. .Vhen the devastation spreads eventually Ifew'tiatward and crosses a certain boundary IVvV IfnA ttlA Vttlna liAvnnil tf .1l V.n.. u .- A,Jement of vitality. Structural weakness Krwjji lorbld the process. The girders are ipsWtten, and rusted. The medieval beams w i BMMHUBH.U nu n crttnei uua. m time ;HJlTcons'rue'ion of what is wholly outworn fifo tOr imP0Sslble. Truth may bo restored. p-'-j (ffaisenooa crumbles to dust. J ? i rati-Germanlsm," says Trofessor Del 'brack "Is doing moral daniase tn our- rwni.' R Character." It has taken him a long time to $$ ' r-; 3-"" i"i't.i uui ur uie, ruuKhi AINU PUTTING IT INTO ANOTHER xVlfUNigiPAL. bonds are usually exempt 2fT ? '""ii municipal taxation. No city has p. v .unci iu cAcijiii u uonas irom estate A. 'ir Fpdpp.il tvp UTiftM v... ,. 1 M . - - - --. .v.. ....1.11 mcj ,iiu mAVU L'tiy the State the city has to take this 3 . . to cnarge into account In fKlng the rate of Interest and the Stute tax really has to irVM paid by tho taxpayers of the city. The SftlM'oposed tax n the income from municl- g,pai oonns in me new revenue Llll. to which feMayor Smith, of this city, and Mayor gyjan, of New York, are objecting, will "eriousiy anect the value of those sccurl r.iiea and it will force the cltv to nav a 5,'JWfher rate of interest on subsequent bond ' A.J... T l l.ll a faatucn. i a an inuirecL tax on every Jlft"eno,der- 'But when the national Government is tine the income from Liberty Bonds it .'difficult to 'see what persuasive argu- at can. bo offered to Induce It to refrain t taxing local bonds. But the policy of KtaK the Liberty Bonds is of doubtful It forces the payment of a cr rate of Interest than it would be ary to pay on a tax-free bond. The livt the tax-free three-and-a.half per &f'at' the first Liberty Loan at a pre- and the sale of the taxed four per below par on the stock exchanges tii to be Instructive to the members of ires. The Government has to pay extra interest the money It' collects i and it receives ir. the long run no trjicome from such a system of taxa- ;.ut tne, -Dioatea Donanoiaers" phrase invented by the dema- Uat t taxed. This cheap po- im tb otjly poselbl excuse THE AMERICAN DRIVE Foch's Deadly Strategy Revealed in What May Re lite War's Dcrhic Kitle "IXTHAT PcrshlnR's great new army un (lortook yesterday, when the news o its sudden ndvnnce touched the imagina tion of the country like a blast of trum pets, was not nn isolated or n limited action. The movement is one that flare and spread gradually into one the greatest .battles of all history and sweep the war into a new and unbeliev able phase. Deductions and prophecies, this early and at this distance, arc of little value. But one thing was plain with the news of a concentrated force of more than '-'50,000 Americans turned loose at one of the key points of the enemy position. The Amer icans are apparently attempting to elenr the way to Metz, Metz is the chief south ern support of the Hindcnburg lines. Should it fall the German defense sys tem will be shaken and dislocated in every mile of its length from the sea to Switzerland. German noil will be opened up lo hostile fire. And the German armies south of the break will face rout or capttne. " Yesterday's cables from France were like a revealing light on many of the half-seen and half-understood events of icccnt days. The American drive in the southern positions may explain why Hiiuienburg and Ludendovff, in the inter vals when they are not cursing or suppli cating their weary armies, arc having such a hard lime in tho attempt to main tain the morale of their Kaiser. It sug gests, too, the motives that may have sent Wilhclm hiiriFclf, nn ignoble and fantastic figure, to sprinkle belated tears about his fatherland and harangue sullen munition workers with plaints and apolo gies. We know now what General von Ardenne meant when he said the German frontier was menaced and it is possible to perceive reasons for the headlong backward flight of the Go-man armies in the last two months. The optimism at London and Washington has a new mean ing. And in the prospect opened up by the American drive it is possible to guess at the uses which Pershing and his men will make of the stupendous artillery that figures so largely in their equipment. It has been known for a long time that the Americans in France have a type of gun that will fling a shell a hundred miles. Once an Allied force got past Metz and in positions dominating the southern area' west of the Rhine valley guns of this sort could be moved slowly northward to wipe out systematically the German border defenses. To the German commanders who have been outguessed, outwitted and outfought in recent weeks and who arc now in the attitudes of men whose