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All rights of republication of rpcclal dls. patches herein are also reserved. PMIidtlplila. ThunJir. October IT. 1'1 THE "GRIP" IN THE CITY HLL EVENTS crowd upon each other at home as well as abroad. I 'ay da at the City Hall, a broadside In the malls of po litical assessment summonses, and the climax of the loan campaign combine to make yiese exciting times for the mimic! pat Jobholder. He may refuse to swell the Vare political war chest and advance the bond buying. Such patriotic effrontery however, may cost him a cozy berth In Penn Square. He may financially Indorse the largest street-cleaning contractor In the world, pull his hat down oer his eyes and hustlo furtively down thoroughfares bril liant with red, white and blue bunting. One thing; however, is bitterly sure: He fcnows more about the "crip" than some physicians. The disease Is neither Rus sian nor Spanish, but of the shameful City Hall variety. ff Judging from Its latest report the P R. T. seems at last In a fare vva) to reach substantial prosperity. HOW TO SOLVE THE CARHAGE PRODLEM 0 N JTS surface the bid of the I'enn He- ductlon Company for collecting the garbage seemB outrageous. The present contract is for 1565,256. The new bid is for $724,000, or an Increase of $148,744. Thero Is less garbage to collect because the people are wasting less food than for merly. It would seem as if the company hould be willing to cart away the smaller quantity for a Bmaller sum. We are told. however, that the amount of marketable fats that can be recovered from the waste Is so small that the profit from reducing the garbage .has virtually disappeared. We are .also told that the increased cost of labor Increases the cost of collection. "We may admit all this without Justifying the present sstem of garbage collection Some other cities are paid by contractors for the privilege of collecting the household waste, but it has been impossible to induce Councils seriously to consider making an attempt to introd'i -e here the system In vogue in those cities. Soma other cities also make long-term contracts with the reduction people This was proposed here under Mayor Blanken burg, but for reasons best known to the politicians it was rejected. If it had been adopted a contract made under normal con dltlons would still be In force and the tax payers would not be called upon to pay the Increased cost which seems likely to be saddled upon them next jear. The five year contract which was proposed would have opened the door to competition, for Jt would have assured whatever company nought the work of a business for a period long enough to Justify building a reduction plant and would have enabled it to get a market for its hj -products. When our city business Is conducted on business principles a contract for at least five years will be awarded to a garbage collector as a preliminary to a still more economical system of disposing of the waste. We can have such a s)stem when ever we care to take the trouble to Insist on It. Rehabilitating Itussla Just now Ik very much like making bricks without straw. WHAT YOU CAN DO IF YOU TRY THE Government asked for a survey of the war industries in this district which should show the needs of the 900 different contractors in the way of men and mi terlals. Ernest T Trigg, the regional adviser of the War Industries Board, set about the task and had it completed within ten days, or at the rate of ninety different con tractors a da. Organization and system did It. prodded on by a realization of the Importance of Bpeed. Now that It has been demonstrated what Philadelphia can do if It tries, It Is not too much to hope that it will apply the same kind of push to its own enter prises and lift Itself from the deliberation With which It has hitherto conducted Its affair. The Junk In Junker hourly acquires ad ditional prominence. WE'VE COT THE .MEN THE, Provost Marshal General teports that 23,456,021 men of military age have registered for selective draft service since the first draft law was passed. Of this number 2,042,244, or nearly one-tenth, have registered in this Commonwealth. Oft the last registration day, when . the men under twenty-one and over thirty registered, the names of 1,149,322 I'enn avlvanlana were enrolled. The total regls IfMon In the wholecountry on that day tpMi2,t66,o94, or nearly 200,000 more than Ifce.Wellmlnary estimates. OsH ef this vast army of ellglbles It will Je to put In uniform enough men rfc whatever is necessary to