New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 26, 1918, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, N B -t . ‘{ ral DID CONGRESSMAN LONERGAN— | KAISER WILHELM TELLS THE | d. | ew ciam e to wit: the late B. J. Hill, John Q. ! DEVIL OF 1ITS TROUBLES. <« WERALD FosiimEiNe cOMPANT. | Tion, of the Miitiry Aftutrs'Com o own Topzcsi Propristora. | . | The ks callec > de sl mittec; James Glynn and Righard | | 1€ K Ipcalled gnefdeviliup DY G YL YR Issued deily (Sunday excepted) at 4:18 p. m. On the telephone one day, Herald Building, 61 Church 8t Freeman. TIncidentally, the Repub- |The girl at centra! listened to Of particular importance to the city Mnteree at the post Ofce at Naw Britats [ lican lcader, Jumes Mann, and the | @ lcheiliooiiofta s | 02 New Diritain, and _especially its as Necond Class Mail Matter. board of public wor et el s z ranking Etepublican member of the | “Hello,” she heard the iaiser say, 10;"“‘.“ '[‘ . L “t“kh - Lo :“1"‘" TELEPHONE CALL T e o 3 he United States Highway Coun- Buainess Ofce - 938 [ Nilitary Affalrs Committee, Mr. Kahn | o 15 01d man Satan hom cil Bulletin, No. I, which provides B e Qtfice - =2 | Just tell him it's Kaiser Bill I e 5 i of California, voted the same as Mr. | That wants him on the phone.” 2t no highway improvements, either The onle proftable ndvertisine medium i new construction, repairs or surface the "ty * ‘Grutation booke, a1l Lonergan did The devil said “Hello” to Bill 4 | treatments, can be done during the to at Fotar | American oldicie do not value | And Bill said “How are you?" | 1919 unless a preliminary esti- The ferald wiil be found on sale &l I'm running here o Ay | mate stating the qualities be k 3 ""and Broad- Gl . e unning here on earth a hell, : : ling's Nows Stond, 42nd St and Brogl | their putriotism by the dollar mark. | HTR U (60 B Ferh o mitted through the State Highway De- iantic City, and Hartford Depot. He fights, not for money, but for a | 11‘1‘ "“]“““‘ at an early date. Ls “What oa . e { the board of public works will be Momber of the Associnted Press. principle. Bub nevertheless the Dem- | uiat can I do,” the devil said e e The Associated Press Is exclusively entitied 8 My dear old Kaiser Bill? s e o 8 detail the necessity (0 the ee. for Tapubtication o€ all mew | ooraric Congress of which Mr. Loner- | It there is anything that T can do | of each individual operation and the creditec to it or not otherwise cradit s heln von T stre Al | quantities of materials required for In this paper and also the local MOW® | o s u member has authorized not 2 - s the same.. The board will not be re Jiuhed heratn 3 5 > boa 5 only (he highest pay in the world for | The kaiser said, “Now listen. quired and probably not allowed to : g y 7 e o do all that will be mentioned in the our soldiers but has added allow- |, 0 O O iy preliminary estimates, and will not be ances for® dependentaioalwell And Gn eihia Do hoil ailowed to do more than is given in case later on it is found desirable p! o s8M e Lonergs stands out in . s : Congressman Lonergan stan e avedlior hisiton e e I'his means that every bit of construc- Washington as the champion of the And I've started out to kill tion work, as well as maintenance, and P That it will be a modern job this also includes the oiling of the nisiedman, You leave it to Kaiser Bill. strects, must be outlined and sub- The Ttalian soldier is paid $0 cen- | “My army went thru Belgium mitted to the government for sanction | times, or 16 cents a day; the French Shooting women nd children | and elimination before the city can b : down, do a stroke of work. The result will soldier; 25 centimes, or 5 cents a day, | We tore up all her country be that only the most essential worlk P B e o e R Srotupi S Vel town: will be permitted. No new streets will : e 3 likely be opened, it is improbable | If it (tho Government of the | |line service partly in cash and partly | “My zeps dropt bombs on citios, that new permanent pavement will he USRS T o I e et e (o Killing both the old and young, permitted to any extent and even theiiitary Akt e e . ; And those the zeppelins didn’t get, | the more ovdinary forms of street re- monarchieal autoerats of Ger. ||In the English army the basic pay is | Were taken out and hung. rs, upkeep and construction will | many now, or if It is likely to || shilling and sixpence or about 37 | ., have to be cut to the minumum. This e s e e : : | I started out for Paris will also probably mean that the esti- | resard to the international obli- | | cents a day, with slight increases for With the aid of poisonous gas. mates made out by the hoard of pub- | ®mations of the German Empire, || each