iTSR? "JMSBV-. -' ..' -. t,'tv' 'awjyMPw; r( t ".V.- V EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA; MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1918 ,. - - . . ;s); 9& V' ffir E Tf. m: !' p?i P2. .J- writing public lieDgcc STHE EVENING TELEGRAPH !j?.i PUBLIC LEDGERCOMPANY RVVS & -fcTCriarle II, Ludinston. Vice rreffldml, .tnhn C, wri.n. serrMary and Treasurer miilpn. iowna, '.John H, William). John J. 8pura;con, niretrtor. ' '$ EDITORIAl tlOAIUv Vi CfRCS H. K. CtT.Tis, Chdlrnmn j PA YIP K. SMtt.KY IMItor 'VJOHN C. MARTIN... .General limine ai Manager Piihllahri italK at Pi-rMi I.KtviKn Itnllriin? ..tM'Sf Innrnrinrf Rntiarr. I'hilarielnlila. eft ttI.Don Ctviiul Ltruact and Chestnut Struts ES?ATUhTlo CUT Vrm-tttfoii MuIUIIii.t A&Kw York . Sm Mrironolitan Tower ,, -Qdktkoit. , I(n I-onJ l.ttlldlnr t 5fV XiOna I""R I iillrion liitiniin; fStt4ifCinCJGOr .'JUS r-itViTft fltilMlnr m'Wlir .. . ........ ;r.w a m it-..w ? S K. Cor, rennyfnM Av and Nlh HI. KKfr Tork IHRTAt ..The Sn llull'tmt lOMox JU'fiMt . ...London 'I intra ttf ft-""1-'" V.I . ..I.....J jiW, - Th Ktrmnii Pintle Lkkjr M rM to uh l arrlhra In lfhilndtntil and urrovindtiiz town r( r utrtarnf tiTiiiv i-t'PMC Ew t " rate of twelve M- cents ier week. ti0ble, iyJr tp th carrier. ny nia ii i" iniiiu; iiuiiur im i unttu--i jnu. in thft United Slate. Canada. r l'uttd SUtt no eatlon.tt potaue fre. rtftv (."iiti rents p'-r month. Six ($6) dollars per enr, paab!o In adiance. To all foreltn lountrles on (ll dulim ier month. Noncr Subscribers wlslilns ddres changed must give old a well a new address. FXU 3000 H AIM 1 KMMOVI,. U1 iwo ty Address nil com n it it, t at, o,m to hitn'ma f6ic J.edoer tudeitc -idt, tc uuatr. t'hifadetphta. Member of llie sorialeil l're.; f'wi! tBunt'i i T'i punas ; .mi hi. E tlvcUl entitled to the .sc tor teiiiiblirutuni IBJj,- vo nl ireica dispatches crrditcd In il or not ' jothenehu cicdltctl in this paper, and also !"' the local ueie published therein. ,An rlglits republication or xpecini am- ify pa,icnra ncrcin arc aiso rcicrica. rhill.l.lplii.. Mnml... 'rplrmbrr Ifi, 111 DRAH' HOUIDS NOW IIKIOHK THi: COURTS rpHE Indlrtment ! I lie I'eileiai ;innl Jury of certain members (if Uiiliirt Craft Board No. 1' niul l.oc.il ItiMriN No". 4 and 10 will take the further illsetiwlon of the charges for the immediate future to the proper tribunal. The accused insist tli.H they an1 inno cent of an. willful wrong. The Crat-d Jury has acted on the theory that itironi petence loading to the CMape of men wlm ought to he in the army is as bad a willful action tending to the s-jme end. It remains to be seen what : jury, with all the evidence before it and instructed in " the law by an impaitial Judae, ha.s to say y? ' on the whole tiucstion. Vhe men are to be arraigned for a hearing on Wednesday. We assume that the lanes will be tried without unnecessary delaj. German elnVieniy ill not hae nvdied America until some one organizes a f'oipoia- tlon, Limited. Straw Hats. for the t'lillzatiftn of "Id THE INCL'HAHLES El have been able to oher the Kai-er In his successive transitions from mui lerer to thief, from thief to liar and from .liar to babbling coward without experi encing any mitigation of their rabid pro Germanism have been sent South to an internment camp. 'What are we to do, any way. with these spurious 'American citizens" after the .Vai" ThniiegmlD Mf tl.mv nf. .r.w rnullnr. W .. -""f -"-- " """ -'- """ "" easily oeuinu siocwaues as guests in me American Government. Should they be turned over to specialists in lunar. Should they be ptesened in safety and rtlaiive comfofc until the war is oer? JJA What r blessed spectacle the world would enJo if all pro-German- in America were to be loaded into ship.- and started back to German noic in order that they ir mignt starve in the munitions far-tune or be chained to machine trenches! ;uiis in the front The headline "Petrograd again" vhaiiKes hands Is scarcely illuminating, -ince its right in almost Invariably oblivious of the actions of its left. WAR NAMES IT IS alieady plain that the war will terve to brighten and refresh the stock j, ot American nrst names. If ou live long or other to Pershins .lone- or Mi-Adon Wy Rrnwn. Thrp is llt.-pH In l.p n liiwpnliiic Daniels Perkins In almost any community where the Perkinses still persist. There Kjj win oe rsewton Uakcr Kpstems and even, - perhaps, a uurleson Sllverberg or two in every city of any importance, v Despite all this, it will not be po.