win the th There to not the aifcafctt kl THE LOAN MUST SUCCEED This Is Certain Iteciute the Nation Will Not Let Its Soldiers Lark for What They Need YKTE ENTERED the war eighteen ' months ago anil we hnvo nineteen hundred thousnnd men on the other side of the ocean. This is an achievement which has never been npproached since the flaming sword vvnved over the gntc of Paradise, btinging war and denth into the world. Of one thing we can bo sure, and that Is that the nation which has sent its soldiers ncross the seas is not going to fail to back up those fighting men with all they need to accomplish the task on which they have set out. Nor will it stop sending men across tho ocenn so long as they nrc needed there. We talk about the lagging of the bond sale campaign, just as we talked about the slowness of our armies in getting into action. But the armies have been raised and they are giving a splendid account of themselves in every section of the western front where they nrc engaged. In like manner we have oversubscribed every loan that has been offered, and wo nre going to oversubscribe this one, even though the Government is nsking for more money thnn ever before. This is not a mere guess. It is based on the known and expressed purposes of the people of America to do their utmost to win the war. They are intelligent and they know that the wnr ennnot be won without money. They turned their sav ings over to the Government when it asked to borrow them in the previous loan campaigns, just ns the plain people of France went down into their stock ings and subscribed for the bonds which the French Government issued to pay the German indemnity in 1870. The Frenchmen redeemed their land fiom the danger of German occupation by provid ing the money. Tho Amcricnn people are going to make it certain that no German t-oops shall ever occupy an inch of American soil by drawing still further on their savings. No peace diive will be permitted to stay our hand so long as the Geiman aimies arc in the field. It is not the rich who nie doing all this, but tho people of moderate means. Among the millions of subscriptions to the last loan there were less than 23,000 for an amount in excess of $10,000. If evidence were needed to prove that this is your war and my war, and not a war of the capitalists, nothing further would be required. Another reason for the certainty of the success of the loan lies in the fact that the people realize that whatever is not provided by the issue of bonds, to be redeemed in the distant futuie, must be provided at once by direct taxation. Secretary McAdoo wants $24,000,000,000 this year. He has asked that $8,000,000, 000 be raised by taxes and that the re mainder be borrowed. Of course, tho money to ledeem the bonds must be raised by taxation ultimately, but the taxes will be spread over forty or fifty years and they will be levied io that they will not be burdensome. And in the meantime those who buy the bonds will be receiving interest on their 1 in vestment and the nation, growing richer every year, will be in a better condition to raise the money to redeem the bonds than it was to pay off the Civil War debt. We all know this when we stop to think of it. If Secretary McAdoo should ask that we raise less by taxation and more by a loan we would all understand the reason for it, for we would know that it was done in order to decrease the burden to be borne each year by the present generation and to lay on the shoulders of those who lire to come after part of the cost of protecting the liber ties of tho world for their enjoyment. As we have confidence in the future, as every one, to use the Wall street phrase, is a bull on America, we all know that there is no better or safer in vestment possible than these Liberty Bonds. Many a man who has never saved anything before is saving now to buy bonds. He finds it is easy, with the impetus of a fine purpose. And those who have been laying aside a certain proportion of their income are using it to buy bonds, so that we are simply in vesting our surplus wealth. We have the surplus and it is big enough for all the needs of the crisis. There is consequently no occasion for discouragement. We know that the money must be raised and we are determined to raise it. We shall back up our nineteen hundred thousand men in France with the necessary dollars, and when the nineteen hundred thousand has grown to forty hundred thousand we shall continue to keep" them supplied with what they need. in a way there Is nothing really