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our country First i THE NEWS SCIMITAR For War to Victofy That Guiltiest Feeling By Briggs CopvrtgM. Illl. by tits Trltron Association (M fork Tribune. ftctmitar liaL18MtD BY THt MEMPHIS NEWS SCIMITAR COMPANY. Entered a Seeoadn Matter t th PoMefrVa It Memphis, Tnn . Under the Art of March I. ;. DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press l exclusively entitled to the DM for reproduction f All news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In The Kw Scimitar, and alio the local news published herein. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By carrier, lie per wek. By mftlU postage MS, 1 month, cj I months. Ne; 8 month. fl.M; month, If.W; 11 months, ll.tt. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. If yeu have teeilbU About getting four paper, call MAin 4IM or Men phi fSI nd tht matter will ttt glvn immediate attention. PAUL BLOCK. INC.. Special Rapratentatlv. MRU Ave.. fcew Tor" Mailers Btiltdlhg, Cnl-cago- Little Building. Boston! Kresg Building. De-troft- GERMANY MUST SURRENDER OR FACE ANNIHILATION Beltria Each day that the allied chieftains sit at Versailles and diS ctiss the terms of an antristict to he submitted to Germany t;ies aft added interest to the deliberations, for each day it becomes more evident that, regardless of the terms, the acceptance cannot be svoided nor even postponed for any considerable lenpth of time. With Bulgaria, Turkey and Austria definitely out of the war there is nothing left for Germany to look forward to except an admission of ignbrniniotis defeat by accepting the terms of rmlstfee, or fighting to annihilation and ultimate surrender. The territory the German has evacuated in France and Bel gium is the least of his sacrifices. Haig is not fighting for territory. That Is a matter that can he arranged around the council table when the maps of the world are being refashioned It) accordance with the wishes of the peoples affected. Victory to the allies can come as readily upon French and lift territory as it can come upon German soil. Haig is fighting a war of attrition, and it is the constant, incessant blows that haVf brought the enemy to the verge of choosing between the alternatives of accepting of his own volition the terms of tbe allies or having them forced upon him against his will. Foch has made himself the master of the German by strik ing at unexpected points, hitting here, there and everywhere, to the amazement and consternation of the enemy. Then the German began his great withd rawal to shorter and better pre poftd lines. He has found that, the foe hits relatively harder On the shorter line, and that the preparations he had counted UpOn In the event Of adversity were as undependable as those further advanced. Shortly he will realise that the Austrian debacle provides a Ide-door entrance, with the Russian back door anything but safely secured. There Is to be no let-up in the sending of American troops to Europe. The average is to be sustained. The prospect of a victory fought for so hard is not to be frittered awav in over- confidence. American troops in the Verdun sector Friday had Oart in an offensive of splendid proportions. They have not topped to await the outcome of the Versailles deliberations. They fought with new-found vigor, because they believe they have won the war. It is a splendid thing to be inspired by this belief if it makes one hit a little harder than he ever believed before that he could. The real danger lies in seeing the end in the future, and stopping before it is reached. WH&W OMC Of Tmc molCS Ruro-i Faoallcl with Tmc TfeCT AMD A3 Tbj ARt "iDDRt S5 1 WW This fcMLL YouR NetGHBowiaii fRiMtLf God r 0W Tm way To Cmowcm Too hve PReviooJuv GiuCk, out ThE iMIrORMTiorJ ThT A fcvt"RJJ op Tup "fv-u vwai FROM Trie MOrtNteJb iLK'-C. Cone, ow WlSHT The MiDDie AtSLC - VAJCRe WmK ThA,TS OuR misTbp ToiJ ARIJ HE J ILL r y aw m a y i . vim f lecs fRtT6 V Joioes Pop TOPVPIflHT WIS. NEW YORK TRIBUNB INr. FRANK H. SIMONDS' WAR ARTICLE Europe Unbound A War of Liberation 1 By FRANK H. SiMONDS, Author Of "THE GREAT WAR." "THEY 8HALL NOT PASS." A few ilav unci there met In bid- pendfttH' hull, In rhUiidolpliln, die rep reitentatlvee. of ennio nO.i'Oo.i'OO iicniile In Kumne, hiemhera of half n BCOfe 01 cissiavpa lacee. wnicn in wnoie or in part have been Included within me HniltH of lhnt iri'Hiidlose Herman tohsnti of Mlttelctiropa. Thefc representii- tlvee of (he rnoes. which the Herman hail eharactrrlned on "Inferior people." and upon whose permanent Hlavcry lie founded III hopes of world empire. In Hie moat historic of American bulldlnts mnde appeal to