-sible ,, o grasp the full meaning and scope of Hy. ihm veur nf wars until t-nu -. r nai'niltl.,1 ff'Sfe, to shake hands with the tVoodrnw Wil-nn tf'". Dnl.1, ll,.A. .! l, W 1 til Ljft .SMiuiibca aim llie t.uutuuH t ll-un .., Bchmldts and the Woodrow Wilson Wein , ",traubs that are likely to be thick in every WA- part of this wonderful land twenty jears SrvSv ro,n novr such names you will tlnd W"-' t last the real answer ot America to the Kaiser. The Kaiser, lamenting his country s n. Ire tar peace, doesn't seem to understand that the Allies are determined to iioide it. OPERA ENTRENCHED ? TK THE .maintenance ot its musical y. activities in a nme vviien tlieir tonic gAfc effect Is particularly potent, Philadelphia pt'rl one of the fortunate American cities. jjJJfe Mr. Stokowskl's plans for the orchestra iVijneason are well under way and practical us- H.j. aurance that more grandiose musical spec- Kucie ' not be denied us Is now at hand in'.the gale of subscription tickets opening ijrvtoday for the regular opera season. MV-f.'T. 1.n. .. ,w .. 1 ij K ;, no wailllllB CAIJC1 lence Ot yrvery European capital mat opera could ill fm'i spared. Even Taris, under the range Ajthe Big Berthas, kept the Academic de ustque ana tne upera comique open, and itbo Government's expense. Our own 'son, which exists through private sub. :,j4y and popular support, weathered ab- .jjiormal conditions last year. The coming ,H,vyeler will. It Is hoped, lie equally sue- it? J fceasful. K ' 'S;.!MV Galtl-Casazsa, the director of the V Vtfjir Tnt'k Metrnnntitan. nn rlilr-h imn,. - '-" "" "".-- iJ JM ' Philadelphia musical icmplo of the .- ,MMna name is dependent lor its operatic MHrriqwoun. uaa cjku iiscu lunsiuerauie . smuity in the arrangement of his repcr- JMT. Wagner works are still banned. wi'aiKi iiauan operas, nowever, .are iantly available. American com- wlll be represented with several sua noveltlea. "Oberon," by the . Weber, is listed, but his product . aily half Hun, Tha original libretto An Kuglish text. Sixteen perform - fill, as usbal, be accorded to Phlla- The,: n8 should help sustain the durijr;fh 'day' when art THE DOLLARS OF THE PRIVILEGED CLASSES Consress Is ExcmptinR Them 1'rom Taxation i anil Putting the Heavy llurilcii! on the Rich 'T'HERE can be no disagreement on the proposition that the financial policy of the Government at this time should not be dictated by political cowards. Certain provisions of the war revenue bill, however, indicate that the cowards arc in the saddle. The Secretary of the Treasury has naked them to make some concessions to an intelligent financial policy in older to facilitate the floating of the new Liberty Loan, and the House has done it. Hut Mr. McAdoo was not so cour ageous as he should have been. His request that the income from $30, 000 of the new loan in the hands of one holder be exempt from surtaxes ha.s been embodied in a bill. Exemption from surtaxes on the income is also granted on $40,000 each of the second and third Liberty Loans in the bunds of a single holder. He does not seem to be btave enough to demand that a tax-free bond be issued. Representative Cannon was not so timid, lie urged a !5 per cent tax-free bond and the refunding of the second and third loans by issues of this charac ter. Mr. Cannon has a mind that thinks clearly and he is not af:-aid of the logic of his conclusions. He knows that a tax-free bond can be sold at a lower rate of interest than a taxed bond. He knows that the money received in taxes on a bond bearing a higher rate of inter est will be only enough to pay the extra interest and that there will be no net return to the Government. Every man who has any money to invest, even if it be onl SI 000, knows it also. Bondholders, however, have no friends. They have been condemned by the politi cians from the beginning. But when Mr. Cannon and those who agree with him urge a tax-fiee bond they are speaking, not in behalf of the rich they can take care of themselves but in behalf of the common man on whom the burden of all taxation ultimately rests. It is of the first importance that the great war loans should be made attrac tive to capital not capital as represented by $30,000 or $40,000, but capital as lep resented by $3,000,000 or $4,000,000. in the hands of private