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A Rededicatton
it lacks juBt a month now of being three
years since the representatives of thi*
French, British and Russian governments
signed an agreement to fight the war out.
When that agreement was signed victo?
rious German armies were approaching
Paris, the French government was already
on its way to Bordeaux and German vic?
tory seemed inevitable.
Now, after three years, we have a re
dedication. We have a reaffirmation of the
determination of the nations which havs
been fighting this war to continue until the
German menace is finally abolished, until?
the doctrine of force and the policy of
ruthlessness have been defeated unmis
takably.
The declaration of purpose of the Allies
in Paris is one to which all Americans can
subscribe. It is one which should be in- j
(iorsed officially by the United States gov?
ernment.
The main issue of the war remains what
it was on the day when the first German
troops broke into Belgium in defiance of ;
all human obligation and moral law. The i
issue of the war remains what it was when
German troops turned Louvain into **. ;
shambles. It remains what it was on i
the morning of the Lusitania, when j
American women and children, together
with those of other nations, were slaugh?
tered to satisfy a German purpose. We
were more fortunate than the French or
the Belgians in that the Germans were
able only to murder our women and not to
dishonor them. But their purpose and
their method were written into the Lusi?
tania in unmistakable fashion.
Let us not be misled in this war by any
talk of provinces or indemnities while the
question of principle remains unsettled.
While the German nation believes that it
has the right to murder the innocent, to |
dishonor the helpless, to enslave, the weak,
there can bo no peace, and any one who
talks peace advocates compounding that
infamy and negotiating that shame.
There can be no peace with the German
government or with the German people,
whatever their form of government, as
long as they maintain the right to live
outside of international law. There can be
no peace while German armies and Ger?
man soldiers continue to write over the
face of Europe that spirit which produced
the war, which made the war the thing it
is and which makes Germany the peril to
all our common civilization that she is.
If the American people wish, as Senator
a. Borah suggested the other day, a restate
? ment of issues, one need not go outside the
case of Belgium, one need not go beyond
the example of the Lusitania, to find it.
How shall one bargain with a wild beast?
How shall one talk of peace with a Ger?
many which confronts the world red
handed and unashamed, still renewing the
old threats and still engaged in the same
crimes?
Such adversities us have come to the
Allied side in recent months should be. and
must be, only a new incentive to greater
effort and larger sacrifice. We have seen
the proc?s .?ion ?>f German horrors unfold?
ing for three years, from the moment of
ihe invasion of Belgium to the hour when
women and children were driven into
slavery?themselves the survivors of those
who have been murdered and dishonored.
How can any man or woman think of
peace now, when Germany faces th? world
unashamed and unrepentant, considering
only what portion of the booty wrung
from the world by violence she may retain
low and forever?
This war is beyond all things ?Is? a
light of spiritual forcss against materia!
ambition. Our civilization has been
wounded, its very soul and life have beer,
threatened; and until that civilization is
indicated and re-establish?*! it is idle to
talk of peace; it is futile to discuss an
'?rreenrient.
There are those who would have the
United States now lead in a peace move
tuent because they are afraid that if w? do
not )?ad Germany will conquer ?ven mor..*
?bsoiulely than they think she ha? con
quered now. They would hav? th? world
clamor for peace and would go on bended
knees to Germany to have peace lest Ger
many should ultimately destroy them.
What sort of peace would this be? How
long would it be before Germany would
i strike again if all that she suffered ha?l
1-een already repaid in the harm and injury
done to her enemies? How long would
Germany refrain from a new assault after
; be had been convinced by a craven world
that it lacked the spirit, the courage, the
"?trength to resist her'.'
We have passed through three years of
terrible war. We are nearer to victory at
this moment than at any time since the
war began. We shall lose the war now, if
we lose it at all, not upon the battlefields,
but around the green table. There never
was a time in human history when it was
more necessary to fight and more futile to
talk, and there never was a war lince the
beginning of strife in which the issue was
more clearly written, more unmistakable.
It is a good thing and a hopeful thing to I
see the nations which have long fought
Germany united in a rededication of all they
have to the common cause of civilization. !