new about a revolting Germany. The Kalfcer's realm has been precisely that for more than four years. ON THE FEMININE MIND AHK women capable of recognizing an abstract principle in politics, ethics and the like? Masculine philosophers have contended that they aren't. The Pennsylvania Food Administration now comes along to corroborate the as sertion. The food administration avers In accents suggestive of impatient tears that It can not get women actually to use the sub stitutes which they must buy with wheat. The substitutes are purchased and paid for regularly enough and the housewives who buy them feel that they have done their duty though they sometimes leave their corn v and other cereals with the grocer. Now this, of course, represents a com plete avoidance of the principle Involved. I It la the alia of be Government tp have substitutes 'actually used In order that the consumption of whjat may bo lessened. Obviously women rvorywhero nro patri otic. So to put tho question once again before we seek shelter, can women rccog ntzo an abstract, principle? Won't some ono please say yes and furnish logic to prove It? Ily this time tho Kaiser has reasonable ground for believing our national motto to be "In Oott we thrust" WATCH RUSSIA! THIS war In not only a stupendous struggle between forces In the Held. It is, in Its larger nnd deeper aspects, n stu pendous movement of humanity nt large to escape the curse of militarism and the menace of the forces that nurture militar ism. And It is I'citnln, therefore, that tho Ilnal stupendous climax will occur some where and somehow In Itusslii. Should Itussla bo permanently alienated from tho cause of tho Allies, tho wnr will havo been lost. It Is a matter of pride with us that the first extensive news dispatcher! to be te celved from Siberia since tho arrival of the lnter-AUIed expedition have como from Ctrl W. Aekermnii. the representative of this newspaper with the Allied forces nnd the first staff cnriespondent to give the world authoritative information of tho more recent developments there. Mr. Atkermnn's advices corroborate the be liefs of till those observers who have loeog nized the continuing menace of Herman In Russia. It has never been Germ.in'n hope or aim to conquer Ilus-da opcnl. What Ger many wishes to do Is to i-et Up or cnH-,0 to be set up in western Itussla govern ments of the sort which In the future mnv be elepajieled upon to promulgate tho doc trines of kultur and to institute among hundreds of millions of ptople the sort of mental enslavement which would de liver the Immeasurable resources of the land over to the pui poses of warlike im pel lallsts in future years. Until Herman Influence Is eliminated from Itussla, hopes of peace ond plans for n League of Na tions will be In vain. a Prisoners capttned by Vie Itecnll II the Ainct leans In l-'rnnce say the Crown Prime of Germany "doesn't count" The Prince must have forgotten a lot He did o great deal of counting of unhattlicd chick ens at Verdun. The UolsheviU Ro It Villi, Indeed! eminent has ordered about sixty statues for the, decoration of the streets of Moscow. It will be Interesting to oherve tho sort of statue that a lommlttee ran make The President has answered Gi-nnany. Havejou" Uu bonds! All Together! This Is a good time for the fin mans to recall the old saying about the man who sowed the wind and reaped the whirlwind. Act'on In Central Kuroiio on Iloctor Pep ner's. advice to ' nvold dust" would neces- sailly result In the Immediate Uai.uilinlng of a couple of mus-t thrones The content with which a man contem plates his purchase of I.'borty Bogds gives a new meaning to the old song nbout tho sweet bu and buy The bottom has dropped out of the mar ket In !u Herlln .Stock i:change following the slump Into the bottomless pit of tho German hopes J CONFETTI Liberty Loan Dialogue) AJAX Hello, Socrates; jou look a bit battered. I hope jou havo bought all the bonds ou can afford SOCrtATi:S Yes. and then some, ns the phrase Is. I have been putting all my eggs In Mr. MeAdoo's basket AJAX Well, cheer up. old fellow, Mac will hatch them into useful poultry. SOCItATKS Yes. these are the eggs that lay the golden gec.se, us you were prob ably nbout to observe AJAX You nre alwajs to hlgh-spliltcd. Your motto seems to be farce without stint or limit, farce to the utmost. SOCRATES You have me nt a disad vantage. I have had a fevere attack of Influenza of the pocketbook an! I am still a bit shukv. AJAX .Well, us I have heard oil say In private, a man is only as old