Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 25, 1918, Page 4

AN UNJUSTIFIED OLASSIFICA- TION. Tt 15 diffeult to understand many of the positions taken by the bolshe- viki but none moré 86 than that set peace qual monarehy, for they are entirely fa- miliar with the fact that Austria is completely under the influence of Ger- many. While it has been claimed that the country with the approval of Em- peror Charles stands out against an- nexations of indemnities in its quest for peace it can be appreciated that it is not free to exert its own will. It hds been taken over entirely by the imperial German government and in- asmuéh as Germany 1§ now insisting upon retaining portions of Russia, de- |, manding that thié peoge of certain provinces be ullowed to detesmine their own government while German troops are statiofied therein and the idea of indemnities has not been abandoned there are good reasons for belleving that there is & wide differ- ence between the attitude of the Aus- trian government and that of its peo- ple who are clamoring for peace on terms which differ greatly from any which Germafiy will sanction. Attempting to class President Wil- son's statement along with that of the Austrians is therefore the height of folly. It makes it evident that the bolsheviki have not caréfully perused the president's address to congress, or have overlooked his insistence up- on the evacuation of all Russian ter- ritory and the opportunity for Rus sia’s political development and his attl tude regarding Belgium and Alsace Lorraine, President Wilson has re- peatedly set forth that the United States has not emtered this war for conquest but for the establishment of fi“ rights of humanity and the ex- e rights of humanity and the mak- ing of the world safe for democracy. The bolsheviki or the entiré Russian people may hive reason to suspect the aims of Germany or any of its allies, inasmuch as Germany is the guiding influence there, but they can never make a greater mistake than to attempt to place the United States un- der any such classification. ——— NEW YORK’S POLICE FORCE. During the recent mayoralty contest in the city of New York much em- phasis was 1aid upon_ the improve- ments in the police department which had been brought about under the ad- ministration of Mayor Mitchel. That was one of the arguments used for the retention of that official at the head of the city's affairs. Conditions however were able to bring about a change and fh spite of the fact that 1t was insisted by the successful can- didate for the office of mayor that the efficiency of the police department would not suffer by any changes which he would make, it is only a matter of 23 days before Police Commissioner Bugher whom he named wos protest- ing against the interference he was experiencing in the conduct of his of- fiee and as a rebult brought forth the démand for hif own resignation. Mayor Mylan thus appears to be getting a very poor start. Under Com- missioner Bugher it was claimed that the police department was the only one which had not been brought un- der Tammany influence. That opinion was based upon surface conditions. Mr. Bugher may not have been a Tammany man but he was exvected to render Tammany service. He was denied the free hand which he had been promised and as the result he rebelled and thé city's police force 1s temporarily placed under the direc- tion of a police lleuteriant who had no standing under the former admin- istration because of his political ac- tivity. It s a situation which New York ean hardly welcome and it ought to cpuse some serlous reflection on the ontcome of the recgnt election. It has on to believe that it has begun to harvest at an early date in accord- ance with what it sowed. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclustve- Iy entitled to the use for republica- tion of all news despatches credit- ed to it or not otherwise credi ed in this paper and also the local rights of rehvnb?u.finn“o! special despatches herein are also reserved. SRR . THE FREIGHT EMBARGO. That the five workless days which Fuel Administrator Garfield ordered have not accomplished what was ex- pected or needed is reflected not. only by the lack of sufficient fuel through- out this part of the country, but it is shown by the embargo which has been put into effect by Director General Me- Adoo upon three of the eastern rail- roads which prevents them from bandling anything in the way of freight except food, fuel and war sup- plies. How long this will Tast is not known. The order specifies no time, but inas- mmuch as the