the American, people tu lend their aid In niaklng Ihla war a true war of liberation. And it Is to this phase of the pC settlement that. 1 dentin to turn In the present article. The Mtlteleuropa. rfUch the vteln rloi of Allenhv and d'Esperev have re cently all but annihilated, extended on the map from the Baltic lo the Persian (tulf: It lneliided mote I linn tr.nnno.noi) of people, and nf these tun half were fjtfmani the hnlnnce BtlOhaM to a si'orc of mces. and of these the Macyar. the Oltntml and the Bnlftai were ad mitted to a decree of pat (net-ship In the Herman conception the Auslro-Cier-inan and the MafVAf were to lie the overseers of the Slavs and Latins nf the HiptDUra empire, the nttlnar the padrone of the Balkan races, the Os maull Turk tho aent of the German master In Asia Minor. rarely Is in International relations, there is the material consideration. Unless wo do liberate and fortify these races we Hhall have to fluht the German briiIm. and he will aijHln be able to thro thene people against Us and to use thlr labor and their lands to sup port his war upon US. Equal Rights. A PLEASING SURPRISE The airplane report made by Judge Hughes furnished a urprise to the American public, which had been led to believe that the scandal in production and failure in the early program were mueh more far-reaching than thev are shown to have been. The News Scimitar has said on other occasions that the air plane featur of the war constituted the only complete fnilure fjf the government's plans, and it does not now seek to minimize the offense perpetrated by a few grasping Eastern concerns and individuals. In the first place the officials in charge ot production should have been the first to discourage the report so freely circulated tnat the United States would nave within a year from the begin nittg of the war a fleet of 20.000 planes on the battle front, instead of giving tacit approval to the wild and baseless rumor hy permitting it to go uncorrected The failure to demand a veracious statement of what might reasonably be expected, instead of countenancinp wild and wholly illusory claim, combined with a failure of the manufac turers to meet the natural expectation, constituted the primary cause of disappointment and suspicion. Happily, the day of minimum production and exaggerated claims belongs to the past. The earlv mistakes have been largely remedied. Unfaithful officials have been exposed, and grafting concerns are in line for adequate punishment. The American planes on the western front are figuratively and literally in the ascendency The early defects have been largely corrected and American aviators have startled the world by their feats of valor and their achievements. The American people had pictured in their mind's eye a treat fleet of airships almost large enough to eclipse the sun. in battle formation, on their way "to put out the. enemy's eyes," before a single fighting machine was produced. As production lagged it was difficult to reconcile hope with realization. But th planes are there now, and others are being sent everv day, They are having a big part in the war. and to them will belong a goodly portion, of the credit for the manner of its termination. The unterrified Democrats of Pike county. Missouri, have nominated Champ Clark for the thirteenth time The unlucky number bogie is scorned by these patriots. It is exasperating (or a German to say that his people are the greatest on earth when we all know that the Americans aft the greatest on earth. i .j:ff:..u j 1 tfti .... la t """"-"'V ' w" people like the wermans. who wouia, ii mey couin. exterminate the human race outside of their own country. Seventy dollars and fifty cents a ton for cottonseed idnt we think of this thirty years ago Win- King Boris of Bulgaria will i throne beset with many difficulties nd hi way back to the K Even while we hate the Germans be enrapturing. Bral mi sonata will , f JTha Italian, have shown that the old Roman spirit Mttteleuropa Broken. This Mltlelenropa has been broken; Bulgaria has surrendered, Turkey l on The point of capitulation. Austria. In the happy phrase of a German orator. "Is disbanding." On the necatlve side, we, the nations In alliance analnst !i many, have prevailed. We have broken the German conception, but this Is ob viously only the ftrst step. We have now to finish the fiRht with Germany herself; lo achieve that victory which must he achieved before there ran he real peace. Put beyond this step lies the next, which Is of appalling magni tude. We have to prevent n recurrence of the Herman stlsck of megalomania, of hist for world empire How shall we achieve this end? Ob viously, II Is not possible to destroy any considerable fraction of the German race, even wete there moral justifica tion for such a course. We can not In anv considerable measure partition or enslave the Tft.flfln.nno members of the Teutonic tare inhabiting central Eu rope To do lilts would he merely to create a new Alsace-Lorraine or a new problem such as that of Italy In the lst centutv That this great inaas of German people would Ultlfhktfew regain Its nnliv and until it did reaaln that unltv Europe would he In a state of itielshle equilibrium, ts patent. Hv cniitmst it In not now noeslMc to conceive that the 75,000.