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TOE EVENTNGnTELEGIUPH
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CTRUS It. K. CURTIS, riMiDcir
.ci;frlt. H. LuJInelon. Vlcn Presidents John C.
Vlrtl1;s:C.r..Urr nt Treasurer: Philips. Collins,
( John 11. Ttllllams, John J. Spurgeon, Director!.
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riiilidfljiliii, MonJ.iv. Jn.iur, t, H)
ARE WK (;lMI.I.i:i)?
In this city outrages liae luen .tnerM
recently which shoubl not e.virt in a (.iii
Iscd State. !oei not -elect Surojl.
rpiIEriE i no doubt about the otiti.tR-i.
Xelthor Is there any doubt that other
wero planned by the bomb throw ur. If
they are inconsistent with civilization what
it the matter with I'lilUdriplilu?
Daniels in a lyln' (inn r.aai mteifer
nce In Philadelphia police conditions.
MrAUOO. HOMKOPATHIST
TlTR. JIcAUOO Is ursiiiK that Kovernment
A'-- control of the railroad., he continued
for five !ears longer in order to !eep tli"
roads out of politic.
This Is like urglnif political contiol of
tho 'police force in older to keep tlio poiicv
out of politics ox hlluwinsr the politicians
to appoint HUbxervIt-ut civil .set vice com
Jnlstloners In order to keep politic- out of
tho civil service. sf
Homeopathy as i medical theurv Ins
Its friends, but the theory that like cures
like hag never been accepted In the le.tliu
of government unless In the belief that the
best way to catch a thief is to put anothei
thief on his track. Hut them has always
been grave suspicion In uch a case that
the two thieves would foim n partnership
Kuropc nia say that ' is as far a wax
from permanent prace ns t !' ,1'ole.s
THi: rUTURL Alt.MV
"M'OTHIXa couid be mote icnsonablc thai,
' Seeretury Hakefa .einlnUr to tile
House Committee on JIilit.it:- Affairs that
plans for the future organiAinoii of the
rmy cannot be .seriously considem.I until
after tho Peace Conference. The whole
future military policy of Him Vnlted .States
must depend upon tho outcome at er
willies. Argument and bickering now n
: elation to the mllitar.x piogiam of the
future can only servo partisan .-c-tii-ndl
or personal interests. I'nld tlie new Ku.o
pean pol!c!e.s are deflnite' fixed, no one can
foresee what is best for America.
In the same category of problems ihat
must be left for consideration In the liglr
of future developments is that wlucli Is
growing from the friction between yw.si
Tolnt men in the oMIcwV corps and the
newer men from the training camps.
If the sort of pea e which Mr. WiNon
Is trying to biiug about cannot be realized,
the country is Miro to b stunned b th"
immensity of the inlhttt-'isiic program
which will be forced upon it by ne.essi'.
It is the unfortunate habit of men in tne
House and in the Semite, as well as tin
man in tlio stitet. to speak unit think o!'
military picpaiednes In terms of the pins,
ent. As a matter of fact, military nations
of the future will have to draw heuulj,
on all their wealth, on the population on
their supplies of raw materials and on taeir
energies to maintain the accelerated pact
which scientific eo!utwn and inarhi'm
methods make uecessaiy in tlie wur game. I
If tlfcri' is to b no settled peace, we shall I
certainly ieiulm a. ast standing amy und I
wo shall have need of oil the best otll ers
v.lio served thiough tlio reci-tit war. Other-
wise there should and doubtless will be ft .
ji'au for the promot.on of all oill.'ers on
tlielr mei its. whethei tiiey ure West Point '
eis or not. .
New Vork, too, had an unf.,rMin.i'
beginning for ;nc new eta. I t i,t i tluiei'ien
U named Smith.
AMERICANS WITH lORKlLN TITLIS
TT IS now chevalier Vaucla.i.. as t-'aniiie'
J -I. Vauclaiii has just lecei td that rati:
in the Trench Legion of Mono.'. AmeMea
is the home of many men who ha bei n
decorated with the button of the legion
a founded b the great N'apoleun. It is also
tlie homo of many knights und oum of
native lililli who hae mceived their titles
from foreign powers. The number of papal
counts would be dfttlcult to estimate. The
Italian state has honored citizens of Piillu
dclphla with titles, and we hao Danish
nnd Swedish Jules adorning plain American
citizens.