ns his wife feels. SOCHATKS Ver.v true. Xanthippe told me to buy all the bonds I sould, even If I have to smoke a corncob pipe all the rest of my life. AJAX That would be no haidshlp for you. Hut what do you think nbout tho loan campaign? Philadelphia hasn't reached half her (plot i et. SOcrtATCS I think It is serious, but I am not dlscouruged. With the newa Jiat is coming in every day from France,' I think it would be inconceivable for us to fall behind. I think the campaign ought to be extended a few days to make up for the influenza setback. Lille is about to fall, and the U-boats on the Belgian coast aro getting ready to move Inland, and the Kaiser's sugar Is being served to him in little paper envelopes. AJAX And speaking of those little paper bags, aren't you afraid there will bo a shortage of pay envelopes pretty soon If the restaurants use them all up? SOCItATKS My dear chap, my pay en velope limps so badly now after Mr. Me Adoo's last amputation that I can get my dough in small change. AJAX Well, we mustn't stay gabbing here. I'm going off to sell some more bonds and help turn the Kriemhild line into cheese. Don't get run over by that whippet tank on Itroad street. SOCIIATEB I think that would be rather a worthy thing to do. It would be fine publicity for tho loan. The new U-boat menace that Merlin has been talking about seems to be the danger that the submarines won't be able to get away from Zeebrugge fast enough. The lcjives are falling on Unter den Linden. Don't say etneuate and abdicate. Talk Anglo Saxon. Say licked nnd fired. It looks as though Hlndenburg will be able to die on German soil after all. A pamphlet distributed among the Ger man soldier, says that President Wilson comes from "the University of Philadel phia." Inaccurate, butxthanks for the compliment anyway. wt SOCRATES, THE GOWNSMAN "Llllle Latin and Less Greek"? THAT anybody should havo the slightest Interest in these dajs of martial activity In the "dead nnd tiling languages of an tiquity" may well fill tho man In' the street with wonder. Hut shall wo contlnuo to teach the classics, shall we keep on with what people call thchnpractlealltlrs of tho hu mnnltlcs In our schoolrooms? These are epics tlons that will not down, whatever their ap parent Irrelevancy In a moment when all our "sweet wajBof use and wont" are nbaif doned In tho lmpcrntlva need of presenting n united front to tho enemies of mankind. What wo teach Is qulto ns Important as what we eat. l'or If the nature of tho menu nf our homes is essentlut to tho maintenance of our physical health, the nature of the menu of our schools and colleges Is assuredly ns essential to the maintenance of tho Ideals of our lives, tho very Ideals for which we nre now fighting. A practical man of affairs, discoursing dlctatorlally the other day, de-tlared- "After the war, sir, wo are going tohavo no more nonsense In education. Things nro going to lie practleal nnd our children nrc going to be taught only what Is useful to themselves anil to the State. We'll havo nono of tbesM ornamental, unnecessary subjects In our schools Kvery child shall be assigned his work work which "Is productive, tan gible, nvvrltctable nnd nppralsable by the hard heads of business or the hard hands of toll " "Ah," sighed ono of hla hearers, "that Is precisely what Germany has been doing nil these Jcnrs Thnt Is tho species of education which has brought on this war" UTILITY, practical applications. Immedi ate returns are proper demands for this supreme moment , nnd we accept them ns of this moment With n robber In jour house, choking our wife and trampling j-our (till elren, J'ou must become their defender or be branded n poltroon The virtues for jou to emulate nt surh a moment nre those of the policeman, or still better those of the pugilist. If jou have given previous hours to Jujutsu or some other mode of the manly art of self-defense, jou may thank jour good stars Hut, the peril to j-our family once over nnd vonr prowrss established, are you to be con tent to remain a mere piactltiouer of Jujutsu orr after? Education for nn emergency Is Justifiable where, as in the ease of this prifl ent war, the necessity has In en thrust upon us. Hut nn educational sstem founded on the Idea of preparation for an Imagined emer gency Is Impractleahle the emergency may never nrlso or jou may have been trained for the wrong emergency THE making of ones own living Is one of the exigencies of life It Inn thing ho usual, so common, that It rises out of the category of an exigency