minds are utterly tired and con fused, a successful culmination of the movement begun yesterday would have the effect of a cataclysm. One part of the elaborate defense system would be left in loose and flying ends. A retire ment of the Geimans almost to their own borders would be imperative if their armies were not to be left in danger of a rolling up process and attacks from the rear. There is already talk of a retire ment to a line running from Antwerp to Metz. The city of Metz, toward which tho Americans are fighting, is the nerve center of a vast part of the German sys tem in the east of France. It is a focal point of the supply system that main tains the German armies furthe- south. Similarly it is the focal point of the sys tem which these same armies must use in an extensive retirement. It isn't to bo supposed, therefore, that if there is any fight left in the Germans they will give up Metz without a grueling battle. It is a knowledge of the supreme impor tance of this vantage point which has led the people at Washington to predict bit ter and stupendous battles before the present forward movement is halted. Then, too, the Americans may fail, as other armies have failedyin France, be fore the advance is completed. Under such circumstances which seem alto gether unlikely this country will ' lose nothing of its high hopes or of its high faith in its men. It is probable that Wc shall experience some new sensations before long. They are our own lads who are now out, virtually alone, with the burden of all the world upon their shoul ders and the eye3 of all the world upon them our own lads who were here with us only a little while ago without any thought of the great roles prepared for them. It is almost unbelievable, this sudden shift of events, to those who still sense the war as something dim and far and fabled. They cannot fail though they may have to try it again. Because, somehow, the immeasurable pride and affection of their own people will give them strength. The days that are to come will he as momentous for us as for them. We shall begin, from this on, to feel some-' thing of the emotions of sorrow and pride and anxiety and triumph that have beaten upon England and France in the last four years to temper and transfigure these nations. It seems as iif yesterday the war became our war for the first time. We aie closer to it than we were. Is September 12 to be one of the great dates of history? Is it actually to mark the beginning of the end of the German horror? War strategists in all the Allied countries seem to have had for weeks the conviction that the tides of the war would be turned definitely with the exeat American drive in the southeast. It is the culminating stroke of merciless Allied strategy, a stupendous blow aimed at a part of the line which the Germans cannot re-enforce without agonizing effort and agonizing sacrifice. The wise course is to bo patient. It is better not to hope, too much. No one .can know wtmmK tnc drive xs inienaea to stature .' slowly or swiftly. No one on this side of the world will be able to read events. All we know is that the Americans are apparently ready, that they are a mag nificent force and that they nre co-operating now openly in n scries of attacks so brilliantly conceived as to have already sickened every commander in Germany, from the Kaiser down, with a sense of hopelessness. tjtojtl (Icorge calls' the American sol diers the finest fighting material In the world. This Is n pretty fine compliment to the men who reglsfred yesterday. THE ECLIPSE OF SENATOR LEWIS rpilH Iridescent, not to say Incandescent, -- Senator from Illinois Is evidently doomed. Not even tho President's In dorsement of him will savo him. He has been renominated for the scnatorshlp by the Democrats, it Is true, but he has ncVer iicld an elective nfllre In thr State. Mctllll Mcfonnlck. at present Congiessmau-at-Large, has been nominated by the Repub licans to oppose hltn. McCormlck polled 707,000 votes in lOIti lo 510.000 for his Democratic opponent. The State that ear gave Hughes a plurality of .02,000 over Wilson and It elected a Republican Gov ernor by a plurality of 140,000. The Maine election indicates, as Clinton W, Gilbert, tho Washington correspondent of this newspaper, well said yesterday, that tho member of the two polltlrnl parties nre disposed to vote as usual, if they vote hs usual in Illinois they will give McC'ormlcli a plurality of at least I50.OU0 nnd retire Senator Lewis to nn obscurity from which he may be lifted only by appointment to some Federal Job by tho President. Incidentally. Illinois may congratulate herself on the defeat of the senatorial nm hlilons of Maor Thompson, of Chicago, one of the most notorious pro-Germans