year of service The l»:clzmzy§ damn ‘em, stopt me lic works this vear wil call for con- | it must demand, not peace ne- | 4 And wouldn’t let me pass. siderably less than past years, though B \wettutiunn, but wuirender. | Any camoufiage attack on Congress- ) Fiiel very: Bishiloontliof matorialsiand | —PRESIDENT WILSON. || man Lonergan's record must be taken | “MY submarines are devils— labor have some bearing on the | | Why you should see them fight— financial aspect * not with a grain of salt, but with a | They go sneaking thru the sea R whole hag of it. | And will sink a ship on sight. { Several years ago a number of e i ) handsome voung maple trees were set CAMOUFLAGE. LR T_\rvl?l\ rinnios ‘}::;j"j;”fno‘sml me /| out in Central park, fringing the park Mo that President Wilson has dr- A a ay ago. on the inside of the walk. When these ALSACE-LORRAINE, When a man called Woodrow Wilson | were set out they were all of uni. gently requested the election of Dem- Told me to go more slow. form size and kind and the idea was Announcement by Dr. Solf,: Ger- o o scratic Congressmen on November ith, the leaders of the opposition will emit a prolonged and dismal howl about ete., regardless of ““politics”, partisanship, etc.,, ad infinitum, forgetful or the fact that on previous occasions their leaders have done the very same thing. In the campaign of 1898, G. 0. P. newspapers pointed out edi- torfally to their readers that Presi- dent McKinley must have the united support of the entire country. The W York Sun said at the time: We are at war with Spain, peace commissions and jubilees to the contrary notwithstanding. Upon President McKinley and his Administration are yet the bur- dens and responsibilities of a state of war not vet terminated. And upon all patriotic citizens of every political party rests the duty of supporting the Adminis- tration’s cause against all foreign enemies, both by voice and by vote. Substitute the words “Germany McKin- for Spain, and “Wilson" for ley and you have an excellent rea- son from a. Republican organ why a Democratic Congress should be re- turned to power this year Therefore we may regard all these wails from Republican headquarters as nothing more than camoufage. And in this connection no neater bit of camouflage has come to our at- tention than the effort of a local eve- ning paper recently to prove that Congressman Lonergan had voted against an increase in soldiers' pay to $30 per month. The claim is ludi- cerous, as is apparent when one knows the facts which are as follows: Congressman Good, his thought that did not rope, in small way, the United States intend to send troops to Eu- and so ke offered an amend- ment to the Army bill, providing an increase in soldiers’ pay to $30 per month. (Congressman Good, by the way is a western Republican). Per- haps he thought General Pershing’s army would be drawn up along the Atlantic coast for the purpose of making faces at the Germans His Mmendment was utterly superfluous, inasmuch as existing law . provided that, automatically, the moment our troops set foot aboard ship bound on foreign service, their p was in- creased 20 per cent., which $30 would This gave them exactly the sum amount to then, which Congressman per month. rate, Good’'s amend- ment called for. The President, the War Military Department, and the House Affairs Committee, in view of these considerations regarded the amendment as superfluous, and it is evident that a great many Republi- can Congressmen thought the same, for it was overwhelmingly defeated. It may gan's one), vote against the superfluous amend- ment, but that EVERY REPUBLI- CAN CONGRESSMAN THIS interest Congressman Loner- constituents, (excluding no to know that not only did he FROM man foreign minister, that “we agree to regulations of these questions,” in reference to Alsace-Lorraine, should not be too quickly seized as an occa- sion for rejoicing. On the face of the statement, it would appear that Ger- many intends to restore the lost prov- inces to France with a benediction and as an earnest of good will toward the republic Emperor William’s troops attempted to *bleed white.” Every statement of a conciliatory nature made by German statesmen should be thoroughly. the field serutinized Germany is beaten of battle on resource Now in diplomatic discussion. Her divide the Al- depend and her only is other resource attempts to lies, having failed, she must entirely on a victory won by words, cleverly twisted to confuse minds in the countries opposed to her military program. 