The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 7, 1918, Page 6

THE SEATTLE STAR {BER 7, 1918. RMUER OF SCHUPPS NORTUWEST LEAGUE OF NEWSrarn Matter May 8, 28 the Act of Congr y >% . . 278; By mall, out of city, BSc per month; 2 months, $1.50; € montha F Fear, $5.00, in the State of Washington. Outside the state, ie per Month, $4.50 for 6 months, or $9.00 per year, By carrier, etty, per week 0. Private A New Era—The Air Lane With the flight of Lieut. A, F. Hogland, army aviator, | from Sacramento to Seattle and return, the beginning of a new epoch in the Northwest must be recorded. In the future, man will take to the air, the element once thought by the devout to be created especially for respiratory pur- poses and birds and prohibited forever to man, — Man will travel thru the avenues of the air in much the same manner that he speeds over his asphalt and_ brick roads, only faster. He will car freight and mail, and other cargoes, and operate pleasure airplanes, The perfec- tion of new inventions will in a short time make the best airplane now in existence seem by comparison what the donkey-cart is to the automobile. Pessimists and skeptics will start their usual lamenta- tions—the kind that derided the first steamship and elec- tricity, only cleverer in an advanced age. They will point out apparently natural disadvantages, power difficulties, ete., none of which naturally exist, or which, if they exist, will be overcome by man’s inventive genius. ; No one can state how far man’s mastery of the air will go—no one know: It may be complete. Man _ will never be satisfied until it is complete. Even now, it is robably as complete as his mastery of the elemental sea For every airplane wrecked, there are two ships destroyed. It is infinitely easier to slide thru the air than force @ passage thru water or trundle over land. There will soon be no reason why air freighters cannot be as large and rful as ocean liners—and trains. on the steamship and railway companies, but they can take stock in airplane concerns and save their capital. The police “investigation” of the accident that nearly killed Miss Dorothy Gleason Thursday, should be complete. P. G. Cummings, who drove the car, may not be in the least to blame—but thes auto accidents that result in fractured skulls are becoming too frequent. Of course, it will be ton scame [from the German side. Cheers ‘and Flares Succeed Momentary Silence as the Last Zero Comes Yank Paper in France, ‘‘The Stars and Stripes,” Describes the Finish of the War—Germans Celebrate the Event More Than Allies (EDITOR'S NOTE—The fol lowing is the description of the end of the war in “The Stars and Stripes,” the Vankee paper published in France) At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month, hostilities came to an end from Switrerland to the Marly that morning, from the wireless station on the Eiffel Tower in Paria, there had gone forth thru the air the wondering, halfin eredulous that the Amerioans held from near Sedan to the Moselle the order from Marshal Foch to } firing on the stroke of 11 On the stroke of 11 the cannon the rifles dropped from the line shoulders, the machine guns grew wtill ere followed then a strange, unbelievable silence aa tho the world had died, It lasted but a moment, lasted for the space that a breath in held, ‘Then came such ap uproar of relief and jubiiance, such a toot ing of horns, shrieking of whistles, such an overture from the bands and trains and church bella, such @ shouting of volees as the earth is not likely to hear again in our day | and generation. When night fell on the battlefield the clamor of the celebration waxed rather than waned Darkness? There was none, Rockets and a conseleas fountain of atar shells | made the lines a streak of glorious brilliance across the face of startled France, while, by the Hight of flares, the front and all its dancing, boast- ing, singing peoples was as clearly visible as tho the sun sat high in} the heavens Germans Celebrate as Well The man from Mars, coming to earth on the morning of November 11, 1928, would have been hard put to it to ay which army had won, for, if anything, the greater celebra: | the more startling not from the Amert At least he could have said-—that man from Mare—to which side the suspension | of hostilities had come as the great: | or relief. | The news began to sprefid across | nearest to the Rhine thore negro soldiers make up the old New York 15th and have long been brignded with the French, They were in Alsace and waa held by their line ran thru Titann and across the rallwaythat leads to Colmar. Civilians Cross Trenches When the great hour came, acrons the trenches from our aide swarmed * mall arny of civilians bearing food and clothing to their kith and kin on the other side. From the fluttered gayly, and “Over There” With the Ya BY J. R. the front shortly after the sun rose. There was more or lens of an effort | to send it forward only thru military | channels, to have the corps report it! calmly by wire to the divisions, the divisions to the brigades, the brig ales to the regiments, the regiments The Star hopes