The United States should set its hand and
seal to the latest Paris document. The
American people should join the French,
the British, the Italian, the Russian, in ?*.
?esolution to have no peace which does not
establish the right of every race, big and
little, to live its own life; of every human
being?man, woman and child?to live,
even when a German purpose is served by
murdering them.
The German sought to conquer the
world by arms and failed He sought to
conquer it by terror, and he has failed
Then? aro German agents all over the
world now seeking to disorganize the
armies of the nations which have fought
Germany and to accomplish within the na
11??us at war what German arms have been
unable to accomplish on the field. Let us
not mistake their purpose or serve their
ends.
A Champion of Truth
Some weeks ago The Tribune had occa?
sion to warn unsuspecting readers against
some counterfeit news and figures pub?
lished by Mr. Bidder in his "New Yorker
Staats-Zeitung" by way of enabling Amer?
icans "definitely to determine the success
of the submarine campaign." Remarking
that the truth was "bad enough" and that
it was "difficult indeed to exaggerate the
gravity of the submarine menace." we pro
tistid against Mr. ?Bidder's di.-ingtnuous
endeavor to propagate "gross and delib?
erate falsehoods on the pretence o? supply?
ing natural reports of facts."
Mr. Bidder did not offer to explain his
duplicity, for no explanation was possible.
The rebuke rankled, however, and now he
has the effrontery to offer his paper as a
model of veracity in these terms:
The "Staats-Zeitung" has always believed
that more i-ood will come of publishing the
truth about the submarine menace and roug?
ing the American people to the seriousness
of it than from following the policy of such
papers as The New York Tribune, which
would lull them to disaster in the cradle of
easy complacency.
As an illustration of his passion for
truth it may be noted that in the preceding
paragraph he praises Mr. Grasty for doing
thlfl country "a real service" by publishing
"the truth about the submarine menace,"
while he knows well that the figures at?
tributed to Mr. Grasty were false, that
Mr. Grasty himself has categorically re?
pudiated them, and that the telegraph com?
pany which transmitted the message has
accepted full responsibility for the error, an
error amounting to exactly a million tons.
Relief for Prisoners of War
It will be a relief to many whose rela?
tives or friends are prisoners of war to
i learn that the recent conference of Brit- i
i ish and German delegates at The Hague I
i was not held in vain. Considerable im-1
I provement in the treatment of civil and I
; military prisoners seenfs at last to have
been secured.' Direct repatriation is to ?
be resumed, with greater leniency in the
medical qualifications; it is agreed, more?
over, that many of the more seriously dis?
abled in Switzerland are to be sent home
to make room for others and that all
? commissioned and non-commissioned offi
I cers who have been held for more than a
year and a half are eligible for intern?
ment in neutral countries. Holland baa
consented to take O.fiOO of these, besides
2.000 civilian prison? is. The punishment
of prisoners for variou offences has also
be.n regulated and reprisals againt-t in?
dividuals have been abandoned.
This news will be welcomed with great
joy in (ireat Britain, where the anxiety
felt on account of prison? rs in German
hands has increased greatly since we brtike
eff relations with Berlin. The presence
of Mr, Gerard had a wholesome influence
on the German authorities, and, according
to information received in England, there
is no doubt that the treatment of British
j prisoners of war has grown worse during
the last few months.
There were many complaints at what
seemed to the friends of those unhappy
captives to be a certain indifference on
the part of the British government to
their welfare, and many wild proposals
i were made by way of compelling the Ger?
mans to be more merciful. It was sug?
gested, for instance, that an end might at
once be put to the ?candal "if the houses
of Parliament were to pass a resolution
!that no peace terms would be entertained
rntil the persons known to be implicated
(giving their names) otaya banded over,
and that they and any others found to
have a**t?-d in a similar manner would be
tried by court martial, and if found guilty
would b? h?ngtd."
Similar tuggestioni, it will bt rtcalled,
.
were mad? in the early days of the -ib
marine war on passenger ships. It is
very doubtful, however, whether tht
-lightest attention would have been paid
to such threat?, whereas the Conference
at The HagHe baa at least in some meas?
ure improved the lot of a proportion of
the prisoner*. The French have already
ccme to an understanding with the Ger?
mans along the same lines, a .
some of those who have suffered longett
there will at last be a measure of relief.