1t is worthy of notice that Presi- dent Wilson, in composing his four- teen points, sald “the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine should be righted.” He did not those say wrongs must be righted although, in effect, his words meant nothing less. Today we have a picture of Dr. Solf, the solicitous for welfare of France, extending his arms in a “Bless you my children” posture and saying “We agree to the regulation of these ques- * What Dr. Germany tions.’ Solf means is that illimit- the is prepared for an discussion of cussion that will able, exhausting questions, a dis re- turn always to the place at which it was begun and which will, in the end, be lost in a maze of verbiage. Dr. Solf deceives no one, except possibly Dr. Solf Hank O'Day, the veteran umpire, wants to go to France to officiate during soldiers’ baseball games. Pre- vious training eminently fits him for the task of dodging shells. Terrible Theodore gives notice that he®will unleash his opinion of Pres- ident Wilson’s appeal to the voters at a meeting in New York next week. Thus far there have been no indica- tions of tremors in Washington re- corded on the seismograph at Georgetown university. Meanwhile, Marshal Foch is con- tinuing to solve the tions created by perplexing ques- the war. Art- How h less of him not to cease hostilities while Germany pleads the cause of humanity. Mexico’s Honest Men. (Brooklyn Eagle.) Carranza’'s plan to throw all “bandits” out of Mexico’s army the and have a hundred thousand honest men | left, is admirable, if Quixotic. The caves in which honest men have been hiding for years may be emptied STATE VOTED THE SAME WAY AS l without making good the quota, “He says to me, ‘Dear William, I don’t want to make you sore. So be sure to tell your U-boats To sink our ships no more. “We have told vou for the last So, dear Bill. it’s up to you; And if you do not stop it You'll have to fight us, too.” time. “T did not listen to him. And he's coming after me With a million Yankee soldiers From their home across the sea. ow that's why T called you, Satan, For [ want advice from you 1 know that you will tell me Just what I ought to do.” “My dear old Kaiser Bill, There isn’t much to tell For the Yanks will make it hotter Than I can for you in hell, “I've been a mean old devil But not half as mean as you. And the minute that you get here I will give my job to vou, “T'll be rendy for your coming And T'll keep the fires all bright. And T'll have your room all ready When the Yanks begin the fight, “For the boys in blue will get you— I have nothing more to tell; Hang up vour phone and get your hat And meet me here in hell, ——A. C. A. in Waterbury Republican. FACTS AND FANCIES. Ludendorft, finding the national Gott incapable of giving victory, now | advises the people to pray for the les- ser gift of rain.—New York Sun. Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Bond of Jersey City. Their new- born daughter has been christened “Buya Bond”.—Long Tsland City Star If only we could get plenty of au- tomatics to the Czecho-Slovaks they would settle the question of auton- omy quickly enough.—Manchester Union. from Mr. Davis “Hear you are gnash- grinding your teeth. Wil stand? Davis.’-—London Telegram to the All-Highe ng and I'my work Punch. A for million British lives civilization. . There is something for the cynic who insinuates from time to time that the English let their Allies do the fighting.—Pittsburgh Gazette-Times sacrificed The riveter who earns $64 in eight ! hours cannot keep the gait a week or a month or a year. That is the law of compensation. But the plug who hits it slow and steady is the boy who gets there.—Portland Ore- gonian Tne 1dea seems to prevail in Wash- { ington (hat the people must be or- dered to do or not to do at frequent intervals, to show that the various regulators and con- | { adminisirators, | Alhany Jour- trollers are on the jo nal. We may at this j time that, recall as peritnent four years ago, Hinden- by prophesied that the war would be test of national nerves, and the victory would go to the group of pow- that had the strongest.—FProvi- Journal. ors dence Along the isport Lanes, (Burlington Evidently the ceas are concentrating on port lanes to I'ranc | vigilance and plenty of must be the answer of the navy. News.) of the under- the tran Unceasing destroyers American wolves to supplant those that fringe the curbing new trees eventually and which are slowly dying - out. In the meantime however, at least four of these new trees have died and have been remove, but have never been replaced. Should they not pe replaced at once in order that the unifofmity my not be too badly broken? —W. S. B.