the Britain day celebration will make to the battalions, and so on down | this day an unforgettable occasion in Seattle. The Star hopes that all good Americans, whether of! British ancestry or not, will unite to achieve that end. | | There has been too much ill-natured, unjust criticism | not work very well of the British people and British in the war. Every pro-German who was afraid to openly extol kultur has gone around maligning the English, and usually getting away with it. Then there were a lot of other per- sons who had inherited or acquired a set of prejudices against the British who never failed to air them, no matter how iy founded those prejudices were. e truth is that Great Britain took, next to France at least, the chief part in this war. the Hun, at least from 20 more years of pitiless warfare. | ‘It is true that she is one of the great democracies of the world and that her influence for generations has been a powerful factor for progress. mistakes (what 1 Siecle Ot atatn ay! | | Play safe, folks, avoid crowds as much as possible. | | Let's beat this second attack of the “flu.” The Case of Remsberg The polls remain open till % tonight for the port and| school eiection. Be sure to vote. | The Star recommends Dr. Walter T. Christensen for! ainging road It is true that her navy | th, saved the world, if not from a complete subjugation by) they Of course, she has made} people has not?) but how magnificently | e overshadowedeand outweighed then! and again to the uttermost squad, quite as tho this were an ordinary order, and} nothing to get excited about | There wax the effort. Mut it did} The word was) sped on the kind of wireless that man knew many centuries before Marcon! came on earth, It spread | like a current of electricity along the shivery mess lines, hopping up| and down and sniffling and scuffing | as they waited for the morning cof. | fee. It xpread along the chaing of | menders, along the creeping columns of camions. Driver called it to driver and runners tossed word over their shoulders as hurried by. Now and again a fleet of motoreycite would whiz along thru the heavy mist. Hard to Gee at First “The guerre will be finee at 11 o'clock. Finee la guerre.” You could hear it called out again “What time? “Eleven o'clock.” A pause. “Bay you, what time Is it now?” They took it a little incredulously at first. That was old stuff, that rumor. They had heard {t again and again during the past fortnight. Well, the captain says it's #0,” “Hell, who's he? TP walt tit ‘och comes and tells me himeeclf.” Why, the preceding Thursday the port commission because it knows he is a man.of ex; night that was the night the en cellent cha! x and his public service record is eminently |{72" it we doushboy seems to satisfactory. | prefer calling the “arstimice” had per does not want to cast any reflections on) been signed spread like the Spanish Judge C. himself, however, to have kept out of public affairs follow- ing the failure of his bank in Fremont. | If the public is to reward men by conferring public of- fice on them, it may as well honor those who have not, directly or indirectly, hundred citizens of this community. The Star believes that in private life Judge Remsberg should be given a helping hand, so that, as the years roll along, he may be able to give the Fremont bank victims | full restitution for their losses. he shall be entitled to public honors—not before. We've been hearing for a year that the Bolshevili were on the verge of collapse. And they seem as strong tn the saddle as ever. ° Hold Your War Saving Stamps Owners of War Savings Stamps are requested by the government to retain them until maturity unless it is ab- solutely necessary to realize on them to meet an emergency. Altho fighting has ceased, the great expenses of the ceeds of the issue of War Savings Stamps until their ma-! turity. | minute before 11, when a million eyes | | were glued to the slow-creeping min: | jute hands of a million watches, the | | French corps |morning battle to the east of the| . Remsberg. - He really owed it to his family and| 4. from Grandpre to the Meuse, ‘That night the flares inflamed jthe skies, the rockets streaked the! ge pey pzle Banda burst {nto long-sup- preased music, and the headlights twinkled all along the road. It did. not last Jong, this litte unbidden night. contributed to the misery of several furry, and there wax much seola ing: but, ax a matter of fact, nothing | much more demoralizing to the en emy could well have been staged | back/when your mind tw fresh and | | than this spectacle of the Firat American army celebrating some: | When that time comes,| thing he had not heard. All along the 77 miles held by the | Americans the firing continued, liter ally, unto the eleventh hour, At one roar of the guns was a thing to make the old earth tremble. At one point the time, when a was having a brisk | visiting, at Meuse, a man stationed at one bat: | }tery stood with a handkerchief in his | i i r | uplifted hand, his eyes fixed on his war will continue for many months, and possibly several watch 1 years. In any event, the plan to defray these expenses re-| To the lany quires that the government should.have the use of the pro-|T°?