(100 Germans would. In the mist, have undertaken their elisantlc attack upon civilisation had thev not exercised complete con trol over on enual number of people. only a small percentage of tvhom wete mini subjects or allies. An alliance httn-een tft.ooo.ooo Britons. n.nan.imn Praneh. MPM00 ttnllans. together with the UO.otiO.onn nussians. of the days before the HusMun revolution. onlt have constituted an obstacle too great to be pnssed. Germany visaen ner frightful adventure solely because of her mssterv or other races. If we can break the hold of Germanv upon subject races, if we can trans fnrm thin war Into real war of lib eratlon. If we can free some ao.oon.nmi nf men and women from the yoke of Germanv, we shall have nested sn obstacle too area! to tempi the nmbl tlon of the most avaricious and empire- hungry German. Hy contrast, if we fall lo do this all history points to the probability that at aome other time Germany will return to the chart, as France. In the days before I lie unif'en ilnn ct ltnlv and of Germanv. placed similar obstacles in the pathway of her Imperialism Must Erect Barrier. In it. tmnlent terms the problem of those who are to redraw Hie map of Km ope Is to erect such barriers to German expansion al the expense of the rlahls and liberties of other taces. that Germany heraelf will recognlao the Impossibility of the undertaking, and i .vKat inert to be described as a .cod European." We can not do this bv taklna German terrltoty. Heie huiorv 1 eloriuent and unmts uifti.1. The nnltv of the German people la a permanent fact, doubtless to Kb ttviftmUri in the future bv ihe en trance of the Austrian Germans Into Ik. T .Hlrt rntollv ft.KtfthHllioeOt rw .nl.itlnn miisl Inexorably be found in Ihe just and proper reenfnl Hon of the rights ana aspirations t. ,,.,,., .fiiliimis Of neoDle. who were yes lerday Germany's lielples slaves, whose men supplied the cannon moon. wnoi fields RBU the food, whose factorle fi,,ihe.i ii-c maphlnerv for the pre An i .r whose collective contribution In the German side alone made this war possible. We muat set them free, we must p-ovld them with the neeesaafy t-esotirrre for separate national exist ence and we must guarantee them our nrnlBCllnil dlirin tllSI frlH'IVcly SllOf psrlod necessary lo their organiratlon We should do all or tnH as so sl ot lustier. We one It to tnc Poles. Ih niinmnlana the Greeks, the Set t' the people of ail the enslaved race", t ht.,u iinnn them those blessings, t n....rr. t.hi-h an far a we were con iisMul nnk hi arms aatalnst Ger many. But aglde from the, moral ae pect. which ahould be controlling The question of the league of nations Involves other considerations; yet. eren here, we may be sure that no league of nation can have even a ghost of a chance nf success, If It is not founded upon the doctrine of equal rights for all races. As a mere Insurance against war this league of nations will be aB impotent as the holy alliance Or the more recent concert of K.nrope, It un derneath It there exists an ulcer such as the eaaiern question or the problem Italv presented after the congress of Vienna. If we make peace without bestowing liberty upon any race, that race Wlli repudiate our agreements, seek Its own rights and Inevitable over set our league of nations as the Bal kan states, overturned the doncert of Kurope. To matte peace permanent we must abolish evils, which nre a menace to permanent peace, and the greatest of such evils Is the survival of interna tional Inlustlce expressed In the denial of liberty to any race or nation. The rv. ever complete on the battlefield, will have no permanent value. Germany, foiled, will return, no matter what bur den be placed upon her and no matter what form of league of nations be framed. Certainly Germany must In demnify France an well As Belgium f6r her wanton devastations, just as she must restore Alsaee-lo;ralne and lib erate her Poles and the 200,000 Danes of Northern Hchleswlg; certainly she. miiBt pay the bill for Illegal submarine depredation, whether tongue for tongue