— From the Herald of 25 years ago: October 20—William Rawlings at- tended the meeting of Silver Spray lodge, T. of H.. in New evening as the delegate Haven last from Phenix Temple from this city. — Charles E. superintendent at the Stanley is at the World's fair. October 21—Although N. B. H. §. layed a plucky game, the team was defeated by Hillhouse High school vesterday, 4, with Cheney and Jost starring for the locals. — C. J. Parken was out yesterday for the first time since he was ill with pneumonia. — The Ameérican Protective associa- tion met last night and decided to name a ticket for the coming elec- tion.. — Clark Edwards has returned from the World's fair. — Mrs. A. F. Hichstaedt gave her Sunday school class an ice cream and fruit supper last evening. October 22—Sunday. October 23—The evening school classes will open tonight in the Bart- lett and High sehool buildings. Mrs. J. A. Traut and some frienas were out driving on the Plainville | road the othér day and narrowly es- caped being run down by an expre: Eddie Kilbourne of Stanley Quarter has returned from the World's fair. — Electric cars will be | running over the Chestnut street | crossing in a few days.— Mrs. and | Mrs. F. H. Johnston and Mrs. H. | Andrews will leave tonight for Chicago. | October 24—The corporators of the | New Britain General hospital will | meet in A. Traut's barn hall Thursday evening to make further plans.— E. G. Babcock is in Boston. John Jacobson and Miss Minnia Srikson will be married November 9. | October Fine new residences are being built on Lexington and West Main streets by Mr. Bacon, Mr. ! Walters, Mrs. Hatch and Mrs. Chase. There is some talk of organizing another Knights of Pythias lodge in | this city. Property owners along | the Plainville trolley line are heing | encouraged to improve their property October 26—Gridley, the popular hackman has bought a new horse. He has maid $30 for a tram- way relic, but the animal won't stand. | - W. . Delaney ed vesterday an assistant city attornev hy | oath hefore City Clerk Wooster Eddie Hart, plaving right halfback on the Yale varsity vesterday scored two | touchdowns against Williams, 25— city's qua —W. S. B.—— | Tt is with a eling of devout thanksgiving and genuine relief that the public of New Britain comes to a alization that the terrible epidemic of the past month, which has sapped | its very life 1s slowly but surely de- clining Pos 1y never hefore, | cortainly never before in the pres | generation, has the city been visited with such a terrible pl ue as is this | one. Entire families have heen wiped ! out bv the disease, homes have been broken up and inlividuals have heen | forever saddened. During this epi- | demic there have been approximate | 1y 6,000 cases of Spanish influenza re ported to the health department. and it is estimated that there were fully as many more that were never re- ported. Thus. it is safe to assume that there were fully 10.000 or 12.000 New Britain people who have been sick with this pestilence Of those who have been sick, many died, either | of the primary disease or the oftimes | resulting pneumonia. There have | been approximately 350 deaths in in | the city since the first of the month and a majority of these have | direct result of the discasc jority of them have full strength and of life. Although stages of the that New been the and a ma- people in the the worst it seemed in dire been vigor during epidemic Britain was prime | OCTOBEK <, 1O1ES straits for professional service, nev- ertheless, everything considered, it now appears that the State Board of Health kept a watchful eye on this city and did all in its pow- er to alleviate conditions with its lim- ited means. Four doctors were sent here to assist those established in the city and several nurses were also sent here to help. It has been a terrible siege and one that will never be for- gotten. That it is declining is a rea- son for real thanksgiving. s R Soon the question of salary raises for city employes will be uppermost in the minds of the city’s solons. Al- ready practically every employe of city hall has sent in a petition for salary increases to the common coun- cil, And in this fact is the subject for much common speculation and con- sideration. Practically every depart- ment sought an increase and the em- ployes signed a round robin asking a flat rate increase of 20 per cent. One department, howeverr, declined to sign the petition, thinking, evidently, that the demands were too modest. W, S, S—— Health department has ban on public meetings. the politiciar This by greatest news of the week for those who delight in praising their own party and bringing out the faults of the other side. From now on, for the coming week, we may expect to be greeted on all sides by