Into that of n condition And yet even the making of one's own liv ing is not a unlvereal condition, and the most thoroughgoing advocate of vocational training might stop short of a demand that tho shoemaker shall lie pinned from the flis to his last There was an old ltomnn ome who wrote n big book on the making of nn orator He began with tho selection of the orator's grandparents, a precaution, not wholly unimportant In any walk of life Ho made everuhlng that the child was to be taught something contributory directly to prollclenev in the gift of gab language gave him facility, dancing, giace; poetry, figures of speech; hislorj-, parallels. We wonder whether old (Julntlllan, for that was his name, might not have clapped his hands In Joy nt the realization of his Ideal in some members of the United States Sennte of whom he might well say In VcrglUan phrase, "he Is a olce and nothing more." VOCATIONAL education trains a man for his hours of labor.' and for those hours nnlv Liberal cducitlon, of whatever It may consist, tinlns a man for his times of leisure as well, and likewise for the ready acquisi tion of what lie mav need in nn vocation. Vocational ti .lining Is In danger of becoming lllilicr.il, because it sacrifices everything else to the doing of one spqctflc thing pnd only Ineideiitallj trains 111 anj thing else. Thnt species of education which creates a temper of mind at once open, leady and capable, which piepans the soli, so to speak, to re ceive any crop and fertility to grpw it to harvest, is the education not of the orator, tin shoemaker, the general, but the education of tho man it is not education for an emer gency, but education for nil emergencies, and the only real education In point of fact N O MAX of sense objects to useful studies To object to too large a proportion of studies, pointed with utilitarian alms. Is qulto another thing. A course In "science, whleh Is wholly made up of such subjects, will turn out trained workmen nnd arti sans; a course which combines with this training thp larger training of mind, spirit, taste and discernment will alono turn out engineers and men or science. And the question naturally arises, What, then, are some of the studies possessed of this higher power-" The nnswer Is studleR which nrc not tied down to the mere utilities, studies which are not Immediately translatablo Into the doing of this or thnt or the other mnrektahlo thing, studies which affect tho Duality of the student's mind rather than the quantity of ills accumulated facts TO A eirtaln degree almost any topic may be llheially tauRht. Even, moie certain is it tliat any subject can be sterilized oh to any real educational value hj- a slupld or a feeble teacher. Of course, the Gownsman agrees with a recent critic of words of his. In the New York Sun. when tho ciltic snys obviously that everything depends upon the teacher.. It Is a compli ment to any teacher to Bay that he makes calculus or Sanskrit .fascinating. And a rich nnd human subject In tho hnnds of a dullard or an egotist is like money given to a savage; the dullard knows not what to do with It, the egotist uses It to deco rate his own, person. Hut thero. remains, none the lesH, something dependent on tho Inherent nature of tho subject. FROM a narrow point of view, Latin Is the universal tool of science nnd the arts; to know something of Latin at first hand Is to hold nn open, significant page for tho terms of science, instead of learning a lot of hard words, parrotlike, by rote. Again. Latin Is structurally a piece of rigorous logic on which to cut the eyeteeth of scholarship; not a loose, grammarless conglomerate nf half a dozen tongues like our English As to ancient Greek, in ir. are 10 ue iounu me sources of the best pan oi our mouem thought nnd art, set' like so many gems In the gold of a perfect expression, Imbedded in a llteraturo ns yet. If equaled In some particulars, as a whole unsurpassed. Hoth of these ancient tongues and the study of nntlqulty take us out of ourselves Into a new and different, w orld, a first and most essential step in any process properly to be callod liberalizing. The classics share w Ith pure science the advantage of a certain remoteness from the issues of the day and can, therefore, be studied disinterested!