or by money payment. Unmistakably the demand for ah unconditional sur render of her military and naval es tablishment must be made good upon the battlefield. If the surrender Is in fused now. But not all ot these things will permanently shackle a nation of 75,000,000. As to partitioning these Tfi.OOO.OOO Germans, shackling them by economic or political chalnr. Imposed by the vic tors, this is a combination of madness and nonsense. The thing Is impossible It Is also Immoral. But In a free Eu rope the 7, 000,000 Germans will not be a menace. They will be a minority far too feeble to yield to the temptations of the nasi. To make the wolid safe for democracy e have tUrst to make It free. Having made It free there Is no race among all the races which can hope to dominate the rest of mankind. u is not ine territorial aspect, now efnstil of louiope, divined hv its own ever, which I wish to emphasise In this oi- eifisii ambitions, to do justice to ihe mall Balkan slates led the Balkan tales to act for themselves, led Inc apably through Serajevo to Arhiagrdt on. The utiestlon of Poland, oi Kiiniania, f the Austrian Slavs, Is not, then, a emote and relatively unimportuni uestion for Americans, (in the con tain, " Is the most vital or an qnea- itins, once Germany has been beaten ml fori-ed to surrender nn mlslloh, : we are to have a mission, in ihe making of peace, must ll in resolute natnpionsnip ot tne rignis oi an tne copies, WflVJM nonunion in uio past, ss been anrh na to make a world con flagration possible. Inevitable If we do not desire again lo send our hoys to .orralne and to t'hnmpagne a genera ion hehoe, we must see to It that the roteellon aaalnst a new German as sault, upon ouh common olviliintlon Is made possible. Ami we must do tins, ot bv malima Germany weaK a tiling winch can not oc none permanently in anv case or wisely In any degree but by making strong those peoples who ottectlveiv supply me cue suie oarrter o a recurrence of tne uennnn aitaca Many Problems. 11 Is with thin situation In view that we must consider ihe problems sup piled b Poland, by mimaiua, ny ine i xecho-PiovnHR ami ine Jugoslavs, h is with Ihls consideration In mind that we musi exam ne the map ot i-.urope, studying In the boundaries not merely the political ttounnanea peiween exisi ing stales, but the ethnographic mnp statement, covering ground already our keenlnar. Aire-lnn tvrannv has be gun to crumble and tha masters of the old reainie are on the run. The last chain which Metternieh and those asso ciated with him put upon human liber ty at Vienna Is breaklna. If one could onlv recall now the millions of men and women of the subject races who have suffered and dared and died, maintained through all their agonies by nope ot the coming of the hour which has cnftie, one could gain a more accurate notion of the splendid possibilities of the day In which we live. In other times, after wars, coalition wars or contests between Individual na tions, the lirlae of the victor was a prov ince, the control of a continent, thfe power to lmnose oe nation's Will upon another. Today, as there draws to Its close the greatest, of all wars, the plain opportunity Is within our grasp to reach a settlement which will go far toward making a new world war impossible But we can not do this merely by Inter national agreements. The holy alliance ana tne coweri or r;urope are gooa ex amples of the futility of Buch insurance policies. If we do not erect strong and homo geneous states across the pathway of German ambition, If we do not enable the Totes, the Rumanian! and the Serbs to neienn tneir own mnepennence anu thus to protect the world against a new Mltteleuiopa. there Is nothing In histo ry to suggest that at a later date the great German nation, which will In any event survive this war, will resume Its THE NEW DOLLAR DINNER. Somehow I can't feel that we'll gutter weird paint From those one-dollar dinners we'll get on the trains. With prunes where they are, And with carrots a-rislng, And beet3 going up Id a manner surprising, I can't see dyspepsia Or gout making gains From those McAdoo dinners wft'll get on the trains. Those Hun-beatlng dinners, Those "one-eating" dinners, Those federal dinners we'll get on the trains. TBI meals patriotic, With menu despotic, Will shackle old Hi rjostallvin' iB eaaihs A meal will be plenty For one, but not twtnty. And there will not be a tr,yfui of remains. The army and navy (( Deserve all the gravy. We'll worry along with thosa maals on the trains. Those table d'hote dinners, For stay-at-home sinners. Those one-dollar dinners wa'II get on the trains. We don't often make sweeping assertions, but we will