** one minute before 11, | rdsu of the four ble guns | were tied, each rope manned by 200 soldiers, cooks, stragglers, | messengers, Kunners ybody. At} 11 the handkerchief fell, the men Every payment of War Savings Stamps before maturity | pulled. the guns cursed out the last interferes to that extent with the program to finance the war, and with the safe return of our brave soldiers sailors to their homes. | The same patriotism which prompted people to buy) should encourage them to retain their stamps until matur-| ity, January 1, 1923. However, these stamps can be cashed r any time upon 10 days’ notice. the the poubtieses Wall st. where the real issues clearly understood. ‘Alaska Lecture __ Those interested in Alaska can profit by attending an illustrated lecture by J. L. McPherson, manager of the Alaska bureau of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, in the assembly hall of the chamber Saturday evening. McPherson, an authority on Alaska, has secured a num ber of original stereopticon views from the Northland. He will present these, together with a comprehensive summary of the conditions that constitute modern Alaska, While the lecture was arranged specially for the Americ e " can Insti- tute of Mining Engineers, the general publie is invited, he ie idptotin.a Cedar River Dam Sealed City officials deserve the highest commendation for their determination, in the face of journalistic and other knockers, to the Cec River dam. The capacity of the city's electric power plant will be doubled as a result. To the great majority of the people of Seattle, this will be welcome news, is of in America situation are only spot Russian and |aiong the line shot of the battery. And so it went at a hundred, at a thousand, places Attack Before Vigneulles Probably the hardest fighting be ing done by any Americans in the | final hour was that which engaged | the troops of the 28th, 92d, $ist and Seventh divisions with the Second | American army, who launched a fire eating attack above Vigneulles just at dawn on the 11th. It was no mild | thing, that last flare of the battle. and the order to cease firing did not | h the men in the front line until at moment, when runners sped with it from fox hole to fox hole. ‘Then a quite startling thing occur red. The skyline of the crest ahead of them grew suddenly populous with dancing soldier®, and, down the slope, all the way to the barbed wire, straight for the Americans, came the | German troops came with out: | stretched hands, ear-toear grins, and souvenirs to swap for cigareta, #0 well did they know the little weak ness of their foe, They came to tell how pleased they were the fight had | stopped, how glad they were the kal xer had departed for parta unknown, how fine it was to know they would | have a republic at last in Germany. “No,” sakl one stubborn little Prus sian, “it's a kingdom we want.” Whereat his own companions mob: | bed him and howled hima down The farthest north the front of the two armies was held at the extreme American left up S¢ lan way, by the troops of the 77th! division. The farthest east—the 11 o'clock on who used to knelt in tha ka for miles aro m, in among the ehureh there all the old With th knelt crowd ne that the priest could | ward for hin services that he preached t move for Kut the word from the pulpi dim and the heart glowing Up to the front, past Montfaucor and Roma . past Remonville an’ on up, a trac GROVE pollus and Yankee soldiers, and the poked the aisles and steps were such words as leave the eyes trundied that morning: highest steeple in Thann the tricolor |Over the tailboard, at the endless within the! mud of Argonne and Ardennes, there wod a boy who had been drafted in the heart of American some nix months before, and who, with stop offs for tedious training on the way, had slowly journeyed from his home to the Ardennes, Lith ken bim 4) #ie months, it had put him thru the t | cheerlens channel of the replacement aywtem, but it had brought him at last to his destination—the destina ) thon of his day dream» and his night i «. He had reached the front An he rode along, he noticed a cer tain excitement tingling everywhere. but perhaps that was just the mood | STARSHELLS | Probably tailor who dress it of paper clothes ¢ cht he had solved the high cost of dressing. At any ray, he evidently knew tailors’ Yes * too well to order a suit of himseif, And that with his long experience in dressing the public in tweeds and woolens, he should himself chddse to dress in paper, is very significant see HOUSEHOLD HINTS applied to the window panes p the files from tracking up ou will b the ¢ O14 fish neta, cut in squares and edged with cheesecloth make clasny veils Finely sharpen cellent can openers Don't throw away old pen hold ere—send them to China to relieve the shortage of chop sticks Old pianos with the mechaninm, removed make playhouses for the children ever throw away old sinks; move from wall, line with Unolewn and for mixing bowls. Slightly worn gingham razors make ex interior re aprons cut