Economy in England
A l??.r?i Crcwo remarked at the iJMn?
ing of the National Welfare and Economy
Exhibition in London a few weeks ago. be?
fore the war the people living south of
the Tweed were not a saving nation. The
great war. now completing its third year
and with as yet the end not in light, baa
changed all this, and personal and munic?
ipal economy in England la now carried,
in some cases at least, to what American-,
who have still to go through war's ex?
periences, probably regard as an unrea?
sonable and occasionally humorous ex?
tent.
In America everybody il talking econ?
omy and but f?'\v really practising it. anil
Americans would probably be inclined to
smile to read a news item in "The London
Times" stating that "as a war economy
Margate Council have decided to di* troy
the peacock in the park unless OOMMt one
will take chart?, of it during the war."
The Town Council of Baling, also, is not
behind that of Margate in the matter of
economy, but it takes a broader view.
Warned by past experiences of extortion?
ate prices for coal in winter time, the
council has purchased 1,000 tons of coal
for sale to the inhabitants next winter
at prices but little, if any, above cost. As
a further measure of economy, it did not
light the town's street lamps during June
01 the present month, ercept in the prin
(ipal thoroughfare of the town.
Another instance of economy is shown
in the changes war exigencies are making
even in the picturcsquenes3 of the country,
as in the case of King's Wood, between
Totteridge and Penn, where 185 a-res of
beeches, constituting one of the show i
features of the County of Bucks, have been ;
??old to be cut down, owing to the scarcity
of wood. Whether even the famous Burn
ham beeches wiil not meet a like fate
remains to be seen. Nothing but a sense
bf patriotism could impel English land?
owners to such sacrifices as tin at.
Not only is England addressimr hersel-*1
tf food conservation and food control, but
her botanists and food purveyors are di?
recting public attention to unutilized food ;
resources, natural foods, the use o? which
has either been unknown or overlooked
in times of peace and plenty. In a
entitled "The Wild Foods of Great Brit- ;
tin" it is set forth that there are over
1*00 articles of diet in field and tora t.
nearlv all of which have heretofore been '
t
neglected. Some of the better known of
these are snails and frogs, long utilized in
France; hedgehogs, nettles, wlmrtlcber- :
rics, avrons and the edible funerus known '
a?, blewitz, while on the coast are to bfl
found dulse and laver or samphire. In
the streams also are many fish not hereto?
fore used as food, but which are a valuable
resource in times like the present. The
government is not content with merely ;
setting forth these new food resoureos. Im* :
demonstrators are showing the pe.iple how
to distinguish them and how also to pre?
pare them for the table. To add conti-i
?Jence, also, the demot.. ' rsttur? themselves ?
fartake of these new dishes and Bampli
are given to those present. Germany ha?
long been compelled to practise similar
food economies, and while England is not
in danger of starvation, it is evidently the j
part of wisdom to teach the people h?*w, in ;
emergencies, to use all the resources; with'
which nature has supplied him.
"D.^me"
.hr.,)n Tu. Maeeketttr (iunrdinn)
The title of "Dame," to be retirai in the
i new order, is old enough to be new to mem- I
her? of the present generation, end will i
doubtless undergo the ?""ntle rulirul.
awaits all novelties. Was it net said of the ;
now almost venerated Victoria Crott
years ago that if a man were to itand with
a tray el' crosses at a country fair he would
not sell them ?t four a penny* The Primrose j
League MgS probably the last institution to
be associated with the title of "Dame," tad j
its use of the appellation was not uniformly i
successful. In one Scottish village a Prim?
rose habita'ion was created, and titles ?1 -
tributed ?ritk a lavish hand, but the ia.titu
tion did not survive itl lirs? meeting. A i
titled lady came down siu-ciaily, tad "t a '
preliminary "swaree," in her endeavor to be !
at?able and properly respectful at one ?nd '<
the same tilt?, a ?hires ?ed one or two of the i
Iota] laditl by their Primrose title of "burnt* "
As a phrase on a parchment the term was not
eatit!, but to he addressed to one's face as I
"l'aine" was? another matter. "T>anie,' in-i
diied!" exclaimed one natron, bristling with'
indignation! "did ye ever hear the like? 1': i ;
sure I'm nae aul'er than her. 1 min' as a wee '
', lassie she was a muckle hempie gaun tat* th?
schule," etc And henceforth "Daine" liecame !