wairer that there Isn't a school kid In the United States who doesn't wish he was old enough to BT to w ar. There will be no beer and skittles When the boys come home; Only water with their wlttles, When the boya come home: Not the thinnest sort o' claret For the cobweb in the garret Will they kick, or grin and hear It, When the boys eome home? B. L. T. "Put a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the deril.w Aad Trotsky is getting ready to prove It. fcneegihg is forbidden for the duration of Influenea, and lor that reason the bellhops will not be allowed to page Mr. Bcuensfbrsk, of Cin cinnati. The Ttolshevlki claim they divide The goods they have down here. BM Trotky has a bushel of hair; And Lehtne, hot a spear. Ths wedding of peasant maids by royalty seems to he popular in Rumania these days. Talaat Pasha Bays arms can't win the war. Try legs, Pash, try legs. News of Memphis , , . . I News ef Memphlt as vr. a,q. lwice lola lalesl iov..r.Aso. 1 1 ....... ...i t , o i.. ,i.. ... -Crt ro rl workhtn of power and s old lust fov me thte war is before an else a war oi nwnn. nt vi nn " momm liberation. The fact that a Just and not take German territory from Ger bonorable settlement will set free some many. This will create a new evil. Even TO.OOfl.OOO of human beings from a the suggestion that wo should take the slavery which for their respective races I German fraction of Bchleswlg-Holstein has endured over centuries, that It Will!-nn n is uy n.r in areaier nwi bestow unity upon other races, that It I flm Germany and bestow It upon Hen will draw a map baaed not upon the ' mark neems ip" madness. Denmark ambitions of kings nor the appelates uf could no! keep It, and we ahould sin Imperialistic nations, Is for me the , against our own ngni supreme fact, which aoes far to lire tlry all the great Suffering ot the last four years. Must Free World. If we, are to have a "federation of the world" we can only have It when it w Germany Helpless. It Is not by taking Germari provinces and German people from our presint foe that we shall prevent his return to the attack. Napoleon found this out In the case or rrusata. in a tree woria n NOVEMBER t, 1893. Rev. Bam P. Jones, World-renowned evangelist, keeps open house at his room. No. 6, Peabody hotel, While hot preaching. The Union Machine shops and foun dry at tittle Rock, Ark., wefe destroy ed by fire yesterday with a loss of 536,000. Killing frosts Were registered here on Oct. 1(1 and 30. according to the monthly report of the weather bureau. Frohman's "Masked Ball" company opens a thrte night engagement at the Lyceum theater tomorrow night. Arrangements were completed today for the transfer of the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern railroad to the L. & N. and th I. C. Assistant General Freight Agent Pa vant today Issued orders that the Mem phis iid Charleston railroad would ceas the use of steam on washing ton street east of ham. Cotton manifests on (he river pack- to onterintr harbor VSsterdav showed 2,005 bales of cottbn and approximately 3,000 sacks of seed. NOVEMBER 2, ISSS. The last turn was given today to the political wheel of 1S0R and the election will be held tomorrow for pres ident between Bryan and Taft. Misses Louise and Marls Hunter will be among the debutantes of tha com ing season. Mrs. W. A. Wyatt, 6B Leon place, presented her husband with three fine Kin names nunnay nigni. The new postage stamps of the 1905 will k ftanalftftH t lh MftnUltlll ivevjvm wintcii wj . t, 1 ui u i unci, i . -., tiot eVoireh ur eont OUO ail tne HBV. The mempnis voters win yiav ui. ballots tomorrow telling whether they want M. R. Patterson for governor over his opponent, Tillman. It Is believed W. J. Brysn In, the presidential elec tion will carry Tennessee. The October weather in Memphis tne last month was Ihe best dished out to this city In 38 years, according to Col. S. C. Emery, forecaster. PUBLIC DISCUSSION To The Kews Bclmltar: Aflbtotle accduntd It a great bless ing to be permitted to live In the time of Socrates. Likewise we deem It a great civic blessing for the negroes of the t'nlted States to be permitted In the days of their intelllgenc to see the Angio-saxon race engngeu m all the worM Is free e are to have an end of the practical menace , minority to enforce imperialistic amm . ik. ,, ...... 1 1.. ,..m of t nns. In a free FiUrone the vet v extent we can only have It 'of the states which tvould be threatened .. ... ul ........ ' ., i... , .,( k.ir of n.iu. land would flaht would veto the attempt lees and enslaved nationalities between Hut If w. deprived Germany of her own the llerman frontier and the golden brethren, neither time nor numbers horn, we have as many Independent i would lead the Germans to despa r of a nations. The whole German ambition j restoration of their lost provinces was founded hpou the hot Ion of con- France has proved all this In the last qnerlng by the aid of subject races, of I half century. , defeating Russia and dominating F,u- .For me the liberation of Kurope s rope bv using 80.000.000 subject Slavs. 1 the first and necessary step toward a The liberation of the smaller races will i league of nations. But it Is not merely thus destroy the Whole German oppot- desirable as a slep toward something tunltf automatically. else. .11 It Is achieved, If Europe is un- And whatever the possibilities of a 'bound this great human .act will jus leggue of nations, and after the prea- tlfy the sacrifice .of the last four years, ent terrible world tragedy all men will and U must lead toward an eventual eagerlv hope that It may succeed and revolution In International relations. To advocate the most loyal ehd earnest add sixty millions to the number of tree trial of the plan, It must remain an ex- men and Women In. Europe Is to 1ncreae While ins results oi noers - juoi .',, r".v ...... to IU1U united Germany would be In a helpless rlous WWJ'MOT.ra civil life out of the wars he has fought, ahd wars more clearly reveal the es- entlal outlines of hla character, jUst as the prlte fighter reveals In the prise ring the power of his muscles that rest so Ouletly In his coat sleves as he calmly walks the streets. This oppor tunity Is important to the negroes as thet are called upon to help conduct a civilization wrought out by another race, and they must not only under stand the outer forms ot this civiliza tion, but must also catch the spirit that lies behind it, , , . Glimpse of the spiritual forces be hind our civilisation were given In Teatures connected with the campaign In Memphis and Shelby county for the Success of the fourth Liberty loan. An immensely popular man, nnuiinnin .. very way to lead was put in charge rn wmcn are written ine nouti.ianes . wnninu, my i . '""y.c ( ,V. tmnerlnltst e sinhltlnns of ahv I of the campa gn. but the people am nor between races, to find the solution. If tloh r alresdy proven To i -lb- to future tVle6VJKW sole dependence on this fact Germany Is not ti fight lh world erty to a race is to ; gtye It Ti ilsni fJ!SKit: The campaign was a splendid piece of .ailh, harnessing to her war chariot a promise of ma trlU',roKr,iL..rV: II ZiS W ib h iS th Work a metglng of snfluences. It tnt PsjM, UM Hlavs, the unmanlaus, 11 lowing moral health One has Only to tin, y w HI a WWlSW't ;0 t';"r! i only sfter this lashlon that all the must be because we have so written see In W MtMPygM.a " t ble Tr . ut , exictK aV the ttn flcf. Ion ot truly great things of the world are our European setllemem Hist sh run hah slates haw developed ftth Wit ble to us, V9K Kty Ll ft term to none. A race Is grat In proportion as no longer droit vol these rsre., and that a MftWa 2lJKSaNSlnS llbaS.hefi fmHfllalltl MWraaoMM1 It develops the, capacity fob putting these races, joined voluntarily and log- lo recall the. miracle of modern Italy to U"Fclr'n u,elf ethiy behind those clothed with IctSly with us, will make a force loo MM fttft JLaOT iJg Mt TtSt bled Kurope In other da s the responsibility of leading gtenl for the German to challenge. when yWO.MO of people sr e set rrfcv bled ,Jur;1,tt rt' 'VtWIsVh t lie t bsiU of defeat- The negro race Is producing some 80 much for the material . oiihldera- Th leiariie tr nationals a IP iJ!-?. I I hi s he first dutv We splendid rndlvlduals and Is exhibiting we .,, Americi are ao remote noble inspiration ; It may be translated ing iri man . t n s is ine iirsi ouij vve , . . ,.r.,nr nhvslca routaae In slaves; that lyncblngs bav occurred; that privileges have been abridged; thai manv, many, many things have rone awrv! But when We are Inellned to think or talk in that way let 11 remem ber the excuses that Memphis could have put forward and the record that she put forward Instead of excuses Henceforth let us make records In all things that will nana on ineir legs ana win not neeu mwi rw Let us always bear In mind the high destlnv unto which as Americans we are called. We have been grafted upon this tree of American civilisation, be neath whose limbs and under the pro tection of whose foliage the oppressed people ot all the earth are gathering to rest from the heat and burdens of autocracy. The roots of this tree have been watered by the tears and blood of manv generations, and every leaf thereon 'is there because of some great "wC 'the arbiter of all things Tim, comes to