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vi lV9WVVrvyvVTV'T?"'7J o O tion in existence that rawhides their men like it does I would like to hear from it Seven days a week and 12 hours a day, and $12 a week to sup port a family fine corporation to work for. Can they be made to close on Sunday, so their men would have one day to get acquainted with their family. Jas. Connors. HOW ABOUT MRS. SURATT? If the account of the "official mur der" of Miss Cavell in Belgium by the German military authorities is au thentic, then indeed have the Ger mans proved themselves as worthy colleagues of the "unspeakable" and uncivilized Turk? I ask the world the question, what woman, worthy of the name, would not gladly assist her fellow country men in distress, under similar circum stances, as Miss Cavell did? In many previous reported "so-called" outrages, committed by the Ger man authorities or officials there were extenuating circumstances Even in the case of the Lusitafiia: there were features that may have, justified the German act, but In the cold-blooded nurfder of this one soli tary woman- there appears to be no justification. Up to the present I have been as strictly neutral as one possmiy couia, but this latest atrocity has caused a revulsion of feeling, and I am forced to the conclusion that any extension of "Germanic kultur" would be detri mental to the best interests of civili zation. Miss Cavell's name will go down the ages as an honored one and be remembered with pride, when that of the kaiser and any of his bloodthirsty associates will be universally execrat ed. Her martyrdom will not be in vain, for the book says "As ye sow, so shall ye reap." John Tweedle. 'ENFORCING THE LAW.' If Mayor Thompson took the oath of office to enforce the law then why 4aesnt he enforce the -full law, and not only part of it?, I think the JaWj goes a great deal farther than closing? the saloons on Sunday. If it does, 1 think he should be indicted for jiot enforcing it Abe Holzman. LOADING THE MITT. We can: tell a thing In more than one way-' and two meanings can be taken from any one thing said, and when toov hasty we can take the wrong one. There has been quite a bit written on neutrality and Americanism, and I can take but one meaning from them all. A strict neutral believes: in not helping the nations at war by selling them munitions, rule's or no rules'. It is against the rules tof rear Americanism. Americans are sup posed to be humanitarians and to assist others to kill is not humanitar lanism. A prizefight Is no comparison to murder. When two fighters enter a ring-they are supplied with gloves and other paraphernalia, but no one jlare'hand either a gun or help them with more than they have. They fight to a finish or quit when the ref eree says it is enough, and great care is taken that neither is killed. In or der to be neutral we must refrain from butting In to other nations' af fairs and you can bet that I won't butt in too close to even the prize fighters affairs. The only way to become strictly neutral is to lay down and die, ;but I guess the most of us do not want to be neutral that way. Frank Smith. o o r Whenever a shell comes scream ing In the direction of PoUy, apony now In the transport service at Gal lippM she stretches out her forelegs, let her head drop to the arth, closes her eyes and is Instantly rdead." Then when the shell has passed she rises again. o o - xt A New York store advertises fall costumes "for ladies of larger pro portions." Wonder If they meaa "tot?"- - . " , lMMtmMMmMAMMimmmmMmiil