1 ? word of reproach on the lips of wicked '
? (Libara)) children in that village.
A Source of Alcohol
T? tiie Kditor of The Tribune.
Sir: The letter of Mr. Manierre in fOMt
; issue of July It, regarding the use of de- !
tu.tured alcohol to supplement tin? inadequate
tat supply opens up an interesting sub?
ject.
His ?uggistion that Congress enact laws
to encourage the production o? ihiiu'urvd
alcohol should be Mtttd upon. In addition
i to wood alcohol it would be well to consider
tlso the potential alcohol in the grain now
.used in the production of temperance gm?\
and beverages by brewers.
A few years ago a chemist in "-"Tigluiid dis
coveri'd ?, way to r move the alcohol from
beer without affecting Itl flavor, taste ot
appearance. Thtt alcohol, fir.-t ??i-\?? l??pc.l tf
f< rnientation m beverage? and then lemoved
to make them non-alcoholic, woubl add ma
tcnally to the ?upply of alcohol without
i sing any more food material than *it ?.res '
<nt.
question tf motor ?pint is ?oon to be!
j? vitai one. ?nd no time should be lo?t in
oing new ?cure?, of ?upply to meet
I th? inevitable hrgn ?h rn.ui.l.
EUGENE J. CA.STIN.
Ktw Ytrk, July 2?, 1?17.
War Poetry
??258-*
it ??I "only a scrap of paper.''
Iwlc'-i VS ' crystal ball.
But it carried 'he Hope of half the world
And spelled the Fate of all.
.
: Not sine?* the Arab ciphrrr I,
<*r Egypt graved on stone.
Have F.gurts drawn from Freedom's pawn
Such wealth of blood ar.d bone.
lor Figures were things of Business,
Of diagram, map and chart;
Th? barren dross of Profit and Loss,
The numbers of The Mait,,
Till Destiny seized a tablet
And took in her hand a pen,
And. ?corning shame, plunged into a game
Whose stnkes were a Million Men.
. Thrre where the Elders gathered
Exa|t?d ?i heart and soul
At Her command a groping hand
DrSW S cube from the teeming bowl.
And one broke thp seal, and another
Wl t.? Ib? ai. u<>r down on a slate;
Th in, shrill and high, rose the echoing cry:
"Two Hundred and Fifty-eight'"
"Two Hundred and Fifty-eight?" you say -
"Meralf a gambling score?"
Tl SI a prisoned Soul that leaped from the
bowl
Ar.d loosed a Million more!
And be lie a ?allow stripling.
An athlete, hard and brown;
Bo he the scum of a city's slum,
Or s monocled Man-of-the-Town ;
He he Poverty's foundling, ,
():? the pet of a potentate
?1 - '..<? is alight as he reads to-night:
"Two Hundred and Fifty-eight!"
Be he the scion of Yankee*,,
Or the son of an ilicn state
Hi? is the toast*, "I lead the host
Tw? Hundred ;ir.d Fifty-eight!"
And the voice of a Hundred Million
?ira- booming across the sea:
'?Two Fi ft;, -eight heralds of F'ate
Thecc ?Sail ':*ake ftS free!"
I.ri tht Figuras fly in u war-tora ?/?;/.
Whars h'.rJiif')' trata their guas*
/.ci il"*i,t ruts '.h, i,-,i,-,- tn tueaor mid oavt
Where the U-boat stab* and runs.
?.et them flash like sn-ords o'er the Kaiser's
h orden
'Till he \pieldt th? Belgian gate;
Let them choke the throat that iiohUI
hreaih.c a note
Of that puny "Htjmn of Hate."