individuals and in the hands of trustees for gteat masses of people, such as insurance companies, mutual savings banks and college corpo rations. The trustees are compelled by loyalty to their trust to secure the best income possible on their funds. If a o per cent corporation bond will net them a better income than a 4 per cent taxed Government bond they must pass the Government by. And they will do it. in order that they may conserve the prop erty in their care. They cannot be com pelled to do otherwise, unless the Govern ment intends to make a forced loan. We use many fine words about democ racy, but the House of Representatives has definitely refused to recognize the democracy of the dollar. It has created a privileged class of dollars in the belief that it is thcieby representing the senti ment of the country. Unfortunately, it has justification for that belief. The theory is widely held that the ends of social justice are served by levying a heavier income tax on the rich man than on the man of moderate means and by taking over a large part of the estates of rich decedents. A man has written a book recently to prove that the heirs of the rich have no right to inherit the property of their parents and that it should all go into the public treasury. We do not intend to combat either of these views, but we desire to call attention to the simple and elementary fact that the policy of levying a Federal tax on a Federal bond defeats in the long run its avowed purpose of increasing the Fed eral revenue. Such modifications of the bond taxing provisions of the levenue law as are now in the making are wise, but they do not go far enough. Debs gets off with a ten-year sentence. This will give him tune to consider whether a man who sets his own lews tip against the consi ieiice of the wot Id is ivally a inartvr. IT DUEsNT PAY- TO MONKEY WITH A BUZZ SAW A.MEKIL'A is engaged in such .serious' aA business just now that whoever tries to interfere with what she is doing is certain to get into trouble. When the Bridgeport striKeis read the Ptesident's letter they discovered that the.v had at tempted to buck up against the power of the United States. When this was written they were planning to go back to work and confess that they had attempted the impossible. The incident will be worth all the an noyance that it has caused If It Impresses upon any others who may be disposed to hold up war wotk of the futility of such efforts. The Americans appear to have intro duced the skip-stop in France. SHANISII INFLUENZA SPANISH influenza, which has at last penetrated to the United States, has mystified European scientists, it is pre sumed to have originated on the French battlefields. Some physicians believe it to be nothing more or less than the Black Plague of earlier wars, rendered relatively harmless because of the enervation which tlmo has brought to the persistent bacilli and by modern processes of sanitation. Others are still convinced that the appear ance of the disease represents one of the fantastic methods of the German war makers, who aresupposed to have devel oped the menace with weird dreams of prostrated armies laid low and surrounded after the disease had been spread by shells charged with it. Isolation camps are already established at Boston. Spanish Influenza Is not usually ai fatal malady.l Its chief dancer attack and, according to the" Surgeon Gen eral of the United States army, "leaves the convalescent easy prey for more dangerous diseases. Thus physicians suggest quick and thorougli care of those who may be aulictcd. Sudden ptostratlon and all the symptoms of an aggravated cold arc the usual signs of Spanish Influenza. An at tack usually lasts but a few days. It Is In the period of tecovery that the patient needs most careful attention. Complete lest, fresh nir and good food are the chief methods of cure. Stock of Zrpprlln, Tlrplts". : Company ( no longer quoted on the Hun slock ex change IS LUNCH A I.LXUR ? TN THE newspapers n tho ot two ago their vvn a cable dispatch that would have iaucii I he heart! of Americans wlldlv to skip a heat hail it not been ghoul tiered into a far corner nf every page by the news fiom the vicinity of .Metz. The P.iitish Government, it appears, has es tablished In London n systei.. of restau rants which offer "a substantial and pleas ant luncheon for thiit.v-nve cents." What a thumping business