this tree with his prur. ng knife to cut off after his own fashion the limbs that are In the way of the full success of th tree In the matter of fruit bearing, may It be apparent that, flush with the season, as a limb we hav borne our due quota of thor oughly acceptable, fruit, thus proving that we have absorbed all of the es sential traits of good cltltendhlp. In the absence of which all attempts at democracy would be an utter failure. SUTTON B. GRIOaS. I mm the battlefield ami from ihe uues- ttoiiK which through itm ceninrn-s nave iilnKiied Kuropean statesmen, mat it is not strange that neither on the military lmr on Ihe political nine is mere any general grasp of arrairs ana ytt H is essential ihat there should he some grasp, now thai a new phase i to open. To the information of Ms fellow countryman the president had contrib uted much by his references to nrlous problems In his ceteiiraieu u t onus, w hich, ao far as I bey concern the iiuliilna of wrongs and the bestowal of liberty, have ihe unanimous approval of all mankind Hut e In merira most not tnina thai the settlement of the PollthttSt Hon, for example., or tne niieranoti 01 the Austrian Hlav, Is a remote and intricate European affair. There tire, no longer anv exclusively Kumpenn af fairs, as our count In ibis war has proven. It Is no longer possible for Europe to fight a general war without Involving the 1'nlted mates and hence forth our frontiers of Inietrst. if not of geography, are European as well as Vslallc If tiie present settlement does not abolish Ihe German peril v. e shall have to loin in the next bailie In re Slti It, and therefore II 1 for us to lonlribiite what wr i-iu to the erec tion of barriers agaltci such a new Herman eruption. A Now Poland. new Poland, a unified Rumsnla. two new Slav states, one on Ihe Adri atic lint one along the old Iroiitters hMwenn Russia, lici-nialis and Austria; tour ni.ites whose eomblnkd popnla Hon will exceed M.Wfl.tvb, population far greater than tlial of Krsnce, of Hreat Britain or "f ltal . Iliese will be bar riers to any new oernjSh dream si ts mansion through the RalkaiM 10 Asia, while in Asiatic Ttirkei . othei states, Armenian, 8 rian and Arabian, guaran teed and protected by Prance and Krli aln will present no opportunity for rf1S&ttot&U UUnge. Wliaeut hlstorv. lut It cannot even have a In such fashion II to libers te the sub- chance to succeed If it crushes ne- leei I hi rn. to Br in-n no o.oi? . ., 1. ., h..n .l.rn, 1 . nt-ea ueath ts rou idations tne unnappv oouv r---; F some little people. If we do not of Ine Germans am) have been tempohn - ..iT , th. world safe for all detnocra- rv victims. These things done and right - fo SM races for "if plopTe if ly clone, the talk of erecting the league J. don't see to It that the Pole. Ute of nations must be undertaken, but It Rumainan the Southern Slaved tfie can be hopefully undertaken then. Hoh.mian' Slav each Is assured his (Copyright. 1911 i-ft.ftf..i ftl. In th aim then Ottr 1 .10 whole edifice Is built upon an untruth ..r-A l a substantial denial of the II... TrlVtitne A. an. elation, Ine ) I truth it pretends to express i. n.. . lull. Iblnflr In I ano 000 people. It Is not a minor fact , lo see t of redre Ksch brmigh HIGH 008T OF WAE. The cost of liberty is high, but liberty cot. To hip msse tne leopte. It is no a mmor k t,, nfp mtRe ,hi he world at last on the point w , Rafi l,r d.m0CI.acy l;nce gan iressmi srojin rT""'r, u.'. Is dipping into his roffers to the exiea tspunTsTirnVnt for Rurope. J wVsV I eh .lions which were guilty of the "JL.r , 1 ti ner snum- a sum so Uhian mind ran not com- tln nations which were guilty of tne .t..,,,i tha cost of a full rrown crime, the nations which perm ttefl it h , rr.,,m ,vr w,,uld have by aliowlbg It to go by without pro- f ed ,nt,. American revolu- tesl, all have to suffer. Tlut now. Oh ftrhjnaht is spending the morrow of the defeat of the great- nrdnahce ah.l onlnance supplies alone est menace since Ihe end of the days . -w ,,, th,, .n(ir, cr,st ..f ivi. ntner nro.irisu ononor, . have the opportnniiv to Inirtsl nilfHM ' . t'MM! ..n Libef ate Millions. , ZJZ? F rnode 'warfare ... . tu. m.i will convince the Liberty bond buvSr The ink of the signatures to Ihe final 1 . , . ,,,,. 1. not i.ehig wasted, hut document of the congress nf . lenna -hnl pyfry, ir p, nlreMdlhy and Is in tne accompiisn- inroads, e jy. WBr () p,ptllres arc undo wrongs , i'Mn- t , ra,, r more than ?5,000. : find per hbur. a IWS for every lick of Foch 's Strategy SB i,.,,ii nee hefora the struggle bl- gan to undo il- Ihlintitles. Thl strut- le has continued to the present holir We are at no dlltant date to frame an other document of even gr.ti moment C mankind. Today the whole tendetv .. In ihe American public Is no! to discus the practical and physical raci but Ine Impalpable consequences A helntr wisely epetlt nlent of our great purpo BR1AK1NO IT. The restaurant manager stood behind the cashier's desk wearing his stock- in-trade smile for seen customer email waisea in. An ete. talking in "iw 1' ".: i oo Ice '' said he. 