Let thnn carry cheer to Ihe listening car
Of ti,"sc wlw stand and tvait;
Let thnn $0\mA the knell of that Hnn~madn
Hell?
"Ti''i Hnndrrd and Fifty-eight!"
CHARLES WAYI.AND TOWNE
Neu* York, July *****, 1U17.
Shipbuilders
The (.erm.tn a ?pi? n;ireil them
All ulol mad?. ?I vaioal,
And Hindcnbiirg in :'ore them
Lifelike aii.l stupid stood.
To clothe him all in iron
And thus h i - soul express,
With nails and spikes they covered
llis wooden nakednc??.
Ar.d when they thus had clothed hira
All in a suit of mail,
Still came they, wild-eyed, looking
For ?-pace te drive a nail.
Whenever Teuton airmen
Kill b( >?:?, and girl? at play,
Or, U-boat?, ilrowi.ing baldes,
Create .. bolMaj*i
Then, gathering round their statue,
A happy German throng
Drive i ails into the idol
To make him still more strong.
Avenge tho babes, shipbuilders,
That on the seas have died;
Avenge the little children,
Murdered for Wilhelm'? pride!
Come, gather at tht shipyards,
And let the h?mmern r?ag,
Fur more than (?hips and cargoes
Waits on your fashioning.
<'oiiu-, gather at the shipyards;
The battlefields '>f France
\ .immnniiiF*; your brothers;
Oh, aid them to advance!
i ii.i?, gather at the shipyards;
With every bolt you .Irivc
a* you 'tis the Kaiser
Whose brutish head you rive.
? one, gather at the shipyards.
And swing with might and main;
'Ti? Tirpitz and the Crown Prise?
That you to-day have slain.
Come, g.ither St the shipyards,
And heat the metal hot.
It's I.udendortT and Falkenha*. n
You're boiling in the pot.
lome, gather at the shipyards,
Anil when the day is done,
You've spent it well in driving spikes
In Hindenburg the Hun!
Come, gather at the shipyard .
And toil with healthy hate,
For only you can save the world.
The Hun in at th? gate!
ARTHt'R STAKWOOD PIER.
There Used To Be
>../i,? Th' l.trruttn Pun.
There u.icl to be fairies in Germany
I know, for I've seen them there
In a great cool wood whore the tall trees
i-tood,
With their heads high up in the air:
They m i .miMi'il about in the forest
And nobody seemed to mind;
They wire ?hair little things (, tho' they didn't
have wina;
And they amiled and their eyes were kind.
\\ hat. ??ni oh! what were they doing
To let tiling:; happen like this?
How could it be? And didn't they ?ee
That folk were going amiss?
Viere they too busy r'aymg,
Ol saa they perhaps have slept,
That never they heard an ominous word
That ptealthUy crept and crept?
There used to be fairies in Germany
The children will look for them ?till;
1' . v ?rill sfHrch all aboit t.ll th? su;.', fkj
?lip? out
And the trees stand frowning ?nd chill.
?The dowers." they will s?y, **h?v? all
I .ll-.^ra'd
And ?here can the fairie? ho. fled
That played .n th* fern?" The flowers will
return,
But I i?ar that the fain?? sr? attd
THE KAISER'S PROMISES
The Long Arm of Coincidence in War
By A. /. Dawson
Author of "Somme Battle Stories'*
lu the distant, easy-going pre-war days ?
used rather to poke fun at some of the wri
ers for what was called their habit of stretel
ipg tin* long arm of ?. .?incidence to fit tr
exigencies of their plots. That idea is pe
haps one of the many that ?r? shall ban t
revise ir. the light of the war. Por tht in?
i extravagant among the users of the long an
rarely ventured up-.n any |tr etch lag of it th?
would equal Fate's almo*? ?lad* e::ercise of
in this war.