-. The classics surpass the sciences la that they retain, nono the less, a human Interest, a touch with those things .which belong to men In all times, which wo lose when the matter does not irectly concern oUr own kind. WHEN this war for freedom Is over nnd we retuin victorious to our vocations as of old there will be no substitution of cheap 'utilities for the Ideal things which have long been tried and accepted. Mr. Roosevelt is right when he says, as at the symposium on classical studies at Princeton about a year ago: "It Is a waste of time to force the average boy to acquire a smatter ing of classicism"! only, however, to add 'No community car. develop a great and many-sided civilization unless there Is an ampkbaseofnonremuneratlvevvork. Cultural education must include the classics." It is 'not every soldier who Is privileged to carry the flag, that wholly Ideal symbol of wha? we are and what we love. Hut there wm beundard-bearer. of the Ideal of what we are striving toward and to be. after the wlr before. The flarof the classics 'liw hi the only flair n that procession upward M W. H maintain J,...,;'; ji aBBBsBW . ., j ,Mrwmm-? mvTa.. i s ' : r ' ,:. ,,- r-Arv.rtft!Byra h vrtrrz!t3? taBnHatBW r JifjiKMSiP ISJfVr JT 'Li'. V I t -UMiSaK. I 'MWiraWSl, VrTT-.'MS T it jatVittttTST -swTO.fcsmsiMFsrasiiiJvfia r ;)'! f.UYft.MJHHKnOTflBt tffwr.yt. . . v ' nrSvV----.r-n-faWCSK j" ...w- J-A i .'iT"-. Z-C'"JJ THE READER'S VIEWPOINT The Indiscretion of Mr. Pepper To the Kdltor of the Kccninp Public Ledger: Sir I seek tho privilege of jour columns to voice the strongest possible protest ngalnst tho shamless abuse of a position of public trust and power George Wharton Pep per holds the chairmanship of the Pennsyl vania council of national defense In a sup posedly nonpartisan capacity on the theory that the council is an ecjentlnl part of the machinery of national defense. The com-mnder-ln-chlef of all tho defenses of the Pnlted States, Including both the armies In tho field and such other organizations ns have been created nnd clothed with extra ordinary war powers, is the President of the Unlteel Stntes No ono would wish to deprive Mr. Pepper of bis right to express his per sonal views in his capacity as a private cltlen on am question of importanco now before the country, any mole than aijy e it her cltlzem or even soldier of the United States should bo deprived of his similar privilege. Hut When Mr Pepper presumes In the line of his official dutv to Issue statements and give Instructions to those individuals and organ izations whom Ids position permits him to address with peculiar authority in a deliberate attempt to coerce the commander. In-chief in the exercise of his reirponslbllltj, and lndirectli to threaten blm if ho does not net is.ccord with Mr Pepper's oiiinloi t ho same treatment should be accorded Mr. 1 ep per as would be -corded. . Pr examp. -y knowledge and Information. 8h'lJ ""'P10 coerce M.u sh.il Koch by Issuing veiled threats to ids soldiers as to the course to be followed in en-. Koch did not follow the subordinate olllcei s personal wishes or con- Mr" Pepper should be removed from his present "like and placed where he can no onger seriously undermine the morale of the State and the nation by creating distrust Tif the .President There is every reason to have implicit faith in the leadership and Judgment Lm,J,":.i.,...,i vv.inn and hla military advisers. Criticism e.f the n Hilary guarantees necessary for the ae. ompllshment of the purposes for which A.nerl.a wages war is particularly out of place from those who can by no chance have reliable knowledge of the s situa tion, but are so Placed at present that thej can seriously weaken the popular confidence necessary to attain tlioso guarantees. W Ith "he political purposes of the war secured, the American people will not be misled Into Toleration of any lapse Into barbarism and such sheer mllltarv destruction as can satisfy no end but the gratification of passion and The spirit of revenge. No more should the people of Pennsylvania tolerate acts vvhlc brehresa,r ,,f vmvnhxir Chestnut Hill October 10. Women Slioulel Vote To the Editor of the Evening Puhllo Ledger: slr There is a great demand for women in' all the war plants to till up the places of men who wero called to the colors. Now If women are capable of doing men's work, they Burely should have th right to vote the same as men Tho United States Senate did a very unpa triotic thing when it tefused to pass the suffrage amendment. In spite' of the fact that President Wilson approved. All of the Senators who voted against It maintain that it Is nothing more than a piece of agita tion by the leaders of tho suffrage move ment. Now there is where they are wrong. It Is a vi ar measure pure and simple, but