'thai you adver RPR W "f aVHQU ! UtJ Ug- 8? manage, , wopien who must be set free bemre , . VT 7"- , 1, nrvthlng else become even remote , noudly w . do , per .....IKUllv W have fought and a, winning a new war of liberation. W .have com to the point where wt can free SO.Ooojioo i, suggestion r-it, oerUlnly, sir. We Woijld be so hap- P,"vVtuCUthenl let torn one else make theai." roann.r to amuse much admiration. but it has not solved the problem of getting Itself together, as a race, put ting Its Whole rorce behind Its duties ana problems o.' unllft. Toward the close of the drive an In cident took place which laid hare one or the reasons why It Is possible for Anglo-Saxons to co-operate so success fully The Shrlners, it seems, chal lenged the Knights of IMllWiJ bond-selling contest. The Shrlners worked valiantly to roll up a record for themselves. The Knights of Colum bus Wlowef and beat the Shrlners. The Shrlners worked just as hard to help the Knight of Columbus bea their record as they wotked on the previous dav to make the record. The Knights of " Columbus won, yet Were generous enough to give the credit for their suc cess to their rivals who were their helpers. Not the tittlr absence of the Jealous spirit. . . Race that are so shaped In tempera ment thlt jealousy comes forward and holds mln apart who oUght to be work ins toKt.her. simply cannot do good team work. The base spirit of Jealousy Wrecked the career of Cain and sent Abel to ahv untimely grave, it will wreck anv race or nation Inst nurtures It, it matters hot what other qualities may be possessed. a . .i n ..r feature of the campaign must be mentioned. The pedpt of Memphis could hv failed to have reached their quota and could have said "W did well when you consider our obstacles W were given none of th cantonments, no great war m dustrv was planted tir us. The Ger o.an nence offensive was on. The in fluenza was raging Forty per cent of one population Is r.egro. And during the list dftvs the rain fell In torrents. Thev mil forward none of these ex cuse. Result, and not excuses, they sternly demanded of themselves. As nearroes we have an abundance of things behind which we can hide tor it tr GLM.kntham th Retlttbllc' London correspondent, says in the first' of a series of articles to be cabled to the New Republic: "The German peace proposals re In th nature of a re insurance policy on an overdue shin. Foch has revealed ntmsett as me rsjj est general the war has produced. Up to th movements which began In July last, perhaps the roost complicated set of operations In the war went those organized bv Von Falkenhayn against Russia In 1911. But these operalldhs, at anv rate In their general outline, r had probably been preparing long bt fore. The Rulslans Were holding ex temporized defenses, whereas the enS mv that Foch had td meet had spent many years In elaboration of the line that he held. Foch's Idea. like those of all great men. of aetldh. were ej ceedlnglv simple. Their working out wtt elaborate, but nfver complicated. He owed something to the thlmy, who In the previous spring had essayed -Sctlv the same task and failed to sorVt It. Ludendorffs dominating Ideas were surprise, speed In following up an Initial success and rapid change In immediate objective. Foch adopted and improved on every one of thtm. Ludendorff had rather overdone development of sped. for Ihe extreme confusion Into Which leapfrog tactics brought his columns contributed not a little to the failure of j his attacks. Foch was mindful of thl daneer tnd. Ihouah he. too. adopted the German practice of passing reserve divisions rapidly through exhlustM'1, front lib troop, h relied rather on? frequent changes of objective and oat n extremely Ingenious and comprehsh- I sive strategic scheme In accomplish his enc. the nxt IAS vears. if we wish ao to do. Via can Say that oar forefathers ware reply, "but ha did not Uka tag ImS,1 SLICK WIFIE A Quskr hat! got himself Into trou ble with the auihorltle. nd a con stable culled to escort him to tht lockup. "Is tour hnshand In?" he iroiilrld of the good "wife who cam to th door "My husband w ill see th, ' eh re plied. "Come In." "Look her," said he. "I thenght voa nald your husband would m." " He nas seen the, was the eatta a."