conditions in New Eng- Jand and in the harbor of New York swhere ships are waiting for coal arée what they are and the railroads and terminals so badly congested it should be continued in force until the situa- tion improves. This is a step which ought to result in some real benefit. Jt makes no difference who suggested 3t or who ordered it, if it will accom- plish the purpose for which it has Deen applied, and some idea as to the effect ought to be gained within a short time, there should be no relaxa- " tion untfl conditions are what they should be. ‘When we are told that it takes from fen to twenty days to get coal from the mines to tide water, a distance of two to three hundred miles, it seems @s If thers was something radically wrong. That isn't what the consumer can look upon as good service, and it the embargo will serve to improve it the thing to do is to work it for all that there s in it. We cannot get out of our present predicament any too woon. Improvement is needed at once, and every energy should be bent to get it and maintain it once the situa- tlon is straightened out. GET READY NOW. . It has recently been stated that if ft'fs found that the transportation ser- wvice which the canals of the country can furnish is not being developed or taken advantage of as it should be that they will be brought under fed- eral control the same as the rallroads have been. That leaves the matter open for future revelations at a time ‘when every agency ought to be brought _into play and every bit of help that can be secured be made use of. As has been previously referres to, the new canal system in thé state of New York will be able, during _the coming season, to take care of ten million tons of ight. That means that that amount of material can be transported by water from the Great Lakes to New York city or other points Within close proximity, and that when such facilities are taken advantage of to the limit of their possibilities just #0 much relief is going to be afforded to the raflroad lines which must oth- erwise assume the burden. Just now we are experiencing a se- rious congestion on the transporta- tion lines. The movement of coal in- to New England by water was seri- cusly impeded during the past sum- mer and fall by the removal of the Vessels which had been engaged in that service. The return of such boats or others at the eleventh hour has afforded to a small desree some relief, but the upsetting of the system has had a detrimental effect and in- eressed the confusion and congestion. It i well known now that there are hot enough canal boats available at the present time to handle the amount Mt freight which could be transported by canals. We do not need go wait EDTORIAL NOTES. Those who pride themselves on their jee cutting ability ought mot to lack for plenty of émployment these days. After all that has been experienced it might not be a bad idca even now to place an embargo on the weather- man. It i8 a question that is being seri- ously debated just now as to whether Sunday or Friday will be made eat- less days, Colonel Roosevelt is taking plenty of time to answer Senator Stone just to show the country that he has him- Self in good control. Coal supplies are reportea moving rapidly, but their ‘speed fsn't a cir- cumstance to the way the quantity in the coal bins are diminishing. [ A The man on the corner says: While there are so many taking care to watch itheir step, there is a good sized army ‘devoting much time to watching their stitch. From thé way in which coal barges are going down it begins to look as if someone was trying to put a rip rap bottom of anthracite on Long Island Sound. No great pressure would be required to force the admission that the wea- ther administrator is not giving the fuel administrator whole hearted co- operation. Norway claims it is not satisfied with the sHipping terms offered by the United States. Probably it prefers to have its vessels destroyed by German submarines. P, The British naval forces operating at the eastern end of the Mediterra- nean should never be satisfied until the beached cruiset Goeben “is cap- tured or destroyed The service which the canals ean render should be recognized. The needed boats for such transportation 1d be provided and the time to do that is now. If an immediate start is mado to turn out canal hoats they will be ready for use as soon as the manals are released from the grip of If we wait until the canals opened and then decide that there not enough boats and attempt to it will be fall before to take care of the Even if “Gumshoe Bill” Stone has taken up the cudgel against Colonel Roogevelt, it will be generally agreed that the ex-president will be able to take care of himself, In view of her recent resolution Jeanette Rankin will probably feel that the resignation of Sir Edward Carson from the British war cabinet entitles her to a new hat. praSiaotiulits Sl The German general who claims that he doesw't see what America caz do might admit on the quiet that he had Dbeen' reading Berlin reports instead of ! 