They do not sport then titles hem, ,lt
because they do not prize them but be
cause tlioy prize democracy more. Some
llay an Industrious compiler of handbooks
vlll make a list of American citizens who
have been decorated or ennobled by foreign
powers. It" will make inteiesting leading
for the cuiious.
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' Petiograd and Pliltadelph.u are not u
d'ssltnllar after all. UolslieUsis in both
cities go uiiuunlkhcd.
THE FIGHT ON ROLSHEN ISM
fpUB British ultimatum to (iermuin. d
! mandlng that 11 11 e.tlngulhir be found
for Holshevism in what used to be tin.
fatherland, miy hale an Ironic sound when
H Is remembered that all Germans snnc
enougli to be dealt with seem to be doing
their utmost already In e.Torts to reitruln
tendencies to ultra radicalism. Vul !,.,,
it 't 'LI lut the British demand a suircestlnn ,r
..- , ' si -'
tlio method vliloli may liavo lo bo resorted
t by the Allies befote Hut-ope can be
stabilized,
Tlio people In each affected country,
rather than Invading armies, may bo re
iulred to put down Holshevlsts before liny
are permitted civilized recognition or Iho
privileges of membership In u league of
nations,
Knormous disadvantages will attend any
effort to put down Holshcvlsm by force.
An Invading nrmy In HiiMwta will Inevitably
provldo propagandists of the red cult with
the material for mlsreptescntatlvc and in
flammatory campaigns among the unin
formed masse.', The Allies cannot nfford
oven to bo making war upon peoples who
believe themselves to be seeking freedom.
Fltlmntely it may he necessary to Isolate
or quarantine countries allllotcd with Pol
shovlsni and permit the people to light
tile l.8iio out among themselves. Ftleler
these circumstances sanity may return far
more quickly In lttislu, Au'tila und Clcr
matiy than u would If mlllloiiH wrte threat
ened ucfaln with the iiRonlex of a new war.
OK INSPIRING IDIiALISM
Another Man of l)etiuy Wlio Wa Haiieil to
Auioiiiun Leadership AVIicn the (,'oun
try Needed Him
JJO AMERICAN with a heart or a
memory will bo able to read of Theo
dore Roosevelt's deatli without n sense
of something very niuch like grief. In
after years, when the sk, , have cleared
and the country has had time to Fctths
uown and look back ttanquilly ul tlie
.sources of that inspiration whicli lias
strengthened this generation and Riven
wines to its purposes, w shall realize
how greatly this dynamic personality
contributed to tho present greatness of
the Republic.
Colonel Roosevelt's devotion to his
country was not of tho routine sort. It
was passionate and almost religious. In
the end Roosevelt is sure to bo listed
with the men of destiny. He appeared
at a time when tlie irtcat political par
ties, grown shiftless and mercenary, had
peimitted shrewd, selfish and powerful
minorities' to concentrate national ener
gies under their own dilection. His serv
ice in this crisis was extraordinary. He
went to battle with the forces that were
destroying the faith and courage of tho
electorate, and his leadership was like a
trumpet call to the younger men in the
country.
When Wood row WiUon entered New
Jersey polities ns the candidate of a
party that had every reason to fear a
modernized Republicanism, he consist
ently praised Colonel Roosevelt and, time
after time, characterized him as the inspi
ration of the general movement which
tended to bring about a v. holesome revo
lulion in the ethics of party methods and
party administration. Mr. Wilson .said
more than once in his earlier addresses
that one of his great aims was to con
t'liuo and broaden the work that Roose
velt had begun.
Because he was unseliish and devoted
Colonel Roosevelt bicame a terror to the
cliques. Like every other great Amer
ican statesman his concerns and his faith
were with the people rather than with
the self-constituted powers ranged above
the people.
Too much attention has been given to
the pictuiesque side of Roosevelt's career
by those who try to understand the
secret of his extraordinary popularity.