the liiitlsh Government-owned restaurants would do If they could be planted In the United Slates! Some sort of white magic underlies this latest entcipiisp uf Ihc versatile British, tiecause even though most of the food nee parj to "n substantial and pleasant luncheon" In England is produced in America, we on this side have no such bright midday ptospect as the English can now enjov. Nearlj everj waller In Amer ica expects almost thirtv -live cents for his tip. And a discoverer moie insistent than Columbus would br needed to Unci in this country a icstaiirant where one may lunch coinfottalil.v upon substantial faie for less than a dollar. The explanation of the .seeming miracle is simple enough. The food administration at least the Pennsylvania food adminis tration has nut .vet piugiesscd to a state of mind from which It can regard lunch eon as an Hsenti.il human need. The wholesome lonservation methods MiH-sesled by .Mi. Hoovei ate observed by tlie restaurants, or com-e. I'.tit at no time has the Federal system of food-saving le aded to protect the pattons of restaurants or the modern vagabonds who arc com pelled by folic of ciicumstances to find all their meals "mil " An example o," the jnoce.-s that lit- been followed by in numerable rc-iainant keepers was pre sented not long ao in New Voi k. where the State food biiaid summoned the mana gers of a well-known lestaurant syndicate and demanded to be told why the price of a glass of milk had been raised from live cents to ten. The -estaurant men ad mitted that tin rate was exorbitant and they i educed it lim the same syndicate is still collecting the ten-cent rate In Its Philadelphia i t-tainants. The so-called popular restaurants-those pationlzed by hurried vvoikers have been the greatest sinners in the game of gouge. It is safe to sav that the average man's luncheon costs nowadays twice the former flgiue. War, b some 0,( piocess, has doubled the cot of pie. The sandwich that used to h consideied almost a swindle when it was obtainable tor five cents now costs ten The sleight-of-hand worked on the basis of the wheat conservation pro gram in many leslaurants has been ade quate to dazzle an e.ve sensitive to ob vious artistry. When the hiead allotment wits limited to two ounces the cost of evtfry substitute necessary to ease the pangs of a hiingrv man soaied faster than an.v other items on the bill of fare. The huge sums which restaurant owners have saved by the reduced consumption of sugar and wheat have at no time benefited those who eat in restaurants. And while it is to be admitted that much of the excess costs of luncheon have been distributed in higher wages, it is still apparent that somebody Is making more than a fair piofit. Public testauiants aie. in a sen.-e. essential public utilities. Lunch is a neces sity, and as such n will bear the sctiiliny of the food administrators In the forms It assumes in most of the centrally located restaurants. Or shall we have to suppli cate Mr. McAdoo to invade this Held in an effort to give us in this country the boon of "a pleasant and substantial luncheon for thirt -five cents'".' The Get- in a u s ate The I ninvriilablr making airship wings substitute of wood, are using paper bandages, ate feeding Hit peonle at home on hot air and aie doing their best to invent a substitute for an Allied peace. "German ' civiliza .Xlmliltir MhiI tion, with its reliance on big suns and artil lery, is hugely mechanical, is it not, Sir. Tambo?" "Assuredly, Mr. Hones. What is your drift'.'" "Why, 1 was detecting theieln a certahl resemblance to certain conditions in Philadelphia." "Vou appall me, Mr. Bones. Hotv do ou deduce that?" "Well, it occurred to me that both are machine made." If Gernu n y i tally thinks It can annoy us by conducting "volun It I. n 111. Curds tary retliements" she should tf out her theory on a larger scale. Why wouldn't a self-determined retreat to Berlin bo In order? U was a courageous man who wore a straw hat on the street today or else a man without the price of a new lid. Maxim Gorky, as the Bolsheviki press agent, is saddled with a job of some magni tude. "Advance men" usually plan for what is coining off a week or two ahead, but theie is little evidence that Lenlne or Tiotsky'a actions can be doped out more than a few hours before performance time. That German major who dressed himself in a new uniform and had