5 14 ] i ] ; i FiE i 1 The tanned young man in the new khaki uniform, who had been waiting in the parlor of the business women's boarding house ‘for fifteen minutes, jumped to hig feet as the girl in the Tose_colored blouse came in. “Erlo there, Min,” he greeted hef as she slipped her tappering fingers into his vigorous looking brown hand. “How're they coming?* “Fine and dandy,” she assured him. After a moment she withdrew her hand and sat down in the big rattan rodker. - “How's yourself?”” “Fine,” he answered, taking the chair opposite. His eyes lighted up with admiration. “Gee, you look good 3 that waist,” he added fervently. The girl wriggled back into the depths of her chair, her cheeks grow- ing pinker. “Quit your kidding,” she adjured vy . ‘“Don't you éver believe I'm kid- ding,” he insisted. “You, honest now, you always look good to me, but to- night you're a dream. Your cheeks look just the color of your walst.” “Some dream,” she retorted lightly She wove a hairpin through the soft, wavy locks about her ears, watching him a little shyly from under the curve of ‘her arm. Then she changed the subject. “You're looking pretty nifty your- self,"*she gaid archly. “Honest, do you think so, Min?” the young soldier queried eagerly. “I kind of hoped you would, but I didn’t know. “Say, Min” he continued after a moment’s pause, “I can't stay but a minute. 1 just come up to tell you— I guess we're honest to goodness, go- ing in about a week or ten days.” The smile was erased from her face. The delicately manicured hands met in a little panic stricken clasp, “I guess it's decided,” he said. “I guess you're real glad you're go- ng 7" g “In some ways I am. Somebody's got to go after the kaiser and I guess I'm the kind of fellow that can be spared the easiest, not having any folks particularly, only one brother out in California. And, anyway, I want to go.” “I bet you do,” she ehinned in eag- erly, -but her round cheeks were white.” “You see,” he explained, “there’s | such lots of fellows that's got a raft of folks that would be half crazy if anything should happen to them.” e “~ ALITTLE LOVE AND WAR Avoiding the girl's eyes, he looked at his watch and rose quickly. ~ * “Well, I guess I got to go,” he sald. “I didn't know I'd been here such a long time.” 2 He took his hat from the table. Then he suddenly straighitened up and took a deep breath. » “Well, T guess I got to say good- by, Min" he held out his hand. “I wonder if, now, if I should send you my address—of course, I know you're awful busy at the office and all, but 1 wonder if, just now and then, youl| could find the time to—drop me a line sometimes. I wouldn't bother you, only I know how good you've been making Sweaters and -things for the Red Cross for fellows that you don't know at all, and so I though maybe now and thén you wouldn't mind—" Min choked and began fumbling for her handkerchief. He leaned over and patted her shoulder contritely. “Don’t you do it, hon, if you dom't want to bother,” he eaid tenderly. “I guess I hadn't ought to ask you when youre so busy and all. T only just though as long as I didn't have any- body else much, and I wouldn't ask you to write only just a line—" - Two girls passing through tia hall peered in and retired giggling. “Don’t!” Min whispered. “You're making me bawl right in front of ev- erybody. Of course I'll write to you and Tll make you a sweater if you want me to. I'd—rather do it for vou than anybody; apd if anything should happen to you, you don't need to think there wouldn't anybody care—Oh, Jim She clutched at his arm and he dropped to~his knees beside her chair. ‘I—I—want you to go” she sobbed. “I'd hate you if you Aidn’t—but— just—got—to come back. bear—it—if you didn’t”” She buried her kead on his shoulder regardless of yossisle observers and twined her arm about hi§ neck cop- vulsively. “Min,” he whispered, “do you mean that if I come back—" “Don't,” she choked, “you just got to come back, Jim. You—just—got to come back.” There was a little Tustle at the-door- way. Then the two girls who had been pacing the hall looked in again, but this time the giggles