What the vast majority of American
saw in Roosevelt was merely the iviii
"otlection of their own dominant char
acteristics audacity, clean purpn.-e. a
hatred of mean things and n you-bo-damned
attitude of mind toward every
group and every influence not in accord
with tho common desi" for decency and
fair pljy.
Those who have criticized Colonel
Roosevelt for hi.- restless war of word
mm, 11,. 1 I .J.l.l-. ..
"i" "ln I'lesviu .-unniiiiairaiion Have, in
fact, minted the .significance of one of the j
subtle and moving tragedies of American
public life. ,
The 'olonel's lattm- las wen- sUil-
dened and colou-j heaily b peioonal af
flictions and intimate loriow. Ho must i
haw) enduicd the aches that come to j
t cry strong man brought suddenly to a
realization that his work is done. In a ,
time when the greatest of all service wa.
to lie done for his country lie found him- I
1 .-elf out of action by the inexorable judg- !
ment of passing years and by the fore.- ,
! of circumstances. I
sumo ol olonel Roosevelt V best
friends felt that not all his attacks upon
j Mr. WiUon and tho international policies
. of the present Administration were n
, tiroly wise. They were not. .Hut, unlike
much else that ha. been said of the
! President in these tumultuous juars".
i Colonel Roosevelt's criticism was noi
inspired by el(ishn.hs or a deim
deliberately tb discredit u leader of the
. .opposition party. Roosevelt would have
' been more than human if he had been
! able, to escape every sense of bitterne-s
because of his inability to participate in
I one way or another at the end and climax
of tho shining adventure which involved
i his country's strength and spirit.
In addition to the spiritual isolation
that must have weighed upon him.
Colonel Roosevelt had to endure tint loss 1
ut one of his sons and tho injurv of an- '
., ., , . 1 1 t. ., t
other. Certainly his sense of separation
and loss must have been thus intensified.
Tho war brought him nothing but suffer- '
lug and disappointment. He would hae
fought if he had been permitted to go,
As it was, he fought as best he could and
on the side that he believed to be right
almost up to the moment of his death.
Ir tho future we shall know exactly '
why his counsel was consistently rejected
ut the White House. It must appear to
any astuto observer that his active par
ticipation in administration affairs at this
crii.ii. wasn manifest impossibility.
Roosevelt liira the habit- of dominance.
II was the secret of his strength and the
inspiration of his greatest work. There
could be no room in a wan cabinet for
two minds of that chaiacter, since the
present President has an almost identical
mcntul habit. The similarity of the
motives of both men and the common ori
gin of their purposes make their differ
ences seem tilt the more regrettable.
What Roosevelt tried to do in America
Wilson Is trying to do for all humanity.
Colonel Roosevelt will be listed with
the truly great Presidents. Ho came
along in the nick of time, as Washington,
Lincoln and Wilson have come, to shoul
der exacting duties. Ho was tho first
President after Lincoln to perform really
great services to the country. Ho left
us tho Panama Canal nnd the greater
navy. But he left, too, ideals thut have
inspired thousands of men in every
branch of the public service.
It is largely because of Roosevelt that
the old sordid methods of conscienceless
political managers can never again be
solidly established in tho United States.
The fact is in itself an adequate monu
ment to one of the greatest Americans
of the century.
On land, ns on ships, the Flatch-way
may proe dangerous to the penerscly un-
obsenant.
WILSON REPLIES TO CLKMENU.Al."
VTO STATESMAN ever enleicd upon a
' more stupendous task than that with
which President Wilson is occupying him
self nt the present time, lie is seeking
to change the motives and putposes of
Ciovernments in Europe and to turn them
into u new channel. Whoever has under
taken to overcome tho Inertia of any
great corpoiatlon will appieclate some
what the dllllculties which the President
Is courageously facing. Habit, custom,
precedent of e.irs do not ghe way readily.
Xo single man can of his own force over
come tlio inertia of the Kuropean Ciovern
ments any more than he can overcome
the Inertia of an aealanche.