his boots polished while waiting to surrender to tho French on the St. Mihiel salient believed In dolnr things decently and in order. Now If he had only fought as decently as he had sur rendered Germany might not have so big a reckoning to make with the world. Constant association with bit figures during the war has naturally dulled our sense of realisation. Comparisons, however, arc still helpful, and General March's report that 35,000 American troops recently landed in France on a single day means something when one considers tht that sum Is but 7000 Icfb. than.tht entire population of the THE CHAFFING DISH milE dialling Dish -now becomes the arena ot one of the most remarkable contests of ancient or modern times. Dulcet Challenges the Supreme Spirit Our. leaders will remember that on Sep. tember 7 (date henceforth most memora ble) wo Issued on behalf of our 'most cher ished contributor, Mr. Dove Dulcet, the stib-calihcr poet of Obesity, N, ,T n chal lenge to Mr. Louis M. Ellslir.mltts, of New York. Mr. Ellshemlus tins for n long time been proclaiming himself (in the correspond ence columns of the New York Sun) "Su preme Spirit of .the Spheres." This having been brought to the attention of Mr. Dul cet, the latter deslics by intellectual Joust and tourne.v to measure himself agaln.-t the pretensions of this self-appointed Sn preme Spirit, lie Intends that Mr. Ellshe mlus shall not bear away this coveted and ltchlir palm without at least a runner-up. The contest will be t nnducted o u strict Queensborry rules, and we shall ask our leadeis ,f these gentlemen is best Our Headers Will Umpire to decide which entitled to the rank of Supreme Spirit of the Spheres. It seems just thut the pres ent titleholtler nhuuld have the first say, and though we witli dllllcul'.y restrain Mr Dulcet, we have asked hint to stand back while his rival describe himself to our readers. Air. Ellshcmius tc. . is that he was born at Laurel Hill, N. .1., on February 4, 1S61. (This Career of KIMicmiiis relieves u.- of our anxiety as to his bei.ig drafted.) His ancestors, all Hollanders were distinguished bishops and pastors One of them, in 1 554. suggested several important motions to the Synod at Dor drecht, which weie adopted. In his earliest vcars Ellshcmius showed his inborn talent for art. lie tells us that his moonlight, .sunlight, water scenes and nudes bc.tr comparison with those of any of the lelebiatcd Kiitopcau artists. In the portrayal of infinite effects in nature lie is unsurpassed. (The black-face type is his own.) From his nineteenth .vear (we quote the cir cular the Supreme Spirit has sent its) he has de Louis Iteggars Comparison voted a j.hi i of his precious time to writ ing. "The pni in bun looms up above the piose-w-rlter; although he has vvt ittcn equally as much tn that modicum of cxpiession includ ing novelettes, short stories and e-says. As a port he ha- no stiitrrlor in our country; as regards his productiveness In literal? works he beggars comparison with any vviiter, past or ptesent. in the world. To leally know what this implies, it Is necessary to read his works interestedly with care ami over and over again. A to beauty of his descriptions, tare musical feeling In his poetry and the in finite range of his subject-matter and deep thougths, Kilsheniius Is L'.N'IQUi: towering, n-It li all the giants of the past ages, above the workaday world '" To tlie J'.ditor nf the I'huOhiii Jisi-Sir: Only t i n1,i V it j"JInttmrr f n ry Ciiiiiiiiiiiiieatiiiu from the Supreme Spirit ,.omeiUe m n k"c me aware that Philadelphia Is opening her eyes to notice that I actually exist. TluJj'tiks' to your dissertation on my humble self I can test assured that soon many of your city will be aroused to the fact that Amer ica owns a personage apart from any in our blessed countrv. No, I never was paro chial, tf my compatri ots have denied me space Is Not 'aroclilal in their papers it was not my fault. How ever, no editor in foreign lands ever re fused my casual poems. Apia, Samoa, and Auckland. New Zealand, favored me with space for a poem twice a week. Also in Honolulu the editor did the same. Henqe in that section of the globe the public know me. This will at the same time inform ,vou why. although I have tried hard, the home public never can read my effusions, good or Indifferent. n, . . Now. my dear sir, you eadlly Accepts ,,,..,,,,, , ,, ,i :,.,, Playfully challenge me the Challenge , , , to show my superiority as to Mr. Dulcet's range of stuff In poetry. Of course, I never heard of him, and prob ably he is fictitious. All the same, if he lives I very much doubt that he can have an.v show alongside of my output: quality and unapproached diversity of subject matter combined. Has he an.v hope when the critics 1 ad equalled m.v powers of detailed Tamils Mr. Dulcet descriptions to those of Walt; tlie fervor and feeling In my poems to that of Words worth; the melodious classiclty of my stanzas to that ot Byion at his height"; the sublimity and sweetness of my epic to that of Milton; the dramatic richness and graceful versification of my tragedies to that of Shakespeare and Marlowe? And more and more? Has -Mr. Dulcet the least ray of hojje when he knows that, it to win the combat, he is compelled to show MSS. that will fill 140 volumes of 130 pages each In print? I deem it more probable that . he will cry out: defeated! However, I shall be glad to lead some of his work. In the meantime I am mailing a book of mln of popular verse. Of course, no Judgment can be mado before any one has not studiously digested all of my eighteen poetry books that are In print. As to "My Ocarina," at another date I shall refer to It. Yours sincerely, LOUIS M. EILSHEM1US, Supreme Spirit of the Spheres. New York City. 7'oioitoic tee shall picsent JJi: Uiitcet'it ansuer to the Supreme Spliit's first mani festo. Penalties Attached to Being a Human Being Other Human Beings SOCRATES. Half a million skilled women workers are needed in American industries within the next ninety days. Here Is a chance for those women who have not yet found their place In the big task of victory. A 50 per cent Increase In wattes has bfn granted to workmen In Japan.' Let' see; they are, said to gH three cents a day. and tha rls.wo,uld tfiy' them .four and IRRESISTIBLE LOGIC lly Our Sicciul Correspondent "Now promise tn on liplialf of the entire (trr niin Idbnr. 'We hiloinl tu li..M out t.) the last.' ' Til, asuiMiiM.v lomllv t horu"-.! "Vr " "Willi this 'Yes' I p linn- in the Fletrt .Ur nlial ' WII.IIK1.M It. I. at lisicn. I WAS fortunate enough to meet tilt- Kais.-r on bis way to I llndenbtiig's headquarteis, transporting with him a guttural Yes from the dear friends at Essen, I was anxious to exatnhie that Yes. to ste If II was sound and in good condition, but be had It lightly wrapped up. Evidently it was peilshablo and the Kaiser did not feel any too sure that it would keep. "1 hear gical things of our speech to the Krupp folks," I said. "I am given In understand. .Majesty, that ou surpassed yourself. I was told that the wtirjmuu were so linptessed that they could think ot noth ing else, and had to be driven back to woik with bayonets." Tile Kaiser looked a bit fagged, I thought. Theie were dark hollows under his ecs. (t myself was conscious of a dark hollow under my belt, for I had been In Germany for sev eral weeks.) He laid down a book he had been reading without much enthusiasm. 1 noticed the title It vvas "Tlie Kaiser as I Know Him," by Dr. Arthur N, Davis. tWT DO not claim to be a great otator," he ! said. "Tlie arts ot oratory are mere tricious, unworthy of the attention of a seri ous thinker. Tlie reason for the success of my speeches Is their unanswerable logic. It is curious how few of our enemies will take the trouble to think things out to a reasoned conclusion. How absurd It is for the English to Imagine they know the truth about this war. when they have only been thinking about It for four years. Ami the Americans, who never even began to consider the phi losophy ot war .until May, 1!15. Why. I have been-thinking about this war for over forty years. And do ou know, sometimes, even now, 1 am not entltcly certain that 1 have reached the final and Indisputable con clusions," "That is unanswerable, jour Majesty," I said. "Undoubtedly you must bo eleven times as right as tlie English, as you have been studying the matter eleven times as long." "I would notpdnilt this to every one," he said, "but as you are apparently a sensible man, let me point out that by the Sth of July, 1914, 1 had arrived at an entirely reasonable conspectus of the whole problem. And now the English, who are by no means a nation of thinkers, try to refute me by some hastily gathered arguments not one ot which ante dates