in strips make handsome hair | | ribbons and sashes for school girls, | FAMOUS POET MAD | Pomer, the poet, is very offended. Me was told by the editor that his contribution was tolerated in this umn does not understand word tolera been given to under the ure having contribution was creditable. say meritorious, ually having that ft not in some instances been given assure amounted to actual anc | genius. He feels himself outraged, and is seriously considering putting an end |he says, would to mediocrity, reduce the column eee HERE'S ONE FOR MRS | | | CYNTHIA GREY'S HUSBAND Dearest Editor Is it true that |& poor fish swims in an obscure “Hey! You dropped s shell on my head!" social circle? CLARENCE “Let it gol W ot plenty of ‘em up here!” ¢ 3 A WORD FROM 9 “We shortened our front,” says JOSH WISE Can’t Do Best Work ‘rin. We've noticed tor the pant | It won't all ' os ° two months that the Germans have | come out in th’ With Closed Mind | we putting up a smaller front | wash unless you [aetna ttt — - lh | do some hard rub- oe | bin’ an’ use good If you're “all balled up” and can’t pp j hg ey think straight, and if your ideas come slowly be cause your mind is Ured of run ning on a single track—put away the particular joo that troubles you, and tackle some thing else upon which your mind will work free and spontane ously. Tet your mind work in the path where won't have fight every of the way ‘Thia isn't always the best thing to do, because the easy path breeds flabbiness—but if you've really ne your level beet, and your mind sim ply will not do ite work, it's better to let up on the strain and come you to step open. You can't do your best work with a closed mind, with wrinkles inside and outside. But the time that you spent puz siing out the task ahead of you ten't lort, because you've started trains of thought in your subconscious ming which will find their destination. Your mind will work In the night z | while you're asleep—it will marshal | it was where the Yankee division jin. facts and array the ideas and | form new combinations give you what you've that will been strug gling for | And perhaps when you awake to morrow morning and come back to/ | the unfinished job you will put your! finger on just the word refuses to find for you today Kaiser’s Brother Flees in Disguise iden, just the . 2 HOHENZOLLERN | in This Prince Henry, who fled | from Kiel with the red arm band of 4 revolutionixt and red flags on his} automobile and escaped, tho bullets | followed him, of least resistance | just the plan that your mind/ | ; ,OON, FIRST AVE. AND PIKE ST. Phone Main 4965 “IF 1 HURT YOU, DON'T PAY ME.” | This is my meseage of deliver- ance to you from the fear that ac- companies Dental operations. 1 EXTRACT, FILL, CROWN and | TREAT Teeth absolutely wi pain in all canes but acute absc | conditions. Lowent | prices in your high-class, guaranteed ‘STERLING _ DENTISTRY city for Rev. MLA. Matthews day morning entitled, THE GOSPEL IN IN THE OLD PLACES In the evening he will dis subject, SEATTLE’S SCARLET CORD Bible Institute Mase Meet ing Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Swedish Bap: tist Tabernacle, cuss the Come to the Song Service tomorrow evening at 7:15 o'clock, Everyone cordially invited. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Seventh and Spring THE MELANCHOLY MUST Afier = number of days of dark con No hope see I for man or nation, Nor aught of goodness in ere that gnaw in forest dim, Men eat and fight with tooth and limb, Hereft of sense and blind of right Rut 1, apart, my days shall spend * | Avart apart from man! | Two-legwed creature that he ts, fatuous vinage, Bt of him an ain a rage 1 would while walking in a» aow | Wateh reen grass and the cloud's | co Listen chew Ah, the cow, what could man learn | From her munching jaw, what secrets diacern. | But gently, as one who loves to muse. | Mam does not meditate like a cow, |Or ie in pasture, and with giad eyes follow ing flight of thr | The al mh and Dut grade with greed The The [A curse was laid in the beginning }On man who ever goc# on sloning But man shall not affect the destiny ot | | & flea Unieas bet | pon It which is destiny, | © to watch the flea flit, n step on it | —Pomer | cee A GOOD EXCUS! GIRL, appearing AN on street without a mash will be sub. persons Ject to arrest. Independent. San Rafael see You remember the old fashioned before-the-war bread which greed last winter was so bad the human race? | What about? | Oh, nothing, except that every body will have to go back to it. And gosh, how we dread it for YE EDITOR SEES THE SUN RISE It was the most imposing and im. pressive sunrise noted here for months. In the sky were scattered clouds of fantastic shapes. When the first rays of the rising sun | struck the there seemed in the Jdull glare the semblance of great J embers, that gradually deepened into }the deep red of the majestic con flagration, ‘The contorted cloud masses gave the scene a weird and fumtastic appearance, and one could imagine the darting to and fro of tongues of flames, Later, as the sun approached nearer the horizon, the jcolors became more brilliant