in public ofll . In the whole country. The Germans will not stop to worry because this Is Friday the thirteenth. All days arc unluek for a linn. PLAYING POLITICS ON THE PLAY v GROUNDS TT UICGINH tn look as if the playing of - politics would be the chief occupation of the new board in charge of the public playgrounds. When the old recreation board refused to play politics to suit the Mayor lie de manded the resignation of ts recalcitrant members and some of the others resigned. He has filled the vacancies with men In sympathy with his purposes. He says that all boards "should work In harmoni ous co-operation" with the appointing power. And now we are told that hereafter the board itself, of which .Tidge Ramond Mac.Vellle is the new head, will exercise full contrc! oxer the appointment and dis missal of all persons in Its service. This means that the appointments to play ground positions are to be treated as po litical patronage and nre to go to persons in political sympathy with the appointing power. As Lincoln once said, for those who like this sort of thing this is just the sort of thing they will like. The plan nf New Jer- l'n the sey to send commls- SoMiers Voli? sioners to France to take the xote of the soldiers has been turned down In Washing ton as impractical)!". We have a law In this State which provides that no man shall l.e deprived of bis vote because, he Is absent from home on military service, and setting forth a plan for their participation in the, elections. The right of the soldiers to vote is not disputed. If a way can be devised to allow them tn exercit-e it without interfering with the more Important task of Peking the Germans it will doubtless bo done. In 'he meantime no one need worry about the matter. "Kver.v one of you lie Tried tn l.lmlt It knows," taiil the Kal- to Three .Months yer to the munition workers at Kssen, "that I left no stone unturned lo shorten the war as far as possible." Yes, we all know that he planned to eat his Christmas dinner In Paris m 10H and told the soldiers In Herlln when they set out on their first cam paign that they would be home before the leaves began to fall. But be forgot that man proposes And God disposes. Lcnlne was struck PnrallrU treacherously by one lom he had reajon to regard as a friend and ally. The attack was made in the dark. Ills condition is critical and it is even said that he may never recover. Retribution never arrived to any man In a more picturesque guise. For who Is better qualified than Lcnlne, at this mo ment, to know how Russia feels? What In the uoild can Hi-men Known! the Democratic party In this State have done to Judge Bonnlwcll and A. Mitchell Palmer and the rest of them to warrant the brutal treatment which they nre now according It? A German admiral has Who Woke lllmT again assured the Ger mans that the "L'-bcat will bring Rngland to her knees." We are willing to bet that the old tea dog Is none other than Admiral Rip von Winkle, "IJssen' is Hun for Aluiut a Kulier "eat." And at Kssen yesterday Wilhelm tho Slammed publicly began taking his first large helpings of crow. The Kaiser has moments when he Is actually diverting. What sort of t-edltion Is brewing at 'he Krupp works at Kssen that the Kaiser should feel compelled to go there to express his "imperial thanks" to the workmen? I'ntil yesterday the dispatches said that the Americans were helping the French or the Knglish. Now they say the French are helping the Americans on the St. Mlhlel front. We are In tt at last and taking the lead. William J. Harris, who resigned from the Federal Trade Commission to run for .the senatorship In Georgia, has apparently de feated Senator Hardwlck, whose renomlna tlon was opposed by the President. Jir Wll son characterized Hardwlck as "a consistent artd active opponent of my Administration." So Georgia follows Mississippi In turning down at the primaries the men whom Mr. Wllon condemns, and the returns from Illi nois Indicate that that Btate will turn down at the election the uuui whom. Mr. Wllior. praises. THE CHAFFING DISH rpitlS Is Pershing's birthday, and we like - his method of celebrating It. There nre'o be four-minute women, too. It seems rather cruel. Or, aa Stevenson might have said It for them: Docs It not seem hard to you To have to make four minutes do? And when 1 have so much to say, . To throw my other thoughts away. We do not often en re to Insert adver tising In this column, but the following which comes to us t-ccms of such public value that the world will not willingly, let It die: DUNKAVEN BLEAK (Kormer rnntrlbulnr tn the I'lmOIng Dlalt) Tho World's largest Desk Cleaning Contractor rIJSK draxicrs and piucon holes ex JLJ ptorrd ft fearless sappers and pio neers, l.ouytast