One day last year two BOtpita) ships wer
?berthed ?t the same time alongtidt tht lanr
? ing stage at Sou'.hampto-i. Om was fror
branca ?nd the other from th? Near Eas
For th? most part the cuses removed fror
one ?hip saw nothing of those disembark?
from the other, but it happened by chanc
that one of the tirst stretcher cases from tn
Near Fast ship was laid down ir. the she
alongside one of the last strotcher cases fror
the French ship. Put tht two man did no
see each other, beeaott their heads w.r
toratd b? opposite direction!. The writer
walking between the stretchers, offered .
newspaper to one of these men, and as In
?poke both turned their heads and saw am
?otegnistd taeb oth?r. They war? brothers
Both had been patting s:".ce the autumn o
1911, and Btithtr had the remotest idea ?rht
hail ic.in?' of t ne? othii. l'or I year or mor?
aeitbtr had known in what unit or count!".
the other w?s serving, lioth were now lau.
up with leg wounds.
A Lucky Sh ft of Quarters
In a stctor on '.lie Ai..:rc, before tht ma?
jority of people in Fnglaad had ever beard tf
that Lille river, the Company in tOeOTt* ?'"'
reci.oi.el tlmeti as well placed as a comparu
in rest. Hv comparison with a very viie fron'
line, the support line trtoehtt there wer?.
very good and had some really excellent dug?
outs. I? company*! 0. C. had an excellent
dugout to himself there, and a splendid mess
?lugoiit was shared a.? a sleeping place by his
?uhalterr.s, and then had I bunk to -pare On
t biner cold nirht at end ?it 1915 I) company
went into reserve, havinj been rtliatcd In tr.o
front line by A after a rather hot turn In
which the <">. ('. Il had had no sleep at all.
Aft??r porting his various aapport lin? duties.
nid having some food in the coramo ?ious
me?n dugout, the 0. C. made o!T for th?
luxurious solitude cf his own dugout, thank?
ful for the proipett of a good sleep.
Half an hour later he returned to the mess
logout, wlieif there was ?? cheery little lire
of cok?- and char.- ?al. Tired though bt was
lor, peib.ap., btcavta of that bt had had n>
7 hep at all for four days a? I b? had
been BOablt t? rttt in tl.tht] ?Tugout De
cau.-e too cold. Now h?? tfOBthtd over the
little lire in the mess it:g-...i to light a pip*.
| and warm himself before climb;:.| into th?
| spare bunk. While he erouchtd there h?
j hear?! the whirring moan of | biggish Hoch3
, shell, whieh landed not far away with a tre
| mendous explosion. Th.ni another, and then
a third, and then silence. Th? Boche often
1 sent little salvos of that kind, for no very
apparent purp?.i.?e, he beir.?j a good deal bet?
ter off for "heavy ?tuff" than we were In
those day:.
A moment later the I . I ?. li MOliaed 'hat wire
'. retting without laadbag? M*A* a poor ?OOCB,
lend once more he tutlltd ?Ut |ntO tht 'rost
bound trench, to retain ; i bit own dugout for
an armful of spare sandbag?. The di*-taner
wa.s about two hundred yards, the tt
than l" lag full of ititrict
10. C, I* had to ??o without his ?amiba?? ; that
night, but his aoviaoopa and a fata other odd*
m?nti were dug up next niorninr;. Hit dugou?
i-ta.nr.i thrta practically direct
tad fragmenta of his bonk had tra? -??led as
far as a h.;.. hrt ! . ?ids while he had been
ttOOpiag "Ver Mie lire .n the nu?i dogaol
?soldiers in this war will tell you that ?uc!.
odd chance? aru retlly tTio c?imnionplace ?o be
wor?h neon
A Melodrama of Real Fife
The sergeant major ?( *. , . .
i ?a ?? man tf pui".s. ii.. bad
shar?*?l i moderatai** iqbttantial bu
?i parta i. imethlag ta da with a certain
kind of chitiuin*. aOtMed la he BOigbsX
of -it. i'au!'? ( huici.vard. trhftJMala and ap- !
j parently pi i: if ik?ra had come i'
da> ?if ditl - H "ft an', major'? purl* i
B?r hid disappeared, and th? book? and ac*
'counts, which had been his spot****! c'lrnnt*'*.
| disclosed quite ? lor.;*; series of Sylt tOS?C
fra" !*, the upshot of \?*hich left the sergeant
major picked pretty bars by th?; time h-' ha?!
hOQprably settled t;;? witil ail creditors. Who?;
tie ?rar c-irae it l'.unid him empl iyed in the
c ?anting donas ?>f ?mother firm with which he
bad prenrioualy h.al dealini fellow
-aler. With ? wife, .111 Invalid -
sad '-'ut?, child nt B" on him, he
; had not been able to ..self in the
quits 'airly days oJ th? ?r?r that bs bsd th"
right to enlist, though he was ,-ui old
t??r Bd o\-Tiritorial. However, the early
spring of ItlG saw him an enlisted man. He
pi 'ii.n MVgdSBt within a coa
months, and company sergeant major three
mSntlis before hi? unit reached France.
There wss not a better managed company
among ail those that left Salisbury Pia ..
and th? MlgSSat major had a good deul to
do with the admirably efficient, runnin;,' of
it. He was lik'd anil respected by every oae
who knew him; but "?an you .see th*
sergeant major holding his end up. in a
scrap?" arik?.'il the junior sub of the com
pany, in a tent on the lull ou* a.! ? Boulogne,
daring th.*ir first night in Fiance. And his
brother officers ?added thoughtfully. "You'll
lad l'-c'll do his job," opined the O. C. com?
pany, oracularly. And again the others
nodded.
Waiting to Get Into Action
During those enrly months in France he
?fien used a rifle in the trench?-.:, v. a ....
uionally out on patrol, and mine than once
fired a drum or two from a machine gun.
Ths O. C. ."ounii him very helpful
SI and arran^a-ment of minor ?trsfes,
;.n?l the .severcjt critic would never hava
found a hint of inclination to shirk in the
scrgssat ngjoy. A; the 0, C, .aid. he was
?lwsyi "on dick." ?ad tl?r?r forgot any
thing, But et the end of four months hs
ntv. r iiad laid hand i upon a I'oche. or ?Tea
seta one, save as one does catch flatting
glimpse? of men in trenches a couple of hun?
dred y a rai s ?W?J .
And then there cam?* the tirst daylight :
that bit of line. It wa? a I'oche raid, ar.al it
came at the end of an hour's very hot bom?
bardment on an extremely aarro* ?;tion of
our front. I. lvaliy did not touch th?
tion of the sergeant major's own col
but it happened that le wa? on the extreme
l?ft |sak of his COSipasy's line when a hu7.d
ful of Boches rushed m machine ?,'Ua SSI]
?t?Bt of the next company, ihe ?ir wa? full
of tear-shell gas and smoke, ?ad t'.i" .
sion was tremendou?.
Sum? men oi the next compcry were ?ut
on the parapet, and fomethi.ig mad** the ser
ga an*, major climb out, too. It WS 1 tb?S that
he ha?! his first close look at I'oclu a Two of
them had collareal the r.a.\; company's I.
gan from that smplaemmemt; big,
ing Bavarians they were, one in ^ ?.
the other wear,tig a cap. The scrgoaa
had ceased t?i ihink some |
during th? heat >.f the bombardment. .\o*v,
as though he were listening to some * M
feiiow a good long way ol?. he la ..r>! h
y?|| with quite singular fnroe;iy, and fell
bim??lf leaping forward a* thosj two Boches,
his bnyonet held Iowa
Meeting an Old Ac7:tnir.t:*ru**
The one with the cap let ail go and
into the greenish m?| ''e feiiow in
the helmet it..! at bay with a re?
volver which he liifd ju ? a? the sergeant
major SU*S?p?d down upon him. ]
nth Sea [sisad warrior. Th? .
grur.:rd as the steel found hi ' '
pitched foiwk.?-?i, ?lm?St <:..,.
rifle from tl .':.:..
it pitched l'orwanl, the helii't rolled
01 the man's !ie?d, ?nd showed the sergeant
major a ?nie?ir, ..-regular ?L.'h.U 11..
?por*, wine *:a:-i," the sergtsvot major
it. behind ar.d below the German's car. He
was still alive when the S. M. bent over him
to look into hi? face, and the ?ye? of the t*90
me*, in a i-ucur, flioharias ijian??, all ci.-.i .t.
on tin* side of the Englishman and
tive hate on the ?i?ie of the German.
by the way. *v?s an unter-o' h thr.t
look of hafgl d ia ?'i Spa? be dud, having
.. . ? .... . .1 ths man ? b? billed hiss.
>?.-. :a th? war by the
" ' 1 parta?r,
who had robb, d 'mm and ruine?! h is bu?iii?ss
11. l.".-.il?.a. ..*.h this little coincidonc? niate
na'iy helped the S. M. in the ?oluiion of th?
problem he used to set himself as to how
h? would bchsv? when he came to b? really
"up ?g?in?t it."
The Situation in Canada
And Its Reverberation in the United
States
B> AKTHUI J. I ?ALBUM
My point in tak.n ? tha ?i' 'tNMI of th?
Prtnch-Canadiai ate ii not
to try tu proa? that th? \ right la op.
than their
Engli I am of
tri" opinion that, tlthough rolantary enliit.
ment has boM a real in?* i la Panada. II
? ir,.j .;? ition ' ' ? meal
bloodod and foil tn tai th?
call at do ? ' : t??
rabble i 11 ......
' tnd naturally l .'Tit y a* 11 i rg
l'u-.'iousl,.' agahiat i meaiara that will fore?
'. them to com?* <".* ?ta
?The ah d i reel .1 only against tho??
that have no ?p. sitl obliga'..mi, IBCh I
- family supporters, etc. It
m is the on*
! and only democratic way of gei'ing ev ?
. i- tqually m ?' ''ut>' towa*'?i
; tha worhl, civilization, ins family and
Vet it It n??t t?> be doubted !h?t ihou'.d
? reiidum I? ' bt WtllN
be voted down, and voted down by ju?t such
? ? ??ft
guarded, but arc detenu n?d *? .* other.?
tha bill, bt it. in blood ? r treaiun*.
thai it i; most unfortunate tt witnesi
'
pie, tht common people, must not be too
W foil
v.ell thai 1 of th? blood -done ii
all the con*
Th?r
I h?v?
ly grown rioh and ai Hag ap
millia iiktli
hood ?f the gortrnmtnt I
I ind
rrfjV. ? them d? th ir share, ,; I don?
l| bit country.
eonduettd dun*.- I ?
past year ri:.v ? rtVttltd th? fac* that ?T?t?'
IBt have sh-?rvd in '?hi
';." 'I h< ' '
adi ?f
ind ? ?1 they ai a whole
: - their
opinion th:: | ?nt of
MaaUT? *' ohih or exaggerated rt
iden m tbt bill
1 althou-fh
every clagr-aigbtod man knows that coward*
f th ' '
Mat. ? I . * rr.Ut
?tar.d, the goeern?
r.-.en'. 1.. ? cards
or. th? ... at loati Irt it be kr.owt
that I iiitribv 7d?hip
? r ind
the wa; .'iber.
.mc to
? people
at largt in thia 1 \t?*t,
-ught with tha ?reateit
-
Des - and
. ? ??'ii!
, .
,7 alio
liliei,
. m a buii
ra
bio that tht .? n poop!? be put right il
th. :r Mtttt"
tion ?. -t fore? ful ? rT"***-*
both the press tnd thi g<***
? net
- cornel
ghber
? .? . : on the
really 1 r **?***?
or cr- . - ' :*?? ?**
' the unreajon of th?
. 1 ... .up th? French
. ..a v. ith 1 .11, which, to ?ay
? ilk of
on.
C ?uince for Charity at I Jon*<*
,e being solicited
I ... chanubl? pur
? e war. moit of
.Hllies
tr?, no doubt, worthy. T?
.. failed to ?iis.-over any
.?nt? of our sol
?Itaet
lg was dun?
? nt tf oar peace
tn to Mixico Mach ?.iiT?*ring ?ma
eauaad 4?ptadaa?Vi o: - Bo?am t0
Id that the pay rece.ved by the latter
not sutnoient properly to aupport iho?e
.?11 behind. Are there any other? of th?
?am? mind? LEO WYLtK.
New York, July 37, 1917.