Mr. Wilson Is not trying to do tills thing
alone. He is .summoning to his assistance
a poer greater than the statesmen and
greater than the Mot eminent., they ad
minister. He Is appealing directly to the
fountain bead of power that Is. to the
peoples theinsehes. They are ltungeilng
and thirsting for an arrangement which
will do away with wars and provocation
for wat. And it is such an arrangement
tlie Piesldent is striving lo make by bring
ing to bear upon the (jovcrnments the
pressure of tho public opinion of Kngland,
Fiance and Italy.
Premier Cleinenceau's declaration in
favor of a balance of power rather than
tho concert of power for which -Mr. Wll
son is pleading has not discouraged him.
His Chamber of Deputies speech lit' Rome
was a direct 1 espouse to CI.mFiice,iti and
mi announcement to tnls old Ktalesinan
that his thinking was out of harmony won
the thinking of tlie present. "There must
he something substituted for the balance of
power." he said, "and I am happy to Und
everywhere In the air of these great
nations the conception that that thing
must be a thoroughly united league of
nations."
The rremli and the J.ng!i.-h have re
sponded to tills idea most heart!!. They
have looked upon .Mr. Wilson as the herald,
of a lew era and they are looking to
the1!- .statesmen to cooperate with ldm.
The Italians have also shown their siu
path eelth 1,1s purpose and he has most
subtly leprescute-d to them that the ami
hu are in hearty sinputi.
-fl.d when the city of P.onie in.ule him
one of its citizens he talked of the part
nership between Italy and America in the
woik of freedom and said: "I would not
have felt at libcrt to come awn, Horn
Amirica If I had not felt that the time
had arrived when, fed getting local Inter-e-sts
and locjl tle-i and local purpos". men
should unite In tills great enterprise that
. ill ever t.e free men together as u body
of brethren and tt body of free "pit its."
It is too much to hope that the ideal
I wlmli the Piesident is holding aloft will
I be wholly te.tlised during tlie pieent
j generation. Hut if he succeeds in heading
tlie world in tin- i.rIii dlmotioii lie will
, have accomplished s.omethlng very much
I evorth while. The Urst .step wl! lie In
the abandonment ot the effort to balance
one giotip of Powers against another for
l.e purpose uf pi .-serving world peace
Tuo necessity of forming a concert of flee
nations hospltabV t all other nations
which "lualify for ndml-sion so far over
shadows. eer thing else ihul n must ulti
mately commend itself to the judgment of
e.en so guiit a laggard as t'lcmenceiiu.
The British "talesmen "ie committed to
It. und it is to Impiess its importance
upon the otho." nations that -Mr. Wilson
is now aiting as a sort of diplomatic
hyphen lonnecting the people of the foui
great Pov.ers with one another: or, to
thatigx the tigum, be 14 acting as the
mouthpiece for tbn lilteiain e of the longing-!
of humanity.
'1 'ie i.ttie gioup of
llutli leu.. .. ,llful iii,.ii ,,, the Sen
ate are now denying
that there ev.ni nay "aim'' to einb.irrar the
Prinldftit In I'.iuoiie. That lnnati.s to be
cen. All Hint eve ate cumin, l of now
tlmt tlicre wen. signs of such an aim and
tha the aim w.n bad either way j uu looked
nt 1'
It seems strange to an
lliere N 1 lis- lirink obsereer at this ,11,.
taiice that then, would
be hubbub and mutely In llerlin because, of
a ""''" stril!-'- '"'o lat time we heatd
fro,n """'"' ""'r" """ liur,lly u tooa mall-
able in tha' extraordinary t'iti.