papers unerringly lo cated. Debris icmovcd, blasting pou dcr used If necessary. Vnansiccrcd cor rcspondenvc Infiltrated. IV YOl' are nol sure uliat is In your desk let us find out for you. Do not leave this job for your heirs. Have jour desk diagnosed before yon are drafted. Rolllop jobs and desks of minor poets 10 per cent extra. We will make an estimate nn any Job. rjO.V'7' be ironled about that bit of U icvcrslhlr plaldiour xcifc nave vou to match in IS.i.5. It mail be in siour desk. Wr can Und U or;oi(. It would be heresy for any man to be successful In business unless ho has a sheet of plate-glass on the top of his desk. Still, that sheet of plate-glass Is very useful to lay burning cigarettes upon and to slip desk mottoes underneath. Under the pane of glass on our desk ue keep the following, which was once dashed off by Ed Howe, the Irresponsible sage of Po tato Hill: Of all poctiral fanries a fonrtecn-.vcar-old girl Is the finest. Old ladlfH of twenty should hang their heads in presence of a girl of fourteen. A writer in the Boston ' ranscrlpt asks whether a poet may not be permitted to write mediocre verses once in a while. Why, he broods bitterly, is he expected to lilt the supreme high spots every time? Philadelphia is far more tolerant In these matters, old dear. If you .will just watch the Dish that Chaffs you will occa sionally detect a poet striking a little )lt below the supreme pinnacle. Thoughts About Wilhelm Wo may be doing him nn Injustice, but wo size up the Kaiser as the kind of fel low who always lets the other chap beat him in reaching for the lunch check. We Imagine that Herr Krupp will have a devil of a time speeding up production again at Essen after the Kaiser's merry little talk to his "dear friends" the em ployes. Our advice to those who are concerned in bolstering up Prussian morale would be to keep the Kaiser at tho front as much as possible. The gist of Wilhelm's discourse at Essen was, "We have been so victorious that now we are fighting desperately for existence." If the folks at Essen are really such dear friends of Bill's, it was heartless of him to wait more than four years before visiting them. One can hardly resist the thought that he only got around to them when he felt he had desperate need of them. But it must be very awkward for th people who are in charge of Bill's move ments. There are so few places they can send him where he can teally enjoy him self nnd yet not be a nuisance. In the long home that Wilhelm will ulti mately go to visit no houscwarmlng will be necessary. It is to be hoped that quarters for Gott will also be provided at St. Helena. Scheer Nonsense Admiral von Scheer, of the German Ad miralty, says that the U-boat will bring England to her knees. He refuses to set a date for the genuflection. The Power House Every day I go past tho power house on Ludlow street. I look In the open windows And see the great dynamoes. They have power enough to jazz the earth and thrbw the planets Out of step, but they make No sound. I saw a girl with shell goggles Dusting some of them, untcrrifled By her proximity to Such dangerous engines. Look out, child, loot out I Don't get too near the Bernard Shaw rheostat Or the Walt Whitman flywheel tl Of course you will observe That the power house to which I refer is The Mercantile Library. DOVE DULCET. One of our contributors writes: It yon use mil of my poems tc sure to print It over my pseudonym, since 1 have a serious reputation as a lawyer to maintain. It makes us sad to think that no lawyer would ever argue a case for us on account of our dissolute reputation as a rhymster. SOCRATES. Mr. Hays, the Repub Too True llcan National Chair man, hasn't Joined the chorus that Is telling us of the things that will wm the war. But he Is convinced If one may Judge by his telegrams to Washington-, that gas will win the election. Now that the Kaiser Frankfurter has begun to eat his HubatituUa words it may be said that there will be plenty of food In Germany for at least one man. And yet that particular diet Is one on which the Huns did get lamentably thm I Might Try Tobacco A Cuban has Invented a material made of palm fiber to be used as a substitute for cedar In cigar boxes. It is now un to somebody . to invent a substitute (or the hay in cliars. I Seattle Fo;.tftUfMMr,' ' v , ' i-, V''a'(.taiu w -- it-4 ".