and Jerimson and were communicated to jthe clouds thruout the heavens so} jthat presently there was a great | | warm glow everywhere that seemed | reflec upon all things on earth | It was a gloriously mellow light. In the west was the great silver moon, which gave a softer tinge to the western half of the sky. Then the lines grew perceptibly less cloying and more silvery and finally passed into the leaden tints of full daylight It was from start to finish a kaletd Joscopic, celestial moving picture. |such as no human device could pro. | duive, and was on a sublime scale }Galesburg (111) Republican-Register It is reported that William Hohen atyliah | to} 4 grisly brow. | of the front. When finally the truck | ter, I have never seen he stopped and he jumped out, the news| She was born wince I poten wan waiting for him. France.” “It In 11 o'clock, ‘The war is over.”| Meanwhile, on the roads “Hell,” he aid; “L just got here.” | the laugh that waa and half pf disappointment name was A penetrate the yiet with his German field glassen hia elbo What did he see? the road to th no shell fire, a crippled airplane in the field below gl nee a little |? floor and the run, shining In the win do wide that cradie, man, in my daugh TA COLUMN OR TWO|| | I} | brick, * | the grand |right of kings.” continues ern leeberg which, when its day came, sank the Titanic gathered, engineers were working with ¢ No thne to celebrate, for the an must be kept in shape, Bur y nang a» they worked nd the word, send the word ong That the Yanks are Yanks are coming ‘a The words, in that hour, had ae Guired & new significance, White here and there Then he laughed a short little nade half of relief ro And hin! th WwW. Le Vrivate George on. Up in a high observation post an merican observer wan trying to The young officer at xked him to look due west Well, not much forest full of traffic, acroms the land where Yanks were at could hear a knot borat inte And the burden of all the | this It's home, boys, it's home % ‘0 be bop Home, boys, home, in the land erty.” bed So came to an end the Lith of vember, 1918—the G&85th day visi America entered the war. ae “Lora jamnes? Lord, what good are thors Why, without them, I can hourne in Kansas City nursery the necond here's a on nw, Just touches a cradie there. In Comments, Views, Thoughts, Smiles and Throbs Gleaned Here and There BY HEBA ood Four Men of Lowly | Origin Hold Power | “Out of a law office in out of a cobler’s shop in wales of a village doctor's office in Francs and from a farm on the island o ———# Sicily came the four men who, is id palace at Versailles, will soon put the quietus on the Thus Witllam G. Shepherd, noted war correspondent, comments, He “The might of these four men has grown as quietly as grew the north. “The storms of Fate brew silently, and this king uy hich is whirling about the thrones of earth is the "store Most wilent that ever “In 1856, three days after Christmas, a boy named Thomas was in Uie plain home of a Presbyterian parson in Staunton, Va. boy was four years old, there was born in Palermo, on the island of Bletly, 4,000 miles away, a black eyed Sicilian boy. Into the town of | that July day, came Garibaidi, of the boy, in honor of the occasion, named their son Victor, after the | new Italian king. Palermo, on in triumph, and the farmer-folk parents whom Garibaldi had helped to seat. Three yearn later still, when Thomas w Playing the games of year-old boys down in Virginia, and when Victor, at 2, spent most of his Ume romping on the little farm in Sicily, there was born in the heart of a or urto yurcet hat his from various souress that his! ns gegey, grisiy. town of Manchester, in England, a boy named Davia is home was the uglest of the homes of all the three. two stories high, stnall windows, facing a busy stone | rooms were small and little adorned, and not much hope of greatness old | re } to ut to ton jh |admitted to the bar. to | cuage very dangero them | to the mune forever, altho this atep, |"? cankerous in Uy George David was born im Ei ause he had seen Napoleon the Third overthrow the second attempt a France to establish here as a doctor doctor's household and later, while he taught French in a girls’ school in Stamford) ing in a school in faraway Palermo, and David, at three, shoemaker, in @ Uttle town of Wales. The only city-born boy Fate, when his father died, took him to. the simplicity of Village life and saved him, perhaps from the sidewalks. | back to France, to write and teach and doctor. Thomas | versity to study law | and spare Ume in his uncie’s shoe shop or in the v | Ustening to hi |to walk to Sunday schoo! three times. And the Sunday school wast miles away! ever have sprung from that dingy place. “Three boys, thousands of miles apart, each speaking a different lap The pompous kings of those days couldn't have seen But kings DO have a way of not seeing “There was ane other boy to make up the quartet. His name was He was a young medical student in Paris 22 years ago, gland. He was set against kings and emperor, 4 republic. He thought all governments be publics, and, by the time he was 25, he came over to the : study the American republic, and, if possible, to make a He had been born in a little village in “While George was in New York, almort starving for lack of tie Thomas, down in Virginia, at the age of ten years, had his studies, with the hope of being a lawyer; Victor, at atx, is time, was getting ready for life in the home of his “The years whirled on. “and went to a un David, seven years younger, spent his evenings iMlage blacksmith elders talk over the affairs of the world. Sundays be George married an American ! He could speak only the musical Welsh tongue, .« 9. “Victor, with law as his vision, crossed the famous old straits ef sina from his island home and went to Naples to study in the law # ere. ‘In the ‘80's things began to happen. Down in Virginia, In old Wales, David, who, by this time, had speak English, was admitted to practice law tn 1884, and, in * | black-eyed, hot-biooded Sicilian Victor received the documents that him to practice at the Italian bar. . ha | dexperately that he had been sentenced to death |also hated the autocracy of the mob. oni w | na prime minister of | its su by | looked like mere figures on | | ples “George, in France, by this time had dropped medicine. 4d arisen there in the form of the Commune, and he had fought it He hated kings, He fled from Paris, “g “And so each of the four swung along his own pathway, one ¢ in Britain, one in France and one in the United States of the New orld, and they have all come at last to gray hairs and mighty powent Soon they will sit at a peace table together, the first peace table i® the @rase grow and the cow/#ll human history from which divineright kings are barred. The future jand the welfare of the world lie in their four pairs of hands, mesa are: Georges Clemenceau, premier of France; David Lloyd “The four form a storm of Fate, silently brewed, but devastating ia king wrecking Violence; a storm that is to be followed by the brightest nshine of human liberty this old world has ever seen.” rane . ® The world war debt, ae World War Debt | sear enas, wit! amount to two bum Siscapeptiedhs hand editiemaenteitinr dred billions of dollars. Of this, imately $150,000,000,000 will be represented by the war loans of ts. The other quarter will be unfloated debts, war expenses’ revenue bills and by piled-up surplus funds It is hard for the average human to comprehend two hundred billiem couldn't when the treasury department gave out the figures. TRY to me. So I asked a mathematical expert @ e the immensity of the two bundred billions into understandable 200,000,000,000 were reduced to silver dollars,” he explained after the/a minute's juggling of figures, “and these dollars were stacked in a pit © on the other, the column would be 394,600 miles high. And if te (Cal) | column should topple over, it would reach around the world 15 times.” What a scramble there would be for those dollars! He continued: “These two hundred billions of dollars would weigh over 6,000,000 tons, and they would make more than 90 Washington mona be of sta x zollern is broke. He'll probably be selling insurance or real estate pret ty soon, long session of peace. the “~~ Tt Does Matter we all| ments of solid silver, Now, if the sum of $200,000,000,000 should be reduced to oné dollar per bills, and these paper bills should be pasted together, end on ef, owing one-half inch for overlap, you would get a solid belt of money 200,740 miles Jong. It would reach 90 times between the earth nd would girdle the earth at the equator over 800 times.” Now you've got some idea of the world’s war debt, which will havet® paid by hard work in peace times. You also see’why we shall needs And during this session the world will be paying interest on its War debt of over ten billions of dollars each year. There may be some consolation in the statement that the war debt” the United States about New Year's will be $23,000,000,000, That's & ck of silver dollars something like 40,000 miles high. To offset that United States has an estimate 000,000,000, national wealth of $ lid not care if he never returnét | Back to the world that he knew. He He x aga soul, And his heart—it was not true, But there on Flanders’ blood red fields, Where men are broken or made, He fought the battles of flesh and soul While he had red blood to wade. He swallowed the acid taste of fear That rankled up in his throat; And fought the one great fight of man, And crossed} with God, the moat Yes, crossed the moat and won his fight, And went thru the purging fire— And a man like the pure white lilies afloat Sprang from out of the mire He did not know and could not see, But war has opened his eyes 1t showed him the road to Heaven or Hell, And how a brave man dies. Yes, how he dies and how he lives And should fight the battles of peace \ So now it matters if he never returns When this wild turmoil shall cease , —Lioyd Luzadee, Pvt, Inf., in “Stars and Stripes” gland; Victor Emanuel Oriando, premier of It 5 | For the cow chews not as typist chews, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States. left it, a youth with a shrivel - scz2e832 3 et lle Sees aeS