, l'a" ""' unM ,e'l why
I lie .,, -irr- ,11 mil n M mat tll.lnj fain.
est gentlemen n ho ,u
niosi msMiHiit in tne criticism of what thee
call 'Mi. Wilsons idealism" seem able (u go
.ciitifi-MHl.: along without a itu.e.r of u.
ji-ciiun 10 in" imiiiuai tuiories rusivreel at
l-'" H'"'"
Speal.lig ol dee:l
Hie llun V.i IIIrIii : houilils, 1 boujilia to
apiirar 1 hut those of
tlit-m now conspicuously active in tlifn city
are. on the ccent of their true prey about
City Hall. t
THE CHAFFING DISH
Our Own .Nursery llliyinc
A Bedtime. Ritual
Try It on Your Own)
rniHS little eje Is abut up tight,
This little eye hns said good-night,
This little forehead lias ceased to think,
This little noso Is soft nnd pink,
This little oar has nhut Its door,
This little ear can hear no mote,
This little cheek hns now been kissed,
This little cheek has not been missed,
This little mouth Its last has sahl.
Tills little chin has gone to bed. '
d'p to. sleep at the end of the rhinne
I'll jiV you again at licakfast time!
A Wet Night
"Had night, ch?"
"Ves, horrible!"
"(!ood night to be home."
"You Hald It."
And ot Is anything more lotely than
the city streets on a drenching evening?
Wide stretches of asphalt gleam like hfkes
of Ink, dabbled and splashed with pools of
amber and crocus yellow, Puddles of lilac
and silver brightness waver and flash nt
every corner. Taxirabs spin and slide,
their skid-chains clacking against the
guards. Pavements ure molten gold. Broad
fctreet is ti dazzle, (.parlclo und shimmer.
Here and there, outside the windows of
cigar stores, tho pavement Is red as a
parterre of carnations. And If, as ko often
happens, the downpour ceases about sup
per time, go out and watch tlie jeweled
richness of tefleotions at theatre doors.
Kvery curbstono is a ribbon of light.
The news that the Prince of Wales is
to visit these parts icmlnds us of Artcmus
Word's Jocular (and Imaginary! interview
with a pre. Ions Wales. "T axed him how
ho liked bcln a Prince (is fur as he'd got,"
(.ays Artemus. And his parting word to
"Sir. Wales" was, "When you git to bo
King, ti and be as good a man as yure
mtither has bin."
Whenever we see some such piira.se as
"Kvery one knows that the, etc.." we sus
pcet that something Is coming that we
never heard of. ".Most person., know
says that genial dominie, Dr. Dick Gum
mere. In tlie Nation, "that the Pennsjl
v.inla station in Xew York is a direct
imitation of a restoration of tlie Hath of
Cnrac.alla."
We didn't know It. And pondering over
it a bit. we Wonder what friend Caracalla
would ha.e done If he had had to get
along with a modern city apartment '.'
Twelfth -Vlght is supposed to end the
Christmas festivities, and it is always a
little saddening to seo nil tho wlthcied
Christmas trees lying in the ash cans. It
conduces to melancholy thoughts upon the
swift passage of all mortal things, and so
on -that is, of nil except the ash wagon.
For as day succeeds day and wo still see
our poor forlorn tiee lying patiently In
tho alley, we wonder whether we may not
bo able to use It again next Christmas.
Si. Agnes's Kee is coming along, when
young ladies are supposed to bo able lo
seo a vision of thoir future husbands, pro
vided they go supperles to bed and do not
looic sideways or behind them when they
retire. If any damsels In these parts have
a hallucination of the Prince of Wales
they might tip us off prleately. The
dialling HWi always likes to bo first with
the new.--.
We aiwajs delay as long as possible
opening letters that come t us v illi little
transparent loopholes In the front ot the
em elope. Sandwiched in between two such
w have just found a communication from
Kinnio Falsetto, who says she thinks it
was eery brutal of tho English lo celebrate
Piesldent Wilson's arrival in London by
a prise-flglit. Wo didn't tiulle get her at
llrst. Then ie saw what she meant- -Ho.Mtig
Day. .SOCHATICS.
President Wilson and Frame
1'ri.sident Wilson has been recast ed 011 his
landing in France ycstetilay with an enthu
siasm and a unanimity of acclaim tarely ac
corded to an man, and which is bound to
ineiease, as it also trial;, s manifest, the
immense moial hoid which he has asserted
ov.-r the imagination not only of France but
of etery Kuropean country, it Is of gocd
onie-n, and ten trust that Hie president will
ncceii! to tlio full tlie trlbu.e paid to iiini
as ai once a gre.it Idealist that Is to say, a
detotie of principle and a groat leader in
j piuciic.il affairs, and let the consciousness of
power make him s'.rong. He will need all his
stiengt'.i, u'.l his piactlca! effectiveness, If the
Idea1 lie has set till is to be clfeetlwl.. main
tained, lie n probably much strunger thai,
be c-otiee:ee, mid tlicre .11 e gieat popul.ii
foices, forces which onco stirred ate ovei
ttlielining, .11 this country at least -and the
same thing Is probably true of franc- -to
which If he chouses he can appeal. In ins
otvu '.u'lm.-y he lias had opiM.otUe.ti, n.i.cli
of it just party opposition, and he can Judge
best bote far It need be tegarded: but here
all pau.cK are for him, ut least In name, and
tin- gieat forces are on his side. v0 hop,,
and belieeo .tbat In our oven Prime, Miniaier
hu will tlml no lukewarm ally, and M, e'lem
eiit'i'dU has already ileeiared himself hi faeoi
of "a peac of moderation," Tim omens Jr
filterable, but there nto lions in the iwlli. ..
Manchester Uuardlan of December 1 1.
Ilia! men. Is littln really appealing -.n
the Tuucblult editors' appeal for 11 new dial
Is much muie a terbal than an actual p.ua
dox. It wo'ild be inteiesting to Knott ,mv
many of the members, of the committee of
thirteen wlreli just absolved the -.klp-stop
de-pend upon automobiles in getting around
the city.
There seems to be plenty of grit In th
way the Northern Pacific withstands tho on-hl-iugbts
of Atlantic breakers and rather
more than enough rand all about hei
A million love letters wi Uteri by Ameri
can soldiers are on the way to Aii.etlci. Tlio
censors who hate 10 read ail this correspond
ence wlU peter be able to complain Hint they
hnven't 'had training In the aits of expres
sion. In the old days mey used to call tlie
political machine In this city the plunder
bund. For the time being one la tempted to
cast Ukkle time still appropriate deslnatlon
and write the City Hall outfit down aa a
blundcrbund.
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JOAN OF ARC AND HER MESSAGE
The 508th .tiiniii-rsary of Ucr Birth. Celebrated Today, Emphasizes Anew
the Beauty and Moral Grandeur of Her Ideals
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squadron in Xew rli. and of League
Island also, boom today In honor of an
aiiiilvers.il y which might fittingly bo made
tho lirs : International holiday nf a league,
of civilized nations. Five hundred and eight
teats ago. In the little village of Dom
remj. on the bolder of the old Fiwirh piov-,
mces of Clitempagtie and Lorraine, was horn
a human embodiment of the kind of spiritual
force and clear moral vision toward which
a war-wounded world turns In hope today.
History knows the child ns .loan of Arc.
Her story, unique In Its intcipl.iy of Incident,
has beeij a P'ent agent of French pattlotlsni
for generations. Its supernatural features1
bate protoked both puzzled skepticism and
unqualified owe. Poets and dramatists at the
intocation of her name hate throbbed with
eloquence. Tlie gieatest of lliein Shake
speare in it mood of nallo-ial astigmatism
vilified her memory in Henry I, but his
hand Is not always clearly traceable in that
chronicle play and, In any event, his dis
coidant nole is oeertt helmed in the diapason
of praise.
TT M
1 tint
itil recently all the outpourings of either
atants or singers caught the inn ingle hlg
nlrlcanee of the Maid's message. Suddenly
the war chulfled li. The spirit of Joan o
Arc was not meiely regnant otcr French
national Idealism, but over 11 far wider
doiii.T.-i of thought. Tlio aspiration., of all
lovers of liberty upon the planet hate been
newly stimulated by the marvelous and un
dying tale of the triumph uf truth In tin age
o' falsit; : si.np'.e. feriont zeal for Just.ee in
an era of chaos and corruption.
Material onlt win the piteous death of tlie
Maid of Orleans Spiritually sho was uncon
querable. II 'tas lb'- fotces which she had
set In 11101 Ion which eventually ransomed
her fathoiland from the devastating lutader.
It Is thei snnie potter which stirs the mass of
mankind today In Its unquestionable, feeling
that what Is eomplex and cloudy in the woild
drama inn besi be elucidated and dispelled
by an application of elemental principles ns
familial- to 1I10 unlettered peasant as to tlie
profouudesl of scholars. President Wilson,
umld the diplomatic obliquity of quickly
shifting situations, git es lepeated expres
sions to these sentiments. Joan of Ate, re
eo'ted and nniazed at her two trials by the
scholastic sophUuicu ot her Inquisitors,
would as easily have comprehended the mass
opinion of an ag" which In outward furnltiir
bears but the remotest resemblance; to her
own.
TT IS
J- prihn
pel naps 111 tins mono mat the fifteenth
and twentieth centuries are Indlssohibly
linked. Tlie new bold ot the memory of tlio
maid upon tlie popular Imagination, a sway
re. valid In the speeth of statesmen and pub
licists, a sway that lias been exemplified In
patriotic posters in .a land that was unknown
In her day, a sway In a popular song with
which virtually every F.ngllsh. speaking sol
liter is acquainted, may bo thus explained.
France does not speak of idealism in
terms of Xathnn Hale, nor lo us is "Chinese''
Hordon the Inevitable symbol of tint spirit
ual quality. -Natlopal hemes and heroines
abound, figures of grandeur, nobility, moral
beauty. Hire, Joan of Arc effaces frontiers.
Her example Is on Indisputable Influence on
world thought. The battleships which slg
ualUo that fact today pay the only sort ot
respect of which they are capable.
Tint ArA tent nflAt ntl .hj nmiit. .... -. .
Pictures, the constant aUiulou of speech th. I
EASY PICKINGS
." "
ttuest ti Unites, eloquent because simple,
spontaneous, naive, Informally nnd u.iextln
gulshably genuine as the Maid was? If the
date of her birth ever does become a holiday
and the event Is quite conceivable men
and women in all the realms of freedom will
not need to be instructed ns to Its meaning.
Tii".v know it nou, cten those unacquainted
with all but tho barest outli.icK of her btoiy.
AS Te that tale, Us external incidents.
J- although of secondary import to the
spiritual universality of It, message, coin
pose a biography unparalleled. Louis Kos
suth pointed out that Joan of Arc was the
only person of cither sex who eeer com
manded tlm military forces of a nation at the
age of seventeen.
Cleaving to this line of thought, the record
of her captaincy of defeated armies following
tlie authorization of her po.sitlc.i by the
spineless I'liarles vn, her superb triumphs
at 01 leans and Paiay are simply untnatcli
abla accomplishments. Her failures at Paris
and Complegue arc dhectly attributable to
tho sinister Intrigues and Indifference of the
French Arniagnao party, whose cause she so
unselfishly espoused. Iter absolute skill In
leadership, a direction whose singular
humanity hi a grossly brutal ago is attested
by her sworn statement that she never killed
u man, Is un-hadowed by those bitter clrcum
Malices. rV Hill: mental acumen, unsupported by
the smallest educational advantages for
sue was llllteiate the valid otllclal record
01 tne great ttlal of H2l and of the piocess
of rehabilitation Instituted by tin. church
glee wonder-waking evidence. IJcr teplies to
her accusers after ttlis had been perfidiously
sold by her captors, tho Burgundlans, to her
nations foes, the I.'tigllsh, re will marvels
of peisplcicity and touching mental honesty.
-Voidest of all is tlie supreme alor of her
letocaljon of all that she Ifad denied con
eernlng her belief in her celestial mentors
"Many things.' declared the girl, "did he
llho puncher say that t hato never done.
if I iti-tci to say tli.it L.01I has not sent me
1 should be. damned. It Is true that (tod has
set-.', me My voices have since told me that
by confessing 1 committed a great wicked
ness, which 1 ought never hate elone. u
that I said t uttered through f,,,r ot J,1(J
She." Fiont that point her courage never
failed. Tlie deatli pyre, ut Itouen had no
spiritual terrois for her.
TT CAXXOT bo said that the cxhausth
A Investigations of tho visions and m.ic,
te
Ices
,,-., now U..1.11 e-u insimv-u ijer to ,,,,,1..,..
the .lellveeane. f .-,.J,. ,.. ... . lindertako
,,,... ; .. ' "' ii.ivt. lurotvn
much
tern In history. Tho church 1 as Tea ,,."";
her. Mark Twain. In ,., r n wodlo ir f
ntipM.,,1. ,-. -,,t...i.... , '""I'somc tribute
"" " siv iiiiiai eviriinvii iw ..
ribute.
; '. " '""ui 01 tne mysten-
transcendental aspects aimeal-.i ...
o-rrtX 'Anv"-;,;
Its
to
tho
as to her "supranormal'
us for any facts in her hlatnrv
acunie-. i, -UlJ 00
..... " --sll
liven that serene repository of wu
Anatola France, shifted the proble. 0I"'
Pails neurologist, who talks T pmei ius'iv
"unilateral hysteria." nnd then ,.,. "if
became the open door by wl,lch the dwL
or what Joan deemed tho divine Jr. iS,
Into her life. It strengthened I e" f.Htb "
consecrated hor ,lc.,!,-, . ..... ... 1,'.u" and
an. her will Joan remains perfectly lea the
and normal. Xenous pathology can, there,
fore, cast hut a feeble light on JonnVn, ure
It can reveal only one part of her spirit."
Till-: key 'word Is the last It U the spirit
of the Maid which no shadow of dubiety
can sully. It will ring as 11 deathless over
tone In the reverberut Ions nf muf. -. ...
.i i,.T ,,.Tn , ,... "r::.u.1 " ,,e.r ""n
eenloua machines of material power as they
ISff S.,,ie'.Sfmorr V" N'w York Bay
Voice From the A. E. F.
tty Lieutenant Crantland Rice
Third Army, A. II. I
"piP-AXCE may have Alsace-Lorraine;
Italy can grab her share;
Slip the British Turkey-Spain,
' Or a slice of old Ukraine,
Africa, or anywhere;
Hut so far as- we're concerned,
Looking back across the foam.
Willi our faces westward turned
All we ask Is "Send us Home,"
Belgium has a worthy claim
On the war chest of the Uun;
Serbia may well exclaim
"We were nlso In tho game
Whoa you scored the winning run."
Hut concerning just our stake,
Hiking through the muddy loam,
AVe have one request to make
All we ask is "Send us Home.'
Mujbo we have done our pait;
An) way, we gave our best;
Though a trltle slow to stmt
We came tfiroush with willing heart
When we bumped against the test;
Xow when all rewards are duo.
Peering through the wintry gloam,
This 'Is all we seek from you -
All we ask Is "Send us Home.''
Oid Virginia we mean
ole luglnny swung
back out of the Past '
A Voire I'r.im
Old Times
with its golden accent
to speak In the person of that maid of Mr.
WH.-on's who fibbed nobly -i'o.. her land und
dazed the household servant of Hngliud's
king with the quiet statement that we have
at the White House gold dinner plate quite
as marvelous as that of tlie royal establish
ment of lirltnin. tine need not have been
below mnlrs at Buckingham Palace to know
how tills daughter ot slave's moved austerely
In that environment, refusing to be dazzled,
pi oof against Incredible wonders, stonily re
sulted lo show no emotion all for the honor
of the old folks at home. Ole Virginians
will recognize the trait. They will not smile
at It. They will be reminded ot a time when
the setvant In the house was not a "prob
lem" and 1111 Irritation, hut tho lovable god- '
dens of a hearth and an authoritative guar
dian of family pride and traditions. And
they will bavo 11 sudden wistful sense of
something lost forever out of life.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
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2. UI1.1t Is the latest alrnlnne nlllliiele rer.irJ
mid by whom was It nmele? m''
I). MI1.1t Is Inicloloc.".'
4. VWiiit vi hh tlie natlormlit, f jjln . , s .
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tl. Mli.lt (lire tmoU ef the Nrw Te.tu'men(
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