&' rrfWi MU i S 'fe ' . .1 vrj?w;-.fy .ft-Ju i U aw r a.lki I.V "' MARCH VOICE OFTHE ARMY By Clinton IF. Gilbert Staff Correspondent of the Evening Public Lcilper in Washington GENERAL MARCH, the first chief of staff since General Wood with a real grasp of military affairs, pervades Washington. It Is a marvel what Influence this man. who was only a few months ago n colonel In the army, has come to exert. In a few short weeks he has created a general staff a general 3taff. let us say, such as France might have, and let us remember that Foeh was chief nf thy French general staff when he was called to the supreme command of all the Allied armies. Up till now we never had a general staff, except In name. He has created a war department. His spirit, not that of Secretary Baker, inspires the whole organi zation. It speaks with his voice. Its frank ness is his frankness. Its reticence is his reticence. , GARRULOUS, boastful, overpress-agented Washington tells more than It ever did before the punishment for Its own vaunting overtook It, and says !es. It Is General March's maxim that this Is the people's war and the people are entitled to know all about It that does not for military reasons have to be guarded from the Germans. He wants the nation to know the facts, the FACTS; not opinions, predictions, boastings, promises, vainglory: but facts. There never was a time when It was so easy to get the truth, provided it may be properly told, as now; and there never was a time when It was so difficult to get, from the army nt least, propaganda, self-praise and promises. WE ARE not all Gradgrinds, and the chief of staffs attitude Is sometimes discon certing. He sees the newspaper correspond ents twice a week. .These meetings take place with military precision on the moment. The chief of staff is the busiest man In Washing ton, but keeps his twlce-a-week appointments lo a dot. The newspaper correspondents are, of course, also the busiest men In Washing ton. They, too, have found out how to keep this appointment to a dot. At the second meeting they straggled in. As each delayed writer opened the door the chief of staff stopped talking, looked sharply toward the late arrival, bit his lips, while tho tip of his beard, the most expressive thing abou: his face, twitched furiously. This happened ten times on that one day. Nothing was said. But it never happened again. Now there Is almost military discipline at these confer ences. The correspondents arrive first. When the general comes in they prise and almost give him a military salute. He talks with an unsmiling face. 'He makes a string of announcements. Only once has he made, a prediction that we should win the war next year. Then the general says, "Any ques tions?" The men whose life business it is to ask questions are dumb. Then some one asks, "Where is the Thirty-seventh Division?" It comes from his State, and his paper is interested. The general replies,, "I'll have It looked up for you." Another asks about another division. The same answer. Then some innocent asks; "General, is it your opinion that the Germans will be out of France before snow flies." Foolish ques tion No. 909! The chief of staff has a way of his own with foolish questions a way which is having its effect upon this capita! of foolish questioning. (Didn't we get Into the national state of mind In which we were a few months ago by foolish ques tioning and very, very foolish answering?) ...... H.,..,a. tnt.a ffl Iha U'all ot mm,!.. Weil. " - ..'v .... , OM..,du for the foolish question! The chief of staff looks at the questioner a while: Just long enough. The pointed beard evolutea. The ... T am nn. l..l- ll general ptiya, m uvi suvus vpimun. ' Hi uvi.HMii ltlt 'thl Mm vnl-j- In which.1 REMODELING HIS MAP .,... i--""?- - ' -v.. he said Just a moment ago. "We have driven the enemy back twenty miles." It gives him no pleasure to uter agreeable news. It gives him no distress to ny disagreeable things nor pleasure, either, 1 hasten to add He IS j erforming a military duty. That Is all. A SI) on this subject of opinions, if the general would speak he would probably say. "I hae not time lo form any." When Washington talked more, In the good old days when Secretary Baker was more of a figure, It had time to form opinions, but not time to do elllclent work. n T ASKED another member of the general -L staff that question which every one Is asking: "Will the Germans lie able to stop In Fiance or nre they now on their wnv out?" He replied lie has more patience with foolish question N'o. f0!) than has lib superior he replied- "Let me see. The Mew that they will gli across the border before winter Is the view of" naming a well-known military critic "well, his opinion is of more value than mine. He has lime to look at the maps and study strategy 1 get down hero at 10 o'clock In the morning and leave at 12 at night every day. My work Is executive. I glance at the communiques at lunch. Any man In a club who reads the reports and studies the maps knows more about the pos sibilities than 1 do. Why not acknowledge It? AVe look to the newspapers for the answer