were suddenly silenced as they tiptoed” softly away down the dingy hall—Chicago News. I couldn't— LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Has Done Some Good. Mr. Editor: If you will allow me| space in your paper I would like to| make a few comments even if 1 have not been given permission to vote. Long before our country went into war with Germany President Wil- son was criticised for his “watchful | walting”, in fact nothing that he did, or allowed to be done, was right, es- vecially with the republican party. At last war was declared, much, be it said, to the surprise of everyone. Every man and woman was more than williig to do their “bit” That is, they said so. Well, when the coal scare and the lack of coal began to cause us all to worry the conditions wefe not improving, but steadily growing worse. Mr. Garfield decided that some drastic measure must be used and it's being used, some say, much to the gratification of most of the people, although many are too stubborn to admit it. While the men at the head of our govexnment are not only shrewd and intelligent, but fearless, Mr. Garflely is both, I, for one, believe when this great crisis is over that many who condemn him now and feel like giving him a biack eve, will have seen their mistakes. Let us_hope so. If what some of the papers have stated is true, that Mr. Garfield’s dras- tic meagure has donme much towards injuring the greatest gurse in our land, the rum business, then I am content. Men who now are in the habit of get- ting one or more drinks on their way to wagk' will go with a clean and un- clouded brain and their families will have more to buy coal and food, in- stead of goinz out on the dump piles earch of cinders. Instead of the| hands and fathers going home reel- ng and in a disgusted condition, with h of their hard earnings gone for w y and beer, they will enter their homes with head erect and a gzlad smile on thefr faces that will bring sunshine into their homes that they have always missed. Who can say that Mr. Garfleld's drastic measure has not already done some good?, MRS. F. J. W. Norwich, Jan. 23, 1918, Short-Sighted Philosophies of the Arm-Chair Philotnphs!. Mr. Bditor: Now and then we hear some arm-chair *philosopher remark that there are. fewer marriages be- cause the girls of today are not will- ing to begin their wedded lives liks mother aid, that, instead of startinz out with little, or nothing, they must start out where mother left off. We have no quarrel with the newer idea of starting life with every advantage that has been gained by father and mother through their years of work worry and self-deniel that have writ- ten “sacrifice in every wrinkle and furrow, in every gfay hair that shows, and is it reasonable for anyone not a philosopher to insist that these years of paternal endeavor that have given to the nation the boys and girls that are a credit to it from every view- point, must be lost when. those boys and girls select their mates and take up the home-making as their parents did before them? It is one of those short-sighted philosophies that as- sumes to direct the affairs of the voung folks. Why should a boy and & girl, who have been given advan- tages their parents never had, but who have profited thereby, go back thirty years because their parents happened to be not 5o well off? Where would be the advantage in this slip- ping back more than a quarter of a century for the simple sake of start- ing “where mother Uld.” ‘We should be glad that mother's work has brought forth such excellent results. That she ‘and the old man are better off, is worth something, not alone to them, but to evervbody else and the better off their children are the better off everybody else will be. We mean by this, the great majority who work for what they have and who haven't| Peter: been fortunate in selecting & grand- | father who invented a mousetrap and later another trap for bigger zame. ‘We mean our own kind of folks; the kind that have worked and worriedand | saved and raised their families better | than they wete brought up so far as education, comforts and broader think- ing go. The “back to_ the mother's: time” philosopher finds his wisdom in, the old world belief that it is the duty of the race to keep it réplénished and that there is 4ittle thought back of that notion. But, the men and women of today are not content to remain propagators of the race at the sacri- for old_so flce of the advantages they have!Salt fheum and il gkin diseates. It han: learned to belleve are theirs. {i8hes plmples and blackheads in less tham