t- ?yi -1 - i B. iT.il.' f it i W . .. EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, VVEDNESDAY, OCTOB-R 1(3, 1918 ' r- r. r,f s. t t tg public liebgcc Hft EVENING TELEGRAPH PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY CTrUSs II. K CUIITIS. PnraiorsT Ht H. I.udlnston, Vice Prealilent, John C. unVretarr nil Treaauren 1'hlllpfl, Collin. R. Wllllami, Jokn J, Hpuraeon Dlrectora. EDiToniAi, noAno I Ctaca II K CcaTta. Chairman in e. sjiii.rt .... .HJItor 1 O. MAriTIN, Otneral Uualnea Manaaer -WBwtfWl! d daily At I'talto I.jcikirb llulljlna. Independence Hquar. nuladelr-hta. I CattaiL. . Ilroad and c'hratnut Street ', tiU'Unton Ilulldlnir X08 .Metropolitan Tower 401 Ford llult.lltii lnos I'uilerton llull.llna: . 12U2 TVfeune UulUlnr V -r NEWS lil'llBAUH WaantMjTos litaititi. t . N. K. Cor. I'ennatlvanla Ave and 14th St. Na- YoaK Iiiautt . . The Hun Hulldlnr JIP91 llnuc London rimri , ,, sunscniPTiox Tnn.Ma Th Ktciino I'ibiic Leikjui la aerved to aub- --aarlbtrt In Philadelphia and aurroundlne louna ''a th rata o( twelve U-) cents per week. p) utile ..Jetti carrier. -. mall to nolnt nutalde of Philadelphia. In ta United Btatea Canada or t nltel states po noun, poiare iree. miy t i rema prr rnomn : ($0) dollara per year, payable In adatice Foi all forelan rountrlea una If It dollar ner 4.AMk- -imnrrte cm nt Tone. wftw i . . Hftlocia... .OSjanjatH). . i f'cf Hottce fiubacrlbera wlahlnjr aildreaa changed $ ,,lnut d old aa well aa new addreaa. f ' ' '.TIL, soeo VAI.MT MtnOM, MaIN 30UO ,ll KT Addrets all comtniiiucnlfom tu Frenlno ritbltc Ledger, Independence Square I'hUadclphUi .''- i, Member of the Associated Tress ilA.w Associ.imn pimsst m cic-ih- " " fs-velu entitled to the ute for iipubUeitlon 1 of alt news dispatches credited tit It or not -, othermse credited In fift )ipcr, and also ,. 'fill Iftrnl .ifiMtaf,.-.? thfri.lt. 1 I Alt rlnhf. nt . Mtif.rf,.nn.. .....l..f .11. tl.f-' ..v ribl.l. lift .!. fldff.Ill, Phltadtlptila, Vednridt;, Orlabrr K, I'll HOW TO GET Rll) OP Till: MAGISTRATES TP THE General Asiemlil; lo b- elpi'teil "n November Joes Its dtit It wilt net on the siiBRCstlon of Assistant District At tornei Taulane and repeal the Ian Ie- V i flntns thto Jurlsaictlon of the magistrates' ' .courts. ',J- It is generally admitted that thee courts 1 should be abolished. Hut It has been '' thouKht to be Impossible because they ate embedded In the Constitution. This news "paper has pointed out mote than once that ,tli8 Constitution Rles to the General As- sembly complete power over the class of bases to be tiled before the maRlstrates. nd that by depriving these Judicial otll- , .cers of Jurisdiction over matters of lm- ' portanco the courts would die a natural '' death. In tha course of an argument acalnst w quashing the indictments apnlnsti Mapls ! trate Persch Mr. Taulane expressly stated I that if the act of 1875 creatlnir the courts ; Were repeated the courts wculd disappear. 1) There Is no doubt of this. The magistrates would have to be elected, for that Is or- dered by the Constitution, and they would f hao to receive n snlary, fcr the salary is "jialso ordered by the Constitution. But u " dollar a year would meet the technical k requirements. J; lf.n)l,m, n vn,1linl i ahIuIhh ....1 ...n.l....l rt tu4tUn 41.- fn...l...ln.. I. I.. 1.... l ...... s l'lh'e (lenerul Assembly will come to thu relief of this city and act on the siiKBes , tlon of Mr. Taulane. There's not the slightest need for the , j aiprci oi jviDama 10 waste a tear oer Hib , -v capture of Durazzo by the Italians and .tBritisll. Thev'lft tnpPAlv LlLnri unniplhlKi. rj which he ner really had A rnvrr ciito hit i rfuut.i.. If " a-aiill Jill I uui Ul UU.)liUI33HJi J' riiMK rool tnat rocks the boat has an inenvlablc rlml. Hn is tliM nnu. ....h.m. ,..u ulv.li, OMILUkAl lillll 1IU V stroys ror tronths the usefulness of steal ataamahlnu n lha tlma iilmn l.a ,.An.i r.... mem is supremely pressing. It is hinted , titat some such bungler Is responsible for ' -the sinking at her dock in Hobokcn of the ; huge transport America, formerly of the Hamburg-American Line. Stumors that spies were involved In this aocldent have been discounted. They were i similarly rejected in the case of the St. Paul, which lay on the bottom of the Hud- , son' for months this ear when she could '. bo ill spared In the transatlantic service If stupidity Is really to blame fo the '"'temporary but still extremely erIous loss j of 'these two fine essels, tin occasion for .scrupulously strict superintendence of '"shipping In port is Indeed urgent. CMI ;Clans unfamiliar with marine mechanism fiif ; may be eaully as dangerous as Huns. Humors that "the majority of the (ler- ! piah people want peace at any price" beem , father foolish when the tost of it has been J o tpeclflcally Hated. If". .& TUP AlVTr-CDtXTIVr- rtmv v.r CiJ- sidewalk has for years been mnrn r. . . Anaw.tr1 tn fKn Vimtinh tl.nn ft, 4I,A l.nnH.. , 'ijnce. Visitors from other cities have been T" aff.n iti.it t... .Ln .n..t.. , .. i vucimcu u diu jjict aicuce nere 01 me 1 habit. Now we aro told that the ordinance is to be enforced and that those who violate ;t ,K will be fined. In order that the spiead of Influenza may be checked. a ', Spitting on the sidewalks, of course, f should be stopped, but if the streets were hept clear of all disease-breeding filth It would be much easier to check the spread 'net only of the grip but of every other fftl&Asla V -n a till mi 1,1 t.n l..1...i . . . WJtever disposition may be manifesting . iifteix to enxorce rorgotten ordinances. - There are sortie who will not believe tkaat,PreiIdent Wilson's note Is acceptable to If, associated Powers until they hear VW Colonel Itoosevelt thinks of It. $' ' H WASHINGTON MUST HELP l(failESS Is expected to pass the bill 'Vjaroprlatlnsr $8,000,000 to pay one-half telle cost of the proposed bridge across .Delaware, which Representative Vare P Introduced In the House. bridge Is to facilitate interstate e, a subject over which Congress adlctlon. It Is part of the great iar Improving the transportation fa- liter, this port. The development of rt U a matter of national concern, ielphla is a distributing point for luets of a vast country extending fm as the Hocky Mountains. livery t here in dredging the river and vlng the railroad terminals bene- 'farmer and every manufacturer i part of the nation. Men spending money by the t r to liwure to ourselves and the rKht to live our -lives Km aovsrnmunt (in SQUEEZING OUT THE HUN Ilia Chances of Mikln a Stand on the Mile alentlcnnei Line Grow Hourly Sllmmet "PiXTENSIVE advertisement of a new J German line of defense arouses among the hosts of freedom no such feel ings of rcluctunt respect as were occa sioned when the slcnincnncc of the Hin denburp line was realized one year and a lit If ago. The strength of that bulwark, now happily obsolete, was obvious. It ran front stronghold to stronghold. It was elaborately planned during months of comparative quiet on the front. It was designed to foster Hindenburg's plans for an encrvnting stnlemate in 1917 and, save for Byng's ill-supported lupturc last November, the original design was effectively carried out until the Hun him self decided to play for higher stakes than a deadlock. The substitution of open fighting for trench warfare was concurrent with this determination. Germany delibeiatcly set the new style and employed it with showy success until the mcmoruble mid summer of this year, when Foch, with characteristic French taste, contiibuted pertinent finishing touches and made it a la mode for a period which will prob ably extend to the conclusion of the war. The present fighting fashions are not fnvoinblc to defensive lines erected by an army in tetreat. The destruction of the Hindcnburg barner. reputed the most powerful hin drance ever raised by an army, gives n clear verdict in favor of incessant offensive pressute exerted without inter mission on all parts of the obstruction. The oblitetation of the great wall from Verdun to the sea provides a standard example of the impotence of such a structute under hammer blows. It is perfectly obvious that the Ger mans cannot withdraw behind anything as caiefully constructed as the Hinden buig line anywhere this side of the eastern boundary of France. Fuithcr moie, it become? incieasingly evident that their announcement of a battle front running from Lille to Valenciennes, to Hirson, to Mezietes, to Metz was frantically prematutc. Two points on this hypothetical bar rier arc likely to be in Allied hands befoie many days have passed. They al-e Lille and Mezicrcs. The line will then have no logical teiminu'? and it will be bleached in the center. If Ger many seeks to stake her chances on prospects so insubstantial as they appear at this moment Koch's ambition to crush his foe's military power before it has an opportunity to escape across the Rhine may be achieved. Undoubtedly that is what the general issimo is playing for. It would be un reasonably optimistic to forecast defi nitely such a triumph. This much, how ever, may be safely piedictcd. Given the present rate of the Teuton retreat, the enemy will cither be trapped or thrust virtually out of Franco before the close of 191S. Up to now his fckill in withdrawal has had conspicuous merit. The bagging of latge numbcts of prisoners has lately ceased, if exception be made of the goodly haul in the Anglo-Belgian drive on Roulers. But the possibility of Ger man blundeis grows apace as his retreat becomes more and more crowded. The German General Staff today must reckon with three perilous situations. The most critical is in the north, where his hold on the U-boat base of Ostend and Zeebruggc grows momcntaiily mote insecure and where the fall of Lille and Douai seems only a matter of a few days. The extinction of the Lille salient would totally wreck the alleged German schemes for the extension of a formid able barrier extending northwest from Valenciennes. Any slip-up in this legion would be terribly costly. The second peril is slightly less immi nent and is dependent on the progress of the British and Americans cast of Le Cateau and of the French toward Guise. Further pressure in these directions would render the Hirson bastion unten able. To the southeast the new situa tion created by the almost simultaneous fall of La Fere and Laon, strongholds which had resisted the armies of liberty since 1914, is fast becoming one of potent interest. Three armies, Mangin's, Gouraud's and the American, are advancing rap idly to regain the deepest strip of French territory still in Hun possession, and Rcthel an important railroad junc tion at the crest of the bend of the Aisne is on the vetge of capture. The larger objective is Mezieres, key to the German transport system of this part of the front and close enough to Sedan to make an ticipatory thrills of recompense exquis itely sweet. The Franco-American forces are still considerably more than twenty miles from this goal. The magnitude of their task is duly commensurate with the scope of the victory that may result if the tempo of advancement increases. Like the Germans, pessimistic arm chair strategists are in retirement at this hour. From their Caves of Adullam they may still dismally prophesy that Koch will not corner the entire German army. There are too many unforeseen contingencies to render such a forecast worthy of argumentative support or in dorsement. But croakers cannot raise the bugaboo of the terrible second Ger man line of defense. We know too well what happened to the first one. A NEW LINK WITH SIBERIA GAIII- W. ACKEKMAK, with whose striking work, "Germany the Next He public," as well as notable special articles, readers of the Evckino PUBuq Ut.vmv.ix are JMBllttr, d-Mtara that Vladivostok lMDM TimataWa. jmw '- proceeds to draw a pen-picture of Ameri canizing influences In that distant seaport which belle all suggestion of remoteness. Attached as correspondent to the Ameri can army there, Mr. Ackcrman will report for this newspaper the progress of a unique campaign which alms to establish true standards of democracy In Itussla. The experiment has no parallel In history and should be u rlih Held for the expression of a trained correspondent's Interpretative gifts, until recently so Illuminative of the Swiss neutrality maelsttom, No, MaiUo dear, the girl with spats has not necessarily transgressed the latest anti grip ruling, WISE RESTRICTIONS AS THK grip epidemic sit ws a tendency "to subside It becomes pla.t. that the various ordets Issued by tho State Depart ment of Health to limit the possibilities of contagion nt public assemblages were timely and wise and that the advetBe criti cisms which such edicts inspired In many quarters were without Justification. In mnny cities In Spain and Swltrerland the lntlueimt epidemic was of long dura tion and deadlier even than It has been here. The virulent character of the dis ease and the luck of definite knowledge which served to hinder the physicians who pilled themselves against it certainly Jus tified the i.estilctlve measures adopted by tho health atithotltles of the State. It Is altogether piobable that death nnd Illness would have visited it great many more households had the authorities been 1h or lenient. The poweitt of the Slate Depattment of Health ate of euraol dinar scope In rises of emergeiiej. The wisdom of the legisla tive act under which the late Doctor Dixon reorranled the department has been ptoverl In this Instance. The department has a well-trained personnel and It has operatetl elllclentl.v since the outbreak of the epidemic to enfotrc such preventive measures as were netetsary to safeguard the community against greater suffering. The occasional angry outbit-aks of criti cism aimed at the lieulth nuthotltles since the so (.tilled "closing orders" were made effective cannot be said to be In teasonable regard for the seriousness of the situation. Tho community nt large has. Indeed, a light to be gutotitl to the head of the department who had the coutage lo adopt extruordlmiiv measures and enforce them to the lettti In the face of all opposition. Interest In the loan Is not debatable, but a very real thing. lJuy up and be con vinced NO TRUCE IN JERSEY TN JKItSKV. too, as well as In Ccrmany, the old things and the new are lined up for warftie While the forces of des tiny are battering at the foundation f Wllhclm'.s throne, that citadel of political traditions known to the world as Senator Davy Huird Is under a violent attack by the hardly less potent forces that give In cteaslng vitality to the cause of eqcal suffrage. The sufftuglsts In New Jersey want Senator Davy to abdicate. Thev aro out to fight him to the end. There Is no talk of armistices, no fourteen conditions, no notes In that t.uarter. The war Is to bo to tlfj death. It will be an Intetestlng war to wath. The forces opposed In the conflict repre sent the extremes of Ante! lean political t.plnlotl tm old thing nnd tlu new, the past and the future. Senator Dav.v Is an amiable man. Hut he adheres strictly lo old-school political beliefs to understand ings and gentlemen's agreements and smooth-working part organisations, and above all to the Obedient Majority. There are no frills on him. Ho believes that woman's place Is in the home unu that Providence loves the United StatC3. The powers arraed against him repre sent the New Idea. They icpresent the aspiring consciousness. They are the spreading hopes and Idealism of younger minded America. It will be Interesting to observe the sort of fight the aro ublc to make and whethei the ate able to put a dent or a scratch upon the urmor of Senator Davy. If they aro able to shako the confidence of that old chieftain ever so slightly then we shall de''de that the world of thought In New Jersey does uctuull move, even If it move slowly. W ilsonlan harpoons seem to have been hurled right Into Herman walls, SOMETHING IS HAPPENING IN GERMANY THK freedom with whlc the (lerman newspapers are discussing the possible abdication of the Kaiser Is astounding. Something Is going on bei.lnd the scenes hints of which cannot be prevented from getting out The Tngeblatt, of Berlin, for example, suggests that the -abdication of the Kaiser would be facilitated if Herr Kbcrt or Doctor Solf were to succeed Max imilian as Chancellor, though It prefers von l'atr. the Deputy Chancellor. The Socialists are Insisting that the new Chan cellor shall be a man In smpathy with the demands of the commoners rather than of the nobility. But the mere fact that there is a discus sion In Germany of the possibility of the withdrawal of Wllhelm from the throne Is more significant of change In the In ternal affairs of the country than anything that has et happened. That deep and awful Itepubllra Alwaya silence of which jou Were Ingruteful cannot help but be aware radiates, so to speak, from the 45,866 self-appointed Assist- ant Presidents of the United States who, after tolling night and day for more than a week, found suddenly that they were engaged In a nonessential employment. Lenlne and Trotsky hlsna of I'roml.e have fallen out. The ' Kaiser and the Crown Prince are said to be at daggers' points, l.udendorft and Htndenburg do not speak as they pass. The world, all told, looks a little brighter. The German editors who walled In pain when their Government proposed peace are probably in need of ether by this time. The farmerette Is here to stay, sayMhe agricultural experts. That Is more than one can say for the cook nowadays. All the same, the barring of the bars kuu itwMsed the production of whines and ft;4 tfctHar Wh Hbt variety, . THE HOT BOX o I'll advice to Wllhelm icould be to do his Christmas abdicating carl. Liberty Loan Though! Once In a whllo the course of human events takes us to New York, a surpris ingly large town completely dominated by uniformed hallboys and head waiters, Approaching the metropolis In n, cuu tlous and futtlve fashion, wo pass through the train yards In Jersey City, and there wo have several times noticed a sight that Interests us very much. It Is a fleet of Uncle Sam's locomotives, each one painted battleship gray and Ini tialed IT. S A waiting on the sidings In Jersey City to be shipped across for service on our military railways In France. A locomotive Is rather nn expensive plaything, and when ott see a hundred or so of them lined up ou naturally wonder who pas for them. To us th6se engines are a vivid symbol of the sort of thing the fourth Liberty Ioan means. It means the Instant urgent necessities of our campaign. We cannot Imagine that there Is a think. Ing citizen who -does not realize that our military effort now stands on the most critical hilltop of the war. There can be no armistice In bond buying. We submit, subject to correction, that thtee things aro necessary In carrying on a war. Klrst, un enemy lo fight against. The Kalaer has provided this. Second, armed forcea of our own to fight for us. These we htfto nrrued und they are on the Job Third, a united nation behind the armed forces, standing heart to hcatt and pocket to pocket. It is up to every one of us to think It out for himself. How much more can you spate to hasten Ihe war to Its honorable conclusion'.' Let's sic, dlu.i'l Mi. insoit sail some tliliip about the triumphant force that uould bring ciery Holfish t'omlnlon down In the dustS When It does comp. pedco will seem so Hliangp and delightful th't undoubtedly till enterprising newspapc-s will have highly paid peace cortespondents In the paMgerent countries. ll'or has taught us all to be mlyhlu sin cud and cnniij. Did you ever u-atch a vmohcr strike civ safctu match these days, and notice how far lie holds It atrau ftom Us ilothcs until he sec t uhcthcr the bunt ing head Is going to iputtcr off.' Shaking in Their Shoes A Berlin newspaper sas that no (ler man can read Doctor Solf's recent reply to President Wilson Without being shaken to the bottom of his soul. Also to the bottom of his boolsole ll't! orn it-oiidcr tthat particular tirele of hell Kill be icscmd for the men icho iplt on pavements' Perhaps the brst punishment for them In this life icould be to picicnt them from bulling any Liberty llonds. The (lerman pleas for an armistice seem to us about as honest and genuine as a waiter's shirt front. Mr. Mc.ldoo hat said nothing during tl)l' loan drlic about u-caring half-iolcd trou sers. Is It possible that he has gone and bought a new pair since last spring? It looks to us ns though Germany pretty soon will do the Little .lack Homer stunt of thumbing out the HohenzolleHis, and then look up at us bashfully expecting praise for such an obvious uct of good sense. What Clcrmany needs U a stiff dose of some kind of icrmln killer that will have the same effect on llohcntollcrns that a Lcll-Unocn poison is said to hate on tats "Ihcy don't die in the house." Autumn Hills of I'unston (To the memory of Lleutenat.t Ilobcrt C. Westman, of Massachusetts, killed in action August 10, 191S) ACHOSS the hills of Kunston the autumn ati rains have swept And silent are the grasses where the tiny creatures crept; Brown and ted and yellow are the hollows of the hills, And violet the twilight when the waning sunset fills All the little vales and gulloys where the prairie re .'s glowed In early June in Funston beside the tram pled road. FOB esterda the word came from the sister of u friend, "Bob died in Prance in August" wete the simple words she penned, l'ct they turned my heart to ashes and they drew across the sky A veil that clouds the sunshine till the day I come to die; 1 could have spared a hurdred from the store of friends I keep If only death had lifted tho sickle from thbi sleep, 0 AUTUMN hills of Funston where I wait a prisoner With hands and feet so fettered that I cannot even stir, . The glory of the summer and the promise of the spring Are smlt with frost of autumn iiid with blackened withering; There's a new -made grave In Alsace-where the sudden popples start But It's autumn here In Funston and It's winter In my heart, PVT. WILLABD WATTLES, Brigade Sur geon's Olllce, 164th Depot Brigade, Camp Funston, Kan. How many kindly people theie are In the world Just as long as ou are nice to 'em! The Kaiser Is so silent these days he must be paring apple peelings to thivw over his left shoulder at Halloween. If barnacles are good to eat, what a feast the German naval comma 'ders must be having! Philip Olbbs reports thati a smartly dressed German officer surrendered the other day, saying that he teas wearing his "peace clothes." The best kind of peace clothes for a German officer would be a pair of over alls, worn while at work clearing up tht tcanlon wreckage done in France and BcU alum. The bt preventive of the grip Is to bujt . t-r IWM. J-JU-ja.-i.J THERE IS NO WAY i fcJatSt&'-r- i,1 tJ .-j i'.t'r l ' T; ' Wmfcf' ?!' ft1' J i v ift ij'.. fV, S.J ' Jf-Al V AU If ..I at" I l Ml ... -. i r' Si M- ii K '-',' r-vl' "--L'..i ) , 1 .' r ..w---ij,i i"4ll' I'll . O'U.l .yk .t " j ' w mm fc'M $$; lv J . " t -' 'f mTI Jttl !(. a a Ii.1 i r '.i"rtf ' v . "f . frV-i JtV.i -s :? ' -. . - . t t. -J - ' M I WHAT A CONGRESSMAN SEES Sfiniwpofdy Li'ltvr Touching on the Washington Doings of Personalities I Familiar to Philadclphians By J. Hampton Moore Washington, I. ('.. Oct. 16. "piVTUItN Hips to Philadelphia after a steady ubenco find many changes In personnel. Now faces ate found In place of "old familiars" und ofttlmes old faces ate sought in vain One must read the obituary column j.owadavs to make sute of one's giound. Sol Asher gone! At the Manu facturers' Club, In Grand Army circles (for the famous dancing master had a good war record) and umong the Masons. Sol will be sadlj missed. And Harty J. Shoemaker, of Dovlcstovvn, who liplped Joseph li. CJtundy build up the Pennsvl vanla Manufacturers' Association until it has come to bo nn Influence to be reckoned with in the State and nation. At Hartls burg und at Washington' ho was known as an expert on all matters affecting tho Interests of manufacturers. And Jacob T. Alburger. Ill departure puts the his toric Tammany Pea Shote Fishing Com pany among tho last man's clubs. Al burger belor.ged to the group heailed by Colonel M. Rlchardi Muckle, William T. Head, Samuel W. Wray. Abner Murphy nnd J. B. Jones, but they have gone nnd few Indeed of the active members of the company now ternaln MAYOR McDOWHLL, of Chester, like Ma or Kills, of Camden, has had much to do recently with Government officials In connection with war vvotk. Some of the Chester Maor's tioubles have arisen from the disposition of shipbuilding offi cials to proceed without consulfir.g city officials, as in the matter of tho consttuo tion of frame buildings, without first con forming to local fire and building regula tions. The war has given excuse Jjo some of the Government contractors to 'do many things they would not dare to do in times of peace and thus Is aroused an occasional outburst of tho time-honored "right of local government." Chester Is making a big contribution to the war and neither the Mayor nor the Chamber of Commerce, of which T. Woodward Trainer is the live wife sectetary, nor the Board of Trade, of which Eugene I' Wfclie Is president, has lost any opportunity to keep the wheels turning. They ate encouraging shipbuilding ar.d housing accommodations, ate Insisting upon a larger port and a deeper Delawaie, and are not overlooking that other Chester assetthe Hon. Wil liam C. Sprout whom they expect to see In the gubernatorial chair after the first of January. The Ilepubllcan nominee, by the wuyvU a director of the Chester Cham ber of Comniercd and attends the regular meetings. a a a rryiAT' stage of the congresilonal cam. palgn has been reached where the re. spectlvj chairmen are pleasantly accusing each other of "pernicious political activ ity." And yet, no campaign of natlon-wld Interest has been quite so Innocuous a this one. The Democrats are sending W speakers and so. are the Republicans, tfltf an oi tnem are taming iw mortj t pennies auu icyv u wieut IfJsatVre publicity fo theif utterandp te s UtwaU e war. a(pftj ROUND THAT "GREAT '. . ;c"zm pnlgnlng" that has been done has really consisted of circulars and letters emanating from committee headquarters hero and in New York. The most active leader has been the new chairman of tho Republican National Committee, Will II. Hays, of Indiana. He Is a good talker and letter writer nnd travels around enough to keep the bojs stirred up. Ills chief line of talk is "Win the war," but recently ho has taken advantage of Democratic speeches In Wisconsin, Maine and other States to accuse tho enemy of unfair tactics. A letter sent Into Kentucky1 by the Demo cratic National Committee, of which Vonce McCotmlck, of Pennsylvania, Is chairman, signed by V.'. D. Jamleson, the assistant treasurer, is In point, it holds up the re suit of the election In .Maine us significant and Indicates that Berlin would be the gainer If the Republicans captured Con gress. Of course, the Republican chair man challenges that statement and up braids the Democrats for. t;uestlonlng the loalt of Republicans. The Jamleson let ter, by the way, was an appeal for funds It was not signed by Mr. McCormlck, who, although chairman of the National Com mittee, Is also u Federal official, being chairman of the1 war trade hoard. QJO FAR as the have gone the two national campaign committees huv6 been working in harmony with the con gressional committees, of which Scott Fer ris, of Oklahoma, Is chairman for the Democrats, and Dr. S. D. FesS, of Ohio, for the Republicans. Since suceedlng Chair man Frank Woods, of Iowa, Doctor Fess has been putting considerable ginger into the campaign. His committee orj speakers, of which Bascomb Slemp, of Virginia, Is chairman, has been working particularly In Stutes like Indiana and New York The result Is tint' Ferris has been going to the White House oftener, and more Demo cratic speeches have been going Into the Record than was originally .ntended. The President's attitude toward Individual mem bers of Congress has been a matter of con cern In some of tho districts, :ut most of the trouble such as it is hos been occa sioned by the New York organization known as the National Security League. This aggiegatlon has been setting up opposition to many members because of their votes before the war and on the war issue and has stirred up a good deal of resentment. If speeches made by Mc Lemore, of Texas, Democtuf; McCul lough, of Ohio, Republican, and Illllard, of Colorado, Democrat, may be accepted as criterion?, the National Security League is "a bunch of Wall street profiteers." Frear, of Wisconsin, who held the floor a year or so ugo as a Treasury reformer, being tjhe chief antagonist of the so called "pork barrel," has taken the assaults of the Se curity League so seriously aa to try by resolution to secure an Investigation of its alms and revenues. The ex-baseball plajer who held up a bank at York, Pa., seems not to have heard of the shipyards. How is it. that you never hear any one nUMM1'W1 p4lif,-Vf theutfe tit. lt)aMf.ljarttM7 AMERICAN BLUFF v !.. The "Over There" View WW'' Hun HAVE come over to wallop the 11V won't be back till the vlct'ry Is won; And winning it can't be exactly called fun; But what are Vow doing to help'.' We're got to clean up the batbarous mob That's set up to conquer and murder and rob; i And H'e won't give up till we've finished the Job; But what are You doing to help? We don't complain when we're hit by A shell; We don't complain when we starve for a spell; We don't complain, though we're golnf through hell; But what nre Vow doing to help? We are not atfcrd to subsciibc to a loan; We are commanded to give all we own, , So that a demon may fall from hla throne, But what ate Vow doing to help? We go through water, nnd f.re. and smoke. Just to protect you, the home-staying folk; We do It gludl and say! It's no joke I But what aro You doing to help? Some day tl.e sun will be shining one more V , Down on a world rid forever of war. And We'll figure big when they count up the score; But what are Vow doing to help? Yes. What are You doing to help? Leo Turner, In the New York Times. , Hooray! A skirt has been Invented for women that can be worn at the walking length, shorten) for sports or divided and converted Into ' bloomers. San Francisco Examiner. The Old Story There are about 15,000 girls In Houston between the ages of twelve and twenty, but 4 our patrols report that 96 per cent of the old j town's dlahen are washed by mother. Ifous- ton Post. Answer If You Can! Professor The first man was found la India. Freshman Who found him? St. Louia Star, What Do You Knoiv? QUIZ w,i1i p,J.,"n ln,.vir,Ji"mn 'Hi ,noa Daetor Naif hpldr Hbai iMaaeaatan af the fnllut Mat hai, . .. i."1 at'l""' 'eoni a aaiere (arthaeaker ' Hhll la fuleneet 7 JJnat Is tin ud valorem tnrlfT? What la the nflieln' intma af Turketf Wliiit la u iniirmlnf Who wn llttv ViawkeaT V III ..ill '-fl'trt, mil. ivrt.Mfl . a u,aM. 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