bursts of ora- lifted the Boy, page far is the tory, some alleged and possibly some real. The spell-binders will run wild Tonight we will hear the re- publicans tell us why the democratic party should be forever ousted and the G, O, P, put in its place. Tomor- row night the democratic talkers will convince us that the republicans are figuratively speaking, a band of cut- throats and should never be trusted, And probably the next day the So- cialist speaker wlill try to harangue us into believing that both parties are made up of incompetents, while the prohibitionists, may essay to prove that the country will be lost unless their side wins. We may expect to hear some unpleasant personalities on all sides, Slams will be given and slams will be taken, And then the next week all will be forgotten, When the orders of the health de- partment conflict with the orders of the fuel administration one might naturally expect an unpleasant con- flict. In this city, however, where the health board has asked that tene- ments where people are ill be heated, and the theaters too, the fuel admin- istration looking at the matter broad- ly, from the viewpoint of common and justice, does notthing that might does nothing that sense and justice, might tend to impair the efficiency of the department. W B R e Without intending to mix into the goditical aspect of the matter, atten- tion might be called to the propriety of the fact that on a billboard on Main street, bearing the sign ‘‘State Council of Defense” appears brilliant campaign posters urging the voters to vote for Thomas J. Spellacy for governor. War-Time Harvard. (Boston Evening Transcript.) A Harvard which is no longer Har- vard but merely one of the 400 /American colleges which have ac- cepted the Government's provision for war cducation is ready for its new year. Thaugh it has no knowledge of the number of men who are going to enter it stands willing to take care of at least 3000 studen More it cannot accommodate with barracks; meals and other incidentals required by the Government standard. The Harvard of 1918-1919 divided into two parts, viz: A. Men who are members of the Students’ Army Training Corps. B. Men who are not members of the Students’ Army Training Corps. [Euch of these divisions, moreover, will have several sub-divisions. The former, for instance, Wwill compr men who have passed the Harvard entrance examinations and are candi- dates for the Harvard degree. It will also comprise men who have the equivalent of a high school education, but who have not passed the eatrance will be e¥aminations. These latter cannot graduate from the university. Their only interest in it presumably 1s the military training which they will re- ceive. Division B will comprise the regu- lar undergraduates who are pursuing their courses as they would in ordi- nary times. In this class will be those under 18 years of age, the physically unfit, certain foreigners who cannot be inducted into the United States Army and such men as do not care to join the Training Corps. With this explanation one misnnderstanding should be removed. A man does not pas the entrance examiaations admitted to Harvard and the S. common quickly have to to be A. T have several hundred men class. ample, Freshmen are under of age. Another two In an ordinary eligible for the S. A. T. want to join it. As far as the univers interpret the new War regulations, the S. A. only road which commission. in the army, leads but tions of higher learning a great cle ing house, where the offi will be thouroughly of it as can meet the dard sent forward to schools like the one Plattsburg famous. something like two eighteen years hundred doubtedly will be either j i at Harvard or elsewhere, tested required st which For this reason, in this for ex- hundred year, un- unfit or in- C. or will aot is able to Department C. whether is now the an army ity to The man who is not yet who expects there soon, and who wants to become an officer, must attend one of these college units. In other words, the Government has made of the institu- cers’ material and such the regular made if for no other, there is general ex- pectation that nearly all of the col- leges will have this fall about all the candidates for admission that they can conveniently handle. Left In a Hurry. (Albany Argus.) The lying claims of Berlin and Vienna that the St. Mihiel salient was “evacuated without interference” s disposed of by two simple facts. If so, Pershing’s men could not pos- sibly have taken 20,00 If so, the 30 villag would not have been left p damaged. It has been well as the practice of to make a ‘‘desert” of ritory would have done so in they have to abandon. 