The main trouble with the.getting married proposition seems to be in the inability of the majority of the mar- riageable men to make enough money to maintain a wife in the manner in which she has maintained herself, In too many instances this is oat of the auestion and is the great obstacle to marriage to all of those who wiil not let go the wages that permit them to dress far beyond the wildest dreame of mother in her most hopeful and im: native days. It is not the leaving oft where mother did but the keeping up of show that mother never thought of that spells disaster to the matrimonial bark that goes on the rocks the first time the styles change. But who is to make the great sac- rifice? Who is to blame if it is not made in the interests of home verpet- vation? Changed methods of doing ev- erything are The growth of cities, ch i loyment, and, greater still, chinses in living stand- ards tell the story. We cannot go ck if we would and if we conld, why should we? There is no quarrel with all that is sxid of extravdzance, or mistaken notions of hom king that but we | the excep- s} men and women will marry and get along as thek did without going when granddad had one su! made duds a v winter with his whiske: and made the bost of it. cl But gravddad dldn't like it and ke dug in wn dug out of his hemespun hig'leaky roofs and hi¢ fwenty hours « day; te wore out his red hore-made mittens getiing away from alt of these discomforts but he raised’ his family n a more comfortable than he ever knew; his children went right on| from the place he had brought them and their children will go ahead and so will their descendarits. Marriages may be a little later than | they were in mother's day but there will be wedd and babies, even though it takes time to zather cour- age 1o let £o of some little of the show for a great deal of the substance. The most of us are with the boys and girls who will not o back to whers mother started. To do so would bs to sacrifice everything for which mother has given the hest years of her life and all of her love. The great- est monument to mother's devotion is 10 have her boys and zirls able to keep family progress zoing and not consent to crawl back to the discomforts of thirty years to satisfy the arm-chair philosopher whose sole reason for liv- ing seems to be the chance to moan over the decadence of the human race. J. H. CUMMINGS, Norwich, Jan. 23, 1918, Views of the Vigflmtel DEVIL FEARS AMERICA. Confidential Letter From the Devil to the Kaiser—De-coded by Eugene H. Blake of The Vigilantes. Infernal Palace, Hades My deatr Wilhelm: Tl admit (just to you as a friend) that sometimes I get into such a tight place I have to whistle to keep my courage up. America has got to be reckoned with before we can run the earth our way. I've been carrying an asbestos copy of the President’s message around with me and studying it carefully. Frankly, my dear Kaiser, how are ‘We going to get around this? “We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sac- rifices we shall' freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights THE TRUTH ABOUT | ECZEMA AND PILES Thousands and thousands of people, says | son, are learning every week that one | 30 cent box of Peterson’s Ointment will | abolish Eczema and banish piles, grateful letters 1 reccive every day a worth more to me than money. 1 had Eczema for many years on m; and could not get anyihing to do e | re y head it n; §900. I saw your ad and got one box e oWwe you many thanks for the good it hag done me. There isn't a blotch on my head ::;v, rna:: conlmi': help bu“t thank Pg‘a": | , for the cure is great, Mre, Mary { 420 Third Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. 1 have had itching piles for 15 years and Peterson’s is the only ointment that re- liaves me, besides the piles seem to have Sone. & B. Ruger, 1127 Washington Ave- e e, 3 Use Poterson's Olntment 40 days and leaves the skin clean, clear and plessant o look upon.” Drugglsts suaran. r;_zunklnd. ‘We shall be satisfied © The oniy way I u | “truck” to its when those rights have been made a§ the faith and freedom of nations can make them.” can see s to keep right on with the talk about the Uni: ted States enslaving Burope. Peéple mm‘ to ewallow anything they see in print., g And meanwhile let BREED THEATRE FRIDAY AND SATUR HARRY MOREY us keep on whistling. Faithfully yours, kit WITH Prince of Devils and Kaiser of Hades. CORINNE GRIFFITH P. S. Neat work in_the conquered part of Italy. Those Itallan women don't seem to appreciate war-kultur any better than the French. From the Commerse Reports. Holland is showing interest in de- veloping the diamond flelds of Dutch Borneo after the wat shall end, Great Britain is reported to plan the devel- opment of a diamond cutting industry and crippled soldiers are learning the trade. LN “Who Goes There” By Robert W. Chambers Since the ocecupation of Serbia all its coal mines have been in the hands of Geaman engiheers, who have so thoroughly organized fhe work that the coal output is believed to' have been increased considerably. Great Britain uses more walking sticks than any other country. Almost every man in town, city and cfentry carries a cane. Also, there is a large demand for walking sticks for women. i, Beeause the coal is running short| Growth of the aircraft ihdustry hag in Switzerland that republic is plan- |increased the British demand for ing to spend millions of francs in in- ' aluminum. A Tremendou Eclipses the. Sereén Drama That est t‘u g:lge Has Ever Done. stalling eléctric traction on some of lits railway lines. GLEANED FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES All lovers o must be grateful to Sir William Wat- of old English words|tences imposed indicate that the aiu- thorities are condoning the offense. Among the ekcuses pleaded by the men accused are loss of memory be- cause of shell shock; departure of the wife without leaving an address, and infidelity on the part of a wife. Some have gone so far as to declare boldly that plural marridges are good for the nation’s future. A corporal told a Miunich court that ke got married ev- ery time he obtained leave from the trenches and believed he had five wives. Tleven cases were tried in Berlin, seven in Bologne and five in Munich last December. The deceived womer usually are not willing to prosecute. 8ir Cecil Spring-Rice, our retiring ambassador at Washington, has been described by Americans, not without appreciation of the quality in eritical war times, as the most silent ambas- sador ever sent by Britain to America. During the whole ceirse of the war, until quite recently, he did not make a single speech. And he an Irishman, too! When Sir Cecil's services to the cause of the entente come to he weighed, 1t may be found that this gift of reticence has played 4 happy part in preserving good relations hetween London and Washington. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice began his diplomatic ca- reer as third secretary at the British legation. (it was not yet an embassy) in Washington, and whilé stationed there struck up a friendship with Col- onel Roosevelt, then civil servicé com- missioner. Their intimacy led to Sir Cecil being best man when Mr. Roose- velt married Miss Edith Kermit Carow at St. George's. Hanover square. The future president's wedding, which was celebrated with the minimum of cere- mony, bately a dozen friends being present, has made St. George's a shrine {of pilgrimage for all good Americans | visiting London.—London Chronicle. son for restoring that good word lost dignity in the phrase “base truck with the foe,” with which he completes his tribute to the prime minister. It had fallen into dis- use among the educated in its sense of harter or.dealing, although the man in the street has made “Il have no truck with them” a familiar saying. Dryden ana Swift, however, used it, and the former even gave it a place on a lover's lips in the plea, “Love is cov- ctous; I must have all of you; heart for heart is an equdl truck.” It seems late in the day for a county court judge to haye to appeal to the bar council for a tuling on the methods of cross-examination of counsel who seek by implication to defame wit- nesses. The fact is, of course, that-all men are liars—tp opposing counsel. Judges do proteCt witnesses, vet the complaint of the perseh in the box is more or less pemanent. Lord Chief Justice Cockburn declared that wit- nesses were ercd, browbeaten, and in every ¢ _brutaily maltreated The treatment ‘of ted, was a national ous obstacle to jus- .saes, o as disgrace and a s tice, His picture reads more like the scene in an operating thentre before s than one ef a court of zlond the most honorable us men loathe the wit- Men and women of all ness box. raniks shrink with terror from subject- ing themselve: to the wanton insult and bullying misnamed cross-exami- nation in our English courts. . . . . remember to have seen so distinguish ed & man as the late Sir Benjamin Drodie shiver as he entered the wit- ness-box. I dare say his apprehension amounted to exquisite torture.” Feel- ings are just as acute today in minor courts where forensic bullying is tol- erated.—London Chroenicle. 1 In an amusing telegram from Berlin the liberal Hamburger Fremdenblatt | says that anybody who thought that England could be moved by the Bol- shevist publication of secret treatiea knows nothing of British statesman- ship. The writer proceeds: “It never occurred to Herr Balfour 1o blush. On the contrary, he is full of moral indiznation, and eHows us a picture of the Britisil lion disguised as an innocent lamb, which gambols peacefully over the meadows among the forzet-me-nots and the buttercups. When the neighbor's fences are broken down occasionally. or other wicked things are done, they Were, of course, the work of others. England, brave hoy. only employs his nayy as a toy on fhe village playground, and however a v much he searches his heart and his about war” a Royal Irish Rifleman | jjstory, he cannot find the smallest :g!;!i’gn;;h p;g‘:;r:nefi::h:inl'enalwe?tr;l; | trace of selfishness. As for imperial- sap | jg Ctoply dos in Tont o our ot Tl 's snind “r!§:11? he simply does not know what us was out deepeniw’. We had a ter- Swiiter, coRGIuted. B s rible scunner agaln’ ould Frits throuh | gyt (he siies o Sreey oo ung a sergeant of them puttin' up hishands | aims to themselves,” because it is not when we raided them the night before, | they that will make the peace: “the and then bombin' two of oir chaps.|sfar of the guilty is deolining.” Just about that time we were fair pol- Tl e 4 luted with them comin’ across to us in ones an’ twos in the dark, to surren- der. So we made up our minds the next lads that drifted over would get | what they weren't lookin’ for. Man, we weren't right started to dig in the wee sap when ome of them comes over the wire into it on his mouth and nose, ‘Kamaradin’ Hke blazes. ‘Another— kamerad, is it? sez the sergeant, strik- ing a match very cautious, ‘stick a bavonet in the swine’ I was just rais- in’ my hand when Billy Keenan catches me. ‘Hould o%, sargint’ sez he, ‘ve can’t kil this man. T know him. Him an’ me played together in the Lurgan Swifts’ An’' right enoush, so they had. It was a wee German had been here before the war in a barber’s shop, an’ could speak English as well as I can myself. Divil & spade Billy Kee- nan lifted that night sittin’ there crackin’ to him ~about the Junior League, an’ Frite askin’ him all the news of the town of Lurgan; was his ould boss still in the business, an’ had wee Liza Bullock ever got married vet, an’ the like of questions like that. There's quare things happen in the war. eh' sn't there now? We could hardly get Billy tore away from the wee German, He wanted to get takin’ him to the rear just to have the crack out.” There is a great deal of human na- ture in heroes, too, my rifieman might have sad. . - In bombing Vicenza, the German airmen may be said to violate the hirthplace of modern architecture, for there, four centuries ago, was born the great Palladio, founder of the stvI\, modelled on Roman work, which has most powerfully influenced architects iz ali countries ever since. In Venice Palladio is seen chiefly as a builder of | churches, in Vicenza as a builder of | palaces, ‘and Goethe found in_ both styles “something of the divine" and omparable with the creations of a great poet.” Nearer home we see him in the work of two of his greatest dis- ciples, Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren. “There’s a deal of .human nature Vienna newspapers learn that dveen- tery is again spreadine in Berlin,where several cases, apparently brought from the Russian front, are reportéd. Ty- phus, searlet fever and diphtheria are talso on the ~ increase, particularly diphtheria, as many as 200 fresh cases having been reported during the past week, several of which resulted fatally. Count Westarp said that meither Frante fior England is ready for peace because both are staking all their Hopes upon America, where “Wilson with his slimy impudence is trying to seduce the Germans into disloyalty to their royal house.” Count Westarp's peroration was as follows: e The German victory can be achieved. We cdn look with the utmost confi- dence to the coming months. Ofe of- ten asks oneself with astonishment— especially in Berlin—how it is possible for our people, after the resuits of these years of wat, to possess go little courage and confidence. (Cries of “It ie the Wilhelfstrasse.”) Perhaps un* der the impression of the care and want which oppress us every day we lose our sense Of perspective for the great things which history will some day judge aright. 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