the first of August of that year." "Thought will win the war." I said, 'pon't waste It." But evidently be was absorbed In his own inuslngB. xtot only aro the English pitifully IN Illogical," ho continued, "but, far xvorse, they are ungrateful.. You, know that for years the chief fetich ot the English has hcen life in the open air,. outdoor sports. In fact, their word jioi( has been adopted into almost all languages, the only English, wo: d so honored. Well, I can truthfully say that 1 have done more than any other man to get the vvoid out Into tho open air, and how am 1 rewarded? By universal Invective. It used tu be said that the Germans were a sedentary nation who lived almost entirely indoors. I give you my word that almost every able bodied man In Germany has-been ins Frcic since August, 1914. Look how tliey have enjoyed it. Millions of them have found it so congenial that they will never go back to the old life. f( ANOTHER point that I should like to JTlemphasIzo Is that It was our enemies who Introduced terrlblo hatred Into this war. Who was It who caused all the atrocities by continually retreating" What kind of' war-' fare (s that, to keep on retreating? And when the enemy 'retreats sou haxe to follow, "don't jovtV We' would .never have gone ohj far - - -i ... -t- k?-.l-iTLMIlaTUawtaHllxSfcSgtfqlatt J- , V-a.. 3k."r?lIl.l.-f?r5I -Ti..-Kt TTZL-ir t-.".H2t: - hadn't compelled us to do so by moving that way themselves. We left no church unshat tered In the effort to Bhorten the war. Who was it who ptolonged the war by keeping on lighting when they were hopelessly bkatett? Unsportsmanlike, 1 tell you '. I will put it to ou In your native metaphor. What woyuld ou think of a baseball team that insisted nn contlnulpg the game when the score was .1 to o against it at the end of the ninth inning'.'" For the first time I began to realize how unjust the world had been to this great man. Ills eyes glistened with pathos as lie went on. mllEY talk about spies. Look at this J- book it sets iny teeth on edge to read 111 Here, ten .vears befoie the war, the Americans had sunt a dentist to spy upon tne. 1 opened my mouth to that man more freely than to any one else. And how shame fully he has abused my confidence. Even my red-tlannel undershirt, which I wear as a compliment to Trotsky, Is mentioned. I think it Is barbarous. As the great German poet says, here are all tny secrets Set in a notebook, learned, anil conned by rote To cast into my tteth. 1 tell you 1 never appreciated the horrors ot war until Doctor Davis left, and 1 had to resort to a German dentist, T0 NOT imagine, however," said the J Kaiser, "that we are discouraged. Far from it. Tlie Kiel Canal remains, .as ever, absolutely Impregnable. As soon as I have talked matters over with Hludenbuig 1 am planning to take a little vacation. - ltosncr will go with me, and I am going to dictate a book to lilin called 'Doctor Davis as I Know llltti.' Do you know of an.v nice, quiet places where 1 could take a holiday undistuilied?" "St. Helena is said to be very pleasant," I ventured, "Come to think of It," ho said, "tlie whole German nation needs a vacation. Also Gott. I have sometimes thought Gott showed Sinp totns of overstrain." "It takes two to make u vacation," I sug gested. "What will Pershing say about it?" "Pershing? You mean that fellow whose family came from Alsace? Well, what has he got to do witli it? Tlrpltz told me he had been sunk by a U-boat. In fact, jioor dear old Tlrpy is worried at the number of sink ings. He says that very shortly he will not be able to sink any more transports properly, because the ocean is getting filled up, I understand that Is what the Americans mean by a bridge of ships, when so many ships have been sunk that they form a causeway across the Atlantic; of course, they will bo ablo to walk across dry-shod. Still, It's a long walk. I think perhaps Tlrpy is worried unnecessarily. tCITTfELL," he concluded, "you will excuse YV me, I must just deliver this Yes to llintly, and then I am so.lng into rest billets. Don't bo worried If joil don't hear from me for a bit. I've been rather overdoing things, and I need' a'changt-. ' Most ofwliy people tell me, they feel the same, Don't forget what I told the Krupps the war began with a great negation and will end with a great, negotiation," ; " ' And with a rather tremulous smile he was gone, carrying Doctor Davis's bodlt under his arm. Kaiser Bill' Last Word Arthur Train, the novelist, put dovrn a German newspaper at the Century' Club, in New York, with an Impatient grunt. "It says here." he explained, "that it Is Germany who will speak the last word in tire war." , Then Iho novelist, laughed angrily and added ,- 'SYes, Germany -.wills speak the last xvnrrt l f da, man an. frhafr t ..