to such questions as you have just asked. If we had time our opinions might be mote worth while than those of the men who write about the war, but we haven't." Across this man's desk pass all the confidential re ports from the west front. No one here knows. The plans of Foeh are known only to Foeh. The material situation Is known In the War Department better than it is to readers of the press, nut General March's guess Is no better than yours as to whether the Hindenburg line will hold or how long Therefore, he sticks to fncts. The country is undergoing the facts-cure. .March Is the doctor. Copjrlsht, 1018 The Vous Family Have you met the Vous family? asks the Spiker. They are as famous In Trance as the Damn family Is In the United States. There are Monsieur and Madame Vous, whose first names are Aver and Pnrlez (better known as "Polly"). There are the mysterious Vous twins, Talsez Vous and Meflez Vous, who are performing a patriotic service by warn ing the public against enemy aliens. And there Is Saves. Vous, who wants to know If you know : Voulez Vous, who wants to know If you will ; Pouvex Vous, who wants to know If you nre nble, and Souvene Vous. who wants to know If you remember, This Is only a beginning, for. the Vous family Is one of the largest and best-known in Prance. Buffalo Commercial.' Germany's "Greslett General" Emperor William Insists that the Crown Prince Is easily the greatest of living Ger man generals. In view of what Is now hap pening to the other German generals on the western front Emperor Bill may be right. Toronto Telegram. New Peril If the war lasts two years more and ex cuses for week-end passes continue to swell the death list there won't be enough relatives left to keep the home fires burning. Camp Custer Trench nnd Camp. Relieving That Worry The rubber shortage need not bother the Germans, as the Allies will continue to erase all their front lines for them. Dallas News. It would be Interesting to know what they are saying in the Hohenxollern home c:rcio today in yjsvy or in .returns from, M5t "; .-NTfr&tfi .3a ,iftt . r'l -V.1 'XW ;' Give Back to Sun and Earth What They Have Given Me WHEN Death shall tome to lead me by the hand And guide me to a fuller life beyond, Give back to sun and enrth what they hv given me! Shall 1, who loved the sun And sought tho truth With nil its hidden beauty. And loved nil forms of life Tho sun and moon and sea The riot of all color, Which sang to me In muted music. Re cofllned In a narrow cell, , And deep in earth be laid? Must I lie there and wait For creeping worms to drag This clay back to light and sun? I know somewhere there surely lies a tre Whose heart has stored for many years The warmth nnd glory of the sun; 0 Tree, let us go quickly back together! Pet free In one great glowing fire. That portion of us which will win back to the sea! 1 have so loved the trees nnd flowers, I want what once held me To live again nmong the birds and bees, As dew and mist and shower. With these tn find the sun and life, and truth. And let our ashes seek again the eartn, Where wind and rain may carry them To serve again In every form of life. These things I leave behind Were given me by earth but for a tinw. That I make manifest in me Life's perfect unity. Marie Tudor, In "The Potter's Clay." Gommerourt and Gomiecourt The office boy has got mixed again, This time he has not discovered the difference be tween Gommecourt and Gomiecourt, and the' mistake Is Involving him In all sorts of com plications. For Instance, It Is perturbing to learn that the British have fought their way to Gommecourt, which Is deserloed as a Ger man key position, when Gommecourt was un derstood to be by this time well In the Brit-. Ish rear, whereas Gomiecourt Is a position of great Importance covering Bapaume. Never. theless It shall be remembered for righteous ness to the office boy that If he took Las signy three times before It was reached, he has taken Gommecourt nt least twice after It was reached. What more ca,n the Intelli gent reader ask for? Christian Science Monitor, What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. What U thr capital of Lorraine? i. Who won Jih Ullllnsa and what was his real name? .1. What are the color of the flag of Hfllium? 4. What la the rorreet pronunciation of th nortl klntona? 5, What la meant by Lucullan ftaatf C. Who Invented the rotton" sin? 1, What la roolte? M. What la the orlsln of the word? 0. Whlrlt In the "Kinuire Plate"? 10, What letter einree flte hundred In th Koman notation? Answers lo Yesterday's Quiz 1. Baron Ilurlun l forelin islniater of the Ana- tro-llonsarlan manarehr. 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Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers