fHE FULTON COUNTY NEWS. McCONNELLSBURO, Pa MOTHER HOSPITAL SHIP. TORPEDOED Germans Forget Their Pledge to King Alfonso. ALL WOUNDED ARE SAVED British Ship Of Mercy Attacked And Sunk Whl'a Displaying All The Light And Marking! Required By The Hague Convention. BrlBtdl, England. The hospital ship Rewa waa torpedoed without warning an hour before midnight on January 4 and sank within an hour. AccortS Ing to custom, the vessel was lighted up after dark Frlduy evening, so that there could be no possibility of sub marines mistaking ber identity. The torpedo struck the vessel with e terrific crash and as so effective that there was no chance of saving ker. There were 650 on board, in cluding 30 bed-ridden and a number as? soldiers suffering from malaria. The lights on the hospital ship were put out by the force of the explosion end the wounded and sick had to grope about in the dark for their cloth ing. Many of them were unsuccessful ta ttheir quest and had to leave the Stadp without clothing. While In the boats and on rafts they had little or rao protection trom the piercing cold wind. All the patients, the ship's staff and the members of the crew, with the ex ception of three Lascars, who were killed by the explosion, were safely rescued from the boats and rafts.W They had hardly left the Rewa, which waa sinking on even keel, when the steamer suddenly plunged forward and disappeared. The rescued men were two hours adrift before they were picked up. The announcement follows: His Majesty's hospital ship Rewa was tonpedoed and sunk in the Bristol Channel at about midnight on Janu ary 4. on her way home from Gibral tar. AH the wounded were safely transferred to patrol vessels. There were only three casualties among the crew, three Lascars being missing. "She was displaying all the lights and markings required by The Hague Convention. She was not and had not been within the so-called barred zone, as delimited In tha statement issued by the German Government on Janu ary 19, 1917." Cardiff, Wales. Most of the sur vivors of the Rewa were landed at Swansea. Many of them were without clothing of any kind. The wounded were removed Immediately to a hos pital. The torpedo which sank the Rewa went directly through the Red Cross painted on her side. TO CONTROL OIL SUPPLY. Will Be Under Fuel Administration, With Special Man In Charge. Washington. The Government Is preparing to take control of the oil supply, under the Fuel Administration. A man has been selected to take charge and his name will be made public with the announcement of the Government's decision. It Is understood that the Govern ment's plans are not fully matured and will not be until the new ap pointee makes an Investigation. Li censing of the oil Industry from the wells to the wholesaler Is contem plated. JONES SURVIVORS CAPTIVE. John F. Murphy And Albert De Mello Prisoners In Germany. Washington. Two men from the destroyer Jacob Jones, submarined December 6, now are held prisoners In Germany. Through the Red Cross the navy tins learned that one Is Albert de Mello, seaman, and the other John Francis Murphy, cook. De Mello's address Is 121 Hathaway street, New Bedford, Mass. Murphy, whose name was given previously as "Karfee," lived at 53 Kail avenue, Newport R. I. LOSE TEETH TO ESCAPE DRAFT. Reports Reach Easton Of Cowardly Slackers In Talbot Easton, Md. Reports reached Eas ton that a number of young men in different parts of the counvy were having their teeth pulled out In hopes ' that they would be exempted by the locr.l exemption board for .physical dis ability. It is said that one young man h:id 15 teeth extracted. ALIEN MAYOR TAKES CHARGE. Injunction Proceedings Filed, But Miller Steps In. Michigan City, Jnd. Fred C. Miller, alleged . enemy alien, assumed office M mayor of this city without opposi tion. No word had been received as to the progress of Injunction proceed ing begun at Valparaiso by persons wlio objected to the installation of a "German" mayor. TO REDUCE FISH PRICSIO. Food Administration Plans To In crease Catch. Washington. Increased production In the spring should reduce the prices now charged for salt water fish, the Food Administration announced. Transfer of fishermen and fishins boat into the naval service since war was declared bag brought down the size of catches and sent prices to new high levels. Meatless days pelped the price movement upward. DRAFT LAW IS CONSTITUTIONAL United States Supreme Court Holds Congress Has Power. OBJECTIONS DEVOID OF MERIT Draft Is Not Slavery Argument Of Opposition Would Rob Gov ernment Of All Au thority. . Washington. The selective service act was uphold as constitutional . by the Supreme Court. Chief Justice White, who delivered the unanimous opinion, in a brief statement declared that after consid ering the various contentions the con clusion bad been reached that most of them were imaginary rather than roal. The decision resulted from the ap peals of 13 cases growing out ot con victions under the selective service act, five coming from New York, three from Ohio, four from Minne sota and one from Georgia. Consti tutionality of the act was made the basis for all of the appeals. All Must Serve Sentences. The cases from New York were those of Loulvi Kramer, Morris Beck er, Emma Goldman, Alexander Berk man and Meyer Oraubard. The first four were convicted of attempting to induce others of draft age not to reg ister and an additional charge of failure to register was made against Kramer, who was sentenced to two years' Imprisonment Becker was sentenced to one year and eight months in Jail, while Emma Goldman and Berkman were ordered Imprisoned for two years and fined $10,000 apiece. A one-year sentence was given Graubard for tailing to register. The Ohio Cases. Charles E. Ruthenberg, Albert Wag enknecht and Charles Baker were convicted in the Ohio Federal Dis trict Court on a charge of Inducing Alphonse J. Schue not to register. Each was sentenced to one year's im prisonment in the Stark county work house at Canton, Ohio. The Minnesota cases were those n. Joseph F. Arver, Alfred F. Grahl, Otto and Walter Wangerln, indicted for falling to register and sentenced to serve one .soar each in the Minne sota State Reformatory. The Georgia case was based on the refusal of the Federal District Court to grant a writ of habeas corpus to Albert Jones, a negro, arrested and confined in Jail for refusing to register on June 5. Doesn't Cover Conspiracy Charge. In holding the law constitutional the Court took no action in those cases involving charges of conspiracy to prevent the carrying out of the purposes of the law. These, It was understood, will be taken up by the Court luter. Thut question Is Involved In the cases of Alexander Berkmnn and Emma Gold man, Louis Kramer and Morris Becker, convicted in New York on that charge and the so-called Ohio eases. , COLD POLICEMAN SAVES BANK. Had Gone In To Get Warm When Bandit Enters. Chicago. I'utrolman Martin Flynn had been plodding through snow drifts for hours notifying householders to help dig the city out, and because of this the Southwest Trust and Sav ings Bank, with $80,000 handy in nn open vault, was not robbed. Flynn, chilled to the bone, entered the bank to get warm. He had scarcely seated himself when a youth ful bandit, with a pistol in each hand, entered with the command "Hands up!" Flynn opened fire nnd was himself phot In the leg. The robber fled and escn.ped with two companions who awaited him in a limousine. CHAMBERLAIN GUILTY. Sentenced To Life Imprisonment For The Murder Of His Brother. Goochland, Va. Dr. Asa W. Cham berlain was found guilty of the mur der of his brother, Albert, and sen tenced to life Imprisonment. Dr. Chamberlain still claimed his inno cence, and will carry his case to high er courts. Both the Chamberlains came here from Iowa about three years ago. The t;t:ite contended the doctor murdered his brother, cut up his body and burled It on a farm, pos session of which was alleged to have br-f n the cause of a quarrel between them. RATIFY DRY AMENDMENT. Both Houses Of Mississippi Legisla ture Act On Federal Bill. Jackson, Miss. Fifteen minutes filt er the subject was presented in Gov ernor Dibo's message to the state leg islature, both houses ratified the pro posed prohibition amendment to the Federal Constitution. Only eight dis senting votes were cant. Tho Missis sippi assembly Is the first to act on the proposed amendment. BUTTER S2.5 A POUND. If Prices Ars Higher Here, Just Look At Germany. Washington. Butter ia selling in Berlin at 2.25 per pound, sugar at 66 cents per pound, ham and bacon at $2.11 per pound and American soap at five bars for $1.12. This informa tion, received by the Food Administra tion, comes through a tellable source from a responsible source. The prices are from four to five times as high a:i those now prevailing In the United States. TEUTON PEACE TERMS REJECTED Lloyd George Outlines Britians Peace Terms. WITH FRANCE TO DEATH Premier Declares Wrongs Of 1871 Must Be Righted, Italy's Demands Satisfied And Small Nationalities To Select Own Government London. The British Prime Min ister, 'David Lloyd George, sot forth Great Britain's war alms more speci fically and at greater length before the delegates of the trades unions than he had ever done before. In effect, the speech was a reply to, and a rejection of, the German peace terms as voiced by the spokesman for the Central Powers at the Brest Litovsk conference. The three cardinal points of the British terms, as enunciated- by the British Prime Minister, are: Re establishment of the sanctity of treaties; territorial settlement based on the right of self-determination or the content of the governed ; the crea tion of an International organization to limit armaments and diminish the probability of ww. Having first declared that it was not a war of aggreislon against Germany or the German people, and that the breaking up of the German peoples or the disintegration of their state was not one of the objects for which the Allies were fighting, he proceeded to mention the fundamental Issues for which Britain and her allies were contending. First among these was the restora tion of Belgium and reparation for the injuries Inflicted. Kext came the restoration of Serbia, Montenegro and the occupied parts of France, Italy and Roumanla. France must have Alsace-Lorraine, and to this end, said the Premier, the British nation would stand by' the French democracy to the death. NEW MISSION FOR SCOUTS. President Proposes To Make Them Dispatch Bearers. New York. A letter from President Wilson, saying he desired to entrust the 370,000 Boy Scouts of America, "with a new and Important commis sion, to make them the government dispatch bearers" In circulating bul letins prepared by the committee on public information, was made public here at the Boy Scouts of America national headquarters. Each Boy Scout is expected to place in the hands of 15 Influential persons in his community the pamphlets entrusted to him for delivery and to obtain a promise from each person first to rend the pamphlet through and then to place It "where the information will likely do good." Through this meth od. It was stated, the government ex pects to reach at least 10,000,000 per sons with every pamphlet CAPTURED 114,544 IN YEAR. British In Same Period Lost 28,379 To Germans. London. The War Office has Issued a summary of the British captures and losses in the war during 1917. The total captures on all fronts num bered 114,544 prisoners and 781 guns. The losses numbered 28,379 prisoners and 166 guns. The Items Include: Western theatre, 73,131 prisoners; 531 guns captured and 27,200 prison ers and 166 guns lost. Palestine, 17, 646 prisoners and 108 guns captured. Mesopotamia, 15,944 prisoners and 124 guns captured. No guns were lost In any theatre except the western. TURKEY'S PEACE TERMS. Free Passage Of Dardanelles And Russian Evacuation. London. Free passage of the Dar danelles for Russian ships, Russian evacuation of Turkish territory and the demobilization of the Russian Black Sea fleet are provided for in the draft of Turkish peace terms pre sented to Russia, according to an Ex change Telegraph dispatch from Pet rograd. Turkey, it is provided, is to retain her active army in consequence of the continuation of war against the entente. BRITAIN LOSES DESTROYER. Warship Torpedoed And Sunk In Mediterranean. London. A British torpedo-boat destroyer has been torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean sea, ac cording to an Admiralty announce ment. All tho officers of the dcstToy er were saved, but 10 members of the crew were lost. KERENSKY SERIOUSLY ILL. Reported To Be In The Last Stages Of Lung Trouble. London. Former Premier Kerensky of Russia, is near death, according to reports reaching here by way of Switzerland. The Russian leader, who has suffered from lung ailment for several years, is now said to be in the last stages of the disease. PRISONER IS IDENTIFIED. Mulhall's Picture Shows Him Cap tured In Germany. Jersey City, N. J. Reproduction in American newspapers of photographs taken in Germany of American prison er of war led to the Identification of one of the men as Corporal Nicholas Mdlhall, who was officially reported missing on November 8. - Mulhall's picture wa recognized by his mother, Mrs. Bridget Mulhall, and other rela tives living In this city. PRESIDENT RESTATES - MR US Names H Conditions Under Which Peace is Possible. REPARATION FOR FRANCE Absolute Freedom of Seas In Peace or War. ALL TREATIES TO BE OPEN Cermany Must Right Wrong of Taking Alsace-Lorraine Complete Evacua tion of Belgium Removal of All Eco nomic Barriers Equality In Trade. Washington, Jan. 8. With a new statement of war alms, approving the recent declarations of the British Pre mier, Lloyd Georgo, President Wilson today presented to Congress and the world a specific declaration of the terms ou which it would be possible to make peace with the German military au tocrocy. The President's program Is composed of 14 separate articles and provides for restoration and reparation, guarantees for territory and national life, free dom of the seas and access to them, reductions of armaments and guaran tees for the sanctity of agreementa be tween nations. In a word, the President said, the program removes the chief provoca tions to war. But in order that his pronouncement should be definitely understood as one of war alms rather than peace aims, the President declared: "For such arrangements and cove nants we are willing to fight and to con tinue to fight until they are achieved." This he followed with a restatement that the world wars only upon a Ger many crazed by war, not upon a Ger many of peaceful pursuits, no matter however great they may be. "We wish her only to accept a place ot equality among the peoples of the world," said the President, "tho new world In which we now live Instead of a place of mastery." These alms, the President declared, shared by the co-belligerents, were the alms and principles of the people of the United States for which they are willing to sacrifice everything. "The moral climax of thiB, the cul minating and final war for human lib erty, has come," said the President in conclusion, "and they (the people of the United States) are ready to put their own sten$th, their own highest purpose, their own Integrity and devo tion to the test." The President spoke a follows: Gentlemen of the Congress: Once more, as repeatedly before, the spokesmen of the Central Empires have Indicated their desire to discuss the objects of the war and possible bases of a general peace. Parleys have been in progress at Brest-Lltovsk between Russian repre sentatives of the Central Powers to which the attenlon of all the belliger ents has been invited for the purpose of ascertaining whether it may be pos sible to extend these parleys into a general conference with regard to terms of peace and settlement. The Russian representatives present ed not only a perfectly defnite state ment of the prtncles upon -which they would be willing to conclude peace but also an equally definite program of the concrete application of those principles. The representatives of the Central Powers, on their part, presented an out line of settlement which, if much less definite, seemed susceptible of liberal interpretation until their specific pro gram of practical terms was added. That program proposed no concessions at all either to sovereignty of Russia or to the preferences of the population with WU0E2 fortunes It dealt, but meant, In a word, that the Central Empires were to keep every foot of territory their armed forces had occupied every provlnco, every city, every point of van tage as a permanent addition to their territories and their power. It is a reasonable conjecture that the general principles of settlement which they at first suggested originated with the more liberal statesmen of Germany and Austria, the men who have begun to feel the force of their own people's thought and purpose, while the con crete terms of actual settlement came from the military leaders who have no thought but to keep what they have got. The negotiations have been bro ken off. The Russian representatives were sincere and in earnest. They cannot entertain such proposals of con quest and domination. The whole incident is full of signifi cance. It is also full of perplexity. With whom are the Russian represen tatives dealing? For whom are the representatives of the Central Empires speaking? Are they speaking for the majorities of their respective parlia ments or for tbs minority parties, that military and iniperallstic minority which has so far dominated their whole policy and contholled the affairs of Tur- t i . . BRINGS DOVN GERMAN PLANE. Former Princeton Football Captain Dees Good Work. Paris. TU former captain of the Princeton fjotball team, now serving in the flying corps, brought down his first Germjin plane Saturday, says the European edition of the New York Herald. The Princeton football captain re ferred to In this dispatch probably Is Lieutenant "Hobey" Baker, who la key and of the Balkan States which have felt obliged to become their asso ciates in this war? The Russian rep resentatives' have insisted, very Justly, vory wisely and in the true spirit of modern democracy that the conferences they have been holding with the Teu tonic and Turkish statesmen should be held within open, not closed, doors, and all the world has been audience as was desired. To whom have we been listening, then? To those who speak the spirit and intention of the resolutions of the Ger man Reichstag of the ninth of July lost, the spirit and intention of the Liberal leaders and parties of Germany, or those who resist and defy that spirit and intention and insist upon conquest and subjugation? Or are we listening, in fact, to both, unreconciled and In open and hopeless contradiction? These are very serious and pregnant questions. Upon the answer to them depends the peace of the world. But whatever the results of the par leys at Brest-Lltovsk, whatever the con fusion of counsel and of purpose in the utterances of the spokesman of the Cen tral Empires, they have again attempt ed to acquaint the world with their objects in the war and have again chal lenged their adversaries to say what their objects are and what sort of set tlement they would deem just and sat isfactory. There is no good reason why that challenge should not be responded to and responded to with the utmost can dor. We did not wait for It. Not once but again and again we have laid our whole thought and purpose beforo the world; not in general terms only but each time with sufficient definition to make it clear what sort of definitive terms of settlement must necessarily spring out of them. Within the lnst week Mr. Lloyd George has spoken with admirable can dor and In admirable spirit for the peo ple and Government of Great Britain. There Is no confusion of counsel among the adversaries pf the Central Powers, no uncertainty of principle, no vague ness of detail. The only secrecy of counsel, the only lack of fearless frank ness, the only failure to make a definite statement of the objects of the war He with Germany and her allies. The Issues of life and death hang upon these definitions. No statesman who has the least conception of his respon sibility ought for a moment to permit himself to continue this tragical and appalling outpouring of blood and treas ure unless he Is sure beyond a perad venture that the objects of the vital sacrifice are part and parcel of the very life of society and that the peoplu for whom he speaks think them right and Imperative as he does. There Is, moreover, a voice calling for these definitions of principle and of purpose which Is, it soems to me, more thrilling and more compelling than any of tho many moving voices with which the troubled air of the world Is filled. It is the voice of the Russian people. They are prostrate and all but holpless, It would seem, before the grim power of Germany, which has hitherto known no relenting and no pity. Their power, apparently, Is shattered. And yet their soul Is not subservient. . They will not yield either In prin ciple or in action. Their conception of what Is right, of what is humane and honorable for them to accept, has been stated with a frankness, a large ness of view, a generosity of spirit and a universal human sympathy which must challenge the admiration of every friend of mankind; and they have re fused to compound thsir ideals or de sert others that they themselves may be safe. They call to us to say what it is that we desire, in what, if in anything, our purpose and our spirit differ from theirs; and I believe that the people of the United States' would wish me to respond with utter simplicity and frankness. Whether their present leaders believe it or not it Is our heart felt desire and hope that some way may be opened whereby we mny be privi leged to assist the people of Russia to attain their utmost hope of liberty and ordered peace. It will be our wish and purpose that the processes of peace, when they are begun, shall be absolutely open and that they shall Involve and permit hence forth no secret understandings of any kind. The day of conquest and aggran dizement is gone by so; ho is also the day of secret covenants entered into In the interest of particular Governments and likely at some unlooked-for mo ment to upset the peace of the world. It Is this happy fact, now clear to the view of every public man whose thoughts do not still linger In an age that Is dead and gone, which makes It possible for every nation whose pur poses are consistent with Justice and the peace of the world to avow now or at any other time the objects It has In view. We entered this war because viola tions of right had occurred which touched us to the quick and made the life of our own people impossible un less they were corrected and the world secured once for all against their re currence. What we demand in this war, therefore, Is nothing peculiar to ourselves. It is that the world be made fit and safe to live in; and par ticularly that It be made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our own, wishes to live its own life, de termine its own institutions, be assured of Justice and fair dealing by the other peoples of the world as against force and selfish aggression. All the peoples of the world are, In effect, partners in this interest, and for our own part we see very clearly that with the American Flying Corps in France. Recently his work in the air bas attracted much attention. He was not only a football star, but a crack hockey player on the Princeton team. FOR AMERICAN PRISONERS. Germany Assures Them Of Treatment Like All Others. Amsterdam. The following state ment has been Issued by the Wolff Bureau, the semi-official news agency unless justice be done to others It will not be done to us. The program ot the world's peace, therefore, is out pro gram, and that program, the only pos sible program, as we see it, is this: 1. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after whlcli there shall be no private international understand ings of any kind, hut diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and In the pub lic view. 2. Absolute freedom ot navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, ex cept as the soas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international cove nants. 3. The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establish ment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting t peace and associating themselves for 1U maintenance. 4. Adquate guontees given and taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety. 6. A free, open-minded, and absolute ly impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that In determining all such questions ot sovereignty the In terests of the populations concerned must have equal rights with the equi table claims of the government whose title is to be determined. 6. The evacuation of all Russian ter ritory and such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia as will se cure the best and freest co-operation of the other nations of the world In obtaining for her an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the in dependent determination of her own po litical development and national pol icy and assure her of a sincere wel come Into the society of free nations under Institutions of her own choos ing; and for the more than a welcome assistance also of every kind that she may need and may herself desire. The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations in the months to come will be the acid test of their good will, of their comprehension of her needs as distinguished from their own Interests and of their Intelligent and unselfish sympathy. 7. Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and restored, without any attempt to limit the sov ereignty which she enjoys In common with all other free nations. No other single act will Berve as this will serve to restore confidence among tho nations in the laws which they have themselves set and determined for the government of their relations with one another. Without this healing act the whole structure and validity of international law is forever impaired. 8. All French territory should be free and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of tho world for. nearly 50 years, Bhould be righted. In order that peace may once more be made secure In the Inter est of all. 9. A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recognizable linos of nationality. ' 10. The peoples of Austria-Hungary, whose place among the nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest opportunity of autonomous development. 11. Rumania. Serbia and Montenegro Bhould be evacuated; occupied terri tories restored: Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea; and the relations of the several Balkan States to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality; and International guarantees of the politi cal and economic Independence and ter ritorial Integrity of the several Balkan States should be entered Into. 12. The TurklBh portions of the pres ent Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other na tionalities which are now under Tur kish rule should be assured an undoubt ed security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development, and the Dardanelles should be permanently opened as a free passage to the ships and commerce of all nations under international guar antees. 13. An Independent Polish State should be erected, which should include the territories Inhabited by Indisputab ly Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and economle Independence and territorial Integrity should be guaranteed by international covenant. 14. A general association of nations must be formed under specific cove nant for the purpose of acordlng mu tual guarantees of political independ ence and territorial integrity to great and small States alike. In regard to these essential rectifica tions of wrong and assertions of right we feel ourselves to be intimate part ners of all the Governments and peo ples associated together against the Imperialists. We cannot be separated in Interest or divided in purpose. We stand together, until the end. For such arrangements and cove nants we are willing to fight and to con tinue to fight until they are achieved but only because we wish the right to prevail and desire a Just and stable peace such as can be secured only by removing the chief provocations of war, which this program does remove. Experiments have been successfully made on a small scale at Dumfries, Scotland, with electrical overhead discharges as affecting the growth of crops. in Berlin: "The report Is published from Amer ican headquarters that the Germans intend to treat American prisoners systematically worse than British, French and Italian prisoners, and is based allegedly on an official .German statement that Americans are hard of understanding and unable to conduct themselves like gentlemen. Such an official statement was never made. "American prisoner will be treated just as kindly and considerately as all other prisoners." ' TO CURB "D" BOATS "Sea Jitneys" Suggested for At- tac'K on German Bases. Canadian Naval Airplane FlghterJ Homo to Recover From Shrapnel Wounds Expresses an Opinion, Theorizing about war conditions baa grown quite us tiresome, no doubt, to) tho people who read newspapers as It bas to most of the people who write) for them. Yet, now and then, you, meet a man who theorizes from the facts of experience and knowledge and who points something out that give food for thought Such a case, it seemed to several of us, when a qulot little chap, son of a Canadian mlllion-i aire, told us his view of the war la Its present stage, a New York corre-j fspondent of the Cincinnati Times-Star! writes. His brother was killed at tha Marne and he Himself la borne to re-i cover from sbrapnol wounds received! when ho was flying a naval airplane! some thousands of feet above a town; ou the Belgian coast. "The outstanding fact, just now,Hj h said, "Is that ho German U-boatsj are doing pretty nearly as much ui they were expected to do und that we, have no effective defense against them. The Germans are almost Justified In believing that they are on the way to ward starving England Into submis sion. If we don't find a new and suc cessful way to combat the U-boats the situation in England will soon be very critical. Of course, I fancy a way will be found. But It must be something entirely new in warfure. For my part, I am convinced that success can be obtained only by the apparently des perate undertaking of assaults by sea upon the U-boat bases. I say 'appar ently desperate.' By any known or tried method such nssuults would be simply useless and suicidal. "The German harbors are mined,! petted from end to end and fortified,' with tremendous shore batteries of; heavy and aircraft guns. How can the, bases be attacked? Well, of course,; that will be settled by some one else! than I, but I have heard a theoretical; plnn of uttnek proposed by one of our nnvul men which made a great Impres-j sion on tue. He suld we must build! thousands of small submarines some-j thing like the 'sea Jitneys' which man-' ufneturers have talked about and go. Into the German harbors with swarms of them, et the risk of losing ninety-; nine out of every hundred bonts and ?revs. Barrage fire and bombing have been the new and successful things la land fighting. "This officer's proposal Is for some thing like an undersea duplication of, this plnn of attack. Most of the little bonts would be lost, no doubt, but most of them would succeed In doing ma terial damage with one or two torpe does. Nets would be blown awny, mines exploded, guard ships sunk and such other disorganization of the harbor de fenses accomplished as to give the big ships a chance to complete the work. Yes, it's true that a man would hardly need to worry about his return trip If he went in on one of these little bonts. It would be work for volun teers. But the volunteers would be plentiful enough. That I am sure of, "If such attacks promised to win tho fight against the U-boats, men would be willing to go. It would be enough for them to know that they; were striking the sea murderers at their home, and that some of them might possibly get back."- German Schooling.' German schooling has proved antag onistic to co-operation, although de manding unity of action through mass obedience. It has failed to foster real, co-operation, for co-operntlon Is a method by which persons of their own volition and by no compulsion may work together harmoniously, writes: Wlnthrop Talbot in the Century Maga zine. Only when training and school ing are the common privilege of all Is (hut state of civic development possi, hie which permits society to become co operative la Its action. In other words; a socialized society becomes more and, more possible only as all Individual members acquire each the widest vision, and thus the power to co-operate harmoniously. j Kerensky Real Diplomat nere Is n Kerensky story told by man lately returned from Petrograd. Kerensky was summoned from his ho tel after midnight to the headquarters of the provisional government. A fel low guest at the hotel met Kerensky as he was going out and, learning of the summons Kerensky had received, exclaimed : "Not another revolution, I hope!" "I don't know," replied Kerensky, and hurried away. The next day his fellow guest asked' Kerensky whut had been the trouble, which hud brought him out so late the! previous evening. Kerensky smiled. "I had forgotton to sign a letter," he replied. The Crow. I hnve seen no bird walk tho ground with Just the same air the crow does, It Is not exactly pride; there is no1 strut or swagger In It though perhaps just a little condescension; It Is the contented and self-possessed gait ofj a lord over his domains. All these acres are mine, he says, nnd all these crops; men plow and sow for me, and t stay here or go there, and find life sweet and good wherever I am. The hawk looks awkward and out of placet on the ground; the game birds hurry! tnd skulk, but the crow Is at home and! treads the earth as If there were nonej to molest or moke him afraid. John. Burroughs. Could Be Worse. i The Woman at the Back Door "It: must be a terrible thing to hnve to go( through life without your limb. Yon must remember, however, that It will; be restored to you In the next world."! "I know, said the tramp, "It will, mum,! but that don't encourage me none. Yoa see, mei foot was cut off when I was a baby, and. it won't come within a foot of the grdund when It's restored."-1 fuck,
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