-. : - .. 1 . " A"E"",-i".:iJWfc,jW nura,.WlUv.-bi mr ifi.'.t'.u.ii,Mi ;; "! 'i-i .. r'-.'rir'--T' ' ""' :rs"ir,' M MOSES WHEN God beheld how Moses urned to see, A voice called from tho bush. So runs the tale. A truth Is here a truth that will pre vail Now as of old: Who would a prophet be, Must find light in the little wayside trye; Joy in 'the desert; he must never fal( Earth with her store of stinging hall, Dew on the grass, night and her galaxy.. Lift up your exes unto the hills of morl)! Truth is not truth that does not glorify The desolate and barren hush of thorn; Fills not with stars the tcmpest-cloudel sky; Brings not the murmur of a choric straiji Of triumplj from the threnody of pain. Robert W. Norwood, in "The Modern ists." Forsaking the Tejice In the annual report ot Cato Sells. Ccln mlssloner ot Indian Affairs, this Is said: "Evidences of material and humanitarian advancement aro. everywhere apparent. In dustrially and socially the Indians Ire making unparalleled strides toward self-s.ip-port and civilization. I have discovered tiiat with sympathetic co-operation and Intelli gent encouragement their response is almost universal." 'i Within the last few years 42,110 Initial! families have forsaken the tepee to llvd in houses. The tribal Indian rapidly Is becom ing "individualized." Ills red past Is wily a few years behind him, but it Is In the last. The Government no longer believes that xtars with tho Indians are possible. Tito 'question of peace vvjlth them Is an answered one,nd all that remains is to make of the Incian a self-supporting, self-respecting iiieiiibe( of American society. . ,.l 1, l.nu l.ob.. cclil 4t,n, l.n .-A.t r.'.ah n.l,l, Vll .v t.,i irr, cimu ,,,nb ,,, ivt ,,n-b v, ,nu Indian is only a fevvypars behind him. Bow strikingly, this lsshown by tlie fact ,hat vts today many officers -of the United Stites .' army, below the rank, .of brigadier general , wear tha ribbon which shows that thef have '"' seen active service in warfare agahwt the '"'-5. Apache, the Sioux, the Cheyenne or 'other tribes of mountain and plain. It prcbably will be hard today to find any Irreconclables among the Indians of the West, utiles the "search be extended Into the tepees o!' tha ancients who grow Icold age In a condition of roaniers and warriors, and in whom na ture foiblds a change lo take place, Roches ter Post-Express. " s(, His Independence "Who Is really boss in your home?" 111- quired the abrupt person. "Well," replied Mcckton, "ot course, lien- ' rletta assumes command of the pug dog ind the canary. But I can say pretty much wiat I like to the goldfish." AYashlngton Star. Time for Something to Be Quiet , "Cotlon Goods Quiet." We think that i Is much more becoming than to be ranipau Ing around as usual. New York Evenlig Post. What Do You Know? QUIZ Vtlifre In France Br the Hrler Iran (Uldi, which German still holds? , Vf hut In' the nicnnlnt nt the word flotilla? What Is a rope? What are rhitcs? -What in a dlnco? Who said, "Come nhat rome'ina?. time nnif the hour run. throuch Iheroulhe.t dtr"t Mho ti Koi'lol , Who vmn tho eommunder-ln-lilrf of tlio Federal forces at the battle of Uettj.. burs? What loneltudo lino Is known as tho data line? WhHt U the meantnc of tlie I-aUnphraio rj ' IMIU ItiVIO t ( a t . sj - i , The dlfiVrtnce In lime between New York and Nan FrancUcA la three hour. Thn filttf-lal tltl nf (-h Mormon Church 11 T-. the Churrh of Jeautt Chrlat of the tatter X MeU la on the Moselle River. , A pantheon U a temple dedicated to J1- the . I? . x r , M nr job j rant isin'"Miern-,parc or me'neai sv&. inc ronninea. rne Mora i rrero tne rrenrn iriiuiiraiMl naii lainnuv aa-ina a?iaMiirv "jftani' .meuninc riainir. una nenre ui- iuur iu nuciirn tur murium; uii npixwrat "Th nnnl Hm t ttwtav- ! tlmrA front' Ihaa 'Una 1 linn 1UII, PaHUIII) , .Tuniea Ttmhanan -a slf "' I'WatklJAiir ajtaa lainioai la aw ami Arra" M 1 I. A lanruliattn 'la. lal 1lak t.i.Ita. m.m.'mA V? 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