0 or more es recovered practicaly un- the boast as the Germans whatever, ter- They if this case they had retired deliberately or had had time for wrecking and destruction and saving their own ski It may be true as and Austrian bulletina the abandonment of th! The reconnaissance from preceding the attack efforts to imperative to everything of Mihiel, and the forcible taking move. after the usual German ly been begun, were too quick for it to Another fact of from this brilliant tary operations from th fall rains have turned front into a quagmire, great victory campaign probably extend into time. Railroads, says: ‘Of late, to the coal mines more The country has been that coal production tihely by transportation duction of coal is still ti The fuel administration delays, filled the bigse mines."” Here trically are two opposite. Appa tlemen is in error. Coal Journal finds, while the average loss ranges around 20.6 average loss due to ca 10.9 per cent., fifty-fifty solution, since Garfield to be wrong, Garfield's deficit. But what does it mat blame? All this elabo tion of alibis is crildish. ought to get the coal out and Mr. McAdoo ought market withont further Fntente (Boston The growing superiori lies in the air battles b conspicuous each day a a marked effect along | border. Tuesday's explo 66 German planes were \,to only 16 of the |'scene in a continuous dr: ultimate moral the evidently not being lost o these been in contemplation for some time. would find out when it would be The looting value in the town of St. near the apex of the salient, large stroke, those we have mentioned s that mili- the the end-up jis not secured before that statements mer which is McAdoo to blame for half ir Raids Globe.) Allies, of ns also. German assert, that is salient h; it in the days indicate of away of able- bodied citizens and women and girls, practice, in- dicates that the run-away had actual- But the Americans be a success. importance besides e Champagne south are often practicable after the the northern Thus the may very winter if The Coal Shortage. (From the Albany Knickerbocker Press.) Mr. McAdoo, Director General of cars have been supplied rapidly than they have been able to load them. The led to believe is limited en- and that any | shortage is due to the railroads. This Administrator, is erroneous.” Dr. Garfield, Fuel A says: “Today the limiting factor in pro- ransportation. has, with few st stream of coal cars the railroad can haul to the diame- rently one or the other of these distinguished gen- The however, American that of production cent. the shortage is a sort of it shows Dr. = but makes Mr. of Dr. ter who is to rate prepara- Dr. Garfield of the ground to move it to oratory. As usual, there will be winter. ty of the ecomes more nd is having the German its in which driven down, was but a ama, and one which is n the civilian 3. this He must, however, have :\;‘\;l‘;Txuf:}‘1x7v1(~ in his life the equi- | population of the Rhine cities. valent of a high school education. In| For the Allled air forces ‘have the academic manner of speaking, | dropped thousands of tons of bombs he must have done thirteen units of on munitions factories, railways, rail- secondary school work. Age doesa’t| way stations, bridges, airdromes and matter. Such a man, however, cannot | fortifications. become a candidate for the Harvard Promptly two results ensue. The degree, He will take the course pre- | well-to-do upper and middle classes scribed by the Government for all its| decamp to cities farther in the in- Army Training Corps, but whatever | terior of Germany, leaving the work- reward he gets will be military and ! jng classets chained to their jobs in not academic. If found capable he ,mmunition factory or railroad shops may be recommiended for assignment ,ng targets for bombs. The other re- tol/a | Goyernment Wofficer's | training I} 1¢ {8 edias opinubiicl maetings in school, where he will be given an oP- ' tyo Rhine towns calling for a limita- portunity to win a commission. The status af the man who has mat requirements tion of air raids by agreement. inter-belligerent the regular admission Ungracious as the doctrine of of the university Is somewhat differ- |, ;" w; medicine® is, it seems t nt. His reward is likely to be both - B Sondemic and military. He will re- m‘;p “mvd‘-‘?‘)d'l e celve credit toward o degree for cer-' Rhine, They who saw no occasion Coive ¢ the courses he takes and he to limit aerial warfare when Eng- I “in aoddition stand the same !iSh towns were being hit see every cimnce as the others in the matter of Tenson when the fidry hail begins to \ssignment to the officer’s training fall on their own roofs. And the de- “ehoals. He probably won't be abla parture of the well-to-do out of fo et his degree in four years, but if | harm’s way accentuates the breach he stays at Harvard long enough and between the classes in the caste-ridden does the required work it will be' German Empire. Tt is another given to him stance of the class-system breaking For the men not in the S. A. T. C. by its own weight, as when the food conditions at the university will be restriction resulted only in restricting mueh as are in ordinary times. the working classes of Germany. it They will take the usual courses and being perfectly possible to obtain be subjected to the usual academic plenty of food if one had the money requirements, Harvard will probably | and was willing to pay. Germany's to be! Al- | government of the property, by property,- for the property, was able to enforce food decrees agai the propertied clastes. These continual raids along Rhine Valley have more than a m tary effect. The air has ‘o home to roost” and to crumbling civilian margin of Germany wi raid it appears wmorale on of the Allied advance | felt ! Democracy and Success, (Saturday vening Post) Suppose no great war had K pened. Suppose & president of United States had given cabinet pol folios to the chairman of the Bo lehem Steel company, a member the firm of J. . Mo , @ the president of th C per Company. You nced not be extraordinarly 4 | dowed with imagnation to supposd 'nmr of amazement 1 Only two or three years y refused to « dent” Wilson’s appointme rnatig o the sé rm Pr t Vto # Federal Reserve board of an othd wise reputable and competent m { who was a director of a big indy trial corporation, and it had t hardest kind of work to persuade | self that a man with Wall banking experience might serviceable in a banking board country editor. A valued contemporary tells that democracy instinctively and i distru That veterately competence af success. sounds hardly reaso| able, yet our contemporary ¢ poiut to a mass of evidence. We wo, der whetl the mass will increal or diminish after the war | Ambassador Davis. (From the Boston Herald.) In conformity with the long ai honored tradition of the Americy representation at the Court of James, and in reciprocation for t action of Britain in sending its Lo, Chief Justice Ambassador he and further in of as recognition peculiarly momentous character the relation between the two grd allies in the present war, Preside; Wilson has named John W. Davis West Virginia as our Ambassadg He is a gracious and agreeab, gentleman, 45 vears old, a gradua of Washington and Lee and of its I school, of which he at one tig served as assistant professor, practiced his profession in Clar] burg, was a member of the St Legislature and finally elected to tl Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congres a position, which he resigned to by come Solicitor General in the Depar of Justice at the opening of tif Wilson administration The Foe's Weakest Moment. (New York Herald.) With the smashing blows whif have weakened German power in ti west, it was natural thatan offensi should be launched against German} confederates in the Rast. It has lonf been surmsed that the allied forces & Saloniki were held, like those Wellington at Torres Vedras, to upon the enemy at -his eake moment. This appears to be t reason for the new offensive. 4 | neither Germany, Austria nor Turke can give help, the time seems oppoi tune to break the line that h united Berlin to her allies at Sofla. Another reason for the new d 'is found in the report that Bulgari troops have reached Maubeuge, nor west of Douai, to aid the hard-press: Germans on the western fromt, Nation’s Cow. (Stars and Stripes.) You might think they were lift roadside shrines, all leafed over o top of their four supporting poled There is one in front of almost ever: barrack building in the S. O. 8. O closer inspection, thoygh, you &e that while not exactly sarines of & ligion, they are shrines of tempen ance. For, suspended under each onj of those leafy canopies, is the old Q) D. chlorinated water bag, bette known as the Carrie Nation cow. They are awfully strict about thj use of chlorinatéd water down in t flat lands upon which many of bhig camps in the S. O. S. are perch3 they have & be. And that is wh the cow is tended so carefully, kep! cool in her sylvan grot, and all th rest | 0.K’s Wilson’s View ! Abbe and gard spondent the best that could possibly have been Wettorle, the Alsatian leade: member of the Reichstag in ve to Alsace. He said to a corres “Pres. Wilson’s reply i made. Mr. Wilson sends the Kaisef packing. Within three weel’ I eoxx pect to see Alsace llbtm}sd,