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iSOR PEACE WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS By Alice Thatcher Post (Mrs. Louis F. Post) America at peace this is the con dition in which Pres. Wilson has held our country during two years .of un precedented international stress and strain. Better it has been peace with honor. Only those jeer at American diplomacy who find it too serious to be trifled with and too simple and direct for insincere procrastination. Would you rather fight for your rights, or avoid war by courteous, firm and honorable diplomacy? The president has led us safely by the latter course. ( But better still this has been peace based upon principles of inter national righteousness "the right eousness that exalteth a nation." We, the people, have not kept a wholly fine record during these two years of fear and passion. There are those who would have had us bully the world in its bewilderment, or threat en it in its madness, or snatch from it in its weakness. But Pres. Wilson has kept his eyes steadfastly upon a vision of the nations co-operating as friendly neighbors. What would be false or greedy or brutal as between man and man he has held to be equally evil as between nation and nation. The captious and sordid among us have lacked faith and good will for such a policy. To the old world it has had incredible aspects. To the women at Chicago on Oct 19 the president confessed that "some of the difficulties of our foreign rela tionships in the last two years have been due to the fact that it was not comprehensible to some foreign statesmen that the U. S. really was disinterested. They had never heard of such a thing." "And," he contin ued, "in proportion as the U. S. dem onstrates to the world that its influ ence in the family of nations is dis interested, it will have that part of power which does not come ftom arms, but comes from' the great in visible powers that well up in the hu man heart" It was with vision of such fulfill ment of ideal that at Kansas City last February the president prophesied that in the coming time men would say that the ideal of America has been the message: "Men and breth ren, let us live together in righteous ness and in the peace which spring eth only from the soil of righteous ness itself." This is the ideal of the man who comes before the suffrages of Nov. 7. Is it also the ideal of a majority of the voters of the U. S? IT'S EASY, FELLOWS! ' By Jim Manee First you hold her little mit, Then gaze into her eyes. Then talk business for a while, Make her think you're wise. Now just slip your arm around Her perfect twenty-nine. Now, you wait a minute though Before you say: "Be mine!" Tell her tales of lovely love, Mention your machine. Gather up your nerve to say: "I love you, Kath-er-ine!" Then you grab her by the neck, E'er your.planning slips. Point her face up to the north And kiss her ruby lips. Now blurt forth: "I love you, dear, "Please be my Dolly Vardon." But if -she's sore, why, then, of course, You'll have to beg her pardon. P. S. But she won't be sore. Whatever you do, don't tell her you want to be her lamp of life. She'll turn you down, her brother will-trim you and her daddy will put you out So long lamp. o o Margaret Proctor, 4, 1238 E. 70th, had leg crushed, and Frances Dwyer, 1233 E. 70th, got broken rib, when L Ct train bit them o d9jtfu