that willful Utile group of Senators Is too thick to see it In that way. I am aiure that If the amenelnient wera leit to tne vote or ine people It would be carried by a big majority, I admire the splendid stand that the Eve kino I'uiti.ic Ledoeh has taken on the amendment. I am a member of the International Broth erhood Welfare Association and at Its recent cemventinn held In Detroit It Indorsed the action of the Houso In passing .the suffrage amendment, and a resolution vra unanimous ly carried recpiestlng the Senate to pass the amendment. The convention also unani mously Indorsed the stand taken by President Wilson for a Just and honorable peace. There are SOOO members either with Persh ing's army in France or In the army campa In this country. Now, Mr, Editor, a. good many people think that this associa tion 1 alflllated with the Industrial Workr re of the World and I want to make It a Alain as I ean. to, them that It -Mver'wM L Jwr ertar will be, bt.aanat vv tto Bt frtH'IH WHILE WAITING FOR WILLIAM - ... SK'i i J- ''. Ns"'- fa ,'ilKfr". I -J.-"" mamtBaw-MmmMKmm "-;.. In tho Industrial Workers or their propagan da. They believe in destructlon.of government, tint the International Urothcrhood Welfare Association believes In n government by the people and for the people nnd all that goes along with It. MICHAEL JOHNSON. I'hlladelphla, October IB. The Great Settlement A Hill of Particulars 'Jo the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger: Sir Now that Koch and his grand armies have -the Huns on the run toward home, and wc begin to see the end of the war, it Is tlmo to give consideration to the ques tion of pnishment for the crimes that they havo committed, and to the further question of how to ,prevent them from starting an other war for woild dominion at some future time I have not seen any presentation of a bill of particulars of measures that must be taken, so I propose one, subject to amend ment by anj person who can tlo better. Klrst Wo must havo unconditional sur rcmler to Geneial Koch of all the armies opposed to him that can't get awaj-. Tho Iteims slnillnr to those given Krance by Bis marek In 1871 maj serve as a guide for Foch, Hut he will know. Belgium must be restored, and all damages to the countrj- nnd to the people to bo puia In full by German) All Indemnities exacted hy Geimany from Belgium cities to bo paid bavk. All loot to be teturncd to the owners, Alsace and Loiralne to be testored to Krance and the ensh Indemnity extorted from Krancu In 1871 to be paid back to her with. interest to uaie. Serbia, Rumania nnd Atmenla to be re stored and adequate damages paid those and other countries. Devastations of every kind committed In Franco to he paid for in full. All loot to be returned to the owners Ti pay all damages Instigated by Bern storff nnd committed by spies and bombers In the United States before and during the war All ships of the Allies and United States sunk or damaged contrary to International law to be paid for In full. Oermany to be required to surrender her warships to the Allies and all her guns and equipments of wur; all her submarines to bo sunk. The Krupp works to be leveled to the giouud, To lellnqutsh nil her African nnd Asians colonies; to relinquish all claims for control over Poland, Finland, Turkey and Russia, To cast the Hohenzollern and Hapsburg d) nasties Into the scrap heap. The Kalser'a sixty palaces to be confiscated and the pro ceeds to be given to tho poor of Oermany. To punish every German official, civil or military, who has committed inhuman crimes In any theatre of war, from the Kaiser down, according to -their deserts. It would be a mistake to damage the lands, cities or public buildings of Germany for the renson that the people would be less able to pay damages for, that which has been done, The monuments to Prussian mili tarism should all bo dynamited. Since, as Burke said, "You cannot, bring an Indlctmept agnmst a whole people," there should be only curative, not punitive meas ures taken against the common people of Germany. Tho medieval feudal system existing in Prussia to be elestrojed by a Just measure of confiscation of the lands of the Junkers, and compensation to the serfs now resident thereon. Our army bhould go on to Berlin and In Berlin the peace treaty should be signed, and the Allies should possess tne country long enough, not only to obtain a guarantee for the f ulfilllment, of all covenants by Germany, but long enough to let the people know that they are not supermen and that they are defeated, and that it does not pay to follow the lead pf a half-crazy emperor and back hlnr up In his scheme of world overlordshlp because of the loot that was 'promised. As to Jhe kingdom of Trussla, it should be Isolated from the rest of Oermany and longer probation should be exacted from her, Prussia Is a cancer' upen the face of Europe that must be cut out If the world Is to be saved from future ware. Oermany must not be admitted to the League of Free Nations until she has paid In full her debt to the natlone the has robbd and devastate aw rewttjL of her. wlk. mA. WIWW'AWfWJMI, - wfrwtM Nt? ) Addressed to Church-Goers fTUIB following compilation of Bible prom--J- ises and assurances in time of plague, prepared by tho American Bible Society, is published at the request of the society: Isaiah xll, 10 Fear thou not, for I am, itlth thec; be not dismayed, for I am thv God: I will strengthen thec; yea, I Kill 7ieJ; 7icc; yea, I ulll uphold -thec v-lth tho right hand of My righteousness. Isaiah xliil, 1-3 Pear not, for I have re deemed thec; I. have called thee by thy name, thou art Mine, ll'icii fiow passcst through the watcts, I 11III be u-ith thic; and through the rivers, they shall not otcr flow thec; xchen thou, nalkcit through the fire, thou shalt not be buincd, neither shall the flame kindtc upon thec, Vor I am Jehovah, thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Sailour. John xtv, 1 Let not your heart be trou bled; believe in God. Literally, "Let not your heart turn cowaid.") Itomans, vlll, S8-i-Wc kitow that to them that love God all things icorfc together for good. , II Corinthians, iv, 1G-1S "Wherefore xce faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inwaid man is rcneiced day by day. For our light affliction, which is for the moment, ivoikcth for us moie and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory; ichlle wc look not at the things which arc seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the thingi which are seen oi c temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. i Itomans vlll, 35-37 Who sllall separate us from the love of Christ? 8Jia.ll tribu lation, or anguish, or persecution, or fam ine, or nakedness, or peril, or suordf Xay, in all these things we arc mora than con qucrors through Him that loved us. BLESSED are those who in an hour of nfflictlon like this will lift their eyes unto the hills, whence cometh our help. To look down is to despair; to look arotins) is to be tilled with perplexity; but to look up Is to draw strength from JHm in whom we live and move and havo our being. Those who have had the wisdom in time of sorrow to trust in the Lord In stead of leaning upon their own under standing have experienced His ability to sweeten the bitter waters of Marah and to sustain all those who cast their burden upon Him. What Do You Know? QblZ 1, What two larse Ineleiatrlal cities are tlr- tuullr suburbs if l.lller 2, Hnw many feet make u perch? 3. vthat la okraj . , 4. In what countrr did the came of coif origi nate? ...... 8. Vtlmt sellers Is In direct rnnimanet of the Am.ri,An farra north nf larrinn (1. Who wrote "The Ilelfry of nnises."f 7. Mho was the onlr American I'rrsldent whoso two terms of office, wero separated br a) four-rear Interrsl, durlnr which tils rlral liolltlcal partr .was In power? hen u Constantinople, raptured br tho Taasslmt Ice. wero separated 8. Wlien u Constantinople raptured br the 1). What Is meant bT war 'o I'ontnuiro"? Turiesr 10, What la "chlaroseuro-r Answers to Yeiterelay's Quiz 1. Dr. dolt-la tho German Forelin Secratarr. J. I'orto llleo la tho American posseaslon which has recently Buttered from violent earth quake. , raienco looartherma,' or Porcelain of Tori, una kinds, Tbo name Is derived from the town of 1 Benin, hi Itulr. . 4. "Ad lalorem" is a I-stln nhraao emntoyeil In descrlblnc a tux or tariff apportioned arrordlnc to the value, of the articles tin s ported. m i t. The official name o? Turkey Is the Ottoman Kmptrf. 6. A miiesaln la.a Mohnmmedan crier who pro claims tho hours of liraifr from a. minaret. 1. Our Kawkes was an Knillah conspirator In. volieit In the "(iunpqwder riot" to blow tat the Jlyusfj of Parliament, lie was ex ,,td In IBM. t 8. 'Hltcb four wagon to Mar" occurs la ta- orsoVs essay nil "tirfllistlon.'' t, The lUeral meaning of "potpourri lav ". vh nunr ir TT" Ti assejL m 11 .- ? ;l H wi'S JitffflteJ&ri .. frJaVnift-1 J&JLeut. .TAllis anv . i "&xMKKUnUmLLkL 1M r FT '111
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